Monday, March 23, 2009

My Rig

It time to update my monstrous rig which i call it as ' morbid machine'. I bought the components one by one and assembled it myself. It was a year back when i bought my core components namely my motherboard(XFX 680i SLI LT), XFX 8800GTS X 2 , CPU(core 2 duo E6750 2.66 GHz, RAM(crosshair 4 GB), G3 laser mouse and G15 gaming keyboard(i broke the lcd and it looks more like G11) and a monster power supply of 800watts coolermaster and a cpu cooler coolermaster hyper212 . I could render all the graphic intense softwares and play insanely resource hungry games(yea it can play crysis at high quality with 16X anti aliasing). The cabinet that i had was not so big and i had a tough time arranging the power cords of that supply which mostly of no use.


Yes it looks ugly. After a while there were some issues with my motherboard so i had to change it. I bought MSI P7N platinum ,coolermaster HAF 932 and HABU from sparsh who lives in delhi. He imports all kinds of high end components. Then i assembled it again, The tower was just big enough to fit my power supply and all its cords well tucked. I really admire the beauty of HAF. Installation of components were never so easy with tool less drive bays and expansion slots. It has 2 massive fans of 230 mm at the side and the top and with 140 mm fans at the front and the back with a red led.


After doing some proper cable management...voila. I was testing the mobo with stock heatsink.
The mobo has 3 pci slots but cant run all the 3 GPUs in SLI mode but 2 in SLI and the other can be dedicated to physix or some encoding videos.



 


This rightly claims the name 'morbid machine'. The outer case is pitch black. Wish the interior was also painted black. The Habu is nice but it has some issues with configuring the mouse. Windows xp doesn't even recognise the mouse but you can still able to use it if you reconnect it every time you boot into xp or any other os except vista. But i would say vista sucks. I know there are a lot of supporters say that you should know how to configure it properly to take its full advantage. As a matter of fact i did many configuring and still it was impossible to play many games with decent frames per second while in xp i get an extreme increase in fps. Yes i dual boot xp with Ubuntu linux. Im waiting to install sabayon linux.