New gaming PC built!

I decided to build a new PC. I was going to go with something mid speck and modest, but then I thought meh, I am p1ngpong, I need the best. Anything less then that is heresy and would piss me off! :angry:

So I built a beast, and here it is:

pc1.jpg


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Stats of note:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Cpu, 2.83 Ghz 12MB cache

HDD: 1TB SATA, 7200rpm 32MB cache

RAM: Corsair 4 GB DDR3 1600MHZ

Graphics: SAPPHIRE TECH Radeon HD 4870 Vapor-X 2GB GDDR5

With a nice 64bit OS and all that good shit to top it off.


I havent had much time to play around with it, I only built it yesterday. But I gave Company of Heroes Opposing fronts a go with all settings on max and got a minimum framerate of 56 fps and max of 89 fps. That made me happy. :sad:

p0wned! :yaypsp:
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Canonbeat234
Congrats P1ngy but you did surprise me with your humble choices in making that PC. I know you can do better, I guess you deserve the best and I should tell you that you need to do better.

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Congrats P1ngy but you did surprise me with your humble choices in making that PC. I know you can do better, I guess you deserve the best and I should tell you that you need to do better.
 
Defiance
Oooh, where did you find that background wallpaper? I like it..
Nice PC, btw. Beats my ATI Radeon X1300PRO videocard any day....
 
Frederica Bernkastel
I thought my case was the best...
n70gl_web_only.jpg

...
but then yours adds a nice front panel.. ;_;
seems that a fuck-huge-fan (plus several on the back) with blue LED's isn't perfect...

also, your Snazzy keyboard defeats my one.

damn you and your preferals.

I havn't actually gotten more than the Case, Keyboard, Mouse and Fans...
cause I need moar moneyz.
 
raulpica
I have got a GeForce GTX260 and it rawks Radeons anyday! :angry:

Nice PC btw. Gonna upgrade to a Q9550 in the future, as I'm currently on a E8400. Quad Cores aren't still that supported, so I went for brute calculation power, with my easily reachable 3.6GhZ only with air cooling! :yaypsp:
 
xcalibur
next goal: Get better speakers and monitor. Those puny speakers and that tiny monitor don't do your machine justice.
 
p1ngpong
Thanks guys, Im really loving this PC right now, everything I throw at it it just chews up and spits out!

[quote name='Antoligy' post='2157794' date='Jul 31 2009, 06:14 PM']I thought my case was the best...

but then yours adds a nice front panel.. ;_;
seems that a fuck-huge-fan (plus several on the back) with blue LED's isn't perfect...

also, your Snazzy keyboard defeats my one.

damn you and your preferals.

I havn't actually gotten more than the Case, Keyboard, Mouse and Fans...
cause I need moar moneyz.[/quote]

I almost got that case in fact, its nice, start saving up I suppose.

[quote name='raulpica' post='2158015' date='Jul 31 2009, 08:07 PM']I have got a GeForce GTX260 and it rawks Radeons anyday! :angry:

Nice PC btw. Gonna upgrade to a Q9550 in the future, as I'm currently on a E8400. Quad Cores aren't still that supported, so I went for brute calculation power, with my easily reachable 3.6GhZ only with air cooling! :yaypsp:[/quote]

You rawk more then a Radeon or Nvidia! :yaypsp:

[quote name='xcalibur' post='2158140' date='Jul 31 2009, 08:51 PM']next goal: Get better speakers and monitor. Those puny speakers and that tiny monitor don't do your machine justice.[/quote]

Damn you xcali! I mean I though my 22" monitor was big, and dont underestimate those speakers, they have a sub and are loud as hell! Anyway I do have a 5.1 setup in that room, as well as 5.1 wireless headphones I use. But anyway sorry if I caused an injustice! :glare:

Oh wait someone say HD projector and dual desktops?

projpc.jpg


p0wned?

:creep:
 
seedvt
[quote name='raulpica' post='2158015' date='Jul 31 2009, 12:07 PM']I have got a GeForce GTX260 and it rawks Radeons anyday! :angry:

Nice PC btw. Gonna upgrade to a Q9550 in the future, as I'm currently on a E8400. Quad Cores aren't still that supported, so I went for brute calculation power, with my easily reachable 3.6GhZ only with air cooling! :yaypsp:[/quote]

Pardon my gloat, but my E8400 is at 4.0 GHz on air :P

OP:

Nice rig dude, but if you wanted top of the line why didn't you go with i7?
 
Joe88
nice build

I assume you went with a X48 board or P45 with DDR3 compat.
DDR3 is a bottleneck on core 2 builds, it just turns out to be wasted money since they wont perform any better then DDR2 on a skt.775
i7 cpu wont bottleneck the ram and AMD X4 phenom 2 also

for the price you paid for that 4870 vapor-x you could have upgraded to the 4890 instead for $5 more or less and got about 10% increase in performance

also
get a z-5500 noaw
 
Satangel
Sweet man, that HD projector is kick-ass!
And kick-ass Videocard, that's 2GB DDR5 RAM!!!
I would have picked another Terabyte and another 4GB RAM though.
 
SkH
[quote name='p1ngpong' post='2158302' date='Jul 31 2009, 11:10 PM']Oh wait someone say HD projector and dual desktops?

projpc.jpg


p0wned?

:creep:
[/quote]
Aw p1ngy, you don't already have Windows 7?!

Take this Core i7 Windows 7 Desktop!

Win7.png


p0wned! :yaypsp:
 
p1ngpong
Jesus I didnt even see these questions my apologies guys.

[quote name='Joe88' post='2159151' date='Aug 1 2009, 06:32 AM']nice build

I assume you went with a X48 board or P45 with DDR3 compat.
DDR3 is a bottleneck on core 2 builds, it just turns out to be wasted money since they wont perform any better then DDR2 on a skt.775
i7 cpu wont bottleneck the ram and AMD X4 phenom 2 also

for the price you paid for that 4870 vapor-x you could have upgraded to the 4890 instead for $5 more or less and got about 10% increase in performance

also
get a z-5500 noaw[/quote]
[quote name='Maz7006' post='2162578' date='Aug 2 2009, 08:32 PM']Like Joe, mind sharing what MOBO you got.

...Nice Build :yaypsp:[/quote]

Yeah Joe my mobo is a P45, and my card was on an offer from the store I got it from so I got a really decent deal on it.

Here is my board http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/asus_p5q3/

So far everything on the PC is great, and it runs any game I throw at it with ease. Im playing Empire total war at the moment completely maxed with no issues!

:yaypsp:

[quote name='SkH' post='2211991' date='Aug 26 2009, 02:31 PM'][quote name='p1ngpong' post='2158302' date='Jul 31 2009, 11:10 PM']Oh wait someone say HD projector and dual desktops?

projpc.jpg


p0wned?

:creep:
[/quote]
Aw p1ngy, you don't already have Windows 7?!

Take this Core i7 Windows 7 Desktop!

p0wned! :yaypsp:
[/quote]

Um ok, nice desk top bro, needs more useless gadgets and stuff to clutter it up some more though!

p0wned! :yaypsp:
 

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