PC's and home cinema setups! (geek content)

[StevoR27]

Thought I'd start a thread on custom PC's/media centres and home cinemas. Maybe some people can share some ideas!

Here is my living room setup :

Samsung 50" Plasma 1080p 600hz
Samsung 5.1 Home Cinema
Sky HD (Now Virgin Media)
Virgin Media 50Mbps broadband
Playstation 3 Slim with Move and Sharpshooter Rifle

Silverstone CW03 Media PC Case
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
Ubuntu 10.04 64 Bit (Dual boot)
OCZ Vertex 120GB SSD
5 x Samsung Spinpoint F3 HDD (5 Terrabytes)
Intel Core2Quad Q9650 3Ghz
Artic Freezer Pro 2 Silent CPU Cooler
4Gig G.Skill DDR2 1066 RAM
Gainward 1GB 4870 OC'd and rebuilt with silent heatsink and fan

And the games...

Crysis and Crysis Warhead on PC
F1 2010 on PC
Gran Turismo 5 on PS3
Killzone 3 with Move/Sharpshooter Rifle on PS3

 

[Webby]

Thought I'd start a thread on custom PC's/media centres and home cinemas. Maybe some people can share some ideas!

Here is my living room setup :

Samsung 50" Plasma 1080p 600hz
Samsung 5.1 Home Cinema
Sky HD (Now Virgin Media)
Virgin Media 50Mbps broadband
Playstation 3 Slim with Move and Sharpshooter Rifle

Silverstone CW03 Media PC Case
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
Ubuntu 10.04 64 Bit (Dual boot)
OCZ Vertex 120GB SSD
5 x Samsung Spinpoint F3 HDD (5 Terrabytes)
Intel Core2Quad Q9650 3Ghz
Artic Freezer Pro 2 Silent CPU Cooler
4Gig G.Skill DDR2 1066 RAM
Gainward 1GB 4870 OC'd and rebuilt with silent heatsink and fan

And the games...

Crysis and Crysis Warhead on PC
F1 2010 on PC
Gran Turismo 5 on PS3
Killzone 3 with Move/Sharpshooter Rifle on PS3

Gotta love Virgins 50Mb cable!

PC
Intel Core2Quad Q9650 3Ghz
8GB Kingston HyperX 1066 DDR2
Cosair P120 SSD
Samsung F1 1TB
Samsung F3 1TB
Samsung F4 2TB
Win 7 Professional
MSI Super OC 460 1024MB
Dell 2407WFS 24" monitor
Coolermaster case (Same as the Cosmos, but the model before then)

Games - There's a few here. Mainly all on Steam.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam
Battlestations: Midway
Battlestations: Pacific
BioShock
BioShock 2
Borderlands
Crysis
Crysis Warhead
Crysis 2
Dead Rising 2
DiRT 2
Dragon Age II
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
F1 2010™
GTA4 and Episodes
Half-Life 2 / Episode One / Episode Two
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead 2
Mass Effect 2
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
Sid Meier's Civilization V
Supreme Commander 2
Test Drive Unlimited 2
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – All Packs
Warhammer® 40,000™: Dawn of War® II
Warhammer® 40,000™: Dawn of War® II – Chaos Rising™
Warhammer® 40,000®: Dawn of War® II – Retribution™
World in Conflict (Love saving for the Nuke in this game)
World in Conflict: Soviet Assault


Steam Name: F9thDigi

 

[StevoR27]

Gotta love Virgins 50Mb cable!

PC
Intel Core2Quad Q9650 3Ghz
8GB Kingston HyperX 1066 DDR2
Cosair P120 SSD
Samsung F1 1TB
Samsung F3 1TB
Samsung F4 2TB
Win 7 Professional
MSI Super OC 460 1024MB
Dell 2407WFS 24" monitor
Coolermaster case (Same as the Cosmos, but the model before then)

Games - There's a few here. Mainly all on Steam.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam
Battlestations: Midway
Battlestations: Pacific
BioShock
BioShock 2
Borderlands
Crysis
Crysis Warhead
Crysis 2
Dead Rising 2
DiRT 2
Dragon Age II
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
F1 2010™
GTA4 and Episodes
Half-Life 2 / Episode One / Episode Two
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead 2
Mass Effect 2
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
Sid Meier's Civilization V
Supreme Commander 2
Test Drive Unlimited 2
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – All Packs
Warhammer® 40,000™: Dawn of War® II
Warhammer® 40,000™: Dawn of War® II – Chaos Rising™
Warhammer® 40,000®: Dawn of War® II – Retribution™
World in Conflict (Love saving for the Nuke in this game)
World in Conflict: Soviet Assault


Steam Name: F9thDigi

Nice setup mate, similar to mine. I think PC gaming is gaining momentum/support again with Win7 being so much better than Vista. Also consoles are so behind now it's a joke.

Custom built Steam powered PC's would be awesome in the future!

