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Uzique wrote:

you won't regret the decision to get a mechanical. just make sure you do your research and get one with switches best-suited to your everyday uses. don't get a keyboard with cherry mx black switches if you're going to be doing a lot of typing, or browsing. your fingers will not thank you for it. but yeah, lemme know how you get on with that. your keyboard at the end of the day is your main interface and point-of-contact to your computer, and i think it makes a lot of difference (tangible and intangible) when you have a quality piece of tech on your desktop.

nice builds like that always make me hardware horny for a new GPU or something. then i remember there are no games anywhere near worth the £400 graphics card cost. such a shame that pretty much every single game released in the DX10/DX11 generation has sucked balls. the best games are games i could still play on max settings with my trusty 8800GTX. graphics quality has increased, but gameplay has gone down the toilet for the 'oooh pretty!' appeal.

SonderKommando wrote:

Uzique wrote:

pretty. what did you upgrade from? that sorta build is a one-in-every-5-years for me.

edit: all you need now is a decent keyboard!

To be quite honest Uzi, you've inspired me to get a mechanical.  Wifey is getting me one for Xmas.  My keyboard at home isn't bad but its aging..  The keyboard and other stuff in the pic is my workstation. I did the build at the office since all my tools were here and we have a proper lab.

I also prob didnt need to upgrade (old rig X58,i7 920,6GB DDR3,300GB Velociraptors RAID 0,ATI 5850), just got the itch to build a NIIIICE system.  Had a good year too (professionally), thought I would reward myself.

I'll prob sell the old rig, or just hold on to it, havent got that far yet.

Whiteroom, yea, it looks super tiny, lol!

*One thing I love the most about this new build is how quiet it is.  Coming from the Antec 900 with two 10K RPM drives and push pull Sycthe Mugen cooler to this case with the SSD's and the Corsair water cooler is like night and day.

I think the 580 is quieter than the 5850. Although I havent put the card under load yet.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

SonderKommando wrote:

Starting my build.  This is from yesterday:

Installed teh SSD's to the hot swap bays and then installed the basic stuff.  Going to get the 580 3072mb today and also run the PSU\cable management.  Memtest overnight to let it all kinda burn in and test... then install OS on Saturday!

Gotta say, the 800d is a fucking great case, absolute dream to build in.

Card just arrived

Gratz on the 580. I would've got one if it weren't for the fact that we're so late into the GTX 5x0 line. 570 runs fast enough for me anyway.

-CARNIFEX-[LOC] wrote:

SonderKommando wrote:

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Gratz on the 580. I would've got one if it weren't for the fact that we're so late into the GTX 5x0 line. 570 runs fast enough for me anyway.

That's why I went with EVGA, step up program  

Nice build Canin!

Mad jelly.  I wish I would've waited so I'd have a 3gb 580 instead of the 1.5...you won't be disappointed though, it will run everything on high/ultra at 60fps by itself.

Side note, I had a friend swear to me that he got them to do the step-up on a card older than 90 days, but he says it was a while ago, and doesn't know "if they still would do that"...anyone have similar experiences or is he just full of BS?  Because I'd get the 3gb card in a heartbeat if they'd let me....

CapnNismo wrote:

Beduin wrote:

my cards sounds like a jumbojet taking off  QQ

Use the fan controller software that handles fan speed automatically. Surely your manufacturer has something available...

CapnNismo wrote:

FloppY_ wrote:

CapnNismo wrote:

Use the fan controller software that handles fan speed automatically. Surely your manufacturer has something available...

That should be built in to the driver's software suite shouldn't it?

You mean the drivers from ATi or Nvidia? Not entirely sure on that one... I have ASUS Smart Doctor running in the background that I use to manage fan speed (just set it to automatic and forget it). The GTX460 can get pretty loud at full speed, but it only ever gets to about 75% and it holds temps at 68-70°C while playing BF3.

Last edited by FloppY_ (2011-11-08 14:22:15)

Uzique wrote:

you won't regret the decision to get a mechanical. just make sure you do your research and get one with switches best-suited to your everyday uses. don't get a keyboard with cherry mx black switches if you're going to be doing a lot of typing, or browsing. your fingers will not thank you for it. but yeah, lemme know how you get on with that. your keyboard at the end of the day is your main interface and point-of-contact to your computer, and i think it makes a lot of difference (tangible and intangible) when you have a quality piece of tech on your desktop.

nice builds like that always make me hardware horny for a new GPU or something. then i remember there are no games anywhere near worth the £400 graphics card cost. such a shame that pretty much every single game released in the DX10/DX11 generation has sucked balls. the best games are games i could still play on max settings with my trusty 8800GTX. graphics quality has increased, but gameplay has gone down the toilet for the 'oooh pretty!' appeal.

SonderKommando wrote:

she's finally done.