Post Your Rig!

[duplo83]

Alright, I've finally gotten around to posting some pics of my rig. I wanted to wait until I plopped my GTX 280 in there before I did so. And yes, before the ATI faithful descend upon me, I know that the 4870 is a better price/performance purchase, but I'm more concerned with the performance part of it.

I included a close-up of some Dremel work I did on my case window; whomever can identify the character gets a prize!

I'll also take some more pics when I get my second GTX 280 in the not too distant future.

[Methious]

The character would be Darth Vader, sweet looking setup, I just got a GTX-260 and I've gotta say I'm liking it.

[duplo83]

Yeah, the GTX series is awesome. I did notice something interesting on the video card's box. XFX had specific recommendations for power supplies listed, and they said for a GTX 280 SLI setup that a minimum of 680W was required. That seems REALLY low for two GTX cards. Most sites I've read about the card on have said an SLI setup would require at least 800 watts to run two GTXs. I wonder if most people are a little TOO cautious with their power supplies.

[DMB2000uk]

Yeah, people really are over-cautious when it comes to recommended PSU requirements. It's probably due to how many shoddy PSU's there are out there, if the min required was actually rated at what it should be, people with cheap PSUs at those ratings would think that they would be ok to run it, but in reality they wouldn't (as cheap PSUs wattage ratings aren't worth jack).

Dan

[bandieramonte]

Hi everyone! I will finally post here some pictures of my new system, the system that many of the administrators and members of this forums helped me to build and that I could not have built without the help of you.

I would like to THANK all of you who posted a piece of helpful information that proved useful in building my rig.

Here you go:

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It's kind of a fuzz with the cables here huh? If I could order the cables better the flow from the outside could come in more efficiently but I did not now where the heck to place the cables.

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Here it looks kind of cool ... well at least for me

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The big panorama, with my new 24' inch screen for playing games at 1920x1200 res the way it's meant to be played with two G92 8800 GTS's!

I took more pictures but this forum only allowed me to post 3 pictures. Well, you saw it, the system many of you helped me to build.
Thanks again!!

[DaIceMan]

^^ Awesome looking system. I have a new one coming soon, and all of the others will be changing again so I will post new pictures of the family after the folding war and rebuilds.

[DMB2000uk]

If you want to post more pictures, because we want to see more, just make another new post after the first one is full up of pictures

Nice system. Thanks for sharing.

Dan

[martini161]

bandieramonte: you could use my setup as a guide to tidy your calbes. what i did was ziptie them in little bundels, then ziptied the bundels to the side of the drive bays

[Bio-Hazard]

The wifes new rig I put together last week out of a few spare old parts I had around the shop................

Specs: XFX 680i Lt, Intel E6750, Corsair Dominator PC-6400 2 x 1 gb, XFX 7900GT, WD SATA 250 gb HD, Lite-On DVDRW & CDRW, Tagan 700w PSU.

[kappage]

The wifes new rig I put together last week out of a few spare old parts I had around the shop................

Specs: XFX 680i Lt, Intel E6750, Corsair Dominator PC-6400 2 x 1 gb, XFX 7900GT, WD SATA 250 gb HD, Lite-On DVDRW & CDRW, Tagan 700w PSU.

That is an awesome rig for 'spare parts'...

[Bio-Hazard]

All the parts in the rig are either old parts from my system or contest wins from different sites................. . Nothing in the thing is new out the box except the PSU (Tagan contest) and case (review sample).

XFX 680i Lt (contest), Intel E6750 (my old CPU), Corsair Dominator PC-6400 2 x 1 gb (contest), XFX 7900GT (contest), WD SATA 250 gb HD (my old HD), Lite-On DVDRW & CDRW (old PATA drives from my rig).

[TheGanG]

My rig is updated:

MAGICOOL PRO III - 360mm Rad
EK SUPREME - Acetal WB
Dtek dB-1 Compact 12v DC Pump 500 LPH/20dBA
Alphacool Coolplex - 50 mm Res 500 ml.
Nanoxia FX 12 47,4 CFM/17dBA - 3*120 mm Fan
TT UV Green Tubing 10/14 mm
TT UV Green 1000 ml. + %10 Antifreezer
UVCC Light*2

[martini161]

looking good!
Bandier: I just noticed this, where is the sli bridge between the 2 8800gts'?

[vicaphit]

Good point martini! An SLI bridge might help out a bit.

[stopthekilling77]

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Awkward shot, I know... but I just had to show my newest addition to the rig!
That 8800GTS 512 is a BLAST for gaming compared to the 7800GT

[martini161]

what about for folding? hint hint

[stopthekilling77]

Most definitely, I've downloaded the CUDA files and the GPU client, I just don't know if I need to install the seperate CUDA drivers AND the toolkit AND the SDK stuff before I install the F@H GPU client...

[DMB2000uk]

Just need to grab the cuda drivers (don't need the other stuff from nvidia), and install the GPU2 client.

At least that's all I had to do when I did it.

Dan

[martini161]

yeah unless your going to be writing some CUDA software all you need is the drivers

[stopthekilling77]

Alright, cool. I'll hop on it Saturday after work and we should see some points roll in for a bit