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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 15 2011, 07:44 AM (607 Views) | |
| Nobody's Sock | Apr 15 2011, 07:44 AM Post #1 |
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I just finished putting together a new computer. My old one was built back in '03 and boy has technology taken some big jumps since. This pc is screaming! I play alot of computer games, so beefy components were a must. Silverstone Fortress FT02B-W case Silverstone Strider Gold 1000g 1000watt power supply Asus P8P67 Deluxe LGA 1155 motherboard Intel i5-2500K CPU Corsair Vengeance 8gb DDR3 1600 Ram XFX Radeon 6950 Video Card (times 2, running them in Crossfire mode) Scythe Mugen CPU Cooler Crucial C300 128GB SSD drive Samsung Spinpoint 1TB hard drive Klipsch ProMedia Ultra 5.1 speaker system HannsG 28" 1920x1200 monitor Microsoft Sidewinder X4 gaming keyboard Logitech 518 gaming mouse Windows 7 64bit Home Premium |
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| Kincaid | Apr 15 2011, 07:48 AM Post #2 |
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Cool! Did you build it yourself or just spec it? I'm still looking for a spare $550-650 to do something similar. Pretty good local builder here that doesn't charge much for putting together pretty good systems. I'm still limping along with a Dell that has 768mb of RAM. (built in 2001 or so). |
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| KlavierBauer | Apr 15 2011, 07:49 AM Post #3 |
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NS: That's a pretty sweet build. That Crucial SSD is going to treat you oh-so right. |
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"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper "He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple | |
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| Horace | Apr 15 2011, 08:05 AM Post #4 |
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You rock NS. Similar to the computer I just built - same case and power supply even. Except I got the non-windowed version of that case. I wanted all the sound dampening I could get. Isn't it cool how heavy it is? ![]() I do think you should have gotten a 2600k rather than a 2500k though! |
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| Nobody's Sock | Apr 15 2011, 08:06 AM Post #5 |
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I built it myself. It's not too hard really. yeah, the SSD is my boot drive and after the BIOS screen, Windows loads in 13 seconds! |
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| KlavierBauer | Apr 15 2011, 08:11 AM Post #6 |
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That's how to do it! That Crucial is one of the best ones too - one of the big issues with SSD is their inability to defragment, but if memory seves correctly, that newer Crucial line has a built in system of re-writing that roughly simulates the idea of defragmentation, such that the more you use it, the less fragmented it becomes, keeping it nice and speedy. |
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"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper "He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple | |
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| Nobody's Sock | Apr 15 2011, 08:12 AM Post #7 |
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Serious? Same case and supply? Great minds think alike! I have to have the window, may plan on installing some pretty lights later.I love this case. It is quiet as a church mouse and my components are running super cool. I just love the concept of rotating the motherboard 90 degrees so all the plugins come out the top. With the 3 180mm fans sucking from the bottom and the 120mm exhaust fan blowing out the top, it creates a nice convection for airflow. With dual video cards, they now both receive the cooling they need. I saved $100 and went with the 2500K because it's well known that the 2600K does nothing extra for game playing. And both of these CPU's are made to overclock. Haven't gone there yet, don't need to really. Games like Crysis, (notorious pc killer), runs smooth as butter with everything maxxed out. I did months of research for all the components I settled on. Tom's Hardware is a great site to learn. |
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| Nobody's Sock | Apr 15 2011, 08:15 AM Post #8 |
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yeah, never ever try to Defrag a SSD!!! Windows 7 has a feature that maintains the SSD drives, called TRIM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM Edited by Nobody's Sock, Apr 15 2011, 08:53 AM.
