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Olly_K
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| Posted on 01-05-2007 18:37 |
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OK, i've been away for a while, and come back with this baby:
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Poppamies
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| Posted on 01-05-2007 19:54 |
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Nice, I think you should mod this cube to look like the Borg space ship :\
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Olly_K
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| Posted on 01-05-2007 20:07 |
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specs, er.... ok
8 port pci SATA raid card
8x400gb sata hdd's in RAID5 (for storage)
2x74gb 10000rpm sata drives (1 os, 1 games)
1 dvd rom and 3 dvd writers ( i have 1 more to go in yet)
6600 Core2Duo chip, but will be getting quad core very soon.
4gb ram
8800gtx
sound blaster x-fi
and the new 22" widescreen from samsung.
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Tw33kA
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| Posted on 01-05-2007 20:17 |
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Nice system olly  How r u getting on with the mouse? wot psu are u using?With the quad core bang another 8800gtx in  you could put the black faceplate on the fan controll tho,ive got one if you havent
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Olly_K
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| Posted on 01-05-2007 20:44 |
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good idea tweak, i think i have the panel pack, will dig out a black one !
mouse is coming along fine, still getting used to it really, cant put another 8800 in as theres no room !
both pci-e slots (the evga has 3) are obscure by the xfi and the raid card 
psu is a tagan 900w
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Tw33kA
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| Posted on 01-05-2007 21:04 |
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Bummer bout the slots m8 and nice psu to tbh
I never thought you would use a diff mouse but its nice to see and i hope ur hand doesnt get used to cos world wide domination will ensue
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Backburner
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| Posted on 01-05-2007 21:11 |
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Olly_K wrote:
cant put another 8800 in as theres no room !
both pci-e slots (the evga has 3) are obscure by the xfi and the raid card
perhaps get a pci-e riser m8 ?? they come in many sizes and flavours used for cluster servers such as what you have more or less...
its a very old idea tbh dating back from early 90's with ISA cards etc.
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Poppamies
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| Posted on 02-05-2007 06:19 |
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My new system also has 8800gtx (Club3D) and Core 2 Duo 6600, but only 2 gig RAM. Would be nice to compare some benchmarks, what score are you getting from 3DMark06?
It was nice to see you yesterday on flatlinerz server, you should have stayed longer 
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Satan
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| Posted on 02-05-2007 09:02 |
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HHAHAHAAHHAHAHHA mate this was athe monster, can you bend time with that machine aswell...I mean maybe you should start Olly_K space center or something hahah u mofo |
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Olly_K
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| Posted on 02-05-2007 09:33 |
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not sure about the riser card idea, i dont think it will secure in the case properly with another 8800 , it will probably snap !
Thanks kirty, i basically had 2 pcs before, a quad core xeon with the raid 5 array in, but i've combined the 2 into one massive box !
Pop, i'll do some benchies soon, i do know that my cpu is really holding me back which is why i want quad core, but they are doing 65mn chips soon, so will go for one of them when they come out.
Stan, im hoping to do some proper time travel with it ! |
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m3gas
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| Posted on 02-05-2007 12:10 |
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Thats a lot of hard drives to have in your case, maybe think about getting one of these to store them in
http://www.nexsan.com/sataboy.php
its a raided up box that connect to the pc through fibre optics, fbi use the atabeast for there data storage afaik. Can get up to 30 hard drives in the cheaper model.
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Tw33kA
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| Posted on 02-05-2007 20:56 |
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[[[perhaps get a pci-e riser m8 ?? they come in many sizes and flavours used for cluster servers such as what you have more or less...]]]
rofl an 8800 would snap that
Word of warning if you are consider an 8800 THEY ARE HUGE. B4 purchase check your case has enuf space as the cards 27 cm in length and that you have a suitable 600w minimum psu
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Olly_K
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| Posted on 02-05-2007 21:05 |
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idd, i had to file a bit of my case away to actually get the thing to fit, you need to feel one to appreciate just how big, and heavey they are. it needs 2 PCI-e power connects
Megs, im liking those, any idea on prices ? |
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m3gas
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| Posted on 02-05-2007 23:03 |
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Officaly i dread to think how much they would cost a few thousand at least. The uk branch make them in Derby, a m8 of mine got one nicked for £600 plus a couple of TB of hard drives through a guy who "used" to work in the warehouse there. He was later sacked for stealing lol.. |
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Olly_K
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| Posted on 03-05-2007 08:16 |
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hmm, they are quite nice little solutions. let me know if you can get hold of anymore !
Pops, tried to run 3dmark last night, vista didnt like it, or 3dmark didnt like vista ! |
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Poppamies
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| Posted on 03-05-2007 09:42 |
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Olly_K wrote:
Pops, tried to run 3dmark last night, vista didnt like it, or 3dmark didnt like vista !
Strange, I got Vista Ultimate and had no probs running it on my system (score was around 9400, can't remember exatcly). I downloaded "3DMark®06 Basic Edition (Build 1.1.0)", installed and it worked ok without any extra steps!
One thing I noticed that the 3DMark online analysis tool claimed that I have 2 1gig SDRAM modules installed, when they in fact are DDR2s :\ I need to check if I have installed them in wrong slot configuration.
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Olly_K
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| Posted on 03-05-2007 12:19 |
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OK wierd, will try again tonight, with mention something about open al drivers etc etc and at that point i gave up. |
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Backburner
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| Posted on 03-05-2007 14:35 |
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thats sound card problem i think ! some cards dont suport it...the open source 3d audio api. check you card suports it perhaps ??
nice rig btw i forgot to mention !!! dogs bollocks m8 !!
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Olly_K
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| Posted on 03-05-2007 18:52 |
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ive had open al installed before. id doubt very much if a £150 sound card didnt support it
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Olly_K
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| Posted on 03-05-2007 19:20 |
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just tried 3dmark again, no joy, are you using the 64 bit version pops ? |
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