The "Clean And Tidy" PC award!

Richard Dower

I like to hear views and possible pics of the inside of people's rigs, such as do you cable sleeve?, do you have some wire management system going on?, how often do you clean your case and fans/components?, and most importantly...will you win the award for the most pretty PC?

The judges are waiting and prizes will be announced shorty.

Endurance Man

Well here is my newly renovated pc. I will update the pics this weekend as im adding sum things, and taking away. My psu is sleeved, but sadly i will be getting a new 1 soon so have to go through that bloody mission again . Everything is else is tucked away sumwhere in there.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/Ateam/Inside.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/Ateam/DSCI0006.jpg

Nukem

Have modular connections on my PSU and there a b!tch to move they are so rigid.They kinda stick out so not the tidiest. Will post some pics later.

Nukem

quarryman

Endurance Man wrote:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/Ateam/Inside.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/Ateam/DSCI0006.jpg

what's that thing wrapped around the gfx card?

po0k

Waiting to get some cash together to sleeve the psu properly.

Inquitus

SyxPak,

What the feck are the Knights of Comeonbanus? I keep seeing them in peoples signatures, then I am driving home listening to Newstalk and George Hook is reading out texts from the Knights of fecking Comeonbanus? What's the fecking story?

Tnx a mil,

Inqui

Doodee

There is no such thing as the knight of comeonbanus,
Your being silly, you have brainworms.
Your mistaking them for the freemasons

*Wavey Hand gestures*

Inquitus

Sounds like a cross between the Free Masons, The Mansons and the Third Reich :O)

Dundhoone

I believe this may shed some light on this silliness Inquitus

http://www.boards.ie/wiki/index.php/Secret_societies

Its all a conspiracy to get me. I KNOW.


Oh yeah And why is there a bit of cardboard wrapped around your graphics card Endurance man?

po0k

Inquitus wrote:

Sounds like a cross between the Free Masons, The Mansons and the Third Reich :O)

I've always [not] thought of this [non-existant] society as an amalgamation of the works of great people like Scooby Doo, Harrison Ford and Cornelius Crow.

As for texts and that silky disarming voice that is Hookey (say it in a Charlie Haughey voice - it sounds sinister) - I can only assume that you were being affected by moonbeams and gumdrops bouncing off Venus De Milo.


Or that jackeen tosser McDermot ;)

CSSource God

WHAT ARE YEZ TALKING ABOUT?? I COULDNT BE BOTHERED TO EVEN TRANSLATE THAT GARBLE! As for endurance man etc, i wouldnt have a hope of competing, my PSU has more cables than the whole inside of your case i have to shove it into the spare drive bays.

po0k

CS is for pussies.

Endurance Man

what's that thing wrapped around the gfx card?

Its a big ass thermaltake heatpipe .

CS is for pussies.

I disagree

Dundhoone

oh no. CS flamewarz comes to the quiet town of tweaking/moddingsville.

Stephen

The inside of my case is a mess (dust free though, cos its only new) due to a number of factors:
1. My continued use of PATA hard disks... 3 of them plus a DVD burner makes for fat arse IDE cables clogging the place up. I have 4 SATA ports on my motherboard but I refuse to buy a new hard disk until one of the old ones dies (2 of them are under a year old...)
2. My case has one of those fancy temperature monitor screen things built into the front of it. Its need for power supply and the temperature probes coming out of it make a nice big mess of cables. It also has 2 molex connectors for powering and monitoring fans but i have those disabled and cabletied away.


The case was cheap but poorly designed - no way to easily mount a fan on the front of it, and even if you get one mounted, it will get bugger all airflow because of the aforementioned screen thingy. It looks decent enough though
Feck it anyway, my A64 runs nice and cool, no need (yet) for an intake fan on the front.

Haven't got a picture of the internal mess handy.

po0k

Stephen - your disks man....they would be far more comfortable with a bit of a fresh breeze blowing up their skirts...even a squirt of fannyfresh would do wonders

Richard Dower

What case do you have Stephen?...that color LCD looks real fancy.

Nukem

Well i wont be winning any fooking awards. The PSU cables are as rigid as anything and i need to get a round floppy too *tut tut* me
Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3

Nukem

Endurance Man

Update of me case , watercooling has been changed around and she is now nice and cool .

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/Ateam/Wires.jpg

Stephen

Richard: My case is a generic black made in china thing from a local pc shop.
i.e. no make/model known.

Edit: oh, and the network activity indicator on it won't work unless your motherboard happens to have a compatible header for it. And the CD-ROM indicator relies on an optical sensor that you stick to the front of your drive (it has spring loaded drive bay cover thingies).

Endurance Man

Stephen, how is your cpu temp 23C , is that correct ?? U cant be using air cooling if it is ??

Stephen

That photo was taken before anything was in the case

The probes were just hanging loose, hence all the temps being close to each other. My A64 idles around 33-35 degrees, according to my motherboard anyway. Not overclocked.

Sparky

can we make this a sticky at some stage, when there is more pics?, id put mine up but the rig is a mess, due to a new change of psu

dubdvd

Iill post a couple of pic of mine next week when ive got the new watercooling sorted out and the plexy rails for my psu wiring ..it should be tidy and nice on the eye by then

Richard Dower

I'd love to post pics of mine, it's prety neat and tidy...all blue LED fans inside. Everything is cable sleeved. I'm big into airflow and stuff, and it looks good.

Venom

A few pics of my Stackers insides

jessy

Nukem wrote:

Well i wont be winning any fooking awards. The PSU cables are as rigid as anything and i need to get a round floppy too *tut tut* me
Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3

Nukem

Looks Nice Nukem, Now if only i could figure out how to post a picture i would show you the meaning of the word messy.

