Santa Got My Letter!

[Cataphract]

Designed and built by Nautilian, this is the machine that I hope to run UT2007 on.


Base Specifications:

Chassis
CM Stacker 830

PSU
Enermax Galaxy 1 Kilowatt, 4 Quad + 24

Motherboard
ASUS P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe

CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe

RAM
2GB Kingston Hyper-X DDR2 - 800

Graphics Cards
2 X Nvidia GeForce 7950GX2 (XFX 520M Extreme Edition) in Quad-SLI

Video Memory
2GB DDR3

HD Drives
150GB WD Raptor SATA II 10'000 RPM
500GB WD Caviar SATA II
500GB Seagate Version .10 SATA II
400GB WD Caviar SE SATA II

Cooling and Mods:

Radiator
ThermoChill HE120.2 Dual 120mm

Reservoir
Tanky - Dual 5 1/4" Bay

Tubing
½ inch inner diameter Tygon tubing

Pump
Swiftech MCP655™ 12 VDC Pump

Coolant:
Fluid XP+ EXT (Extreme Performance) Coolant - UV Red

CPU Cooling
Swiftech STORM Extreme Performance Universal Water-block - Rev 2

GPU Cooling
Danger Den - DD-GX2 - NVIDIA 7950 GX2 Series Video Card Water Blocks

Hard Disk Drives
IcyDock 4 in 3 MB454SPF Internal Multibay SATA II Enclosure

Fans
3 X Blackfire4 UV LED 120mm Fan Sleeved - Red

Fan Controller
VL System L.I.S. 2 Premium VFD (Vacuum Fluorescent Display) Black 5.25" Baybus (Red Text)

Lighting
Logisys 15" CCFL Kit Sleeved – UV

Cable Sleeving
Techflex PET Power Blends Cable Sleeving – Superhero UV reactive

[Gamma Ray]

OMFW Nice, Santa Hates me :(

[J1nX]

Pure Evil.

Ut07 will run for sure :D

[Cataphract]

I still have to do benchmarks, so I need to get hold of 3DMark etc.

[Bean]

Nice! At least I know that everytime I kill you, you'll be dying in extreme high def anti-aliased smoothness.

That is, of course, assuming that I can play in the 1.7FPS that my current machine should be able to push out on ut2007.

[Gamos]

Why did you go 7950GX2 instead of 8800? Everything rocks, but quad-SLI drivers blows and the 8800 actually offers DirectX10.

[Cataphract]

Nope, the Quad-SLI drivers are now sorted and I'm fine for quite some time until the game developers catch on to DX10.

The plan is to go to the Striker mobo and quad-core CPU in the middle of the year and SLI 8800GTX's (or the then equivalent) by the end of the year, plus Phys-X 2 (or the then equivalent).

[cYan1D3]

That is a insane machine defiantly more then 15 G's on that, Yeah I agree with Gamos just needs those 2x 8800gtx's then it would have been great. but still 2 gb video ram is insane!!!

lol, i took to long but you have a sweet budget man.

[Gamos]

Make no mistake, it is a esquisite rig, I just wondered why you chose that.

[J1nX]

When you rich you rich hey :)

If not why not hehe

[MaXimus]

Bloody good machine there. I personally would perhaps just go for two 8800 GTX's in SLI straight away.

[[N]Haja]

nice machine cataphract. Is it Vista ready? :)

BTW, selling your old machine? If i remember correctly it too kicked ass.

[AdV3nt]

[quote=Cataphract;61854]Nope, the Quad-SLI drivers are now sorted and I'm fine for quite some time until the game developers catch on to DX10.
quote]

Cataphract i disagree with you on that (not trying to burst your bubble or anything) but all the latest benchmarks i've seen even with the 93.72(something like that) which are the latest i think for the normal cards dont work correctly with quad sli yet. The only game i've seen where quad sli actually out performs 1 7950 GX2 is in F.E.A.R. and in everything else it performs worse that a single 7950

Dont get me wrong i loved my 7950 when i had it but there were just so many issues in games for me i began hating it eg when a krappy 2.6 ghz AMD with 1 GB 266Mhz DDR in singel channel a plain old 6800 128 mb 128 bit, out performed my pc which was a Core 2 Duo E6700 @ 3Ghz 2GB Kingston Hyper X 800 Mhz ram @ 4-4-4-12 with a 7950 GX2, the afore mentioned pc got 37 fps average and mine avcheived a whopping 8 fps average.

