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Other => Computer Hope groups => Self Built Computer Club => Topic started by: computeruler on September 08, 2008, 02:10:34 PM
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Ok so I saw on other forums how they have a club that forum members can join who build their own computers. Feel free to post your custom build experience, post pictures, and talk about custom build setups you have or have done in the past.
If you wish to join this club check the box in your Forum Profile Information and your system info in the computer section. Once checked you'll have a link in your profile as shown on the left of this post.
Users participating in this club will have this icon in their icon list: (http://www.computerhope.com/cb.gif) (http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,65720.0.html)
If you wish to participate in this group post some information about your custom built computer and the admin will add you shortly after your post.
Admin edit: Editing content quality and adding information to original post.
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I think I caught the jest of this and thought it could be interesting. So I'm going to help you out with this project computeruler and set you up a setting that will enable users to check if their computer is a custom built and join this club of yours. I've also deleted all previous comments to make this thread start new and will also sticky it.
We'll see how the idea pans out.
Dont you just love it how Nathan thinks about every idea and gives it a chance?
One of the best forums Ive been to is here.
(http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/images/smilies/cheers.gif)
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i cant seem to find the check box. whereabouts is it?
Opps I thought I did this already but apparently not. You should be able to see now in your Forum profile information under computer, was still set so only admin could see it.
Dont you just love it how Nathan thinks about every idea and gives it a chance? One of the best forums Ive been to is here.
:)
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Not bad, although I don't have a custom built computer. :(
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Wait, do I smell Vista on the admin? Noes! *Creates cross with fingers* Vista is EVIL, ate 52% of my two gigs of RAM in this laptop with everything disabled, horrible performance in games.
My desktop is custom though, specs are in the Specs bubble, beware, the bubble is LONG because my laptop and desktop are listed in it. I'll upload an HTML report of my desktop tomorrow generated by Everest tomorrow when I can borrow my bro's flash drive.
my desktop:
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g139/Dead-Reckon/pd8058800gs.jpg)
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g139/Dead-Reckon/pd8058800gs-i.jpg)
Case is a beat up ATX Mid tower, specs are listed in the bubble. I made the top vent using just a hammer, drill, pliers, and a screw driver, oh and a dead 80mm fan as a stencil, it drops the temps 2-5 degree's Fahrenheit. The power button is dangling from the optical drive bay because I don't have a face plate for the case.
There are eight fans in there total, two front intake 80mm front fans, I think there both Quiettek, a 92mm rear exhaust fan, top 80mm exhaust fan, 92mm CPU heatsink fan (I paid $5 for that heatsink 'cause it wouldn't fit my brothers motherboard.), a 40mm chipset fan pulled from a coolermaster heatsink, a 120mm PSU fan, and a 40 or 50mm GPU fan. the front fans are to loud, need to find some, er, donor PSU's or something to replace them with.
The CPU idles at about 90F, its overclocked 37% from 2.66GHz to 3.66GHz, the chipset has a combined north/south bridge, and the north/south bridge has the onboard GPU combined into it, its a 7010 series I think. I found the monitor on the curb back in '06 if I remember correctly, the case was given to me with our first custom built family PC in it. My old Celeron system back in 2004 when I knew little about computers. I learned the hard way with that system, CELERONS SUCK! it was a 2.66GHz Celeron D w/ 128K cache, system had 1GB DDR 400, i think the GPU was a Radeon 9600 series, don't quote me on that because I'm unsure.
Currently my desktop is pieced together half from my old rig, half new parts. CPU, RAM, HDD, the DVD RW drive, and I think a couple of the fans are all re-used from my old rig. the PSU, motherboard, GPU, and heatsink are new parts. My old rigs north bridge heatsink popped off taking the clamp for a heatsink with it, north bridge burnt out, GPU seems to be dead from that also. My old GPU was a nVidia 7600GT 256MB 128B GPU. The power supply wasn't much of an upgrade, its a 550W Rosewill, whereas I had a 500W, but I sold it to my bro for $20 for an HP he got with a bad PSU. Current PSU has more amperage though, which is what I needed. The desktop also currently has no internet connection, kinda sucks when I need to upload something that's on it.
