OK... time to brag about my new PC system... custom built by no other then the King of SimHQ, Doug... cost under 1500 bucks including shipping... incredible system, fast as hell, and very well made and put together... other companies can learn and thing or two about custom PC builders, their love and attention to detail. Thanks a mil Doug... it's a FANTASTIC system.

Not only does every game i have run on maxed settings, not one game dropped below 50 fps, most never dipped below 80... and the best part... when I video record with FRAPS, I can't even tell... no drop in performance what so ever, unlike my old system that was pretty good, but because a slide show when I tried to record video.

All the games I have installed and playing... minus BlackShark 2... my activation code didn't work...

SWEET... and thanks again Doug... you the man.

System Specifications

Intel i7-2600K processor
Cooler Master Hyper N 520 CPU fan
Asus ROG Maximus IV Gene-Z mobo
8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600 DDR3 RAM
Asus ENGTX570 DCII GeForce 570 video card
Western Digital 640GB 7200 w/32MB cache HDD
Corsair TX750M power supply
Corsair Carbide Series 500R black case
LG CD/DVD optical drive
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit

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Lots of fans, but it is amazingly still quiet.

3 XIGMATEK 120mm case fans
2 120MM case fans
2 fans on the power supply
2 fans on the video card
2 fans on the CPU cooler
1 200 CM big assed side fan


screens, all on max/ultra settings:



































BTW: The purpose of the screens is to show detail and distance... smooth as butter.

The price goal was under 1500... well met.

oh ya, limits now.

Very awesome Magnum and good job on the build Guod, great CPU/MB/PSU/GPU combo.

Also just in case you didn't know that 2600k CPU has lots of headroom for overclocking in the future, I dropped a similar 2500k and Asus P8Z68-V motherboard in my case this week and was able to overclock it to 4.8ghz stable on air cooler with just a few simple BIOS tweaks and a small voltage offset, there's even headroom to go into the 5ghz territory someday with more volts and heat if I want to try, but for now a simple 4.8ghz with minimal volts (+.040v) and heat (29c idle, 73c full load) is amazing.

Great intel chip and Asus motherboards these days, that will do you well for the next couple of years at least.

Congrats! Nothing like that new pc feel.

Congrats, Mag!

Cool, what did you do with your old dinosaur Dell XPS730X ? I am in the process of upgrading mine.
Decided to put 12gb of Crucial Ballistix 1600ddr3 and am now searching for newer GPU with no less
then 2gb up 4gb. I love the cases the old Dell XPS series had. Have 2 of them. One from my dead
XPS 700. Some seriously heavy duty cases. Need to tear out that old BTX mobo from it and mod it.

Dell 720... in my daughters room.

and thx folks.

Nice shots! You should have had this one when we were driving.
Extra horse power never hurts

Btw, is that orange and black DP who I think it is

She must think you are one great Dad for that. My son would die if I gave him one of mine.

yes... was watching the practice session... my wheels not set up yet, tomorrow.

Congrats on the new system! Pics look great.

Rob

Grats on the new rig. I'll probably be looking to upgrade to a 2500k or 2600k sometime next year. Is there a specific advantage of the 2600k over the 2500k? They both run cool and overclock easily. What do you get for the extra money of a 2600k Anyone know?

Hellshade

The main diff is that the 2600k does hyperthreading, which is not really useful for gaming, but useful if you do video editing or something like that.

Yep, that is the only reason I spec'ed the 2600K instead of the 2500K. Mag does do a lot of video.

Congrats with your new system Magnum. Nice looking screens.

Yeah that definitely makes sense Guod, good build.

BTW with that rig you should really try the ENB series mod for Steel Beasts!

ENB? Actually i try to limit the uses of mods in most games... i still use them but not many, always seems to create some idiot problem here or there. lol

ENB introduces HDR lighting effects into games and really makes a great visual difference.

It's a matter of simply dropping the files into the game directory (they don't overwrite any data) and activating the mod ingame ->voilà, greatly improved visuals.

I've posted a couple of screenies in this thread some time ago:

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3083677/A_skirmish_in_the_80s.html#Post3083677

i was scrolling too fast, for a second it looked like you took the tank out for a spin in IRacing.. lol..

"ENB introduces HDR lighting effects into games and really makes a great visual difference."

Oh ya Para, I had that installed on my old PC... makes the screens look great... just didn't remember where i got it from.

Nice shots, Magnum...

What game are the shots with the Tiger from? That looks interesting.

Cheers,

Fafnir_6

WW2 Tank Battles T34 vs Tiger.... not really a good game because support stopped right after release... with a bunch of issues... but still for some one tank action, (because the other tanks do what they want which is usually un-tactical and die, lol) it is alot of fun, and simple.

Nice Magnum,

I have almost the exact system specs, I haven't needed to overclock the thing or anything.

That's more less the spec I'm going to get for my birthday, can't wait until may next year!

so mags you do some editing in vegas too now right ? did this improve anything there ?

none of these screens or video...are edited... would defeat the purpose of showing off the machine.

well finally found a game that my new system can't handle... it's still not to bad, just an occasional pause... but also i noticed some seriously weird graphic issues... anyone know of these issues in IL2: CoD? (I just re-installed it this AM, after it was terrible on my old system on release.)






Well hell.. those graphic problems ain't visible in my screenshots, but in game their there... all the decals seem to be neon lights, changing color and all.

oh well.

TGA issues? isnt that plane inthe last screenshot supposed to have props?

OK... above was from a track.. this is a SP mission... definitely a problem here forrest...

LSD bug?

That's the same specs I have roughly (2600k/570) and my CloD doesn't look like that, although granted I've not run it in some time now.

What drivers are you running? You should have the latest WHQL nvidia drivers. Also double check your in-game settings.



The Jedi Master

found out it was the siezure setting, or whatever that is.

is that setting supposed to stop seizures or start them?

well I may have a seizure while playing now... but at least It looks good... lol






not sure how well it plays yet thou...

isnt there supposed to be a prop on that plane?

Yes, but there were no gaffers/best boys/grips around, so union rules prevented anyone else from handling it.



The Jedi Master