The 7950 is a cool card when the drivers and all are right for a game. I prefer my 8800GTX now :) less hassles

Sorry if that sounded like a rant :) I love your pc though :) i bet you feel like i felt when i got my new pc 3 months ago :) if i may ask how much did it cost? I love the case and the lighting :) and you virtually have double the HD space mine does :(

I wish mine had water cooling :D

[]H[ellboy]

He only did that because mine look me nice :P... and off course he had to go one better "sigh"

Awersome Rig Cata, I await the badaxe with and duo with great anticipation....

[Nautilian]

[quote=Cataphract;61854]Nope, the Quad-SLI drivers are now sorted and I'm fine for quite some time until the game developers catch on to DX10.
quote]

Cataphract i disagree with you on that (not trying to burst your bubble or anything) but all the latest benchmarks i've seen even with the 93.72(something like that) which are the latest i think for the normal cards dont work correctly with quad sli yet. The only game i've seen where quad sli actually out performs 1 7950 GX2 is in F.E.A.R. and in everything else it performs worse that a single 7950

Dont get me wrong i loved my 7950 when i had it but there were just so many issues in games for me i began hating it eg when a krappy 2.6 ghz AMD with 1 GB 266Mhz DDR in singel channel a plain old 6800 128 mb 128 bit, out performed my pc which was a Core 2 Duo E6700 @ 3Ghz 2GB Kingston Hyper X 800 Mhz ram @ 4-4-4-12 with a 7950 GX2, the afore mentioned pc got 37 fps average and mine avcheived a whopping 8 fps average.

The 7950 is a cool card when the drivers and all are right for a game. I prefer my 8800GTX now :) less hassles

Sorry if that sounded like a rant :) I love your pc though :) i bet you feel like i felt when i got my new pc 3 months ago :) if i may ask how much did it cost? I love the case and the lighting :) and you virtually have double the HD space mine does :(

I wish mine had water cooling :D


I have to strongly disagree with you. I will put my reasons up another time as I could not be botherered to argue why the 8800GTX is a good card however a HUGE waste of money. Stop looking at peak performance.

Naut

[Rex]

santa loves me i got the new 2007 honda CBR600 wit yoshimura pipe system HEHEHE

[Karnaugh]

Nice specs. Hideous case :(

[Cataphract]

Advent, I'm not sure when you got rid of your 7950GX2, but the very first Quad-SLI driver was released on October 16, 2006:

"Adds support for NVIDIA Quad SLI, GeForce 7950 GT, GeForce 7600 GS AGP and GeForce 7100 GS. "

See here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_91.47.html

You won't find a Quad-SLI review that gives it an unconditional thumbs up before that date, and the one review in which they raise the issue you raised about performance in F.E.A.R., was done on 7 June 2006, a day after Nvidia prohibited the sending of more than one 7950GX2 to reviewers for exactly the reason that the drivers were still being written.

With the 2 November 2006 driver, I am getting absolutely mindbending framerates. For example in UT, with everything on Highest, with 4X AA and 8X AF, at a resolution of 1920X1200 I am averaging more than 500fps.

[J1nX]

500FPS :eek: :eek: :eek:

[Lord_Xan]

Sho, Cat, very nice system! Now you can't blame framerate spikes anymore when I drive over you. ;)

[Revenge]

santa loves me i got the new 2007 honda CBR600 wit yoshimura pipe system HEHEHE

Lucky biatch!!! :flame: My gixxer 1000 k7 is on order (already secured a black and orange one)... centurion suzuki are only getting them in end of march to mid april.
Maybe we can organize a brekkie after then.

