Official PC Bragging Rights Thread (Pics or You're Lying!)

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Official PC Bragging Rights Thread (Pics or You're Lying!)

It occurred to me that we never started a thread to share your gaming rigs (or whatever you want to call them). Or if we did, it died out way too quickly...I thought about it mainly because I've been building a new rig myself as well as moving a lot of older parts around for various other uses.

So, let's see 'em - let's see what kind of power you guys have under the hood.
 
Here's a couple of quick pics of my HAF 932. I'm swapping out the guts right now, so I'll post my new specs with pics in a few days. For now, enjoy the light show :D

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Mine's not superpowered, but it does look purty as hell... :D

It's a 3.4 Ghz with 1G RAM, and as of last night, now a 1TB HD... Radeon X300/X550, LED fans everywhere, Antec NEO 550 PS... Completely clear Blue Acrylic case...

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Mine's not superpowered, but it does look purty as hell... :D

It's a 3.4 Ghz with 1G RAM, and as of last night, now a 1TB HD... Radeon X300/X550, LED fans everywhere, Antec NEO 550 PS... Completely clear Blue Acrylic case...

I like those cases, but don't think I'd ever actually get one. I think the wires everywhere would kill it for me (I have way too much shit in mine :p). Also, I'd try and do something a little neater with that tube lighting stuff you have - could it trim the case (corners, etc)? That would look pretty damn sweet if so.
 
my high end gaming rig days were ages ago. I still have my abit bp6 with dual celeron 366s overclocked to 550 mhz. with two voodoo2s and two 13gb hard drives in raid0. eventually upgraded to voodo3 3000. it was an awesome machine at the time. it loaded quake3 maps so fast I was always the first player to spawn.

the last great gaming rig I had was an asus p3v4x mobo with a pentiumIII 650 overclocked to a stable 866. I could get it to post at 975mhz, but windows never fully loaded at that speed. I had the hercules 64mb geforce2 video card.

I still have both of these systems in the attic, even though I'll probably never use them, I just can't get rid of them.
 
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my high end gaming rig days were ages ago. I still have my abit bp6 with dual celeron 366s overclocked to 550 mhz. with two voodoo2s and two 13gb hard drives in raid0. eventually upgraded to voodo3 3000. it was an awesome machine at the time. it loaded quake3 maps so fast I was always the first player to spawn.

the last great gaming rig I had was an asus p3v4x mobo with a pentiumIII 650 overclocked to a stable 866. I could get it to post at 975mhz, but windows never fully loaded at that speed. I had the hercules 64mb geforce2 video card.

I still have both of these systems in the attic, even though I'll probably never use them, I just can't get rid of them.

Holy crap you just sent me through a nostalgia trip. Awesome.
 
my high end gaming rig days were ages ago. I still have my abit bp6 with dual celeron 366s overclocked to 550 mhz. with two voodoo2s and two 13gb hard drives in raid0. eventually upgraded to voodo3 3000. it was an awesome machine at the time. it loaded quake3 maps so fast I was always the first player to spawn.

the last great gaming rig I had was an asus p3v4x mobo with a pentiumIII 650 overclocked to a stable 866. I could get it to post at 975mhz, but windows never fully loaded at that speed. I had the hercules 64mb geforce2 video card.

I still have both of these systems in the attic, even though I'll probably never use them, I just can't get rid of them.

So, I'm not the only one who OCed a Celeron... Although I never used one, I just did it for fun.

first graphics card for me was a voodoo, the true "accelerator" with a pass through to piggyback off your main GPU

I'm in the same boat as you, though. I'm not sure I'm entirely done, but I can't afford to upgrade my crap right now.