The case has been transported and kicked around so much its practically a Three Ring Circus act to get the side panel back on. You all should feel special, I pulled off the annoying side panel just for the pic above.
The reason I bought my laptop was in case something random like the north bridge heatsink deciding it wants no part of the north bridge's 130F running temp while gaming, and "Ejecting" from the board happens again. At the time of buying this, I didn't realize how much the 8600 series GPU's sucked, this one isn't as bad as desktop models though. Oh well, its warranted, through next September, I'm going to renew the warranty on it soon. The other reason of buying this is; Its not my problem if the thing breaks.
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my first build went pretty smooth, learned everything on my own and bought all the parts as funds became available. plan on building a new one (hopefully skulltrail-based ;) ).
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Nice rig setups midnightfire and Dead_Reckon. :)
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so im guessin you wanan see mine?? no side panles or keyboard thats done
http://s257.photobucket.com/albums/hh224/cheesewheels99/
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Nice. Looks good. So how loud is that with all those fans?
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i only have one running cause i didnt feel like connecting the others yet and the other side panel but its not too bad cept when you turn the 120mms on high
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v496/xel123/SANY3248.jpg)
My desk at home. Not my laptop on the left, fixing that ancient thing for someone.
Here's the link to the album with more pictures of my setup:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/noah1978/Computer?authkey=Ch0KWMfNpSc# (http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/noah1978/Computer?authkey=Ch0KWMfNpSc#)
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woa whats that other tiny looking laptop thing????? with the green foot as the backround ee pc? nice case huge cpu fan needs a bit of cable managment
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That my EeePC over there sitting in front of the other keysets for my Zboard.
Yeah, the cables look a mess, but they're still fairly new and a bit stiff. When they soften up a bit, I'll run them through better. The CPU fan is an ASUS Silent Square Pro. It does have a fan in it, but like its name says, it's really silent. You can't hear it unless you open the case and get really close to it. Also has a 3.5" bay control panel which you can see in the album I have linked. There are 3 other fans on the case (80mm in the side, 120mm in the front and back) and one large one in the bottom of the PSU. The monitor is brand new (had it for 2 days now). That entire setup (including the keyboard, mouse, speakers, router, and monitor) cost about $1175.
I have 8 keysets for the keyboard: standard, Office, Gaming (newer version, in picture), Crossfire (their original gaming keyset), WoW, WoW: BC (different layout, much better), Battlefield 2, and Everquest 2 (it was free, I don't even have the game).
That's my 29" Philips TV in the background, also connected to the computer for watching movies.
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What case did you use for your build Quaxo? Thanks for the comment Nathan, I plan to upgrade my rig to a Core 2 Quad Q6600 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115018) once I get the cash. And also upgrade the GPU Heatsink (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186001) to drop the GPU temps down a little. Also gonna upgrade to 4GB (2x1GB) of DDR2 800 Super Talent RAM (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820609218), and a 1TB drive when the prices come down. Right now all 1TB drives I'd get are about $140, by the time I get one they'll be $100-120 I think.
I hope to get a new case when I get the GPU cooler so I don't have to pull anything out aside from the drive more than once when I move it from the current case. Not sure which case I'm getting, I'll update on that later. I doubt it'll be anything flashy, I'm thinking a low profile tower of some sort that will stay cool enough. Maybe even a true desktop case, dunno for sure though, I'll see what Newegg has. The current LED lights in my computer exist because the Chipset fan was the only 40mm fan i had around that was worth a crap and didn't sound like a miniature coffee grinder due to bad bearings. And the PSU, it was the only PSU that suited my budget, though I like the cool effects the fans LED's cast through the rear vents onto the wall. Plus its blue, I love blue, and shiny things, when it comes to shiny things, I'm like a raccoon, I'll grab anything shiny. The PSU was cheap, adequate, reliable (Theres one in my little brothers desktop, and one in my older brothers desktop. Plus a friend of mine in Florida has one that is subject to cat fur.), it glowed blue, and it was shiny, so its good enough. I think they use car paint on them with the way they take finger prints so easily. I'd like to have a case painted in midnight blue automotive paint, *censored*, if I had the skills, I'd build my own case. But I don't have the skills or the tools, got a dremel, but I'd need at least a drill and a welder to build a case. And quite a bit of steel square tubing, if I built one, you'd need a Kalashnikov to dent it. (For those of you that don't know, a Kalashnikov is the long name for an AK-47, the 47 in the name means it was built in 1947, don't remember the first name of the guy that built it)
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ya dead reckon q6600 YAYAYAYAYAY also who ever said all cases had to make of metal ;)
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I was trying to post a pic of me and my room mates computers and was wondering how to post pics?
