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[demo]

Look for yourself:
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphic.../Results-Heavy

http://www.legitreviews.com/ashes-of...mance_170787/2

http://www.overclock.net/t/1569897/v...x12-benchmarks


That's not to say things wont change, but that's the current situation.

[shadow001]

Look for yourself:
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphic.../Results-Heavy

http://www.legitreviews.com/ashes-of...mance_170787/2

http://www.overclock.net/t/1569897/v...x12-benchmarks


That's not to say things wont change, but that's the current situation.

I don't doubt it, but you're looking at a setup that if we take a current game like BF4 which uses DX11 obviously, and I set every option to ultra quality and go into a 64 player map, never mind the resolution but you already know I aim for the highest resolutions possible, and it's an 80 to 130 Fps experience the entire time.


To even get lows of 80 Fps, all hell needs to break loose where a lot of soldiers form both sides are throwing everything and the kitchen sink at each other....Seems I have plenty of CPU power even when most of the cores are doing jack **** basically, and btw i picked these particular CPU's because on low thread count applications which games are definitely a part of, the CPU's are running at a pretty respectable 3.8 Ghz in turbo mode.


Not the same as the 4.5+ Ghz overclocks you can hit i'm sure, but not too shabby, though it'll never be good value for the money at 2500$ for each CPU.....Yup 5000$ total, but i'm set for years in both professional applications which is the main workload and it's reason for being, but it also does surprisingly well in gaming too....



It's a setup that just says " Bring it Bitch " like none other.....At the cutting edge?, ha it's well beyond it and them some......

[demo]

Hey that's great. Would be too slow for my uses.

[shadow001]

Hey that's great. Would be too slow for my uses.

I just go with the gold standard that every hardware site no matter which one it is, has used for the last 20 years......You hit 60 Fps constant and it's considered a smooth gameplay experience, be it Anandtech, the tech report, tom's hardware, Guru 3D, Hard OCP.....It's about the only thing all these sites really agree on....


Before all these high refresh monitors, or 3D glasses, or G-sync and Free-sync displays existed, everyone was having a ball if their Fps performance was 60 Fps, and had to keep V-sync on to avoid screen tearing were they not?.....And they did so for years and years.


I just go with what works, and my game playing hasen't suffered one bit....

[t0adp1p3]

ARMA III says hi! You aren't maxing that shadow and getting 60 fps.

[shadow001]

ARMA III says hi! You aren't maxing that shadow and getting 60 fps.

Can't say as I haven't tried that one.....

[Mangler]

I just go with the gold standard that every hardware site no matter which one it is, has used for the last 20 years......You hit 60 Fps constant and it's considered a smooth gameplay experience, be it Anandtech, the tech report, tom's hardware, Guru 3D, Hard OCP.....It's about the only thing all these sites really agree on....


Before all these high refresh monitors, or 3D glasses, or G-sync and Free-sync displays existed, everyone was having a ball if their Fps performance was 60 Fps, and had to keep V-sync on to avoid screen tearing were they not?.....And they did so for years and years.


I just go with what works, and my game playing hasen't suffered one bit....

Before all these high refresh monitors we had high refresh CRT monitors, so no, everyone did not play at 60hz vsynced for years and years.

[shadow001]

Before all these high refresh monitors we had high refresh CRT monitors, so no, everyone did not play at 60hz vsynced for years and years.

I think there were some models that refreshed at 90 hz, and I had 3 Viewsonic 19" inchers that did 1600*1200 that could do that, but they did cost 700$ a pop.....Not exactly a common display, and heavy as hell too....


My main point is that hitting 60 Fps is still considered the fully playable and smooth gaming experience, and has been the standard ever since 3Dfx showed it way back in the late 90's......Many things have come and gone with regards to PC's, but this one has been a constant the entire time.


Even the latest feature added to the catalyst drivers ( frame rate control ), maxes out at 95 Fps, and Nvidia has the same for it's drivers too but I don't know the upper limit on it......


If you're doing 95 Fps, then going even higher just makes your card use more power and run hotter for no appreciable gain in smoothness....

