What sets your system apart?

[AngryBeaver]

15 hours ago, SpiderMan said:

But...but...

 

Intake: 

• 7x 120mm

Exhaust:

• 5x 120mm 

My temps don't seem to have been affected after switching out from a NZXT Phantom 530 with intake: 1x200mm, 2x120mm, exhaust: 2x200mm & 1x140mm. The graphics card does seem to run cooler now after the swap.

 

I also have 2x optical drives in the system but I hardly ever use them and waiting for the arrival of a new case that can take a couple more months from now. 

If we are talking pure fans I have 8 120mm on the front rad as intake. Then have 6 120mm as exhaust on a second rad... then a single 140mm in the back for exhaust. I have enough room for another 7 120's or 14 if they are push pull on a rad if needed... Might need to add another extremely over kill 360mm rad to the bottom of my case lol

[CommanderAlex]

3 hours ago, AngryBeaver said:

If we are talking pure fans I have 8 120mm on the front rad as intake. Then have 6 120mm as exhaust on a second rad... then a single 140mm in the back for exhaust. I have enough room for another 7 120's or 14 if they are push pull on a rad if needed... Might need to add another extremely over kill 360mm rad to the bottom of my case lol

Damn, I can add another 4 120mm fans for intake on the side but I doubt there is room due to the PSU cables in that area. Its just purely for airflow on air cooling my case.

[NineEyeRon]

It is the perfect balance of parts, sufficient power and value for money. 

[handymanshandle]

No Windows

No RGB

and the Dust and Non-Existent Cable management

[Duckster]

20 hours ago, liam tonsfeldt said:

Does it work?

 

Yeah, I guess I got lucky....

[Radium_Angel]

1 hour ago, pinksnowbirdie said:

No Windows

The OS or the side-panels?

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

my main pc has:

Supermicro X8DT3-LN4F motherboard

Dual Xeon X5650's

32GB Ram

R9 290X

500GB SSD

BitFenix Whisper 850W

Silverstone Raven RV03 Case

[da na]

23 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

I've seen a number of build requests here for Ryzen system, the vast majority are for that matter. All good, Ryzen is apparently the king of the hill right now, but I see a lot of near-identical builds for that matter as well (Ryzen, nVidia 20xx GPU, RGB out the ears, etc) but of course one size does not fit all, so, in your opinion, what sets your system apart from the next guy?

 

I'll start:

 

Dual Xeons

No RGB

Workstation GFX card (Amd Radeon Pro WX 7100)

4 NAS systems

4 internal drives on a SAS controller

5 m.2 drives on a PCIe controller

 

 Mine's similar:

Dual 8-core Xeon e5-2690 (2900-3800mHz)

RX 570 (waiting for 6800xt to become buyable)

Don't have 4 internal drives, but have 2 2tb, 6 platter 7200rpm HDDs in there from 2012, plus SSD

Also, I have a soundcard. That's not common these days, but my motherboard audio was just that bad.

[WildW_UK]

The only video output in use on my media PC is s-video to a 25" Sony Trinitron on my desk. Watching TV on a CRT is my happy place, and it's excellent for emulators.

[sub68]

having a 4:3 monitor on my pc tower (as a secondary)

2x500GB HDD

14GB of ram 3x2GB 1x8GB

and a dvd drive

 

[Guest]

 

It's like everyone else's computer, except it's in my house.

[igormp]

64gb of ram

No RGB whatsoever

The fact that I rarely ever play and don't use Windows

A Sun Ultra as a case (old workstation with no side panels)

[Zob]

On 1/23/2021 at 5:28 PM, Radium_Angel said:

I've seen a number of build requests here for Ryzen system, the vast majority are for that matter. All good, Ryzen is apparently the king of the hill right now, but I see a lot of near-identical builds for that matter as well (Ryzen, nVidia 20xx GPU, RGB out the ears, etc) but of course one size does not fit all, so, in your opinion, what sets your system apart from the next guy?

 

I'll start:

 

Dual Xeons

No RGB

Workstation GFX card (Amd Radeon Pro WX 7100)

4 NAS systems

4 internal drives on a SAS controller

5 m.2 drives on a PCIe controller

 

no rgb only 3 white LED fans in the front 

[Zob]

On 1/24/2021 at 4:45 PM, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

 Mine's similar:

Dual 8-core Xeon e5-2690 (2900-3800mHz)

RX 570 (waiting for 6800xt to become buyable)

Don't have 4 internal drives, but have 2 2tb, 6 platter 7200rpm HDDs in there from 2012, plus SSD

Also, I have a soundcard. That's not common these days, but my motherboard audio was just that bad.

stupid question, but how does ur dual xeons do when intesive gaming? do you get good/decent fps? 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

On 1/23/2021 at 7:42 PM, dizmo said:

Haha I never noticed how archaic your computer is. Then again, the one I'm using right now isn't much newer.

