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what about my Phantom?

Case: In-Win Dragon Rider

Main screen: 20" wide screen, 19" wide screen for random things, movies, tv shows, etc when i'm gaming

cooling: 5 120mm fans, 1 220mm fan

OS- Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

directx 11

Mobo- Asus m5a97 am3+

CPU- AMD FX-4100 Zambezi 3.6GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 95W Quad-Core

Ram- G Skill 16g

Vid Card (old one, but keeps on going) Radeon HD 4870 1g

HDD Space: 950gb

Logitech G15 Keyboard

steelseries WoW cata mouse

steelseries 5HV2 USB headset

Running tera on the highest settings, 50+ fps, hightest i seen with fraps running, 64

it will do for now, going to upgrade my vid card one day, but no rush on that

-Cooler Master HAF-932 Full Tower. (Common, no custom fancy stuff, but does the job very well. Room for _any_ mobo and cards I can throw at it if I ever want 3 or 4x SLI.

-Stock fans, sans two Scythe Gentle Typhoon T-15s.

-ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 Motherboard (Two PCIE3.0 Slots)

-I7 2600K OC'd to 4.8 GHZ (Will replace with an Ivy Bridge soon for PCIE 3.0) Could probably OC more since I got a very good chip, but I don't want to push it beyond 1.4 volts to get it stable.

-Corsair H100 CPU cooler. Stock fans replaced with TP-15 Gentle Typhoons since the stock fans were loud as sin and always ran on max RPM. (Whether I put them in the Corsair controller or my AeroCool2000 controller made no difference.)

-Single GTX580 3GB (Will get two 700 series when they release with PCI3.0 capability and trade in/sell my 580)

-32GB RipJawz DDR3 Ram @2133/ (4x 8GB sticks.) Expensive considering games don't even need 16 at this point, but the goal was to be semi futureproof for 5 years.

-Idles around 30-35 C, 64-68 under load.

-Guarded by Optimus Prime.

-Default keyboard, mouse, speakers and SP2008WFP monitor from my Dell XPS 730 (From 3-4 years ago lol)

-I use Sennheiser PC350's instead of the speakers now.

-Soundblaster card I cannibalized from my Dell since the mobo audio only goes so loud with headphones. You can really crank it up with the card, although it's a pain since the bracket was designed for the XPS730 case. I had to take it off to put it in an ATX case and it's not completely secured. Same with the Wireless-N card which is a real PITA and comes loose very easily.


-1TB something or other hard drive I cannibalized from my Dell. I should probably get a SSD.

-Also have my XPS730 with a quad core Q6600 @2.4 never overclocked and mobo @ 4gb ram. (32bit windows xp) Used to have two 9800GT's but one of them died. Even with one I could just keep it as a spare, but high end gaming would be out of the picture now with the ram limitations+video card. Would need to get a hard drive as well.

Right now I just have a stock XPS 8300 i5, etc., etc. pretty decent minus the craaaaap graphics.

Just ordered

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0047ZGIUK/ref=ox_ya_os_product

Next pay: getting second monitor :3




@MooseofWoe - Uh, how did you forget to stat out the most important spec; Optimus Prime... :B

Rig nothin special. Slightly above standard.

i5 2500k OC 4.6ghz (hyper 212+ cooler)
8gb ram
ASUS P8p67 pro rev 3.0 mobo
GTX 560ti
1 TB HDD
500 GB external USB 3.0 HDD
128GB ocz petrol SSD (I LOVE THIS THING)

I just purchased an SSD and I absolutely have to praise the hell out of it.

I am using it as intended, with core applications (such as web browser. That plus fiberOP=literally zero loading.), especially TERA. Some fools try to run their OS on it so when they boot they save sixty or seventy seconds of their day, but that's called gambling with the life of your SSD! :D. Anyone who disagrees with me, google it so you can find out that you're wrong.

This gets rid of the tiny stutters caused by standard HDDs during gameplay as it is accessed, as well as shortening all loading screens to about one second. I would seriously [filtered] this thing with my [filtered] if it was possible... at least, without damaging the SSD.... or my [filtered].

Last pic was taken on phone sorry for bad quality.

CPU - 2500k @ 4.8
CPU Cooler - H60 [Push Pull Config.]
8GB RAM - Patriot Sector 5
MOBO - Asus P8Z68 - V Pro/Gen3
GFX - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 570 [Stock]
Hard Drive[s] - 120GB SSD / 320GB SATA 2 / 750GB External
Monitor - 32" Sony Bravia 1080p
Chasis - Cooler Master HAF 922 [From Previous PC Build]
Power Supply - Corsair 750W [From Previous PC Build]

my rig..
leovo y570
2.3-2.9ghz i5
8gb ddr3
gt 555m
750gb hdd

my GF's rig (just bought it for her for... and don't hate me for the steal)
3ghz amd athlon 64 x2 600+
4gb corsair ddr2
500gb hdd
9800gt

got leds, 3 or 4 case fans, decent case..... temp and fan speed monitors.... and the cost???? $220



both run tera at max settings perfectly fine, no stutters or lag. i do optimize all of my systems down tho so i eek every last bit of performance out of my systems. comes from gaming on a budget. :P

Quote: TecQueenElf on 02/04/2012, 02:13 PM - view

lol, my secondary rig prolly shames yours with how outdated and hodge-podge it is.

an old smoker's white atx case (you know, the type that the old computers used to come in, the ones with P3s)

3.2ghz pentium D
2gb ddr 333mhz ram
450w psu (generic)
geforce 8800 320mb (bottlenecked by the locked @x4 pci-e slot, but not overly much)
3x80gb hdds (IDE)
an old, semi-functional dvd drive (no burning, just read, and not even will it read all dvds)

will run tera on low settings to maybe mid if im lucky. its a hodge-podge of scrap parts i had layin around