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Since a thread like this doesn't exist yet... here it is.

What's in your desktop?

 

There are many like it but this one is mine:

Some time ago I finally got around taking couple pictures of my gaming rig. I bought new graphics card and used the opportunity to blow some dust at the balcony as well as take the pictures.





Case is Cooler Master HAF XB EVO
Sound card with front panel is Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Champion
Optical drive is dvdrw+bluray read.
CPU Cooler is Corsair h100i with four 120mm fans, since the GPU update only 3 fans
Mainboard is Gigabyte z97 Gaming 5
CPU is Intel i7 4790
RAM is 4x4GB (16GB) Kingston 1600mhz DDR3
new GPU is Gigabyte GTX970 G1 Gaming
Five drives inside: 250GB and 500GB SSD, three traditional as storage.

Keyboard is Xtrfy mechanical kb and with the GPU I bought some rubber washers to silence most clacking. It has Red switches that do not click.
Mouse of the day is Logitech G300. I don't like bigger mice, since I use finger grip.

As a monitor I use LG 32LM660T television. It has all the Smart TV things and also passive 3D. Since it's only for gaming and movies, 32" and 1080p is good enough for me. I'm so old and slow already that if there's input lag I do not notice it. Cannot really imagine playing with a smaller screen either

 

Here's mine.
Sorry for potato quality photos, took them with a smartphone in a very bad lighting environment.
What really grinds my gears tho, is that even in such crap quality dust is very noticeable. Need to get a big brush and a vacuum cleaner to do a proper cleaning later. Also will put some dust filters once screws arrive from China .
My old laptop was way easier to clean from dust from desktop...

 

Do I win a prize?

Seriously though:

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Yeah I'm a huge fan of blue LEDs.

 

Mine(except now I'm TitanX-less and will be getting the Fury X2 or GTX 990 when released)

Also upgraded the ram to 32GB (4x8GB) G.Skill 2400Mhz DDR4.

Everything else is the same.

Intel Core i7 5820k @ 4.5Ghz 24/7 (4.7Ghz for Bench)
32GB (4x8GB) G.Skill DDR4 2400Mhz Ram
500GB Samsung 850 Evo SSD (OS)
2x 256GB Samsung 840 Pro RAID0 (Games)
2TB Hitachi 7200rpm HDD (Storage)
nVidia GeForce GTX Titan X (EVGA SC w/HC Bios)
EVGA SuperNOVA 1300 G2 w/Red Sleeved Cables
Samsung 40JU6700 Curved 40" 4K Display
Corsair K95 RGB Keyboard
Razer Mamba (original)
Onkyo TX-NR838 Receiver
BIC Venturi Fronts/Center
BIC Acoustech Surrounds
SVS SB-13 ULTRA
Alienware X99 Motherboard
Corsair 750D Case
120mm AIO CPU Cooler

 

Checked my photo archives, and apparently I only took pictures of my desktop partially assembled while constructing it, and they were even more potato-quality than killkenny1's pictures, thanks to being from not the my dumbphone that preceeded my smartphone, but the dumbphone before that. Since it'd require some actual effort to get decent quality photos, stock photos will have to do. Though I'm still somewhat surprised I have more pictures of dragonfruit than my desktop.

The case is the Antec P280:



It's actually pretty big, though the stock photo doesn't make that clear. It's designed to be quiet, and I've been pretty happy with it. Other than when I briefly had a reference R9 290X, a card infamous for being noisy, it's always been pretty quiet.

After a few piecemeal upgrades over the years, it has:

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Dell U2412M monitor
Core i5 2500K CPU
CoolerMaster 212 Evo CPU cooler
Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 GPU
8 GB G. Skill DDR3, 1600 MHz
DVD R/W drive, plus Blu-Ray R/DVD R/W drive (upgraded in 2013)
Vintage mid-'90s floppy drive (not currently functioning due to lack of mobo support, though likely still in working condition)
Gigabyte Z68 motherboard (4x USB 3.0)
Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600
Gigabyte M7 Thor wired mouse (replaced disintegrating Microsoft Sidewinder X3 in 2014; I like big mice)
$30-ish Logitech speakers from MicroCenter
Grado S80 headphones (upgraded from Sennheiser HD 280 Pro in late 2013)
2 TB 7200 RPM Toshiba HDD (replaced WD 5400 RPM in 2013)
2 TB 5400 RPM WD HDD (backup)
256 GB MX-100 (upgraded to in 2014)
80 GB Intel 320 SSD (now booting Linux)

So, HDD, SSD, mouse, headphone, and speakers is what I've changed since it was new. Might do a refresh next year, but am still pretty happy with the core components' performance.

