Yeah, the Intel I have is "only" 40 gigs. I use it as the boot drive for the machine, and I also have a couple of applications installed on it. Its purpose is to just sit there and take workload off of the data drive.

On the laptop, of course, it's the only drive in the system. Haven't really had any complaints, though of course I don't have anything to benchmark it against, performance-wise. If nothing else, it's nice to have one less thing in my laptop generating heat and noise.

Gigabyte 880G mobo
AMD PhenomII X3, running as X4 3.5GHz
16GB DDR3 GSKILL RipJawsX
Nvidia GT240 1GB DDR3
OCZ Agility2 SSD 60GB for boot
Some spindle drive for everything else, Samsung I think
Asus DVDRW
NZXT 650W 80plus Gold p/s
Baller CoolerMaster case, fans, and CPU cooler
Logitech G15 keyboard with backlit keys and fancy display
Sonance Sonamp 260 amp
PSB Image IB bookshelves

I finally pulled the trigger on a new box.

Windows 7 Premium
Logitech Gaming Mouse G500
Logitech Gaming Keyboard G110
Corsair Graphite Series 600T Case
Intel Core i7-2600k 3.4 ghz
Asus Sabertooth Intelz77
(2) Seagate 3TB Serial ATA Drives (raid 0)
(2) OCZ SSD Drives, 120GB (raid 0)
Cooler Master Silent Pro 1200 PSU
Corsair Vengeance 16gb PC1280 DDR3 1600hmz
(2) EVGA GeForce GTX 580 3gb GDDR
Cooler Master v8 CPU

http://www.lolsorry.com/gallery/main...g2_itemId=7879 http://www.lolsorry.com/gallery/main...g2_itemId=7858

more pictures

Inter(R) Core 2 quad CPU Q6700 @ 2.66
8GB ram
Win 7 64 bit
1tb main hd
Gtx460 for the main monitor and a GT9800pro for the 2 side monitors
And i think that's all that matters.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1339427388

So I recently found out that my HP xw8400 workstation was pulling ~350 watts at idle...not good. I started taking out hardware to see what was draining so much power.

You would have NEVER guessed it: RAM. I took out 12 of the 16 gigs and consumption dropped to 220 watts...including my 22" LCD monitor!

I should have wondered why HP actually has a fan over the RAM modules, as well as a "CAUTION HOT" sticker on each module. They were not joking, you couldn't touch them 30 seconds after shutting down the system.

Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Processor, 3.4GHz Liquid Cooled
Memory: 4GB OCZ AMD Black Edition RAM
Hard Drive: 500 GB + 1 TB + 2TB
Video Card: EVGA GTX 460
Monitor: LG Flatron 22"
Sound Card: Rocketfish 5.1
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Motherboard: Asus M4N98TD EVO
Power supply: OCZ 650w
Computer Case: Ultra Aluminus
w/ Manual & automatic fan control

Also a bunch of other fancy gadgets. V-Moda crossfade LP headphones, Logitech Z4 speakers, Logitech illuminated keyboard, Logitech G500 mouse, And i have a G27 racing wheel i should be using to build a simulator soon. :D


https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1340563411

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1340563411

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c9...r/DSC03736.jpg

Has a bunch of beer bottles, papers, bullets, cameras, and other junk on it now of corse.

My watercooling build thread

http://www.overclock.net/t/1265186/m...-cooling-setup

my rig plain and simple
http://www.overclock.net/lists/display/view/id/4353842

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1340659458

Did a little update here.

Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Processor, 3.4GHz Liquid Cooled
Memory: 8gb Patriot 2000mhz ram
Hard Drive: 500 GB + 1 TB + 2TB
Video Card: EVGA GTX560ti SLI (320bit memory)
Monitor: LG Flatron 22"
Sound Card: Rocketfish 5.1
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Motherboard: Asus M4N98TD EVO 790sli
Power supply: Antec 1200w (6 12v rails, drawing 14amps at max load)
Computer Case: Ultra Aluminus
w/ Manual & automatic fan control

I thought my 460 was big, and it did a damn good job too. I still plan on using it for the racing simulator.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1354458267

Will they fit??
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1354458267

That's nuts. Less than one centimeter of space. If you look real close, you will see i have a sound card crammed in there as well. haha
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1354458267

I'm sure i'll get some hate for using such a small old case, but i really do love this thing. It's not cheep plastic and garbage like the ones they make now.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1354458267

What it looks like with the side, and aluminum finish panel put back on.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1354458267

I love it.
Click to view full?
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8481/8...442370e1_h.jpg


Gonna try and get a 3d mark score here. Probably won't be best on the stock clock, but we'll see.

