diggitydru Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77-DS3H, Intel Z77 Chipset CPU: Intel Core i7 3770k OC to 4.2GHZ Case: Thermaltake Armor with 25cm side fan, 2x 120mm front fans (all intake), exhaust fans: 1x120mm PSU fan, 1x120mm exhaust fan, 2x90mm (one top and one rear) exhaust fans. BD-RE Drives: LG x2, one is a BD-XL capable burner and the other is just a 6x BD-RE RAM: 4x 1600MHz 8GB DDR3 G.Skill Ares with aluminum spreaders HDD: Crucial M4 512GB SSD (main boot), Western Digital 3TB Data drive and Patriot Torqx 256GB Windows Boot drive, Crucial M4 128GB SSD MINI PCI-E on the motherboard for data GPU: EVGA GeForce 640 GT with 4GB DDR3 RAM connected to a Dell 1920x1080 Ultrasharp 23" primary display and LG 32" 1080p TV, secondary display (both work OOB) BootLoader: Chimera v2.0.1 Kexts Used: USB 3.0 kext Boot Time: <30 seconds to Windows or MAC OSX 10.8.3 Runs like a champ, no water cooling needed because of all of the fans and I keep my place cool. EDIT: Geekbench scores 12,316 with memory performance at 7,205 and FPU @ 18,807 Thanks for your consideration. (images soon to follow) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlfilms Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 jus curious your steps to overclock? I got same board but i5 3570k with zalman cnps 10x performa cooler. i heard people say to jus set multiplier to 42 for 4.2ghz but my mac wont display it and someone said somthing about making a custom ssdt to make it work thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diggitydru Posted May 11, 2013 Author Share Posted May 11, 2013 Install HWMonitor.APP and check there. In the "About this MAC", it shows simply what's reported by the CPU, not the BIOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diggitydru Posted May 12, 2013 Author Share Posted May 12, 2013 I decided not to clean her up for her photos, she gets dusty in this area, in the garage, next to several farms up in Idaho, US. It's an OLD case that has seen many many mods done to it, and has lived well and strong through them all. I forgot to mention in the original post that I have 2 offline hard drives, both Western Digital 2TB drives and a USB/Firewire card, (can't test the firewire as I do not have any firewire devices but OSX recognizes the USB drives plugged into the external ports). I also have a USB 3.0 card reader that doesn't read cards in OSX but does give me a front-mounted USB 3.0 port for use in OSX. Attached are the pictures but for some reason it doubled them..... weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PunkNugget Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Well, I at least appreciate the effort of you being bold enough to display this machine, even though it's dirty. If it was me I would have used something like this to BLOW OUT the dust first: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16896367002 I personally have this DATAVAC and have ALWAYS used it before taking any pics of my machines. Also, doing a GeekBench test (regardless of what the score is) shows others what your machine can do. These are things that will help with voting. Hope this helps. Later... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diggitydru Posted May 16, 2013 Author Share Posted May 16, 2013 Well, I at least appreciate the effort of you being bold enough to display this machine, even though it's dirty. If it was me I would have used something like this to BLOW OUT the dust first: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16896367002 I personally have this DATAVAC and have ALWAYS used it before taking any pics of my machines. Also, doing a GeekBench test (regardless of what the score is) shows others what your machine can do. These are things that will help with voting. Hope this helps. Later... Thanks, I WILL use that next time :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BALDY_MAN Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 i like it a no frills work horse.cool 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampage Dev Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 Is this in a foundry? I worked for a foundry years ago and this is what the computers looked like when opened up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaanky98 Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Well, I at least appreciate the effort of you being bold enough to display this machine, even though it's dirty. If it was me I would have used something like this to BLOW OUT the dust first: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16896367002 I personally have this DATAVAC and have ALWAYS used it before taking any pics of my machines. Also, doing a GeekBench test (regardless of what the score is) shows others what your machine can do. These are things that will help with voting. Hope this helps. Later... lol I think I need one of these as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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