KrashRider wrote:

KrashRider wrote: CPU: Corei7 920 Motherboard: Asus P6T Deluxe V2 Ram: G.SKILL 3X2GB(6GB) DDR3 1600 Triple Channel Video Card: HIS Radeon 5850 Harddisk(s): Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Screen(s): LG 20.5" LCD OS: Windows XP Pro Soundcard: Creative Labs Blaster Case: Thermaltake Xaser VI Mouse: Logitech MX620 Keyboard: Logitech Gaming keyboard Headset: Logitech PC Wired Headset 880 Windows Experience Index Score: Unknown 3DMark Vantage Score: Unknown Upgrades: Windows 7 64bit G.Skill 3X2GB(6GB) DDR3 - Total 12GB now XFX HD-587X-ZNDC Radeon HD 5870 (Cypress XT) XXX Edition 1GB 256-bit DDR5 Western Digital Caviar Black 1.5TG 7200RPM 64MB Cache Drive - Total 2.5TB in Raid Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Corsair H50 CPU Cooling unit - Push/Pull config

Windows Experience Index Score: 7.8 all except HDD 5.9
3DMark Vantage Score: P23384

Sarcasma wrote:

So back, how long does that beast last when not plugged in?

Good question, I really never use it when its not plugged in. Its supposed to last 2 hrs. You can extend that by shutting certain things down. There is also no overclocking when its in battery mode.

My windows experience score hits 7 on everything except for hard drive which only hits 5.7
I'm sure at some point I'll decide to replace the hard drives (yes there are two 550gb drives in the computer) with SSD, but that won't be for a while yet.

That's not to bad at all. 2 Hours is very acceptable.

Added another 32GB solid state Patriot Warp drive. Impressed with the speed and increase in start up time and overall performance. Also popped in another 2 GB DDR tri chan 1333mhz stick.

i guess i will eventualy get a SSD, but 32GB is so small, thats not really enough space for a system drive now adays. Windows itself takes up a good 12GB.

I have a 74GB raptor and I don't even have space to install my games onto it. Just OS and programs. All my games, docs & media are on slower terabyte secondary drives.

And even if you had a SSD just for game installs, a 32GB could only hold a handful of modern games.

Still too expensive for me to justify the cost of a larger SSD.

Ya the SSD's are still to small and you would have to have a more than one to run everything. With your operating system on an SSD and everything else even on a fast SATA drive it still creats a bottle neck, so not much point. So that is why I opted for just fast SATA drives. I'm sure SSD's will get bigger and the price will come down in 4 to 6 years, I can wait till then.

Well, see the boot time has been cut down to about 14 seconds with a single solid state drive. See the smart thing to do is by multiple SSDs, pop them in raid, and get a retarded fast speed. Regardless of the quality of the drives and how much they will improve or degrade with time, I'm going to eventually get new ones in a year anyway. I personally don't give a shit about the price, rather have something fast then slower. That and I'm obviously going to get a few more of the same drive for raid next month. Why the hell would you by a 60gig for 200$ and get only about 150mb read speed, when you can get 2 x 32gig ssds and nearly double that speed for about the same price. Next month, I'm picking up 2 more and that will give me about 90 gigs in raid. That's an acceptable amount of drive space. Pretty much every one i have talked to, thinks its dumb to get them, but if you want to stick with your failing mechanical hard drives, where in raid have a much higher rate of failure, that's ok as well. Just my 2 cents.

oh and another note, tiger-direct, ncix, canada computers, etc.... all have SSD now on sale pretty much all the time for about 100$ for 60 gigs. That's not bad at all. Compared to the price 1 year ago when they wanted 600$, much better.

i only care about boottime on my laptop. I never shutoff my desktop and only restart like once a month.

The boot time was an example. I restart every few days so to me it does not matter. Before it took about 3 minutes, now its down to seconds.

CPU: Core i7 720
Motherboard: Mobile Intel® HM55 Express Chipset
Ram: 8GB DDR3 1066MHz
Video Card: ATI Mobility™ Radeon® HD 5870, 1G GDDR5 VRAM
Harddisk(s): Dual SATA 1TB @7200 rpm(2x500 GB) + 500 GB external + 1.5 TB external for a total of 3 TB
Screen(s): 17.3" widescreen AND ASUS VW266H 25.5"
OS: Windows 7
Soundcard: EAX Advanced HD 4.0
Case: Black Matte awesomeness
Mouse: R.O.G. Laser Mouse
Keyboard: laptop keyboard AND Logitech G19 Keyboard
Headset: Logitech G330 Headset AND Razer Megalodon
Windows Experience Index Score:
Processor: 7.0
Memory: 7.4
Graphics: 7.2
Gaming Graphics: 7.2
Hard Drive: 5.9
3DMark Vantage Score: N/A, serial# didn't work
EXTRAS: Logitech G13 Gameboard, steelseries mousepad


Hey everyone, so I've posted again. Though my rig itself hasn't changed this weekend I added some bells and whistles (Had an awesome 3 month review at work and a raise!).
So this weekend I bought an ASUS VW266H 26" monitor (25.5") a Logitech G19 Keyboard (love my G15 back in Toronto, this is the upgrade for out here) and Just bought a new headset the Razer Megalodon!!!

Below are some photos!

The Laptop

The Mouse

The Backpack

The Monitor

The Keyboard

The Gameboard

The Headset

The Backup Headset

The Mousepad

The Monster Cooling fans

Nice upgrade Back_Blast. Love the monitor and G19.

cool

Can't wait to open up the monitor and keyboard to play with them. Doesn't make sense to take them out of the packages yet since I still have to transport them to camp.

CPU:qx6850(or 70) 3.0 g quad
Motherboard:
Ram:4 gig
Video Card:8800 GT, twin in SLI
Harddisk(s):Quad 500 g, 2 in Raid 1 Mirror for main drive
Screen(s):24" Viewsonic
OS:Win 7
Soundcard:Creative Extreme Gamer
Case:NZXT Hush
Mouse:Logitech G9
Keyboard:Everglide brushed aluminium
Headset:Creative HS-1200
Windows Experience Index Score:5.9 (HDD)
3DMark Vantage Score:P12032 GPU:10140 CPU: 27343