 

Not exactly my build, just did a hugely budget build/salvage for my brother a couple of days ago and it feels appropriate to post it here.

In 2010 I did a office/media build for my parents business. The office was very dusty/sandy/dirty due to the nature of the type of business and work, and I'm fairly certain they never dusted the system even once. Fast forward to today and they're using laptops and the desktop was sitting in an attic. I've been telling my brother we could salvage the build and use parts of his aging GX660 laptop to get him a decent gaming rig. He called me up and said lets get it done since we both had the day off and nothing to do.

The rig when he removed it from the attic: The pictures just don't do justice to the heaviness of the dirt/dust. It was caked on, and very difficult to remove. Especially the fans since they were reused.

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Cleaning it up..

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6 cans of compressed air, lots of vacuuming and washing/wiping later its looking a lot better and ready to be reassembled.

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The final build:
MSI P55 CD53 -reused
Intel Core i5 750 @ 4.0ghz 1.3v with max gaming temps around mid 40s. -reused
Corsair H55 AIO water cooler for CPU. -$60 Micro Center
MSI R9 390 8GB - Open Box $280 @ Micro Center & Free Dirt Rally Game Code
Crucial Ballsitix Sport 8GB 2X4 1600mhz $43.99 @ Micro Center
OCZ 120GB SSD - reused from laptop
WD Black 7200rpm 750gb - reused from laptop
Corsair CX750m -donated by me since it was sitting in a box since I upgraded to an EVGA G2 850.
Antec 300 Case - reused
2x120mm intake fans - reused
1x140mm exhuast fan at top - reused
Win 10 Pro OEM - $55

Total cost out of his pocket was about $460.00

I was blown away at the performance of this build. He is able to run current titles like H1Z1 at Very High even Ultra settings with well over 60FPS @1080p.

 

6 cans of compressed air? Wow. I can tell from the pics that was going to be a lot of dust, but that's a ton of compressed air.

All in all quite nice. I'm not surprised it can run new titles well - the 390 is a very respectable card, and that's a great price on it as only Micro Center can provide. At 1080p it should handle essentially everything with aplomb. CPU-heavy titles would suffer a little bit compared to with a newer Devil's Canyon-ish CPU, but Nehalem is not nearly as far behind the latest as its age would suggest, and 4 GHz is a very nice speed. Definitely a better value for the money than going with all-new components; well done.

 

Got the 980 KINGPINs in, finally got an SLI setup in my desktop again after a couple of years lol.

 

You went from 980 Ti to 980 SLI?! What for, benchmarking?

 

ssj had a titan X or titan X SLI... He keeps changing GPUs all the time lol..

 

No way, I went from a single Titan X to dual 980s. My Titan X couldn't play all my games maxed at 4k even highly overclocked (40ish fps?) now I can get around 60fps with the 980s overclocked.

Single Titan X , and yes I switch GPUs way too much. I can see myself with the 980s for a few months at most then onto the next thing. Maybe even sooner depending on how much the GTX 990 costs.

Actually I only sold my Titan X because someone was looking for a high overclocking one and they paid me a decent price. I was able to get the 980 KINGPINS + the SLI bridge for $100 more than what I sold my Titan X for after shipping/taxes.

 

Considering the sorry state of SLI, that's a downgrade IMO. I'd rather have 40 FPS smooth single GPU guaranteed performance (esp. if G-Sync is a factor) than 60 FPS microstuttering/visual glitches/flat-out not working (*cough Arkham Knight cough*) AFR. There's many people on this forum who did the opposite of you and upgraded from 780 Ti/970/980 SLI to single 980 Ti.

 

SLI was awesome when I had my GTX 480s and even my GTX 690.

Even now it's not bad, at least in my experience. I'd rather have 60fps SLI than a 40fps single setup. Lower than 60fps is horrible on my 4k tv. Feels extremely lagy. It's not G-SYNC either.

I will probably keep these until the Pascal desktop cards come out next year. Thus far they're doing good. 80% of my games support SLI properly anyways and if there's any issues with SLI you can turn it off specifically for a game, at half the performance of two cards of course.

 

That 40" monitor you have is actually a tv... How is it input lag wise playing on it? Also where did you get your computer table from?