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If your thinking wood, wood absorbs and stores heat. Horrible material to use when building anything electronic or mechanical. Plastic does the same, and many other materials I can name. Personally, I prefer a good 'ole metal computer case.
My motto is "If the case doesn't make you wonder if your foot is broken when dropped on your foot, its not a proper computer case!". I hate flimsy computer cases, HATE them, almost as much as I hate sharp edged computer cases like the old Packard Bell Legends, mind you, my first computer was a Packard Bell Legend, no clue what the model was. It was a piece of junk though, I can remember what it looked like, but I can't remember the model, I believe it was a 50MHz PMMX, though I am unsure.
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I was trying to post a pic of me and my room mates computers and was wondering how to post pics?
upload it to photobucket and select the img code once you upload it then post it here
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Sorry for the crappy pic will try to get a better one and some close up as soon as I can. This is me and my room mates computers we built this summer, both in Antec 900 cases. There is 2 17in Acer moniters and a 24in Dell moniter. (http://i402.photobucket.com/albums/pp109/jrucks62/09-12-08_1524.jpg)
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It was a piece of junk though
by todays standards, perhaps, but when they first introduced the pentium they were regarded with the same air as today's quad cores.
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It was a piece of junk though
by todays standards, perhaps, but when they first introduced the pentium they were regarded with the same air as today's quad cores.
I didn't mean the CPU, the PMMX's where sweet CPU's in there day. First to hardware encode media such as video. The Packard Bell was what I meant was the piece of crap, the computer in and of its self it was junk.
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Thanks for the picture and post JRucks, looks good. I've added you to the SBCC.
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I've found the case I'm going to use for my desktop when I get the money, its the Sigma Orca (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811226020). I'm going to carefully cut the side panel window and put a vent in that lower section where the plexi is, I'll use mesh and install a fan to cool the GPU and PCI/PCI-E cards. If I break the window, I"ll just replace it with a piece of mesh. I don't think I'll break the window with my variable speed dremel though, I'm more worried about molten plexi hitting me in the face.. I guess I'll have to invest in some goggles since mine disappeared earlier this year.
Safety 101, NEVER DREMEL WITHOUT PROPER WORK GOGGLES! Seems like common sense to use them with near any power tool, but so many people don't. Senseless risk of there eyesight if you ask me.
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What case did you use for your build Quaxo?
Raidmax Ninja
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I just finished my new personal build so i guess i qualify...
;D
Reference Link (http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,65107.0.html)
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nice build patio!!
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Thanx !
Sweet so far with absolutely zero issues...
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Safety 101, NEVER DREMEL WITHOUT PROPER WORK GOGGLES! Seems like common sense to use them with near any power tool, but so many people don't. Senseless risk of there eyesight if you ask me.
darn good advice. i had a close call when a hunk of steel nearly hit my eye when i was working on my case.
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I have more problems with plastic.. That crap gets everywhere, though I like cutting it because you don't get covered up too your eyeballs in metal shavings that make you itch worse than handling fiberglass insulation.
On a side note, I've decided I'm going to replace the CPU, RAM, GPU cooler, hard drive, and put it all in the new case at the same time. Probably get a new DVD burner since mine doesn't seem to burn properly anymore, only reads discs. The CPU heatsink is attached to the motherboard with stove bolts, fed through the motherboard with nylon washers preventing them from grounding out on it, then through the heatsink mounts with more nylon washers, and nylon nuts tightened to finger snug. So its a pain to remove with the motherboard in, was IMPOSSIBLE with the stock intel style plastic push pins.
