Quote from speedway :

I got a few questions before i start drooling.

1. Why do you use the big and slow ordinary HDD as primary HDD and the uber-fast but small SSDs for data storage?
2. If you decided to run two Nvidia GFXs, why didnt you choose a MB that supports SLI?
3. Why did you choose to buy two GFXs in the first place? Isnt one enough to power the small CRT?
4. Dont you think some money should have been spent on a new monitor instead?

1. I don't know that much about computers.. Normally people just go on and on about how big and fast it can be and somewhere in there I just zone off to my happy place as I cannot understand nerd for one minute.

2. Isn't SLI Three way? I don't really understand.. But it's damn powerful!

3. Because I just "Use" A CRT monitor, I have four 22" Monitors in the closet in my room, But i prefer 1154x864 way better.

4. Not really.

2. I think he meant you should get a SLI capable motherboard if you want SLI, otherwise you only have.. 2 GPUs. They`re not working "together".

It`s like having 2 ATI gpus on a Nvidia SLI capable motherboard: a bit(ok, more) of a fail. You should sue the person that put together that computer, being in the US and all.

Quote from TehPaws3D :

2. Isn't SLI Three way? I don't really understand.. But it's damn powerful!

SLI means two or more all the way up to 4 (6 theoratically) Nvidia's GFX cards working together to share all the rendering job etc.

Bad luck with your motherboard is.. well let me quote one review of it:

Quote :

One thing this board does not support currently is NVIDIA's SLI configurations, which is their multiple GPU solution for improving game performance. Three-way Crossfire is supported as well as ATI's CrossfireX with two 4870 x2s, but though virtually every X58 board supports SLI this one does not. In fact every ASUS X58 motherboard except this one supports SLI.

Source

Basically your two GFX cards are just two individuals atm and not working together at all. Unless you keep all those 4 CRT's connected at the same time, your second card has no use and it's just there to idle and eat your wattage

Shoulda slap whoever build your pc, unless it was you yourself
We learning by mistakes don't we

Quote from (FIN)Eza :

SLI means two or more all the way up to 4 (6 theoratically) Nvidia's GFX cards working together to share all the rendering job etc.

Bad luck with your motherboard is.. well let me quote one review of it:

Basically your two GFX cards are just two individuals atm and not working together at all. Unless you keep all those 4 CRT's connected at the same time, your second card has no use and it's just there to idle and eat your wattage

Shoulda slap whoever build your pc, unless it was you yourself
We learning by mistakes don't we

Damn that shifty 13 year old that put my computer together!

*Goes to spank her brother*

CPU: AMD Athlon 2100+ running at 1.7 GHz
RAM: 1x 512 DDR 2 ram
MB: ummm some type
GFX: geeforce 4 ti4200 (64mb)
HDD: 15GB western digital caviar hdd (I think from like 99?)
PSU: 250w (it's black and looked cool in 2002)
Cooling: Thermalight fan in horrible beige :X
Soundcard: soundblaster pro something or other
Headphones: speakers baught from curries for like £20 in 2002
Monitor: Cornerstone color 45/101sf (19" CRT)
Keyboard and mouse: Black keyboard and intellimouse (original one)


Pheer my pc!!!

newest thing from it is the gfx card and that was I think late 2002 I got it. also the same year I started playing lfs

Quote from rich uk :

Pheer my pc!!!

It's Ph334 or P|-|33l>

I just had to point this out.

How many FPS do you get with that by the way?

Quote from rich uk :

CPU: AMD Athlon 2100+ running at 1.7 GHz
RAM: 1x 512 DDR 2 ram
MB: ummm some type
GFX: geeforce 4 ti4200 (64mb)
HDD: 15GB western digital caviar hdd (I think from like 99?)
PSU: 250w (it's black and looked cool in 2002)
Cooling: Thermalight fan in horrible beige :X
Soundcard: soundblaster pro something or other
Headphones: speakers baught from curries for like £20 in 2002
Monitor: Cornerstone color 45/101sf (19" CRT)
Keyboard and mouse: Black keyboard and intellimouse (original one)


Pheer my pc!!!

newest thing from it is the gfx card and that was I think late 2002 I got it. also the same year I started playing lfs

Dude the thread is called post your LFS rig, not post your footrest!

haha , I think I average about 30 fps, starting grids can get down to about 10-15 fps (with full 32 car grid) most things are at about medium with 1280 x 960 res, trees and flags turned off, skid marks on.

I love my little pc it runs Unreal Tournament, Ultima Online, NWN (1) and LFS

Core2 Quad @ 2.5 cpu
6Gb Asint ram
Foxconn motherboard
GeForce GT230
Win7 64bit
1TB SATA WD
LG 22" LCD 1080p
Roccat Kave/Kone/Valo

Mobo:Asus P5GDC DELUXE
RAM: 512 MB DDRAM
CPU: Intel P4 SL7PW 3.20 GHz
GPU: Nvida Geforce 6600 256MB
HDD: 160 GB Sata
PSU: 350W Forton

Old pics, there I had a ATA HDD.

Case
Coolermaster Storm Scout with:
4x120mm fans, and 1 x 150mm fan, Not including CPU cooler, graphics card, or power supply fans...

