Post your battlestations and their specs!

[Guest Daruna]

Throw up a picture of your rigs, and what they're running! [img]http://i.imgur.com/81wdF.jpg[/img] CPU: AMD Phenom X4 965 3.20Ghz Quad Core 6MB Cache GPU: ATI Radeon HD5870 1GB GDDR5 @ 870Mhz Clock speed Motherboard: ASUS M4A78 PRO AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G HDMI ATX AMD Memory: 6GB DDR2 833Mhz Kingston PSU: OCZ 700Watt Hard Drive: 1TB Western Digital Caviar Green @ 7200RPM Sound Card: VIA VT1708S Onboard Sound DVD: Two LG DVD-DL ROM disc writers Monitors: Asus VH242H 23.6" LCD Monitor, Samsung 19" SyncMaster 910v Sorry about the terrible picture, taken with a Blackberry...

[Guest Ret.Maj.Xander=US=]

[img]http://imgur.com/QWF3ml.jpg[/img] Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.7GHz Memory: 3072MB RAM Hard Drive: 1 TB Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.100226-1909) Motherboard: ASUS P6T-SE Computer Case: CoolerMaster haf

[Guest BigMac530]

[IMG]http://i780.photobucket.com/albums/yy89/bigmac150/AW12.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i780.photobucket.com/albums/yy89/bigmac150/AWi.jpg[/IMG] Specs: [U]Processor:[/U] Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.8GHz (*OCed to 3.36GHz) Liquid Cooled [U]Memory:[/U] 6GB Triple Channel 1333Mhz DDR3 [U]OS:[/U] Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.100226-1909) [U]Motherboard:[/U] Intel® X58 Express Chipset (I think) [U]Video:[/U] ATI Radeon HD 5870, 1GB GDDR5 [U]Monitor:[/U] HP w2338h 23" HD Widescreen [U]Hard Drive:[/U] 1.5TB - 7,200 RPM [U]Case:[/U] Alienware Aurora - Cosmic Black [U]Manufacturer:[/U] Dell :)

[Guest David]

Lol big mac we have the same monitors!

[Guest RET.CW4.ThievingSix=US=]

Oh no its big mac's alienware :D I wish i had your desk xander :D

[Guest RET.Maj.Skyler=US=]

This is my Current Gaming Rig that I just built.. I will post a picture when i get home. [COLOR='red']Processor:[/COLOR] AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 810 Processor (4 CPUs), ~2.6GHz [COLOR='red']Memory:[/COLOR] 4092MB RAM (2 Sticks of 2GB DDR3 1333 CL7240 Pin) [COLOR='red']Hard Drive:[/COLOR] Barracuda XT 2TB 64mb Cache 7200RPM [URL='http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?sku=A3145715&cs=04&c=us&l=en&dgc=SS&cid=27722&lid=628335']Click Here For Details[/URL] and 'Slave' 320 GB (Western Digital WD3200AAJS) [COLOR='red']Video Card:[/COLOR] ATI Radeon HD 4890 (1GB GDDR5 memory PCI Express 2.0 24x Anti-Aliasing [COLOR='red']Monitor:[/COLOR] Generic PnP Monitor (HDMI Cable connection) [COLOR='red']Sound Card:[/COLOR] None [COLOR='red']Speakers/Headphones:[/COLOR] G35 Surround sound headset [URL='http://www.logitech.com/en-us/gaming/headsets/devices/5095']Click here for details[/URL] [COLOR='red']Keyboard:[/COLOR] Razor Lycosa [URL='http://store.razerzone.com/store/razerusa/en_US/pd/productID.169417800/categoryId.35156900']Click here for Details[/URL] [COLOR='red']Mouse:[/COLOR] Razor Mamba [URL='http://store.razerzone.com/store/razerusa/en_US/pd/productID.169418100/categoryId.35208800']Click here for details[/URL] [COLOR='red']Mouse Surface:[/COLOR] Razor Vespula [URL='http://store.razerzone.com/store/razerusa/en_US/pd/productID.173893100/categoryId.35208900']Click here for Details[/URL] [COLOR='red']Operating System:[/COLOR] Windows Vista™ Ultimate (6.0, Build 6002) Service Pack 2 (6002.vistasp2_gdr.100218-0019) [COLOR='red']Motherboard:[/COLOR] MSI 7905x-GD79 [URL='http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1740']Click to See Link Detail[/URL]

