Computer Setup

Gotta love blurry pictures. But seriously, nice set up!

Sorry, i have a bad phone camera :(

Spends ~ $3,000 on a build (not including monitors and stand), takes an album full of blurry pictures of it with a "bad phone camera" haha :)

Haha very true, contract runs out in Aug so I'll hopefully upgrade then :) 'till then stuck with my droid bionic :(

It deserves to be shot with a DSLR brother.

Congratulations on actually buying your OS.

$15 dollars makes an affordable OS:); If MS keeps OS at lower prices like this one, people would probably pirate less

$15 dollars? Is that a student discount?

It was like an upgrade deal that MS had going on about a month ago; Even though it was an "upgrade deal" there were ways to get around it and installing it as a full OS

Can you explain this? I want to get it for 15 without having to buy anything.

Well, the upgrade IS a full OS. Otherwise how would you do a clean installation?

Ahh, guess you got the student discount then?

Can you usually just buy them online and plug a usb in? I've honestly never understood how OS installation works.

Well someone has money! No seriously that titan is a beast of a card and thats a sweet mount. Congrats on such a wild build.

Gorgeous. Over or under 3k?

~3k for the PC without the monitors, stand, or peripherals

(Through clenched teeth) Nice Titan....

Got a corsair H70 on 53% off sale last week and I love it in my PC. Couldn't be more happy with a water cooler than I already am.

Thanks for all of the pictures! Awesome system.

It's a frame from the Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm intro

GTGraphics 2 theme from the "Get more themes online" link when you right click your desktop and go to "Personalize"

Now that is a gaming setup.

This is pretty awesome... I envy you.

I would die just by sitting there to long.

Hey how are you liking the logitech camera looking to get one so i can use video chat on my pc? Awesome build man super jealous

It's awesome, could not be happier with it

All that money and TN panels...

The worst part is the colour mismatch between the monitors.

Well, TN panels are recommended for gaming because of the really fast refresh rate but in a Nvidia Surround setup I would honestly recommend TFT with the highest refresh rate you could get ahold of because the viewing angle is so poor on the TN LCD's. When you sit looking at the center TN monitor, the peripheral displays' colors start to look distorted.

Most TN panels are 60Hz anyway and I doubt his are 120hz. Even with 60Hz I wouldn't give up quality for a fee extra frames

He says they are 144Hz. Also, 3D.

Did you look at the album? They're 144hz

Great set up! I hope to start a new build soon. I would of gone with an 840 Pro Series, myself.

Linky to the xfx mount?

Holy shit, 370 for a monitor mount?!?! note to self, get into monitor mount business

Folks on the EVGA boards have been recommending something like this: http://www.amazon.com/Deluxe-Monitor-Standing-Supports-002-0020/dp/B006JG9RQ2/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1365131713&sr=1-1&keywords=triple+monitor+stand?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&tag=coolcompsetu-20 ($96)

I've been wanting to get that case.

650D is an amazing case, my last PC had a Cooler Master HAF 932 full-tower that looked like a mech-warrior. But after this 650D mid tower, I've become a Corsair fanboy for life.

The 650D is an awkward size case... It's like it's to big for air cool but too small for watercooling... OP makes it work well with the H100i though. I have the same case and if I had my time again i would get the 800D.

What's the build? Price tag?

Cool, but are all of your monitors the same or different? They look like they have different colors.

They're all identical, I forgot to set the exact same "preset mode" on all of them before booting up BF3

I get the bling factor of a titan, but I thought two 680s were able to outperform.

It's always better to have one card instead of two.

One better card. From a $/performance stand point, two $450 680 outperform $1100 titan.

Are you maintaing 144FPS over all three monitors while gaming?

Very nice, I should make something like this rather than going too ott!

Hey there, I would like to ask you questions about your Astro A40 Headset.

Congrats on the new machine. I'm curious, what was your motivation for going with the titan instead of the cheaper, better performing 690?

First picture: GTX Titan. Me: "Ok, I don't need to see anymore, you won".

Holy shit its a Titan!

Why are the colors so off from one monitor to another? That would big the shit out of me.

