Just got them. And I know you probably all realize this but THEY ARE FUCKING AWESOME.Reddhedd wrote:
http://www.steelseries.com/images/56/1048-1258.jpg
I am so impatient right now, I almost made shipping overnight. But it was free here.
http://www.buy.com/prod/steelseries-sib … 52635.html
my HDD got delayed it will be here 12th

New 120mm thermaltake fan and some cold cathode lighting. The fan was supposed to go on the side panel of my case, but that monstrosity of a CPU cooler wont allow it. So I velcro'd it to the psu... eh..

Posted PI scores in the PI thread (1M 1 minute 34 seconds). Most defienetly going to update to SSD, once the prices come down. Right now i have a seagate momentus 7200.3 320gigs.max wrote:
Not for me:
PS3 80GB
E5300
4GB RAM
1TB HDD
GTX260
24'' 1080p screen
case, PSU, blah, blah, blah
for me:
24'' 1080p screenohh, let us know how it performs once it's set up. Thought about going SSD since HDDs take a pretty hard beating in a car?Scratch[USA] wrote:
New purchases arrived yesterday. No time to test and make sure memory works, but hopefully soon.
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa19 … G_0510.jpg
Intel Atom 330, GSkill 667 2 gigs and small HD
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa19 … G_0511.jpg
But this board cold boots in ~30 seconds
Battlefield 1942 Complete Collection
Originally had just 1942, but it somehow got lost and I just picked up the collection (1942+expansions and Vietnam) for $10
Originally had just 1942, but it somehow got lost and I just picked up the collection (1942+expansions and Vietnam) for $10
Thrustmaster T-Flight Hotas X joystick.

Precision grips fits good! 30% he said ^^.
Intel Core i7 CPU 920 @ 4GHz || 3x2 GB OCZ 1600Mhz DDR3 || 80GB Intel X25-M Gen 2 || KFA2 GTX 480 1536Mb ||| Samsung T220 || Xonar DX 7.1 || AV 40 || P6T Deluxe V2 || Win 7 HP 64 Bit || Lian Li P80
got my hdd today


