Hey guys I was just browsing through some old pics of various PCs I've had over the years, and thought I'd post them and share some of them with you guys. As many as there are, it's honestly only the tip of the iceberg of PCs and components I've had/have
We'll pick up from when I 1st started to actually care about what my PCs looked like. Prior to this, it was just a plain PC case, no windows, no lights, just business.
Specs:
AMD 3800+
1GB Corsair XMS PC3200
DFI Lan Party UT SLI-DR
Radeon X1900XT
Antec 500w PSU
This PC is still in use to this day as a file server on my home network and as the "general purpose PC" for guests or quick web browsing or for printing. Still running like a champ and was built in 2005.
Specs:
Intel X6800
2GB Crucial Ballistix PC6400 DDR2
MSI 975X Platnium
2x Radeon X1950XTX Crossfire
Enermax Galaxy 1000w PSU
This PC was a good one but I was really disappointed with the cable management options from the Antec Nine Hundred case. It was a mess and as a consequence this PC was relatively shot lived. Probably lasted 3-6 months before I took it down. Good performance, terrible cable cable management.
Pic of the old game corner in the bedroom before I was kicked out into the den...lol
Specs:
Intel Q6600
4GB G.Skill PC6400 DDR2
EVGA 680i SLI
3x 8800GTX Tri SLI
Antec TPQ 850w PSU
This PC was a fun one for me. The board in this one was the EVGA 680i and I was one of the 1st people to get the "D00" revision of the 680i from EVGA that could actually clock the FSB with quad cores. Jacob sent the board overnight to me for testing before it was widely released to the general public. The original "C00" board could barely do a 300mhz FSB with quads. This "D00" revision was a screamer. I got the FSB up to 470Mhz with this board. Quite the feat for a 680i board back in it's day with a quad core. This board was also good for a 520+ Mhz FSB with an E8400 for a 4.7Ghz OC.
Specs:
Intel E8400
4GB G.Skill PC6400 DDR2
Gigabyte X38 DS4
2x HD3870X2 Quad Fire
Antec 850w PSU
Ahh, this is the 1st build were I was exceptionally pleased with the cable management and look of the build. Almost everything came together right for this build. And it came out looking real sharp if I do say so myself
This was my ATI homecoming build after skipping the 2900 series with the HD3870X2's and they were great. Excellent performance and they ran pretty cool. Even though the focus of this build was cosmetics, the performance was good too so it was a win on both sides.
Specs:
Intel i7 920
6GB G.Skill PC12800 DDR3
EVGA X58 E758 SLI
2x HD5870 Crossfire
Antec TPQ 850w PSU
This one was more of a plumbing exercise than anything else. Everything that could be water cooled in this one was. CPU, VREGs, north and south bridge, and the video cards. And what a pain in the @ss..........I'll probably not be doing water cooled cards again in the near future. They were a pain to remove if I had to and with the amount of times I reconfigure and add stuff to my system, this was a real headache. The performance and temps were outstanding and was able to run my HD5870's at 1Ghz core 24/7 but the hassle of having to drain the loop and the time it took was just not worth it. If you're gonna watercool your cards, take it from me. make sure you are not the type of person that like to frequently upgrade and add or remove parts.
And since that the main rig hasn't changed much other than video cards and going back to air cooled:
3x GTX470 Tri SLI:
3X GTX480 Tri SLI:
3x GTX580 Tri SLI also added 6GB RAM and i7 970 and back to air cooled:
And as a bonus here's a PC I built for my nephew
Specs:
Intel E6400
4GB G.Skill PC6400 DDR2
MSI P6N Diamond SLI
GTX260 + 8800GT for dedicated PhysX
Antec 550w PSU
Built this PC for my nephew for getting good grades as I had promised him. It's still running fine despite him getting virus after virus on it from facebook
He just hasn't learned to not click every link he sees yet. I've told him that, but it still hasn't sunk in yet......Anyway, he plays Battlefield BC2 and COD MW2 and Black Ops primarily on it and it still handles them just fine.
Well, that's about it. I've had many, many more rigs and revisions but neglected to take pics of them because I'm a procrastinator....
Hope you guys enjoyed a small peek at my hardware addiction
post edited by CraptacularOne - 2011/02/26 13:08:13
