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ampzz wrote:Asus Xonar Essence STX PCIE
Nice, I have one of those too. What headphones do you use with it? Mine are Beyerdynamic DT250 which are pretty decent, and before that I had some Shure SRH440 (now for sale btw).
A proper headphone amp would be nice but the card cost me enough already :o
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vellu wrote:Ordered some upgrades for my gaming rig, which was still AGP based and starting to feel a little sluggish on newer games, particularly in higher resolutions.

MB: ASUS M3A32-MVP DELUXE (AM2+, QUAD CROSSFIRE, AMD790FX)
CPU: AMD PHENOM X4 9850 BLACK EDITION + ZALMAN CNPS7500-CU
RAM: 4GB DDR800 (2GB from old system)
GFX: 2x ASUS EAH4850 TOP/HTDI/512M
PSU: CORSAIR 650W
OS: Vista 64Bit

From old system: Hard drives, DVDRW, Creative X-Fi Platinum, Chieftec case.
Time to upgrade, again...Gosh, has it really been almost two years since my last major overhaul?! (the above was in Nov '08 I Think)

UPGRADED:
MB: ASUS M4A89TD PRO/USB (AM3, Crossfire, AMD890FX)
CPU: AMD PHEHOM II X6 1090T + Titan Fenrir
RAM: 8GB DDR1333
GFX: ASUS EAH5970 2GB GDDR5
PSU: CORSAIR 950W
OS: Win 7 Pro 64Bit

KEPT:
Hard drives: 2x 74GB WD Velociraptor (RAID-1, System)
Hard drives: 2x 500GB WD (RAID-1, Software)
Hard drives: 1x 500GB Seagate + 1x 500GB WD (Data storage and system backup)
Optical: LG DVDRW 16x
Sound: Creative X-Fi Platinum
Case: Chieftec
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Miscellaneous diag. views. Regular HDD's just don't cut it anymore. Everything else is rated (by Windows) well above 7, but the HDD's. I guess it takes SSD-drives to get up there...
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Blew away my christmas bonus early... and got another 5970.

Ps. Just so we're Clear, this has nothing to do with gaming performance. It has to do with "mine is bigger than yours" :wink:

Pss. Seriously, it's mainly to run a specific opencl app i'm co-developing. It does run games nicely too though...
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AMD Phenom II X3 720, 4Gb ram, VGA MSI 6850 Cyclone, 550w PSU, Samsung 931BW monitor.
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Finally organised all the parts for my new PC (discussion here: http://forum.nfsunlimited.net/viewtopic ... 24&t=19835). I changed my mind on some of the new parts, again...

New parts in bold:

- Intel i7 2600k CPU
- Noctua NH-D14 CPU cooler
- Asrock P67 Extreme4 B3 motherboard
- MSI GTX580 Lightning videocard
- 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600Mhz G.Skill Ripjaws XL RAM
- Antec TruePower Quattro 1000W PSU
- Fractal Define XL case (black)
- Samsung Bluray combo drive
- Intel 510 Series 120GB SSD
- Samsung 2TB HDDs (x6)
- Hotway HFR2-SU3S2 external HDD enclosure
- Samsung 2494HS monitor (primary)
- Samsung 953BW monitor
- Elecom Japanese-English hybrid keyboard
- Elecom Scope Node mouse
Audio:
- Asus Xonar STX soundcard (just for DAC)
- Parasound PL/D-1100 pre-amplifier
- Beyerdynamic DT250 headphones (80ohm)
- Peavey PC4-XL active crossover
- Aragon 2004 power amplifier
- Infinity Infinitesimal IV bookshelf speakers
- Infinity Infinitesimal SSW-10 servo subwoofer

I'll take some photos when it's all assembled next week.
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Looks hefty. Leaving room for SLI with that 1kW psu (a bit overkill otherwise)?

I'm interested to know how that Hotway external storage performs. Looks real nice (if one doesn't need it to be NAS).

