Hi all
 
Well it did take some time and yes my X58 sstem is finally running, it's upgrade path to DX11 VGA is planned but that has no use for my doings so here is it's setup

Firefox X58

 

 


Intel Core i7 930 D0 Bloomfield Land Grid Array 1366
3x 2048MB PC3-12800 Corsair Dominator in Tri Channel DDR3-1333 mode at the moment.
EVGA E758 X58 3x SLI Motherboard with the Intel X58 Tylersburg Chipset
1x Hightech Industry Systems ATi Radeon HD 4870 ICEQ4+ PCI-E 1024MB GDDR5
in 32 Lane 2-Way CFX with:
1x Pine XFX ATi Radeon HD 4870 XXX Edition PCI-E 1024MB GDDR5 [Limited 12Layer PCB Variant, "Card 019" of 032 made in the world]
Auzentech X-Fi Prelude 7.1 PCI 64MB X-RAM Sound Card
2x 500GB Western Digital Caviar RE3 24/7 series HDD's in Raid 0
Antec True Power Quattro Series 850Watt EPS12V + 2.3V
Lian Li PC-60 MK II + PC-65USD Side window
Gold Leader's Hangar Bay Mod + Gold Leader's Koensayr BTL-S3 Y-Wing Starfighter
2x 30CM Sharkoon Blue CCFL's
2x 30CM Sharkoon Yellow CCFL's
2x 80mm x 80mm x 25mm Antec Tri Cool Red / Green / Blue Tri-Led Fans, 1 in rear & 1 in ceiling
1x 120mm x 120mm x 25mm Antec tri-Cool Green ledded fan in front as intake.
Samsung SyncMaster 943-BW 19" 720p HD TFT max reso 1440 x 900 x32 @ 75 Herz Contrast = 2000:1 Dynamic Contrast is 50.000:1 good for the marketing that last one

So yeah I just replaced that big 20" EIZO FlexScan T662-T, here a shot of it with the Dual Opterons left and right of it:

 
Once the DX11 cards arrive well I will post an update of that here :) This system is finally running , I solved the sound issue with a proper soundcard the best PCI card on the market the Auzentech X-Fi Prelude 7.1, Creative's X-Fi Fatal1ty done right, much better components a true master card to them audiophiles out there, 100% sealed capacitors , upgradable OPAMPS you name it it ahs it all of studio quality parts, the drivers work without worries, so as that goes no more creative stuff for my doings, even that this card uses a Creative APU [ Audio Processing Unit] it's the drivers and hardware extra's that this card has over it's cheaper quality brothers, it just stands out
 
Here some pics of the Prelude 7.1:

 

 

 
Just happy that the Prelude 7.1 fixed my sound issue and the isntant crashes which that cheap low quality Realtek chip and it's drivers caused 
 
So yeah that kinda did it I guess, Win7 Pro x64 UK as OS of choice, just to be prepared for the next new thing and yeah Win7 ain't so bad as some thought, it's alot better than Vista heh, but my heart will remain with Win2K Pro + SP4, dunno my roots lay there.
 
Anyways this it for now, it has 2-Way CrossfireX with Dual HD 4870 1024 1024MB's and yeah it runs great, SLI or CFX I really don't mind, both techs are very similar heh.
 
ATi.AMD and Nvidia I just don't mind, so as that goes, I prefer to remain neutral about that subject 

I like your room setup. Nice build.

Well here's anews flash  the VGA card that my system is getting is this one:
 
EVGA GeForce GTX 480 SuperClocked+ with Backplate!

 

 
I chose this because I wanted to keep the same sceme as I did with the Dual OpteronDP 2380 C2 with the Dual EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Red Editions:

 

 
Since these GTX 480 SC+'s are Matt Black, they also match the colorsceme of my i7 build :) and hey it's EVGA so why refuse it right!  A nice build deserves a nice upgrade the second card will eb due around december after miy birthday I think haha ah well :)
So stay tuned my friends of EVGA

Norries mate, my plans usually work out, so will this one, they normally take time, and that is probably needed to get to the perfect sollution actually
 
Maybe you could tell me more to what your techs did to this special GTX 480, besides the rear heatsink and the backplate which us 3dfx techs call the retention plate, ya know. that metal part you screw to the system after clicking this baby in
 
Did they do anything to the VRM's? Were these hand picked like with them GTX 295 Red Edition "Golden Samples" ? Or were the GPU's & Ram chips also hand picked with these?
 
