Legit Reviews

Nothing special here ...

Didn't look near as ugly as it does now, until I posted the pic. Mods, they are a comin'. Should be ordering all my parts tomorrow night. Once they arrive, I'll take a little Folding vacation and get this thing looking the way it should.

Edit: forgot to mention, this is Behemoth, specs are in the sig.

Stev, is that your computer chair, that hard plastic step stool? My ass hurts just lookin' at that thing.

ibleet wrote:Stev, is that your computer chair, that hard plastic step stool? My ass hurts just lookin' at that thing.

no, the real question is, is that a bomb shelter??

my comp is, well, dead, so no pix of what im running now {im ashamed} once i get the PSU and RAM, well thats a Hole, Novva, Lebel. (sound it out, if you don't already know(its MADtv))

Dragon_Cooler wrote:that is the 8800gts 640, My g/f wont let me use her 2x 8800gtx which she only plays CS and WoW LOL and right now its @ 3.0Ghz. I know its not a lot, but my room is always at 80-85f+

Could you switch out her SLI cards for your 8800gts without her knowledge?

vicaphit wrote:

Dragon_Cooler wrote:that is the 8800gts 640, My g/f wont let me use her 2x 8800gtx which she only plays CS and WoW LOL and right now its @ 3.0Ghz. I know its not a lot, but my room is always at 80-85f+

Could you switch out her SLI cards for your 8800gts without her knowledge?

I actually could yes. LOL But there is a moral standing with that. LOLOL Also i would have to take out my hard drive cage and mount all my drive in the optical bay. Just one GTX barely fit. One reason i am not so upity about is because everything i have thrown full detail at has run flawlessly at max FPS. So until a crysis 2 comes out or something Im not too worried about it just yet. Another thing is heat. 2 of those in this mid tower would be an oven.

Not the prettiest rig in town, but it does what I need it to do.








EVGA 780i
E8400
XFX 8800GT's SLI
4GB Crucial Ballistix
750GB Hitachi 7K1000
Thermaltake Armor Case
Coolermaster 750w PSU

skierkid450 wrote:

ibleet wrote:Stev, is that your computer chair, that hard plastic step stool? My ass hurts just lookin' at that thing.

no, the real question is, is that a bomb shelter??

Yes, that is my comfort chair. That back bar keeps my behind from slipping off.

Bomb shelter? Nope, just the basement corner I get in the entire house. At least I have carpeting.

Here's a look the other way. I'm not the only one down there. My two boys have their systems at the next tables.

Glad that everyone has taken up the challenge, its nice to see what other people are running ^_^

@vicaphit: does that btx form factor not kill your CPU temp wise? I'd have ripped it apart and put a proper cooler (at least another fan) on it soon after getting it.

@DaIceMan: do you think that having the SB cooler right over the GPU fan makes a significant difference to the GPU temps? Or is it a fairly cool SB with that on anyway?

@JustSomeone: It might not have the stunning looks, but it is by no means ugly. Got some nice hardware in it too

@stev: be careful that you don't end up straining something reaching all the way up to that desk from your little stool

Dan

martini161 wrote:wow suprised at the amount of stock coolers in this thread well ill go ahead and post mine rig (the most extreme so far imo )
@sparky: you should consider moving to sata disc drives, it would do wonders for your wire management

rig in sig. as for cooling, water cooled cpu and northbridge, one 120mm fan pulling off the rad, one pushing on it. two front 120mm fans, and two 92mm fans on the top to get the hot air out. more pics on the chuck norris rig thread in the modding section

I totally agree with you about the sata, I just installed an old 250 gig ide drive in my new build recently, with another ide dvd burner attached to the same channel and I wanted the hard drive to be master with the dvd-rw being slave. Most computers have the drive slots aligned so the 5 1/4 (cd-rom/dvd/etc) are above where the 3 1/2 (hard disk) bays are, making it so you have to have the dvd and hard disk side by side if you hope to attach both to the ide cable in the manner I mentioned above, with the hdd as master. SATA ftw.

DMB2000uk wrote:@stev: be careful that you don't end up straining something reaching all the way up to that desk from your little stool

LOL Being a bit tall helps to see the monitor straight on.

martini161 wrote:wow surprised at the amount of stock coolers in this thread ...

Mine isn't stock, it's the ThermalTake Big Typhoon. It is BiG. At the time it was either that or the XP-90 copper. I'm happy with my choice.

DMB2000uk wrote:@DaIceMan: do you think that having the SB cooler right over the GPU fan makes a significant difference to the GPU temps? Or is it a fairly cool SB with that on anyway?
Dan

I don't really have problems with the GPU temp. Idles around 50 or so. If I'm going to be gaming for any length of time, I just fire up NTune and crank the fan speed. 100% fan speed brings the temp down to 43-45 at idle, and rarely over 60-62 when gaming.

I had read of problems with the SB being really warm on these boards, so I figure the 2-3 deg trade off in GPU temp was worth it for stability.

My Spinner case MOD

THRASHER2 wrote:My Spinner case MOD

Wow! Did you do any of the fabrication? Got any build pics to share? Just curious about how much work went into that.

JustSomeone wrote:

THRASHER2 wrote:My Spinner case MOD

Wow! Did you do any of the fabrication? Got any build pics to share? Just curious about how much work went into that.

Worklog is here
http://hardware.gamershell.com/forum/sh ... php?t=1787


Here is a small Video

Hey Thrasher2....that thing is CRAZY!

More pics and open it up!

Just built this last evening, i forgot how much i hate doing new builds, for instance the yellow/orange cord running from the top left to the bottom right has to be done for SATA 2.0, WHY it could be that i just did not read every thing on the page but i thought it said it HAD to be done. but this should last me another 5-7 years.

Wolfdale E8400 3.0Ghz]
AsRock 4Core1600p35-wifi+
MSI 8800GTS OC
400GB Sata + 40GB IDE
4 x 1 GB DDR2 ram

Nice to see all the effort you put into cable tidying there junebug

Just checked your boards manual, and it appears that you only need the orange sata ports connected like that if you want to use the eSATA port on the back IO shield. So you don't actually need that for SATAII, it will run at that speed automatically.

Dan

DMB2000uk wrote:Just checked your boards manual, and it appears that you only need the orange sata ports connected like that if you want to use the eSATA port on the back IO shield. So you don't actually need that for SATAII, it will run at that speed automatically.

Dan

was going to guess that myself. Nice job Dan for taking out the guess work.

DMB2000uk wrote:Nice to see all the effort you put into cable tidying there junebug

not a zip tie in sight