Ps. I'm also in the process of upgrading my server, and also opted for i7-2600. Will post specs/pics some time next week.
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Oh yeah, bogan, just remembered something you might not know or might forget to do..
Be sure to turn off indexing and automatic background defragmenting etc. for the SSD as it doesn't have any moving parts and those things just shorten its lifespan.
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Been ages since I've really posted my specs here. This is the current setup:

PC
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- HP DV6-2120tx
- i5-430M 2.26GHz
- 4GB RAM
- nVidia GT230M
- 1TB space total (on board 500GB plus 500GB Seagate portable HDD)
- 23" LG E2340V LED Full HD Monitor + 15.6" HP BrightView LED Display 1366x768 res
- Altec Lansing VS2421 2.1 sound system
- Logitech ClearChat Comfort USB Headset (next upgrade as such is going to be a set of Monster Beats Solo headphones; simple reason being it's going to be an all-rounder tool for when I'm using Ventrilo (with inbuilt microphone) and out and about with my phone and/or iPod Touch for sound quality)
- Logitech MX1100 DarkField Laser Mouse (and a broken G9 if anyone's interested)

PS3
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- 60GB PlayStation 3
- Logitech G25 Steering Wheel
- See PC for TV and sound setup

360
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- Xbox 360 2nd Gen 60GB
- 2 guitars, drum kit and microphone for Rock Band/Guitar Hero
- See PC for TV and sound

Yeah, all that is part of the new setup I have in the games room. 360 sticks out like a sore thumb with all the masses of piano black finish I have going round here.
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My first custom build computer :)

AMD Phenom II X6 1100T @ 3.3Ghz
ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AM3 DDR3 AMD 890GX ATX 2PCI-E16 PCI-E1 PCI-E4 2PCI VGA DVI Motherboard
Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB SATA2
Corsair Vengeance 8GB 2X4GB DDR3-1600 CL9-9-9-24 Dual Channel Memory
XFX Radeon HD 6850 Black Edition 820MHZ 1GB 4.4GHZ GDDR5 2XDVI Display Port HDMI PCI-E Video Card
Coolermaster Haf 922 Mid Tower ATX Case Black
Corsair TX750W 750W ATX 12V 60A 24PIN ATX Power Supply Active PFC 140MM Fan
Dual 19" Monitors
Logitech Z5500 Audio System
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Server upgrade finished. Here's how it stands now.

Case: Nexus Prominent 9
PSU: Corsair TX650W (transferred from old)
CPU: Intel i7-2600 @3.4GHz (4C/8T)
Cooling: Corsair H70 Hydro, 3x120mm and 1x140mm fans
Motherboard: Asus P8H67-M rev. 3
RAM: 2x 4GB Kingston KVR1333
HDD:
2x WD Velociraptor 150GB 2.5" 10k: RAID-1 System volume (transferred from old)
3x Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB: RAID-5 Data volume (transferred from old)
2x WD Caviar Green 1.5TB: RAID-1 Backup volume (transferred from old)
Raid-controller: onboard Intel Rapid Storage (6x SATA)
Additional raid-controller: Promise FastTrak TX2650 (2x SATA, Backup volume) (transferred from old)
HDD HotSwap bays:
1x Chieftec SATA/SAS backplane 4x 2.5"
2x Chieftec SATA/SAS backplane 3x 3.5"
Samsung DVDRW (transferred from old)
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PICS!

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^^ See, this is how it should look inside :P NO MESSY WIRES!!

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vellu wrote:Leaving room for SLI with that 1kW psu (a bit overkill otherwise)?
Nah, I dunno. I just prefer to have a larger PSU running at low loads/temps. They are not expensive anyway.
vellu wrote:I'm interested to know how that Hotway external storage performs. Looks real nice (if one doesn't need it to be NAS).
It does look very nice up close (seems good quality) but it's been giving me some trouble. When you plug it in, it tries to load something (?) and then tries to restart the PC. My PC keeps crashing instead though.
Tried formatting yesterday, it reached 59% and stopped :roll: I will try again tonight...
Pabl0z wrote:Oh yeah, bogan, just remembered something you might not know or might forget to do..
Be sure to turn off indexing and automatic background defragmenting etc. for the SSD as it doesn't have any moving parts and those things just shorten its lifespan.
Cool, thanks. Disabled the indexing and defrag scheduler.

Also, turned up the CPU to 4.4GHz using one of the pre-configured settings in BIOS.

