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The Official Graphics Card and PC gaming Thread
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10. October 2008 @ 14:59 |
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Haven't I? Time to do that now then.
Night shot, Before cable tidying:
Open case shot
Night shot at side
Desk shot
Graphics card (or some of it)
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10. October 2008 @ 15:00 |
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lol! well yeah i know that, i just want to see a HX520 and a HD480x2 in a case. It must look sweet!
Edit: So i am right about that, it is sweet! and in the desk shot why do you have 2 same case?
Oh do you war glasses sam? Because the 30" is really bad for you...lol
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Now Ive got your attention please read my post above
Own: Computer, PS2, PS3, PSP and Asus UX32VD i5 Ultrabook
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10. October 2008 @ 15:01 |
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Hah, old?
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10. October 2008 @ 15:18 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Surely that's what the mouse is for?
LOL, but I only have 2 hands
One one WASD, and one on IJKL, so you see my dilemma :P
PS - I wouldn't mind seeing pics of it as well
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10. October 2008 @ 15:19 |
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They're up, didn't you notice? :P
GTR: No, I have good vision, why is a 30" bad for you? LCDs don't emit radiation like CRTs...
The Lexa Blackline is my fileserver. In that photo it is off. Usually it is lit up bright red :)
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10. October 2008 @ 15:22 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
They're up, didn't you notice? :P
You posted while I was typing :P
Nice rig (It's the chrome one (SICK) )
You have a file server??? What for??
Loving the internal orange light, and the keyboard, which is it incidentally???
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10. October 2008 @ 15:23 |
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10. October 2008 @ 15:26 |
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I know
I got lost somewhere in the middle of that blog entry :P
What do you use a file server for??
Do you really have that much data??
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10. October 2008 @ 15:27 |
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a couple of terabyte's worth... :)
two additional more up to date photos coming shortly (those are from the summer)
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10. October 2008 @ 15:29 |
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My desk at uni is narrow so the PCs have to sit on the floor...
The strange lighting effect is because my 2-port external HDD box is currently sitting on top. :)
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10. October 2008 @ 17:19 |
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Originally posted by GTR35:
gosh i hate those, so irresponsible.
Ok now there are 3 case
Antec 300, CM690 and CM590 which one wins:
-which one is quieter?
-better cooling?
-space + cable management?
the antec 300 and CM590 are on par together. all 3 of them have awsome amount of air flow.. i haven the RC690(and wanting the HAF932) if i had to do it over i would get the RC590 over the 690... the 690 is a couple inches tall but no big deal....as Sam sai the HAF is about twice as much as the 690 right now. but the HAF is a sweet azz case...thats my delima get that HAF or a HD4850 gpu????
in short you cant go wrong with any of the 3 cases you picked. plenty airflow. plenty room to get around in them. i have worked on both the 690/590(bigwill has the 590) and are easy to work with.. and looking at the 300 over and over it looks about the same setup give or take a extra here and there. and depending on how many drive bays you want need...
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10. October 2008 @ 18:16 |
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Estuansis - yeah really sounds like you're rockin and rollin on Far Cry now - how'd you get so much better - just more gaming since you last played it? (And with all the knifing sounds like you've become a stealth monster like that forum leader I was talking about. LOL)
Sam - the side fan on the tempest - I think it is exhaust only because the reviewer complained that it didn't have a filter, unlike the two front fans that DO have filters - so I think the reviewer got it wrong and it actually is an exhaust fan. That's my setup too, but I have no top fans - only one intake in the front, and a separate also-filtered small intake on the side for the cpu only, using sunbeam kit to carry the air through a short hose to the cpu cooler, then side exhaust, back exhaust, psu exhaust, gpu exhaust, and blitztorm turbine exhaust. Two inlet fans, 5 exhaust fans.
So you don't really see any problem with the "vacuum" effect?
Man, Sam, that is some serious data on the performance charts. On Oblivion, I see the gtx 260 and 280, 3850 CF, and a single 4870, all performing about the same within 5 or 10% of each other, at the 2560x1600 4x16 - by the way, what does that 16 mean, anisotropic filtering at 16? But a 4850CF picks up about 25% more performance, and is only maybe 6% less powerful than a 4870CF. I know the 4850 doesn't have the faster memory, but in crossfire it's very powerful from your chart.
However, in a later post I see you pointing out the advantages of the 1gb memory - and crossfire is limited to the lowest memory on one of the two boards. GTR says 512 is ok, however, for 1920x1200. So it's only the bigger set of pixels if one were to jump to 30" and full 2560x1600. Hmmmmm.
Well, looking only for 1GB, I see a 1gb GDDR3 4850 at $215 with dual slot rear exhaust - newegg ($15 less for single slot, exhaust inside the case) - and a 1gb GDDR5 4870 (dual slot rear exhaust) after rebate at $220 - might as well get the 4870.