[aviphysics]

All that conjecture and reasoning and hoping developers do this and do that, that lower count CPU's perform like this and like that, and little old me not having to worry a damn thing about any of that at all and guess what, my current board can handle up to 36 CPU cores / 72 threads, and 1 TB of ram onboard......It is flipping insane, here it is:





It's fast now, it can become even more brutal later on.......I got CPU power for flipping years to come, regardless of application so I don't care about how things develop at all......Power is intoxicating, and you know it....

Damn, you must need a lot of conduit to keep all your wires in order.

[shadow001]

Damn, you must need a lot of conduit to keep all your wires in order.

Took me a month between all the water cooling, wiring and overall layout trying to make it look as neat as possible, but I won't show it given that I did that with the previous build, only to hear some asshole comments afterwards from some people.......I don't need that.

[BababooeyHTJ]

A month?!

[shadow001]

A month?!

To really get it looking spotless, with perfect cable lengths and even braiding the individual wires, hiding as much of it as possible ( currently at 10 SSD, and 3 HDD's ), and making the water loop path as simple and effective looking as possible.....Has to look as expensive as it really was....LOL.



There's some in the extreme system forums that go even wilder by building their own custom cases, which in some examples means using 2 of the same case model and combining them into 1, using the additional space for cooling.....One worked his project for 6 months before it was done...Here's one of his projects, but not the one i'm talking about:







I think the word you're looking for after seeing this is stunning.....

[Progression]

Damn that's beautiful, thanks for posting that.

[Mangler]

What's even more amazing is that there are rigs out there that makes that build look like KAC's PC.

[BababooeyHTJ]

It does look good.

[Ford Freak]

I'm not really a fan of the case itself. Looks good though.

Seeing all the stuff with individually sleeved wires has me thinking WTF. I remember when everybody wanted to have the all the wires in ones bundle inside one sleeve. I still prefer that method. I recently RMA'd a Corsair PSU that started buzzing. They sent a new set of cables. They will have each wire separated and have the excess cut off. Then they will be sleeved, not individually though. The way Corsair went with their cables sucks.

[shadow001]

It's not his best work......That's a build from 4 years ago....Here's another one:









Makes us all look like a bunch a amateurs......



I'll try to find the one he spent 6 months on.....

[Mangler]

Isn't the stacker build even older?

[shadow001]

Isn't the stacker build even older?

It was posted after the chrome cosmos build on the same page of the same thread, so I just assumed it was done later but yeah both are still pretty old builds no matter what.......He's been at it for the last 12 years..... :P


Edit : the first 2 builds are from 2008, so make that 17 years he's been at this, and I posted that last for the awesome paint job on everything....

[shadow001]

More recent one from the second half of 2009 :








There's still more to come (and even better )......

[shadow001]

There's another user named Malik that does some sick looking builds too:






Feel free to pick your jaws off the floor.....

[shadow001]

Another user called tantric.....Also an old build from late 2009, but damn:
















Just wow......

[Kain]

Unless I am mistaken or something, I never understood the point of spending so much time doing/building these amazing water cooled setups only to rip everything apart for an upgrade or part change. Isn't it super time consuming a tedious?

[shadow001]

Unless I am mistaken or something, I never understood the point of spending so much time doing/building these amazing water cooled setups only to rip everything apart for an upgrade or part change. Isn't it super time consuming a tedious?

They don't change setups often for 20~30% improvements though.....Takes a lot more to impress them....


I built mine with the idea that I can hold on to it for a long time, and still be fully usable, with the means to handle up to 36 CPU cores / 72 threads, up to 1 TB of ram ( yes, 1000 GB), and fully handle 4 video cards in quad crossfire or SLI, as well as spare PCI-e slots and available lanes to swap for faster SSD controllers as new technology is developed.....It can stand the test of time and then some.


It currently has 20 CPU cores / 40 threads between it's twin Xeons, and yes they cost me a fortune but I don't need to run benchmarks to know it's fast anymore, never mind the fact that there's not many using Dual Xeon setups in their home systems, so there's nothing to compare to anyhow.



Most take the short term view and have to upgrade fairly often as a consequence, I take the decade long view where I hardly touch the setup, except adding more memory, or swapping CPU's which is ridiculously easy without touching anything else in the setup or needing to reformat and re install everything......


Call me when there's a setup that is twice as fast as a 36 core / 72 thread one, assuming applications eventually become too slow on this one.......Odds are it might happen sometime next decade, but i'm not holding my breath here....

