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[richy1976]

I was offered a CM Scout but didn't like the window design. The CM Storm Enforcer was £65 including next day delivery, very happy at that price, it's just like a little HAF-X with all it's useful touches and huge top and front fans (I used one of the top fans from my old HAF-X in this, since one isn't included).

 

The PC you posted is one of those Aerocool Strike X cases isn't it? Any good? It's probably a bit OTT for me but does look nice - however, I'm not keen on the side mesh, would prefer a window.

Yes decent case the strike st, a bit big wouldnt fit under my desk lol, i have edited my specs by the pic now.

The case was around the £200 mark at the time i bought it, i snatched it on a ebay auction brand new for £110 all in.

Edited by richy1976, 09 January 2013 - 12:16 AM.

[Bencrest]

Yes decent case the strike st, a bit big wouldnt fit under my desk lol, i have edited my specs by the pic now.

The case was around the £200 mark at the time i bought it, i snatched it on a ebay auction brand new for £110 all in.

 

Ah, same problem I had with my HAF-X then. I wanted it under my desk - it was too big as well.

 

Plus it weighed an INSANE amount. I picked it up locally for £65 second hand, I see you can now get them for £100 new inc delivery. There really is no need though, I'm so happy with the little enforcer, it might not have quite as many fans as the HAF-X but it's certainly adequate!!

Edited by Bencrest, 09 January 2013 - 12:33 AM.

[richy1976]

Ah, same problem I had with my HAF-X then. I wanted it under my desk - it was too big as well.

 

Plus it weighed an INSANE amount. I picked it up locally for £65 second hand, I see you can now get them for £100 new inc delivery. There really is no need though, I'm so happy with the little enforcer, it might not have quite as many fans as the HAF-X but it's certainly adequate!!

Yes is a nice pc yours.

21 fans you can hook up to my case lmao.

Edited by richy1976, 09 January 2013 - 12:37 AM.

[wangerman69]

I have no idea how to upload pictures but my rig is as follows Gigabyte ep45-ud3l motherboard Western Digital 500gb hard drive 4gb crucial ddr2 1200mhz Bfg GeForce 9800 gtx 1gb Intel dual core 2.6ghz Generic psu Apple 22" cinema display Apple slimline keyboard and magic mouse It really is nothing special except for the software it runs OSX Moutain Lion 10.7.2 Its a £3000 mac pro for about £400 when I built it

[wangerman69]

Might expand Big Blue to 256 k and get a new Winchester Drive.
The Amiga 1000 is expanded to a massive 8 megs!!

Cool

I have an a600 with expanded memory and a 68030 32meg 25hz accelerator card one of only a handful of cards specially made

http://amigakit.leam...roducts_id=1003

Long live lemmings

[wangerman69]

I also have this with every Amiga game ever made on it http://www.ebay.co.u...=item19cba1390c

Nearly forgot this

[Bencrest]

I never had an Amiga. When I was younger, I had an old Olivetti PC, I presume an 80286, with 20MB HDD (you had to 'park' the heads before turning it off, using WDPARK at the command prompt!). This was used for word processing (the old MS DOS versions of WordPerfect), gaming (CGA games, things like Lemmings, several arcade remakes, and the old Sierra adventure games). Used to have a dot-matrix black printer, and then one day, we got a COLOUR DOT MATRIX!

 

For those of you too young to know, this was a printer with an ink ribbon about an inch top to bottom, and when installed with the ribbon running left to right, you had 4 colour strips running left to right - red, blue, yellow and black. I did once try printing a full page of colour, and I think it took about 15 minutes. You could reuse the ribbon, but repeated use meant that the pins in the printhead would transfer the colours across the ribbon, so you ended up with muddy yellows almost looking brown. Sorry for going off on one, I get a bit nostalgic about my old computer junk!!

 

At the same time, we had a multitude of ZX Spectrums - the only ones I remember were the 48K (which was apparently an old 16K with some kind of addon kit to make it 48K) and then a series of 128K models, including a +2A which came with a light-gun.

 

In terms of PCs then, I started with the Olivetti 80286, then built a 486-DX2 66MHz (with a turbo button), then we had a Pentium 75MHz and a DX4-100MHz running at the same time (I remember the HUGE difference between the DX4-100MHz and P75 - the DX4-100 was hopeless in comparison on many SVGA titles, like the original GTA for example).

 

Seems things have gone the same way now, with Intel's offerings killing the AMD offerings, in games at least, clock for clock. My last built before this was a Phenom II 960T (6 cores but with 2 disabled, could be reactivated in the BIOS) - I ran it as a Quad core @ 4.2GHz, 1.475V or thereabouts. Even with bloody good graphics cards (including a Radeon 7950 Windforce) I was getting issues with very low frame rates (often dipping to 10>15fps in Heaven bench). However, plonked in the i5 2500K, clocked it to 4.5GHz, at about 1.300V, and framerates refused to drop under 30fps.