Really, I do wonder this sometimes, every time EVGA comes with something like this, your dev-group truly amazes me, really, so it's worth collecting also, better get it now otherwise in the future it may not even be around, even then GTX 295 RE's they are RARE these days very rare since only 103 were made as where 20 of them were Golden Samples, as which one of my cards is a GS hehe, last GTX 295 RE on ebay went for 947 euro's no joke. :)
 
Your EVGA team is surely reliving the great 3dfx dream, to create the best possible graphics card sollution the world is aloud to explore, this is just cool to see happening even about 10 years after 3dfx closed doors
 
Thanks EVGA for keeping this hard kept dream alive.
 
+1 from me mates.
 
Someday I do hope to obtain a Fermi Engineering Sample, I dunno if you people could help me in this sector as well.

Yeah thanks man :) They all  have a purpose one is used for advanced flight sims with is the left one, one is used mainly for new-gen gaming and lans which is the middle one,and the right one is mainly my retro 2CPU AGP + PCI system, it's used for mid gen and retro gaming, which is mainly 3dfx based it has a PC flashed 5500 PCI Macintosh in it for the retro purpose
 
Here the specs of all of them:
 
Blue Leader SMP 2009 This one is my main system for Real Time Flight Sims, it's powered by AMD & NVIDIA

Dual Quad Core AMD OpteronDP 2380 C2 Shanghai HT1.1 8x 2500Mhz, 8x 512KB L2, 2x 6144KB L3
4x 4096MB PC2-6400 ECC Reg Kingston Value Ram in Quad Channel DDR2-800 mode [Two Dual Channel DDR2-800 Pools in system one per Quad Core CPU, hence two CPU's, thus Quad Channel DDR2-800]
Supermicro H8DAE-2 NVIDIA NFORCE 3600 Professional + MCP55 Pro + IO55
1x Supermicro SIM LP-B IPMI 2.0 Card 16MB SDRAM
1x EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Red Edition PCI-E 1792MB 896Bit GDDR3 [in practical 2x 896MB 448Bit GDDR3]
In 32 Lane Quad SLI with
1x EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Red Edition Golden Sample PCI-E 1792MB 896Bit GDDR3 [in practical 2x 896MB 448Bit GDDR3] 1 of 20 known worldwide, of all 103 GTX 295 RE’s made]
Onboard Realtek HD Audio
2x Broadcom 1Gigabit Ethernet Adapters
4x Western Digital Caviar 500GB RE3 24/7 series 32MB Cache RAID0
Antec True Power Quattro Series 1000Watt EPS12V + 2.3V
Lian Li PC-A7010 Black Server Tower
iiyama ProLite B2403WS-B1 24″ TFT
 
Then I have this system Mid-gen retro rig it's powered my AMD, ATi & 3dfx, it's also a test system for all PCI,AGP x4 & AGP x8 cards in my VGA Card collection:
Sveta SMP 2004


Dual AMD OpteronMP 850 CG Sledgehammer HT1.0, 2x 2405Mhz , 2x 1024KB L2
2x 1024MB PC-3200 ECC Reg Kingston Value Ram in Dual DDR-400 mode, on one ram pool for the main CPU with this system]
Micro-Star International MS-9130 K8T Master2-FAR VIA K8T800 chipset
Hightech Industry Systems ATi Radeon HD 3850 ICEQ3 Turbo AGP 512MB 256Bit GDDR3 aka HIS HD 3870 AGP as Main VGA
3dfx Interactive Voodoo5 5500 PCI Macintosh 64MB 256Bit SDR [in practical 2x 32MB 128Bit SDR] PC Flashed to Bios 1.18_LCD as Secondary VGA
Onboard Realtek AC’97 2.1 sound
1x Broadcom 1Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
1x Intel Pro 100/S Desktop Adapter as secondary network device
1x 250GB Western Digital Caviar SE 16MB Cache UATA 133 Main HDD
1x 320GB Western Digital Caviar RE2 16MB Cache SATA II 300 @ SATA I 150 Secondary HDD
Enermax Modu82+ 525Watt PSU EPS12V + 2.3V
Addtronics 6896-A Entry Level Server Tower aka High Tower
Compaq S710 17″ CRT
And this is my lanbox and test system for all my PCI-Express cards in my VGA card collection:

