Whooo-Hooo!

[lewislink]

I have some XFX cards, now! I now have in my inventory 5, count 'em, 5 XFX PCIe videocards! :):):)

3 - 7600GS
2 - 6800GS

All of them new or like new with the boxes and all!

No, I am not selling. I am building up my inventory and am proud to finally be an owner of some XFX cards. That's all I'm doing, I wasn't trying to sell a PD 840 and I am not trying to sell these videocards. Capisce?

[sushrukh]

So, how about owning some G80 cards ? Maybe 2 8800 Ultras & 4 GTXs :lol:

[lewislink]

I will. :) In about 5 years...lol

EDIT - Oh, and BTW, I know where Microsoft came up with the name for their gaming console. They got it from XFX packaging. When they first started developing the original XBOX, there was probably some people sitting around a table perusing through the latest computer technology and came upon a picture of an XFX videocard package and probably mentioned something like, "Hmmm, an X shaped box". Someone else paying attention probably said jokingly, "X-box, we aught'a present that to Billy as the project designation for his new baby". And as a joke, the company decided to keep the designation as the retail name.

[sushrukh]

So, XFX should deserve a huge amount of royalties from Microsoft. :lol:

[lewislink]

So, XFX should deserve a huge amount of royalties from Microsoft. :lol:

Exactly! LOL

[PP Mguire]

Wow just wow. Why dont you SLI those cards in a rig?

[lewislink]

All in due time, all in due time. I'll likely build custom computers with these and the other cards and supplies I have and start selling with or without an OS. I prefer to sell without an OS because WindowsXP is so expensive.

Anyone care to see my current two custom PCs?

[PP Mguire]

Sure post some pics (attachments please) and for custom rigs for nowadays i hope your not charging much. Those cards are kinda outdated.

[lewislink]

Sure post some pics (attachments please) and for custom rigs for nowadays i hope your not charging much. Those cards are kinda outdated.

What about just a link? It would be easier for me to post direct web links.

[lewislink]

Nah, I won't build a custom around that kind of hardware. I'll get an order and then spend the money on what they want...up to a point, if I have the money. This moderate stuff will be for people that aren't enthusiasts, that just want a moderate PC to do a little gaming and media type work as well as accounting type work.

[PP Mguire]

That works. Im just trying to make sure that you dont post pictures that are to big becasue the adds on the sides go over them and you cant see the whole pic.

[sushrukh]

What about just a link? It would be easier for me to post direct web links.

Sure, do what you feel comfortable with.Link of pics will also do & remember if you are posting pictures directly into your posts then the size of the pictures shouldn't be more than 800x600.

[Ranzear]

Five cards...

That won't match a single 8800 combined.:wink:

[lewislink]

The beginning of my Dragon:

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/Currentprojects002.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/Currentprojects001.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/Currentprojects004.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/Currentprojects005.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/Currentprojects009.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/Currentprojects010.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/Currentprojects.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/Currentprojects012.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/Currentprojects013.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/Currentprojects037.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/XGDragon017.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/XGDragon034.jpg

And closing in on the end. I'm a moderate modder, right now. I do smaller things in fabrication and such but as time goes by, if I find myself successful, I'll start getting deeper.:

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/XGDragon048.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/XGDragon050.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/XGDragon061.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/XGDragon066.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/XGDragon065.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/XGDragon074.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/XGDragon073.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/XGDragon075.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/XGDragon078.jpg

[lewislink]

Here's my previous monster. It is the MSI/ATi Crossfire rig:

I did very little modding but it still looks sweet. I took out almost the whole front, lower portion and put in two 140s

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/ATiMSICrossfirerig005.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/ATiMSICrossfirerig004.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/ATiMSICrossfirerig006.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/ATiMSICrossfirerig012.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/ATiMSICrossfirerig004-1.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/ATiMSICrossfirerig003-1.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/ATiMSICrossfirerig001-1.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/ATiMSICrossfirerig002-1.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/ATiMSICrossfirerig003-2.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/ATiMSICrossfirerig004-2.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/ATiMSICrossfirerig005-1.jpg

[PP Mguire]

Wow thats really clean, youd swear i did that case!

The second comp looks sweet too.

