My New PC... about to hit CHECKOUT.

[turboduck]

Did you have to drive far to get it? Looking forward to the pics...

took me about an hour and a bit each way to drive so not that bad.

Pics are coming now everything is up and running in the new case, imageshack taking ages to upload lol

 

[turboduck]

 

[StevenUK]

Looks really nice turbo ^^ im jelous haha

Glad its all sorted now for you

 

[turboduck]

thanks mate, appreciate it, was a bit of a nightmare but wouldn't be any fun if it was easy now time to get tweaking, going to read up on overclocking and then give it a crack.

depending on how that goes ill prob get some watercooling sooner or later too.

 

[bledd]

any chance of putting XP32/64 on there, and seeing what sort of FPS you get in Quake 3?

 

[turboduck]

any chance of putting XP32/64 on there, and seeing what sort of FPS you get in Quake 3?

Quake 3 ? did you mean Quake 4 ? i have xp 64bit on it at the mo...

 

[Adam123]

impressive nice build and awesome case

how hot is ur middle 285 running at lol? i bet its cooking?

 

[turboduck]

 

[Mikeey44]

gorgeous

 

[Fenris]

Great looking rig mate, didn't think it was possible to this damn jealous! Oh if I had 2K to spend on mine...

 

[bledd]

no, i mean quake 3, just to see how it does (vync off obv)

do you have any crysis benchmarks?


very nice setup you have there btw

 

[turboduck]

Quake 3 arena or quake 3 ? Will install either and post back with results, will also run crysis benchmark and want to see how GRID runs too

 

[N00bie]

Hey Turbo that case looks awesome, was wondering where the PSU was cos in my Antec 900 its in the bottom then i saw it.
And omg thats a lot of space then if thats including the PSU in there !!!!!!Think ill be buying one of those cases then me thinks

 

[turboduck]

yeah dude it is huge, perfect for what i needed and still room for expansion later on and would be a nice case to watercool. I like the PSU at the top of the case as this helps with the cooling.

 

[Nate Silvers]

Wow that's like the perfect pc, this is ace!! take that you console fanbois thats what pc is all about big boys toys

 

[r0zvad]

The case and build as a whole look great. That V8 is bloody massive though!

 

[Trunks9486]

Set the stripe size to the lowest possible (at least thats what i read...)

spreading the slow writes to both disks.

The crucial SSDs are not the best though, you should have bought either the Intel one or the Vertex OCZ ones. They are more expensive and have the extra performacen to show for it.

 

[turboduck]

Set the stripe size to the lowest possible (at least thats what i read...)

spreading the slow writes to both disks.

The crucial SSDs are not the best though, you should have bought either the Intel one or the Vertex OCZ ones. They are more expensive and have the extra performacen to show for it.

Thanks Trunks, i have the stripe size set to 64 at the moment but my pc seems to be running really really slow on boot up and such even when just opening my computer etc it takes minutes to load, im not sure if this is due to the stripe size but it is the only thing i have done different in comparison to my other builds, when i set up raid 0 the default value was 128, i might give that a go instead if i can't find out what is causing this...

In terms of getting the vertex... i did want these but i had already spent enough at this point and figure i can always get these later on and add them to my raid array.

Any help/advice is greatly appreciated as always !

 

[turboduck]

The case and build as a whole look great. That V8 is bloody massive though!

thanks mate!

yeah that v8 is insane i cant get over its shear size, very nice cooler, does the job well

 

[icey_haj]

Did you get the blu-ray drive duck?