NickTheGrip Posted July 10, 2011 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Device: iPhone Share Posted July 10, 2011 Well after months of deliberating and procrastinating, I finally cracked open the piggy bank and spent a little dough on a new computer. I have been playing on a POS for a long time now and, while it was tweaked out to the extreme, it was still struggling to keep up with the current games, even COD2 Now all I have to do is find time to get the damn thing out of the box and start setting it up. I will post pics once it is running. (If my employer didn't keep sending me out of town I would have this done by now!!!) I was going to build a computer but in the end I realized I don't have the time so I went the noob way and bought a pre-built unit (and yes, I know building it would probably have been cheaper but like I said, time is also expensive) Specs iBuyPower: Core X58 Custom Configured Case - NZXT Phantom Black Intel Core i7 960 Processor Asetek 550LC Liquid Cooling system 12GB DDR3 1800 Corsair Memory AMD Radeon 6950 - 2GB MSI X58 Pro-e with 4xPCIe 2.0 x16, USB3.0, SATA 6Gb/s RAID Corsair CMPSU 1000HX 1000w Power supply 2TB HD 64M Cache 7200rpm, 6Gb/s 12x Pioneer BluRay Re-writer, DVD Drive 12 in 1 flash media reader Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Edition I hope to be using it soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Boomer Posted July 10, 2011 Member ID: 2083 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 172 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3554 Content Per Day: 0.73 Reputation: 4992 Achievement Points: 23761 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/31/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 14, 2014 Birthday: 10/20/1962 Share Posted July 10, 2011 cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdCdnInfty Posted July 10, 2011 Member ID: 1444 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 39 Topic Count: 412 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 3808 Content Per Day: 0.75 Reputation: 1509 Achievement Points: 25299 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 9 Joined: 05/24/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 28, 2023 Birthday: 05/01/1988 Device: Android Share Posted July 10, 2011 nice man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
chris4874 Posted July 10, 2011 Member ID: 2491 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 37 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 354 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 2140 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/11/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 04/20/1961 Share Posted July 10, 2011 very nice. do you know that i would commit acts of gross indecency with a camel on public broadcast tv for something like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomer Posted July 10, 2011 Member ID: 2083 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 172 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3554 Content Per Day: 0.73 Reputation: 4992 Achievement Points: 23761 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/31/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 14, 2014 Birthday: 10/20/1962 Share Posted July 10, 2011 chris4874 very nice. do you know that i would commit acts of gross indecency with a camel on public broadcast tv for something like that rofl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GorillaXI Posted July 10, 2011 Member ID: 62 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 73 Topic Count: 480 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 4124 Content Per Day: 0.77 Reputation: 1413 Achievement Points: 27905 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 10 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 4, 2015 Birthday: 06/16/1972 Share Posted July 10, 2011 What was the cost? If you don't mind posting it. I'm thinking of getting a new rig also. And same as you, don't have the time to spend building one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin007 Posted July 10, 2011 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 69 Topic Count: 1073 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 8434 Content Per Day: 1.73 Reputation: 7292 Achievement Points: 74914 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 64 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 11 hours ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Android Share Posted July 10, 2011 Very nice Nick. Sounds like a mean machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
NickTheGrip Posted July 11, 2011 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Device: iPhone Author Share Posted July 11, 2011 GorillaXI What was the cost? If you don't mind posting it. I'm thinking of getting a new rig also. And same as you, don't have the time to spend building one. The total cost without shipping was $1,400 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Goinbigger Posted July 11, 2011 Member ID: 2388 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 76 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 453 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/11/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 8, 2012 Birthday: 02/03/1981 Share Posted July 11, 2011 Damn, that's not bad at all. I've got close to $2k in my new one and probably not that much more goodies in it and I had to put it all together! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BattlewolF Posted July 11, 2011 Member ID: 2028 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 12 Topic Count: 42 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1740 Content Per Day: 0.36 Reputation: 545 Achievement Points: 10637 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/10/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 18 Birthday: 03/10/1963 Device: Windows Share Posted July 11, 2011 nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
