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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Silver on April 02, 2012, 11:14:01 AM
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In my spare time I like to calculate the ballistic trajectories of ICBM's so I built up a computer to handle it, lol ..... j/k
I give you my ultimate of ultimate gaming PC builds. Sure there are better, but not many.
Eventually it will be setup up stairs in the game room running on 3x 40-46" HD LED TV's - For now it just on a single 1920X1080 27".
Got it running and tested last night and with every single texture resolution, shadows, water effects and bump mapping turned on and maxed out in AH-II and it runs smooth as butter with frame rates locked at 59 with the occasional bump lower. (flying around NOE and seeing the bump map grass sticking up is uber cool)
Will post up some pics in a couple of days.
Overclocking to 4.9 ghz and watercooling for the vid cards will come a little later. The 64gigs of RAM I will also have the ability to set-up a 16-32 gig RAM drive for insane access speeds.
ASUS Rampage IV xtreme motherboard
Intel i7 3960X extreme processor for overclocking - working at 3.9 ghz now - more to come with better cooling
64 gigs of RAM
120 gig solid state hard drive
3x EVGA GTX 580 graphics card run in SLI-3way
Win 7 ultimate 64 bit
1200 watt power supply
Corsair H100 CPU water cooler
oversized Corsair 800 case to house it all (love this case)
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In my spare time I like to calculate the ballistic trajectories of ICBM's so I built up a computer to handle it, lol ..... j/k
I give you my ultimate of ultimate gaming PC builds. Sure there are better, but not many.
Eventually it will be setup up stairs in the game room running on 3x 40-46" HD LED TV's - For now it just on a single 1920X1080 27".
Got it running and tested last night and with every single texture resolution, shadows, water effects and bump mapping turned on and maxed out in AH-II and it runs smooth as butter with frame rates locked at 59 with the occasional bump lower. (flying around NOE and seeing the bump map grass sticking up is uber cool)
Will post up some pics in a couple of days.
Overclocking to 4.9 ghz and watercooling for the vid cards will come a little later. The 64gigs of RAM I will also have the ability to set-up a 16-32 gig RAM drive for insane access speeds.
ASUS Rampage IV xtreme motherboard
Intel i7 3960X extreme processor for overclocking - working at 3.9 ghz now - more to come with better cooling
64 gigs of RAM
120 gig solid state hard drive
3x EVGA GTX 580 graphics card run in SLI-3way
Win 7 ultimate 64 bit
1200 watt power supply
Corsair H100 CPU water cooler
oversized Corsair 800 case to house it all (love this case)
Keep in mind that Win7 will cache all apps you start into ram anyway - you will get no benefit from a ramdrive in reality. Even with ramdrive you still need to load all the stuff there after your boot so it really gives no benefit to the regular use of windows. Only swap and tmp files can benefit a little from a ramdrive but again the real world difference is not worth the money.
I've experimented with ramdrives before and found that it's not worth the resources it eats. No magic turbo effect :)
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Keep in mind that Win7 will cache all apps you start into ram anyway - you will get no benefit from a ramdrive in reality. Even with ramdrive you still need to load all the stuff there after your boot so it really gives no benefit to the regular use of windows. Only swap and tmp files can benefit a little from a ramdrive but again the real world difference is not worth the money.
I've experimented with ramdrives before and found that it's not worth the resources it eats. No magic turbo effect :)
I bought one because of crashes and failures. Keep everything important on the HD & Back-up on the removable, then if it crashes just format the SSD & reload. :salute
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Runs very nice with setting maxed out in the game at 1920 X 1080.
The water reflections on the CV groups looks awesome. The self shadowing feature complete changes the feel of the game as shadows pass through cockpit as you make turns.
Cant wait to see what it looks like on 3x 37" LED TV's. Will need overclocking and water cooling before I try that though I think.
Still have room for a 4th vid card too if I want, but trying to save that last PCIE slot for a nice sound card.
(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i248/rbarn1234/missioncntrl1.jpg)
(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i248/rbarn1234/missioncntrl2.jpg)
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what motherboard are you running? looks nice :O
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what motherboard are you running? looks nice :O
ASUS Rampage IV xtreme motherboard
Messed around with some overclocking last night and got it running nice and stable at 4.7ghz on the CPU and all the vid cards bumped up form the stock 772mhz to 825mhz. I think thats about it until I get some serious water cooling. Fans are really pumping on the vid cards on intense Crysis game play.
I should be able to pump it up to 5.0 ghz and 1+ghz on the vid card eventually I think
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Wow someone has some money to spend! Nice looking rig you got there.
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why did you get 64 gigs of ram?
semp
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why did you get 64 gigs of ram?
semp
because he could, same reason I have 16gig that ill never use :D
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64GB of RAM....well that should run any program all by itself and then some.
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it runs smooth as butter with frame rates locked at 59 with the occasional bump lower.
I'd hope so.
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I'd hope so.
lol
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Wow! Such a waste seeing all that prime hardware about to be trashed by that PSU.