[rincewind]

Seeing Johnny9ball show a picture of his PC in a recent tread, i though it would be interesting to see what machines people work on.

This is my main PC.
2.6Ghz P4, 800Mhz FSB, 1GIG Ram, nVidia FX 5900.
6 Fans to keep things cool.

[sod]

The case is a standard cs-301 black painted tower.

Athlon XP @ 2Ghz
512 MB
220 GB
nvidia 4200ti

[mrunion]

This is the machine I order and received it just this past Tuesday.

It is a P4 2.8 Hyper-threaded 800MHz FSB
Gainward GeForceFX 5600 Utlra 256MB, etc.

Twelve fans (counting vid card and power supply), just about dual everything. Xaser III case from ThermalTake.

http://www.bigpony.com/images/home_station_1.JPG
(Note that the picture is probably a little large!)

P.S. To let you know a little about the scale of the machine, those monitors are 17-inch monitors setting on a 6.5-inch stand. Also, the desk is "home-made" so don't laugh! I still gotta put a finish on it -- you might say it is "untextured"!

[Fallenswordsman]

Here's mine! Its a little dated, but it does the job. The squelchy rubber keys are a nightmare in this hot weather though.

[DigiMatt]

lol.. you got LightWave ported to the ZX Fallenswordsman?

[rincewind]

Lightwave on the ZX81 would be unusable, you'd need at least a Commodore 64 to get it to run nice.

[Johnny9ball]

Mine glows to and has water inside it.

http://threedcg.com/water_cooled/Comp_3.jpg

http://threedcg.com/water_cooled/Comp_4.jpg

http://threedcg.com/water_cooled/Comp_5.jpg

[rincewind]

How well does the water cooling work? I was thinking of trying it on my pc. The fans do make a bit of noise

[mrunion]

Just curious, but how "hot" is "too hot"? The alarm on my machine has only gone off once, but I'm wondering if it was "real" or just set too low? I don;t remember the temp but I can look it up if need be.

[sod]

You have to see Lightwave 3d on my Sony Clie 33 Mhz.

[Fallenswordsman]

That's mad, sod - how the heck are you supposed to select individual points on such an iddy biddy little screen? And at 33 Mhz? Where do you plug the dongle in?

[Johnny9ball]

Originally posted by rincewind How well does the water cooling work? I was thinking of trying it on my pc. The fans do make a bit of noise

Watercooling works awsome. The noise reduction is huge. You never have to worry about overheating especially on high mhz processors, because waters rate of heat absorption is someting like 10x that of air cooling systems. This does not necessarily mean it will run a lot cooler in general it runs about 5-10C cooler than air based systems but as it goes underload and starts heating up it takes a lot longer to heat up and it dosent reach nearly as high temp as a air based system. The pumps are totally silent so you dont need a 5-8k rpm fan on your computer ( or two of them in my case Dual processors) just a couple smaller fans to blow on the raidator.

I really like the koolance cases they are a bit more expensive than any regular case but your paying for a watercooling system very cleverly built inside.

http://koolance.com/

http://koolance.com/support/manuals.html

[rincewind]

Thanks for the info Johnny9Ball

I think it may be worth investing in one of these cases. The computer has been running rather warm, especially in the hot weather we've been having lately.