iBUYPOWER Chimera 2 Gaming System with an I7-980X CPU
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- Legit Little One
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Re: iBUYPOWER Chimera 2 Gaming System with an I7-980X CPU
I wish to enter the contest
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a little late for that.jadawgis732 wrote:I wish to enter the contest
Congrats Hark!!! enjoy!
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Re: iBUYPOWER Chimera 2 Gaming System with an I7-980X CPU
My name is Gerald Peterson and I am submitting my name for this drawing. Interested in learning how to build my own computer one day. Thanks!
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It's been over since April 15th/mrgeraldpete wrote:My name is Gerald Peterson and I am submitting my name for this drawing. Interested in learning how to build my own computer one day. Thanks!
Re: iBUYPOWER Chimera 2 Gaming System with an I7-980X CPU
I wish to enter this contest...thank you !!!
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Your like 10 days lat it's over.Sonatina wrote:I wish to enter this contest...thank you !!!
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The PC has arrived! What a neat package it was. The box was massive and the PC was packaged well, both externally with Styrofoam padding and internally, with some sort of foam in a bag. It had to cross the border over to Canada, so I was somewhat worried of possible damage, but it's in tip-top shape. The cabling is nice and neat (though the side where it mostly all is can be annoying to place the plating back on) and the case is quite shiny, a contrast to my previous case. This shininess really compliments the case art.
Enough of my words, how about some pictures? Unfortunately I'm going to have to post by links instead of embedding them into the post, if you have a better method, I'm always up for suggestions:
Side:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 8ff262.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 6a1f0b.jpg
Top:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 8dad84.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 6d6271.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 733369.jpg
Front (Closed):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 9d7cfa.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... c5c2b9.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 3e75f8.jpg
Front (Opened):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 7e8c2a.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 9b1d73.jpg
Back:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... cdbca2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... e7ee59.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 32b6c1.jpg
Inside:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 42a5fb.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... da9da9.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... baab08.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 7f7775.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... e2f268.jpg
It also came with drivers, manuals, a code for a free DiRT game, and other miscellaneous items:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 72c68f.jpg
CPU-Z:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 65b4fc.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 5c973f.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 1c81fd.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 892ce9.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... ed21e2.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... b044ea.png
GPU-Z:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... c9fab8.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 1e27d2.png
HyperPI (8M):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... f399ec.png
My horrible artistic skills trying to make a picture of water in a glass in Paint3D + CPU usage of program (it uses raytracing, I think, to render voxels):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... e8de09.png
Videos:
Just Cause 2 Demo Benchmark, it was split into two parts because FRAPS auto-split it (resulting video was over 4GB) and I don't know of any good free video combiners:
Part 1:
Part 2:
Result without FRAPS: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 9ca566.jpg
DirectCompute volumetric fire effect video:
Thank you Legit Reviews, iBUYPOWER, and Intel! If anyone has any requests or suggestions, please post them.
Enough of my words, how about some pictures? Unfortunately I'm going to have to post by links instead of embedding them into the post, if you have a better method, I'm always up for suggestions:
Side:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 8ff262.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 6a1f0b.jpg
Top:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 8dad84.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 6d6271.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 733369.jpg
Front (Closed):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 9d7cfa.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... c5c2b9.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 3e75f8.jpg
Front (Opened):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 7e8c2a.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 9b1d73.jpg
Back:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... cdbca2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... e7ee59.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 32b6c1.jpg
Inside:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 42a5fb.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... da9da9.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... baab08.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 7f7775.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... e2f268.jpg
It also came with drivers, manuals, a code for a free DiRT game, and other miscellaneous items:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 72c68f.jpg
CPU-Z:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 65b4fc.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 5c973f.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 1c81fd.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 892ce9.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... ed21e2.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... b044ea.png
GPU-Z:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... c9fab8.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 1e27d2.png
HyperPI (8M):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... f399ec.png
My horrible artistic skills trying to make a picture of water in a glass in Paint3D + CPU usage of program (it uses raytracing, I think, to render voxels):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... e8de09.png
Videos:
Just Cause 2 Demo Benchmark, it was split into two parts because FRAPS auto-split it (resulting video was over 4GB) and I don't know of any good free video combiners:
Part 1:
Part 2:
Result without FRAPS: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v85/h ... 9ca566.jpg
DirectCompute volumetric fire effect video:
Thank you Legit Reviews, iBUYPOWER, and Intel! If anyone has any requests or suggestions, please post them.
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Very sweet, your one lucky guy.
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I have a request please send me this system jk but u one lucky guy :p have fun with that
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Congrats!
Thanks for posting photos and benches of your new computer.
Thanks for posting photos and benches of your new computer.
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Very nice! Glad you like it!!
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So what were you going from to this system? The backplate is interesting, must be an Intel thing. Any plans on overclocking the beast?
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Before this system, I had a Q6600, 8800GT 512MB, and 4GB of DDR2 RAM. The CPU is liquid cooled, so I can definitely see myself overclocking it some time later on. I forgot to mention how quiet the system is. My previous system was quite loud and only became louder when I turned on the case fan.
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Thx for the pictures mate and videos....
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Since you aren't a professional hardware reviewer what is your take on the SSD boot drive? Is it noticeable or is the machine just fast as hell and it's hard to differentiate what is fast?hark wrote:Before this system, I had a Q6600, 8800GT 512MB, and 4GB of DDR2 RAM. The CPU is liquid cooled, so I can definitely see myself overclocking it some time later on. I forgot to mention how quiet the system is. My previous system was quite loud and only became louder when I turned on the case fan.
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Well actually I took the SSD out. It was a tough decision, but I already have Windows 7 professional set up and I did not want to fiddle around with partition transferring or anything like that. I'm giving the drive to someone who will get better use out of it. I imagine the loading will be significantly faster, but I'm content with how everything currently loads.
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congrats hark.
i suggest you keep the SSD and get used to it. the good thing about SSD is way better than traditional HDrives. If you dont want to setup a new OS, then just keep it for future purposes. or you can ask sum1 who is knowledgeable on computer hardware to set it up for you. and when its done, plug it in to your computer and make your primary you will benefit the SSD even if you are not worth of using it.
this is just a suggestion, the decision is yours :D
i suggest you keep the SSD and get used to it. the good thing about SSD is way better than traditional HDrives. If you dont want to setup a new OS, then just keep it for future purposes. or you can ask sum1 who is knowledgeable on computer hardware to set it up for you. and when its done, plug it in to your computer and make your primary you will benefit the SSD even if you are not worth of using it.
this is just a suggestion, the decision is yours :D
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Depending on your hard drive now they might have their own version of Acronis. With that you could backup your drive to the SSD easily.hark wrote:Well actually I took the SSD out. It was a tough decision, but I already have Windows 7 professional set up and I did not want to fiddle around with partition transferring or anything like that. I'm giving the drive to someone who will get better use out of it. I imagine the loading will be significantly faster, but I'm content with how everything currently loads.
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Acronis, eh? Would it matter that my Windows 7 partition is bigger than the SSD?
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Probably so. With new Acronis builds it seems like you have the ability to select what it backs up. Meaning you might be able to just backup the OS and your working folders (i.e. Documents, Music, Addresses, etc...).