Maximum PC

Ah I see, I'm still trying to find the perfect case that looks nice, has good airflow, roomy, and fan filters all over at a decent price.

Sweet antec lanboy case, its in my top 10 cases of all times...cool I'm in your pic

Got a new monitor (Dell Ultrasharp 2209wa IPS panel) and a new ikea Vika desk.

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After:







Awesome cable management



vga to displayport works perfectly fine (seems all vga to dp are active), and it only cost 20$...and more messy wires

I'm too lazy to back up ~800GB of storage just to go to windows 7. I upgraded to it on my laptop since there was minimal stuff to back up.

my rig. pictures of desk come later. (wall mounting monitor)

Core i7 920 @ 4.2
GTX 295 (OC by 30%)
6GB DDR3 @ 1875
HAF 922
2x Caviar Black 500GB

Cable management is good right?

Cable management is decent. there's plenty of ways you can improve it though. Also, what happened to the rear fan?

I took it out. It was causing a turbulence with the CPU fan and I didnt want to have to buy identical fans to stop it. The temps have gone down since I removed it and it is currently stable at 4.2ghz

Also I did use smoke testing like they do in wind tunnels to test this, before anyone asks.

Dell Precision T7400 Workstation
Dual 2.5Ghz QC Xeon "Harpertown" Core
16GB PC5300 DDR2 ECC CL5
BFG GeForce GTX 285 OC 2GB
C: 2 x WD5002ABYS RE3 500GB Raid 0
D: WD Caviar Black 1TB
E: LG BH08LS20 8x BD-R/RE DVD±RW DL
F: HP 1270i 24x DVD±RW DL
Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic
HP w2408 24" Monitor
Logitech Z-640 5.1 Speakers
HP Photosmart C4680
Win 7 Ultimate x64

Desk looks like it's from the out of business O'Sullivan Industries. Got a corner workstation that looks similar in the details that is well over 10 years old. Looks great still despite the abuse...

wow, impressive workstation! My dad works as a graphic artist at his church, and they got him a Dell Precision about a year ago. I was fairly impressed... though I would still build my own, and his home workstation is indeed built by me.

The desk is from Sauder Woodworking and I bought it in the early 90's.

Musta been Oldtimers kicking in, but I bought in the same Era. And nice rig BTW Saw the forest instead of the tree...

I couldn't build one of this power as cheap, the base system was $650. I've got an additional $950 in it. Gotta love Dell scratch and dent sales. 2nd processor and 12GB ram were system pulls. The vid card was on sale at Fry's so I got a good deal on it as well..

I would buy 3 of the same fans to stick on there.

Eyefinity setup in progress. buying piece by piece, all i need now is a DisplayPort adpater and a video card. i am getting those 2 pieces last 'cause i hope and pray those come down in price by the time i can afford them.

You can use a vga to dp adapter for the 3rd monitor since all vga to dp are active adapters. It works for me on my setup. More information here:

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/fo ... hp?t=17468

Phenom II 920 2.8GHz
Gigabyte MA790FX-UD5P
Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800
PC Power and Cooling Scilencer 750
XFX Radeon 5770
Scyhte Mugen @ revB
WD 350GB Blue
Lancool PC-K58
Logitech Z Cinema
I've yet to get to a disply port adapter to run my third monitor.
The Picture has my old 4850

That Scythe Mugen is gifrickinormous!!! I sure hope it cools extremely well! It's like the Kraken of air coolers, lol. Nice build btw.

Also, can someone please fix Reckford's table-breaking picture? I PM'd him at least a good 4 to 6 days ago, asking him to do it himself, but I've not seen a response. I have a 1680x1050 res and that still breaks the tables. Thank you.

It does a great job cooling.

Any info on the temps you get? I have an Intel Q9550, stock settings, but with a Zalman CNPS9700NT, and average the 33 to 37 range, celsius, and it rises to roughly 40/41 at full load. I'm curious as to what the Mugen gets roughly, for the CPU u have. I was looking at that one, the Prolimatech Megahelams and the Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme. I've seen that it normally does get killer temps with a lot of dBA, due to a lot of CFM's, but the TT120E seems to be at the top for one of, if not, the best air cooler so far. Idk though, it's also a big mutha trucka, lol.