Thats the only thing I hate about that case, why does the fkin side fan have to be on diagonally like that? It gets in the way of so much stuff...SonderKommando wrote:
New 120mm thermaltake fan and some cold cathode lighting. The fan was supposed to go on the side panel of my case, but that monstrosity of a CPU cooler wont allow it. So I velcro'd it to the psu... eh..
http://i40.tinypic.com/29c3oz4.jpg
EDIT: Scratch, will that thing run off a 12v supply or are you going to plug it into an inverter?
Do a project thread for me pweeze I'm interested on how easy it is to fit something like that into a car, seems quite simple apart from fitting a screen in the dash, I'm stalking an ancient, nackered laptop at work to steal the touchpad from, should be easy to mount in the centre console, wiring can't be that hard, keyboard I'm a bit stumped on how to do in a 'nice' way, dont really just want a wireless keyboard dumped under a seat somewhere.
Last edited by TheEternalPessimist (2009-05-08 10:53:49)
f me. if that mugen 2 (it IS a mugen 2, right?) doesn't allow the side fan, my TRUE that's going on this weekend most certainly will not. what to do...TheEternalPessimist wrote:
Thats the only thing I hate about that case, why does the fkin side fan have to be on diagonally like that? It gets in the way of so much stuff...SonderKommando wrote:
New 120mm thermaltake fan and some cold cathode lighting. The fan was supposed to go on the side panel of my case, but that monstrosity of a CPU cooler wont allow it. So I velcro'd it to the psu... eh..
http://i40.tinypic.com/29c3oz4.jpg
"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"
join the fking club... I can't use my sidepanel fan because my Noctua is so big.haffeysucks wrote:
f me. if that mugen 2 (it IS a mugen 2, right?) doesn't allow the side fan, my TRUE that's going on this weekend most certainly will not. what to do...TheEternalPessimist wrote:
Thats the only thing I hate about that case, why does the fkin side fan have to be on diagonally like that? It gets in the way of so much stuff...SonderKommando wrote:
New 120mm thermaltake fan and some cold cathode lighting. The fan was supposed to go on the side panel of my case, but that monstrosity of a CPU cooler wont allow it. So I velcro'd it to the psu... eh..
http://i40.tinypic.com/29c3oz4.jpg
3930K | H100i | RIVF | 16GB DDR3 | GTX 480 | AX750 | 800D | 512GB SSD | 3TB HDD | Xonar DX | W8
TRUE will fit fine, I have one. What you can't do is fit a fan to the bottom of it.haffeysucks wrote:
f me. if that mugen 2 (it IS a mugen 2, right?) doesn't allow the side fan, my TRUE that's going on this weekend most certainly will not. what to do...TheEternalPessimist wrote:
Thats the only thing I hate about that case, why does the fkin side fan have to be on diagonally like that? It gets in the way of so much stuff...SonderKommando wrote:
New 120mm thermaltake fan and some cold cathode lighting. The fan was supposed to go on the side panel of my case, but that monstrosity of a CPU cooler wont allow it. So I velcro'd it to the psu... eh..
http://i40.tinypic.com/29c3oz4.jpg
bottom? oh, i think i see what you're saying. you have the TRUE mounted horizontally, right? so that a fan can mount on the bottom and the top? i was going to mount mine vertically...although now that i think about it, horizontally might be best. that 200mm fan should do a pretty good job. damn though. i was hoping i could run a push/pull config, or at least a push instead of a (double) pull.TheEternalPessimist wrote:
TRUE will fit fine, I have one. What you can't do is fit a fan to the bottom of it.haffeysucks wrote:
f me. if that mugen 2 (it IS a mugen 2, right?) doesn't allow the side fan, my TRUE that's going on this weekend most certainly will not. what to do...TheEternalPessimist wrote:
Thats the only thing I hate about that case, why does the fkin side fan have to be on diagonally like that? It gets in the way of so much stuff...
"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"
Yeah, horizontal is deffinatly best in a 900, the 200mm does a great job with it and the rear fan is really close to the side of the fins so it helps a fair bit too. I tried it with a fan on top to pull air through but it did literally nothing and it was a 70CFM fan, temps didnt even drop 1*c, would still like to put one on the bottom and push some more air, it gets quite warm under stress testing, it's cool enough during gaming though, about 50*c @ 3.2Ghz, stress testing it hits 65.
You'll probably want to lap the cooler, they tend to have quite poor bases, I didn't bother with mine as I have no intention of going for a high OC, 3.2 still beats 99% of people loading into the games I play.
EDIT: Quick tip for it too, find some med sized washers, put them under the mounting clip on top of the base block, gives it a MUCH tighter contact, you can spin it around otherwise due to the sprung screws it uses not pushing as hard as they really need to.
You'll probably want to lap the cooler, they tend to have quite poor bases, I didn't bother with mine as I have no intention of going for a high OC, 3.2 still beats 99% of people loading into the games I play.
EDIT: Quick tip for it too, find some med sized washers, put them under the mounting clip on top of the base block, gives it a MUCH tighter contact, you can spin it around otherwise due to the sprung screws it uses not pushing as hard as they really need to.
Last edited by TheEternalPessimist (2009-05-08 15:05:51)
i did in fact lap mine to 10 micron. that's disappointing though. i don't think the rear fan being close to the side of the fin array will help, btw. in fact, i've seen a couple TRUEs out there with metal shims on the side to prevent leakage of air through the side, keeping airflow strictly front --> back. i might ghettomod something up, whether it be a way to mount a pushing fan, a couple shims for the side of the TRUE, or both.TheEternalPessimist wrote:
Yeah, horizontal is deffinatly best in a 900, the 200mm does a great job with it and the rear fan is really close to the side of the fins so it helps a fair bit too. I tried it with a fan on top to pull air through but it did literally nothing and it was a 70CFM fan, temps didnt even drop 1*c, would still like to put one on the bottom and push some more air, it gets quite warm under stress testing, it's cool enough during gaming though, about 50*c @ 3.2Ghz, stress testing it hits 65.
You'll probably want to lap the cooler, they tend to have quite poor bases, I didn't bother with mine as I have no intention of going for a high OC, 3.2 still beats 99% of people loading into the games I play.
edit: right, i've heard about the washer mod. everything's ready to go for this weekend.
Last edited by haffeysucks (2009-05-08 15:07:29)
"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"
Air through is air through, I've tried with and without fan, there is substance in that argeument though, if you have too much airflow at the side it does disrupt things, I had that 70CFM fan I mentioned earlier on the back and temps were 55 or so while gaming, undervolted it and they dropped to 53 or so, so I replaced it with a much prettier but less efficient ~44CFM fan and it sits around 50*c. With no fan it goes back up to 55.
Last edited by TheEternalPessimist (2009-05-08 15:20:51)
We're still the i7 club. But we can form the subcommittee on fan space negligence.GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
join the fking club... I can't use my sidepanel fan because my Noctua is so big.haffeysucks wrote:
f me. if that mugen 2 (it IS a mugen 2, right?) doesn't allow the side fan, my TRUE that's going on this weekend most certainly will not. what to do...TheEternalPessimist wrote:
Thats the only thing I hate about that case, why does the fkin side fan have to be on diagonally like that? It gets in the way of so much stuff...
No inverter. I am planning on this Power supply http://www.opussolutions.net/catalog/pr … ucts_id=58TheEternalPessimist wrote:
Thats the only thing I hate about that case, why does the fkin side fan have to be on diagonally like that? It gets in the way of so much stuff...SonderKommando wrote:
New 120mm thermaltake fan and some cold cathode lighting. The fan was supposed to go on the side panel of my case, but that monstrosity of a CPU cooler wont allow it. So I velcro'd it to the psu... eh..
http://i40.tinypic.com/29c3oz4.jpg
EDIT: Scratch, will that thing run off a 12v supply or are you going to plug it into an inverter?
Do a project thread for me pweeze I'm interested on how easy it is to fit something like that into a car, seems quite simple apart from fitting a screen in the dash, I'm stalking an ancient, nackered laptop at work to steal the touchpad from, should be easy to mount in the centre console, wiring can't be that hard, keyboard I'm a bit stumped on how to do in a 'nice' way, dont really just want a wireless keyboard dumped under a seat somewhere.
here is a layout of what it is going to look like, minus the second amp running the subs.

