Bring on Battlefield 4 bitches!

[Kitlope]

It's been a long time since I had a decent rig (June 2005 for BF2) so I thought I would brag a little bit. Been doing some serious upgrading recently, mostly in the GPU department. A couple years ago upgraded the processor (but kept the m/b) and threw in a SSD drive. In the last couple months upgraded video cards, soundcard and monitor. I've thought seriously about upgrading my m/b and processor to perhaps the recent Haswell (or Ivy Bridge) but after thoroughly reading and looking at benchmarks it's not worth the money for the little bit of performance gain, even if I do get PCIe 3. I tell ya, this socket 1366 was a great investment as years later it still holds it's own. Also added a fancy surge protector to protect my pwnage investment. So here it is:





Antec 1200 Enthusiast case
Antec 1200 Powersupply
Asus P6X58D-E socket 1366 motherboard (purchased June 2010 - still half a kickass socket)
Intel i7 980 Gulftown X6 3.33 Ghz 12 MB L3 cache (replaced i7 930 in Oct 2011)
12 GB DDR3 @ 1600 (triple channel) Corsair Dominator
Asus Xonar DSX soundcard
2 nVidia GTX 780s in SLI
Zalman CNPS10X cooler
120 GB SSD OCZ Agility 3 (will be upgrading to a newer 256 come winter)
5 Hard Drives: 3 @ 2 TB, 2 @ 3TB for lots of media (all backed up too)
Samsung SH-S223L CD/DVD drive
Benq XL2420T 120 Hz 24" monitor (lightboost enabled)
Paradigm Cinema 90 v3 wired to a Denon 3805 reciever (Been using these since 2005, awesome little speakers, and Canadian made!)
Razor Blackwidow Tournament Edition Keyboard
Logitech thumb trackball (still using these after all them years!)







Just to add, if anybody is in the market for a new monitor, I highly advise getting one that does 120 Hz. Duke picked one up and after talking to him I decided to grab one too. No buyer's remorse whatsoever (but don't ask me about the second 780). Larkstar just picked one up the other night and loves it. The difference is amazing, it's so fluid & smooth and has really helped me pwn the enemy. Make sure it's a model that supports lightboost, here's a list of 120/144 HZ monitors that support lightboost. Don't ever go back to 60 Hz, trust me on this.

http://www.monitortests.com/forum/Thread-Strobelight-LightBoost-Utility-for-AMD-ATI-and-NVIDIA

 

[little P]

Two 780's!! Holy shit. I bet you can run minecraft on that sucka

Very nice d00d :icon_cool:

 

[Kitlope]

Thanks Little P! Now I just need to find a job!

 

[Kenadian]

Nice cable management kitty lmao.

 

[Kitlope]

Agreed, it's a mess. Kinda like you

 

[Fireblade]

Real men do cable management with bacon and tits.

Fix that shit bro and you're golden.

 

[Shilka]

Awesome rig, I love the dusty floormat allowing all those fans to blow extra dust in to provide your components with a protective layer, and the plant as a source for extra oxygen in case you need to breath near your case. If you want more cables I should have some fancy spaghetti structured ones lying around I could send you.

The way you have sawn off the top shelf on the left to make room for your lamp so it sits at the right height to highlight your speaker is very innovative as well!

:lol:

 

[Kitlope]

I smell a lot of sarcasm

 

[Kitlope]

And BTW, I'ma pwn all you bitches in BF4

 

[little P]

Everyone's a critic eh Kitty wait till you mofos see my attempt at pc building, then you'll have something to laugh at

I think maybe the beast is due a date with a can of compressed air though

 

[JohnnyK]

Two 780s is insane.

I'd love a 120Hz monitor. Unfortunately they do not come in 16*10 and with IPS panels, which is a damn shame.

 

[Kenadian]

I smell a lot of sarcasm

Monkey see, monkey do

And BTW, I'ma pwn all you bitches in BF4

I'm still waiting for you to pwn me at BF3. What's the difference going to be now, more dust?

 

[Ninja-n00b]

is that kleenex and lube i see??

 

[Kitlope]

The way you have sawn off the top shelf on the left to make room for your lamp so it sits at the right height to highlight your speaker is very innovative as well!

Good eye Sherlock! Actually, I "modified" the desk some years ago to fit a 32" screen but have since quit using it, was the shits actually. The lamp is usually right beside the pc

 

[Kitlope]

And just to add I overclocked it this morning, going from 3.33 Ghz to 3.84. I could probably do 4Ghz+ but I don't wanna push it, this particular CPU isn't the best for overclocking and my cooling isn't as good as it could be. I was thinking I might have a bit of a CPU bottleneck, especially now with 2 780's so hopefully I get another 10 - 20 frames.

 

[Kenadian]

Ya it makes your death animations that much sm00th3r,

n00b

 

[Kitlope]

Now that you mention it, a lot of times the knife animation gets very stuttery. Really annoying. And yeah, went back down to default cpu settings, when I got into a game of BF3 this afternoon had some screen flickering. Was weird because everything else worked fine (3dmark11, heaven, prime95). I've been told it's probably my voltage that needs tweaking. Oh well, no harm done, I'll mess with it a bit tomorrow.