Computers/Building

[butterfly_babe]

Originally Posted by Butterfly

:p Computers are my Fav Hobbie... I love building & upgrading the hardware this little beast is @ the heart of my household.

Honey, any chance you could tidy that little beast up a bit? :rolleyes:

[Nova]

Originally Posted by butterfly_babe

Honey, any chance you could tidy that little beast up a bit? :rolleyes:

You're not wrong bb. Give him a kick in the butt for having all those untidy leads hanging around. Very messy indeed. :lol:

[cesium]

lol ill post my comp specs for the hell of it

Silverstone TJ06 Black
corsair hx520w psu [the best 520w modular psu by far; extremely quiet, high efficiency, very low ripple, good voltage regulation]
2gb mushkin pc-4000 ddr
amd 3700+
xp-120 heatsink n fan
dfi nf4 ultra-d
audigy 2 sound card
x800xl
2x160gb sata
19" crt [soon to be 22-24" lcd ]
plextor 16x dvd burner
logitech x-530 speakers
logitech media keyboard
logitech revolution mouse

[Mr. Pop]

Yes. E6600 is a great little chip
I am thinking of watercooling . Well, a case with watercooling built in. Do you think it would be worthwhile?

I gotta get some more HD space. Had this PC 7/8 months. Already used up 233GB. Oops

[Hyper_323SQ]

My PC :

Pentium IV 3.4Ghz on a ASUS P5B Deluxe Mobo, 2 GiG's of Ram cooled by a Zalhman fan.
ATi 850 Extreme 256 MB VidCard cooled by a Zalhman fan.
OCZ Modstream 520 Watt Power Supply
1 x 160Gb Internal HD SATA
1 x 120Gb Internal HD SATA
1 x 180Gb External USB 2.0

Logitech G15 Keyboard ( not showing on the pics, there a bit old )
Logitech Dolby Surround Soundset X-530 ( Wich also doesn't show )

HP PCS 1215 series Scanner Printer.

Panasonic 21" Screen and and older TARGA 17" Secondary screen.

Some shots!



The top floor on our appartment, nothing big, bit it will fit met desk and PC.



Flight Manuals, Checklists, Maps and Aviation related books.



My screen and my HOTAS, a Thrustmaster Cougar.





Nowadays ( well since our baby left baby status and became a fullgrown toddler ) the PC went downstairs , and messup my setup.

[Pro]

Originally Posted by cheechm

I am thinking of watercooling . Well, a case with watercooling built in. Do you think it would be worthwhile?

Make sure you get a decent res for a water cooled set up. I got fed up of the maitenance when i did mine a few years back. Is well cool though, added a bit of food colouring to the water though the missus wouldn't let me put a fish in the res. Pumped mine through a cheapo water pump out of a fish tank.

[cesium]

Cases with cheapo watercooling built in [thermaltake, gigabyte, etc] are pieces of crap.

The only good watercooling system is one you build yourself, or a good kit from a reliable company [Swiftech]

Stay away from Thermaltake [inferior materials, design, components], koolance [different metals in teh same loop = corrosion and crap]


In general this is what you would need for watercooling:

Reservoir [stay away from res' fitting in your cd or floppy bays, they are inferior in design and crack]
CPU Block [usually swiftech apogees and storm, and a few others]
Radiatior [only get: swiftech mcr series, thermochill pa series for max performance, black ice pros for medium perf]
Pump [go for a laing d5 if you have hte money, or else something like a D-Tek dB-1]
Fans [since wc'ng is usually for quiet, get some good yate loons]
Coolant [use distilled water + additive like pentosin for anti-algae and stuff; stay away from crap like pc ice]
Tubing [people like tygon, but its really expensive and hard to bend; masterkleer is the standard these days; go with no less than 7/16" ID, or else you have crap flow [thermaltake uses 1/4" which is hella bad]]
Extras [clamps, fittings, etc]

[cesium]

YAY I just got a new monitor 22" widescreen LCD (yeah its a TN panel, but all 22 inchers are)

viewsonic vx2255wmb

its really nice great for gaming and movies

[CaffeineCrave]

512MB NVidia GeForce Go 7950 GTX
17" Wide 1440 x 900 LCD
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7400 2.16GHz 4MB Cache 667MHz FSB
2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 667MHz - 2 x 1024MB
200GB (100GB x 2) Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s 7,200 RPM w/ NCQ & 8MB Cache
8x Dual Layer CD-RW/DVD±RW Burner w/ LightScribe Technology
Internal Intel Wireless 4965 a/b/g/Draft-N Mini-Card
Razer Copperhead High Precision Gaming Mouse - Chaos Green Edition
Alienware Ozma 5 Headphones
Genuine Windows XP Media Center Edition

Laptop, purchased from Allienware.

[cesium]

only gripe i see about your laptop is that you didn't upgrade the screen a 17" notebook deserves at least 1680x1050. with that graphics card you shoudl have gotten the 1920x1200 :p