But eventually cross-firing two boards like that means 4 slots!
What I'm saying, if I were to think in terms of dual slot rear-exhaust cards, and eventually crossfire, that's four pci-e slots I have used up. What limitations does that make on crossfire motherboards? Does that type of thinking put me into a wayyyy more expensive motherboard?
Okay, now we have three guys from Pakistan, Shaff, Boozer, and Ray. So when are you guys going to post the pics of your cousins so we can pick out who you should marry? Lol
Wow, GTR, too bad about the HAF ending up almost double the price. So you have a set of three new cases to pick from. Nobody is considering the NZXT tempest - why not? (nobody likes the looks???)
-Rich
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10. October 2008 @ 18:37 |
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@harvrdguy.
i havent used the tempest but have seen and looked at it some before hand.. i dont think it will have the air flow the other 3 have/has. just from what ive seen there may be some restrictions on air.
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10. October 2008 @ 19:25 |
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Hey Cincy - wow I thought the Tempest was supposed to be the mid-tower airflow king with two 140mm in front, and two 140mm exhausts fans on top, plus side, and rear exhaust, and of course psu exhaust - 7 fans. Those two on top, especially, going a long way toward cooling the case. (The HAF that GTR had his deposit $ on, beat all the other towers that didn't have top exhausts, by 10 degrees cooler centigrade on cpu temp.)
Sam liked the 230mm on the HAF, but felt that the two 140mm on the Tempest, running a little faster at 1000rpm, than the HAF at 750rpm, could move as much air (75cfm or more) out of the top of the Tempest as the HAF single fan, at about the same noise level - 19 db as I recall.
Do these three other cases that GTR is now considering have top-mounted exhaust fans, and if so, what size and how many? (Are all these 3 full tower cases by the way?)
-Rich
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10. October 2008 @ 19:39 |
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the tempest has the fanes that i have in my RC690 right now.but in my case the top is all open. mesh top as is the bottom of the case. so along wth the fans it has the natural air comeing in from those holes/mesh opening what ever ya wanna call it... the tempest top and bottom are solid except were the fans are. Thats the only reason i would say that other than the fans movieng air there wouldnt be any other air coming or going...
the HAF has 3 230mm fans and 1 140 fan in the rear. 1 230 in front and 1 on top and side panel. Sam is the fan guru. and im sure with 2 140mm fans on top it would move as much air as the 230 at higher rpms.
the RC690 comes with 3 120mm fans 1 in fron 1 side and 1 rear. as does the RC590.
in my RC690 i have 2 140mm aerocool streamliners set as exhaust then a antec tricool 3 speed fan in front as intake. then 2 120mm fans onthe side panel as intake and a 120mm in the rear as exhuast...then a 120mm on the bottom of the case infronot of the PSU/behind the HDD tray.
so with them 7 plus the CPU/GPU and CPU fans i have a total of 10 fans going in this bad boy..lol
now i do know(me and bigwill) went and look at theRC690 he is thinking of getting one.. they have made some mods to it compared to my case.the front fan sets in closer to the HDD carriage allmost on it..as with the top of the case the fans are closer to the mobo tray hence putting the fans closer to the cpu hsf...
dont get me wrong im not saying the tempest is a bad case its not. i was looking at it before i got the RC690... and for the reasons i said.. there are no extra holes in the top and bottom like the 690/590.
sorry guy i didnt mean to ruin you GPU thread with all this chatter about cases...
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10. October 2008 @ 19:45 |
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lol rich, okay so i ahve to choose from my cousins, here they are (i only have 2 cousins):
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ITS SO HARD TO CHOOSE
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10. October 2008 @ 20:11 |
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Hahahahahaha,
Well ok, Shaff, so those are your cousins - only two to choose from. Hmmmmm. Ray and booze what about you guys? Poor shaff doesn't have a lot of choice, but certainly you guys must come from larger extended families?
Shaff, I might have known - coming right after Cincy said he was sorry about getting off-thread discussing cases LOL Well, I WAS asking for some cousin pictures, so my bad. (or my good lol)
Trying to choose between your two "cousins" (why do those pictures look familiar) I guess that's what it's like trying to pick the HAF verus the Lian-Li. (Loco that was precisely Shaff's point - don't boot him again - he's running out of user names - and he hates being a newbie lol.)
Well, ok Shaff, I guess my preference is the one on the bottom. You should marry her I think.
Speaking of top and bottom - cincy - the all-mesh idea versus fans on top. I know what you're saying about all-mesh, it's all open at the top. BUT - passive cooling relying on rising heat - versus active cooling where fans are actually sucking up the heat and blowing it out the top - I think from an engineering fluid flow perspective, that I would choose the active method - having top mounted fans.