Ah i will keep a log, I think I am going to build my one case.
might have to do this:

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"
Dremmel FTW
the dremel helped me with my *other* fan ghettomodSonderKommando wrote:
Dremmel FTW
"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"
max wrote:
Not for me:
PS3 80GB
E5300
4GB RAM
1TB HDD
GTX260
24'' 1080p screen
case, PSU, blah, blah, blah
for me:
24'' 1080p screen

1 of the sticks of RAM was DOA
once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, " give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404.
Benq? Come on now.max wrote:
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h297/ … G_2642.jpgmax wrote:
Not for me:
PS3 80GB
E5300
4GB RAM
1TB HDD
GTX260
24'' 1080p screen
case, PSU, blah, blah, blah
for me:
24'' 1080p screen
1 of the sticks of RAM was DOA
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
This is the E5200 of monitors. If it breaks after 3 years I'll just get a new one. If it breaks before that, I'll RMA it. No need to spend double on a Samsung that I'll replace anyhow in a couple years
Good picture, cheap. That's all I really care about
Good picture, cheap. That's all I really care about
Last edited by max (2009-05-09 04:46:09)
once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, " give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404.
I'm guessing with a USB monitor you need to install drivers for it with a standard monitor before installing then it just kicks in after windows loads from there on it, or does if have a DVI/RGB cable and the USB is just for the touch screen capability?Scratch[USA] wrote:
No inverter. I am planning on this Power supply http://www.opussolutions.net/catalog/pr … ucts_id=58TheEternalPessimist wrote:
Thats the only thing I hate about that case, why does the fkin side fan have to be on diagonally like that? It gets in the way of so much stuff...SonderKommando wrote:
New 120mm thermaltake fan and some cold cathode lighting. The fan was supposed to go on the side panel of my case, but that monstrosity of a CPU cooler wont allow it. So I velcro'd it to the psu... eh..
http://i40.tinypic.com/29c3oz4.jpg
EDIT: Scratch, will that thing run off a 12v supply or are you going to plug it into an inverter?
Do a project thread for me pweeze I'm interested on how easy it is to fit something like that into a car, seems quite simple apart from fitting a screen in the dash, I'm stalking an ancient, nackered laptop at work to steal the touchpad from, should be easy to mount in the centre console, wiring can't be that hard, keyboard I'm a bit stumped on how to do in a 'nice' way, dont really just want a wireless keyboard dumped under a seat somewhere.
here is a layout of what it is going to look like, minus the second amp running the subs.
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa19 … /photo.jpg
Ah i will keep a log, I think I am going to build my one case.
I love my car to bits, but it is getting old, fitting a PC in it may be a bit of a waste of time, I've almost sold it 3 times to get something newer, can't justify selling it yet though, there's nothing wrong with it, I just want new and shiney stuff