Keep an eye on the temps of those GPUs. That close they gotta get quite hot at full burn.

100-110F at idle. Honestly, i've only saw 160F after BF3 for an hour or so, which is like 70C. If they get any higher, i'll have to put a little fan on the side of the case and blow some cool air on them.

The fan on the side will give you about 4-5 C. My 460 was hitting 85c, tossed a 120mm fan on the side and it dropped it to about 80c.

Now with my DIY fans i'm at 35c on idle.

That's weird you had such high temperatures with the 460. My 460 was well below that. I would hit around 65-70C with mine. But then again, with the liquid cooler i have much lower case temps.

I'm running a 460 on my top slot and a gt9800 for my bottom slot to control my side monitors. I dont remember what it was before i added the 2nd video card. I remember it peeking 90c when i had 2 monitors connected to my 460 though.

I post using an abacus

New machine on order!

New specs:
- MSI 970A-G46 AM3+ ATX mobo
- AMD FX-8320 8-Core Processor @ 3.5GHz
- Mushkin Stiletto 32GB DDR3
- Corsair 120GB SSD
- Hitachi 1TB
- WD 500GB, 320GB
- GeForce 8600GT
- Corsair 700w PSU
- Fractal Design Define R4 ATX Case
- 2 x BenQ EW2420 24"
- Logitech G15 keyboard
- Logitech VX nano
- Klipsch Pro Media 2.1
- Line6 PodXT Pro

About time too... my old machine was pushing 5 years.

I am again, a part of the SLI club.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1360629667

^^ Jelly.

In other updates, I recently ended up picking up one of these bad boys for a steal:

http://content.etilize.com/Original/1011193905.jpg

- Intel Xeon 5130 @ 2.00GHz (expandable to 2 cpus)
- 16GB ram
- 6 x hot-swappable 3.5 SATA (came with 4x500gb, 2x250gb)
- redundant power supplies

Its currently just sitting around with Freenas installed and being a half-assed NAS.

Updated my build yesterday.

-Cooler Master RC-690 Case with plenty of air cooling (4x Scythe Ultra Kaze fans on a case controller)
-ASUS Sabertooth 990FX mobo
-AMD FX-8350 @4.4Ghz w/ Cooler Master Hyper 212 sink and Kaze fan
-16GB G.Skill Ripjaw 1600 w/ tighter timing
-2x MSI 7850 Twin Frozr III 2GB cards
-PC Power and Cooling 860W PSU
-2x 500GB WD Black
-1TB WD external
-Desperate need for SSD

This rig has killed everything I've thrown at it so far. Crysis 3 maxed with excellent frame rate.

how much you drop for the mobo and cpu? My mobo is fairly new but I was thinking of going with the sabertooth as well. I have one of the first 8 cores (8120 @ 4.1Ghz)

Fuck yeah :party:
Corsair 500R case
Intel DH67GB motherboard
i5-2310 2.9GHz
Seagate 1tb hard drive
Kingston 16gb ram
LG optical drive
Cooler Master 600w

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1362248000

Managed to pop the safety on my power strip last night. Just had the computer running full tilt in bf3 and everything shut down. The cord was warm to the touch haha. I actually have a pretty decent power strip too. (or so i think)

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1362251466

Can't find how many amps it takes to trip it... Certainly must be more than 14. I'm running on a 40amp breaker too... So i know i didn't overdraw my house electrical and get it to hot...

It's kind of a little bit of a self achievement. PHOWWWAHHH!!

I guess i'm asking if anyone else has had this problem, how many amp breaker are you running on, and what power strip are you using? Anyone else have 1200w 14a power supply with SLI+, quadcore, overclocked, liquid cooling ect??

Macbook Pro (May 2012)

Core I5 2.5 Ghz
16 GB Mhz DDR3 (Yea 16 s overkill)
Intel HD Graphics 4000 512mb

Its a Mac and not a powerhouse for gaming, but hey it works without having to update drivers all the time. Also you can run windows if your inclined to do. Works great with bootcamp, and Windows 7. I made the switch after window 8 because I just couldn't get behind the tile's and junk. Plays Doom 3 on full settings at least lol

lol at Intel HD Graphics 4000

Haha yea not the powerhouse you would want for $1000 plus, but hey it gets the job done if your not picky. I really should have waited for the new Haswell, or Haswel macs to come out, but my HP Dm3 from college finally died...

