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OldFatGuy: Intel i7-980X (Sandy Bridge, IIRC) - Liquid Cooled
ASUS P6X58-E Pro motherboard
12 GB 1600Mhz Triple Channel A-DATA Gaming RAM
240GB SSD Hard Drive, with 1 other SSD drive (120GB) and two 1TB 7200RPM 64Mb cache hard drives
One blue ray player and one DVD/CD player/rewriter
Two Nvidia GeForce 470 GTX video cards in SLI mode
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Antec Full Tower Case
900 Watt Lepa PSU

Running Skyrim absolutely maxed out and with some additional tweaks even beyond Ultra settings with perfection, zero frame rate issues.
wow ... that's quite a machine!
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crazy_dave: wow ... that's quite a machine!
Yeah, not bad considering it's really over two years old now (the case and motherboard and one SSD drive are all that's new and the motherboard was refurbished and is now discontinued).

Scores a 7.9 for both graphics settings on the Windows Index thing, a 7.8 for the CPU and memory, and a 7.7 for the hard drive (which I don't get because it is an SSD).
Post edited January 10, 2013 by OldFatGuy
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OldFatGuy: lol, that sounds like something above my pay grade! Don't think I would know how to do that.
Power splitters are available (I just found one here), but not in any store near me, which is why I had to build one of them myself (it's really just two of these joined to one female connector, very simple to do, really).
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Licurg: You should play Sacrifice on it :)
You have my respect sir! I love every single person who spreads love for Sacrifice!
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OldFatGuy: Only problem I'm having is with the wireless mouse and keyboard (Logitech) that don't seem to have the range necessary from the computer to the couch. And no way a wired mouse reaches that far
Just a thought, but have you tried putting the Logitech dongle in the front USB ports with the least obstructed view? I know trying to get signal past the monstrosity I call an entertainment center can be a bear, so much that I bought a male-to-female USB cable and put the dongle on it towards the front of the TV stand to get it out of the RF nightmare. :)
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PCGameGuy: Just a thought, but have you tried putting the Logitech dongle in the front USB ports with the least obstructed view? I know trying to get signal past the monstrosity I call an entertainment center can be a bear, so much that I bought a male-to-female USB cable and put the dongle on it towards the front of the TV stand to get it out of the RF nightmare. :)
Yeah, it's plugged into the front USB port of the computer, and there is no obstruction in between. It is sort of in and out, not consistant enough to count on. But if there is an obstruction (like somone standing) between the couch and computer, I get ZERO results. Mouse doesn't budge. But even when unobstructed, it sort of half way moves, or something I'm having a hard time explaining.

I'll slide the mouse left to right for example, and the mouse cursor will move left to right, but jumpy, and it stops and starts and is really hard to ever get to point at what I want. But when I move closer, it's fine. Didn't anticpate that at all because the couch can't be more than 10 to 12 feet away from the where the computer sits. Have been wondering whether or not to try a different brand or model, but would hate to spend that money and get the same result.

ADDED IN EDIT: I just found and ordered what I needed to hook up those final two fans. It's cool because this case has 3 front fans that are colored red (and two rear ones colored red with two on top not colored) and right now only two of the three front fans are running and you can tell there should be another one and so it looks weird. It will really look cool once I get all of them hooked up.
Post edited January 10, 2013 by OldFatGuy
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gameon: What are your latest pc specs?
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OldFatGuy: Intel i7-980X (Sandy Bridge, IIRC) - Liquid Cooled
ASUS P6X58-E Pro motherboard
12 GB 1600Mhz Triple Channel A-DATA Gaming RAM
240GB SSD Hard Drive, with 1 other SSD drive (120GB) and two 1TB 7200RPM 64Mb cache hard drives
One blue ray player and one DVD/CD player/rewriter
Two Nvidia GeForce 470 GTX video cards in SLI mode
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Antec Full Tower Case
900 Watt Lepa PSU

Running Skyrim absolutely maxed out and with some additional tweaks even beyond Ultra settings with perfection, zero frame rate issues.
That's one powerful PC. I doubt you'll have much problem running games for the "next gen" games either.
I remember you had lots and lots of questions on the first one. Sounds like you just slapped this one together without a second thought. Well done.

Sounds like a pumped system. Do your lights flicker when you boot up?
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PCGameGuy: Just a thought, but have you tried putting the Logitech dongle in the front USB ports with the least obstructed view? I know trying to get signal past the monstrosity I call an entertainment center can be a bear, so much that I bought a male-to-female USB cable and put the dongle on it towards the front of the TV stand to get it out of the RF nightmare. :)
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OldFatGuy: Yeah, it's plugged into the front USB port of the computer, and there is no obstruction in between. It is sort of in and out, not consistant enough to count on. But if there is an obstruction (like somone standing) between the couch and computer, I get ZERO results. Mouse doesn't budge. But even when unobstructed, it sort of half way moves, or something I'm having a hard time explaining.

I'll slide the mouse left to right for example, and the mouse cursor will move left to right, but jumpy, and it stops and starts and is really hard to ever get to point at what I want. But when I move closer, it's fine. Didn't anticpate that at all because the couch can't be more than 10 to 12 feet away from the where the computer sits. Have been wondering whether or not to try a different brand or model, but would hate to spend that money and get the same result.

ADDED IN EDIT: I just found and ordered what I needed to hook up those final two fans. It's cool because this case has 3 front fans that are colored red (and two rear ones colored red with two on top not colored) and right now only two of the three front fans are running and you can tell there should be another one and so it looks weird. It will really look cool once I get all of them hooked up.
All I have left to offer is the USB extension cable idea then. Maybe use some Velcro to stick it like a Wii sensor or Kinect to the top of the TV or on the side closest to your chair about halfway up? I know ti's a kludge but if it works you can compute in the east chair. :)