Yeah, my 1055T ran hotter then all the equivalent Intel chips when I was doing research, but with my Noctua cooler I'm slightly overclocked and running @ 19°c

Reading about your rigs really makes me sad, they put my notebook PC to shame

Haha hey no worries HEPHEASTUS. I was on a HP laptop that was a few years old and over-heated constantly before I got this job, bought myself a desktop for my birthday!

I'm currently on my Lenovo V570 laptop, but in the market for a quality desktop. I purchased the case around christmas time (NZXT phantom crafted series) and now I am looking to fill it up with some parts. I want an i5 2500k and a msi twin frozr III 570, but don't know what mobo or powersupply to get. any sugestions?

I did a ass-load of research about a year an a half ago when I built mine and Corsair is the way to go for Power Supplies. I'd definitely suggest a modular one as well, especially if your going to have a window.

Dude Lenovo makes hands-down the best products on the planet, we use them exclusively at work and I'm so impressed. I personally have a Lenovo T410 and its the shit. I am in love with the little red dot mouse thing, I like it way better then the touchpad.

I can relate to this; I've played in the in-houses using my Dell D820N Laptop that I bought my freshman year of college (2006). I can't even read the text on some of the items because of my limited resolution. NBD.

I love the lenovo! During college I went through a pair of hp dv6000's. Ran hot enough to melt your thighs.... Corsair looks like the psu for me. Also, any first hand experience with corsair watercoolers? I am considering the H80. My old roomate had the coolermaster 212 big ass fan that did the job, but it was HUGE!

I've just always heard very mixed reviews about those in-line water coolers. If your gonna get fancy go for a whole water-cooling solution with a pump, otherwise just get the big ass fan. I've got something like this guy, the company is awesome and their included thermal paste is on-par with Arctic5 quality so that saves you a purchase.

Case Antec 900 older version
Power Supply Antec
Mother Board Evga 750i
Cpu Intel Q6600
Gpu Evga 260
Ram Corsair Domanator
Windows Vista 64bit "only the best ever"

Misc stuff
Mouse logitech mx518
keyboard Emachines
Monitor Samsung SyncMaster 2343
Headset Turtle Beach x11

last but not least bunch of penguins all over on my desk

A tux battlestation? PICS!

MSI GX660r laptop

Intel i7 720qm
Ati Hd 5870m
6gb ram
Steelseries Sensei
Logitech G35 or audiotechnica Ath m50 with clipon mic depending on mood

Alienware mx17 r3 = boss laptop and can practically bring it to any lan party and looki awesome

I've had two different Alienware laptops, they both melted after a little over a year. Similar experiences with friends who also purchased Alienware laptops. I will NEVER give them my business again lol. Plus you pay an extra $500 just for the Alien logo.

Granted this was back in high school when my p4 northwood 1.8ghz was a boss processor lol, I know Dell has bought them out since then.

here's my home computer that I built about a year and a half ago.

AMD Phenom II X2 555BE @ 3.2 GHz (unlocked to x4)
ASUS M4N98TD EVO AM3
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600 Watt
2x Barracuda 320 GB HD (RAID 0)
Windows 7 64-bit
8GB A-DATA DDR3 @ 1333 (7-7-7-20, 1T)
2x GeForce 9800 GT 512 MB (SLI) <-- running w/ a very mild OC that I can't remember
Plain old Antec Three Hundred case
“Monitor” is a Sony Bravia, 1080p, 60 Hz

I know, the GPUs are old but they work so well I can't really justify upgrading. They can still max-out the games that I play most often. Should have gone with a more boss PSU for future upgrade-ability.

I also have a 13" Acer TimelineX for "work". It has a GT 540M and is amazingly competent for such a compact laptop. Gotta work to keep it cool, though.

omg, my thread. prepare to shit your pants. built this guy 3 months ago. also have my ASUS G53J laptop (this is what I DOTA with you guys on, soon to switch to my tower) (PS ASUS or MSI >>>> ALIENWARE for laptops)

GIGABYTE GA-X79-UD3 MBoard
Intel Core i7-3930K Six Core, 12MB L3 Cache, 1.5MB L2 Cache, 3.20 GHz (3.80 GHz Max Turbo)
2x SLI MSI N560GTX-Ti Hawk GeForce GTX 560
1 x 120Gb Sandisk SSD
Corsair Dominator GT 16GB 2133-DDR3 RAM
2 x 2 TB seagate barracuda 5900rpm 64MB cache HDD (RAID)
Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1000W
Cooler Master Full ATX Tower (i think its the 940 cant remember)
1 x BR-reader/writer
1 x BR reader
Asus VE278Q 27" HD monitor

Will do liquid cooling this summer when i have more time. this thing is my baby and I love it. best part, company paid for most of it .

I'm kinda jealous. That's a monster you've got there. Why is it that you're playing Dota and not curing cancer with that thing?

actually i do overnight graphical rendering on it for my company. also its supposed to bo "only for work purposes". that rule didnt stick long.

That is some futuristic shit, get streaming!

1 problem, canadian ISP's my upload is MAX 1 MB/ ran speedtest yesterday was getting 0.75-0.85 MB/s. gonna have problems but gonna try anyways

That's about where I'm at with my ISP and I've heard mixed results about my stream from a few people *shrug* Not that I do it often. Also, I'm in Wisconsin we are practically neighbors heh.