Endurance Man

Looks Nice Nukem, Now if only i could figure out how to post a picture i would show you the meaning of the word messy.

Jessy, got to photobucket.com, create a new account and upload the pics, its very easy. Then just post the URL that it supplys under each uploaded pic . Should work fine.

Sparky

or use www.imageshack.us to upload a photo.

you can also have a free unlimited account and you can view all your uploads.

Gone West

Endurance Man wrote:

Stephen, how is your cpu temp 23C , is that correct ?? U cant be using air cooling if it is ??

Mine runs at 23 aircooled.
System runs at 21.
/me thrusts
And my case is covered in fur.

Lump

Why have people only got 2 cards in their systems. I have at least 4 cards, a Massive Zalman heatsink/Cooling, 2 * 512 Ram, Floppy, HD Fans, 3 2 Harddrive and a dvd drive. All your cases look empty, oh I also have a card reader....

John

djmarkus

yes, all my pci slots are full, thats 6 cards!

jessy

Endurance Man wrote:

Jessy, got to photobucket.com, create a new account and upload the pics, its very easy. Then just post the URL that it supplys under each uploaded pic . Should work fine.

Sparky_S wrote:

or use www.imageshack.us to upload a photo.

you can also have a free unlimited account and you can view all your uploads.

thanks for the help guys.

pic1
Pic2
Pic3
Pic4

pic quality is poor.

I keep saying that ill get round to doing the cable managment on it, but i am very very lazy.

I might win an award for the most untidy machine.

WizZard

jessy wrote:

I might win an award for the most untidy machine.

Hehe, definitely!

Is that a Mac Mini on top of your PC?

jessy

WizZard wrote:

Is that a Mac Mini on top of your PC?

yep, thats my baby alright.

Endurance Man

What on earth do u guys have in all your pci slots?? I am getting a new sound card soon but beside my wireless card i dont need anything else ?? I now have 3 harddrives, and i also have a big ass heatpipe on my gpu. And u say u have hardrive coolers, well in my well designed case , there is a 120mm blowing on them.

Sparky

right i have the new psu installed and now for some pics

BTW for endurance man i have a tv tuner card and a dvb satellite card in my pci slots

also its my same case as last time but im waiting for a delievry of a thermaltake shark.



this rig contains the amd 64 and a 6600gt gfx card and 2gb ram

djmarkus

Endurance Man wrote:

What on earth do u guys have in all your pci slots?? I am getting a new sound card soon but beside my wireless card i dont need anything else ?? I now have 3 harddrives, and i also have a big ass heatpipe on my gpu. And u say u have hardrive coolers, well in my well designed case , there is a 120mm blowing on them.

1 x FX5900xt(soon to be 6600gt)
1 x Critcool powerplant relay card
1 x NIC
1 x TV card
1 x Audigy 2
1 x 56k modem

Sparky

djmarkus wrote:

1 x FX5900xt(soon to be 6600gt)

wouldnt that be the AGP or PCI-E slot

Endurance Man

56k Modem
My tv Card Is External so dont have that.
Not sure wat a nic is?

Edit: Ohh, Network Card :rolleyes: , well mine is onboard, wat mobo do u have ?

djmarkus

Network Interface Card, and some of us live in the sticks and are damn glad to have phonelines never mind BB!


ok then 5x pci cards and 1 agp card,

Endurance Man

Crisis, well im kinda glad i dont have all that hassle . Only thing i would have is the sound card.

djmarkus

i have gigabit onboard my p4c800-e deluxe, why i have the extra NIC is a long story, its to do with backbones of my home network and stuff

Endurance Man

i have gigabit onboard my p4c800-e deluxe, why i have the extra NIC is a long story, its to do with backbones of my home network and stuff

Ahh okay, well not having a lot of pci cards works well for me, i get lots of airflow under that big heatsink which is good .

Sparky

ive a gigabit onboard my epox aswell, and i dont need a sound card because theres 7.1 on the mobo, but i dont use it, i use the digital out to a seperate amp for full gaming sound.
so it just the tv cards for me (mainly for capture)
is supprising the quality of straight satellite to mpeg

Venom

Only slots I need to use are
Galaxy Glacier 6800 GT
Creative Audigy 2 ZS

Mobo handles everything else

Stephen

The only slots used in mine are 1 PCI-E for the X800, and 1 PCI for TV card. Sound, NIC, etc are all onboard. No 56k modem (PFFFT!!)

VeVeX

Heres mine...

http://www.custompc.ie/images/vevex/1b.jpg
http://www.custompc.ie/images/vevex/2b.jpg
http://www.custompc.ie/images/vevex/3b.jpg
http://www.custompc.ie/images/vevex/4b.jpg
http://www.custompc.ie/images/vevex/5b.jpg

Endurance Man

Dower, when can i expect my award .

Lump

Yea, My onboard sound... well basically broke. So I have a sound card, thingy for the card reader, firewire card, Graphics, There's one more I'm forgetting....

Used to be, TV Card, Sound Card, 2 Graphics cards, Card reader thingy, Firewire card, and the other one that I can't remember.

John

Sparky

Lump wrote:

Yea, My onboard sound... well basically broke. So I have a sound card, thingy for the card reader, firewire card, Graphics, There's one more I'm forgetting....

Used to be, TV Card, Sound Card, 2 Graphics cards, Card reader thingy, Firewire card, and the other one that I can't remember.

John

john do ya have a capture card for your pc, or do ya just use the firewire from the camera?