Curious to see other peoples desktops.. I hope I'm not the only one with Dual Monitors

If you don't know how to take a picture of your desktop hit the "Prt Scr" Button which is above your insert key (Ins) then open paint and paste it into paint and save then upload to an image site.

Also thumbnails are a plus so no one with a slow computer gets pwnt.

Anyways heres mine

Heres my desktop, nothing really special, its whats in the case that counts:). Those are the temps of all 4 of my cores running 3.4ghz down in the corner.

You amateur, LOL, I have 4 19" LCD at my desk and 9 62" Plasma screens in front of the room for me to monitor our systems. Sorry no picture, but no cameras allowed in my work area. I'll see if I can find one we published on our website.

Nice, I plan on rebuilding a computer once I have extra cash to spend.

that doesn't count :p

Why does it not count, it is my desktop on the desk that I built. I also wired the room and server farm with 90% of cat6, fiber and AC Power. We were given a year to build this facility and have been upgrading and expanding ever since. We do 99% of the maintenance on 2nd shift. I can't find a picture that is accessable outside the .mil domain, but here is a public release on where I work. As for home, I hate computers. I check email, weather and my favorite sports teams. I have a 10 yr old computer still running Win200oPro with a 19" LCD.

http://server.admin.state.mn.us/resource.html?Id=7810

Ok, if you did it I'll let it count

nothing special here either. shouldnt put programs on the desktop so what ever i use the most is on my dock. yes i have a Macbook Pro and i love it!

EWWWW MAC! haha well heres mine thought it was a pretty cool background, had a gp but thats too original.

Pwded u all

eww you posted a mustang on a grand prix forum! lol it is a cool mustang though.

i bet you dont even know what kind of mustang that is jeremy!! and WITHOUT looking it up!!!! haha

shelby gt500, im not stupid, i know alot about mustangs also. cause thats usually what i race and beat

no its a MUSTANG SHELBY GT 500!!! lol

well no dip, you asked WHAT KIND OF MUSTANG, i dont have to put its a MUSTANG shelby GT500, lol

That's my current but this next is my old desktop with WindowsBlinds before my trial was over.

I have a picture of janet jackson boob on my desktop, didn't know if I should post that or not since thats nudity.

(From the superbowl with Justin Timberlake and Janet performed)

nuh un its a FORD!!!!! lol

No lol, if we shouldn't curse we shouldn't show jannets boob.

lol

I change mine quite often using pics from my C drive...this is the current desktop


This is a composite that I did for wallpaper...it pre-WS6 hood but I still love the look...]

wowzeers.....those last 2 are cool as heck lol

Work desktop, background pic changes daily this is today's pic....
I'll post my desktop at home later.



And please keep your pics clean, no nudity.

Here's my current.

my work desktop...

here is chop I did for wallpaper not too long after I bought the car...so will notice some "fantasy mods" that never came to be

Home desktop, it also changes daily and this is the back ground of the day for today...

im not the only one with a bike but my bike is better! hah

I love your guy's desktop themes and i espically like T Bat's.

didnt take a screenshot, but its this picture

Last fall's desktop already uploaded...lol.

zull is that a "live" radar map? if so how? please share.

My 22" LCD samsung below. And an old television monitor to view some video edits.

Indeed, do share.

Well a local news channel keeps an updated radar graphic on their website. The file name stays the same, and it updates every 5 minutes or so.
So if you go to where you change your background, hit "customize desktop" at the bottom, hit the "web" tab at the top, hit "new" and paste in the URL you want of the image. OK out of those windows and it will show up on your desktop. You can resize it and move it around, then go back into the settings and check "lock items" or something like that, so it stays put.
Sometimes it doesn't update the radar automatically so you have to right click anywhere on the desktop and hit refresh.
Also, this is all dependant on if the radar image you choose has a non-changing URL and doesn't have fancy scripting of some kind. (weather.com images will work if you choose "classic maps" rather than the interactive one)

New pics of my computer that i built. My theme is blue if you cant tell:) After I took that pic i took the case out dusted out all the filters and every other part inside the computer and then rewired everything to maximize airflow. I did a very good job and drop temps 5 degree celsius just with a wire rearrange.

I wouldn't advise this if you have a slower computer though. Because depending on what you want to use it can take up a decent amount of resources and if only have about 512MB ram (You prob need a new computer) it can become noticeably slow.

Looks good. I built mine about 3 years ago. After I do some things to my car I plan on turning this one into a home media server and building a new one with Quad AMD

Heres an old pic of mine (The ugly white dvd drive is out. Gf got me a lightscribe for my B-day )

And G15 Gaming keyboard FTW!

Showing off our rigs now, ey?



I've gotten more UV coolant since then so my water lines glow a nice green now.

Very nice, We have the same Speakers lol

You must have to have one huge exhuast fan to keep up with all of those intake fans...

Are you sure their intake? I would think they were exhaust...

