PC Specifications

15 Sep 2007 18:29 (Edited: 15 Sep 2007 18:29)

To save me having a huge signature, here it all is for you to see:

PC1 : RMS-Voyager 1.105 - Project Infinity Scarlet a.k.a. Charlotte
Current Status: Online
System Type: Bespoke Top-end gaming PC
Intel Core 2 Duo Q9550 E0 L823B @ 3.65Ghz, 1.4VCore, Thermalright Ultra 120A Cooler, Scythe SFF21F @ 1600rpm
Gigabyte X48-DS4
2x2GB Corsair XMS2 PC2-8500 Dominator
Built by ATI Radeon HD4870X2 Engineering Sample
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Sapphire Radeon HD4870X2 - CrossfireX
Coolermaster HAF932 Case
Zalman ZM850-HP
LG GH20NS15 20x DVD-RW S-ATA
Sound Blaster External 24-bit 5.1 USB
Sunbeam Rheobus Extreme Fan Controller CHAN1: Side 120mm fan Array, CHAN2: CPU fan, CHAN3: Front 230mm fan, CHAN4: White 12" Cold cathode pair, CHAN5: Rear 140mm fan, CHAN6: Top 120mm fan pair
Sunbeam Rheobus fan controller Black (Secondary) CHAN4: Top 120mm fan only
Case Fans: Scythe Kaze Jyuni SH x4 [SIDE IN x4]@700-1900rpm,Scythe Kaze Jyuni SH x2 [TOP OUT]@ 700-1900rpm, Coolermaster 230mm Red LED [FRONT IN] @ 400-700rpm, Coolermaster 140mm Black [REAR OUT] @ 600-900rpm, Scythe Kaze White LED 120mm [TOP OUT] @ 900-1600rpm
Storage:
HEDRON: 36.7GB Western Digital Raptor WD360GD-00FLC0 S-ATA
ADRIUS: 750GB Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD753LJ 750GB S-ATA 32MB Cache
ECLIPSE: 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS S-ATA 32MB Cache
3dmark06: c. 23,000
3dmark vantage: c. P19,000

Upcoming Projects:
RMS-VOYAGER II
CPU -> Intel Core i5 750
RAM -> 2x2GB Corsair XMS3 1600mhz
Motherboard -> MSI BigBang -Fuzion
Graphics card -> ATI Radeon HD5970 + Unknown Secondary + Tertiary cards
OS HDD -> Intel X25-M Gen2 80GB SSD

PC2 : [b]RMS-Darkstar 2.1.018 - Project Vault a.k.a. Naomi
Current status: Online
System Type: Bespoke Ultra-high capacity Network file server
Intel Core 2 Duo E4300
Gigabyte GA-EP31-DS3L
2GB Corsair XMS2 RAM PC5300
Sapphire ATi Radeon X1900XT with Thermalright HR-03 Silent cooler <Passive>
NZXT Lexa Blackline case
Antec EarthWatts 380W PSU
LG 16x DVD-ROM
Sunbeam Rheobus fan controller Black
Fans: 1x NZXT 120mm [FRONT IN] @ 1100rpm, 2x NZXT Red LED 120mm [SIDE IN, REAR OUT] @ 650rpm, 1x Hiper Red LED 80mm [TOP OUT] @ 700rpm
Storage:

MIRAGE 500GB Western Digtal Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS-65TMA0 S-ATA - Active
AURORA 500GB Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS-00TMA0 S-ATA - Active
ILLUSION: 750GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 S-ATA - Active
REFLECTION - 1000GB Western Digital GreenPower WD10EACS - S-ATA - Active, OS Drive
REFRACTION - 1000GB Western Digital GreenPower WD10EAVS - S-ATA - Active
HOLOGRAM - 1000GB Western Digital GreenPower WD10EADS - S-ATA, Active
EQUINOX - 1000GB Western Digital GreenPower WD10EADS - S-ATA, Active
RADIANCE 750GB Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD753LJ S-ATA - Active
SPECTRUM: 250GB Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500AAJS S-ATA - Active
HORIZON: 1500GB Western Digital Caviar Green WD15EADS - S-ATA - Active
3dmark06: c. 6000

