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Okay sorry for being such a n00b and posting a thread about my new comp, you can flame me if you like. FexEx has finally delivered my video card which is the last piece of my new rig this morning at 8am, yeah I got up at 7. :D



The 7800 GTX is incredibly fast, I guess that article that talked about how resolutions above 1600x1200 wasn't optimized until 7800 is nothing but truth. My X800 XT PE took a big hit in framerate once I hit above 1600x1200, with 4xAA 8xAF I was getting less than 20 FPS on the map Dragon Valley in BF2. But with my new 7800 I can do 4xAA 16xAF at 1920x1200 with FPS above 50! :D

Okay that's enough I gotta catch some sleep, for anyone that plays at resolutions above 1600x1200, you gotta upgrade to this card. :D

Btw, X2 stock HSF sucks getting XP-90 :cool:
 
Dude, I have a similar setup but inside a Coolermaster Wavemaster, tell me how your P180 goes in terms of airflow. I might take that route as well. Nice cabling job though.
 
What case is that and I am curious, it seems there are some covered areas via those plates and what are those round ring retension type things ?



very nice looking case and layout. I wish I would have bought the asus premium over the fatal1ty sli board. But the fatal1ty sli board is still pretty damn awesome.
 
SixFootDuo said:
What case is that and I am curious, it seems there are some covered areas via those plates and what are those round ring retension type things ?



very nice looking case and layout. I wish I would have bought the asus premium over the fatal1ty sli board. But the fatal1ty sli board is still pretty damn awesome.
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It's an Antec P180. Not sure what you mean by "covered areas via those plates," but the bottom section is pretty much sealed off from everything else.

The rings on the hard drive cages are there so you have something to grip when pulling them out.
 
That BFG card is definitely faster than my Inno3D. But they're both super fast since they're both 7800GTXs. Cool, ey?




Changed the VGA cooler into a Zalman V700 Al-Cu. ;)




This cool cat adds a few more FPS to the system...
 
neubspeed said:
Dude, I have a similar setup but inside a Coolermaster Wavemaster, tell me how your P180 goes in terms of airflow. I might take that route as well. Nice cabling job though.
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Airflow is quite good as long as you buy an additional 120mm fan for the front intake in front of the upper HDD cage. With the stock X2 HSF my CPU idles at 32c and MB idles at 35c. Video card idles at 45c and gets up to 70c under full load, which from what I've seen is quite normal for the stock 7800 cooler. The case is very quiet, I have the intake and back exhaust set to medium and the top exhaust set to low, can't hear anything but my annoying stock X2 HSF.

Cable management is good although it takes some effort and time to route everything through, no worries about cuts though all edges are filed down, and since the two HDD cages pull out, there's a whole lot of space behind them to stuff the cables.

The VGA duct is purely useless though, you can't mount an 80mm fan either inside or outside, because it doesn't have enough depth either way, if you mount the fan outside then it will be stopped midway by your video card, if you mount it inside there's only about 2mm clearance for it to suck in air therefore making it very loud when in operation. I'd say take off the drive rails and toss the duct.

This case is very high quality, but I wish they could have made a better VGA cooling solution that actually worked.
 
SixFootDuo said:
What case is that and I am curious, it seems there are some covered areas via those plates and what are those round ring retension type things ?



very nice looking case and layout. I wish I would have bought the asus premium over the fatal1ty sli board. But the fatal1ty sli board is still pretty damn awesome.
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It's an Antec P180, go here for a detailed review:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1833165,00.asp
 
forumposter32 said:
what kind of monitor to show that kind of resolution?
did you disable VSYNC?
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Dell 2405FPW, 24" Widescreen LCD monitor. I don't use Vsync because it doesn't really fix anything in my eyes.
 
i just bought a Dell 2405fpw

lets see how my 6600GT sli setup handles it *giggles*

might end up upgrading sooner tho
7800GTX or lower end model
 
Ruffy said:
i just bought a Dell 2405fpw

lets see how my 6600GT sli setup handles it *giggles*

might end up upgrading sooner tho
7800GTX or lower end model
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With no AA my X800 XT PE ran just fine with all options cranked up, but I'm spoiled by the cleanliness of AA. :p
 
Btw, does anyone know if an 80mm x 80mm x 10~15mm case fan exists? I couldn't find any at either Newegg or Zipzoomfly, if I can find a fan like that then I can make the VGA duct work.
 
sakurakana1003 said:
With no AA my X800 XT PE ran just fine with all options cranked up, but I'm spoiled by the cleaniness of AA. :p
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but at those resolutions do you need much AA
 
LOL, it looks like I bought the last one of those fans, right after I added it to card it started showing out of stock, hopefully I'll get one though. :)
 
sakurakana1003 said:
LOL, it looks like I bought the last one of those fans, right after I added it to card it started showing out of stock, hopefully I'll get one though. :)
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still shows in stock for me

you can get it here also
 
sakurakana1003 said:
They need to add a bowing smilie. :)
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Like this?


LOL, I'd seen that fan a while back, so I already knew about it :p
Jab-tech and performance-pcs are my favorite stores to buy accessories from, so I just did a quick search.
 
sakurakana1003 said:
Dell 2405FPW, 24" Widescreen LCD monitor. I don't use Vsync because it doesn't really fix anything in my eyes.
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Vsync doesn't do much for the eyes... it just minimizes 'screen tearing' and slows down frame rates. At least, that's what I think it does.
 
I have a p180 and all of my fans are set to low, and it still seems loud to me, but I added an additional 120 mm fan. I got an 80 mm tricool fan (which was recommended by antec)for the vga duct, but as was mentioned above, it doesn't even fit! wtf? If you mount it on the outside, there isn't enough room because the video card is in the way, and when you mount it on the inside there just isn't enough room and there aren't any holes for your fan cables. wtf?

This is a decent case, but it certainly doesn't live up to its hype. There are just way too many flaws in the design.
 
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