Is that an HIS card? Im guessing from the heatsink structure. Also, why do you have the extra USB ports on the bottom? I didnt think anybody used those anymore. Mod them in the front if you can. Thats what i did.

[lewislink]

This is my next project and it is called the Dark Knight:

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/BlackKnightproject042.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/BlackKnightproject036.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/BlackKnightproject007.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/BlackKnightproject005.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/BlackKnightproject004.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/BlackKnightproject031.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/BlackKnightproject038.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/BlackKnightproject039.jpg

Here it is getting ready to change into its formal wear for a night out on the jugular:

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/DarkKnightproject046.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/DarkKnightproject047.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/DarkKnightproject048.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/DarkKnightproject049.jpg

And to sleek himself up a little, he upchucked this:

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/DarkKnightproject050.jpg

And where that was, is now going to house this:

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/fan-88.jpg

[lewislink]

Wow thats really clean, youd swear i did that case!

The second comp looks sweet too.

Is that an HIS card? Im guessing from the heatsink structure. Also, why do you have the extra USB ports on the bottom? I didnt think anybody used those anymore. Mod them in the front if you can. Thats what i did.

Nope, not USB ports. It's a wireless LAN card. In one of the pics you can see the antenna wire coming from the top.

EDIT - Oh, no, wait, that's MSI's utility device. It does have some USB ports but it has 4 LEDs that are signals to conditions and such.

[PP Mguire]

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/ATiMSICrossfirerig004-2.jpg

Clearly USB ports in the back.

[lewislink]

Yeah, those are two X1950Pro IceQ3 Turbo cards - 620/1590 I think.

[sushrukh]

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/ATiMSICrossfirerig004-2.jpg

Clearly USB ports in the back.

Ya, i got one of those with my MSI mobo too.This is called The D Bracket which is exclusive to MSI which has 2 USB ports & 4 Diagnostic LEDs for boot time system monitoring reporting via those 4 LEDs.

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/2514/35057yl0.jpg

[lewislink]

BTW, the specs for the first system is moderate but sufficient:

Biostar T-Force 6100-AM2
Athlon64 X2 3600+ Brisbane w/X2 6000+ stock HS
4 x 256 DDR2-533 Crucial Ballistix
EVGA 7800GT CO
2 x Seagate 80GB SATA 2
CoolerMaster 550 watt PSU

The specs on the second, Crossfire system:

MSI K9A Platinum
Athlon X2 6000+ OC'd to 3.3GHz @35C Idle and 51C load
2 x OCZ DDR2-800 Crossfire Edition memory
2 x HIS X1950Pro IceQ3 Turbo 620/1590
2 x Seagate 250GB SATA 2 in RAID 0
Enermax Gallaxy 850
WindowsXP Home

The third machine will be all black. It will have an all black theme and will have a black MoBo.

Abit AW9D-Max (975X Intel chipset)
Core2Duo E6750 or 6850 or maybe a Quad 6600
2 x OCZ Reaper HPC DDR2-800 (the ones with the cool black double heatsinks)
Going to do Crossfire but don't have a couple black ATi cards spotted, yet.
4 x Seagate 250GB SATA2 in RAID 0
SeaSonic 650 watt PSU
WindowsXP Home

[PP Mguire]

Im loving the fact that your building AMD machines but it makes my pee pee sad that your using XP Home.

[lewislink]

LOL...hehe, why's that? XP Home is the most trouble free OS I've used...which isn't many, BTW. I've dabbled a little in Linux and like it but it wears me out trying to configure and remember where stuff is. XP Home is actually the only OS I've ever used except for the pre-release demo of Vista. With all of the troubles people are reporting about Vista wwith it's heavy power requirementsd and such, I'll wait another year for them to iron out the bugs.

[lewislink]

Im loving the fact that your building AMD machines but it makes my pee pee sad that your using XP Home.

Not just AMD...I'm bi-processor! Hehe...I have an E4400 Based rig and the first system I built was around an Asus P5ND2-SLI board and P4 630 CPU.

My E4400 rig was supposed to be a cream-of-the-crop system when I ordered the P5N-E SLI board. I ordered that board specifically to use a C2D CPU with and what would ya know when I got it together and tried turning it on? It wouldn't even POST. I put a P4 in it and it ran great. It would not work with any C2D CPU in it. It would work with P4 and PD but not with C2D. After a long time using it...I wore myself out trying to get it to work with my E4400 that I lost all interest in it and decided the board and manufacturer was crap.