I'll add you on Steam btw

 

[Roy]

i got that TV on the wall though:thumbsup:

 

[Webby]

Nice setup mate, similar to mine. I think PC gaming is gaining momentum/support again with Win7 being so much better than Vista. Also consoles are so behind now it's a joke.

Custom built Steam powered PC's would be awesome in the future!

I'll add you on Steam btw

I've been thinking about upgrading recently, but I'm going to put it off until the Autumn. A nice unlocked Sandy Bridge i7, 16GB of DDR3 and a HAFX case with cosair H50 cooler. The lovely part is with an unlockable i7, most motherboards now auto overclock everything for you!

And I also want to get the Dell 27" U2711. Have it on my desk at work and it's a beautiful screen.

 

[Webby]

Oh in the Lounge is a Sony Bravia 40" (Bravia 2 engine so a little old now) with Sky HD, PS3 and Sony surround. Sony's and Samsung's are the best TV's on the market imo. But Sony's will always edge it for me!

No games on the PS3 outside of GT5, but then I bought it to be a blu-ray player.

 

[Roger200]

I think i must of accidently pressed a button on my computer somewhere cos everything just looks chinese to me :blink:



:tongue_smilie:

 

[Jonesy]

Nice setup mate, similar to mine. I think PC gaming is gaining momentum/support again with Win7 being so much better than Vista. Also consoles are so behind now it's a joke.

Custom built Steam powered PC's would be awesome in the future!

I'll add you on Steam btw

what your steam user name? maybe we can get a game of bf:bc2 going

 

[RichW]

OCZ Vertex 120GB SSD

Stevo, how do you find the boot up time with the SSD? I'm tempted but the outlays alot if the time saved is marginal

 

[StevoR27]

I've been thinking about upgrading recently, but I'm going to put it off until the Autumn. A nice unlocked Sandy Bridge i7, 16GB of DDR3 and a HAFX case with cosair H50 cooler. The lovely part is with an unlockable i7, most motherboards now auto overclock everything for you!

And I also want to get the Dell 27" U2711. Have it on my desk at work and it's a beautiful screen.

Yeah defo I'm on the same page as you fella

 

[StevoR27]

what your steam user name? maybe we can get a game of bf:bc2 going

StevoR27 mate.

 

[StevoR27]

Stevo, how do you find the boot up time with the SSD? I'm tempted but the outlays alot if the time saved is marginal

It's quick...7 seconds perhaps to a clean desktop. The thing is you then start running all you apps from boot because it's so quick and mines now doing it in probably 9 seconds.

There are other benefits. If you have a decent amount RAM then the o/s will automatically load (superfetch) all your commonly used apps and dump them to RAM. This basically results in your system running like a bullet when using SSD cause it's silent and does the fetch in about 2 seconds.

My PC specs are on this thread and honestly it's the best upgrade. Everything runs without ever delaying, it's sweet as

 

[edd1e]

add me on Steam people: eddie500

 

[SnapMonkey]

Lounge:

Samsung 40" LCD 1080p (4 years old now - nearly scrap!)
Virgin Media HD
Yamaha DS PAX 761 HDMI AV Amp
Jamo ATS 501 5.1 Surround
RS Cables 2.5mm speaker cable
QED Pro AV connects
Tannoy bookcase speakers (forget model now)

All in all, quite a nice set up.

 

[BenW]

Bedroom setup:

Pioneer Amp/tuner (Old school 80's)
Sony DVP-NS900V SACD Player
B&W 601 S3 speakers on sand filled soundstyle stands
Yamaha subwoofer
M-Audio USB soundcard
Sennheiser HD595 Headphones

For movies I just plug in my laptop:
Dell studio XPS
Intel i7 Q720 (1.6Ghz but overclocks to 2.8Ghz when needed)
4GB RAM
640GB Hard drive
ATI Radeon HD 565v
Windows 7
WLED Display

Parents have their setups but mine's the setup the sounds good, there's look good

 

[StevoR27]

Some nice setups here ppl with some good sound systems.

Feel free to post pictures up. This is a great thread

 

[RichW]

Cheers Stevo - sounds like i need to invest


:biggrin:

 

[Graeme GTR]

i used to be right into all this stuff, but since buying the clios its kinda takena back seat. Built my PC a few years ago and havent changed it, just to give you an idea it was built to play CRYSIS at maximum setting. That was the benchmark at the time.

Too lazy now, PC is for Football Manager and occasionally Supreme Commander (yes i still play that from time to time.)

 

[mitch]

40" Samsung LCD le650b i think..

HTPC
i3 540 clarkedale @3.06
ASUS h55 MB
4gb RAM
Nova HD2 - Freesat HD tuner
win7 x64
Antec Fusion
Logitech Dinovo

Media browser
Meta browser
MPC-HC
TMT3
AnyDVD HD
Shark007

5.1 dolby digital sound system i've had for ages - came with a DVD player so aint great.

 

[Webby]

add me on Steam people: eddie500

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