[BababooeyHTJ]

Dude, most of those builds are sponsored. Hence the logos.

Or its done for a hobby. It has nothing to do with functionality. After a month of use none of those builds are going to look like that. I for one couldn't care less.

[shadow001]

Dude, most of those builds are sponsored. Hence the logos.

Or its done for a hobby. It has nothing to do with functionality. After a month of use none of those builds are going to look like that. I for one couldn't care less.

True, but they still look awesome just the same.....As for me, I don't plan on changing anything anytime soon as you'd imagine, so it's been quite a while already since I put it together, and still looks the same way....

[Ristogod]

with the means to handle up to 36 CPU cores / 72 threads, up to 1 TB of ram ( yes, 1000 GB), and fully handle 4 video cards in quad crossfire or SLI, as well as spare PCI-e slots and available lanes to swap for faster SSD controllers as new technology is developed.....It can stand the test of time and then some.


It currently has 20 CPU cores / 40 threads between it's twin Xeons, and yes they cost me a fortune but I don't need to run benchmarks to know it's fast anymore, never mind the fact that there's not many using Dual Xeon setups in their home systems, so there's nothing to compare to anyhow.

Curious, do you take the time to retype it every time? Or do you just copy and paste snippets you keep somewhere?

[Meteor_of_War]

Can we get back to images of actual Rage3d members' rigs please? Thanks.

[aviphysics]

True, but they still look awesome just the same.....As for me, I don't plan on changing anything anytime soon as you'd imagine, so it's been quite a while already since I put it together, and still looks the same way....

Let's face it, they don't got anything on my mad skills. I don't just build a PC, I organically cultivate it.

Check out what you can do with 3 years of careful neglect, mixed with a few periodic upgrades.


Rock'n a 4790K + 32 GB DDR3 + 980Ti in that puppy and she is look'n better than ever.

P.S. I know what your thinking... is that IDE DVD-RW up top actually hooked up? Answer is yes. Got a sweet IDE to USB 3.0 adapter on it; also works great for rescuing data off old drives.

[logical]

With a 500 watt power supply, you may be cutting it close.

[aviphysics]

With a 500 watt power supply, you may be cutting it close.

520 Watt PSU!!!

...

I have measured the power consumption at the wall and it is fine. It did, however, rule out the Fury X.

[nycdarkness]

520 Watt PSU!!!

...

I have measured the power consumption at the wall and it is fine. It did, however, rule out the Fury X.

Bro that is gross

[aviphysics]

Bro that is gross

The PSU is the gross part?

[Apocalypsee]

It's nice to see a normal people PC instead of those 'look at my e-pen0s' PC

[dreamwalker]

I think the qualification for 'normal people' PC should include the case being fully closed at the very least

[aviphysics]

I think the qualification for 'normal people' PC should include the case being fully closed at the very least

It is fully enclosed inside a cabinet in the desk. Pretty rare to have the cabinet door open like that, with the computer tray rolled out.

I would, however, guess that most normal computers aren't spec'd as high, though you might think differently if you get your idea of normal from these forums.

[BababooeyHTJ]

aviphysics does work with pcs for a living. I totally get why he wouldn't want to spend his off time primping his.

I would, however, guess that most normal computers aren't spec'd as high, though you might think differently if you get your idea of normal from these forums.

Thats what I was thinking lol

[DeathKnight]

Nice setup.

What's the deal with the exhaust fans?

On the CPU radiator the "fan" in the middle is gutted, so it's just acting like a short duct to get the fan off of the rad a bit. The exhaust fan on the bottom is there because the top of the case doesn't have dust filters. Until I can find dust filtering that works for the non-standard size openings it'll stay on the bottom.

[nycdarkness]

It's not even about high spec, its about at least closing your pc door. Half your stuff is outside the case and needless to say the dust. Maybe I have ocd, but that is just dirty and dusty and messy. That's almost like saying oh my car isn't fancy so let it be a mess in and out.

[lazyx]

Bought Nxzt LED lighting thinking it would be the same shade of white as Nzxt fans I have. Nope, completely different shade of white...


Led controller mounted

3 speed fan controller gutted from my old R4.