New Rig

[Aesthier]

So here is the old setup that came to a crashing halt in Dalaran...and any city when Cataclysm came out.

The two computers running multiple accounts had AGP slots and I had upgraded them the best I could.

Original Motherboards were over 8 years old yet they were still kicking.




I was thinking about stripping the two old one and upgrading them as cheaply as I could but after much advice from the helpful folks here at Dual-Boxing I decided to just say to hell with it and go for one massive rig.

So I happily present my new significant other...

[Littleburst]

AWESOME

Nice man, Have fun enjoying that. Should be no problem

[Gaul]

Specs on the new rig?

[Aesthier]

Case: SILVERSTONE RV02B-EW x1

Motherboard: ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 x1

Chipset: Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition x1

Ram: G.SKILL F3-10666CL9-8GBRDL x2 (4x4GB slices so 16 GB total)

Video Card: SAPPHIRE 100290SR Radeon HD 5870 x1

DVD Drive: ASUS DRW-24B1ST x2

SSD: Corsair CSSD-F240GB2-BRKT x1

Hard Drive: Western Digital WD10EALX 1TB x1

Power Supply: Cooler Master RSA00-80GAD3-US x1

OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit x1

Monitor Stand: Super Hex Monitor Stand x1

Cables: 6ft 32AWG DisplayPort to Mini DisplayPort Cable x6

Monitors: DellTM UltraSharpTM U2211H 21.5”W Monitor x6


And of course the Steel Series WoW Mouse, Lycosa Keyboard and Creative 5.1 Speakers.


I know its not an I7 chip which would have been much better for the gaming aspect but gaming is not the only thing I have to do.

One note is I sorta skimped on the monitor stand and looking back I should have just paid the extra $200-$300. Due to the weight of the monitors the extend-able arms seem to droop a bit. Also I really would have enjoyed a wrap around that keeps my bezels neatly aligned.

I was pleasantly pleased with the DisplayPort cables I ordered through monoprice. There was a lot of trash talk about the dell cables, adapters, how to get diplayport to work, and the very monitors I purchased crashing all the time.

At the price Monoprice offered the cables I ordered extras and was still WAY WAY WAY below the cost of ordering them from Dell, New Egg, Best Buy, Tiger direct or anywhere else I looked.

$5.00 per cable.....or up to $60.00 a cable PLUS adapters for each.

I got them from monoprice and hooked them right up no problems.

[Multibocks]

Very cool!

[mikekim]

Very Nice... mmm, six screen goodness

[confusedtx5]

lookin good.
Those AMD cpus run quite cool, fairly easy to overclock to around 4GHz..

[ebony]

i like AMD there hell loads cheeper then just wiating on my new setup and to be fair i can not wait!! though i got about 6 months before i can save up the silly money i need if i do not go down the AMD road

[heyaz]

Man that's sick.. 6 monitors on a stand. love it, thanks for the pics

How do you like the stand? I noticed it does up to 26" displays, could you squeeze 27"s onto it?
My current setup is 3x 27" LEDs, eyefinity. not mounted. eventually I wanna dd 3 more on top
haven't found a mount for 6 27s though

Did you need active displayport adapters? I had to pay $110 for a single active display port adapter (the usb powered ones). This was at Fry's, the only place I could find one that wasn't online.
Such a rip off but I was already getting all the monitors + ATI 5870 (or whatever) there and wanted to finish the setup. So stupid that you can't use 2x dvi + hdmi.. with eyefinity your only option is one monitor comes out of the display port.

[defactoman]

I like the setup very cool monitors! But it lacks all the cool stuff in rig pics.

cans of beer, Cheetos and other items of interest.