The Member's Systems Discussion Thread

[ImDaBaron]

Got the monitor just now....its very nice. As for the DDR4 prices that's about what I expected. Best to just wait it out...the prices will come down.

 

[PandaButtonFTW]

RED BLACK ULTRA HARDCORE GAMING COMPONENTS?!?!?! yeah im sick of that crap too. gimme back my good olde blue gigabyte motherboards.

Oh and im REALLY sick of stuff being marketed as 'gaming' in my mind when I see that on a product I think "over priced and questionable build quality" that stuff is marketed at kids who wanna be cool.

(not saying all products marked as 'gaming' are bad mind you. It just annoys me that 'gaming' is the 'cool' thing these days..... SO WHAT NOW HUH?! THESE ARE THE GUYS WHO CALLED ME A NERD/GEEK WIERDO! but now my one true love is mainstream and I cant stand the playerbase of most games. do you know how many times ive been threatened to be 'hacked' by a high pitched voice in an fps game? uncountable.)

 

[Pcbuilder123]

Urggh, I have a friend who got ath-m50's and they are bad-ass. They sound REALLY good compared my bose qc3 (you could buy three ath-m50's on sale for the price of this headset, but this wasn't my choice.

 

[Turb0Yoda]

Look at the bitcoin mining crazyness...

My hands are so shaky... probably won't be using the PC today.

 

[Pcbuilder123]

Haha, what's with the shaky hands? The bitcoin mining craze has been during down for quite a while, therefore the price drops in gpus...

Anyways, new side panel window is coming tomorrow, so got that going for me, which is nice

 

[Turb0Yoda]

I'm asthmatic and took my inhaler after tennis lessons.

 

[PandaButtonFTW]

Haha, what's with the shaky hands? The bitcoin mining craze has been during down for quite a while, therefore the price drops in gpus...

Anyways, new side panel window is coming tomorrow, so got that going for me, which is nice

I personally don't like windowed panels, but then again... looking at my cable management gives people headaches.

 

[Pcbuilder123]

Yeah, I really like my cable management. Took like twenty minuets and some cable ties, lol.

 

[tiny voices]

I'm actually looking forward to my side panel coming in too so I can show off my cable management too!

 

[Turb0Yoda]

That cooler may deliver good temps, but it still freaks me out

 

[tiny voices]

Lol, I love it more and more everyday! It is SO quiet its nuts. I often look to make sure its actually going.

It sure does look interesting!

 

[Pcbuilder123]

Nice! Your builds looks really aggresive (That's a good thing), and ready to game with the bright blue led fan and the red ram/dual gpu's!

I remember telling us why you don't have an ssd. Do you really not want one? Really seems to help in my usage (gaming/school work)

 

[tiny voices]

I had an SSD and ditched it because it seriously did nothing for me. I never shut down my computer so I never really saw any benefit from it. My computer is exactly as fast now as it was with my SSD. My current boot times are around 45 seconds with fastboot enabled in the BIOS. I just don't see a use for an SSD in my system.

 

[Turb0Yoda]

My PC boot up times are 5-10 minutes if you include the time for the Desktop to load...

 

[Pcbuilder123]

Haha, just measured, 38 seconds windows 7..


Boots with 8.1 are SO much faster. Maybe a reason to upgrade. At this point, waiting for 9.

 

[Pcbuilder123]

The weird thing is, the main component I can hear in my pc is the vibrating hard drive. The 92mm cpu fan (Even the noctua fan) makes some noise, but what do you expect. Not too bad at all. Psu and all case fans and gpu are dead silent, so that is nice.

 

[ImDaBaron]

The Asus Rampage motherboard....dear god

 

[g-unit1111]

So here's the White Knight in action:

I found some RAM that would match up perfectly with my color scheme: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104472

Unfortunately having to replace the motherboard set me back a bit but now that I've got everything back online I will definitely get it. Ideally I want an Asus P9-X99 Deluxe, i7-5820K, dual GTX 880 SLI, a EVGA 1000W P2, and 16GB of DDR4 3100 but that ain't happening for a long time. :lol:

 

[ImDaBaron]

Yeah I was pricing everything up with 8GB of DDR4 but the price would be ridiculous. Basically it gets close to what I built my computer for.

 

[Daniel Sudakov]

Damn, you know what you want lol.

I'm sitting here, with money to spend, but I don't know what I want. 880 SLI would be great ...

 

[ImDaBaron]

I think the last mod I'll do besides maybe adding another R9 270x or a different video card is an I7

 

[ImDaBaron]

Here's what I have going on right now
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($227.98 @ OutletPC)
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X61 106.1 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($136.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Asus Z97-A ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($139.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Kingston Blu 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($86.99 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($84.64 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.44 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.44 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.44 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB Dual-X Video Card ($178.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Inwin GRone White (White) ATX Full Tower Case ($109.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000G2 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($146.81 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24F1ST DVD/CD Writer ($19.94 @ OutletPC)
Monitor: BenQ GL2460HM 60Hz 24.0" Monitor ($139.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $1417.63
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-28 14:54 EDT-0400

 

[Pcbuilder123]

Why the 3 500gb HDD's? Doesn't that make a lot of noise?

 

[ImDaBaron]

Why the 3 500gb HDD's? Doesn't that make a lot of noise?

No...running in Raid 5 with the SSD its fairly quick. I like it much better than running a single HDD with just as much memory.

 

[Daniel Sudakov]

Why the 3 500gb HDD's? Doesn't that make a lot of noise?

+ Uses more power, and is expensive verses a 2tb HDD from seagate