Darth Vader has Arrived

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   Hi all

My Digital Storm PC arrived last Monday, and I've fired it up and really put it through the paces the last few days, letting it run 3 days straight at one point.  I've ran Crysis at Very High settings in Vista, same with World in Conflict with very good frame rates.  It's a dual boot system, Vista Ultimate 32bit / XP Pro 32bit, Vista runs very smoothly, boots very fast, about 10 seconds or so from the welcome screen.  This thing eats games in XP for breakfast, doesn't even break a sweat at highest settings and  1680 x 1050 resolution.  Temps on the CPU under load stay in the 40's, almost never hitting even 50C.  GPU temps have never broken the high 70's so far.  I've loaded all kinds of software already, including the recording studio software and everything is running flawlessly.

I ordered it on the 12th of March, and picked it up from UPS the 31st of March.  Dave, Duke, and Kelly were all very professional and helpful.  I have to say that so far I couldn't be happier with the purchase.

On to the pictures:

Fresh out of the box

Let's look inside...

If Darth Vader owned a PC it would look like this...

And some pictures of my home studio

The only thing I'd like to experiment with is controlling the stage 3 fans for some recording situations when there is low load on the computer, I've spoken to Duke about trying some things, and if any of you have ideas for good solutions I'd really appreciate it.  A number of the fans are not connected to headers on the mobo, and I'd like to hear about ways to control them.

Thanks in advance
Andoran

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Andoran Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 20	Quote Reply Topic: Darth Vader has Arrived Posted: 05 Apr 2008 at 5:14pm
	Hi all My Digital Storm PC arrived last Monday, and I've fired it up and really put it through the paces the last few days, letting it run 3 days straight at one point. I've ran Crysis at Very High settings in Vista, same with World in Conflict with very good frame rates. It's a dual boot system, Vista Ultimate 32bit / XP Pro 32bit, Vista runs very smoothly, boots very fast, about 10 seconds or so from the welcome screen. This thing eats games in XP for breakfast, doesn't even break a sweat at highest settings and 1680 x 1050 resolution. Temps on the CPU under load stay in the 40's, almost never hitting even 50C. GPU temps have never broken the high 70's so far. I've loaded all kinds of software already, including the recording studio software and everything is running flawlessly. I ordered it on the 12th of March, and picked it up from UPS the 31st of March. Dave, Duke, and Kelly were all very professional and helpful. I have to say that so far I couldn't be happier with the purchase. On to the pictures: Fresh out of the box Let's look inside... If Darth Vader owned a PC it would look like this... And some pictures of my home studio The only thing I'd like to experiment with is controlling the stage 3 fans for some recording situations when there is low load on the computer, I've spoken to Duke about trying some things, and if any of you have ideas for good solutions I'd really appreciate it. A number of the fans are not connected to headers on the mobo, and I'd like to hear about ways to control them. Thanks in advance Andoran
	Intel Core 2 Quad q6600 @ 3.2Ghz Nvidia 780i Mobo (EVGA) 2GB Corsair Dominator 1066 500GB WD HDD 2X SLI 8800GTS 512mb (g92 EVGA) Stage 3 cooling

Bill the Cat Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List DS Veteran Forum Bitch! Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1150	Quote Reply Posted: 05 Apr 2008 at 5:59pm
	Man, if a cat walks too close to that thing when the side cover's off, it's a gonner. Edited by Bill the Cat - 05 Apr 2008 at 6:01pm
	3.6 GHz E6850, 4 GB RAM, GTS 250, TJ9, Win 7 64-bit 4.4 GHz i7 3930K, 16 GB RAM, GTX 670, 550D, Win 7 64-bit

Harry Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 190	Quote Reply Posted: 05 Apr 2008 at 9:30pm
	Oh man that is one sweet rig. You could rent out those fans for some Nascar wind tunnel testing.
	Cool Master HAF 932 Core i7 965 DSO OC Water cooled CPU ASUS Rampage II Extreme 6 GB DDR3 1600 OCZ 1000 W Corsair HX GTX 470 300 GB Raptor tera 7200rpm Windows 7

Tyler Lowe Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 14 May 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 0	Quote Reply Posted: 06 Apr 2008 at 12:34am
	First off... NICE! Second, consider a hardware based fan controller. You can get fan controllers that install in either a 5.25" or 3.5" drive bay and control the fans that are not connected to a fan header.

gameon Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 110	Quote Reply Posted: 06 Apr 2008 at 3:52pm
	So many fans on that thing. I think that if the fan air pressure were directed downward, you could have yourself a hover computer. No wheeles needed! Is this thing going to need a 20"by 20" air filter ducktaped over the fans?
	find time to play.

PhilippineMango Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 24 Apr 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 8	Quote Reply Posted: 26 Apr 2008 at 10:55pm
	How many watts do u have for the power supply. Cause I'm getting the same configuration as yours with 750 watts of power supply.

traylorc Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 23 Jan 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 73	Quote Reply Posted: 27 Apr 2008 at 12:35pm
	Nice lookin rig. My last rig had that same coolermaster case & stage 3 cooling. The only thing I didn't like was that my rig was awfully loud. Nonetheless it does have that Darth Vader thing going for it. Congrats!

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