CplMOFO Posted July 11, 2011 Member ID: 1924 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 68 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1012 Content Per Day: 0.21 Reputation: 101 Achievement Points: 5864 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 21, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1973 Share Posted July 11, 2011 Nice one Nick! You rig certainly won't be struggling in games now....at least not in any of the first person shooters we're into. It also should be running BF3 real good if you're tempted to go that route... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
NickTheGrip Posted July 11, 2011 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Device: iPhone Author Share Posted July 11, 2011 Goinbigger Damn, that's not bad at all. I've got close to $2k in my new one and probably not that much more goodies in it and I had to put it all together! Don't forget that there's no monitor. I already had a 27" monitor so I didn't get a new one. That saved me around 250-300 Also no peripherals (gaming mouse, keyboard etc) as I already had those. Every little helps I have to thank my employer for putting me on the road so much recently. They pay us "per diem" and I have been staying in the crappiest, clean motel I can find. Then putting all the extra money away for my "baby" Otherwise there is no way in hell I could have afforded this!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
NickTheGrip Posted July 11, 2011 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Device: iPhone Author Share Posted July 11, 2011 Goinbigger Damn, that's not bad at all. I've got close to $2k in my new one and probably not that much more goodies in it and I had to put it all together! Don't forget that there's no monitor. I already had a 27" monitor so I didn't get a new one. That saved me around 250-300 Also no peripherals (gaming mouse, keyboard etc) as I already had those. Every little helps I have to thank my employer for putting me on the road so much recently. They pay us "per diem" and I have been staying in the crappiest, clean motel I can find. Then putting all the extra money away for my "baby" Otherwise there is no way in hell I could have afforded this!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Bushape Posted July 11, 2011 Member ID: 839 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 18 Topic Count: 83 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1334 Content Per Day: 0.25 Reputation: 64 Achievement Points: 7776 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 12, 2020 Birthday: 07/17/1958 Share Posted July 11, 2011 I think you need the Kick Ass Computer Medal. That is one of the best computers I have read about on here. Great price too. I had more than that into one that was 5 years old and so bad in wouldn't even play Black Ops. And I didn't even add nothing to it. You really got a sweet machine there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
crimson Posted July 11, 2011 Member ID: 1068 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 82 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 356 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 262 Achievement Points: 3478 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 01/30/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 12 Birthday: 07/10/1967 Device: Windows Share Posted July 11, 2011 Nice looking Rig. Did you consider using an SSD drive at all? I've had my rig (second build) for 2 years, looking to do some sort of upgrade, thinking Solid State Drive might be the ticket. Posting a review of the drive I'm considering, its like 10X faster than the Raptor 150 I'm using. Real curious about that. http://www.guru3d.com/article/intel-510-ssd-review/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
RD Posted July 11, 2011 Member ID: 2520 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 5 Topic Count: 50 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 627 Content Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 48 Achievement Points: 3748 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/23/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 16, 2018 Birthday: 08/18/1953 Share Posted July 11, 2011 Sweet setup ya got there. You'll like that 6950 a bunch. Also you can flash that 6950 to a 6970 and its even sweeter. EZ to do and there is a little switch on it from the factory to do it. You can find this method and discussion here.... http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/159 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickTheGrip Posted July 12, 2011 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Device: iPhone Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 Bushape I think you need the Kick Ass Computer Medal. That is one of the best computers I have read about on here. Great price too. I had more than that into one that was 5 years old and so bad in wouldn't even play Black Ops. And I didn't even add nothing to it. You really got a sweet machine there. Well thanks for the Kick Ass Computer medal - woohoo About the price. I went to www.ibuypower.com and built one. You choose the starting model and simply add and subtract options to get the best for the price you can pay. It even recommends certain options when you choose one that needs a specific matching option. I stumbled on it by accident. I was hunting around and I happened to look at costco.com to see if they were still doing better machines online (why I don't know) and they had this Ibuypower machine so I went to the website and there it was. It's definitely worth a look for lazy asses like me who don't have the time or energy to build one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
GorillaXI Posted July 12, 2011 Member ID: 62 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 73 Topic Count: 480 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 4124 Content Per Day: 0.77 Reputation: 1413 Achievement Points: 27905 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 10 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 4, 2015 Birthday: 06/16/1972 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Thanks for the info. I was actually looking at that site before you posted about it. I think after XI Fest I will be dropping some coin on one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LtLaszlo Posted July 12, 2011 Member ID: 151 Group: ++ COD2 Admin Followers: 62 Topic Count: 186 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 9138 Content Per Day: 1.71 Reputation: 24296 Achievement Points: 94163 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 314 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 8 hours ago Birthday: 05/17/1959 Device: Kindle Fire Share Posted July 12, 2011 Oh great....now you'll really do good oin the COD2 server (like you don't kick butt already)!! Hope you cook the video card..LOL!! J/K, NIck. I'm just envious, you bastard!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
