Post your desktop setup

JZavala_old

Joined December 2008

JZavala_old 2012-01-05T21:59:26+00:00

foulcoon wrote:
i've never understood people who buy 1200w PSU when they dont even need 850w. e-peen doesn't grow from PSU, trust me lawl

http://extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine

use this next time you want to spend over 200 dollars on a power supply you probably don't need

quite wrong. i have two 5870's and a 5850, and an oc'ed cpu. and none of the gpu's are oc'ed. full load power consumption is around 700w. on a 850w psu(but its been tested to 1-1.16kw). so having two or three gpu's requires at least 850w. if you intend on doing more. you need much more power.

oh and if you go around claiming you have "water cooling" with that closed loop. people who know what they're doing will laugh. like me. its good if you're on a budget i suppose. a real water loop will run in excess of 250-300usd. a full loop(all gpu's cpu, mobo) will easily run 600-700.

those things are only moderately better than a high end air cooler. a true liquid loop is considerably better. and will cool mobo/gpu/cpu's.

ampzz

ampzz 2012-01-06T01:52:00+00:00

My cable management at the moment is atrocious.
Anyone like my Alienware's front panel 'upgrade'? \:D/

boat

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Joined February 2010

boat 2012-01-06T02:54:18+00:00

ampzz wrote:
and did anyone like my Alienware's front panel 'upgrade'? \:D/

haha

no

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Vish024

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Joined December 2010

Vish024 2012-01-06T03:41:17+00:00

Remco32 wrote:
All that just for osu!, watching animu and browsing the web..?

Show me a perfect community and I'll show you a pig that can fly.

foulcoon

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Joined July 2008

foulcoon 2012-01-06T05:05:31+00:00

JZavala wrote:
foulcoon wrote:
i've never understood people who buy 1200w PSU when they dont even need 850w. e-peen doesn't grow from PSU, trust me lawl

http://extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine

use this next time you want to spend over 200 dollars on a power supply you probably don't need

quite wrong. i have two 5870's and a 5850, and an oc'ed cpu. and none of the gpu's are oc'ed. full load power consumption is around 700w. on a 850w psu(but its been tested to 1-1.16kw). so having two or three gpu's requires at least 850w. if you intend on doing more. you need much more power.

oh and if you go around claiming you have "water cooling" with that closed loop. people who know what they're doing will laugh. like me. its good if you're on a budget i suppose. a real water loop will run in excess of 250-300usd. a full loop(all gpu's cpu, mobo) will easily run 600-700.

those things are only moderately better than a high end air cooler. a true liquid loop is considerably better. and will cool mobo/gpu/cpu's.

right so full load power consumption is 700w

below 850w

so i'm not "quite wrong" then am i? lol

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Haruhi_sama

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Joined September 2010

Haruhi_sama 2012-01-06T06:09:39+00:00

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Rokodo

1,104 posts

Joined August 2008

Rokodo 2012-01-06T06:56:24+00:00

Yes, I realise that the CPU is on a liquid loop and that isn't the same as water cooling. The budget for a water cooling system isn't my concern. It's that I don't trust my own luck enough to install such a system, and parts for them (Danger Den etc.) are harder to get hold of in my country.

Max

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Joined June 2011

Max 2012-01-06T07:01:17+00:00

ampzz wrote:

My cable management at the moment is atrocious.
Anyone like my Alienware's front panel 'upgrade'? \:D/

your pc is a waste of money.

Rokodo

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Joined August 2008

Rokodo 2012-01-06T07:06:30+00:00

Max wrote:
your pc is a waste of money.

Corin

910 posts

Joined January 2011

Corin 2012-01-06T07:22:41+00:00

Rokodo wrote:
Max wrote:
your pc is a waste of money.

That's good because he got it for free!

Rokodo

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Joined August 2008

Rokodo 2012-01-06T07:23:43+00:00

orly?

ampzz

ampzz 2012-01-06T07:30:41+00:00

Yes I most certainly did, it was a prize for wining the Alienware Clan Challenge 2010 (I have pictures, youtube interviews and a trophy if you don't believe me) which was a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare LAN event that required online qualification.
It was a fairly fun trip especially since I found that most of the 'big talkers' online were nothing more than wallflowers away from the safety of their room.

