Show us your rig! Photos of your workstation.

#921

I bow in the dust oldtimers :smiley:

#922

Btw, citizen-insane, thanks for the link. It’s a very interesting forum. One question, don’t you run into heat problems having the power supply below the motherboard? And also, why do you have 620w power supply? Considering you have four drives and and 8800 and four gigs of ram, seems to me you are cutting it close. Also I noticed that you have the drives floating at the base of the case, pretty much stacked on each other in a cage without empty spaces between them and no ventilation. Must generate a lot of heat on those drives, that could shorten their lifespan and affect performance. My two cents: I think that you should put an internal fan on them and put a little rubber pad underneath the drive cage to minimize vibrations. But that’s just my humble opinion :slight_smile:

Well, this case actually has very good thermal management. It is built of Aluminum and was designed a built for Rocketfish by Lian Li. The psu being under the main components should acutually keep it running a little more efficiently since it’s not picking up heat from the rest of my case. As for the wattage, 620 watts is more than enough. My CPU pulls maybe 150watts max and the vid card pulls maybe 100watts max. Ram is a non issue, it doesn’t take much power. The hard drives pull maybe 15watts max each. At MOST I’m probably using half the power the PSU can supply.

The hard drives run at about 34C each since there is a fan right in front of them. They aren’t even very warm to the touch under heavy load. They’re also already on rubber grommets, so there is no vibration what so ever of the cage. The system is very quiet overall. I don’t even have a fan on my video card (I’ve moved to an Arctic Cooling Accerlo HS) and I get about 50C max on that as well. Stock temps were reaching 90*C duing gaming.

With only 4 fans in the system, 1 draw, 1 psu, 1 cpu and 1 exhaust, my cpu temps max out at 60C in coretemp, well under the max TJunct of 100C. Thanks for the tips, but I’ve already got this thing well setup :slight_smile:

#923

Alfsea

And this (great!!?) great-grandfather Brian won a copy of XSI6.5 in the recent CG competition here.

Gotta laugh! But we oldies can teach those young ones a thing or two can’t we!

Brian

#924

I can see you got that thing really well set up. That’s probably the best wiring job I’ve ever seen and definitely better than anything I do. I think I’m gonna study your technique.

Is that Lian Li who makes cases for Silver PC in the US? I love their cases. Nice and wide and simple. My next case will probably be a Lian Li designed case.
I use two 15,000 rpm scsi drives for my OS (changing to velociraptors this month when I get my new motherboard), I use a 10,000 rpm digital raptor for working files- cache- and mudbox temp files, and a hitachi terabyte drive for my documents: believe me they run much hotter than that if I have then back to back in the cage. I’m actually considering putting them outside the case in my build.

Funny thing about the psu on top or below dilemna. It’s a catch 22. If you put the Psu on top, it get the heat from the component and the psu could have heat problems. If you put the psu on the bottom, the heat from the psu could affect mobo components. Feels like sometimes you just can’t win. I’m also considering putting the psu outside of my case in my next build. So that I can have three smaller cases, each with their own cooling. One for the psu, one for the drives, and one for the mobo and optic drives. I think it would probably save me space anyway because, like you, I also love really, really big cases.

bwtr: power to those of us in the geriatic set! Old is the new young!

#925

Mookiemu

“Geriatric” is not in my 1941 Oxford dictionary! (My first and still favourite!—within hands reach allways))

Thus, it has no meaning, and, obviously, is all in the mind! (He says!)

Brian

#926

I just moved to Rio de janeiro some months ago , and im trying to enjoy all the good around , learning how to surf is one of them.
So this is my acctual work place at home, its not ergonomic yet.
The image at my background is The forest dragon - by Alexander Alexandrov

And sometimes I sit here for this great view, this city is awesome.

#927

no shit! I bet you dont miss Vancouver :slight_smile:

#928

hey sheep , I miss vancouver because of the peace ,I would like to come back. Did u ever watch city of god? Another day some one throwed a granade at a police car at the back street…

I just dont miss the rain. :argh: or the teasing girlss

#929

Alright, I’ve found where you an get your pot of gold, :scream:. It’s the Irish Sea and how you get there etc is up to you. :stuck_out_tongue:


Its pretty cool, this has happened a couple of times now, where the rainbow starts (or ends) in the middle of the sea.

#930

I own an old workstation but this is intentional. I try to limit myself to less computer power to force my brains to work.
I have seen amazing stuff being done with very little money and on very weak computers. “The tetris” comes to my mind. I think it goes beyond money, man power, and render farms. A lot is related to knowledge, training, and experience.


#931

This is my workspace… granted, not for CG work, but it’s my little composing nook in my apartment. The drafting table is brand-new (just put it together three days ago!) and the laptop is new as well (compared to my old laptop, which was a VERY old Sony Viao)

I’m still fighting to get my piano keyboard (currently covered in the overture for the Jazz choir I’m in) talking to my new computer.

#932

Lol, I like how organized you have your music there :stuck_out_tongue:

#933

That’s what happens when I’m working on something. Makes it easier to find!

#934

Rainbows are a conspiracy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6HsiixFS8

#935

[QUOTE=LouisCho]Rainbows are a conspiracy:QUOTE]

Yes. A conspiracy to be off-topic.

What on earth have these to do with ‘showing us your rig’ ??

#936

Yea this is my second girl friend, “cosmeta”. Here are some pics for you (watch out, shes hot)





The stats are a Intel E6300 (will be upgrading to a quad some time soon) 4 gigs of RAM, a Nvidia 8800GT OC, the worst mother board ever, 320 Gb hard drive (soon to add 2x 500), 650W power suply, an exahst fan for my GPU, and a cosmos 1000 case with some blue neon.

Its does the trick for both looking very sleek or if you pop off the side you have one sweet glowing gaming rig. My monitor is a NEC GX702 17" and has unbelevable clarity at that. I need a better key board and mouse though. All i have is the stock stuff that came with the base computer before i put it threw my chop shop.

Ok so if you all say that your geeks because you have three computer side by side? What does it make me when i have Vista, XP Pro 64 bit and Ubuntu on this one computer?

#937

No pics sorry, bat yours guys are great!

#938

:hmm: I posted my rig back at page 58 with a picture of the view from my desk. I just thought the pics were cool. um I was going through a tutorial at the time if that matters. um sorry? Though I’m sure if they were that way off topic they would have been deleted by the mods/admins.

#939

Old and busted: dual opteron 246s with a 36gb raptor 2gb RAM and a Quadro FX 3000

New(ish) hotness: QX6700 extreme at 3ghz. 8gb PC8500. Dual 8800GTX. Dual 150gb Raptors. Dual 500GB Caviars. Dual Gateway 24" and my nifty space Pilot. Not shown are my wacom, Alesis Fusion synth. and some of the other audio gear shown above.

#940

Bit of an older pic, but it works anyway