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MrRoper

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Whooooohooooooo

After stressing with $1,100.00+ worth of new pc parts on my living room floor, placing backorders with 4 different vendors and searching others multiple times
per day for about 3 weeks i finally got my evga 680i board A1. Just in time to beat my 30 day time limit for returns on the parts! ;)
So now i'm pumped, threw in all the parts, plugged her in, blam it posted without issue, formatted, installed (knock on wood) Yay!

Intel E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz - $194.99
nForce 680i SLI 775 A1 ver. - $227.00
VGA 8800GT KO 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 - $309.99
CORSAIR Dominator 2GB TWIN2X2048-8500C5D - $161.00
CORSAIR CMPSU-620HX 620W - $169.99
Seagate Barracuda 250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s x2 - $139.00
Samsung SH-S183L SATA DVD Burner - $29.99
LIAN LI PC-60BPLUSII - W - $134.99
Total - $1366.95 before tax (free shipping on all except the board)

It was supposed to be a christmas gift to myself and i told my girl i'd box it up after i tested the parts but .... hell if i can rip myself away from using this thing lol

Running stock for the time being except running unlinked to get the 1066 on the memory,
the machine fly's i love it. I feel that it was money well spent
crysis rocks! cod4 rocks! vanguard , holy sh*t is this the same game i was playing before ?
 
Nice! now OC that thing! I hope you can reach above 500Mhz FSB SDR on that board! 8x500=4Ghz!!! What CPU cooler did you get?

MrRoper said:
CORSAIR Dominator 2GB TWIN2X2048-8500C5D - $161.00
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Wow... $160 for 2GB... you would have been better off with the G.Skill 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2-1000 kit for less ($150 a few weeks ago; $130 now). Oh wellz.
 
buffbiff21 said:
You can find 4GB for $89...
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DDR2-800, limiting your E6750 OC to 8x400=3.2Ghz whereas DDR2-1000 lets you reach 8x500=4.0Ghz, if the board can go that high, lol.

You can actually find 4GB for less:

$37 - STT DDR2-800 2GB (128x8) S-RIGID Memory (Super Talent, single stick)
$37 - STT DDR2-800 2GB (128x8) S-RIGID Memory (Super Talent, single stick)
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$74 + tax and shipping
 
yeaop you guys are right, no doubt. i passed over lots of ram that was cheaper and much better bang for buck. I got looped in by the rebate, that turns out that rebate was only available for a week. doh.

I also got hung up on a higher ceiling 1066, micron ram and the 8500C5D's were on evga approved list. doubt i can get the cpu up to 4.0 :) with any type of stability after reading countless posts on this board. Hey everyone needs a pipe dream now and then . but that would be nice, i guess i'm just hoping for a modest 3.2-3.5 on air .

I am almost sure i got the dominator micron ram, it shows 2.2 volts on the sticker but i know that's no sure bet.



enginurd said:
DDR2-800, limiting your E6750 OC to 8x400=3.2Ghz whereas DDR2-1000 lets you reach 8x500=4.0Ghz, if the board can go that high, lol.

You can actually find 4GB for less:

$37 - STT DDR2-800 2GB (128x8) S-RIGID Memory (Super Talent, single stick)
$37 - STT DDR2-800 2GB (128x8) S-RIGID Memory (Super Talent, single stick)
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$74 + tax and shipping
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no cpu cooler yet. (I'm open for suggestions from real world usage if anyone has used something that is just the greatest at a reasonable price) i was fiddling around with rivatuner to get the gpu temps to respectable levels underload first.


enginurd said:
Nice! now OC that thing! I hope you can reach above 500Mhz FSB SDR on that board! 8x500=4Ghz!!! What CPU cooler did you get?
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Here are four good ones:

Thermalright Ultra 120 with Scythe S-FLEX SFF21E 120mm fan
Tuniq Tower 120
Scythe Ninja Plus Rev.B
Thermalright Ultima 90 with Panaflo FBA09A12M - Z (M1A-Z) 92mm fan

The Ultima 90 can handle both 92mm and 120mm fans, and both the Ultra 120 and Ninja Plus Rev.B can support a second 120mm fan (provided you purchase a set of mounting clips first).

And here is a list of chips used in DDR2 RAM. Looking at the list, I'd say that your RAM does have the Micro D9G chips in them.
 
My E6750 @ 3.8Ghz (475x8; 1.55v; VID: 1.35v) stays nice and cool (22°C ambient; AC MX-2 TIM):
27°C, 52°C: Tuniq w/ stock fan
28°C, 52°C: Ultima90 w/ 92mm Panaflo Hydrowave FBA09A12M
 
hmm, interesting, the thermalright ultra 120 and 90 look pretty nice. Tuniq tower too but wow is that thing Giiinormous not sure i have the space for that one, i'll have to do some quick measuring.

definatly no lack of options available for cpu coolers. this looked semi-interesting, not sure how well it works but... http://www.svc.com/fan-pn531.html or http://www.svc.com/cnps9700nt.html

I was pokin around and noticed these too, maybe a lill lower profile Thermalright SI-128 SE or perhaps ASUS Triton 75 CPU Heatsink both support 120mm fans. guess i'm leanin towards the thermalright ultra 120 at this point but i'll have to keep lookin round see what else i can find and what others people are using/have used
 
good build, the memory like the others above can be bought for cheaper. I would also go for a e6850 since it has a higher multiplier and clock speed if your into overclocking.
 
hmm according to that report not too far behind the others, I'm still goin for either the thermalright ultra 120 or 90

I've also discovered that the northbridge fan is exhausting onto the back of the 8800GT card. my 8800GT is cookin 70c-73c underload i guess is normal for stock fan but placing my hand on it intermittantly while gaming i think its only a matter of (short) time before the card melts itself somehow. probably going to need to add this to my order as well ARCTIC COOLING Accelero S1 VGA Cooler


enginurd said:
The Zalman's are overpriced for their low performance compared to the others listed.

http://anandtech.com/casecoolingpsus/showdoc.aspx?i=3068&p=4
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I probably could have afforded the e6850 had i not been so hung up on the ram, oh well . live and learn
 
MrRoper said:
I probably could have afforded the e6850 had i not been so hung up on the ram, oh well . live and learn
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The E6850 isn't wroth the price premium over the E6750, IMO. You're basically paying nearly $100 for 333Mhz. You most likely wouldn't notice that difference. And if you're OC'ing, no worries... they both have the same OC'ing potential (around 4Ghz).
 
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