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| Horace | Apr 15 2011, 08:35 AM Post #9 |
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Yep, I used that same site, it is a great resource. Grats on the new rig! What are you playing? The only game I've really enjoyed since i got my new computer was Batman Arkham Asylum. It was (may still be) $7 on Steam. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| Mark | Apr 15 2011, 08:51 AM Post #10 |
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Awesome rig! |
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| Nobody's Sock | Apr 15 2011, 08:51 AM Post #11 |
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I'm a STEAM user and usually purchase my games from them. As you know, you just download them online. What's cool is that with my new computer, instead of having to pull out a bunch of CD's to reinstall my games, I just login to STEAM and have them redownload to my new pc. So I've been fooling around mostly with Crysis. I do have Batman as well and pulled it up the other day just to see the graphics improvement. It really rocks! I have so many games that I could never really enjoy as my old rig just couldn't cut the mustard. Not anymore. (Honey, can you please bring my dinner in here? Honey, where's the bedpan? ) |
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| KlavierBauer | Apr 15 2011, 09:18 AM Post #12 |
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I love Steam. Somehow I never played Portal... (?!) but I played through it yesterday and enjoyed it immensely. |
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| Axtremus | Apr 15 2011, 11:08 AM Post #13 |
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There is no need to "defrag" an SSD. On spinning discs with "cylinders" and "sectors", it makes sense to arrange all content belonging to the same file into groups of sectors in close physical proximity so the drive's read heads do not have to travel much to read all the content of a file; and to put the most frequently used files on the sectors that's easier for the disk's read heads to get to. That's basically what "defrag" does. With SSD, you're reading from solid state memory -- no spinning disk, no metal arm swinging around moving some non-existent read heads back and forth to read from non-existent "cylinders" and "sectors." Reading two blocks of data with addresses that are far apart is just as fast as reading two blocks of data with contiguous addresses. So no need to "defrag." You'd just be wasting SSD's write cycles. Just leave it be. |
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| KlavierBauer | Apr 15 2011, 11:18 AM Post #14 |
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Ax: There is a very real issue with fragmented data on SSDs. Contiguous data is always faster to read, regardless of seek-time due to mechanical pieces. Even a "nearly 0" seek time adds up to noticeable performance issues when a few hundred GB are split into several bit chunks throughout the data-space. This was an even bigger issue with older devices not supporting the TRIM command, but is not so much an issue now with newer SSDs, like the Crucial drive that NS got. Data fragmentation has been a very well documented issue on SSDs though, which builds up over considerable time (doesn't become an issue quickly as it can on an HDD). |
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"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper "He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple | |
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| Horace | Apr 15 2011, 11:25 AM Post #15 |
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I'm going to get Portal 2. Never played Portal, but I'll run through it first before I start on part 2. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| Horace | Apr 15 2011, 11:30 AM Post #16 |
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Did you build this yourself, NS? Did you get the SSD in the spot the case intends? I had a bit of an issue with that due to power cord length and SATA3 cord length, so I put it in a normal hard drive slot. Just kinda floats around there. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| John D'Oh | Apr 15 2011, 11:36 AM Post #17 |
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I loved that game. How was the cake? |
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| KlavierBauer | Apr 15 2011, 11:43 AM Post #18 |
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THERE IS NO CAKE! Well, it turns out there is, but I didn't get to eat any of it. |
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"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper "He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple | |
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| KlavierBauer | Apr 15 2011, 11:43 AM Post #19 |
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THERE IS NO CAKE! "The cake is a lie." Well, it turns out there is, but I didn't get to eat any of it. |
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"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper "He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple | |
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| Nobody's Sock | Apr 15 2011, 01:00 PM Post #20 |
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Yup. The SSD is mounted on the back side as intended. Since it's SATA3, I plugged it into the Intel SATA3 port. No problems with cable lengths either. I love the modular power supply. I just plug in the cables I need, keeps the inside tidy. I can't believe, of all the cases and power supplies on the market, that you and I got the same ones! List me your other components. |
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| Axtremus | Apr 15 2011, 01:32 PM Post #21 |
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Ok, time to post some pictures.
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| Horace | Apr 15 2011, 06:33 PM Post #22 |
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My pleasure! I got a 24" HP monitor with the same resolution as yours. How far away from your monitor do you sit? I know you're well thought out about about distance vs screen size, for TVs and monitors and such. I chose 24" because it's less than 2' from my face. SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard drive * standard, cheap, didn't care. Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz LGA 1366 * would get a 2600k if I had it to do over again. Bought just before I heard about the sandy bridge processors. But this'll be good for a few years, I think. Overclocked to 3.45 at the moment. Windows 7 Home Premium * OEM, the sort that can only be installed on one motherboard. Will not be eligible for the "upgrade" price whenever I change computers. LITE-ON Blu-ray Burner with 3D Playback SATA iHBS212 LightScribe * based on recommendation from Toms Hardware. No research involved. SILVERSTONE Fortress Series FT02B Black Aluminum / Steel Computer Case * So cool! Love it! Not planning on adding lights, so the non-windowed version was the thing for me, for the slight increase in sound reduction. However, it didn't come with the upgraded fans in the base, as yours probably did. The windowed versions sell faster and the old inventory probably cleared out faster. Kingston HyperX 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model KHX1600C9D3K3/6GX * Overclocked it to 1800 at the moment. Intel 510 Series (Elm Crest) SSDSC2MH120A2K5 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) * Probably pretty similar to yours. Windows 7 is up and running 10 seconds after hitting the power button. EVGA SuperClocked 015-P3-1582-AR GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support ... * Same price as the stock version. Could have gotten more GPU power with a dual card setup at a slightly lower price, but I don't need the GPU power currently and wanted to be able to easily expand in the future with a second card. Low noise is important to me, and the 580s are good for that. For a week or so, I had the best graphics card on the market. (No more.)GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard * Works pretty well. The included computer assembly instructions were an adventure though, for this first time home-builder. SILVERSTONE ST1000-P 1000W ATX 12V v2.3 & EPS 12V 80 PLUS SILVER Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply * At first had a 700W power supply but then went to the Nvidia site and learned that if I had two of my graphics cards, I would need a 1000W supply. So I changed the power supply to this one. I guess you got a gold rated one? Mine is only silver. Not sure what that means but I feel emasculated.
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| Horace | Apr 15 2011, 06:58 PM Post #23 |
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/edited. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 15 2011, 07:10 PM Post #24 |
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Sweet freaking rig, man.
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| jon-nyc | Apr 16 2011, 02:31 AM Post #25 |
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Cheers
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I have to have the window, may plan on installing some pretty lights later.
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