 

Coupled with an SSD, I don't think I'll be upgrading for years now. Much like my old Venice cored Athlon64 from the start of this thread (which I kept in use for about 3 years), I can't see anything on the horizon which will make a worthwhile upgrade, nor can I see the point of going faster. In the grand scheme of things, 4.5GHz across 4 cores is obscenely fast, and I know this chip goes faster but efficiency drops as I need to bump the voltage up every 100MHz. 

Edited by Bencrest, 09 January 2013 - 09:31 PM.

[wangerman69]

Wow thts quite a history I have a spectrum 128k +2 the grey one with the built in tape deck I started off withe a 486sx33 with 4mb ram and 40mb hdd Upgraded that to a 486dx2 66 with 8meg ram and a dual speed cd rom with sound blaster card Think it ended up as a 486dx4 100 in the end as well Had many happy days lugging the big box round my mates house to play deathmatch doom over a serial link Dos brings back happy memories

[Bencrest]

Wow thts quite a history I have a spectrum 128k +2 the grey one with the built in tape deck I started off withe a 486sx33 with 4mb ram and 40mb hdd Upgraded that to a 486dx2 66 with 8meg ram and a dual speed cd rom with sound blaster card Think it ended up as a 486dx4 100 in the end as well Had many happy days lugging the big box round my mates house to play deathmatch doom over a serial link Dos brings back happy memories

 

I used to love deathmatch Doom! I used to have a little network in my house (P75 at top of stairs, and DX4-100 in a bedroom) - used to play Doom on that, and I'm sure (but could be wrong) that we used to play GTA on the network later, but I can't remember what mode it was?!

[wangerman69]

Doom was just the best<br /><br />
<br /><br />
I had gta on the original PS you could put the CD into an ordinary CD player and could play the soundtrack <br /><br />
<br /><br />
You really should check out this I still play this lots http://zdaemon.org

Edited by wangerman69, 09 January 2013 - 09:51 PM.

[richy1976]

I never had an Amiga. When I was younger, I had an old Olivetti PC, I presume an 80286, with 20MB HDD (you had to 'park' the heads before turning it off, using WDPARK at the command prompt!). This was used for word processing (the old MS DOS versions of WordPerfect), gaming (CGA games, things like Lemmings, several arcade remakes, and the old Sierra adventure games). Used to have a dot-matrix black printer, and then one day, we got a COLOUR DOT MATRIX!

 

For those of you too young to know, this was a printer with an ink ribbon about an inch top to bottom, and when installed with the ribbon running left to right, you had 4 colour strips running left to right - red, blue, yellow and black. I did once try printing a full page of colour, and I think it took about 15 minutes. You could reuse the ribbon, but repeated use meant that the pins in the printhead would transfer the colours across the ribbon, so you ended up with muddy yellows almost looking brown. Sorry for going off on one, I get a bit nostalgic about my old computer junk!!

 

At the same time, we had a multitude of ZX Spectrums - the only ones I remember were the 48K (which was apparently an old 16K with some kind of addon kit to make it 48K) and then a series of 128K models, including a +2A which came with a light-gun.

 

In terms of PCs then, I started with the Olivetti 80286, then built a 486-DX2 66MHz (with a turbo button), then we had a Pentium 75MHz and a DX4-100MHz running at the same time (I remember the HUGE difference between the DX4-100MHz and P75 - the DX4-100 was hopeless in comparison on many SVGA titles, like the original GTA for example).

 

Seems things have gone the same way now, with Intel's offerings killing the AMD offerings, in games at least, clock for clock. My last built before this was a Phenom II 960T (6 cores but with 2 disabled, could be reactivated in the BIOS) - I ran it as a Quad core @ 4.2GHz, 1.475V or thereabouts. Even with bloody good graphics cards (including a Radeon 7950 Windforce) I was getting issues with very low frame rates (often dipping to 10>15fps in Heaven bench). However, plonked in the i5 2500K, clocked it to 4.5GHz, at about 1.300V, and framerates refused to drop under 30fps.

 

Coupled with an SSD, I don't think I'll be upgrading for years now. Much like my old Venice cored Athlon64 from the start of this thread (which I kept in use for about 3 years), I can't see anything on the horizon which will make a worthwhile upgrade, nor can I see the point of going faster. In the grand scheme of things, 4.5GHz across 4 cores is obscenely fast, and I know this chip goes faster but efficiency drops as I need to bump the voltage up every 100MHz. 

I had the 2500k clocked to 4.5ghz before upgrading to i7 3770k just running that at stock.