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[MERGED] Your Main PC - Pictures, specs and discussion <IMAGE HEAVY>

awhir · 2007-08-28 19:51:27

~~~ People, not too worried but can you try to keep image sizes at or below 1024*768 for easier readability for those of us with 720p or higher screens? Horizontal scrollbars are the work of the Devil!!~~~ Solitaire ========================================================= firt off here is mine : hope you all like my getto…

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#3212 15-09-2016 11:07am
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Digital Solitude wrote: »

Lovely looking build, OH is mad for a H440 so I'll have to show her how it looks with a bit of sexy lighting going on.

I can't wait to get my own house and just set up a battlestation room. Renting sucks.

I love the lights behind the monitor, anyone know how it looks with white leds, or does that just brighten it?

I use white when I'm watching football or a movie sitting back from the PC desk. Have them also around the back of my Tv. They really help to watch a movie in the dark, but not strain your eyes. There is really good information online about why this is a recommended thing(what basically happens in cinemas at a domestic level)

I also run LED's at the back of my desk and just under a little shelving piece that runs behind my PC. Gives a really nice hue to the whole thing, so if I want i can play with the room lights off and not get eye strains. Plus it looks amazing.

I have just gone with the below from IKEA. You can control the colours or set it into a changing pattern. They are easy to setup and use, affordable and can't recommend them enough. I have the colour controllers sticky backed onto a wallspace so they are out of the way.

The way the bars work, you can hook them up into different lengths.

I even got some of these in plain white for the landing, attic and the kids room. Was brilliant for putting our little one to bed (so bright house lights wouldn't wake her) and yet the misses could see where she was going

Here is the RGB style pack
http://www.ikea.com/ie/en/products/lighting/integrated-lighting/dioder-led-4-piece-lighting-strip-set-multicolour-art-00202324/

And here is just plain white
http://www.ikea.com/ie/en/products/lighting/integrated-lighting/dioder-led-4-piece-lighting-strip-set-white-art-00119419/

And here is a newer model they have that lets you shape around corners and stuff.
http://www.ikea.com/ie/en/products/lighting/integrated-lighting/dioder-led-lighting-strip-flexible-multicolour-art-40192356/

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#3213 15-09-2016 11:09am
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For the LED's, these are some old pictures of when I first got them. When I moved to current house got a bit better with cable management and stuff haha

Here is my current setup in my new house. Only change I'm thinking of making is moving my Pop Vinyl into an IKEA thing I have out of photo, and adding in some more LED's there. you can see at the right of the picture the colour control on the wall

I've the strips going behind the desk, and you can just about see the shelf behind the monitors where I've strips under there too

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#3214 15-09-2016 11:13am
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Cheers men (and possible ladies), plenty to go on there

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#3215 15-09-2016 5:30pm
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Recurve360 wrote: »

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The two powerlines, in an adapter, in an extension lead.

Love it :cool:

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#3216 15-09-2016 7:46pm
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wandatowell wrote: »

The two powerlines, in an adapter, in an extension lead.

Love it :cool:

Wow, you could not be more sub-optimal.

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#3217 16-09-2016 7:00pm
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wandatowell wrote: »

The two powerlines, in an adapter, in an extension lead.

Love it :cool:

hahaha, good spot

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#3218 17-09-2016 9:31pm
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TheDoc wrote: »

For the LED's, these are some old pictures of when I first got them. When I moved to current house got a bit better with cable management and stuff haha

Is it just me or are Doc's links broke to hell? :P

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#3219 17-09-2016 9:32pm
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Solitaire wrote: »

Is it just me or are Doc's links broke to hell? :P

Yea, they are not working for me either.

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#3220 17-09-2016 10:27pm
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Solitaire wrote: »

Is it just me or are Doc's links broke to hell? :P

yea, not workings

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#3221 18-09-2016 2:34am
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deceit wrote: »

Yea, they are not working for me either.

Gotta give him the like anyways.

For the community.

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#3222 18-09-2016 10:20pm
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wandatowell wrote: »

The two powerlines, in an adapter, in an extension lead.

