i love vray - just playing with some materials...

[zeromancer1972]

uuuuuhm..... so mean i read the specs of your machine at cgtalk - ok, keep it, but lock it - Germany is just a stone's throw away isn't it?

this seems to turn out to a real test series...

hey, you just got up didn't you? for me it's 3 o'clock at night, so my bed is the only "object" that pays my attention

kali nichta

[DaForce]

heheheh ^_^

Germany is closish, but you would have to be a good throw to get a stone here.....or atleast skip it a few times

I would like to see you get my machine, my cat is guarding it hahahah the lazy sod just sleeps near it because its warm. bloody lazy guard cat.

Yeah i got up 4 hours ago (8am) and i am at work at the moment.

3am.....hmmm i was up till 5am the other night when installing my 200gb and copying files...had to work at 8am as well the next day. so sleepy.

[cocolas]

heheheh ^_^

Germany is closish, but you would have to be a good throw to get a stone here.....or atleast skip it a few times

I would like to see you get my machine, my cat is guarding it hahahah the lazy sod just sleeps near it because its warm. bloody lazy guard cat.

Yeah i got up 4 hours ago (8am) and i am at work at the moment.

3am.....hmmm i was up till 5am the other night when installing my 200gb and copying files...had to work at 8am as well the next day. so sleepy.

what specs you got on that comp?

[DaForce]

It was top notch at the time i bought it, but its obviously not top of the line now days, but it still hauls ass For my needs anyway.

"DaPuter"
ASUS A7N8X, AMD 2700+ @ 2.405ghz (185x13@1.7v), SLK 800 w/ AS3 & Smartfan 2
Lian Li PC60 Case
2x 512mb Corsair XMS3200
2x80gb & 1x200gb Western Digital w/ 8mb Cache & Quantum Fireball 40gb
Powercolor Radeon 9700pro @ 348/330
SB Audigy2
Pioneer DV-116 DVD-rom & Sony SCSI CDRW
Logitech Z-680 5.1's + Zalman 5.1 (6speaker) Headphones

[cocolas]

It was top notch at the time i bought it, but its obviously not top of the line now days, but it still hauls ass For my needs anyway.

"DaPuter"
ASUS A7N8X, AMD 2700+ @ 2.405ghz (185x13@1.7v), SLK 800 w/ AS3 & Smartfan 2
Lian Li PC60 Case
2x 512mb Corsair XMS3200
2x80gb & 1x200gb Western Digital w/ 8mb Cache & Quantum Fireball 40gb
Powercolor Radeon 9700pro @ 348/330
SB Audigy2
Pioneer DV-116 DVD-rom & Sony SCSI CDRW
Logitech Z-680 5.1's + Zalman 5.1 (6speaker) Headphones

nice!! - lot's of HD space on that sucker.....
and Corsair RAM....I heard that's pretty expensive..is it worth it, say in compare to Samsung RAM or others......
did you over clock that cpu??

thanks for the specs....

paul.

[DaForce]

heheh I loves me harddrive space, plenty of room to be lazy with file sorting

Corsair is one of the best ram manufactorers around. Really high quality and great overclocking potential. I dont know that much about samsung ram, but it would not compare to Corsair. Corsair is worth every cent IMHO.

Yeah its overclocked by about 10% , i forgot to mention that i also have a 550w Enermax Powersupply, gotta have lots of power. A quality powersupply is essential in building a good machine. Cause if the powersupply dies it can take the rest of the machine with it.

[Syclone1]

lol DaForce, I have a similar system and love it,

Asus A7N8X Deluxe Rev 2.x, amd xp 2700+ not o/c'd AX-7 HS with 80mm panaflow
Coolermaster ATC-201B-SX2 case w/window
2x 512mb Corsair TwinX PC3200 Platinum
5x Coolermaster Blue LED fans ( lol clients go nuts over it )
2x maxtor 80gb 7200rpm
4x western digital 80gb 7200 8mb
1x western digital 120gb 7200 8mb
1x Lite-on DVD+-R/+-RW
Enermax 550w PS
Promise Ultra133TX
Visiontek GF4Ti4600 128mb
1x External Firewire 120mb western digital 7200 8mb

and Photo for proof




My render slave that sits behind me has another 400gb of drives in it kinda a bitch for file management.

-dave

[DaForce]

HAHAH awesome, we also have the same Promise IDE card as well
SNAP!!!

I really need to make the inside of my case neater. I tried my best but the cables dont want to behave for me!!

Any suggestions? i have tried to twist tie everything but still it looks like messy. I have 2 rounded cables i will need to get 1 more for the new 200gb and also a rounded scsi cable (if they make those).

Maybe i could post some pics and you could throw some suggestions my way??

p.s. File management is such a pain once you get mega HDD space.

p.s.s LMAO @ the complaint forms...hahahah nice and small.

[jujubee]

You know- comp settings are the one big depressing things about this forum. I was always proud of my system- thinking I had the biggest and baddest computer on the block. It was the one thing I was really proud of. Then I come on this site and realize how puny I am. The 3D community I'd imagine has the latest and greatest compared to even most extreme gamers. It's amazing to see what people do to stretch their limits.

[DaForce]

So true, nothing like coming in think your box is king shiznat, and then being put in your place by someone with a machine with twice as much power and 4 of them.

amazing....and also kinda sad

[jujubee]

lol.

[cocolas]

NICE SETUP dave!!! especially the tripple monitor -

one thing - why didn't you go w/ a dual mp cpu setup instead of the xp 2700+???......i mean 2 procs is better then one...even if you have slaves...


PS - also love the complaints forms
feels like in hardware geekLand here

[jujubee]

I aint complaining lol - was more of a joke. I pretty much have the same main system as these guys do, minus the dvd burner and hd space.

Soyo Dragon Ultra Black Edition
Athlon 2700 333mhz
512 DDR400 Corsair (though I think it samples down to pc3200)
3x80 gig Striped 1 and single 7200 RPM Drives
Gforce TI4600

It rocks compared to my 2100- could probably use more memory (though I only have 3 slots ) and a bigger monitor. The 2700 is probably the highest amd you can go without bankrupting yourself at this point.

[zeromancer1972]

i am young, i can wait no need to have the fastest comp for me

now that we're bruising... i got 2 slaves, my second big pc (my main one is a laptop...) and the pc of my girlfriend when she sleeps *lol*

both only 800/900 mhz, but still enough to please me.

but have a closer look yourself:

[jujubee]

zeromancer- you using the 4 comps for distributed rendering? That should knock down your render times alot.