But after a while I decided to send to Asus for replacement and the replacement worked just fine with my E4400. I am still not please with what I consider one of the cheapest boards I've ever bought. I cannot get it to OC higher than 2.8GHz and people in other forums are reporting getting their E4400/P5N-E rigs up to 3.4 to 3.5GHz.

Since then I've sworn off Asus and won't even consider something given to me free with the Asus brand. I sound like I'm angry now but I'm not compared to what I was then.

[Xero (1)ne]

I will. :) In about 5 years...lol

EDIT - Oh, and BTW, I know where Microsoft came up with the name for their gaming console. They got it from XFX packaging. When they first started developing the original XBOX, there was probably some people sitting around a table perusing through the latest computer technology and came upon a picture of an XFX videocard package and probably mentioned something like, "Hmmm, an X shaped box". Someone else paying attention probably said jokingly, "X-box, we aught'a present that to Billy as the project designation for his new baby". And as a joke, the company decided to keep the designation as the retail name.

Actually X-box was supposed to be DirectX-Box but it sounded stupid so they shortened it to X-box. :lol:

Are you going to be selling these rigs or are you setting up a gaming center?

[lewislink]

I'm not going to sell the MSI/ATi rig but any of the others I might...on eBay or whatever. I haven't even figured up how much i have in them yet.

I do have my original P5ND2-SLI rig for sale. I'll get the specs on it later and post them.

Mainly, though, the reason I have these is because this is actually my hobby. I love building thse things and tinkering with mild creativity every now and then. I love technology. I would be right at home in Star Trek, Star Wars or any other sci-fi type world.

The Dragon, I'll sell. Don't need to wipe the drives because I haven't installed an OS, yet.
The E4400 based rig I'll sell but I have to wipe the drive.
The future Dark Knight will be sucking blood at a local auction.
The P5ND2 rig is up for grabs after wiping the drive. Heck, I'll sell it all. So keep watch on eBay under the name lewislink-store.

[lewislink]

I thought I might make note, the aluminum cover...circled in red and with a red X on it...is actually a very thin piece of aluminum. I found some signs at a local hardware store...because that was the only sheet aluminum I could find...that have words on one side and, of course, are nice and clean brushed aluminum appearance on the other side, and I cut it to what you see. It's about the same thickness as that brushed aluminum 5.25 in. drive bay cover on an Ultra Aluminus.

Nevertheless, it's only purpose, besides, looking nice, is to cover the HDD rack.

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/XGDragon078-1.jpg

This part, in the image in this link with the red X, is actually an extruded aluminum door sill molding that I chopped to fit as a guard for the video card. The molding had several mounting holes on that one side, which is the upper side in this image, and the right most screw hole in this image lined up perfectly with the hole in the card. All I had to do was chamfer both upper holes, put a dummy screw in the left upper hole...because there was nothing to mount with it... and make the side hole at the slot mount. I made an extra large hole so I could use a rubber grommet.

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/XGDragon061-1.jpg

This is actually how it is mounted:

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/XGDragon062-1.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/XGDragon063-1.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/XGDragon064-1.jpg

[lewislink]

I think I have the problem of not having black PCB Crossfire compatible video cards solved:

I'll just paint these covers black:

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/DarkKnightproject052.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/DarkKnightproject053.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/DarkKnightproject054.jpg
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x51/lewislink2/DarkKnightproject055.jpg

[PP Mguire]

Well i meant just the "Home" part of XP. By no means do i reccomend Vista i was just saying i would rather prefer Professional instead. When i think of XP Home i think of my grandparents computer. When i think of a high powerd gaming rig i think of Pro. Idk, call me wierd.

[lewislink]

No, no, not weird at all, Pro is supposed to be a better running version....better running as in more power. My biggest problem with Pro is the cost. An OEM copy is still up at $140.

I'm probably going to have a tough enough time selling my computers for a little more than I have in them. Adding to that cost with things like Pro I don't believe is necessary right now till I get established and people feel like my computers are worth it. For myself, the cost factor is the same, I don't want to spend that extra money when I'm currently happy with what I'm using. However, if I find a copy of Pro at a very reasonable price, I might just try it. :)