[Karnaugh]

Now you can both kill your selves sooner, excellent news.

[AdV3nt]

Cata the Reviews i looked at used the newest drivers for the card 91.47 and they never worked properly but if there are new drivers that work properly then i would love to see how it performs :) Only at extreme resolutions was it working better.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/quad-sli-two.html here is the link

Is this waht you were talking about?

Have you heard that ATI are bringing out a dual core X1950 now which can also be crossfired, that is going to rock :)

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20061221222204.html here is the link

[Cataphract]

Now you can both kill your selves sooner, excellent news.

Don't say something like that.

[J1nX]

Motor bikes are as dangerous as cars, just depends on the bike drivers ability to not get run over :D

[]H[ellboy]

yup without starting a flame what you said was totally uncalled for Colin

[Sting]

H[ellboy;61940']yup without starting a flame what you said was totally uncalled for Colin
Agreed

[Rex]

Motor bikes are as dangerous as cars, just depends on the bike drivers ability to not get run over :D
its not the bike its the driver

[Gamos]

Hehe, my grandpa always said, it is not if but when you fall with a bike. :D

Nice bike though. You get a lot more idiots on 4 wheels, so careful.

Santa brought me Dead Rising for X360, Pirates of the Carribian 2 DVD, a proper poker chip set, a WoW Burning Crusade I.O.U and bags and bags of sweets. :)

Maybe St. Valentine will bring me a DX10 card, depending on how well he works my budget. Haha.

[J1nX]

I got an xmas card, that's all boo hoo

/slits wrists

[dojee]

juicy system cat. but by thr time ut200'7' gets here we'll be running 8core. or maybe someting based around protein molecule gel-packs.

have fun with it, don't drink the coolant, and ask Naut why he did'nt give you the complimentary fuzzy dice that go with that case?

[Cripple-X]

Cat you bugger that's a beauty!! :D

[Crazychic]

Cat 2 words ....... u suck ......... man Im jealous

j/k

[GM<Jaymac>MF]

Wow, nice machine Cat!

As for christmas presents, my faves were from my gf. She girlfriend got me a Razer Tarantula kb and a pair of Addidas slops! :D She rocks!

[sneaky]

HOLY SHIT!

[Cataphract]

My girlfriend OWNS!

I got brunch at the Burj-Al Arab in Dubai and a trip up Mont Blanc in the cable car.

[Booha]

And all i got from my gf was a shirt......

[[N]Haja]

My girlfriend put on some sexy lingerie for me. Problem is my wife was pissed when she found out :(

[MaXimus]

Haja;62202']My girlfriend put on some sexy lingerie for me. Problem is my wife was pissed when she found out :(

Haja, that's the kind of stuff you are supposed to hide from your wife. :rolleyes:

[[N]Haja]

where were you 2 weeks ago with that advice? :p

[MaXimus]

Haja;62211']where were you 2 weeks ago with that advice? :p

My girlfriend was busy showing me her new lingerie... :p

[[N]Haja]

ye, and after your usual 2 minutes, you could have phoned me :P

[Crazychic]

Lol ...... Santa forgot where I live ...... but its ok cause the NEW YEAR santa was good to me

[MaXimus]

Haja;62220']ye, and after your usual 2 minutes, you could have phoned me :P

Soz, I wanted to, but by then was already 1 minute to late for you. :p

[Whoop_ass]

its not the bike its the driver

I have top agree with you here mate!!!
2 Wheels ownz ALL!!!


I love mine and would rather be with out a car than a bike

[[N]Haja]

well then give me your scubby :)

[Whoop_ass]

Haja;63276']well then give me your scubby :)


LOL!!!
man it has been sold man just waiting for the guys finance to be approved.
And should be getting my EVO 9 in march april
cant wait :)

[War]-[eaD]

I hate you... :P Real nice dude... R25k + machine that right?