My last system was a little more current, but still a few years old now

(had to check my newegg orders to get all the parts down)

ASUS P5N32-SLI Premium/WiFi
Thermaltake Matrix VX VD3000SNA Silver Aluminum (After my first aluminum case, I will never go another direction)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Conroe 2.13GHz
G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
EVGA 640-P2-N821-AR GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB
 
I like those cases, but don't think I'd ever actually get one. I think the wires everywhere would kill it for me (I have way too much shit in mine :p). Also, I'd try and do something a little neater with that tube lighting stuff you have - could it trim the case (corners, etc)? That would look pretty damn sweet if so.

Yeah, my initial concept was to make it fit the case superpretty, but I got lazy and just threw it in... :D Some day, perhaps. Someday.

It is cool, even lazy-sloppy style, though. At least I think so. :rolleyes:
 
Im using the same case as Mattroid but no led fans for me, even pulled the leds for the power and HD access off as was too bright, its running a Intel Quad 3.2ghz with 6gb RAM, ATi 4650 GfX card I think, a mass of Hard Drives, and all the usual stuff, did play Black Ops on it for all of 30minutes and was enough, but will play all the latest emulators without a problem so Im happy :)
 
Im using the same case as Mattroid but no led fans for me, even pulled the leds for the power and HD access off as was too bright, its running a Intel Quad 3.2ghz with 6gb RAM, ATi 4650 GfX card I think, a mass of Hard Drives, and all the usual stuff, did play Black Ops on it for all of 30minutes and was enough, but will play all the latest emulators without a problem so Im happy :)

Nice - though if I'd known, I would have taken your 230mm red led fan and sent you my stock black one. Damn things are like ~$20 a pop! I love that case because there's so much room to work with!
 
I will post pics of mine later but the specs are a gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P with a 3.0ghz E8400 dual core with 4 gigs of ram a 640gig hard drive and dual ati 4850 video cards and a logitech g500 gaming mouse
 
I just built one last year. I used a i7-930 2.8 quad, with Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R, 12GB of RAM, a Radeon based 5770, and a WD SSD.

I can throw a pic up later, but it's not much to look at, just in one of these:
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I can throw a pic up later, but it's not much to look at, just in one of these:
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I agree. Nothing much to look at with mine:
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OS: Windows 7 Professional x86
motherboard: Intel DQ35JO
CPU: Intel Quad Core Q9300 2.5GHz
RAM: 4GB 800MHz DDR2
HDDs: 3x80GB 1x20GB
Video: MSI nVidia GeForce N220GT 1GB PCI-E x16
Sound: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer + Creative Inspire 5200

The beauty is on the inside (except this was taken before assembly):
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My other computer, I do not have a picture of the outside... Only "good" pic after specs:

OS: Windows 98 FE (modified)
Motherboard: Intel D850MV
CPU: Pentium 4 2.0 GHz
RAM: 768MB 800MHz RDRAM
HDDs: 2x 20GB
Video: Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600XT 256MB AGP 8x
Sound: Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1
*note this PC is connected to a 20" CRT TV using S-Video through a switch box (which also has a Sega Saturn and PS2 connected) through a VCR (which also has a Sega Genesis and Dreamcast connected) to a scratch-built 5 channel sound system.
This PC runs MAME and will once again run Quake 3 dedicated and Shoutcast server once it is put back online. It can also run window transparencies dating back to 1999...

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But what about real bragging rights? Aside from this awesome Win98 PC that can run transparencies AND had an average uptime of 2.5 months when it was a Q3 dedicated on the Master Server, I have two other examples:

1. My current Win7 PC has a HDD in it (a 20GB PATA) that has XP installed on it. My PC is not a dual boot. At one point in the past, that XP drive was my boot drive for the board that is currently in my Win98 PC. At that point it had a 512MB Radeon X1800 AGP card in it, and only 512MB RAM. It was able to run Crysis at a playable framerate... about 20fps. And also with a P4 1.7GHz CPU.
2. I have a netbook that has a 32bit Atom CPU in it. It had Windows 7 Starter on it (which doesn't support virtualization for example) in which I installed Sun's VirtualBox AND installed AND ran Vista Business inside!

:p
 
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