1200 watt power supply shouldnt trip the safety on the power cord. Theres other issues here.

I've never had that issue. I'm running a pretty beefy system right now with 3 monitors a printer and some decent speakers all on one power strip.

I had my audio setup running through a pretty beefy reciever. I think that's what may have pushed it over the edge. Haven't had a problem yet, got another power strip, put it on a different plug.

Holly necro..

AMD 4.2ghz quad core
Asrock fatality mobo
16gb RAM
KUhler h20 cooling
Thermaltake 850 psu
SLI'd Nvidia 560's
32gb ssd for Win 7
500gb for everything else
CMStorm case

LG 21.5 screec
Klipsch 2.1 sound
Turtle beach px21
Logitech g510 keyboard
Rat7 mouse

32GB SSD for the OS?

You'd better have an extremely well managed operating system to keep it to the right size. Even with relocating desktop/docs/temp folders/programs/programs(x86), optimizing for SSD, reading all of the tutorials I could get my hands on/etc., I still watched my used storage space creep up to around 50gb on my 64gb SSD. I've since reinstalled on a 128gb SSD, and the drive is still holding at about 50gb used. Seems like windows update will kick your butt on that. Microsoft needs to sell an SSD Optimization package or something for Windows. They developed the operating system, now it's time to get with the times.

On a related note, I've got a 500gb+500gb=1000gb RAID 0 array for program data and a 500gb+500gb=500gb RAID 1 array for my documents/media files/etc. on the same system. My media files have been blowing up since I started ripping my blu-rays to my hard drive to use with PLEX, and at one point I deleted a relatively unused music folder. I had considered upping the two 500gb drives to something larger (maybe 2TB+2TB=2TB RAID 0) but then figured I would just be doing it all over again when I hit the 2TB limit.

I took a different approach. I picked up a Netgear ReadyNAS 316 off Newegg. How lucky was I that they also had a special going on for WD Red 3TB disks at roughly half-off if you buy the NAS. I bought a pair of those disks as well.

Setup was a breeze. The disks installed in seconds and I simply plugged it into my 8-port + wireless router. Once that's done and it's turned on, Netgears' XRAID2 takes over.

Now let me tell you, the ability to run PLEX Media Server from the NAS was what turned me on to it, but XRAID2 was the selling point for me. If there is only one disk installed, the system runs in unprotected mode. During operation, you can install a second disk (in seconds, even if the unit is powered on and being used) and the system automatically converts to RAID 1. Currently I'm running a 3TB+3TB=3TB RAID 1 setup. Now here's the cool part - this NAS has 6 drive bays in it. If I run out of space, I simply install a new disk that is at least 3TB and the system does it's own fully automated conversion to 3TB+3TB+3TB=6TB RAID 5. From there, every additional disk simply adds it's full size to the RAID 5 array. This is some slick shit here as far as I'm concerned. Once larger disks are released, you simply swap them into the system in addition to or in place of the smaller disks.

The NAS also has a web interface built into it, if I'm ever away from home and need to get a document, I just go to the website, login, and access anything and everything on my server.

When we were out, my GF (who is an IT professional but thinks it's ridiculous that I have a full-blown NAS) started asking friends/family if they also thought it was ridiculous that I had a "home server". So far, the only response she's gotten from anyone else is "well yeah, I've got one too... what's the big deal?"

The only thing that scares me with these proprietary NAS systems, is what happens if the NAS fails? Can you plug your disks in another model/brand and it will work (probably not). I have my data on a Linux 2U server just for this very reason - if any part of the server fails, I just replace it with any off-the-shelf component, and I'm good to go.

Literally everything I save points to my regular hdd. I generally have about 7-9gb on the ssd. The computer is only used for gaming, occasional internet, and even less frequesnt photo editing.

do SLI'ed 650's get close to one 660 or 670 in power?


Just wondering because my wife had dual 550s once and found out that my old 560ti still had better power... then sold her sli cards and gave her my old 560ti, then it corrupted due to overclock, sent it in as waranty damaged and they gave me a 570 as a replacement. the 570 ran so much better than her SLIed 550s, but almost equal (little bit better) to the SCed 560ti.


