CEONSS

Well folks, I finally ended up building a new PC, didn't really have the need for one but got a bonus from a recent job installation so why not ;-)

Little bit of info for you spec freaks : -

CPU : Intel i5 3570k - Overclocked upto 4.8ghz
Asus Sabertooth P67 Motherboard
32Gb of Corsair 1666Mhz DDR3 Memory - running at 1807mhz
Corsair H80 Liquid Cooler for CPU - Twin Fan
Twin 2gb Radeon 7870's in Crossfire running at core of 1250Mhz, Memory at 1300Mhz. (both Air cooled but supplied via a air tube fitted with a 120mm fan)
Boot Drive is a 250Gb Samsung SSD 8340 Evo 6Gbs
Data drive is a Seagate Barracuda 1Tb 9600 Sata 6Gbs
Keyboard is a Logitech G15 (great key feel and it lights up!)
Mouse is a Logitech MX Revolution 2 wireless.
Twin display - primary is 27" Hanns @ 1920 x 1080 and a 23" LG @ 1680 x 1050
PSU is 850Watt Quad Rail 80+ unit.
Case is a pretty standard cooler master black anodised one that I picked up unused at a car boot for £15

Multiboot OS, Ubuntu Linux (Xfce desktop), Windows 7 Ultimate x 64 and OS X Mountain Lion via a EFI hack boot.

Speed wise, it's pretty rapid - no point trying to get windows to test it, it maxes out the System speed check at 7.9 for each category, Linux really flies as does OS X (wipes the floor with almost all real Macs)

Games wise, Crysis 3 on Ultra quality will run at around 95-100Fps, Battlefield 4 is very fluid at around 100Fps in High detail (crap game though) UT is crazy , in single player 300fps+ but it's obviously limited by network speed on server games.

Heat wise, even though overclocked I've left speedstep enabled so the PC idles at 1600mhz and 27Deg C (Graphics at 33) - under full load it never gets above 60Deg C CPU and is perfectly stable under prime95 for 48hrs+

There are only 3 components that are actually new, the 27" display, the boot SSD and the power supply. The rest have been purchases from Ebay, Gumtree, car boots and a local store.. total cost is less than £500 as I got some serious bargains , motherboard and memory only cost me £110 due to the previous owner not knowing how to replace a rear USB connector, easy bit of soldering that saved a fortune! Graphics cards only cost £130 for the pair! (incredibly dirty when they arrived though)

Anyhow, all of that hardware still won't make me much good at UT but it was fun, I'll probably get bored and sell it at some point.

DB

Droopy_Bollocks wrote:Well folks, I finally ended up building a new PC, didn't really have the need for one but got a bonus from a recent job installation so why not ;-)

Little bit of info for you spec freaks : -

CPU : Intel i5 3570k - Overclocked upto 4.8ghz
Asus Sabertooth P67 Motherboard
32Gb of Corsair 1666Mhz DDR3 Memory - running at 1807mhz
Corsair H80 Liquid Cooler for CPU - Twin Fan
Twin 2gb Radeon 7870's in Crossfire running at core of 1250Mhz, Memory at 1300Mhz. (both Air cooled but supplied via a air tube fitted with a 120mm fan)
Boot Drive is a 250Gb Samsung SSD 8340 Evo 6Gbs
Data drive is a Seagate Barracuda 1Tb 9600 Sata 6Gbs
Keyboard is a Logitech G15 (great key feel and it lights up!)
Mouse is a Logitech MX Revolution 2 wireless.
Twin display - primary is 27" Hanns @ 1920 x 1080 and a 23" LG @ 1680 x 1050
PSU is 850Watt Quad Rail 80+ unit.
Case is a pretty standard cooler master black anodised one that I picked up unused at a car boot for £15

Multiboot OS, Ubuntu Linux (Xfce desktop), Windows 7 Ultimate x 64 and OS X Mountain Lion via a EFI hack boot.

Speed wise, it's pretty rapid - no point trying to get windows to test it, it maxes out the System speed check at 7.9 for each category, Linux really flies as does OS X (wipes the floor with almost all real Macs)

Games wise, Crysis 3 on Ultra quality will run at around 95-100Fps, Battlefield 4 is very fluid at around 100Fps in High detail (crap game though) UT is crazy , in single player 300fps+ but it's obviously limited by network speed on server games.

