Martin's build with pictures

[Martin]

Well, I haven't really ever taken many pictures with my rig.
Having bought a new SSD, and rebuilding my rig (tidying a few things), I decided to shoot a few pictures, so here we go.

This is also really to test out the camera on my Satio.

First off the bat, my PS3/Sky/HDTV/PS2.

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Followed by the Xbox 360 Elite.

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Here's my desktop. Logitech G5 and my trusty OCZ Elixer II.

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And now here's my clean up desk, with my three 22" monitors in Eyefinity.

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And now here's the 5770's! I'm running these at 950/1250

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Followed by my three hard drives, a 1TB F1 Sammy, an Intel X2 40GB SSD, and a 250GB Seagate HDD.

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And now here's a close up of the SSD (Testing my Satio at close distance), I'm hoping to get another one of these ; SSD, when I get back from New Zealand.

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Here's my motherboard, ripjaws and T.R.U.E inside of the HAF932.

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Here's the part no one wants to see XD, I decided to opt for selotape as I've lost my cable ties :D, and I don't really stare at the back, so it doesn't make a difference.

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Here's my messy finished internals of the PC, it's as best as I could so, and I wish I was half as good as some people lol.

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Here's the rear of the HAF 932, showing off my 790FXTA motherboard stuff.

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And here's the PC up and running, installation of Windows 7 took minutes lol.

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And here's a WEI of it all up and running.

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[Tatts]

Nice little set up :)

I see your cards are almost touching too (had the same problem before changing the gigabyte board), why do they put the 2 main PCI-e slots so close together??

[jhorner]

oh i desperately want > 2 monitors. :D a 4 monitor setup, fixed to the wall, that would be nice.

But your 3 monitors is just fabby :D

[tystar]

Very nice, good job there.

[DoubleTop]

enjoying the monitor setup :)

Thanks for posting :thumbsup:

DT.

[Gibbo]

Hi there

Any chance of you showing us eye-inifity working on a game or something?

[Martin]

I'm currently just working on installing my games, trying out a bit of PS2 emulation, I'll get some eyefinity pictures up.
The 5770 crossfire doesn't hold up so well at 5760x1080 whereas the 5870 did.
That should be better when I change to a 5830 crossfire.

Nice little set up :)

I see your cards are almost touching too (had the same problem before changing the gigabyte board), why do they put the 2 main PCI-e slots so close together??

I've ran three 5770's in trifire before, and it's even worse lol, to take out the third card, you have to remove the other 2..
Although, the uengine benchmark increase was impressive, 1920x1080, very high, no AA, average of 43, with the trifire it was around 67.

[BeeP]

Loving eyefinity, do you need a certain monitor for it or will any dvi one do?

[Martin]

Loving eyefinity, do you need a certain monitor for it or will any dvi one do?
For two way eyefinity (Which is flawed due to bezels) can be done DP/DVI or DVI/DVI or HDMI/DP, or HDMI/DVI.
However, for a third screen, one MUST be Display port natively and you can only use an active adaptor otherwise. I have it DVI/DVI/DP.

[Andrew Moore]

Hi there

Any chance of you showing us eye-inifity working on a game or something?

+1 from me! Also a nice review of the ssd??

Andy

[Tainted]

Looking good there Martin, how well does the pair of 5770's run on 3 monitors whilst gaming?

[Martin]

Looking good there Martin, how well does the pair of 5770's run on 3 monitors whilst gaming?
Not as good as the 5870, which is why I'm replacing for 5830 crossfire.
Majority of games not maxed out will run 60+.

[Tatts]

Is that a single or CF 5870?

Would also like to see some eye-inifity :)

[Martin]

Is that a single or CF 5870?

Would also like to see some eye-inifity :)
I only ever had a single 5870, but it seems to perform quite nicely at 5760x1080 (OC'ed to 1050/1250).

There seems to be quite alot of microstuttering at 5760x1080 with my CF, on Dirt 2 maxed out I seem to get a minimum and max FPS of 30-35 FPS but the stuttering is horrendous.
1920x1080 maxed out it's 60, but that defeats the point of my eyefinity set up.
So I'm hoping the 5830 crossfire will be able to produce at least 45FPS at 5760x1080.

[empyphil]

I have 3 screens and fine I only use 2 of them really. The third is just wasted

[Marv]

I'm gonna pretend I didn't see those pics.... envy!

[Martin]

Lol, it gets worse when I return to the UK.
I'm setting up my CPU watercooling, and I've got a shiny asus 5850 waiting, then in a few weeks/day's (possibly) I'll have a second.

[A Ginger Sheep]

that really does looks amazing. but does the desk you have not annoy you? seems to me that it would be uncomforable with your kb/mouse on two different levels and the case between your legs lol but thats only thing i dont envey, that setup does look immense.

[PiracyX]

Nice setup Martin!

Could I have one of those Monitors? Thanks!!!! :P

[antipacker]

eyefinity looks great just wish i had some spare cash.

moving house is very expensive

[themaidenmaniac]

Nice build, shame about the sounds system tho! :D

[Martin]

Well, I'm going to try moving it around.
I get back to the UK on the Friday, should be setting up my watercooling loop for my CPU and placing in my first 5850, in March, I'm adding in either one or two more 5850's.

And the speakers are the worst part of my set up, although I've moved them around so it's 5.1

[Maxi]

Whoa crazy!!! I think I've got the exact same monitor setup, well mine are 21.5" 16:9 but still centre as the Dell and 2 Ben-Qs at the sides which look the same :D