Post Your Game Setups!! (warning: large pictures possible)
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Ozymandis said:maskrider said:Definitely for games, ha ha ! And I don't use Linux, I follow the daemon.
Heh. Like I said, I was just curious. How is Final Fantasy XI, by the way?
The hard disk is not for FF XI to me (although I bought FF XI special Art box edition), I hadn't registered to PlayOnline yet.
The hard disk is there for a couple of games that supports it, e.g. FF X, Wild Arms 3, VF4, ...
It is also a storage for my save files and the BB Navigator to browse game information and get game demo.
Same here, have to clean up the mess first 
Well I'm back, it's still a little messy because I'm temporarily staying at my sister's home until I move to the east coast. My computer desk is currently dismantled and stored in the garage so this isn't the way it normally looks
Anyway here's my gaming setup. Sometimes I play on the Mitsubishi PTV, but I normally prefer this setup. Missing from the photos is my SuperGrafx and TurboDuo.
Well I'm back, it's still a little messy because I'm temporarily staying at my sister's home until I move to the east coast. My computer desk is currently dismantled and stored in the garage so this isn't the way it normally looks
Anyway here's my gaming setup. Sometimes I play on the Mitsubishi PTV, but I normally prefer this setup. Missing from the photos is my SuperGrafx and TurboDuo.
Johnny Rotten
Regular
Tagrineth said:Actually if you look at the sliding glass door you can see a reflection of the video shelf
The only thing I'm missing is surround sound, but the speakers on the HDTV do sound very good with DPL2 input from the GCN... oh well. I dunno, it's really just a novelty, nothing past stereo is really REQUIRED yet - I can tell pretty darn well where my enemies are in TimeSplitters 2 without real surround speakers! ^_^
Oh Tagrineth. Tagrineth Tagrineth Tagrineth.... full 5.1 sound reproduction is ANYTHING but a novelty.
If I had to chose between giving up my HDTV or my 5.1 sound system, well, I could live with a 32 inch television....Tagrineth said:
I'm glad you like it
That DC has the official clear shell from SEGA. I ordered the shell at NCS for around $30 and installed it myself. Also while I had the DC opened I replaced the factory orange LED with a white one even though it looks kinda blue in the below pic due to the tinted shell color.
Finally took a couple pics of my un-finished work...
Not to turn this into a home theater picture show, but I've spent the better part of my last 2 years of free time finishing our basement, a portion of which is my "geek area" shown below. It's a work in progress, but when it's a D.I.Y. deal, it takes a while...
I've got to finish the trim in the theater room, put a couple more pieces of equpiment in the racks, and block off empty rack space with plates still, among other things. Forgive picture quality as it's hard to take a good pic in the dark theater room...
First pic is a shot from the front row of seats. Walls are covered with acousical insulation and polyester batting, then covered in acoustically transparent fabric. When dark, you really only see the screen. The trim will be light oak, just like the speaker finish.
I'd better show an overhead view of the section of the basement in question:
So, the equipment is all in the "entry room" to the theater room with a double-studded, double-drywalled wall in between.
Now, the part that makes this a pertinent post to the topic at hand:
I also have a Dreamcast with quite a few games... I don't have a VGA connector for it yet, though... haven't had a chance to pick one up yet...
Now the extreme overkill, probably only appreciated by the biggest geeks among us: The equipment racks in the entry room. Don't forget the HTPC!:
And you need storage not only for games, movies, and CD's, but for diagnostics equpiment and such. I made sure I had a nice big work area next to the racks with the cabinet there:
One of these days I'll actually be done with things and be able to sit down and enjoy it! Sorry if I posted too many pics, but this has been a ton of fun for me.
-Chris
Not to turn this into a home theater picture show, but I've spent the better part of my last 2 years of free time finishing our basement, a portion of which is my "geek area" shown below. It's a work in progress, but when it's a D.I.Y. deal, it takes a while...
I've got to finish the trim in the theater room, put a couple more pieces of equpiment in the racks, and block off empty rack space with plates still, among other things. Forgive picture quality as it's hard to take a good pic in the dark theater room...
First pic is a shot from the front row of seats. Walls are covered with acousical insulation and polyester batting, then covered in acoustically transparent fabric. When dark, you really only see the screen. The trim will be light oak, just like the speaker finish.
I'd better show an overhead view of the section of the basement in question:
So, the equipment is all in the "entry room" to the theater room with a double-studded, double-drywalled wall in between.
Now, the part that makes this a pertinent post to the topic at hand:
I also have a Dreamcast with quite a few games... I don't have a VGA connector for it yet, though... haven't had a chance to pick one up yet...
Now the extreme overkill, probably only appreciated by the biggest geeks among us: The equipment racks in the entry room. Don't forget the HTPC!:
And you need storage not only for games, movies, and CD's, but for diagnostics equpiment and such. I made sure I had a nice big work area next to the racks with the cabinet there:
One of these days I'll actually be done with things and be able to sit down and enjoy it! Sorry if I posted too many pics, but this has been a ton of fun for me.