If you wanna take better phone cam pics, you need to prop your arms on something to reduce the motion in your hands, and increase the amount of light in the room. You can take decent pics with virtually any camera.

I remember the signature box for my 690. Dayum those things are big. Gotta love the giant mousepad, but the shirt was too big

Why did you get a 1050W power supply, do you plan on having 2 more titans in the future? And why no HDD?

I do plan on a 2nd Titan. I actually do have a 1TB hdd that i forgot to mention

1050 still seems excessive, and I figured you had another HDD laying around somewhere a $3K build with only 512GB of storage seems like a bad build, it'd have its uses but not for gaming.

What are you saying? 512GB is probably more than enough if it's just for gaming.

I don't know why you keep getting downvoted. I just checked PSU calculator and apparently 700W is enough to run that system with 2 titans and an overclocked 3770k.

1050 seems about right if he's gonna be adding another Titan in the future, especially with GPU Boost 2.0. Realistically you don't need more than 500GB even for a gaming machine, I have 1TB and I'm not close to using half of it and I have quite a few games installed.

Looks at first picture with boxes. OH SHIIIEEETTTT Looks at finished build and faints.

Nice build and gaming setup, but....

You didnt mention the beast 690 GTX.

Which is technically worse for gaming than the 690.

There is no denying the Titan is a nice peice of kit, but as far as single card power goes its in a bit of a funny place. On one hand there is the 690 which loads up two GK104's for seriously nice power at $1,000. On the other hand there is the dual 670 or dual 680 which also provide similar power but take up more space in the case vs. a single 690. For a single card solution the titan is easily outclassed by the 690 and as a dual card solution the Titan is priced prohibitively high. Obviously microstutter is a compelling reason to consider the Titan, but thanks to both nvidias efforts and some excellent 3rd party software microstuttering can now be managed to the point where it essentially becomes a non-issue. Overall Nvidia has over estimated their hand with the Titan, For serious compute they have been thoroughly beaten by AMD, and for gaming they have priced themselves into a bind. For those with loads of money to drop on a system a Titan (or two) is the definitive card to buy, but for the rest of us there are other options that give more performance for an equivalent or less money.

Yeah, I think the price / performance ratio is off on Titan. I think people would be having a different conversation if Titan was at $650-750.

Completely. If nvidia had priced the Titan in response to AMD's impressive 7970ghz edition there would be no contest, and no discussion: nvidia would have "won". It's easy enough to be an armchair general, but when nvidia saw the 7970 passing its 680 there should have been at least a little spark of retaliation.

690 is a dual GPU whereas the Titan is a single GPU. Totally different breeds

Different breeds, but priced the same and using the same form factor. Really the only reason to get a Titan is bragging rights(see my text wall below for more of my thoughts on this).

No, the Titan has 6GB of VRAM while the 690 has 4GB shared between the two GPU's. Under certain conditions where applications utilize more VRAM the Titan exceeds in performance compared to the 690.

Single GPU setups are more reliable. It can become even more troublesome when you have two GPUs on one card.

Yes, but there is no way he is getting 120+ FPS on a single Titan for triple monitor. Might as well have just bought 60hz monitors, or bought a second titan. Love the money he spent into a $370 triple stand mount and H100 when he could have gotten custom water cooling for better OC for the titans, and CPU. Wasting money the wrong way.

I honestly don't play on OC'ing my Titan (Titans in the near future since I'll be getting a 2nd one once they come in stock) so air cooling is fine right now. Since I was able to overclock my CPU to about ~5GHz (from 3.5GHz stock) I found it was more necessary to get liquid cooling for my CPU.

There's no way. I have a chip from a golden batch of 3770k's and before delidding it I hit a 4.75GHz wall on custom water.

I'm calling shenanigans. i7-3770K has extreme heat temperatures hitting speeds that high. I want screenshots with vcore and prime95 of almost 5ghz. My de-lidded 3770K with indigo xtreme is at 4.8ghz with 1.34 volts on a custom loop with temps at the 70s. There is no way you are getting good temps on an h100. Closed loops kits are not that much better than say a Noctua with dual 120 fans. Actually, a noctua would probably be better. I doubt you even have good TIM. You probably used AS5 or what came in the box.

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