I've got a 120mm for exhaust, that's it.

Computer cases are supposed to operate with positive pressure, keeps the dust out.

Yah true that. I have more intake fans then I do exhuast aswell, i got to thinking though 4 intake fans...wow lol. I've got 2 120mm on front of case and 1 120mm fan on the outside, and ive got an 80mm bringing air in on side.

Ah True, my side case intake fan was broken when I got it and I never bothered to send it back. So all I have are 1 exhaust fan... Not a high performance PC if you didn't guess lol... 1.8 Ghz AMD lol

There probably isn't enough heat generated that isnt taken care of by the heatsinks that you would need an extra fan in that case...meh idk though i could be wrong u could have better PSU, GPU, etc..

500W PSU and 6800 Nvidia lol. Nothing speical.

Next Vid Card is planning on 8800GT or if there is something else I decide on and have money for....

Thats alot of heat from the 6800...if I were you i would reccomend the 9800 when it gets cheaper. I have the 8800 GTS 640mb OC and i regret not getting a 9800.

mines got v-tec

so thats why your computer is so slow

exatly

heres my home computer

With that proccessor theone if you got any aftermarket cooling id advise you to atleast get 3.2ghz out of it because that quad can handle newhere from 3.2-3.4ghz on air cooling. Mines sitting at 3.4ghz and I haven't had a single issue.

nerds

X2 nerds!

yea i had it up to 3.4 but i didnt really need it that fast.. i want to i can always change it...

oh and the comments on being a nerd is not needed.. i am just multi talented...

Meh, we know it, and we enjoy it.

Wonder how much KR he's gettin with 3.2?

The term nerd / geek is a compliment these days. If somebody calls you that, they're really saying that you will live a more comfortable rest of your life than they will.

Thats kinda the truth, and Hercman my computers getting 0 KR :p

mines got nos, a big shelf wing , 30 decals, chromed out floppy drive, LIGhts everywhwere...2 12 hittin bass.....im sooo flyiiiiiiiii jk

Seeing those temps is so alien to me.

My stuff idles at like 30C and when I crank up my clocks for gaming I'm suprised if it ever gets above 50C.

I need to OC my cpu more though. My AMD x2 4200+ is at 2.4Ghz IIRC and I'm sure I can get some more out of it. I just don't remember any of it anymore lol, been a while.

Clocking the X1900XTX though is real easy. Open AtiTool, select profile, click load. 700/800 and she'll idle around 36C and load down to about 52C

My Quad core is like an oven and isn't easy to keep cool at anything past 3.5ghz. If I went liquid im sure I could push 3.5ghz-3.8ghz with the Q6600. My temps at idle are about 45c...and on full load around 60c, anything higher and I would start to actually worry. Lone im suprised your temps are as high as they are with the setup you have.

With my system the heatpipe design on my motherboard that ASUS made wasn't good for overclocking so I did a slight mod to the mobo and deleted the heatpipes and replaced them with pure copper heatsinks that have fans on them and it dropped my temps majorly and increased my overclocking potential by around a good 25%.

I'm going to be doing a few mods myself actually.

The voltage regulator on my 1900 actually climes to 105C!!!! That's hot enough to boil water!

And with such a tiny heatsink it's no wonder. I'll be putting a larger heatsink set-up on it, and maybe even a fan.

My GPU draws 69 amps IIRC while she's under load. My only limiting factor is that voltage regulator. I'm worried that I'll fry it if I clock the GPU and higher. So for now, it will stay as is.

Mind you, that was when I was stress-testing the system so ACTUAL temps will never reach that high but still, that's hot.

Also, the Reserator V2 system is very powerful. It's entirely passive, save for the pump. And it's a small and rather quiet pump.

So 50C is quite reasonable for the flow and lack of active cooling.

I've been thinking about getting a water cooling system but I just dont know if I can trust it to cool my Q6600 @ 3.4ghz...I've heard of a couple that can cool dual cores and single cores but the quads produce so much heat it will cost me a fortune to get a Quad liquid cooler.

Do some research on peltier junction cooling.
Not sure if theres any retail kits but DIY folks can do it.
Hint: draw peltier power from separate 12v source.

The problem with peltiers is that you still need to remove that heat.

The one side get's really cold, great of overclocking.

But the OTHER side get's WAY WAY hot. And so you'll need heat sinks and piles of airflow to make sure you don't spike up the ambient temps to the point where everything ELSE overheats.


EDIT: And by seperate 12v source, he means grab an old PSU, a paper clip, and some electrical tape.

I have set my overclock back, just for fear of stability. I cannot set at 3.4ghz and run stable on air, my pc just limits me for some reason, I mean it can run for hours, but it wont be Pure stable like it is at 3ghz. 3ghz is still plenty fast for me and keeps temps reasonable. I'm actually sitting at a lil cooler then your pc lone, except i have the oven in mine lol. The 8800 produces so much heat and so does the quad that I really wish I had a better way to get rid of it. For some reason temps in the 60's just bugs my pc.