 
Firefox X58 it's powered by Intel @ ATi for the moment, that will be Powered by Intel and NVIDIA next week

Intel Core i7 930 D0 Bloomfield Land Grid Array 1366
3x 2048MB PC3-12800 Corsair Dominator in Tri Channel DDR3-1333 mode at the moment.
EVGA E758 X58 3x SLI Motherboard with the Intel X58 Tylersburg Chipset
1x Hightech Industry Systems ATi Radeon HD 4870 ICEQ4+ PCI-E 1024MB GDDR5
in 32 Lane 2-Way CFX with:
1x Pine XFX ATi Radeon HD 4870 XXX Edition PCI-E 1024MB GDDR5 [Limited 12Layer PCB Variant, "Card 019" of 032 made in the world]
2x 500GB Western Digital Caviar RE3 24/7 series HDD’s in Raid 0
Antec True Power Quattro Series 850Watt EPS12V + 2.3V
Lian Li PC-60 MK II + PC-65USD Side window
Gold Leader’s Hangar Bay Mod + Gold Leader’s Koensayr BTL-S3 Y-Wing Starfighter
2x 30CM Sharkoon Blue CCFL’s
2x 30CM Sharkoon Yellow CCFL’s
2x 80mm x 80mm x 25mm Antec Tri Cool Red / Green / Blue Tri-Led Fans, 1 in rear & 1 in ceiling
1x 120mm x 120mm x 25mm Antec tri-Cool Green ledded fan in front as intake.
Samsung SyncMaster 943-BW 19″ 720p HD TFT max reso 1440 x 900 x32 @ 75 Herz Contrast = 2000:1 Dynamic Contrast is 50.000:1 good for the marketing that last one xD
 
So yeah I just replaced that bit EIZO here a shot of it with the Dual Opterons left and right of it, which I allready posted before rofl:

 
Then there is te Emergency system, just if all goes wrong I can always fall back on this system, it’s powered by NVIDIA & 3dfx
Gradinko SMP 2000

Dual Pentium!!!/EB 1000Mhz Coppermine
ABiT VP6 Raid Ver 1.0
4x 256MB PC-133 Micron Crucial
Leadtek GeForce 6800 AGP 128MB 256Bit DDR1 @ AGP x4
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI 64MB 256Bit SDR Rev.A1 2900 [in practical 2x 32MB 128Bit SDR]
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 Platinum eX
Intel Pro/1000 MT Fast Ethernet Adapter
ASUS NEC 4 ported USB 2.0 PCI 32 bit card
1x Maxtor Diamondmax 10+ 160 GB 7200 rpm Ultra ATA 133 HDD @ Ultra ATA 100
1x Seagate Barracuda V 10+ 80 GB 7200 rpm Ultra ATA 133 HDD @ Ultra ATA 100
1x NEC DVD-RW ND 1300A Ultra ATA 100
Addtronics 7896A Server Tower
Enermax EG365VE 350 Watt PSU
EIZO FlexScan T662-T 20″ CRT
WinXP Pro USA + SP3
DirectX9 August 2009 Release
Forceware 81.24 WHQL for GF 6800 AGP
SFFT Alpha 41 Modified by ps47 for V5 5500 PCI
 
And finally for on the go ,I have this one which is powered by Intel & ATi:
Yoda

Dell Inspiron 9100 Xtreme Limited Edition [1 of 2000 Made Worldwide]
Intel Pentium4/E 3400 HT @ 3400Mhz 1x 1024KB L2, 800Mhz FSB
Intel i865 GE Mobile Chipset based Motherboard
2x 512MB PC-3200 CL3 Infineon in Dual Channel DDR-400 Mode
ATi M18 Mobility Radeon 9800 AGP 256MB 256Bit DDRII
1x Hitatchi 100GB ATA 100 4200 rpm HDD
15,4″ WUXGA TFT Max Reso: 1920 x 1200 x32 @ 60 Herz, most usable Reso: 1280 x 800 x32 @ 60 Herz
 
