New computer coming together... almost finished 56kwarn

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Homer

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Well, I did everything I can until tuesday (damn 4th of july no shipping :( ). Here are a whole bunch of pics to show progress. This isnt in worklog or case gallery sections yet because its not a mod worklog and its not finished. As you will see I'm missing a few parts still (being shipped right now) I'm going to bench it with the corsair, and if I dont like the performance I'll RMA it to newegg for a refund and get different stuff.



(just realized one of the ram modules isnt in all the way, lol)


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Awesome pics. What processor are you gonna put in there? And what camera did you use, just out of curiosity?
 
Yeah, very sharp pictures. I want to know how many megapixels the camera has. Maybe you need to change the aperature size though (equal to 22 on an SLR, don't know how the digitals work).

Anyway, what brand name IDE cables are you using? I thought about using cables like that too.

I used one cable for the HDD (primary) and the other for DVD (secondary).

How many cooling fans does your case have? And do you have a temperature readout?
 
Nice. Very nice. Nice camera too :D . I'ma havta get a S754 PCie board just for that card, i can see that already. :D
 
I am using those cables (the yellow ones) because they unexpectedly came with the mobo. So I was like what ever I'll use them till I get better uv ones.

I cant use the machine till tuesday or wednesday. The xoxide shipment (PC Power and cooling 512 express, fans, etc) is coming for sure tuesday, and the newegg shipment of my X2 4400 is coming either tuesday or wednesday.

Thank you all for commenting. The camera I'm using is a Canon PowerShot G6...

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Boy, those DFI motherboards are amazing looking. Nice setup.
Ever consider putting the hard drive in the other way? So that the cables come out the back of that hard drive enclosure. Then you could run the wire along the outside of the enclouser to the motherboard. Might make it look tad bit neater.

Other then that, it looks really nice, and you should have a monster computer on your hands by the time you get it up and running.

Just out of curiosity, what cooling will you use for the processor?
 
Well, there's two items on the X-Mas list! 7800GTX and Canon Power shot. :D
 
Currently when I get the processor all the cooling will be stock (except for 4 tornadoes in the case). Once 7800 heatsinks start coming out I may look into one of those. For the processor I may just go with the XP-90C with a 92mm tornado, for a while atleast. I think eventually I would like to watercool the whole setup, but again I want to do it all at once so I need to wait for 7800 blocks/heatsinks. Ok, I reversed the raptor 74gb like you said I should try, and it works great for hiding the cables. I'll post a picture in a minute when my camera gets done charging.
 
nice pics. focus is good (except that last one :p) better than i get with a sony camera... might have just been inexperience with the camera tho. w/e.

more on-topic, looks good. what PSU will you be using?
i'm invisible!!!
 
Yeah that last one I took in a hurry just to get the point across. The power supply I will be using is a PC Power and Cooling 510 Express SLI.
 
The hardest part will be hiding all of the power wires because I have so much stuff to plug in. Oh well, I'll try my best :) Cant wait to get benching this beast.


Get this.... all of you who bought an X2 4800, I'm sorry but poor choice. Look, the 4400 has the exact same specs as the 4800 except its 200MHz slower. The price difference is huge, about $400. So, you paid 400 bucks more for 200 mhz? I bet you I'll get my 4400 to that on stock air. lol That alone almost paid for another 7800
 
Homer said:
PC Power and Cooling 510 Express SLI.
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awesome choice. those things rock :cool:

good luck overclocking that x2. i haven't seen OC results on those yet - be sure to post 'em.

mwhahaha
 
Those pics are pretty sharp, I was expecting an SLR of some sort. I've always associated point-and-shoot cameras with horrible image quality. Then again, it could be the fact that I have a 2 megapixel Canon powershot... :eek:
 
This is a pretty nice "point and shoot", and imo, has very nice and advanced features like you would find on a digital SLR.


What are peoples takes on warranties, do aftermarket (3rd party) heatsinks void the warranty? Would the company that made the part even know if I was using the stock heatsink or if I was using a thermalright?
 
they wont know that you're using a thermalright but then there are the questions of morals and screwing the company because of an user error. Personally its up to you I won't comment on it.
 
Hmmmm, is it screwing the company though if you just install a different heatsink?
 
IF you get retail, it should say that use of ANY heatsink and/or thermal compound besides the one packaged in the Box will void the warrenty. I'm not 100% sure, but i think the stock heat sink has a thermal pad on it(at least the opteron's did), and does not use thermal grease. I shutter to think of the temperatures.

If you do go with anything other then stock, make sure you know exactly what your doing.
"Measure twice, cut once"
 
I heard it's possible to damage the processor if you take off a heatsink that uses the thermal pad that came with it and replace it with thermal grease. Is this possible?

I'm just using a cheap Duron 1.8 GHz with a Spire Whisper Rock IV heatsink with the thermal pad because I didn't think it would matter much with a cheap CPU.

If the dual core processors go down in price (enough, I mean at least down to $320 US or $400 CDN), I'll buy one if I have the money.
 
well, you can pull the cpu out of the socket with the pad. that can happen to well-lapped CPUs (p4's especially) with thermal grease too.

certain thermal pastes (such as AS3) are conductive to some degree, so it is technically possible to damage the chip with that. not likely if you do it properly, though

wrt removing stock heatsinks, just be REALLY careful (and keep all the original mounting stuff and the heatsink) i pulled a resistor off the core of my 9700 when i took the stock one off to install the zalman flower cooler (still works, though:p) knowing what you're doing is a good plan.

and yes, i do believe it does void the warranty. if you do it carefully, you might get away with reinstalling the old heatsink if anything goes wrong, but that's up to you. although overclocking usually voids the warrenty too (for processors and most video cards, afaik)
mwhahaha
 
You know that in having 4 RAM modules the memcontroler will default to 2T timing, meaning a reasonably large loss of performance + 4 sticks dont OC as well as 2
 
Those round cables that came with your DFI board are UV sensitive. So are your slots and sockets.
 
I wish they would make those round cables longer and for just one device too. Like I'd like to put one for my HD, and one for my DVD which is on the top drive bay. And my HD is way down in the case so I can't use even an 18" 2 device cable to attach both.
But I want to find good brand name one as well.
 
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