Heat wise, even though overclocked I've left speedstep enabled so the PC idles at 1600mhz and 27Deg C (Graphics at 33) - under full load it never gets above 60Deg C CPU and is perfectly stable under prime95 for 48hrs+

There are only 3 components that are actually new, the 27" display, the boot SSD and the power supply. The rest have been purchases from Ebay, Gumtree, car boots and a local store.. total cost is less than £500 as I got some serious bargains , motherboard and memory only cost me £110 due to the previous owner not knowing how to replace a rear USB connector, easy bit of soldering that saved a fortune! Graphics cards only cost £130 for the pair! (incredibly dirty when they arrived though)

Anyhow, all of that hardware still won't make me much good at UT but it was fun, I'll probably get bored and sell it at some point.

DB

Nice config, only the ram looks overbalanced, I think 8gb are ok, 16gb are more than enugh but 32 just to have it longer (in b4 I have 64gb)

Anyway, those fps on the primary monitor?

Hey elect darling ;-)

the RAM was too hard to turn down as it came with the motherboard and the guy selling it had replaced his whole system, it comes in useful though as I have to do some 3D modelling of security systems in NX 8 and the more RAM the better.

Yep the FPS's are for the 27" display, if I map the two monitors as a single display of 3600x1050 it drops to about 60fps but because of the size difference in screens it becomes unplayable.

DB

Nice rig you have there . I'm amazed that you got all the parts for under £500. Is building your own PC hard at all?, I've been thinking about it for a while now because come next year ill have to upgrade and dont fancy paying as much as the one i have now (pre built) .

I don't really advise buying a pre-built PC, and not only because it is expensive, but they can also have flaws. Also building your own PC is better, because you can do everything as you wish.

-FuNkY-MoNk-UK wrote:Nice rig you have there . I'm amazed that you got all the parts for under £500. Is building your own PC hard at all?, I've been thinking about it for a while now because come next year ill have to upgrade and dont fancy paying as much as the one i have now (pre built) .

It's the only way to go I think Funky, it's not difficult.. buying everything brand new is easy but ends up expensive, there are always people selling parts that are only a few months old just to get the bleeding edge new stuff that may gain you a 10% raw speed increase - false economy in reality.

I build embedded and custom machine for my security business so if anybody needs help, tips etc, I'm happy to help

And Petya is quite right, when you custom build you can do everything just the way you want, everyone's requirements are different and it's always satisfying using something you put together yourself, knowing if anything does go wrong, you know how to fix it!

DB

-FuNkY-MoNk-UK wrote:Nice rig you have there . I'm amazed that you got all the parts for under £500. Is building your own PC hard at all?, I've been thinking about it for a while now because come next year ill have to upgrade and dont fancy paying as much as the one i have now (pre built) .

I've watched my brothers put together PCs or change parts and even I can do it now (with the exception of the sound card....mine has too many little cables that I don't know where to put). In general, it is rather easy. As long as you buy all the parts that you need to make it work, you should be fine!

Since you already have a working PC, you can also easily replace individual parts. If you are worried about connecting it all right, just take a picture before you change a part and then plug the cables of the new part into the same places as before (if they are using the same size/type of cables).

Or bribe a computer-savy friend to put all the parts together for you.
(My second-oldest brother helped me buy good parts with my budget and my oldest brother then put my computer together...for a cake. )

At first I thought "This seems kinda overkill" (Still do a bit, but that'll last you a long time or you'll make more money from it).

Then I saw you got it for £500. That's £200 less than me and yours is like 5x better. I guess I need to look out for these absurdly good bargains next time.

Dalyup! wrote:At first I thought "This seems kinda overkill" (Still do a bit, but that'll last you a long time or you'll make more money from it).

Then I saw you got it for £500. That's £200 less than me and yours is like 5x better. I guess I need to look out for these absurdly good bargains next time.

oh it wasn't built for UT Daly, I could run UT flat out on the small PC that I use as a mail server, this new one doesn't even register 25% of cpu load on UT and keeps 20gb free memory during it.

It was built to run Siemens NX8 & 9 and Solidworks for CAD modelling of security systems, active camera visibility cones and simulations of multi-point security systems I design for customers, using simulations pushes this new PC to about 95%

I was incredibly lucky with the graphics cards and the memory to get them at such great prices but there are always bargains out there. I've run high spec games on rackmount servers with added graphics cards and servers are quite easy to pick up these days as data centres re-equip (19" servers do take up a bit of space but they're powerful) and are cheap

DB

Dalyup! wrote:At first I thought "This seems kinda overkill" (Still do a bit, but that'll last you a long time or you'll make more money from it).

Then I saw you got it for £500. That's £200 less than me and yours is like 5x better. I guess I need to look out for these absurdly good bargains next time.

Yeah, I'm kinda in the same boat as you, Dally. xD