I love my dual 670s.


Might as well admit to my recent update as well.

Got a FX-8350 as a gift in May, OCed to 4.6Ghz and homemade water loop still cools it to an idle of 27-30c; 60-62c Max load running all 8 cores for a whole day on prime95 64bit.

Before the just-released flock of ReadyNAS systems, all previous Netgear NAS systems were disk-swap compatible. Simply remove the disks from the broke NAS, install in the new NAS, and G2G.

The newest NAS systems (about 6 months since release I think) aren't compatible with disks from the older systems, so someone with an older system would have to ebay any other pre-3/2013 ReadyNAS and swap the disks in. The new OS systems are all compatible with each other once again.

I should have put 560's in the firstnpost, not 650's. I doubt even 2 560's is as good as a 670 or 680. When you factor in that I only payed $120 each when the 660 had just come out, I can't say I've gone wrong. I can run Crysis 3 maxed out so that's enough of a benchmark for me.

I judge how good a card is by the memory interface. You don't want any 128bit cards for gaming, those suck.

256bit is what you want ideally. Though my 560ti 448's are 320bit so i'm assuming that's what they're all moving up to now.

http://www.hwcompare.com/14816/gefor...force-gtx-760/

Not sure how meaningful this is but still food for thought.

Upgraded my old i7-920.... to a Xeon X5690! Overclocked to 4.5ghz. Pretty cool to run the most powerful processor available for this CPU socket on a motherboard that's almost 5 years old and still be on par with the latest consumer-grade processors. Hopefully I'll get another 5 years out of this backbone.

GTX 680
12 gigs of ram
120gig Intel SSD (Too small)
1.2TB Raid 0 array with WD black series drives
Another 2TB HDD
Corsair 400R case

Old, as in, 7-year-old workstation:

New workstation:

Looks promising. :party:

Old AMD Althlon II system:

3ghz quad core
4gb ram
Kingston 240 gig SSD
Nvidia GeForce GT610
700gb 7200rpm platter drive


SSD made a nice change.

I think I need to change my power supply to get more performance...Its a prepacked compaq (HP) and it has a 250 or 300w PS, while the video card needs 500 iirc. not sure the issues that might cause.... its flickery with sound through HDMI sometimes to my second monitor... that might be the cause-not sure.

Inded that is a common issue. Sound problems, random lockups, random freezes with artifacting on the screen are common issues of a weak psu. Simply not enough juice so the system just locks up.

As far as people talking about SSDs with only the windows on there.. you need 64 gig minimum for windows 7 and 8. Not sure about the others but expect 32-35 for it to be for windows, updates and other necessities to run porn.

Never had any lockups to speak of. just the sound-video always works too.


if I turn the amp on and off (where the HDMI goes) it will eventually work (usually 1-3 times max)

My Gaming PC

GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD7

AMD Octo-Core FX-8320 @ 3.5GHz stock
Overclocked to 4.7GHz

Corsair H110 / 280mm radiator

G.SKILL Ares Series 16GB 9-9-9-24

Corsair RM850 PSU

GTX 760 4GB

Steelseries Sensi Raw Mouse

Ducky Zero Shine Keyboard, Brown Cherry MX Switches

Either the power supply is adequate, or it isn't. It's not as though, for a given CPU / GPU combination, more watts = more performance.



This has been true since the dawn of personal computing. The Altair 8080 itself suffered from an inadequate power supply, which sufficed to satisfy the base configuration but fell well short of providing for the needs of a fully expanded system with 8k of RAM and interface cards to support a monitor, tape drive and keyboard.

Got some toys in..

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1391750651

Lapped the cooler and the cpu
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1391750651

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1391750651

Set fan to pull
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1391750651

Results.. stock cooler 62C
After 47-48c

Ambient temp 82F ~27.8C, MB ambient temp 34C

Hard to beat the 212. Upgrade the fan and see even better results. I went all out and got the Scythe Ultra Kaze fans. Sounds like a r/c copter when maxed, but it moves some serious air. It can also cut some serious flesh. Chopped about 1/4" off of one of my fingertips one day poking where I shouldn't have. The rest of the case also has 4 more Kaze fans, moving 133cfm each. Front to rear flow, with another fan directly in line of the 212 pulling air out the back of the case, and one more or less in line pushing in the front of the case. I have a nice front controller though, so I can tune them down a bit, though I always have a box fan blowing anyway, so the ambient noise doesn't bother.