It definitely doesn't feel as...snappy...as something even a few generations newer though.

Funny thing is that I actually upgraded (or downgraded) it from the 1100T recently. But yeah, not something I would show off. Unpainted steel insides = 0% chance of having the cabling blend in. 

 

It feels alright. But there have been times where it just... hangs for no reason. Not sure why. I've been through multiple Windows reinstallations, swapped SSDs, swapped SATA cables, same thing. Though it at least isn't corrupting itself now... 

[TetraSky]

My GPU with Noctua fans strapped onto it.

Spoiler

 

 

Still going strong since April of last year. No choice... There's literally no GPU available I can replace it with...

 

Also, no RGB whatsoever in the case... Or any LED for that matter, other than the one on the motherboard itself. No light pollution here.

 

Oh and I placed my side panel window at the TOP of my case. I'm using it as a shelf. Because it's literally pointless to look inside a computer case after the first day.

 

I also added some sound absorbing materials on every side panels, with the only clearance being for the fans.

[Tog Driver]

Heavily modified case, no RGB, no window in the side panel.

 

Edit: actually, looks like "No RGB and no windowed side panel" seem to be rather common in this thread, so I guess that just leaves the heavily modified case.

[PlayStation 2]

Actually, instead of making fun of myself and the thread, I oughta explain a couple of quirks:

1. It has two capture cards! Digital Foundry, eat your heart out.
2. It looks extremely boring... by design. The Cooler Master N400 will do that to a PC with an 8-core CPU, that's for sure.

[NutronSe7en]

although I am upgrading soon, I am using a Radeon RX470 which is almost never talked about by anyone ever.

[shaz2sxy]

What sets my system apart......

 

It might catch on fire because of a bad design fault on the PCIe Riser...

 

 

Thanks NZXT!!!

 

lol

(i've done the "repair" fix so sort of fixed)

[Radium_Angel]

10 hours ago, Zob said:

stupid question, but how does ur dual xeons do when intesive gaming? do you get good/decent fps? 

In my case (e5-2643 v2 which makes for 12 cores and 24 threads) I hit 60fps on the few games I do play, but due to the fact my monitors are for work and not gaming, they are only 60Hz refresh rate, so locked to that. Doom 2016, Minecraft, Armoured Warfare, a few modest top down/isometric games, Destiny 2 seems to play very well despite not meeting the minimum system reqs.

 

In other words, I have no complaints.

[da na]

10 hours ago, Zob said:

stupid question, but how does ur dual xeons do when intesive gaming? do you get good/decent fps? 

They are actually quite good, when it comes to intensive gaming. They make up for lower clock speed with high core count in multithreaded games. However, my machine is mainly used for CAD where I need to do lots of CPU rendering.

[Zob]

5 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

In my case (e5-2643 v2 which makes for 12 cores and 24 threads) I hit 60fps on the few games I do play, but due to the fact my monitors are for work and not gaming, they are only 60Hz refresh rate, so locked to that. Doom 2016, Minecraft, Armoured Warfare, a few modest top down/isometric games, Destiny 2 seems to play very well despite not meeting the minimum system reqs.

 

In other words, I have no complaints.

 

5 hours ago, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

They are actually quite good, when it comes to intensive gaming. They make up for lower clock speed with high core count in multithreaded games. However, my machine is mainly used for CAD where I need to do lots of CPU rendering.

oh man! thanks for the responses i appreciate your time to reply to me, thanks for the info

[Radium_Angel]

1 minute ago, Zob said:

 

oh man! thanks for the responses i appreciate your time to reply to me, thanks for the info

Certainly, if there are any games you want me to try (that are either cheap, free or have a demo) I'll be happy to.

If you are considering a system like this (dual Ivy Bridge Xeons) there are some great options out there, including my spare system, a Dell Precision T5610 that I can sell you for cheap (twin e5 Xeons, 16GB DDR3 ECC Registered RAM, SSD, GTX 660, wireless, etc)

there is also a dedicated YT channel that reviews their oddball x79/x99/x58 "reconstructed" mobos from AliExpress. The channel is called 'Miyconst' and it's here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8h2Sf-yyo1WXeEUr-OHgyg

 

[Zob]

1 hour ago, Radium_Angel said:

Certainly, if there are any games you want me to try (that are either cheap, free or have a demo) I'll be happy to.

If you are considering a system like this (dual Ivy Bridge Xeons) there are some great options out there, including my spare system, a Dell Precision T5610 that I can sell you for cheap (twin e5 Xeons, 16GB DDR3 ECC Registered RAM, SSD, GTX 660, wireless, etc)

there is also a dedicated YT channel that reviews their oddball x79/x99/x58 "reconstructed" mobos from AliExpress. The channel is called 'Miyconst' and it's here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8h2Sf-yyo1WXeEUr-OHgyg

 

oh man i would love to buy your t5610 how can i contact you?