Sent from my LG-H811 using Tapatalk

 

@ssj92
Wow... I basically did the opposite of what you've done. Did away with 980SLI for a single 980TI. Best decision I've made in a long time. Microstutter on Maxwell is appalling .
But you're running 4k, whereas I'm doing 1080p 144hz so I'll let you be the judge of your experience.

Shame we couldn't have just traded had the timing been different.

 

In PC Mode (4K @ 60HZ @ 4:4:4 chroma) the input lag numbers I believe were around 38ms or so.

In Game Mode (4K @ 60Hz @ 4:2:2 chroma) the input lag is not bad, around 18-21ms I believe.

And if you are not using either of those modes it's like 112ms LOL. I usually use PC mode 24/7 for my PC and for my Wii U/Xbox One I use game mode.

The computer desk is very old....like I think 17-21 years old LOL. No idea where it's from at this point.

Did you have two 980 KINGPIN cards? I would have traded you my Titan X lol. I actually was only going for the KINGPIN cards. I wouldn't have bought these if they were reference or the classified models. I plan on playing around with them later. For now I got 1585/8000 on the top card and 1550/8000 on the bottom card. Loving the classified voltage tool. I'm going to try and get the memory to 8.6Ghz later. Sadly maxwell doesn't scale well with voltage unless you're on LN2.

Sadly at 4K I needed extra horsepower. I will sell these when Pascal comes out and get that card. I would have gotten SLI 980TIs but most of my money went into the laptop beast.

 

I'll keep the thread going.
New update of my build with the EVGA Hybrid Cooler attached.

 

Logitech G602 FTW

 

They are awesome, my favorite but plagued with QC issues (planned obsolescence)on the mouse button springs. I'm on my second along with many other people unfortunately.

 

This isn't new although it's still my newest desktop and sorry for the poor photographs but computers is one thing, old digital cameras is another...



Photo 1: Day 1
Photo 2: Day 3 after an in-house warranty repair
Photo 3: Year 5 prior to its annual dust bunnies eviction

Alienware Aurora ALX Desktop. Built October 2009 by Alienware which at last minute had a hastily slapped on Dell label!

 

Specs

5930K

X99A Krait from MSI

ASUS Strix 390 GFX card

Corsair AX1200

1TB Samsung 850 Evo

ASUS Dual-band Wireless-AC1300 PCI-E Adapter

Corsair H110 Cooler

Corsair 780T Case

32GB of 2666Mhz Hyper X Predetor RAM

Lg BD Burner

 

Here's my setup

Case: Corsair Obsidian 900D
MB: Asus Crosshair V Formula Z
CPU: AMD FX9590
Memory: 32G GSKILL Trident X 2400mhz
GPU: Sapphire FuryX(crossfire
Power: EVGA 1600G2
Cooling: Corsair H110i GTX
Storage: Samsung SSD's, LG BluRay
Fans: 120/140mm Corsair controlled by NZXT

 

Slight follow up to his build. We managed to source an i7 875k on craigslist recently for $50. While the i5 overclocked certainly wasn't holding him back, I guess for the price we just couldn't resist getting him the max performance chip he can use until he decides to upgrade. 3dmark Firestrike saw a nice little performance boost in physics. Actually with it on a stable 4.0ghz overclock its matching a 4.4ghz Skylake i5 6600k.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/9774631 His rig with GPU Stock OC profile

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/8351104? -- i5 6600k and r9 390

I know this is synthetic benching but after seeing this, I'm actually even more blown away that this relatively cheap build can compete.

 

Specs are in the signature.

Still going through some changes; removed one of the Titan x cards due to micro stuttering in some games (fallout 4, Battlefront) and setup both with hybrid coolers.

 

What physics score do you get in 3dmark11 or firestrike?

 

I bet it's over 9000.

Dark_, in your sig it says you have two Titan Xs, but on picture I see three GPUs.

 

LOL my scouter says otherwise

My 10-core Ivy Bridge-E scored around the same Physics score as a 4.5Ghz 4960X so I'm curious to see where this 14-core stands.

 

I think that's what he meant when he said, "Still going through some changes; removed one of the Titan x cards due to micro stuttering in some games (fallout 4, Battlefront) and setup both with hybrid coolers." - there used to be three Titans, but now there are only two.

Still a ridiculously powerful rig. Tetradeca core, crazy GPU power, and actually having over a hundred gigabytes of RAM. Some ultra-thin-bezel monitors there, too. Quite impressive.

Though I do wonder if it's optimal for gaming. That Xeon is only 2.3 GHz, and I'd be surprised if it could OC more than to the mid-3-GHz's with that many cores. Though presumably with such beefy specs, it's being used for more than just gaming.

