Post Your Desktop / PC

[TwoZero]

My PC:

Case: Arctic Silentium T2 (link)

Motherboard: Gigabyte K9NF-9

Processor: AMD 64 3200+ "Venice" (2.0Ghz)

Memory: 2x 512Mb PC3200 DDR-SDRam (1024mb total)

Videocard: Sparkle GeForce 6600GT ViVo

Harddisk: Maxtor DiamondMax 10 SATA 200Gb

DVD Burner: NEC 2500A

 

Pics:

Bit messy inside, extra 20gb seagate hdd because the maxtor I got with it wasn't working properly so I had to sent it back for replacement, used the 20gb to run from for abotu 2 weeks.

As you can see the power suply is in the front bottom of the case, and not at the top back as usual, special design case.

Next to the power suply is a weird alminium box, it is a holder for a HDD, specially designed to reduce the fibrating of the hdd, and works quite well

 

Where usually the power suply is in normal cases are now 2 80x80mm fans that suck out hot air that rises up in the case:

 

This case is designed to be quiet and still have good airflow, well both are true, my CPU is idle about +/- 33°C and under load +/- 40°C, case temp is always about 25°C, the harddisk in that special box thingy is about 44°C that is a bit to high for my liking. It is pretty damn quiet though, the fans auto adjust speed depending on the temperature, during the night I leave it on but I can barely hear it even while I sleep about 2 meter away from it.

 

I need to buy a round IDE cable to allow better airflow to the PSU, but so far everything is working great (except the hdd I had to sent back).

 

Oh and an old desktop screenshot:

[{Matty}{Vice}]

[Jonny_Tightlips]

 

-d00d

[gkl]

Nothing so exciting

 

[tecnovm64]

f*ck you twozero, give me that computer

[Alcoholica]

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Edited March 30, 2006 by Alcoholica

[Waste]

Well, since I got PearPC working great on my machine, I had to do this:

 

 

[Atomic]

Oh and an old desktop screenshot:

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I need linkage to that as quickly as possible

[Dalpura]

Right here, Atomic.

[DooMz`]

i'll post mine too

[DooMz`]

My desktop and Firefox theme atm:

 

[SteakPhish]

 

This is an older pic of it (I now have a blue cold cathode tube running across the top) but this is essentially what it now looks like. I also just recently upgraded....

 

My Uber Detailed/L337 Specs

 

Abit AV8 w/ 3rd eye edition / u-Guru technology socket 939 motherboard

 

Athlon 64 3200+ Venice Core @ 2.4ghz, ddr400 (had to make the clocks asynchronous because my memory won't OC worth sh*t). So essentially a 3800+.

 

1GB OCZ Gold EL DDR RAM 2-2-2-5 latency

 

PNY Geforce 6800 Ultra AGP 8x (PCI-express is for losers.....yeah)

 

60gb WD Caviar (2mb cache I think)

 

160gb Maxtor Diamondmax 8mb cache

 

DVD-R / CD-RW drive

 

17" POS monitor that only displays up to 1280x1024 @ 60hz

 

Saitek Gaming Keyboard (the one with light shining from between the keys)

 

Logitech MX310

 

sh*tty Speakers.

 

 

[Bumper3D]

hmm... Here's mine.

The clock was inspired by the Ferrari F430 rpm gauge... Still needs some details like the numbers...

 

And this is what the interior of the pc looks like... An ugly wire mess and the temps are not as low as they should but at least it's silent.

The pc specs are basically these:

AMD XP 3000+

Radeon 9600XT 128DDR

512RAM

40+120GB Maxtor HDD's

SoundBlaster LS 5.1 or something like that

Hauppauge WinTV something

And some wannabe-silent fans and Nexus PSU.

Sunbeam rheobus fan controller

LG DVD + Samsung CDRW

Logitech 2.1 speakers and some Sony Ministereo system. Sounds surprisingly good btw.

MX510 über mouse

Logitech Internet navigator keyboard.

Several MS and Logitech usb controller devices...