PC3: RMS-Alexandra v3.000 - Project Silentlight
Current Status: Online
System Type: Bespoke Ultra-low noise all-uses workstation and gaming PC
Pentium Dual Core E5200
Gigabyte X38-DS4
2x2GB Corsair XMS2 PC2 6400
PENUMBRA - 1000GB Western Digital GreenPower WD10EADS - S-ATA - Active, OS Drive
Nexus Value 430W PSU
XFX Radeon HD4830
Thermalright Ultra-120A
NZXT Lexa
3dmark06: c. 11000

Spare Drives

AQUARIUS 250GB Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JD S-ATA - Inactive
ATLANTIS 250GB Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JD S-ATA - Inactive
PRISM: 36.7GB Western Digital Raptor WD360GD-00FNA0 S-ATA - Inactive
SHIMMER: 30GB OCZ Solid Series SSD - Inactive

IcyBox IB-351UE-BL IDE enclosure (Axiom)
ARGO: 160GB Western Digital Caviar WD1600JD IDE - In USB enclosure

IcyBox IB-3220-STU-B Dual S-ATA USB enclosure (Galaxy II)
CANDELA: 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 S-ATA - In USB enclosure

PEGASUS: 400GB Samsung Spinoint HD400LJ S-ATA (Windows XP) - In USB enclosure

PC4: Eagle II (Modified Time PowerStation S3809) Current status: Retirement
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ SKT A462 with Arctic Cooling Copper Silent2l cooler
512MB Elixir PC3200 CAS3 DDR DIMM
Sapphire ATi Radeon X800 pro 256MB AGP 8x
SuperFlower Rhythmic SF464-T2S case Blue/Silver
Hiper Type-R 480W Red PSU
LG GSA-4163BA DVD-RW
Artec 16x DVD-ROM
Maxtor Diamondmax +8 40GB IDE
Fans: 3x Casecom 80mm (2xBlue LED, 1xBlack), 1x Superflower 80mm Blue LED, 1x Akasa 80mm Black

Audio-Visual and Peripherals
Primary Monitor 1: Dell Ultrasharp 3008WFP 30" 2560x1600 8ms LCD
Primary Monitor 2: Samsung SyncMaster SM2032BW 20" 1680x1050 2ms LCD
Secondary Monitor: Viewsonic Graphics Series G90f+ 19" 2048x1536 CRT Black
PC Status Monitor: GameOptics Pertelian X2040 Display
Primary Speakers: Logitech Z-5500 5.1 505W RMS
Secondary Speakers: Logitech Z-2300 2.1 200W RMS
Tertiary Speakers: Creative Inspire T3000 2.1 29W RMS <no longer in use>
Headset: Sennheiser HD212Pro headphones with Labtec 831 Microphone
TV: Toshiba Regza 42XV635DB 42" 1920x1080 100Hz
HiFi: Philips MC-70 2.2 100W RMS
Consoles: Playstation 2 (SCPH-4000), Nintendo64, Xbox 360 120GB modified [iXtreme 1.5], Xbox 360 Premium
Input peripherals: Razer Diamondback Magma Mouse (Red LED)
Razer Tarantula keyboard

Standby Notebook PCs:
HP Pavilion nx6110 - Celeron M360@1.4Ghz, 256MB RAM, Windows XP - Current Status: Standby
Dell Vostro 1000 - Sempron 3600+, 1GB RAM, Windows Vista Home Basic - Current Status: Standby

Lexmark P706 Printer
Tomato firmware modified Linksys WRT54GL Router, Linksys AM200 Modem

Longest PC specs page ever? Quite possibly!

List of my blog entries

• Regarding recent upgrades... (06 Sep 2008)
• HD4870 mini-review (14 Aug 2008)
• Age of Conan (01 Jun 2008)
• (near) Absolute Silence (26 May 2008)
• Let's get something straight (21 Apr 2008)
• What I look like (25 Feb 2008)
• My Peggle addiction.. :( (05 Dec 2007)
• Damn it! (26 Oct 2007)
• Portal and the Orange Box (25 Oct 2007)
• Unreal Tournament 3 Demo Beta (18 Oct 2007)
• Quick praise of Thermalright (16 Oct 2007)

User comments

• by abuzar1 @ 17 Sep 2007 5:09

  haha you namd them? lol

• by abuzar1 @ 17 Sep 2007 5:10

  I mean "named", stupid school keyboards...

