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Old 10-02-2013, 05:53 PM   #1
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My second expensive hobby, although I haven't really done much in about 2 years. I was bored and just thought I'd post mine. I specked out and built this completely myself, ive been building custom computers for years (let me know if you are ever interested )

Ignore some of the messy power cords behind it


Specs:
* Antec Tower (can't remember the mode name) biggest one you can get. Equipped with 8 fans
- 3 front 120mm intake fans with removable filters and built in fan speed controllers as well as singable doors for easy cleaning and maintenance
- 2 top 140mm exhaust fans with built in fan speed controllers
- 2 rear 120mm exhast fans with built in fan speed controllers
- 1 120mm side panel intake / exhaust fan
- all fans with built in red leds for flash factor
- top accessible slide in SSD junction
- 3x USB 3.0 2 rear 1 front, 3 other USB 2.0 ports up front
- front audio ports mic / headset
- custom added blue LED accents by me from NZXT
- bottom mounted power supply junction
- Aftermarket front bezel: brand: NZXT: controls up to 5 fans and 5 temperature probes as well as time/date and audio temp alarms
- Watercooling capable
- Vented rear for excellent air flow

* Motherboard: EVGA FTW3
-1366 bridge
- up to 64MB capable RAM
- 3x PCI-e slots (for up to 3 video cards triple SLI or X-Fire)
- USB 3.0
- power and hdd activity leds
- Many extra serial connections
- up to 8x hard drive bays, front loadable, 2 hot swappable
- BIOs reset buttons x2 accessible from inside and the rear of the case
- amazing cable management

* Processor: Intel first gen i7 950 overclocked to 4.2ghz (air cooled 2 years now)
- Noctua NH-D14 cpu cooler, dual heat sink towers, dual 120mm high flow push/pull air flow configuration, fans also speed controlled via front bezel

* RAM: Kingston Hyperx 1800Ghz 6GB RAM custom clocked by myself

* Video Card: EVGA NVIDA Geforce 550ti superclocked, running on stock clocking, 120mm fan cooler speed controlled via front bezel

* Power Supply:
Kingwin 1200watt with exhausting 120mm fan (3 color LED settings)

* Hard drive:
- Boot/OS drive: Crucial 64GB SSD (super fast boots up from shut down within ~15 seconds)
- Dual 640GB Samsung 7200rpm Raid 0 = 1.2GB+ storage capacity

* Other Misc:
- Dual 24" monitors ASUS / HANNS-G
- Razor Imperator gaming mouse 5000dpi
- Logitech G110 mechanical keyboard, with Custom color LEDs and 12 Macro buttons on left side
- Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit




























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Old 10-02-2013, 06:12 PM   #2
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Mine is laughable as it's been a couple years since I built it. It's due for an upgrade but perhaps I'll share some dusty, retro PC porn. lol
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Old 10-02-2013, 06:24 PM   #3
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I don't remember all the specs on mine Maybe dale can chime in. He built it for me. It's pretty sweet.

My video card has headers! haha



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Old 10-02-2013, 06:49 PM   #4
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Ya dale built you a nice one! That stock intel cooler is ugly though haha!
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Old 10-02-2013, 07:33 PM   #5
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Fucking nerds
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I agree. A stick car shocks the tires MUCH harder and does it several times going down the track. With a big power stick car, the car is much more unsettled going down the track making it more of a challenge to ET well. A well running auto car is nothing more than just point and shoot. Which is great for a track car taking a lot of driver error out of the equation.
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Old 10-02-2013, 08:24 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Dan12GT View Post
Ya dale built you a nice one! That stock intel cooler is ugly though haha!
He isn't overclocking so the stock is fine.
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Old 10-02-2013, 08:42 PM   #7
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No pics of mine.

Intel Core I7 920 overclocked to 3.9ghz on Air (too lazy to put water cooling together again)

MSI Motherboard, forgot the model number

18GB of Ram

Ocz Revodrive 3 X2 240GB PCI Express SSD card 1.5GB/s 230,000 Iops

Raid 5 Setup for Data Drive 3 2TB Drives

Video Card - Nvidia GTX670

HP 30inch Monitor 2560x1600 Resolution

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Logitech G700 Mouse
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Old 10-02-2013, 08:44 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Kaane View Post
No pics of mine.

Intel Core I7 920 overclocked to 3.9ghz on Air (too lazy to put water cooling together again)

MSI Motherboard, forgot the model number

18GB of Ram

Ocz Revodrive 3 X2 240GB PCI Express SSD card 1.5GB/s 230,000 Iops

Raid 5 Setup for Data Drive 3 2TB Drives

Video Card - Nvidia GTX670

HP 30inch Monitor 2560x1600 Resolution

Logitech G110 Keyboard

Logitech G700 Mouse


Damn that's a lot of RAM! You run a bunch of virtual machines or emulators? Or maybe just over kill... haha!
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Old 10-02-2013, 08:45 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by BLK2012GT View Post
Fucking nerds
Haha! Yep! I am!
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Old 10-02-2013, 10:23 PM   #10
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Old 10-03-2013, 12:20 AM   #11
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Dell Inspiron 1525 labtop
5yrs old
Aftermarket mouse
Gets on the Internet and has a USB port.

Don't judge me.
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Old 10-03-2013, 12:46 AM   #12
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I built a beast of a lazy non gaming computer. I'll post specs later.
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Old 10-04-2013, 12:46 AM   #13
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shitty phone pics. but here's my beast. she handles video editing very well.



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Old 10-04-2013, 12:48 AM   #14
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That case is sick.
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Old 10-17-2013, 12:04 PM   #15
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