Out of the package I received, it's only the monitor and PC (partially) that still work.
The headphones, keyboard and mouse all had their wires snap after afew months from just general use.

Fabi

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Joined September 2009

Fabi 2012-01-06T07:32:07+00:00

ampzz badass!!

Karaoke_old

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Joined January 2011

Karaoke_old 2012-01-07T12:51:48+00:00

dNextGen

dNextGen 2012-01-07T12:57:28+00:00

Remco32 wrote:
All that just for osu!, watching animu and browsing the web..?

JZavala_old

32 posts

Joined December 2008

JZavala_old 2012-01-07T23:32:24+00:00

right so full load power consumption is 700w

below 850w

so i'm not "quite wrong" then am i? lol

that's because i overbuilt. as i always overbuild my pc's as the psu is the one component i keep for a long time as atx standards don't change often. that and i had the funds. i could have made do with a 700/750w psu. as most are designed to handle 110-120% load.

Corin

910 posts

Joined January 2011

Corin 2012-01-08T20:32:07+00:00

dNextGen wrote:
Remco32 wrote:
All that just for osu!, watching animu and browsing the web..?

Tl;dr Rokodo has 2 fuck off 30" screens, now think of how much constant power those 2 GPUs are going to need to deliver the bandwidth/power of which those 2 screens that run 2560x1600 24/7 requires.
Along side an overclocked i7 Bloomfield to 4Ghz and under load such as encoding requires the affinity of the process to not use 2 of the 8 cores.

Also consider the fact that he runs 12GB RAM plus DVD/SATA drives and the fact that if put under stress caused by underpowering without you noticing could cause longterm damage to any component, NOW take into consideration the cost that it would take to repair the components damaged by said underpowering.

What would you do? Buy a PSU that's guaranteed to be stable for god knows how long with a pretty future proof wattage that was on discount or a 850w that is likely to damage expensive components.

/discussion

JZavala_old

32 posts

Joined December 2008

JZavala_old 2012-01-08T23:51:21+00:00

unless you're playing bf3 or something of that nature. you dont really need more than 1 graphics card to run two 30" screens. a 6700/560 can easily run both screens of that size and resolution for osu and any low end games.(say cod, l4d2 and the like)

i can tell you now corin, i have 8hdd's 2 optical drives 12gb ddr3 and 3 gpu's, AND an overclocked cpu(3.6-3.8ghz, and occasionally 4ghz), and i use no more than 700w furmark/bitcoin/gaming. idle is 260w.

i dont get why people think they need a massive power supplies when the hardware doesn't need it. maybe when i throw waterblocks on my two 5870's and overclock them i'll need more than 850w, but stock clocks, i dont.

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ampzz

ampzz 2012-01-08T23:55:28+00:00

It is of peoples own accord as to how they wish to spend their own money, it doesn't affect you does it? \:D/

Remco32

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Remco32 2012-01-09T12:12:19+00:00

JZavala wrote:
unless you're playing bf3 or something of that nature. you dont really need more than 1 graphics card to run two 30" screens. a 6700/560 can easily run both screens of that size and resolution for osu and any low end games.(say cod, l4d2 and the like)

i can tell you now corin, i have 8hdd's 2 optical drives 12gb ddr3 and 3 gpu's, AND an overclocked cpu(3.6-3.8ghz, and occasionally 4ghz), and i use no more than 700w furmark/bitcoin/gaming. idle is 260w.

i dont get why people think they need a massive power supplies when the hardware doesn't need it. maybe when i throw waterblocks on my two 5870's and overclock them i'll need more than 850w, but stock clocks, i dont.

Would you say an online powercalculator like this one would give the most accurate power-consumption of a build, opposed to the amount given on the site of the GPU?

