Gaming Rig specs

[Art Blade]

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Very nice rig indeed.. what makes me smile is that I still have the same rig I started out with when I joined. And it serves me well, no problems at all, even with today's games.  :)

[Abletile]

Thanks peeps, the water cooling was no big deal to fit. I bought the Corsair Hydro H90 Water-Cooling CPU Cooler, very easy to fit and sooooo quiet (in full gaming mode it still only gets to 44 degrees C!) :)
The SSD was also bought for noise and speed (it goes off faster than a Jews forerskin!). I have tons of progs that start up with the pc and it still loadsn in 42 secs! Thats quicker than my old Z80, lol. 
As for the floppy, viagra was what was needed but my grandson is still too young to get me some 

[nexor]

Thanks Binn, the CPU and GPU was delivered on Friday, the Mainboard and mem cards should be delivered by coming Friday, just hope my supplier's tech guys are right by saying that my CPU water cooler will fit on the new board otherwise i'm gonna kick some asses   :-\\

I can't complain Art, my rig is about six years old, the only reason I'm upgrading is because the PCI slot on the MB cannot house the new Graphics Cards, and I need to replace the Graphics Card.
Hopefully the new rig will also last about six years.
I'm using the same box, the component I'm taking out will replace the components in my other pc which in itself is still a very good rig, I started FC2 on that one, I'll probably put the components of that pc in my farther in law's pc, his is a P1 which I gave him when I upgraded my main pc.
I've always had two pc's and everytime I upgrade my main pc I pass the old components on to the second one and the second one's components I use to upgrade my farther in law's, he likes playing MS flight simulator and he's due for a newer flight sim version.

[Abletile]

Lol, I do the same thing but pass it on to my friends who haver a lower spec than mine :)
I do tend to update every couple of years at least. Tech moves very quickly nowadays. (Moores law) is still valid :)

[fragger]

That's a good practice of handing-me-down the old components, chaps. Better those old components get re-used by someone than end up in a landfill. They still will eventually of course, but the longer it can be put off the better and someone will still get good use out of them in the meantime :-X

Unfortunately, I have nobody to pass my old components on to and I tend to hang on to them thinking that they may come in handy for emergency use or as spare parts one day, but of course they never do with the result that I end up with ten million bits and pieces filling up my odds-and-ends drawers until space issues compel me to chuck them all out, so that I can begin the process anew.

Do I ever learn from this experience? Of course not.

Let me tell you the definition of insanity...

[Abletile]

Lol, anything I can't give away, I keep as well! Very rarely can I make use of all my old bits and bobs but once in a while I manage to fix a PC that would be defunct by now. Is it worth the storage etc? I'm not sure, I just can't bear to throw/recycle that should be useful  :wink
Did I ever tell you about the definition of insanity!

[nexor]

Besides the two pc's I run full time, I have two more perfectly good complete P1's, one is fully operational just need to be plugged in and the other one is stripped and packed away in it's MB's box.   :(

Been meaning to give them away to some under privileged group but just not getting there     :-\\

[Binnatics]

Unfortunately, I have nobody to pass my old components on to and I tend to hang on to them thinking that they may come in handy for emergency use or as spare parts one day, but of course they never do with the result that I end up with ten million bits and pieces filling up my odds-and-ends drawers until space issues compel me to chuck them all out, so that I can begin the process anew.

^-^

That's very recognizable 8)

[fragger]

 :-D

[nexor]

Just ordered the new components for my rig

Processor       Intel Core Socket 1155 i5 3570K - 3.40GHz Quad Core
GPU                MSI nVidia GeForce GTX650 T
Motherboard  MSI Intel Big Bang M-Power Z77 Chipset, Socket 1155
Memory x2     Corsair Vengeance Memory - 8GB Dual Module Kit, 2x 4GB, DDR3-2400

Working on my rig at the moment and hopefully it will be up and running this coming weekend, only made one change to the specks...
Memory X4 Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3, 
32GB Memory should do it I think 

[PZ]

You're going to be gaming hard core now, nex!

[nexor]

If this rig can manage new up and coming games for the next six years like the old rig did then I'll be happy.
It's becoming very expensive upgrading rigs like what I'm doing now. 

[Art Blade]

To me it looks as if things were slowing down indeed. Years ago I had to get a new rig about every two years in order to be able to run then recent games but the one before this had to be replaced after about three years and this one is about 4.5 years old and still running recent games nicely.  :)

[nexor]

Yes that's what I'm hoping for, at least I can do various  not too expensive upgrades with the new MB.
It can take a core7 CPU, it also have the option of running two Graphics cards, I have ample memory installed.

Damn!!! I have  to do a complete new win7 installation, thought I could do a repair, but no way, oh well, see you guys in a while, lucky I still have this pc to log on to OWG

[fragger]

All the best with it nex, hope you're happily gaming soon :-X :)

[nexor]

Thanks mate, Win 7 is loaded, busy installing and upgrading a few essential programs at the moment, can't wait to try it out 

ps.   Hi guys from my new rig  :cool

but now I'm going to finish all installations      :-D

[Art Blade]

 :)

Installing an OS and programs needed isn't that bad and done quite quickly. What I hate is customising all that crap.. that takes forever.

[nexor]

You right about that Art, lucky for me I haven't used win7 that much, so there's no software updates as yet, is just all the other junk that needs re-installing and then most of them have updates as well.

Most of them is done by now, busy installing Origin so I can re-install Battlefield 3 and MOH Warfighter

[PZ]

To me it looks as if things were slowing down indeed. Years ago I had to get a new rig about every two years in order to be able to run then recent games but the one before this had to be replaced after about three years and this one is about 4.5 years old and still running recent games nicely.  :)

Same here - I thought my rig's graphics unit would be too old for Simcity, but it is working just fine on ultra settings

[nexor]

Most of all my software is loaded, Origin is messing me around like it did awhile back, keep on telling me I must create an account, was hoping to play BF3 and MOH Warfighter but will wait for Monday to phone the guy from Origin to fix it      :-\\

[Art Blade]

 ??? :( >:(( :D

[fragger]

Not again! Bloody Origin ::) :D Good luck on Monday!

[nexor]

I wish the joker who thought out this Origin thing will get an itch and his fingernails change to fishing hooks      >:((

but on a lighter note, this is my new rig and I can't wat to try it out   :-D       

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[Art Blade]

 ??? that makes the lunar lander look like scrap metal. Nice  :-D

[mandru]

Great Googly Moogly  nex!  :o

For a second there I thought I was looking at a new Porsche turbine concept engine.  :o


Yeah, you should be able to really rip things up with this rig.  :-X