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Congrats on the new build Xterm.

When that 580 arrives, give it the Crysis treatment :P

xterm wroteOk what the hell. The UPS makes RIDICULOUS noise! It's not acceptable, what should i do?
They tend to do that while charging the battery. Can you somehow describe the noise?
Or maybe 1100va is not enough for the 800watt psu, from the APC website
Output Power Capacity
660 Watts / 1100 VA


I have a pce 1200va UPS (dual battery) to support my 700watt psu.
ALI-MSTR7 wrotexterm : is the hard disk rating 7.7 ??
Here we go. All stock, nothing OCed. With GT430

xterm wroteI did however notice that the bios displayed the cpu speed as 3.8Ghz and not 3.4Ghz
It seems that the BIOS is displaying the maximum turbo frequency of your processor which is 3.8 Ghz (see Intel Turbo Boost).
*Geekgasm*

Congrats man. It's Crysis time, oh well, at least until your GTX 580 arrives!
Oh. Why do you need such a beast ?
Please convince me with a good answer.
Georges wroteOh. Why do you need such a beast ?
Please convince me with a good answer.
There's nothing to convince Georges. I needed a desktop for everything including gaming and I don't settle for "normal".
@xterm: Are you gonna OC it? I am interested in that part ;) Also, I am interested in knowing which is better, liquid cooling or normal air cooling when it comes to OCing.
MSD wrote@xterm: Are you gonna OC it? I am interested in that part ;) Also, I am interested in knowing which is better, liquid cooling or normal air cooling when it comes to OCing.
Yes definitly, just not yet.
xterm wrote
Georges wroteOh. Why do you need such a beast ?
Please convince me with a good answer.
There's nothing to convince Georges. I needed a desktop for everything including gaming and I don't settle for "normal".
You'll end up using 1% of its power in the daily normal use.
When you turn into a hardcore gamer (at night i assume :P - I shall call you *Gampire*), you'll be using 10, perhaps 20%.

The other 80% can be rent to neighbors.
Georges wrote
xterm wrote
Georges wroteOh. Why do you need such a beast ?
Please convince me with a good answer.
There's nothing to convince Georges. I needed a desktop for everything including gaming and I don't settle for "normal".
You'll end up using 1% of its power in the daily normal use.
When you turn into a hardcore gamer (at night i assume :P - I shall call you *Gampire*), you'll be using 10, perhaps 20%.

The other 80% can be rent to neighbors.
Nux will probably be awesome for CAD and 3D. CAD is really fun (for me at least) but you need to set time and patience aside to familiarize yourself the software (3D max, Maya, AutoCad, Adobe Fireworks (I think) etc...). Same thing for video production.
It is really important to have such a machine for these tasks. With outdated hardware it can take like 1/4 hour just to render a single image!
You'll end up using 1% of its power in the daily normal use.
When you turn into a hardcore gamer (at night i assume :P - I shall call you *Gampire*), you'll be using 10, perhaps 20%.

The other 80% can be rent to neighbors.
I'm sorry but there is no basis for those numbers. When he's gaming, he's using 90-100% of his graphic card capabilities. When he's using virtualization, he's using as much as half of the available memory (assuming that he'll be using more then 1 virtual machine). The idea is that when he needs the power, it's there, unlike a lower end machine where it will struggle when the power is needed.
Its a "good" PC.
you have to see mine, well i can't say mine! its the university's "property" but is bought for my research:) (i'll post a pic soon)
its similar to yours but i add:
3 Nvidia 480GTX Cards. yeah... THREE:D (i actually had 4, but my current PSU can't "power" them all)
2 Gigabyte 800W PSU
Motherboard: Asus Rampage III FORMULA

and no... i don't play games on it!!:(
Mabrouk :D, looks like my grandmothers fridge...does it handle playing mario on it with ultra high graphics settings?!
exhaler wroteMabrouk :D, looks like my grandmothers fridge...does it handle playing mario on it with ultra high graphics settings?!
I was thinking about Prince Megahit ! Rendering this game would be a tough task on this cute little machine.
This reminds me of the good old days, in which, even prince megahit used to lag on the newest machines.
we should wait until he gets the GTX 580 :p, mario and price megahit probably would need SLI configuration
exhaler wroteMabrouk :D, looks like my grandmothers fridge...
Your grandmother is very cool
What Georges said is exactly the reason why I run folding 24/7 on my machine...I need it to be powered on since every now and then somebody would use it / I would use it. In the summer, I game on average 3 hours. So even in the summer i'm not using it fully. Folding eliminates that problem, lets me run it 24/7 knowing that I'm not wasting idle power, and helps out with scientific research. It's fun to overclock your system and keep it perfectly stable too. 3 birds with one stone if you ask me :D
nice job man !!!!! +1, amazing. Congrats.
xterm wrote
ALI-MSTR7 wrotexterm : is the hard disk rating 7.7 ??
I think so Ali, I'll rerun it tonight. I'm a little bit skeptical that the SSD is performing properly.

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Couple of questions for everyone:

1- Difference between HDMI and DVI
2- I might get two additional monitors, should i go for 6970 or GTX570 SLi ?
Concerning the second question.
For multi-view GPUs i think AMD's Eyefinity is proprietary for that purpose. But there isn't much to it, because it depends on the CUDA or Streaming Processors that can processes this huge amount of pixels for 2 displays, along with the fill-rate.
I think you should specify the purpose of multi-view display, gaming or some hardcore software usage.

As a user i think Nvidia is more to stereoscopic 3D support while AMD is for Multi-view display.
Georges wroteOh. Why do you need such a beast ?
he's gonna be running windows

mabrouk btw awesome rig