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Vowles returns from Hiding! WITH A NEW SUPER COMPUTER :D

Posted: July 29th, 2005, 12:32
by Vowles
Case: Enermax Coolergiant CS-527 moded case

Case Cooling: 4 Fans with digital controller
PSU: FSP Blue Storm 500W Retail PSU
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (1066FSB)
CPU: Intel 650 Retail (3.4GHz 800FSB 2Mb L2)
CPU Cooling: Gigabyte GH-PDU21-SC (G-Power Cooler Pro) (all CPUs)
Memory: Corsair 1024Mb DDR2 533 CL4 Non ECC
Hard Drive: 250Gb WD Caviar 7200 16mb Cache SATA II NCQ
Graphics:Nvidia 7800GTX 256Mb PCIe TVO DVI
Optical Drive: BTC 52X24X52X16 CDRW DVD Combo Retail with 7in1 card reader
Floppy Drive: Sony 3.5" Floppy Drive - Black
Modem: MRI 1456PCI-S Soft Modem (Smartlink)
PCI Card: VISIONPLUS TV CARD (Free-view)
Sound Card: Creative 7.1 Live 24bit OEM
Operating System: Windows XP Professional 64 bit OEM
Keyboard: Logitech Media Keyboard
Mouse: Razer Dimondback Plasma
Speakers: Logitech X-530 5.1 Speakers
Monitor: NEC-Mitsubishi AccuSync™ LCD72VM (17"-16ms)


It cost a whooping £2300 but worth every penny!

You guys should check the Nvidia 7800GTX its amazing, Its on par with 6800Ultar SLi'ed (Two of the buggers working together!)

Ive installed lots of fancy LED fans and lights pictures soon.

Anyways hows you lot?? Works kept me busy for a while but Iam used to getting up at 6am now hehe.

Posted: July 29th, 2005, 12:58
by Woo Elephant Yeah
Fuck me mate, that's a monster machine!

Show us some pics if you've got any :D
Oh yeah, and now you can run BF2 :boogie:

Posted: July 29th, 2005, 13:15
by wyrd
hummm

never liked lights, but i do want a freeview tv card

how much was yours?

Posted: July 29th, 2005, 15:14
by Vowles
It was £39 and Iam waiting on my new digital camera to come then pics will be avaible :)

and Run BF2? BF2 will be like playing HL :D

Posted: July 29th, 2005, 15:16
by Woo Elephant Yeah
How much did you get your 7800 for?

Posted: July 29th, 2005, 15:17
by Dr. kitteny berk
May we have it added to the record, that i hate you :D



*really needs a new box*

Posted: July 29th, 2005, 16:09
by mrbobbins
Meh sounds a bit rubbish, get the 7800 sli'd.

:wink:

Posted: July 29th, 2005, 16:16
by deject
*nicks*


but seriously, why'd you buy Intel? Intel is shit for games compared to AMD...

Posted: July 29th, 2005, 16:28
by cashy
deject wrote: but seriously, why'd you buy Intel? Intel is shit for games compared to AMD...
i have a feeling he probably wont notice for a few years until games catch up with him anyway
(i mean years as in hardware advancing years, which in reality is about 2 weeks)

Posted: July 29th, 2005, 16:39
by Dr. kitteny berk
deject wrote:but seriously, why'd you buy Intel? Intel is shit for games compared to AMD...
I think at that level it's swings and roundabouts, it'll take anything you chuck at it either way.

Posted: July 29th, 2005, 16:58
by deject
Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
deject wrote:but seriously, why'd you buy Intel? Intel is shit for games compared to AMD...
I think at that level it's swings and roundabouts, it'll take anything you chuck at it either way.
true, but I mean just because it doesn't matter now doesn't mean everything. I mean, if it will run next years games better for the same cost now, why not go AMD?


bah, but I am getting sidetracked! THat is indeed a monster rig you have gotten sir vowels! I wish I could get something without parts that are 3 years old... :cry:

Posted: July 29th, 2005, 16:59
by TezzRexx
how'd you afford this? I THOUGHT YOU WAS A CHAV!!!

hehe, joking aside, nice set up, but I personally would of gone with AMD

Posted: July 29th, 2005, 17:35
by Vowles
7800 (SLi ready, and a SLi motherboard) was £450. As for the intel its my old CPU I couldnt afford ANOTHER £600 odd quid for a good AMD (ALthough I can get that later :) )

and as for money, Remember I told you that my Gran passed away not to long ago, I got left a nice £1000 and the rest was money from work :D

Posted: July 29th, 2005, 17:57
by TezzRexx
Nice. Whats Windows XP 64 bit like? I was gonna get it, but I heard so many bad things about it.

Posted: August 1st, 2005, 22:36
by Fred Woogle
You got 2 x 7800's for £450? ouch, I thought I would have got them for cheap :(

Posted: August 2nd, 2005, 8:11
by Woo Elephant Yeah
Ty aka Sir Die Aloty wrote:You got 2 x 7800's for £450? ouch, I thought I would have got them for cheap :(
No, that's the price for just one of them.

What he means is that this 1 x 7800 runs better/faster than a dual setup of 6800's

Posted: August 2nd, 2005, 8:47
by Vowles
Yup, Thats what I ment.

Intresting Fact of the 7800

Number of Transistors in things-

Xbox GPU:60 Million
PS2 Graphic Syn:43 Million
Althon FX 55:105.9 Million

7800:302 Million

Thats 80 million more than the 6800! and it uses less power than the 6800...... Its witchcraft I tell you!

Posted: August 2nd, 2005, 10:01
by Jinxx
Vowles wrote:Thats 80 million more than the 6800! and it uses less power than the 6800...... Its witchcraft I tell you!
No, that's nVidia finally learning how to engineer stuff instead of throw more power at it. Now if only the US car industry could do the same...

Posted: August 2nd, 2005, 11:19
by F1sH g0 m0o
Graphics:Nvidia 7800GTX 256Mb PCIe TVO DVI
holly crap, thats an awsome card.
Thats one sweet machine you got youself there :o

Posted: August 3rd, 2005, 22:07
by Vowles
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^^ The mighty 7800 with mini heat sinks dotted about!!!!

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it r the woo