[Guest WarMachine]

[IMG]http://gallery.me.com/tdrummer3/100025/My%20Photo_2/web.jpg?ver=12891105350001[/IMG] [IMG]http://gallery.me.com/tdrummer3/100025/My%20Photo/web.jpg?ver=12891097960001[/IMG] Processor: AMD 965 BE OC'd @ 3.6 GHz RAM: 4 GB Mushkin Blackline 8-9-7-24 @ 1600 Video Card: HIS iCooler V Radeon HD 5850 1GB Monitor: HP 23" Optics Sound Card: Audigy 4 Fatal!ty series Case: Cooler Master Storm Scout w/ Custom Cable Management CPU Heatsink: Cooler Master Hyper N620 w/ dual 120 mm fans Case Fans: 4 normal, 2 custom mounted Fan Controller: Zalman MFC Plus Headphones: Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro Keyboard: Razer Tarantula Mouse: Logitech G5 Surface: RocketFish Speed Mat OS: Win 7 Pro 64 Bit Mobo: AMD M4A79XTD EVO

[Guest BigMac530]

@ SN.David: Thats cool, its an awesome monitor @ SFC.ThievingSix: I just had to post. ;) @ PVT.WarMachine: I LOVE your keyboard. And is that an Alienware behind the monitor? The little blue light seems like the Alienhead on their PCs and laptops.

[Guest WarMachine]

Yeah, that's Kaoss's laptop :) He's got a $2100 lappy that he runs that's absolutely sick!

[Guest BigMac530]

[quote='PVT.WarMachine=US=','http://clanunknownsoldiers.com/hq/thread/?postID=76050#post76050']Yeah, that's Kaoss's laptop :) He's got a $2100 lappy that he runs that's absolutely sick![/QUOTE] I spent about the same for my computer.

[Guest Fatality]

Im thinking about making this set up but not sure. What do you think or suggest? CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor MB: MSI NF980-G65 AM3 NVIDIA nForce 980a SLI HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 GC: EVGA 012-P3-1472-AR GeForce GTX 470 (Fermi) SuperClocked 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP CASE: RAIDMAX SMILODON ATX-612WB Black 1.0mm SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower Foldout MB Computer Case HD: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive MONITOR: eMachines E233Hbd Black 23" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor Priced finished around 1400 What do you think or suggestion. Haven't played on PC in while so building from scatch.

[Guest BigMac530]

[quote='N2L fatality','http://clanunknownsoldiers.com/hq/thread/?postID=76054#post76054']Im thinking about making this set up but not sure. What do you think or suggest? CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor MB: MSI NF980-G65 AM3 NVIDIA nForce 980a SLI HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 GC: EVGA 012-P3-1472-AR GeForce GTX 470 (Fermi) SuperClocked 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP CASE: RAIDMAX SMILODON ATX-612WB Black 1.0mm SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower Foldout MB Computer Case HD: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive MONITOR: eMachines E233Hbd Black 23" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor Priced finished around 1400 What do you think or suggestion. Haven't played on PC in while so building from scatch.[/QUOTE] Never ask me im just going to tell you to buy a custom one.

[Guest RET.Maj.SKI=US=]

Computer Specs: Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9550 @ 2.66GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.7GH Memory: 8192MB RAM OS:Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) Video: NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M Monitor: Built in 17" Hard Drive: 2 250GB (7200 RPM) RAID 1 Case: Dell Precision|M6400 Laptop Manufacturer: Dell [URL='http://www.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/notebooks/workstation-precision-m6400/pd.aspx?refid=workstation-precision-m6400&cs=555&s=biz']More Info on my laptop[/URL]

[Guest RET.Capt.MustangMan94=US=]

Ill post pics soon but here's mine~! AMD Phenom II X4 810 ~2.6GHz 6 Gigs of Ram DDR3 OC 2100 Dual Saphire Radeon 4870's Creative Sound Blaster XF-I Antec 900 Case NZXT Fan Controller Logitech G15, G9, G35