I have a Commodore 64.

It runs a little slow, anyone know how I could speed it up a little?

Drop a new PC inside it. I've got a 486 Dx2 floating around the house somewhere, want it?

I've done the OC game before and it always turn into a tiresome battle between stability, heat, and your wallet. I'm just fine with my 4600 x2 running at stock speeds.

BTW, is it just me or is anyone else amazed at how big heatsinks are now? I remember when my Thermalright AX7 on my 1700XP was considered a big, heavy mofo. Now that is almost small compared to OEM coolers. I also remember when heat pipes just began to emerge. They were nowhere near as efficent as they are now.

Dont even mention heat pipes, I hate them, they dont cool anything when it comes to higher end pc parts:(

You could add some ram if you have some space for it and im sure you could do a system Defrag (Get Diskkeeper) and if you want to mess with "msconfig" type that into run and click the start up tab and unc heck things you don't want to start up automatically when you turn your computer on and log in. But don't un check anything you don't know what it is.

I dont think you know what a commodore 64 is. Its one of the oldest personal computers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

Oops lol. all I read was the part on it running slow. Totally skipped that part haha

im the only one brave enough to run vista it seems.

I'll probably put it on my next computer build. Have Dual boot with XP and Vista and make this one a linux DEV server.

OK, since I just got my laptop, I'm still setting things up. But here are the first two contenders:

[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v361/Acefighter/Untitled2.jpg
[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v361/Acefighter/Untitled.jpg
(Who can tell me what that formation is?)

It's not a formation? Lol i have no idea about that kinda stuff...

Yucky Vista...you should upgrade to XP

Missing man formation, or something other like that.

I'm running XP on the desktop, Vista on the laptop.

Yes, that's the Missing Man formation.

2nd element leader pulls up to represent the lost soldier as the rest fly on.

However, around here, I've always seen them fly in formation and then one of them rolls and pulls away, instead of pulling straight up.

Also, the last time I saw it IIRC, every one of them rolled and pulled away from the lead plane in turn.

I ordered 2 92mm Vantec Tornado's. They move 119 CFM's and are crazy fans. One will go on my CPU cooler and one will go on my side of case. I'm pretty sure its going to lower temps by 10c-20c. I should be stable to go to 3.5ghz or 3.6 on air cooling.

Get a fan bus controller so you can slow them down when you're idling. I have a Tornado 80mm that I used to use on my old Athlon system. The high pitched scream that comes from them gets old quick.

Hahaha acefighter... we have the same background tastes... I've had those same backgrounds (slightly different formation on the 2nd pic) within the year.

I watched a video of the 92mm Tornado and I thougth they were kidding about the sound but I realise its LOUD. I did get a fan controller and reduced my order to 1 fan heh. I heard just the 1 fan can drop temps 10c.

Nice.

Yes, it's the Missing Man formation, although I don't know why they would have just rolled away, lonezergling. Pulling up symbolizes his trip to the heavens...I hope it's not some more political correctness BS.

And so far, I don't have any problems with Vista. When I get time to get in there and start tweaking settings, we'll see, but for just a regular every day user, I don't see why people don't like it.

I enjoyed vista for a solid 3-4 Months before it started to crap on me giving me errors and blue screens of death (could be fixed now with some of there service packs and updates?) but I just couldn't stand it so now im on Windows XP SP3. I may upgrade once they get things way stable.

I have hit 3.6ghz on Air cooling with my Q6600. It's quite amazing seeing all 4 cores at this speed...but theres nothing that really utilizes all the power unless im heaviley multitasking, gaming, or modelling in 3ds max.

I know this is an old topic, but I was wondering what some of you guys had for wallpaper now.

Here's what I've got, click for larger size (duh):

Lately its been pics of the Sebring (new toy syndrome)

This is the current shot...Detroit skyline with GM HQ in the backdrop...pics was shot at Belle Isle Park.

One of the pics I took down at the beach one day with my D60.

My last few ive had...

Current background

My Daughter giving me a kiss

Aw, how cute. :p

DoberManJT, I don't see any picture.

my border collie; Cole relaxin on my bed with, of course, one of his million tennis balls.

^^ MAC FTL

lmfao you better be kidding! at least my laptop doesnt sound like its gonna take off into space every time i turn the damn thing on!

Its the Dell notorious FAN NOISE, never buy a Dell, they suck. Only reason i got it was because it was cheap at the time.

That's weird, my photo was on there. Well, here's a re-post in a smaller format:

Doberman that is a way cool image...pardon my ignorance here in the PC world, but how are you guys getting the snapshot of your desktop? I've tried right clicking on the desktop but I dont see "save image" or "capture image" listed as an option.

Anyways, this is the image I currently have displayed...

Tbat, you hit "Prnt Scrn" (print screen), and then go into PAINT and paste the image, save, and post