• by Estuansis @ 18 Sep 2007 19:47

  I named my AMD "Eh Frau" which means "My Wife"
  
  And my Intel goes nameless :,(

• by andmill11 @ 24 Sep 2007 15:02

  Wow the power supplier alone for the first one is 160$..

• by sammorris @ 28 Sep 2007 6:03

  Specifications Updated 28/09/2007.

• by EWOcelot @ 18 Oct 2007 8:12

  I noticed that the intel core 2 duo is 3.00Ghz. My Pentium 4 is also running at 3.00Ghz, can you tell me the difference?

• by sammorris @ 18 Oct 2007 16:01

  Yep, firstly the Core 2 Duo is dual core, which means that you can effectively run two things at once with the same speed as a 3Ghz single core. Plus, it has a much better architecture inside, so despitebeing the same clock speed, each core is infact around 80% faster.

• by Waymon3X6 @ 09 Dec 2007 14:54

  Why cant you ever take pictures that arent blurry sam? lol

• by sammorris @ 11 Dec 2007 12:35

  because I don't own an expensive camera. So sue me.

• by eirvine @ 14 Dec 2007 22:49

  how much did that first one cost to build?

• by sammorris @ 19 Dec 2007 16:25

  First PC was pre-built with the Athlon64 X2 and RAM from my main PC (and obviously a different motherboard that has since been removed), at a cost of £1250.
  The CPU, motherbord and RAM combo in it cost £300 (although the RAM is now worth £100 less after the recent price drops).
  The PSU was changed at a cost of £90, the modification to the cooling and hard drives runs about £260.
  Because of all the mods and swapped parts I can't say exactly how much either PC has cost, but the first two builds cost about £2300.

• by greensman @ 26 Jan 2008 12:44

  Geez!!!! sammyboy where do you get your CASH??? lol. A lowly university student doesn't have that kinda ££££ ($$$$) laying around!!! :P You're a male gigolo aren't you!!! hehehehe.....

• by GTR35 @ 08 Feb 2008 15:19

  holy mother! Yeah like greensman said, where the hell do you get your cash?

• by Estuansis @ 12 Feb 2008 16:13

  Nice to see you finally upgraded your video card lol :P

• by cincyrob @ 15 Feb 2008 18:35

  duece bigalow EUROPEAN gigolo!!!!!!!!!!!!

• by sammorris @ 25 Feb 2008 21:41

  You what?

• by JYP666 @ 11 Mar 2008 19:43

  WOW!!! My brain just exploded! That is some X-TREME PC Building going on. Cant wait until i get to the newage of computing. Your pc makes my pc and laptop look like MS-DOS Systems lol :)

• by tripplite @ 09 Apr 2008 21:53

  honestly sammy how the hell does a kid like you get all the money 4 this?

• by sammorris @ 16 Apr 2008 16:44

  By not spending it on anything else...

• by theonejrs @ 29 Apr 2008 3:45

  Good to see you coming up Roses Sam. I'm considering a Q6700 for mine in the distant future. I'm a bunch like you! I rarely drink and I spend my money carefully. My motto is The more you save, the less you spend, until something comes along that you want or need for your build at the right price. I shop sales and often take a couple of months to get all the parts I need, but I get them at the right price. Keep up the good work Sam! I like your new machine. Good luck with it! GigaByte Rocks!

• by Estuansis @ 11 May 2008 14:56

  Finally you went crossfire with your Radeon 3870s. I bet that it's way faster than the single card solution. I'm sorry to see the P35 go, but you got an even better board to replace it! Epic PC man!
  
  Tell me. How does she run Crysis and what settings/cvars are you using?
  
  I might be upgrading to a 9800GTX/HD4870 if all goes well for the next few months. It'll be a big upgrade from my 8800GTS 320MB. It's actually overkill for every game I own except Crysis(yup, finally broke down and bought it) :P
  
  If the previews of HD4870 performance are actually real, I might go back to ATi. 57FPS in DX10 very high is for me :D

• by Estuansis @ 11 May 2008 15:19

  I would also like to add that I am glad you put the X1900XT back into the AMD build. That is a very capable gaming machine in its own right :P
  
  The X1000 series' high-end cards were fantastic. Way more than enough for most games even today. That X1800XT 512 is all my parents are gonna need for years. My dad loves it and says he's not letting men have it back. lol

