[rogueassasin312]

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I have just moved to a new apartment and have finally got things lookin' right............ So some pictures of my computer rig.
 

 

 

 

 
STUNNING!!!
 

 

[DarrenB]

Thanks 

 

[Soul_Est]

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Ask and receive:
 
http://moe.imouto.org/pool/show/617 http://moe.imouto.org/pool/show/905 http://moe.imouto.org/pool/show/878
 

Thank you for the links! Now to start organizing them.

 

[SupaSweet]

 
luisev - Thanks buddy, have not had a chance to hear the 801 Matrix, I'm sure they sound lovely, as for my 804's, they sound great, I am running them with a Denon 3310 acting as the processor and Rotel RMB 1075, I beleive it's about 100W per chan, Rotel is very smooth sounding and brought alot of detail out of the B&W's - However, they crave a lot more power, this I can tell.
 
The PC system is a Denon M38 accompanied by the Denon speakers, I was initially going to replace them with Wharfedales (like the brit sound) but was actually quite impressed by the Denon's that I'll hold on to them for quite some time, I am however very eager to add a sub for 2.1 in the office, perhaps a REL down the line.
 
 
majestic12 - I am running them with a Denon 3310 acting as pre/pro and Rotel RMB 1075, not too bad, BUT not the most ideal combo to run these towers with but works well in my living room Ulitmately wouldl love to get my hands on some McIntosh gear. You dont see the Rotel AMP in the pic as we have just unpacked but I will be posting pictures once office adn living room are all set up!
 
 
11amaberry - Haha, I love food and my 3 year old daugher also loves this movie, I figure if I have to watch cartoons then they have to be min 1080P blu ray!!!   My blu ray player is a Denon BDP-2010 with anchor bay chip, not a bad analog cd player either.
 
 
 
 

 

[DrWebster]

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The PC system is a Denon M38 accompanied by the Denon speakers, I was initially going to replace them with Wharfedales (like the brit sound) but was actually quite impressed by the Denon's that I'll hold on to them for quite some time, I am however very eager to add a sub for 2.1 in the office, perhaps a REL down the line.
 
 

I've been thinking about the M38 to replace an aging Sony shelf system. Is the headphone out on the unit fairly clean? I'd be listening through IEMs half the time I'd be using the unit, and the horrible noise floor on the Sony is starting to get to me.

 

[Suigeneris]

Here's my little home rig
Funny story with the Coldplay drawing, I was so proud of it
back in my high school AP art class that I decided to stick it to
my wall. Now I can't take it off >

it's friggin stuck there!
Notice the melting part...you can thank my laptop and DAC for that...

Hopefully, one day my room will look like some of the ones
I've seen on this thread

 

[fenixdown110]

It's been a while since I posted pics of my new rig.
 
AMD Phenom II 1090T @ 3.2GHz X6
Gigabyte 870A-UD3
4GB Corsair
GTX 460 1GB
50GB OCZ Vertex2 SSD
SATA III WD Caviar Black 1TB
Bytecc USB 3.0 HDD dock + Caviar Green 1.5TB
SG Freeagent 750GB eSATA
Scythe S-flex/Enermax cluster silent fans
Asetec 510 liquid cooling
MS Sidewinder X6
Logitech MX518

 

[11amaberry]

Nice system. I lol'd at the ssd sticker. How do you like it? (the ssd not the sticker lol)

 

[fenixdown110]

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Nice system. I lol'd at the ssd sticker. How do you like it? (the ssd not the sticker lol)

Thanks. I also laughed when I saw the sticker in the box. It took me several weeks to source, build, and troubleshoot all the computer parts. SSD's in general are so much faster than hard drives. However, the OCZ Vertex2 itself is currently the fastest SSD out of all of them. So naturally, I like it.

It takes around 13 seconds to boot including the bios screen. I do have the windows GUI disabled though which shaves off a couple seconds. Games load up in a few seconds and system programs pop up almost instantly. Just remember to disable the pre and superfetching that Windows presets drives to do, unless you don't run Windows. =P
 
If you're in the market for a good SSD, do NOT touch the Kingston's. I had one that bricked on me in 2 weeks. That was replaced with a Patriot Signature series that bricked right out of the box and wouldn't be recognized by the mobo. The only two brands I would recommend would be OCZ and Intel for reliability. However, OCZ is still faster.
 
Just to give you an idea how fast it really is. It's about twice as fast as a SATA III 7200RPM.
 
Western Digital Black Caviar SATA III HDD 7200 RPM: Transfer rate: 126 MB/s (Max)
OCZ Vertex2: Max Read: up to 285MB/s, Max Write: up to 275MB/s, Sustained Write: up to 250MB/s

 

[Nebby]

There's nothing wrong with leaving prefetching/superfetching on with SSD's and transfer rates aren't the end-all of benchmarking. 

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I'm not a fan of the Sandforce controller as using compression, even if it's at the controller level, just doesn't sit well with me. Not saying it doesn't perform well, I just don't like the inconsistency in performance that compression inevitably causes.
 
 
Now back to our regularly scheduled pictures thread

 

[fenixdown110]

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There's nothing wrong with leaving prefetching/superfetching on with SSD's and transfer rates aren't the end-all of benchmarking. 

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I'm not a fan of the Sandforce controller as using compression, even if it's at the controller level, just doesn't sit well with me. Not saying it doesn't perform well, I just don't like the inconsistency in performance that compression inevitably causes.
 
 
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Just to add quickly and then back on topic. =P Pre/superfetching can reduce the life of the SSD and there's really no point to leave it on with an SSD. It's so fast already that Windows doesn't need to memorize your common habits to speed things up. Any kind of unnecessary rewrites just isn't recommended for SSD's, i.e. scheduled defragging.
 

 

[Nebby]

Pre/Superfetching preemptively reads from the SSD and stores it to ram. Reading from flash does not cause any wear on it since wear only occurs when there's a write so there's literally no reason to disable Pre/Superfetch. I'm personally of the opinion that unused ram that is sitting idle is wasted ram; at least with Superfetch that ram can be preloaded with commonly used programs.
 
In my experience, Win7 is designed to work with SSD's and the only change that might be needed is to disable defrag if it didn't automatically detect the SSD and disable that on it's own. Other than that Win7 works just fine with SSD's. Let it do it's thing

 

[cYbernation]

I would be afraid to damage the subwoofer while sitting there

 

[Bmac]

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However, the OCZ Vertex2 itself is currently the fastest SSD out of all of them.

Not quite. I think the Crucial C300 256 GB is the fastest consumer drive right now IF you have Sata 3 equipped motherboard or adapter.
 

 

[fenixdown110]

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Not quite. I think the Crucial C300 256 GB is the fastest consumer drive right now IF you have Sata 3 equipped motherboard or adapter.
 

It's only fastest for read times. The OCZ vertex2 still beats it in write speeds.

 
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/reviews/crucial_c300_256gb_ssd_review