Case Lighting
Standard Red ( LED fans )

Processor
Intel® Core™ i7 920 Processor (Stock 2.67GHz)
Over Clocked to (4x 3.33GHz/8MB L3 Cache)

Processor Cooling
Standard Intel HSF

Memory
6 GB [2 GB X 3] DDR3-1600 - Corsair XMS3

Video Card
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 - GigaByte

Motherboard
ASUS P6T

Power Supply
650 Watt - Coolermaster

Primary Hard Drive
500 GB HARD DRIVE -- 16M Cache, 7200 RPM, 3.0Gb/s

Optical Drive
24X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive - Samsung

Network Card
Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100)


Operating System
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium - 64-Bit

Keyboard & Peripherals
Logitech G15
Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless controller for Windows
Logitech Driving Force GT

Mouse & Pad
Logitech Wireless Notebook Thing :S
Razer Vespula Mousepad

Monitor
2 x 23" LG LED Monitors (Model: E2340) Only 1 week old - Latest Addition

Speaker System
Logitech 5.1 Channel x540's

Wireless Network Adapter
Netgear 802.11n 130Mbps Wireless USB Adapter


Nice rig, I custom built it, (Similar to TehPaws3D's Rig :P) built about a year and a couple of months old now...
Was built on September 22nd 2009
RUNS 300 fps on LFS maxed out (Ahem Running at 1920 x 1080 HD) :P

Quote from mirage1 :

RUNS 300 fps on LFS maxed out (Ahem Running at 1920 x 1080 HD) :P

what refresh rate are you running?

Quote from dadge :

what refresh rate are you running?

300hz HD TV

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

300hz HD TV

my sacasm detector must be busted because i nearly bought that.

lol 60Hz Refresh rate, I have V sync turned on, so it basically limits it to 60fps..., I just turned it off to see what it'd read

Case
Antec Nine Hundred Two
9 drive bays
4 Standard 3 speed control fans (1, 200mm big boy) Blue LED's
Processor
Intel® Core™ i7 860 Processor 2.893GHz
Memory
4gb - 2 x 2gb - Kingston HyperX
Video Card
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 Super Over Clocked - GigaByte
Motherboard
Gigabyte ga-p55a-ud3
Power Supply
1200 watt - Ritmo
Hard Drive
500 GB Hard Drive - Internal
1.5 TB Hard Drive - Internal
1 TB Hard Drive - External
500 GB Hard Drive - External
Optical Drive
24X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive + Lightscribe
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 32 Bit
Keyboard & Peripherals
Logitech G15
Logitech G25
Mouse & Pad
Razer Mamba
Cisco Mouse Pad
Monitor
22" View Sonic LCD Widescreen
40" Samsung LCD TV Series 5
Speaker System
Logitech 2.1 R20
Samsung Blu Ray Surround Sound 1000 watt HT-BD1250
Razer Megladon Headset 5.1 Surround Sound

Coolermaster Storm Scout case
Foxconn Destroyer AM2+ Motherboard
Corsair 650TX Custom Sleeved
Phenom II x2 550 @ 3.7ghz
2x2gb Patriot Viper 800 ddr2
2x EVGA GTX 460 768mb @ 865/2000 SLI
Coolermaster v8 cooler
Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black
SB X-Fi XtremeMusic PCI sound card
Fanatec GT3 RS Clubsport Edition
3x HP S2031a 20" widescreen LCDs ($70 each, why not? ) + Samsung 2233sw
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

Saving up for obutto then new case

Some of you lads have way too much money on your hands

Quote from -NightFly- :

Some of you lads have way too much money on your hands

It's just where people lay their priorities...

Quote from Bose321 :

It's just where people lay their priorities...

+1 *cough nerds

Some people buy such PC's because they like to run crysis 3x at the same time, and others just to show off I guess. Like a 50" TV with a i7 980X and 3 5970's, all they play is LFS (not somewhere here, but you get my point). I think it's a waste of money, certainly in the electric bill...

so, just because someone has a bigger or better system than you, you tell them it's a waste of money. i don't think anybody runs 3 crysis' on the same system (you're just being stupid). it's not you who bought the stuff and you have no idea what else the pc is being used for. so why is it a waste of money that isn't yours?
Bose, you're starting to sound like a broken record. sort it out man.

Quote from dadge :

so, just because someone has a bigger or better system than you, you tell them it's a waste of money. i don't think anybody runs 3 crysis' on the same system (you're just being stupid). it's not you who bought the stuff and you have no idea what else the pc is being used for. so why is it a waste of money that isn't yours?
Bose, you're starting to sound like a broken record. sort it out man.

He has a point, some people buy/daddy buys epic computers just because they want to show off with it. He wasn't talking about all the people in the world

Quote from Bose321 :

Some people buy such PC's because they like to run crysis 3x at the same time, and others just to show off I guess. Like a 50" TV with a i7 980X and 3 5970's, all they play is LFS (not somewhere here, but you get my point). I think it's a waste of money, certainly in the electric bill...

I don't really understand what you're pointing at here, The electric bill here (As far as I know) Does not go up due to the computer/components.

Secondly, Most people are not power hungry, But most people when they buy a game they do expect it to WORK, And that is not at 20 FPS. That is somewhere above 60, 200 - 500 is always decent as it means your computer (Not necessarily) Has power in it's reserves for when shit flips in your game. The only reason maybe you would have it in LFS is just to play it fully with graphics and maybe graphic mods if they are out there (Not calling/naming anyone who does)

For instance, I use my three monitors to A) Render video with Sony vegas 9.0 B) To check email/forums C) Talk to close friends/family and maybe game on this on. It really does work out and I can run crysis 5 times IF I CARED TO But nobody really would just abuse their computer like that, It's pointless.


@ Dadge, I don't think he told anyone it was a "Waste of money" He was just stating a opinion.

I personally fold on my gpus 24/7, so I do notice an increase in the electric bill, but it also makes my investment worthwhile. It's not just sitting there showing off to people, it's helping cure diseases and such. Also on an HWBot team so makes overclocking funner and more significant. Don't have too much time to game anymore because of school and work 5 days a week, but it's great knowing I can play newer games as well! It's not like you buy a computer, it gets used for a year, then it gets thrown away. I've been upgrading this one for awhile now, and I can always sell components or donate them to someone.