• by sammorris @ 12 May 2008 11:29

  The X1900 in the AMD came in useful at a LAN last week as one of my housemate's friends used it as his gaming PC for the event - worked like a charm, even if it did mean a lot of faff getting it back in use as a file server afterwards. it's pleasing to see it still score decent frame rates in all the games we play. Or is it? Kind of makes me wonder why I spent all the money. In all fairness though this is why my housemate and a few other people I know haven't upgraded. It's games that are almost exclusively played singleplayer that seem to command all the power - Assassins Creed, Crysis and Rainbow Six Vegas 2 for example. We don't really play Crysis multiplayer, COD4 usually wins out instead, and for good reason! Supreme Commander:Forged Alliance is only not played multiplayer because nobody's PC is fast enough to keep up! (Well, almost nobody's wink wink) - It's one of the games I bought crossfire for, so you can imagine I was disappointed when crossfire didn't work with it at first. Fortunately 8.4 seems to have solved that, and it now runs about as well as the original Supcom ran on my X1900, so I'm pretty pleased (yes, you read that right, the expansion is much more demanding than the original game).
  It's a shame ATI hardware isn't of the same quality as the X1x00 series as they really were excellent cards for reliability and solid performance. Noisy, but the HR-03 solved that. Sometime I need to grab one for at least one of my 3870s. Probably won't for both, as it's going to be a pain to keep putting the stock coolers back for when they break - most 3870s only seem to last a few months. My cousin's has failed already, my first card is on its way out, and the second card has already been RMA'ed.
  
  Crysis runs average 35fps @ 1680x1050 max, and 40fps @ 2560x1600 low shadows & shaders - the latter looks better since Crysis' shadows can be a bit suspect in certain areas.
  
  With regard to the graphics upgrade, given your financial status I'd recommend going with a 1 gig 8800GT if you can find one cheap - it'll help out with the high res, and they're a lot less expensive than the 9800s, not much slower either.
  
  I had no idea the previews of the 4870s were out, but as with all previews, I'll believe it when I see it.
  Quad core CPU was on the horizon, but after the boost I got in FA with the right drivers, it's been benched again, too little gain for the cost - plus, I'm thinking of trying to run my CPU passively soon.

• by Estuansis @ 20 May 2008 13:32

  You can keep your passive cooling. Aggressive all the way for me :)
  
  I am definitely moving away from the 8800 series. The 8800GT is impressive but far from what I'm looking for. The 4870 looks promising but I'll also believe it when I see it.
  
  I might go SLI with 8800GTs if it's in my budget, but I think I'll keep a single card solution for now. I'm thinking the 9800GT looks nice, but if AMD/ATI can pull it together I'm definitely going back to the superior image quality.
  
  Same with the Quads. There are massive gains going from single core to dual core, but not from dual to quad. I have no programs that need 4 cores, so my E6750 at 3.4GHz will stay with me for a long time.

• by sammorris @ 21 May 2008 12:04

  Indeedy. Running my case fans back at their silent level has unfortunately meant my CPU temps have risen, not to excessive levels by any means, but it could be problematic for when I use a Quad core. If I do get one, I'll be playing more with the voltage to keep the heat down. I'm hoping I can get to 3Ghz or so and stick to the stock Vcore, or very close to it.
  
  Given the reduced issues with crossfire and the ATI cards of late with 8.4, I think I'm going to stick back with ATI again for image quality reasons.

• by spamual @ 23 Sep 2008 21:51

  u named ur HDDs..............

• by sammorris @ 24 Sep 2008 8:39

  Yes - it makes it a lot easier to know what's on them - seeing two identical model numbers in device manager or whatever doesn't tell you much... :P

• by redy1 @ 08 Dec 2008 16:00

  amd quadcore overclocking

• by sammorris @ 11 Dec 2008 2:01

  What about it?

• by aa_mir198 @ 30 Mar 2009 12:52

  DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMNNNN!

• by xChronox @ 22 Jun 2009 10:05

  Ah, over 10TB of storage I see, storing supplies for the nuclear fallout I mean monkey invasion I mean...Ah nevermind..:)

• by JMobile @ 14 Aug 2009 10:17

  what is your day job Sam? =]

• by sammorris @ 14 Aug 2009 16:48

  There isn't one. I'm currently just doing voluntary work at wildlife trust visitor centres. The income primarily comes from student finance.

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