Hi all

[Granger]

I came here from TTL's facebook, hunting for the all elusive reviewers post

I'm Granger (first name, not last and nothing to do with that bloody Hermione thank you very much!!!) Its also a blokes name

I'm english, but I live and work in France since 1991.
My hobbies are PC (gaming and hardware) photography (very amateur) mountain biking and fishing.
I am married, no kids and work in the building trade as a forklift driver.

My PC at the moment (changes quite often)
Cooler Master HAF 932 with custom artwork on side panel.
Asus Rog Crosshair V Formula
AMD Phenom II 1100T cooled by a Swiftech Apogee HD and the Swiftech 3.120 rad/res/pump combo (bought as a kit, but has been added too in the past for a bigger loop with a 2.120 XP swiftech rad and 2 HD6870's mounted with Swiftech's MC82's now retired)
2 x 4Gb G-Skill PC3-17000 (only running at 1838mhz, can't get the 2133mhz because of the CPU)
Sapphire HD7970 Vapor X Ghz Edition
Cooler Master Silent Pro Hybrid 1300W
4 spinning HD's (2 x 1Tb and 2 x 500Gb) and OS on a Corsair P3 128Gb SSD
Sunbeam 6 channel fan controller.
Samsung DVD reader/writer

 

[JMOC]

Hello and welcome to the forum.

 

[Excalabur50]

G'day Welcome to the forums

 

[Snortan]

Welcome to OC3D! :wavey:
That's an over-over-kill psu you have there , make a buildlog when you have the time.

 

[Granger]

Thanks, got a good deal on my PSU, so I was thinking with capacitor ageing and all, it would be good for the next 10 years

I am in the process of doing that as a reveiw of my rig. Needed to takes some more pics as I havent got any with the 7970 inside it.

Hopefully will get that up sometime next week.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Caps degrade over time no matter the usage. The fact that you aren't even using close to half the wattage of the PSU just means it will degrade faster as PSUs are most effcient at 50% load.

Welcome to OC3D

 

[Pyrotoxik]

Welcome! I've got to say, I'd like to see the art on the HAF 932. My friend's got a HAF 932 and maybe if I show him your art he'll let me touch up his side panel haha.

 

[Granger]

Caps degrade over time no matter the usage. The fact that you aren't even using close to half the wattage of the PSU just means it will degrade faster as PSUs are most effcient at 50% load.

Welcome to OC3D

That I didn't know, although with all I have in my rig, the PSU calculators put me between needing a 670W to 950W power supply. (The ASUS one being the worst, says I need 1050W lol)

I'm not OC'ed at the moment (having a few BS issues) I am usually OC'ed at 4.2Ghz

Heres a pic of my side panel for you Pyrotoxik:

 

[Mark3Max]

Hi Granger , Welcome to the OC3D forums.
Nice looking rig you have there , Great job on the art work , is that air brush?
You should post your rig in the Rig Gallery .
Also what PSU calculators are you using ? that seems a bit high.
Enjoy your time here reading and posting.

 

[WYP]

Welcome to the oc3d forums

 

[Granger]

Hi Granger , Welcome to the OC3D forums.
Nice looking rig you have there , Great job on the art work , is that air brush?
You should post your rig in the Rig Gallery .
Also what PSU calculators are you using ? that seems a bit high.
Enjoy your time here reading and posting.

It will end up in there when I get around to grabbing a some pics (didn't think to take any last time I pulled her apart.
Thanks for the artwork, my nephew will start getting a swelled head soon lol no airbrush, normal brushes with acrylic paint and a couple of coats of mat varnish.

For the PSU calculators, I take an average from 4 or 5 (using Asus, MSI, Newegg and Extreme) (can't find link to the last one that I use)

 

[vorticalbox]

welcome

 

[Remmy]

Hey man welcome to the forums

 

[Reloaded2]

G'day Welcome to the forums

 

[Mark3Max]

It will end up in there when I get around to grabbing a some pics (didn't think to take any last time I pulled her apart.
Thanks for the artwork, my nephew will start getting a swelled head soon lol no airbrush, normal brushes with acrylic paint and a couple of coats of mat varnish.

For the PSU calculators, I take an average from 4 or 5 (using Asus, MSI, Newegg and Extreme) (can't find link to the last one that I use)

Corsair's webpage also has one.
http://www.corsair.com/us/learn_n_explore/?psu=yes

Edit: VERY NICE JOB on the brush painted artwork!!!

 

[Rory.Will]

Hey man welcome to the forums!

Loving the artwork on the HAF! Is that vinyl or sprayed on?

Edit: Just seen your post Airbrush! Nice one!

 

[ShaunB-91]

Hello and welcome.