Ufo headphones

 

And finally, a shot of my room.

The pic is a few weeks old but my room looks still the same except the few beer cans laying on the floor.

[SteakPhish]

Keeping a case inside such a tight enclosure such as that would cook it .

[Mafia Righthand_Man]

I got a new wallpaper just now. I found this nice picture.

[SteakPhish]

 

So much for ambient lighting. I don't need my room light anymore.

[Wolf68k]

 

Keeping a case inside such a tight enclosure such as that would cook it  .

I thought the same thing, but it looks like Lian-Li doesn't think so while looking at thier desks for better pics check out this Anandtech review

 

The Lian-Li desk is nice if you like that sort of look. For mean it's too cold feeling, the look I mean, it's like something you'd see some cheesy sci-fi movie or something. But like I always say, "to each their own."

 

 

And no offense but that case of yours the cables look a mess

Edited August 9, 2005 by wolf68k

[SIP YEK NOD]

well, i just finished installing my new fan in the side window of my case

 

to the left, the standard 80mm fan that was replaced. to the right, the new 8" fan that was installed(donated from an old desktop humidifier)

 

 

 

tomorrow, i will finish drilling the air holes and mount the two switches(on/off and high/low) in the side of the case and install the old fan in the back of the case to help move all that air out.

[Bumper3D]

Keeping a case inside such a tight enclosure such as that would cook it .

Errmm... Why would it?

 

I only have two case fans - An intake fan on the front and exhaust one on the back.

The case does have a side vent but it doesn't matter at all.

I used to have the case on table a while back, and putting it into this small "hole" didn't affect the temps at all.

 

Also the sound isolating mat I'm using on my pc actually lowered the temps because all useless holes were filled and now the air goes there where it's supposed to.

 

And at least the quite high temps have not damaged my pc. It's more than three years old and everything is working like a dream. Even the so-called "unreliable" Maxtor hdd's are still in perfect shape.

[TwoZero]

Slackware Linux 10.1, running Fluxbox with a customized theme as windowmanager for X. Running in a virtual machine as testbox, virtual hdd of 30gb, 384mb ram, works like a charm.

[SIP YEK NOD]

 

finished. 1 200mm fan on the side pannel, 1 80mm on the back, 1 80mm on the side, 1 120mm on the bottom of the ps, and 1 80mm fan on the back is keeping a 3ghz p4 OC'ed to 3.6ghz at 41*C idle, and 50*C at full load.

[Atomic]

thanks dalphy

[SteakPhish]

[SIP YEK NOD]

 

 

my new secondary computer. its going to be recording/encoding 20 hours a day, i sure hope its ready for it

 

teh stats:

 

Athlon 64 3000+

Gigabyte KANSC (nForce 3) [7.1 surround sound, USB 2.0, AGP 8x(this will be receiving my AGP 6800GT when that becomes out-dated)

512mb crucial pc3200(for now)

250gb WD caviar

4 80mm fans(2 front, 1 top, one side)

350W Generic PSU

[Waste]

haha.

Your floor is still dirty.

[SIP YEK NOD]

haha.

Your floor is still dirty.

is dirty again* it was clean at one point, and i have proof:

 

look how clean everything was there:

 

[Waste]

We have the same exact brand of fridge.

Except mine is the smaller one cause it was cheap.

[Wolf68k]

We've got 3 desk chairs like that, but 2 are cloth which I like better

....and all 3 aren't bolted to piece of ply wood, they still have thier wheels

[SIP YEK NOD]

We've got 3 desk chairs like that, but 2 are cloth which I like better

....and all 3 aren't bolted to piece of ply wood, they still have thier wheels

the reason mine is bolted to a peice of plywood is because i was leaning back on it, and one of the legs broke off

 

EVERYBODY fell off the first time they sat in the 4-legged chair

 

 

but by bolting the 4 remaining legs to the plywood, the two nearest legs to the missing leg takes the weight when i lean forward, so no more falling over.

[Bumper3D]

 

How do you like my new clock?

Damn it took ages to find that font.