-Chris
LOL. It's not like it seems. I worked at a pretty high end audio shop in college and during/since that time (I'm 28 now), collected/swapped/traded up to the collection of equipment I currently have, in anticipation of this construction project. Some of the equipment I bought off Ebay or Audiogon... Some I just got really good deals on.
It's amazing what you can save on a project like this if you have the patience (and lots of it) to teach yourself how to do most of it yourself.
For instance, in the planning phase, I was awe-stricken when pricing cables for this project as many of the runs to the speakers are about 40 feet total (after you go up the wall, over, and back down). Imagine the bird's nest of interconnects inside the cabinets, even...
Solution: I bought a couple hundred feet of Canare L-5CFB (BF?), a crimp die, and a box full of Canare true 75-ohm RCA connectors. I used this highly regarded cable for nearly everything, (component vid to PJ, component vid from seating riser to rack, all digital coax connections, all analog coax connections). I didn't have $200 in the huge mess of cables and connectors.
The rack fans I got off a guy on Ebay who designed them for Worldcom's modem racks before they had their problems. Brand new, ~$40 each with 8-80 MM ball bearing fans in them. I couldn't have rack mounted the NAD amps without them as those babies get pretty hot...
You'd be suprised at how many "average Joes" complete a HT room similar to this one with lots of time and a little extra money... visit www.avsforum.com if you haven't before.
It's just a hobby, really, and it's amazing when you get into it how many "good deals" you can find as opposed to the ludicrous prices you probably see in popular audio/video magazines, etc...
Peppermonkey
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WOW! That's one of the most amazing setups I've ever seen. I hope I can do that one day... I would be in HEAVEN!
Ty,
I got the cable from a couple of different places and was actually making quite a few for friends and acquaintances at the time. Haveinc.com is supposedly the largest domestic supplier of Canare cable. You can also get it now from markertek.com. Have doesn't have online ordering (at least they didn't, anyway) and markertek does, but markertek is slightly more expensive in bulk.
On the issue of VMPS - I bought all the speakers in kit form (1/2 for the geek factor and to force myself to learn to solder well, and 1/2 for the cost savings). The kits are highly recommended as you get an idea of what's going on in the crossover, etc... as long as you have some soldering experience. BTW, it's not so much of a "kit" as you might think as the cabinets are completely assembled. All you have to do is install the drivers, assemble the crossover components, and solder the hookup wires.
VMPS makes the best speakers available anywhere, IMO. The RM40 won "Best of Show" at C.E.S. last year and this year, Brian Cheney (owner/designer) was runner up with his new speaker (RM/X) and was told in so many words that he was only runner up because he had won last year, pretty much. The winner, by the way, was the amp (Ampzilla) that he used in his setup and shared his booth space. The RM series is really something else...
On the issue of subs, I'd highly, highly recommend the VMPS larger sub with woofer upgrades (megawoofers) over anything else in its price range. No, I've never heard an SVS sub, but I've sold and been around VMPS subs since my college Hi-Fi audio store days and have yet to hear anything that played smoother, faster, more accurately, lower, or louder. When tuned properly, it can't be beat IMO...
PM me or email me at covermye@yahoo.com if you want/need more info on cables, etc...
I got the cable from a couple of different places and was actually making quite a few for friends and acquaintances at the time. Haveinc.com is supposedly the largest domestic supplier of Canare cable. You can also get it now from markertek.com. Have doesn't have online ordering (at least they didn't, anyway) and markertek does, but markertek is slightly more expensive in bulk.
On the issue of VMPS - I bought all the speakers in kit form (1/2 for the geek factor and to force myself to learn to solder well, and 1/2 for the cost savings). The kits are highly recommended as you get an idea of what's going on in the crossover, etc... as long as you have some soldering experience. BTW, it's not so much of a "kit" as you might think as the cabinets are completely assembled. All you have to do is install the drivers, assemble the crossover components, and solder the hookup wires.
VMPS makes the best speakers available anywhere, IMO. The RM40 won "Best of Show" at C.E.S. last year and this year, Brian Cheney (owner/designer) was runner up with his new speaker (RM/X) and was told in so many words that he was only runner up because he had won last year, pretty much. The winner, by the way, was the amp (Ampzilla) that he used in his setup and shared his booth space. The RM series is really something else...
On the issue of subs, I'd highly, highly recommend the VMPS larger sub with woofer upgrades (megawoofers) over anything else in its price range. No, I've never heard an SVS sub, but I've sold and been around VMPS subs since my college Hi-Fi audio store days and have yet to hear anything that played smoother, faster, more accurately, lower, or louder. When tuned properly, it can't be beat IMO...
PM me or email me at covermye@yahoo.com if you want/need more info on cables, etc...
I'm feeling a bit smug now, reviving possibly the oldest ever topic - and a bit of a shame none of the old pictures still work (well except for one ), but yeah - I just took some pictures of my setup and thought I'd share.
Would be great to see some others too, now 8 years later in the HD era...
), but yeah - I just took some pictures of my setup and thought I'd share.Would be great to see some others too, now 8 years later in the HD era...
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