My Semi-1337 Rig

[Panda]

Hi, I'm new to the forum and a little new to the server. I go by PANDAbear or (Pandabear) spelled out in weird characters. Well, here is my PC that was kind of a waste of money and my first custom-built P.C, but at least it get's me 200+ average FPS on CS:S.

AMD Athlon64 X2 4400+
nVidia GeForce XFX 7800GTX
ASUS A8N Sli-Deluxe
1GB (512MBx2) Corsiar XMS
Seagate Barracuda SATA150 200GB (sucks, buy from Western Digital)
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music
Zalman fatal1ty CPU cooler
Plextor CD and DVD drives
Antec 550w Sli PSU
some generic floppy drive...

Perihperals:
Razer Diamondback red version
Saitek Eclipse blue version
ViewSonic 4MS 17" gaming LCD
Logitech Z-5500 5.1 speakers
Blue LED mousepad

All convienently housed in an aluminum CoolerMaster WAVEMASTER case (aka a gigantic heatsink) and on a T1 connection. It cost about 3000$ from Newegg shipped and took me 3 hours to build. It's pretty quiet but it crashes a lot due to the crappy HDD and M$ WIND0Z3. Hopefully, my next rig will be better built and wired than this one, but this rig helps me pwn those newbies and KILLS LAG.

[SoliD]

compared to what most of WoP uses your rig is godly

[R3tard]

Nice build, and just FYI the seagate barracuda's are among the fastest 7200 rpm drives, however I had one and It died within a year :( Crappy POS, I stick to western digital myself.

Nice rig, What stepping did ya get on the 4400? Seems to be a good overclocker, nice motherboard selection, I got the same one but the damn chipset cooler died, like mosts' do, so i had it replaced :D

[Panda]

I wanted a Western Digital Raptor but it wouldn't fit the budget. Anyway, yeah it's a pretty good rig but for my next one I'm going to experiment with watercooling and overclocking on some less "godly" hardware.

[insanity]

lol not godly compared to mine pahah id consider ur leet if u were rockin 2 gigs of ram tho

[Panda]

2GB=Video/audio creation/editing, servers and really rich people who'd rather spend another $150+ on RAM then upgrading a graphic card/proc or donating that money to charity.

[insanity]

charity lol wtf are u talking about haha i meen come on ur not leet if u dont spend every resource u have on gaming.

[0wnage]

games < life

[ThePig]

Hey I was planning to get a viewsonic 2 ms lcd monitor. How is your monitor for CS? Does it look like it is 200 FPS? or can it reach that refresh rate? Is it blurry when playing CS? O and how much is it?

[sky]

I need to get a new monitor I have some really beat 15inch square sony monitor from like the 70's it sucks so bad it has a really bad green tint in it so everythign appears a little green I tried fixing the settings but its just the crappy monitor.

[Panda]

First of all, Pig, it is a very good monitor. Even though most gamers prefer CRTs over LCD this monitor lives up to it's name. It has a very good response time and refresh rate and yes, it shows every single detail and looks like 200+ FPS. It cost about $250, not bad, from newegg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824116359
The other newer LCDs with lower response times look very nice but this one has served me well and was pretty cheap.

[insanity]

yah i approve an LCD monitor with a good refresh rate they look better in my opinion if u have an exspensive one with good refresh rate