Monster - My PC as of July 2013

[danno81]

OK, so I've finally got that couple of 780s to replace my clearly old and useless three TriFired 7970s GHZ! 🙂

I thought I'd use this as a chance to show pics of my build (full specs in my sig).

Much love to you all.

EDIT: I added a pic of my new work space. The PC is built to drive this setup:



The PC itself:



















Any questions as always feel free to ask anything.

Cheers,

Dan.

[samual]

Great setup, Love those 780's.

[danno81]

Thank you. They are very awesome cards!

Last night, after taking some pics of my machine, I used all that power to play... Peggle!

To be fair I normally do things that use more of its potential but I was in a mindless clicking mood yesterday. Peggle seemed to fit that need.

[Menthol]

Very nice setup, I like the 780's but why would 3 7970's be old and useless or was that your excuse to get new cards

[Zka17]

Yeah, my eyebrows went up too reading "useless three TriFired 7970s GHZ"... are the two 780s much better? have you done some comparing benchmarks with both setups?

[Giannis996]

i like your spec!! but yea whats wrong with 3 7970's??

[danno81]

Well based on the comments I guess my intonation didn't come across as I intended. The age old readers interpretation vs actual meaning issue.

There's nothing wrong with 3 7970s, I was mocking myself really for making such an unnecessary 'upgrade'.

Performance wise it's a sideways move give or take. When I upgraded my CPU and board I went for the 7970s as they were the best option available but I wanted to wait for the 780s. I had a problem with one of the 3 AMD cards and it's being RMA'd at the moment. When I get the replacement I'll sell the 3 AMD cards on, they're about 4/5 months old so shouldn't be a problem to do and it's still the top end of the AMD lineup.

I prefer the software/driver suite and the 3D output on nvidia cards which is my main reason for changing. That and the cards themselves look a lot nicer in my opinion.

Someone will enjoy the 7970s when I sell them on, maybe even 3 people if no one wants to CrossFire them.

Just to be clear there's nothing wrong with the 7970s 🙂

[Zka17]

danno81 wrote:
Just to be clear there's nothing wrong with the 7970s 🙂

Good! :cool:

[HiVizMan]

LOL I still love my 7970 cards. And they are still the cards of choice for many many benchmarks even after more than a year.