 

@Dark_ That monitor is delicious. I wants.

 

Yeah, I bet he can split atoms with that rig .

 

I haven't bothered with running any benchmarks yet but I'll see if I can get something tonight!

*edit* 3dMark11 might not be a good version for me, looks like I'm getting the frame cap issue that others get (caps at 60fps).
Downloaded the latest demo and I'll give it a shot tonight.

lol

Thanks for clarifying. And I absolutely agree, no benefit to gaming and a 3770+ (probably even 2500+) would destroy it in single core performance. The system sees a good amount of virtualization and video editing. I'm just happy gameplay doesn't seem impacted by the 2.3ghz base clock.

 

Yeah gaming performance for me on my 10-core was fine as well even though single threaded apps were faster on my overclocked i7. Video rendering was much better still on the 10-core.

 

Alright, here are some benchmarks (with gsync off). Cards are stock bios with no additional OC.

Firestrike: 22399 http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/9953047?

3dMark 11: P27118 http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/10728335

 

As I thought, the physics score isn't that great compared to my six-core:

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/9404366?

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/10548971

That's exactly how my 10-core Xeon was, wonder if the new 3DMark benchmark for next year will make better use of more cores.

 

In my nvidia control panel it has the second titan-x listed as my physics processor (won't let me select the cpu).

It this a common setting?

 

Yeah that's normal. That's for nVidia PhysX, it doesn't affect the 3DMark Physics score.



Here's the results from my 10-core laptop:

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/9230750

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3684105

 

OT but got your P870DM yet?

 

Out for delivery, will be doing benchmark testing across five OSes if I have time today and if it actually gets delivered. It was supposed to come Thursday but FedEx failed.

 

That is sick!

 

Best of luck and cross fingers that you get it today!

 

old desktop from my parents that i got when they got a new one. Have it for a year now and recently started to improve the machine again. Cleaned the whole machine up and installed some fans. Upgraded windows 7 32 bits to windows 10 64 bits and just orderd another 2x2gb RAM.
Asus P5Q Pro
Intel core Quad Q9550
Radeon HD6950
Kingston HyperX DDR2 4gb
An awefull and really old Dell monitor and keyboard

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Been overclocking a lot with it. The old ram is giving me headaches so i hope the new modules will work better. CPU running at 3.84Ghz now, but not stable in Prime95, im pretty sure the RAM cant handle the higher clocks and not the OC itself. Have finished wPrime at over 4Ghz. Flashed the 6950 to 6970 specs but not a lot headroom for overclocking now.
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/10653275
not bad considering the age of this system

 

What laptop is that with a decacore Xeon?

 

Clevo P570WM aka Eurocom Panther 5 aka Sager NP9570

 

I had a few spare parts laying around and figured why not build another box. I am thinking about trying to get as much overclock as I can out of the CPU/GPU, otherwise I have no real plan/need for it.

NZXT S340 case
ASRock Z87 Forumla OC
--Intel 7260 ac wireless mini-pci card
i7-4790k
--Corsair H110i
4x 4GB Kingston Hyper X 1866 (running at 1600 for tighter timings)
2x Kingston V310 960GB SSD's
EVGA Titan X SC (I'll be installing the Hybrid kit once the system is setup and running)
LEPA G1200

 

I went ahead and installed the Hydro cooler kit on the Titan X and flashed it with the 'Ultimate' bios.

Preliminary benchmarks are in.

Stock: Firestrike 15707
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/7044176

Ultimatebios@1400mhz core: Firestrike 16306
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/10063306?

Next up is 1500mhz core and them memory.

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@1500mhz core: Firestrike 16470
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/7044768

 

Nice score! Beat my 1501mhz/8000mhz run on air

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/6220490

 

Nice! I like the hefty increase on Physics thanks to that 6 core.

Were you running 2000mhz mem on the titan? I haven't touched mine yet considering I can't find much on what others have set theirs to.

 

Yes the 6-core makes a nice difference. 8-cores get even higher.

I ran 8Ghz (2000Mhz) on the memory. My 980 KINGPINS did 8.6Ghz (2,150Mhz) but here's a run of them at 8.4Ghz (2100Mhz) with a think a 1550Mhz core clock?

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/9404366?

They score nicely on 3DM11

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/10548971

 

might be a noob question but why do you see so little increase in scores with that overclock? You have more than a 20% OC on core and only get 10% higher score.