The Antec Monster

[Freakout]

First of all i new to all I am new to the hole forum thing and case modding so bear with me. Also this is my very first Build and i thought i would share it with u guys here.

So to start The case is an Antec 1200(The case is crazy huge)
E8500 Wolfdale
Gigabyte MB
XFX 6800 Video Card
3 gigs of G-Skill Ram
250g hdd WD
500g hdd WD
150g hdd WD Raptor
Not sure what kind of CD drive is
I think that is about it.

What i hope to add to it is
XFX GTX 295
XFX 780i or 790i ultra
Liquid cooling
2 1TB hdd
More to come I guess. I well send Pics soon :D

[jdbnsn]

Woohoo! Congrats on breaking new ground and welcome to TBCS. I remember when I first joined and was also new to both forums and modding. It was a wild new world with endless curiosity. Grab a camera, roll up your sleeves and just jump right in. Take pictures even if it is of mistakes, people around here are fantastic about giving sound advice and helping with ideas and problem solving. You'll be on the front page before you know it!

Jon

[Freakout]

Sweet I hope so. Thank you so much for the nice welcome to jdbnsn.

So here they are the pics of my rig.

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z263/cooldud02123/100_0753.jpg

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z263/cooldud02123/100_0754.jpg

I wanted to show how big the case was so I put a 360 next to it.

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z263/cooldud02123/100_0756.jpg

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z263/cooldud02123/100_0762.jpg

[Freakout]

This thing is crazy. It has 6 3 speed 120mm fans and 1 3 speed 200mm fan on top. Some of the fans even have dust filters. It also has 4 removable bays.

[Freakout]

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z263/cooldud02123/100_0764.jpg dust filter

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z263/cooldud02123/100_0769.jpg

The inside of the case. If u can see through the mess of wire that i need to manage better that there is to different types of ram on this computer. The reason is that when I got the MB I didn't know what duel channel or single channel was. So the red stick single channel 2 1gig stick set. And the silver is from a 2 2gig 1066 duel channel set so untel i get anther MB it is going to have to stay like that.:(

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z263/cooldud02123/100_0772.jpg Here is the other half of the sets

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z263/cooldud02123/100_0773.jpg My cool G15 keyboard

And i know this is off topic but here is my new toy a Alienware m17 labtop with
2 512 ATI Radeon HD 3780 video cards
2 gig of ddr3 ram
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz
64Bit Windows Vista Ultimate

And here is my 3DMark Score: 11,708.00 3DMarks

SM2.0 Score: 4,893.00
HDR/SM3.0 Score: 6,860.00
CPU Score: 2,177.00
Game Score: 0.00 Points
SM2.0 Graphics Tests
GT1 - Return To Proxycon: 39.71 FPS
GT2 - Firefly Forest: 41.85 FPS
CPU Tests
CPU1 - Red Valley: 0.69 FPS
CPU2 - Red Valley: 1.10 FPS
HDR/SM3.0 Graphics Tests
HDR1 - Canyon Flight: 82.93 FPS
HDR2 - Deep Freeze: 54.28 FPS
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z263/cooldud02123/100_0774.jpg
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z263/cooldud02123/100_0775.jpg
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z263/cooldud02123/100_0776.jpg

So enjoy and i hope to have more stuff coming soon.8)

[Freakout]

OK i attempted to mod my computer by hiding my CD drive behind a stock drive bay.
But noooooo i cant do that cuz i suck. Well not really it worked and it looks good but i still messed up. What i wanted to do is use the re-set button on my computer to open my CD drive. but i had a dumb moment and unsolder my open button on my CD drive, and in doing so i messed up the board. Now the button doesn't work at all so instead of a button i have nothing. And now the only way to open it is to click open in my computer. So i guess i really didn't mess up to bad but it is not what i wanted it to do.

[DonT-FeaR]

thanks for reminding me i gotta get a kid at school to do that for me tomorrow :) he is leet solder... i am not..

bad luck tho mate

[Freakout]

lol yup no prob. Idk what it is with me but i am always bad luck. Oh well i guess u learn from your mistakes.

[Freakout]

ok i need some help from who ever reads this thing. I want to know for the lack of money if i should go with a good like gtx 260 or somthing like that for a video card or maybe two 9800 not sure. And if i do that i wanted to know if i should go with the an XFX 790i ultra or a XFX 780i. I know the XFX 790 is ddr3 Mother Board which i know is going to be good. but it scares me cuz i dont know anything about ddr3. I have heard it is meant more for gaming but idk i could be wrong. but any ideas would help me out.

[DonT-FeaR]

:| no idea sorry mate.. bit outa touch with the graphics... tbfo should help ya :P

[x88x]

For the graphics, it really depends on what resolution your monitor is and what you'll be doing with it. If you have a 1280x1024 or smaller monitor, your probably won't see a whole lot of improvement from a single 9800GTX to a GTX260. On the other hand, if you're considering dual 9800GTX's or a single GTX260, I would recommend the single GTX260, mainly because the scaling of cards in SLI is nowhere near 100% (averages around 20-40% if I remember correctly, depending on the program), assuming the dual 9800GTX's were to be put in SLI. As for DDR3, it greatly increases the possible throughput, but really only shines when you run in triple-channel mode (ie, you need sticks in multiples of 3). This is why you'll often see DDR3 kits now with 3 sticks instead of 2. DDR3 is still early in its life, and as such is also a bit more expensive still than DDR2, so it depends where your priorities are.

[Freakout]

Ya idk what i want it to do yet and i found a really good deal on a 9800 GT and i really like it. I have had no problem running any of my games with it so i really don't see the use of going any bigger any time soon now. So with that said i think i am going to focus on lighting and cooling for the time being. also thanks for the help x88x.