Computer specs in sig :)

Katana1000S · #1 09-17-2011, 02:24 PM

I've just had a PM from a member here asking me to change my sig as he thinks my PC spec in my sig is fake and AMD Bulldozers hold the record for overclocking ... I just about spat my coffee all over my screen, he actually thinks its a serous sig and he wants me to change it is as I am deceiving folk here OMG

I don't take PC specs in sigs very seriously (Sorry Adam) but I am a pretty hard core PC enthusiast with flight simulation very definitely in focus, if I were to maintain a real PC spec in sig it would be ever evolving as I upgrade quite a bit.

What do you reckon? should I change the PC spec in my sig?

For the record my current PC specs are actually a new build of an I7 2600K @ 4.8 GHz, 8 GB ram, SSD's ETC and a 2 year old I7 920 @ 4GHz ... in the spirit of pictures saying a thousand words ... here is my current gear ... not the best I've seen but I'm happy with it.

bongodriver · #2 09-17-2011, 02:29 PM

sweet machine....that's nearly porn

ATAG_Dutch · #3 09-17-2011, 02:53 PM

'Don't touch it.

In fact, don't even look at it'.

Keep as is mate, particularly 'it goes to 11'.

yours,

Spinal Dutch.

Katana1000S · #4 09-17-2011, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Dutch_851

'Don't touch it.

In fact, don't even look at it'.

Keep as is mate, particularly 'it goes to 11'.

yours,

Spinal Dutch.

Nah, the sig stays

Looking back I had to think back real hard to remember some of that old PC spec stuff, I actually started with an Amiga 500 with half a meg of ram that I upgraded to 1 MB and I was playing Flight Sim 2 on that, about that time Falcon came out and I saw some jaw dropping screen shots in a PC mag (no internet back then) and I bought a 33MHZ 2 MB ram PC just for it ... I ripped it to bits to see how it worked and the next year bought a state of the art 486 DX2 66 with a massive 2 MB of ram sum of parts that I built myself and a very early Thrustmaster HOTAS ... that was in about 1990 ... its been a constant PC upgrade cycle ever since ... its amazing how far this hobby has developed in such a short space of time.

These are good times we live in.

I'm glad you got the Spinal Tap reference though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGGwY...yer_detailpage

Vengeanze · #5 09-17-2011, 05:53 PM

How's that butt vibrator working out for ya!?

Katana1000S · #6 09-17-2011, 06:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vengeanze

How's that butt vibrator working out for ya!?

It rocks

Doc_uk · #7 09-17-2011, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Vengeanze

How's that butt vibrator working out for ya!?

+1

NedLynch · #8 09-17-2011, 06:26 PM

Hey, Katana, very nice, I am always impressed when I see case cableing like that, awesomely clean.

A quick question if I may. On your bottom mounted psus, do you think it is better (obviously in terms of heat) to mount with the fan towards the bottom grill or with the fan towards the inside?
Serious question, I tried both and just from touching the psu housing I feel fan to the inside is better.

Katana1000S · #9 09-17-2011, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by NedLynch

Hey, Katana, very nice, I am always impressed when I see case cableing like that, awesomely clean.

A quick question if I may. On your bottom mounted psus, do you think it is better (obviously in terms of heat) to mount with the fan towards the bottom grill or with the fan towards the inside?
Serious question, I tried both and just from touching the psu housing I feel fan to the inside is better.

Good question, the PSU's in both my cases are designed with an extraction hole below the PSU so that the PSU can exhaust hot air out of the case rather than into it ... I also added caster wheels to each corner of my cases to swing them out as I'm constantly tinkering with them, thus the case bottom is a good inch or so above the floor ... but for major overhauls and rebuilds they go to a table in my kitchen ... they are actually quite heavy.

Since my pics I've also moved my second GTX 570 down to the bottom of the case as the top one was overheating a bit when the going got though, My Z68 (the proper chipset for Sandy Bridge IMHO) Gigabyte board allows two graphic cards to utilise the full bandwidth of PCI-E but unfortunately this meant sandwiching the cards together to use both 16 lane PCI-E slots ... I'm now on 8 lane PCI-E express slots for each card and better space between them and as apparently (currently) only two GTX 590's in SLI can totally saturate the bandwidth of two x 16 lane slots ... I'm not losing anything and my tests confirm this ... I could go GPU water cooling too but that's getting into silly money area ... and GPU's tend to have a shorter life span for upgrade folk like me and the water blocks can rarely be moved on to the next card.

PS: my wiring aint so tidy ... I've seen much better, the Corsair HX1000w is a fantasticaly stable PSU, but its awkward modular cables don't lend to neatness ... here is a pic of my cable routing on my I7 920 rig you dont see

whoarmongar · #10 09-17-2011, 06:50 PM

If you ditch that sig can i put a bid in for the marshall stack that goes to 11.
Or pehaps you would be interested in a straight swap.
I have an outragously overclocked Amiga64 supercooled with liqnitro that has been clocked @ 12.7 ghz, i have tried running it Sli style with another but had technical issues, are you interested in this piece of kit ?