what makes your setup different?

[jdsb52]

yippy

 

This is what makes mine special:

 

Its the black version of the magnet! (and the "smurf")

If only the cosmos 2 had a window, i would soo consider it! Stunning case!

[jaqiefox]

I run my case without the side panel

very very far from unique in the techie crowd...

[jaggysnake57]

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My Pacifico hat. It covers the cord for my speakers, so I don't need to look at an ugly white cord stick out of my case.

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Also, my little Umbreon and Mudkip. My two favorite Pokémon, who guard my Gameboy SP.

Plus I like my Intel stock cooler coaster.

so what temps you getting off that intel cooler?

[jaggysnake57]

I run my case without the side panel

 i have a 3 year old daughter and a cat.......this is NOT advised in my house

[24OscarM]

I use a testbench instead of a case

That's... is that normal?

[flibberdipper]

I'm upgrading to a 9800GT. And I have a red case with a blue fan, rainbow motherboard, and so on.

[Terosterone]

My Boston A25 speakers, my Aerocool DS Cube and my Philips "sun light"  

[24OscarM]

 i have a 3 year old daughter and a cat.......this is NOT advised in my house

Most importantly with having a cat around. Just look what Linus's cat did to his old monitor...

[dev893]

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My Pacifico hat. It covers the cord for my speakers, so I don't need to look at an ugly white cord stick out of my case.

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Also, my little Umbreon and Mudkip. My two favorite Pokémon, who guard my Gameboy SP.

Plus I like my Intel stock cooler coaster.

does it keep the ice from melting? lol awesome coaster I would do that when I get an aftermarket coaster I mean cooler for mine but I'm using AMD and it's a thick square one so I don't think it would look nice lol

[dev893]

 i have a 3 year old daughter and a cat.......this is NOT advised in my house

hence one of the many reasons I can't stand cats lol

[ygohome]

I use stock CPU heatsinks and cooling fans.

[Jack.EXE]

cause my budget is so small, yet I managed to cram so much in.

 

7870XT ~$100 (used, came with aftermarket cooler)

Phenom II x4 ~$100 (at time of purchase, 2010)

8 GB of Ram ~$40 (remember when it was cheap?)

ECS 880G motherboard ~$60

Corsair neutron GTX SSD ~$0 (was a gift, thankfully)

Hatachi 500GB HDD ~$20 (remember when it was cheap?)

Antec VP-450 PSU ~$40 (great build quality, can handle all the parts stated above)

NZXT Gamma Classic ~$40 (at time of purchase, 2010)

3x Gateway 1600x900 monitors ~$150 (Refurbished)

Logitech K360 ~$10

Onn M730R ~$10

 

my total? $570 for a great mid-high end gaming machine.

[snes]

My PC has one LED only. It's the power LED and I plan to unplug it the next time I get to tear my system apart.

[dev893]

cause my budget is so small, yet I managed to cram so much in.

 

7870XT ~$100 (used, came with aftermarket cooler)

Phenom II x4 ~$100 (at time of purchase, 2010)

8 GB of Ram ~$40 (remember when it was cheap?)

ECS 880G motherboard ~$60

Corsair neutron GTX SSD ~$0 (was a gift, thankfully)

Hatachi 500GB HDD ~$20 (remember when it was cheap?)

Antec VP-450 PSU ~$40 (great build quality, can handle all the parts stated above)

NZXT Gamma Classic ~$40 (at time of purchase, 2010)

3x Gateway 1600x900 monitors ~$150 (Refurbished)

Logitech K360 ~$10

Onn M730R ~$10

 

my total? $570 for a great mid-high end gaming machine.

Nice build for the budget I am sitting around $230 right now and it does decent in gaming after I am done with mine (with prices the way they are now and if I can get my graphics card used) I'll be around $600 total

[-iSynthesis]

Well, almost all my parts are from different manufacturers. Logitech mouse, teufel headphones, blue snowball mic, benq monitor, bitfenix case, thermaltake psu, enermax cpu cooler, seagate HDD, msi graphics card and g.Skill ram. 

[-iSynthesis]

I run my case without the side panel

yay, i do too. and its on the ground... and i have a dog lol

[lachyman]

Probably really stupid choice of parts , but I hope to do a rebuild this year to make it look and perform up to the standard of these forums.

[Joshua Ondangan]

that would be my table. the double bed with the bottom bed removed and placed a table. I've been thinking of removing it since I don't sleep on the bed anymore and so does my daughter or wife. Buy some wood and make my own table.

[Lays]

Errr, not really sure. Maybe the fact that my setup costs like $5,000+ and I have a homemade 50$ desk from home depot. LOL

 

I guess I could say my headphones as well (hifiman he-500)

[UnknownEngineer]

I am pretty sure I am the only person with a Intel 3970X CPU and an AMD HD5450 GPU.

both are from totally different ends of the price spectrum LOL.    (just temporary as I am waiting for 880)

Casually reading your sig, then stumbling upon that 5450........kinda got my attention.

[Robi_g]

My painted keyboard

http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?p=753445

[Toggle]

I have 3 desks and 2 computers in one setup.

[Tech_Dreamer]

Mine sucks b@llz!!!!! <_< that's .... that's.. sad

 

 

true story.

 

ninja brings in the apocalypse

[Hyp0xia]

Now what about motherboards like this Asus one, that are built to have more that one GPU, not necessarily to run in Crossfire or SLI, but for rendering or doing compute tasks, would you do that? Or stick with one strong card, even in a production environment?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007KQ9OD6/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B007KQ9OD6&linkCode=as2&tag=teksyndealzon-20

I only build gaming and home theater PCs, but I imagine I'd make an exception for a workstation.

[Hyp0xia]

1. To an extent. Agreed.

2. Well, unless they have terrible build quality and cable routing, yes, no one likes flimsy plastic.

3. +1

4. Finally someone who thinks the way I do. Not buying -K in hopes of getting a golden CPU, instead just to leave that option open.

5. Yeah. Liquid requires too much maintenance and checkup.

6. No more than 16GB ram, unless someone actually needs it. 

7. Depends. FM2+ and Haswell both like 1866 RAM, the former needing frequency more than timings. But yeah, minimal differences most cases.

8. +1000. Plus there's no upgrade path if you fill all the slots.

9. Single GPU > Dual GPU unless drivers show us otherwise.

10. +1. I don't see why anyone needs RAID unless they actually move extremely large files on an extremely regular basis. Even then it doesn't make sense, the drive is still getting a lot of writes and less endurance.

11. RAPID mode doesn't really affect stability; I think that's TurboWrite and RAPID combined that does that.

12. Do you not get coil whine on RM? A lot of users do.

13. 80+ GOLD MASTER RACE

14. Me too. Couldn't agree more. Half the "silent" products on the market I find too loud.

15. White always #1. Ensures that it looks good with any component, in both pics and real life.

17. Can't seem to understand the craze over 2ms $250+ TN panels these days; IPS panels are good enough for most.

18. I think you'll like Das Keyboard's stuff. Now that's what a professional uses.

I don't get coil whine from my RM units, but I've found it depends on the other hardware in the system as well; for example my Seasonic 660XP2 causes coil whine when paired with my Gigabyte Z87X-UD5H but not with my wife's Asus motherboard. As for Das Keyboard, I dislike their glossiness and I do like backlighting a lot (as long as it's white).