garetjax1
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I can't honestly take someone seriously that posts their power supply requirements from a Thermaltake calculator. Again, throw money at the problem, don't do it intelligently, is what I'm getting out of this. You're honestly worried about an outage as well? Wouldn't it have been smarter to build two separate systems then? What if your motherboard goes down, as I've seen many SR2's do?
Those, and many more reasons are why this doesn't make sense to me. Honestly though, it is a BAD system, I won't take that from you. Then again, I would DD a Bugatti Veyron if I had the money, so I guess I'm crazy too. Good luck with your system.
That "thermaltake calculator" is the same as the one that is at http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp which as far as I know is widely used.
I really don't think his system is THAT ridiculous.
Great questions both! Laughed when I read them... Believe it or not, in usual day to day running, where I am running a normal profile (as opposed to an overclocked one), she hovers at around 28-32db, which at 3 feet away is pretty quiet - there are 8 banks of four fans each, but I only have 4 banks running at less than 40% usually. The little air purifier on the left side of the first picture is actually louder, when it kicks on. There is enough passive cooling where I can run with no fans on for close to 45 minutes before the temps rise up above 40 degrees celsius.
When running in extreme mode, with all 8 banks at full tilt, it is closer to 60-64db... I only run this way when gaming, with headphones on ... the biggest problem then is actually not noise, but heat. My office is fairly smallish, and it is amazing how much heat gets dumped out of this build!
As far as weight goes, it is ridiculously heavy, and awkward to carry... I can only manage a few steps at a time, and I consider myself fairly strong and athletic. I thought I was going to throw my back out picking it up the first time! I'd have to guess it is close to 80-100 pounds. I have casters for it, but will tackle that another day...
If you guys ever need advice on components, builds, and stuff, just drop me a note... always happy to help where I can...
why did I see no improvement with adding an SSD up from a WD 320gb hdd? Why does ti still take me about a minute to get to the login screen? PM me for more info
why did I see no improvement with adding an SSD up from a WD 320gb hdd? Why does ti still take me about a minute to get to the login screen? PM me for more info
Look, I put that calculator out there to give you some context around numbers, as I couldn't understand how you thought a 1200w power supply was sufficient. I am not saying I used that calculator when I did my calculations. You seem more interested in picking a fight than having a dialogue about a problem... Based on statements you've made, you lack credibility IMO. You mention all of the SR-2 builds you've seen, yet you didn't know that no one has overclocked one past 4.6, much less 5ghz? You say that a 1200watt PSU is capable of powering the components I've listed, yet you don't enumerate how you arrived at that conclusion?
Just because things don't make sense to you doesn't mean that they don't make sense to others... You are making snap judgements based on limited information, and I am basing this particular judgement based on the fact that I can demonstrably prove that statements you have made are false.