At 48 degrees at full blast i wont even waste my time on upgrading the fan. We shall see what the temp shows when i push it up to 4.5gz. Currently i'm at 4.1gz so we'll see.

pretty damn decent for aircooled imo... im pushing 4.8Ghz FX-8350 on water and I get a max of 70c, however I think my voltages are set a bit too high, need to fine tune a bit more.

I might need to do that polishing the heat spreader, i cant believe that slipped my mind when I polished my water block.

48C under load? If so that is really good. At stock speed, I think I was getting around 54C, and after upping to 4.6Ghz it went to around 66C. I was getting a little instability at 4.6Ghz so I dropped to 4.5Ghz and it was better. It may have been my pretty aggressive memory timing and overclock making the somewhat low barrier that I couldn't cross. I bet it could have gone farther had I left my FSB alone and just upped the multiplier. But I pushed the FSB pretty far for the memory speed.

Sadly, my upgrade from my Phenom II X4 965 to the FX-8350 was not beneficial to processing times. I had the overclock at 4.2Ghz, vs 4.5Ghz on the FX-8350, yet using benchmarks and other testing software, my times actually suffered. That was a let down. Temps were about the same on both.

What memory was it? I can reprogram ddr1s and 2s but we dont have a ddr 3 ramcheck yet.

Yes 62 at full load before, now with the cooler + lapping job i'm at 48c. I didnt waste my time testing the cooler before/after the lapping job though. People that have done tests say 4-5C from a lapping job. IMO thats quote a big drop especially since all it takes was 20 minutes for the cooler and about 35-40 mins for the cpu (softer touch on the cpu since its fragile) Also yes the cpu was quite warped.

You can see the semi complete pic. Mid is cleared, the corners are barely starting to clear while the area between the middle and the corners took the longest time.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1391831750

Also see this.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ader,3600.html

DDR3 G.Skill Ripjaw 1600, slightly overclocked. 16Gb worth, in 4GB modules. Hmm, I might need to do a lap job (lol) on mine as well. The pipes on my 212 have never been completely flat and even with each other. I'm probably overdue for a good cleaning too. The front of the case has foam filters, and I know they are probably blocked. I don't do much gaming or anything strenuous anymore though, so it never gets a workout like it used to.

when I have the time im going to lap my CPU... but it consists of draining my system and unscrewing fittings. Im too lazy atm.

I'm to lazy to clean the dust out of the front filter...

62C is hot! 62C is the max temp for my 1100t. I'm running the old 212+ and have no problems keeping it under 45C at load. I'm not really overclocked though (3.7ghz).

Is the purpose of lapping the CPU and heatsink to make them flatter or to polish them?

I've always heard that as long as the surface was flat the finish didn't matter.

Flatter. The surfaces might look pretty flat, but being as they aren't exactly flexible, even a few thousandths of an inch would matter. The less thermal compound, the better.

I'm running an a10-6800k, max rated temp of 75c but at 62c theres more room. Still though the cooler dropping it down to 48c is quite nice. Currently running at 4.5 ghz. So yeah stuff gets hot. :D

62 isnt too hot though, most video cards run at 70-80c

pfft Haswell intels can comfortably sit at 75c, because by nature they run hot as fuck.


after about 5 hours, I finally adjusted my voltage to a more finer tune, so now im maxing at 65c on a massive 4.7Ghz 8 cores without BSoD:dealwithit:

Side note: the radiators turn into a nice leg warmer at this clock.



Still need to lap, but I might get myself to do it when I swap out the coolant this month.

Just fucked aorund w/ my system. went up to 5.0ghz with some silly 2-3C increase from 4.5ghz .. 51c at 5.0ghz :D.

What mobo again? I upgraded to a 990FX from a 990X. I was able to OC to 5Ghz on the 990x due to the bottle neck in transfer rate; but when I OCed to the same clock at the same settings on the new board it went kaput. Then on OC.net I learned about the threadspeed bottle neck difference. I had the sads.

F2A85-v pro

Damn it. You guys are making me have to get my machine back in shape. I forgot a few months ago one of my fans started making noise, and in a fit of rage at not being able to tell which one, I unplugged them all. Need to sort that mess out now and get them all hooked back up to the controller, and clean the filters and try to tweak some setting again.