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JZavala_old

32 posts

Joined December 2008

JZavala_old 2012-01-09T21:31:34+00:00

Remco32 wrote:
Would you say an online powercalculator like this one would give the most accurate power-consumption of a build, opposed to the amount given on the site of the GPU?

well considering that i just did my system, and it claims i need at least 900w for my system. and yet my kill-a-watt shows nothing near that with over the top power consumption of transcoding and bitcoin/folding/gaming. that site would be an extremely high guess for power consumption.

your best estimate for power use if you want, is other people really. look up a setup like what you want, and look up its power consumption. but remember this. all gpu's are suppsoed to use no more than 300w. as per pci-e/atx standards. ati's next gen 7970 uses around 190w per card. only the dual gpu cards by ati use around 300w. the 580 uses around 280w single card.

Corin

910 posts

Joined January 2011

Corin 2012-01-09T21:53:22+00:00

Remco32 wrote:
JZavala wrote:
unless you're playing bf3 or something of that nature. you dont really need more than 1 graphics card to run two 30" screens. a 6700/560 can easily run both screens of that size and resolution for osu and any low end games.(say cod, l4d2 and the like)

i can tell you now corin, i have 8hdd's 2 optical drives 12gb ddr3 and 3 gpu's, AND an overclocked cpu(3.6-3.8ghz, and occasionally 4ghz), and i use no more than 700w furmark/bitcoin/gaming. idle is 260w.

i dont get why people think they need a massive power supplies when the hardware doesn't need it. maybe when i throw waterblocks on my two 5870's and overclock them i'll need more than 850w, but stock clocks, i dont.
Would you say an online powercalculator like this one would give the most accurate power-consumption of a build, opposed to the amount given on the site of the GPU?

My PC:

You were both saying?

Also this PC is a singlecore w/ an 8500 and 2.5GB RAM, js.

Rokodo

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Joined August 2008

Rokodo 2012-01-09T22:01:54+00:00

Answered honestly/realistically taking into account CPU overclocking, capacitor ageing @ 50% and 90% system load:

Kthxbai.

Also:

Rena-chan

Rena-chan 2012-01-09T22:24:36+00:00

Remco32 wrote:
Would you say an online powercalculator like this one would give the most accurate power-consumption of a build, opposed to the amount given on the site of the GPU?

Lolno, it's inaccurate as poot. It can give you a rough estimate, but nothing you can really use as compared to the amount stated by the manufacturers.

Might as well while we're at it, no ? I'm running a 500W OCZ PSU here, entirely stable.

I would give you a real reading from a wattmeter, but I have yet to borrow such a thing.

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Max

89 posts

Joined June 2011

Max 2012-01-09T23:36:54+00:00

For the intrested people here is my full and detailed specs.

PC SPECS & GEAR

-Antec 1200 Full tower Case
-Intel Core i7 930 2.88Ghz @ 4,0Ghz 2,23 Vcore (38c idle//75c on Load)
-Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler
-Asus Rampage iii Extreme LGA 1366 Motherboard
-2x MSI GTX 560 TI HAWK in SLI @ Stock speeds (950 Core 4200 memory) 33c & 31c idle 75c~ on load
-Corsair Dominator GT 3x2GB 1600Mhz 7-7-7-20 (stock)
-OCZ Agility SSD 60GB & Samsung 500GB 6400 rpm HDD for storage
-Power Flower 700W PSU (750Max)

-Razer DeathAdder Black Eddition Mice
-Wacom Bamboo Pen Tablet
-Steelseries g6v2 Mechanical keyboard (Black switches)
-Logitech Z 5500 Digital 5.1 Speaker setup

Doesn't sound right lol. Or maybe? i'm pretty sure i gave the correct information to calculate my estimated power usage.

Fabi

1,130 posts

Joined September 2009

Fabi 2012-01-09T23:49:40+00:00

That page gives you a general idea but it's not accurate.

JZavala_old

32 posts

Joined December 2008

JZavala_old 2012-01-10T00:23:46+00:00

well as i've posted mine before, i'll just link it now.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u100 ... eccy-1.png

the one on the left is my desktop. on a 850w psu.

Nekoroll

513 posts

Joined May 2010

Nekoroll 2012-01-10T04:59:54+00:00

ITT: Post your desktop specs

Harumph.