So, on Christmas, I got computer parts. This was the first time actually building a computer, I've fixed many others, however. So, Christmas eve I got my brand new sexy asus vento 3600 gaming case. That's one sexy case right there. I got it in black.



I got the hardware the next day. I got:

160 GB seagate SATA hard drive
Intel core 2 duo running at 2.44 Ghz
2 gigs of ram
two DVD burners
a bay-mount drawer to keep CDs and stuff in
Liquid cooling blocks for my CPU and GPU
a new NVIDIA Geforce 7600 video card
an integrated high def sound card
an intel motherboard (has like 10 USB ports and can support up to 4 SATA drives, plus has 5 or 6 PCI slots)

EDIT: I found the link to intel's page, I'm so damn lazy I didn't feel like looking it up
http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/dp965lt/

Sadly, I don't have a hard ethernet line up to my room, so I can't really do anything with it yet, but it's awesome. I ran nexuiz with all the features turned on, (it's not SLI, oh well) and I got up to 525 FPS, where on my old computer I had some of the features turned on and it ran at 30-40 FPS.

I don't have an ethernet line into my room yet, so I can't really use it, but I should be getting one put in some time this week. Yay.

The thing is this thing weighs a ton. I can barely carry the empty case up and down the stairs. So, I think my next computer will be a shuttle PC, and then mabie if I get the money I'll get a real server instead of using one of my out-dated pentium 3 computers for the job.

Looks sweet.

awesome setup, and the chassis looks very cool as well!

so what does everyone else have anyway?

nice rig. Tho i dont like the chassi, looks like a toster or somit to me

i run a amd x2 3800, a gig of cl2 dc ram, 2x 120gb 16 meg cash segate ncq in stripe for storage, 2x dvdrw (both stoped working as dvdwriters a few months ago.. expensive crap lol) 6600gt agp gfx. zalman CNPS9500 LED on cpu, VF700-Cu on the gpu and ZM-NB47J on the chipset. a heavy duty nothrills all black, square chassi lined on the inside with noisekiller carpet. The resualt of all the zalman coolers and noisekiller is that the rig puts out less noise on full load then most notebooks. my old notebook is even noisier when its idle xD

I just bought me an Nvidea 8800GTX Graphik Card for my PC this X-Mas.
Damned, thats an weapon

So you will not die faster - but more beautifully
See ya on Minstagib !
SirRadyx [GER]

Since our rude swedish friend has allredy mentioned it (i was going to, but didnt) you case look slike a whale dropping or somehting.. its hideous.. sorry.. but thats my opinion.. however.. if you like it, who am I to judge

The case certainly reminds me an Alien

Nice rig, tho some more detailed info would be nice abut the hw, but that's only showing e-penis, so it doesn't matter
Anyway, have fun with your new PC! Oh and please, don't waste it's resources on micro-software

C.Brutail wrote:
... tho some more detailed info would be nice abut the hw, ...

Maaan put on yer spectacles doooz

160 GB seagate SATA hard drive
Intel core 2 duo running at 2.44 Ghz
2 gigs of ram
two DVD burners
a bay-mount drawer to keep CDs and stuff in
Liquid cooling blocks for my CPU and GPU
a new NVIDIA Geforce 7600 video card
an integrated high def sound card
an intel motherboard (has like 10 USB ports and can support up to 4 SATA drives, plus has 5 or 6 PCI slots)


EDIT: I found the link to intel's page, I'm so damn lazy I didn't feel like looking it up
http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/dp965lt/

What kinda GeForce, from what vendor, how's about the ram, detailed info about the liquid cooler, what DVD burner

And what printer. That's the most important component for performance in Nexuiz.

Ed wrote:And what printer. That's the most important component for performance in Nexuiz.

What fun it would be to use a printer for visual output instead of a CRT or LCD monitor. Imagine high-speed, high-resolution printing at 60 pps. This would make converting demos to video faster, since one could simply make a flipbook out of the printed pages.

LOL

Dave wrote:What fun it would be to use a printer for visual output instead of a CRT or LCD monitor. Imagine high-speed, high-resolution printing at 60 pps.

A few years ago I went to the pub with Ernest Adams, a guy who used to work for EA and has written more computer games than I've played. He told me about the first computer game he made, a car racing game for 2 players on punch cards:

1. The program punch cards were fed into the machine in turn
2. Each player had a punch card on which they would encode the characteristics of their car like gear ratios and wing angles and each would feed their card in
3. The two players would wait by the printer for the computer to randomly generate a course, calculate the cars maximum speeds around it and print out which player had won.

A few years ago I went to the pub with Ernest Adams, a guy who used to work for EA and has written more computer games than I've played. He told me about the first computer game he made, a car racing game for 2 players on punch cards:

1. The program punch cards were fed into the machine in turn
2. Each player had a punch card on which they would encode the characteristics of their car like gear ratios and wing angles and each would feed their card in
3. The two players would wait by the printer for the computer to randomly generate a course, calculate the cars maximum speeds around it and print out which player had won.

You know, that actually sounds like a better game than anything EA has put out the last couple of years.