Suvega & Vyndree's Setup (5boxing x 2)

[Zoln]

The UPS guy ended up delivering a grand total of 24 packages.
His only comment? "So... who's the nerd?"

just love teh comment xD
nice post i enoyed reading it

[Vmpwraith]

Love the setup and all your great posts Vyndree.

[wendalf]

Wow I am late to this post.

That is a great setup. I am currently running a max of four off of my main rig unless I need to run five then I will run 3 on my main and 2 on my extra box. When my main box is running I am usually at about 75% of my dual core and about 50% of my RAM (4gigs). I used to run a 6800 all on low, but now I run a 9800GTX+ and I can run on whatever settings I want although I usually only have my main window on max settings.

I am about to convert my downstairs into a massive gaming room (think 6-800sqft loft) since that is where all of the family consoles are at. If I ever start, I will take pictures of the build process.

My wife is not into gaming at all but luckily since I have always been into gaming she understands my obsession. There is always the happy medium of just enough play time though.

[DIllett7799]

OH MY GOD! /hero!!!!!
I am in love....
with the pc's of corse
What did that run you for one set up? and specz?

[Vyndree]

OH MY GOD! /hero!!!!!
I am in love....
with the pc's of corse
What did that run you for one set up? and specz?

There are a few changes, but this should be CLOSE to current specs:
http://dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.ph...:Vyndree#Specs

Intel Core2Duo 2.66 Ghz
2GB RAM
NVidia 7600 GS

(Suvega's 4 "alt" PCs are the same specs as VyndreeA-C with a different case)

We haven't updated any of the "alt" pcs since we bought them -- we invested in Core2Duos knowing that we didn't want to have to crack open those cases again anytime soon. Funny note -- of the 7 NVidia 7600 GS's we bought, every single one died within a month of each other and had to be RMA'ed to NVidia. Literally, every week we'd have a new gcard to mail out. It was about a year after purchase -- from what I understand there was a defect that would show up after a certain amount of use. It was just funny to wake up each morning, cross your fingers, and see which computer failed to post. At least it happened before Wrath hit. We have a couple spare gcards on hand in case we ever have to do that again.

I replaced "Spike" (my old main PC) with a quad core recently. Spike's Mobo decided to kick the bucket and he's always been a PITA, so I retired him to the parts box.

The intial purchasing price for 7 computers and 8 monitors (plus monitor mounts) was about $8k. That's the pictures. We already had Suvega's 30" apple cinema display and I had a spare 19" wide monitor and I had "Cujo", which was a shuttle PC I decided to keep since it was already a dual-core.

Later, I replaced one of my dying 19" widescreens (started to fade) and Suvega got a higher end quad-core PC, and after seeing his quad core I caved and got one for myself. It was a bit over 2k for each of the quad cores.
This is what XFire gleaned from my quad-core system (Suvega has the double version of the gcard -- I'm less of a gcard freak)

Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Extreme CPU X9650 @ 3.00GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.0GHz
Memory: 4094MB RAM
Hard Drive: 300 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX
Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor
Sound Card: Plantronics Audio 650 USB
Speakers/Headphones: Plantronics Audio 650 USB
Keyboard: Microsoft Razer Reclusa
Mouse: Microsoft Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Ultimate

So, in total... $8k + $2k + $2k + existing 30" apple cinema + existing shuttle PC...


Then, if you want to count our networking stuff, keyboards, OS, XKeys, multiplexers, all those little bits and pieces, it's a few hundred more -- prolly at least another $1k.

[Talonluck]

I know it's been said before but sweet.

[Purecrafts]

Every time I see those pictures of your setup, I have to change my pants. 8o

[arkraven]

*DROOL*

can't say any more than that.....