[Guest MAJ.Kaossilator=US=]

[quote='PVT.WarMachine=US=','http://clanunknownsoldiers.com/hq/thread/?postID=76050#post76050']Yeah, that's Kaoss's laptop :) He's got a $2100 lappy that he runs that's absolutely sick![/QUOTE] To be fair, while I love this Alienware and I think they make fantastic products in general, I'm a little sick of the "lite" versions of hardware that I've got because it's a laptop. Not to mention the random "stealth mode" trigger they have as a touch-surface button that occasionally gets hit and massively underclocks the CPU/GPU. I'm going to be building another desktop rig down the road, but need to figure out FAFSA repayments before I get back into the custom build arena :) It's been awhile and I really miss the massive Newegg orders showing up on my doorstep. All those nice and shiny brass stand-offs, the smell of fresh anti-static packaging... tasty. Anywho - here's the current rig. Alienware model: M15x 15.4" Intel i7 840QM 4GB DDR3 1333 Dual-channel Geforce GTX260m 80GB Intel SSD Logitech G11 & G500 Rocketfish control pad Win7 Ult. =US= wallpaper FTW (although I usually keep the lid down ;) and just run the single external - thus the duplicate display) [IMG]http://gallery.me.com/tdrummer3/100025/My%20Photo_3/web.jpg?ver=12892305770001[/IMG]

[Guest RET.CDR.CrAzY_NuTtA=US=]

Kaoss and war do you live together? or do you just go round one/others house a lot with the lappy?

[Guest MAJ.Kaossilator=US=]

lol - no I was up in Milwaukee this weekend for a LAN party. I live with my wife :) in Champaign, IL.

[Guest WarMachine]

Roger that, we usually do LAN's once every month or 2, and since the battlestation post happened to coincide with this weekend we figured we might as well post up while we were in the same room :) Next LAN though we may have to make a trip to Florida I hear, something about Storm and 2Dye and some folks wanting to meet up and game it up for a bit :)

[Guest RET.CDR.CrAzY_NuTtA=US=]

OMG ok if you do that wait till like... summer time? Cos im trying to get across to florida with mob haha.

[Guest CC.Decayed=US=]

[quote='N2L fatality','http://clanunknownsoldiers.com/hq/thread/?postID=76054#post76054']Im thinking about making this set up but not sure. What do you think or suggest? CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor MB: MSI NF980-G65 AM3 NVIDIA nForce 980a SLI HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 GC: EVGA 012-P3-1472-AR GeForce GTX 470 (Fermi) SuperClocked 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP CASE: RAIDMAX SMILODON ATX-612WB Black 1.0mm SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower Foldout MB Computer Case HD: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive MONITOR: eMachines E233Hbd Black 23" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor Priced finished around 1400 What do you think or suggestion. Haven't played on PC in while so building from scatch.[/QUOTE] This is a pretty good build, but with that setup your hard drive is seriously going to drag your system down. Also, you didn't mention your power supply. I personally think AMD is better for gaming. I mean 470s are great but they are huge power suckers and get hotter. Esp with oc out of the box, this is something to consider. Gotta consider some non oem fans at least for the cpu. I don't think you need 8 gigs of ram, but it's a decent way to future proof. If you are only gaming you really don't need more than 4 imo. If I was going to spend that much, I would tone down to 4 GB, get 2 F3 spinpoints to Raid0 (cheaper than WD and still good speed and quality), and get an SSD for OS. Also would change the 470 to a 5870. [url]http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-radeon-hd-6870-radeon-hd-6850,2782-7.html[/url] 5870 > 470, you start seeing some gains at 480s but again, heat + power is a concern. If money is no object, then this is a pretty good setup and will rock. Except for the HDD.

[Guest MAJ.Kaossilator=US=]

Yeah I have to say when I switched from platter to SSD it was like night and day. All of a sudden the bottleneck is a lot harder to locate. I can't recommend it enough, especially some of the newer ones that support TRIM in Win7 as well as some self-maintenance perks. Go Intel on the SSD if it's of interest. Suddenly this is looking a lot like my Newegg wishlist :) @Sgt.Decayed, when I do find the $$ (someday) to get my rig I'll have to hit you up for assistance getting raid0 going. I've never tinkered with it and probably should have been for a long time.

