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Little bit more than just a dual processor server, I can see a huge SAS RAID card & two PCI-X SATA cards there as well so there are at least 3 RAID arrays plus the system drives and two power supplies to run the beastie, not exactly your average home media NAS box.Quote:
Originally Posted by iLOVENZB
Bah dual-processor server, should of looked a little harder ;).Quote:
Originally Posted by iLOVENZB
Well since no-one has shown any pics for a while I thought I would share some of the upgrade on my Mediacenter PC
http://i51.tinypic.com/10p0e0x.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/eJ1hx.jpg
http://i53.tinypic.com/2hdqzar.jpg
http://i55.tinypic.com/25p7in5.jpg
Originally the PC was residing in the silver version of this case, the Silverstone LC16M but I have recently upgraded my home theater receiver and took
the opportunity to swap it out to the matching black version. One of the major reasons I like this case is the storage capacity, it can take a total of 7 3.5
drives plus card reader and the Rom drive and has optional cooling fans for the front of the 3.5 drive containers & each the two 3 bay 3.5's are removable.
On to the rest of the PC:
The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA- EG41MFT-US2H
RAM is 4GB of G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 1333
The PSU is a thermaltake XP550 430w
The upgrades.
I originally had a Core2Duo E6750 dual core in but it seemed to be lagging on database tasks I have put in a Core2Quad Q8200
With the increased TDP of the new(ish) CPU the existing CPU cooler was not going to be up to the task. The existing one was an Arctic Cooling Alpine 11 pro
but I wanted a tower cooler to match the cooling layout of the case and also since it is a desktop case give better air pass through, but with the height constraints most tower coolers were out. In the end I went for a Deepcool Iceedge 200T and it has been keeping the CPU remarkably cool @ 17c over extended operation.
I upgraded the Graphic Card from an NVidia GT220 to the newer GT430 in this case the Gigabyte GV-N430OC because the extra cuda cores will help and the DB application uses DXVA
The other upgrade is a LiteON BH104 BD-Rom drive
The system is running Windows 7 64bit and using XBMC as the Hometheater application
My rig:
http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/5923/xxxbox.jpg
http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/2600/xfired.jpg
http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/1123/xfireclose.jpg
http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/1338/build2010.jpg
http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/1456/classified.jpg
Its a bit ( 8 months) old, but still going strong.
Config:: Cosmos S || Evga E760 "Classified" || i7 960 || 6 Gb Dominator GT || Torqx 128Gb SSD || 2TB Caviar Black || 2 x XFX 5870 XXX Crossfire + 9800GTX PhysX || X-Fi HD || CM Silent 1000 || 3 x XHD3000 *7680x1600 Eyefinity* || 5.1 - Marantz / Axiom / Velodyne ||
http://i.imgur.com/m4sqL.jpg
i5-2500k, GTX 590, P8P67 Deluxe, SpinQ cooling, 8GB DDR3 Corsair, 1000W Silent Pro (nice choice, Bijoy!), NZXT Tempest case.
Finished building the beasty earlier on today, so taking a short break before I start the photography. Also, to the cabling nuts: Fuck you. They look fine.
GTX 590!! Awesome dude!!
Strangely enough franksurred on hardforums has an identical system to you bijoy, not only that but he took a picture of his PC at exactly the same angle and focal length as your one
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?...pp=30&page=562
So fuck off and stop lying!
Maybe it's the same guy? :unsure:
Yeah right, if you follow my link the proud owner is even in one of the photographs, and obviously isn't a teenage bittard with a known history of lying and cheating.Quote:
Originally Posted by iLOVENZB
The pictures seemed hokie to me since the carpet in the background was two totally different types, I suspected he had simply grabbed images after doing a search. My search was evga 760 classified + coolermaster cosmos, which found the same images pretty quickly.
The complete setup is word for word identical to the specs in franksurred's signature.
If he isn't lying simply retake the same shot with a postit of his username here stuck on the case, that will end the debate, but in the meantime what a lying douchebag!
Well it's the same URL. The guy who posted it 12 months ago on HF claims it took a few years to build not 8 months :\
You misread, bijoy reckons the setup is 8 months old, he didn't mention a build time, so either by some truly remarkable coincidence they both have identical VERY high end gaming PC's, and they both managed to take the same shot from the same angle and focal length or option b bijoy is lying, now which do you pick ?Quote:
Originally Posted by iLOVENZB