What do you guys think - open all-mesh, versus closed but with top fans. What's better for cooling?
-Rich
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10. October 2008 @ 20:14 |
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closed with top fans, because all mesh is LOUD.
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10. October 2008 @ 20:22 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
closed with top fans, because all mesh is LOUD.
LMAO... being loud isnt part of the equation....lol we know it would be like in air hanger for you sam...lol
i see waht your sayin Rich. but i look at it like this... i have the ablity to have my fans suck out the riseing heat, and what they dont get can escape on its own free will...
Shaff that first lady if she was your cousin would mean we are related thats my sis....lol
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10. October 2008 @ 20:49 |
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hahaha
rich exaclty it wasnt off topic it was liek the debate abotu cases, jsut showcasein differnt ones inwhich one can put in a floppy drive, and hopefulyl it will become a hard disc drive! LOOL!
i got my case today, ITS HUGE, i mena ENORMOUS, ITS MASSIVE, COLLOSSAS, GINORMAS, MAHUUUSIVE ETC ETC.
BUT, problems, i wanted a black aryl window panel, but the one sent was a clear one, sendly it was taped not bolted intot he chasis, 3rd the mobo tray were to have cuts leading to brillaint cable management, but one main one was missing, so im sending it back for those reasons... :(
hello brother rob, we mut be long lost cousins :D love your sister buy the ways, shes the one for me, kelly brooke :D
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10. October 2008 @ 21:03 |
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floppy and hard drives? - 'fraid I missed your point.
Just kidding! You're incorrigible! LOL
Well, Cincyrob, noise certainly IS part of the equation - I guess. Well not so much for me right now since I game with headphones. But who knows, after estuansis enthused so much about crysis gaming on his sister's HD TV - I might one day decide to try that out too, so who wants a loud case competing with the HD speakers?
shaff - you better lock the room that your case gets put into and don't give your little bro the key. If he buckles Buckingham Palace when you finally get it back - we'll be watching it on the tele and it will be a very sad family situation. Or, maybe as punishment he would just have to marry the cousin that you reject - the one on top, cincy's sister, because my vote was for the one on bottom.
So, cincy, you're the 4th pakistani in our group??? Throw some urdu at us! LOL
Hey buds - this just in from my family member Miles Estes (I'm Rich Estes) who did all the animating for Left 4 Dead, the Southern California Turtle Rock Studios (now owned by Valve of Seattle, Washington) original production for Valve - they're spending $10,000,000 on the ad campaign!!!
Valve ten million dollar ad campaign for zombie coop multiplayer
-Rich
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10. October 2008 @ 21:26 |
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LOOOOOOOL haha, one has the best posts LOOL!
rob, speak some urdu for us PLEASE :D
this thread is going the way of our old one LOOL!
see this is how a thread should be though, FUN and informative when it needs to be, not the tension of posting something on the OCing or Official building thread and getting attacked for it! lool
trust me, the key is old, i used the creapy little girl from bioshock to guard the palace (lovely name BTW :D)
i will get pics of it up once i get to my uni halls, and then hopefully sam will come around, ill make some curry for him, and well picture him with the case aswell!
haha, soon sam will be speaking urdu here aswell HAHA
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10. October 2008 @ 21:54 |
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He animated Left 4 Dead? My opinion of him has raised further :)
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10. October 2008 @ 22:57 |
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yeah, dude, I thought I told you that - plus most of that chick you love, Alyx lol.
Wow, one day soon a pic of Sam and Shaff eating curry (with lava-hot spices) at Shaff's place, with the "Palace." (and Shaff's little brother in the background in chains.)
Wow just now I found out my Kama Bay intake fan has been sitting there spoiled by the filter stuck in the fan - beware you kama bay users if you upgrade to 1600 rpm. No wonder the air that has made it out the back is SOOO hot - it's been hot - and I've been getting a few weird artifacts on COD4 mp too. Anyway, I made a circular loop out of coat hangar to add more metal holding back the filter, but which pushed the long thing X springs they had so they were touching the blades - I found some tiny washers - but there is still a bit of fan on metal skimming sound. Sam you'd be bonkers but I'm not going to sweat it - one day the blade will just wear down in that place, or maybe some day I'll put on two washers. It's just a faint sound, but it IS still slightly touching.
But NOW I HAVE MASSIVE AIRFLOW AGAIN HOOOORAY!!! Let's see how hot it runs next Wednesday - gaming day!!
-rich
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10. October 2008 @ 23:29 |
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HAHAHA, rich, each of your posts have m epissing in my pants, honestly, your a genious, get into comdey man!!!!
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