Hi everyone, just thought I'd introduce myself as I just recently joined the Forums.
My name is Lee, I'm 28 and I've been pulling apart and building my own PC's since I was in my mid to late teens. I got into overclocking about 4 years ago when I purchased an Opteron 165 and a DFI SLI-DR expert as the opterons were highly overclockable and posed a nice overlocking challenge. Since then I've moved onto Intel, with the recent upgrade of a Core i5 760. Both my main rig and backup/server rig contained almost identical specs of opterons and SLI_DR expert boards prior to the upgrade.
I currently have 3 rigs, 1 laptop and an abundance of spare parts, which I'm sure most of you lot have lying around, haha.
The three computers that I have at the moment consist of:
MAIN RIG:
CPU: Core i5 760 (standard speed)
MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3
RAM: 4GB of Corsair XMS3
COOLING: Arctic Freezer Pro Rev.2
GRAPHICS: Nvidia 9600GT
SOUND CARD: Audigy 2 ZS
STORAGE: 1 x Samsung Spinpoint 250GB, 2 x Samsung Spinpoint 1TB
PSU: Corsair HX620
CASE: Antec Fusion Max
MONITOR: 37" Sony Bravia KDL-37w5500 or 22" LG 22LS4R
This rig is used for daily tasks, video encoding, a small bit of online gaming. I plan to overclock it in the near future and purchase an SSD.
BACKUP/SERVER:
CPU: Opteron 165 @ 2.6GHz
MOTHERBOARD: DFI SLI-DR Expert
RAM: 2GB of OCZ Gold PC4000 3-4-4-8
COOLING: Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
GRAPHICS: Nvidia 7600 GT
STORAGE: 2 x WD raptor 150GB in raid 0, 3 x Seagate barracuda 320GB
SOUND CARD: X-FI platinum
PSU: Hiper 580w
CASE: Gigabyte Aurora 570
MONITOR: 37" Sony Bravia KDL-37w5500 or 22" LG 22LS4R
This rig serves as a backup to the main rig and is used as a media server. I also make weekly backups of my main drives on my main rig and laptop and store them on here.
SHUTTLE:
CPU: Athlon 64 3200+
RAM: 2 x 512mb corsair XMS
GRAPHICS: Nvidia FX5600
STORAGE: 1 x Seagte barracuda 250GB
This one sits in the lounge and streams media from my main rig and is also used for internet and music.
So there we go, a brief description of me, computing history and my current rigs.
Speak to you all around the forums,
parad0x (Lee)
My name is Lee, I'm 28 and I've been pulling apart and building my own PC's since I was in my mid to late teens. I got into overclocking about 4 years ago when I purchased an Opteron 165 and a DFI SLI-DR expert as the opterons were highly overclockable and posed a nice overlocking challenge. Since then I've moved onto Intel, with the recent upgrade of a Core i5 760. Both my main rig and backup/server rig contained almost identical specs of opterons and SLI_DR expert boards prior to the upgrade.
I currently have 3 rigs, 1 laptop and an abundance of spare parts, which I'm sure most of you lot have lying around, haha.
The three computers that I have at the moment consist of:
MAIN RIG:
CPU: Core i5 760 (standard speed)
MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3
RAM: 4GB of Corsair XMS3
COOLING: Arctic Freezer Pro Rev.2
GRAPHICS: Nvidia 9600GT
SOUND CARD: Audigy 2 ZS
STORAGE: 1 x Samsung Spinpoint 250GB, 2 x Samsung Spinpoint 1TB
PSU: Corsair HX620
CASE: Antec Fusion Max
MONITOR: 37" Sony Bravia KDL-37w5500 or 22" LG 22LS4R
This rig is used for daily tasks, video encoding, a small bit of online gaming. I plan to overclock it in the near future and purchase an SSD.
BACKUP/SERVER:
CPU: Opteron 165 @ 2.6GHz
MOTHERBOARD: DFI SLI-DR Expert
RAM: 2GB of OCZ Gold PC4000 3-4-4-8
COOLING: Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
GRAPHICS: Nvidia 7600 GT
STORAGE: 2 x WD raptor 150GB in raid 0, 3 x Seagate barracuda 320GB
SOUND CARD: X-FI platinum
PSU: Hiper 580w
CASE: Gigabyte Aurora 570
MONITOR: 37" Sony Bravia KDL-37w5500 or 22" LG 22LS4R
This rig serves as a backup to the main rig and is used as a media server. I also make weekly backups of my main drives on my main rig and laptop and store them on here.
SHUTTLE:
CPU: Athlon 64 3200+
RAM: 2 x 512mb corsair XMS
GRAPHICS: Nvidia FX5600
STORAGE: 1 x Seagte barracuda 250GB
This one sits in the lounge and streams media from my main rig and is also used for internet and music.
So there we go, a brief description of me, computing history and my current rigs.
Speak to you all around the forums,
parad0x (Lee)