And here is the dumb Windows thingy:
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Edit: btw, this box is so quiet!! Complete opposite to the tornado machine I had before lol
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boganbusman wrote:
vellu wrote:I'm interested to know how that Hotway external storage performs. Looks real nice (if one doesn't need it to be NAS).
It does look very nice up close (seems good quality) but it's been giving me some trouble. When you plug it in, it tries to load something (?) and then tries to restart the PC. My PC keeps crashing instead though.
Tried formatting yesterday, it reached 59% and stopped :roll: I will try again tonight...
If unlucky, it could be those WD20EARS drives, for example QNAP (a well established NAS manufacturer) does not recommend EARS series drives.

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Not Recommended Hard Drives
Manufacturer Model Number Size (GB) Remark
WD WD20EARS 2000 Note5
WD WD15EARS 1500 Note5
WD WD10EARS 1000 Note5
WD WD20EADS 2000 Note5
WD WD15EADS 1500 Note5,Note6
WD WD10EADS 1000 Note5
WD WD10EACS 1000 Note5

Note5 (WD Caviar Green)
These hard disk drives have passed QNAP lab's initial verification of compatibility. However, because many users have reported unstable experience with these hard disk drives, we do not recommend using these hard disk drives with QNAP products. WD10EADS-00P8B0 and WD15EADS-00P8B0 are not suggested because of slow performance and stability issues.
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Oh, I am not using the WD drives anymore. Someone told me they are not good for RAID so I went with Samsung instead.

I just noticed one of the features on this MB called XFast USB, which somehow accelerates the USB3 performance. I tried turning that feature off, maybe it will work this time.
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Ok, good to know word does indeed get around on what is good and what is not for RAID configurations.
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Well the XFast thing didn't help at all.

I think it's a problem with power management settings. Something is turning off the USB port after a certain amount of time (which seems random) and stops whatever operation I'm trying to do.

I disabled every power-saving feature I could find and that seemed to help. I was able to transfer my files at last. It didn't go perfectly smoothly, but whatever, it's good enough.

USB3.0 is impressively fast though, my average transfer speeds were around 180-190MB per second! Ridiculous speed :shock:
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boganbusman wrote:USB3.0 is impressively fast though, my average transfer speeds were around 180-190MB per second! Ridiculous speed :shock:
Glad you got it working. That is impressive transfer rate indeed. Don't have any USB3 devices myself even though my motherboard supports it. Most of my stuff is stored either on the server or my qnap nas anyway (which are connected to via 1Gbps lan).
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My old laptop had: (Proline TW3)

- Intel Core Duo T2050 1.6GHz
- 512MB DDR RAM
- 60GB HDD
- Nvidia GeForce Go 7400 (128MB DDR RAM)
- Windows XP Professional

My New laptop, which I bought last year, has: (Dell XPS L502X)

- Intel Core i7 2630QM 2.0GHz
- 6GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM (1 x 2048MB + 1 x 4096MB)
- Intel HD Graphics 3000
- Nvidia GT 525M 1GB DDR3
- Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6230 Wireless Card
- Bluetooth, Wi-Fi
- 500GB HDD 7200RPM
- 2.0MP HD Webcam
- 2X USB 3.0 Ports
- 1x eSATA Port
- 15.6" WLED HD Display
- JBL Speakers (There is a subwoofer at the back of my laptop)
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
- Backlight Keyboard
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Asus 1015PN :
CPU: Atom N550 @ 1.5 Ghz, Dual-core, Hyper-threading, 512KB L2 Cache
RAM: 2 Gb DDRIII @ 1333 Mhz (upgraded, stock was 1)
GPU: 1. Nvidia ION 2 (GT218) 512MB (discrete)
2. Intel GMA 3150 (integrated, for power saving)
Monitor: 10.1" 1024x600.
Keyboard: It's purely awesome for it's sizes.
Touchpad: Elantech with multitouch. 2 buttons.
Battery: 6-cell Li-ion. max 8 hours on Windows. 6 hours on Linux.
Other stuff: 3xUSB 2.0; HDMI-out; SD/SDHC/MMC card reader; wi-fi; bluetooth 2.0; 0.3 mpx webcam.

It packs quite a punch for it's sizes. NFSMW runs at about 40 fps on medium at 800x600.
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