Love it :cool:

Haha I just noticed this. My missus plugged them out for to fit something else in. Fixed that now, they were just running power to the shed outside anyways thats just out of coverage. Fixed now

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#3223 19-09-2016 8:17am
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Took some inspiration from Icyseanfitz. Had all the bits already, just needed the LED and cleaned up the cabling
i7 4970k DC @ 4.4GHz
16GB DDR3 @ 2133MHz
Samsung Evo Pro 500GB SSD
WD 2TB 7200RPM HDD
Asus A97 Mobo
MSI 290x GamingEd (Probably need to look at chaging this out soonish)

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#3224 19-09-2016 9:46am
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That table leg under the keyboard would just do my nut in

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#3225 19-09-2016 10:08am
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justsomebloke wrote: »

That table leg under the keyboard would just do my nuts in

Fixed that for you

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#3226 19-09-2016 1:47pm
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Solitaire wrote: »

Is it just me or are Doc's links broke to hell? :P

I don't know what does be up with Google photos. I'll throw them on imgur and relink

*won't let me edit my original post, so just a dump here. The first three were just to ouline the LED's, last pic my current setup where you can't see the LEDs', but you can see the colour switch mounted to the wall on the right

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#3227 19-09-2016 1:51pm
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table setup is exact same as mine, thinking of moving it around a little so that ive the desk on the left for monitors and the one on the right for the tower, so basically switching which desk i have full access to, lovely setup (even though im a bit bias)

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#3228 19-09-2016 3:40pm
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justsomebloke wrote: »

That table leg under the keyboard would just do my nut in

Its actually not that noticeable with the chair. I dont tend to bang off it much. Thankfully

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#3229 19-09-2016 6:23pm
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Revamped my battlestation the other day. Friend donated the wooden corner table fits a lot nicer with the tripple monitors

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#3230 19-09-2016 6:57pm
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What's the case evolution?? Looks tidy.

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#3231 19-09-2016 7:13pm
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jayo26 wrote: »

What's the case evolution?? Looks tidy.

Ita an Aero cool dead silence gaming cube.
Basic enough case but fits everything in nicely.

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#3232 19-09-2016 9:21pm
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evolutionqy7 wrote: »

Ita an Aero cool dead silence gaming cube.
Basic enough case but fits everything in nicely.

I like it its nice size for sitting room and it shows off the graphic card nicely. Might have a look at different colours.

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#3233 19-09-2016 9:41pm
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is mobo tray horizontal in that case? awesome

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#3234 20-09-2016 1:08am
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New desk setup, no wall arms so on to a cheapo desk mount. Not perfect (cant pull the panels together) but she's not far off.

PS: Dont worry, I dont own an Xbox, thats purely for PC games.

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#3235 20-09-2016 10:15am
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What's the little white thing on the desk, between the monitor mount pole and the mouse? HDD dock?

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#3236 20-09-2016 11:32am
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A 360 pad charger.

Have a dock but its not used regularly enough to warrant the desk clutter.

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#3237 20-09-2016 8:45pm
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evolutionqy7 wrote: »

Ita an Aero cool dead silence gaming cube.
Basic enough case but fits everything in nicely.

I've the same case except in black without the window. It's a pain in the ass to work with given its size but apart from that it's fantastic.

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#3238 21-09-2016 12:22pm
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TheDoc wrote: »

Bonus points for being honest (or lazy) and not spending hours tidying up and moving all the crap off your desk (than we all have) before taking pics

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#3239 21-09-2016 1:27pm
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Venom wrote: »

Bonus points for being honest (or lazy) and not spending hours tidying up and moving all the crap off your desk (than we all have) before taking pics

haha yeha I never feel the need to do that. Part of the reason I "think" I'll go do cable management, and then never bother my arse. It's really just for show.

I change parts and things so frequently that I've be annoyed having to constantly cut cableties

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#3240 22-09-2016 1:55pm
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Got a lot of help from the great people here on my recent build:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=100841322

I promised pictures when complete so here they are:

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#3241 22-09-2016 2:00pm
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epic!
really nice job on the cable management. lighting is just right

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