BigPapaDean Posted July 12, 2011 Member ID: 1128 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 78 Topic Count: 1197 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 6521 Content Per Day: 1.26 Reputation: 4407 Achievement Points: 63388 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 10/21/1954 Device: Windows Share Posted July 12, 2011 chris4874 very nice. do you know that i would commit acts of gross indecency with a camel on public broadcast tv for something like that Chris I thought you already tried that! LMFAO!!! BTW Nick nice unit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
NickTheGrip Posted July 12, 2011 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Device: iPhone Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 Bigmeandean chris4874 very nice. do you know that i would commit acts of gross indecency with a camel on public broadcast tv for something like that Chris I thought you already tried that! LMFAO!!! BTW Nick nice unit! How do you think I got mine - LOL oh and thanks Dean for complimenting me on my unit j/k - love you all, in a manly "how about that football game" kind of way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
PimpedOutPete Posted July 12, 2011 Member ID: 174 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 129 Topic Count: 387 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 14881 Content Per Day: 2.78 Reputation: 7823 Achievement Points: 91059 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 52 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 5 hours ago Birthday: 04/23/1970 Device: iPhone Share Posted July 12, 2011 Now you can surf porn even faster.. Great rig Nick... Cheers buddy.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Goinbigger Posted July 12, 2011 Member ID: 2388 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 76 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 453 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/11/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 8, 2012 Birthday: 02/03/1981 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Yeah I was talking I have probably $2k in just my tower. But it is really overkill. For that price I could have added all the extra goodies that mine has and still not had to put it together. Here is a list, Cooler Master HAFx Corsair 750w PSU Gigabyte P67-UD5-B3 motherboard i5-2500k 8G of G-skill RipjawsX 7-7-7-21 RAM Cogage Arrow CPU cooler EVGA GTX 470 superclocked x2 in SLI 2TB caviar black (people should really check these things out, they are super fast) 64G Crucial realSSD and a few other little things and of course I bought it all right as it was coming out, you could probably find some deals and build it cheaper now. But having a computer that stays cool at 4.5Ghz is pretty nice. I could add water and hit 5Ghz pretty easy, I've already had it up to 4.8 but it was a little warmer than I like for 24/7 use. You will love the new rig and they are so easy to overclock and tinker with if you find the urge. Also you can pick up another 6950, flash it to 6970 and run them in Crossfire. My buddies rig is about the same as mine but with 2 of those and it's damn nice. Although he has an awesome, super clean case and really good water cooling and keeps his at 5Ghz all the time. He usually plays RIFT at max settings on his 30" dell monitor! What is it again, 2560x1600 resolution? that's a lot of pixels to fill and he still has no problems. Playing these games on a "normal" size monitor, you won't have any problem for quite a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickTheGrip Posted July 18, 2011 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Device: iPhone Author Share Posted July 18, 2011 Update A few people asked on Saturday why I was playing on my old POS again when I now have a "kick-ass" rig to play on. Well, in short, I went to power the thing up on Saturday morning and................nothing. Figured out the power supply was kaput. Nice, on a computer less than a week old. Anyway, I called Ibuypower and they agreed with my evaluation and gave me an RMA (return material authorization) on the power supply. They gave me two options, one is a standard RMA where I send my PSU back, they look at it, then send a new one back to me, or what they called an "advance" RMA where they send me the new part, then I send my old one back. I opted for #2 (they hold the value of the part on a credit card till they get the old one back and charge it if they don't get it back in a certain amount of time) I should have my new PSU on Tuesday then hopefully I am back on track While I am pissed the computer broke, I am happy with the service and support I got from them. I was expecting to have to talk to Pahood in "California" (which it seems is just outside Mumbai, India) and have them tell me I am a moron and please send the whole thing back so they can figure out its the damn power supply, but thank God they are NOT Dell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Goinbigger Posted July 19, 2011 Member ID: 2388 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 76 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 453 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/11/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 8, 2012 Birthday: 02/03/1981 Share Posted July 19, 2011 Well that's good to hear that they have good customer service anyway. Hopefully that takes care of it and you can get back to super gaming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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