Since it's all hardware anyways the other VGA cards that are in my ciollection are in the living room's vitrine table, which is in this one :)


I used them all to test the games and all cards approved except that black ATi Radeon HD 2900 XTX Rev.A11 0639 Engineering Sample 1 of 5 known in the world. It needs WinXp Pro & Cat 7.5 beta x86 for 3D function, it fdoes work thouggh, although Winvista and 7 only show 2D function.
Here a view with the table decoration added :)


here the view from the coutch to the TV :)


The plane is a South African Boeing 747-SP-44 Scale 1/200 desktop model :)

The EVGA GeForce GTX 480 SC+ will be a cool and very interesting addition to this widely varriated VGA card collection, all cards work btw, I have tested them all over the years :) The table came from IKEA, there are new designs of this table, but thx to mom help painting it, I can't open the draw it has, so I use a Plunger to open it via the glass top side haha , ah well it works rofl

hehe thank you for this compliment my friend well you have shown some beautiful things too ya know :) but yeah VGA cards always got my attention, they are the things that translate the 0's and the 1's to images, it always has inspired me, so iwas like hey why not collect them and discover this hidden secrets :)

Uhm Both if you don't mind Oh crikey!!! haha!

Base 2? Hmmm,  Ah why not, always looking forward to a new adventure
 
Nice build you have too man 

 
An EVGA GeForce GTX 465 hmm interesting, were you able to enable the other Cuda Cores and Ram so it could be flashed to a GTX 470?
 
I read somewhere that this was possible with the first batch of GTX 465's
Cool mobo

Ahhh nice GTX 470 and great to hear yer gett'n a second for 2-Way SLI
 
You could use the GTX 465 as a deticated PhysX card, just an idea there seabigbear
 
 

Well my friends of EVGA , Some changes came to plan , although I did choose for the GTX 480, it came to this original NVIDIA GTX 480, the card I always wanted , although very hard to obtain in VGA collector land even here in the EU it was just not possible to obtain :)


But in Hong Kong such impossibillities came possible, for a good deal too, 346 eur incl shipping, so hey why not right
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eB...60&ssPageName=STRK
 
A month from this place I will go for this new case, the Lian Li PC-X2000B

 
That will take care of my airflow needs, HDD's in the hotswap in the bottom, CPU's Mobo and stuff in the centre and PSU DVD's up tops, just plain ideal.
 
I will keep you all updated on this one :)

it is very tall indeed, but the purpose is well thought and since it has to last for quite a few years it'sa good choice, although a case is always avery personal thing, for some this could not be the layout an other may seek, but since I will go 2CPU Xeon next year this case will be the case for that system.
 
Mobo of choice is the Supermicro X8DA3, it has IPMI 2.0 and some PCI slots I need for certain hardware, so this is why no SR2 for my doings, as OCing goes, that has never been my major interest, so that won't be in the way as that goes.
here's the Supermicro X8DA3:
http://www.supermicro.com...ard/QPI/5500/X8DA3.cfm
 
here a neat photo of it

Thanks danielxcloud
 
AS for them CCFL power connectors , they are 3 pins  You get a mini trafo with them, so with this you can connect 2 CCFL's to it 
 
The new build will get green and white, so you het an Ice green color tone, which also netralizes the looks of it. The Dual OpteronSP 2380 C2 with the GTX 295 RE Quad SLI has blue and white, to give an ice blue touch, it also keeps a neutral effect to the system it's self.
 
At night it looks very cool and it produces enough light in my room also.

This is a great picture!

I really like ur plane model collection.  I also collect the models.  Every plane i fly on I get the safety card and model so far I have
 
*Qantas 747
*Qantas A380
*Alaska Air 737
*Pacific Blue 737
*Air Pacific 747
*Air Pacific 737
*British Airways 747
 
But i need to buy a 737 and 767 model of qantas