[Guest Chavez]

[quote='Sgt.Decayed=US=','http://clanunknownsoldiers.com/hq/thread/?postID=76132#post76132']This is a pretty good build, but with that setup your hard drive is seriously going to drag your system down. Also, you didn't mention your power supply. I personally think AMD is better for gaming. I mean 470s are great but they are huge power suckers and get hotter. Esp with oc out of the box, this is something to consider. Gotta consider some non oem fans at least for the cpu. I don't think you need 8 gigs of ram, but it's a decent way to future proof. If you are only gaming you really don't need more than 4 imo. If I was going to spend that much, I would tone down to 4 GB, get 2 F3 spinpoints to Raid0 (cheaper than WD and still good speed and quality), and get an SSD for OS. Also would change the 470 to a 5870. [url]http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-radeon-hd-6870-radeon-hd-6850,2782-7.html[/url] 5870 > 470, you start seeing some gains at 480s but again, heat + power is a concern. If money is no object, then this is a pretty good setup and will rock. Except for the HDD.[/QUOTE] /agree RAID0 across two drives would definitely be a better balance of price/performance... just make sure you unlink your RAID stripes before you do anything serious to your BIOS, or you run a good chance of losing all of your data... I just made that mistake last weekend. ATI vs. nVIDIA... as Decayed said, you might get a little bit better performance out of the higher-end nVIDIA cards, but at what cost? Unless you want to invest in a water-cooling setup, the heat can be a serious issue. It really sucks having to worry constantly about overheating your rig, and the random safety reboots always happen at the most inconvenient times. On the RAM thing, I would recommend you go with 6GB, but YMMV... there have been alot of issues (especially on the gaming side) with 8GB, and some of the same issues can appear if you run 4GB... although those might be isolated to 64-bit OS? But yeah, IMO, you can't go wrong with 6GB.

[Guest CC.Decayed=US=]

I always thought 6gb was an intel thing...

[Guest DJScooby]

[URL=http://img822.imageshack.us/i/dsc00020dx.jpg/][IMG]http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/5517/dsc00020dx.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://img204.imageshack.us/i/dsc00022xk.jpg/][IMG]http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/9904/dsc00022xk.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://img836.imageshack.us/i/dsc00021x.jpg/][IMG]http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/6293/dsc00021x.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Custom Build i built my self :) [U]Specs[/U] MotherBoard XFX nForce® 790i Ultra 3 way sli KEY FEATURES # Supports DDR3 Memory # 8 Channel Integrated Audio # Supports up to 3-Way SLI Bridge # SLI Memory with EPP 2.0 # Up to 1600 FSB HMz Intel CPUs # ESA Certified Graphics Card XFX GeForce 280 KEY FEATURES * 240 Processing Cores * 2nd Generation NVIDIA® unified architecture * Full Microsoft DirectX 10 support * NVIDIA SLI® technology * NVIDIA PureVideo® HD technology* * NVIDIA PhysX™-Ready** * NVIDIA CUDA™ technology * PCI Express 2.0 support * Two dual-link DVI-I and one HDTV output * Dual-link HDCP-Capable*** * OpenGL 2.1 support * supported video software is required to experience certain features. ** PhysX drivers are required to experience in-game GPU PhysX acceleration. *** Playback of HDCP-protected content requires other HDCP-compatible components. CPU Intel Q9550 Core 2 Quad Proccessor - 2.83 GHz,12MB L2 Cache,1333MHz FSB,Socket LGA775,45 nm, RAM 4GB OCZ DDR3 PC3-17000 / 2133MHz / Platinum Edition / Low Voltage / 4GB / Dual Channel Case Antec 1200

[Guest Fatality]

How about these changes: GC: XFX HD-585X-ZAFC Radeon HD 5850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card w/ Eyefinity PS: Rosewill Xtreme Series RX850-S-B 850W Continuous @40°C ,80 PLUS Certified, ATX12V v2.2 & EPS12V v2.91, SLI Ready CrossFire Ready, Active PFC "Compatible with Core i7, i5" Power Supply HD: SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive How does that work? And what should I get as a SSD never used it before back in the day.