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when i built my computer i used the antec nine hundred case and love it. lots of fans to keep all my components nice and cool.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129021
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Nice setup added to club. :)
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I'm thinking of throwing together a media center in the near future. Cheap DVR box that is built from the Pentium D 805, 1GB DDR2 667, 320GB hard drive, and the ATX mid tower that will be left over when I upgrade my desktop. All I'd need is a budget board, budget GPU, put a lil money into a decent tuner card, some fans and a heatsink for the CPU, and a PSU.
I'd build it to record the few shows I actually like to watch, like Mythbusters.
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I have two self-built computers -- actually, three in the house right now. Two are in use. One is an Intel chip on an Intel board, the second is an AMD chip on an ASUS board, and the third is an Intel chip on an ASUS board. My case is brushed aluminum, the second case is red, with see-through plastic cutouts, and the third is the standard "ivory" mid-tower case.
I have built about ten computers over the years.
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Welcome to the club Aegis. :)
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here's my most recent
(http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii124/michaewlewis/IMG_0127.jpg)
Specs:
MB: Intel DG065WH
CPU: Core2 Quad Q6600 2.4ghz
RAM: 4x kingston 2gb 667mhz ddr2
Video: 2x ATI FireMV 2400
Monitors: 6x NEC MultiSync
HDD: RAID 0: 2x Seagate 250GB
OS: Wait for it....... wait for it....... Vista Business 64 bit (XP couldn't handle this setup;)
(plus two virtuals with xp)
oh, and a pci fan cooler to keep everything below 190F (that was an afterthought) :P
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Extremely nice Michael ! !
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WOA michale why in the word do you need 6 moniters!!! what in the world do you do with that!!
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So he doesn't have to mess with minimizing and maximizing windows all the time...
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I haven't bulid any computers but I have broken down many, does that count :-[
So I declare myself a member :)
Thanks for the applaud guys!!
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Looks like a good idea an smells that way too. May be its the heat venting from the lab but any how. I'll post mine as soon as I get details sorted an stuff. The evil lurks on here about the stupid thing thoe an its still haveing problems. Attacked me once too.... more on that latter.
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what!!?? your computer attacked you!!??
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Come to think of it, both my brothers computers are custom built (I built them). Older bro's is a core 2 duo @ 2.4GHz w/ 4GB DDR2 800, nVidia 8500GT 512MB PCI-E x16 GPU, don't remember the motherboard model, I just remember its a 680i chipset on an MSI socket 775 board. 160GB Western Digital SATA300 hard drive, the two DVD burners are shot, they won't burn. They will read discs fine though, its in a black Apevia transformer ATX full tower case.
Both my brothers have the same power supply as I do in my desktop, the RP550 550W rosewill PSU. My younger bro has a P4 Prescott 3.0GHz socket 478 on an MSI VIA chipset based motherboard with an AGP x8 7300GT 512MB GPU, 1GB DDR 400. I don't remember the hard drive size, I think its a 250 or 160GB, though I'm unsure. I know its a seagate SATA150 hard drive. It also has a DVD burner, though I can't remember the speed. My younger bro's system is built in a blue thermal take xaser ATX full tower case. We got it for $40 from a local PC shop used.
My father built his system, he's 57 now, started learning computers about five years ago. He can't name all the parts and he ain't exactly what you'd call a technician, but he knows how to build them. He isn't a complete end user, which saves me a lot of headaches. His system is a 2.93GHz Celeron D w/ 1GB of DDR 400, a off brand PSU, 400 some odd watts (I thought the PSU was gonna blow up, but its braved about two years of use now.), a nVidia 5500 256MB AGP x8 GPU, a 80GB western digital hard drive, a DVD burner, though I can't remember the speed of it either, and its using my first custom system's motherboard, a socket 478 SiS based MSI motherboard. The onboard audio doesn't work, hasn't worked since before I gave it to him. So I gave him the crappy sound card I had, don't remember the brand, or model. My fathers system is in an Antec ATX mid tower case. The case is somewhat fickle to work on, you have to remove the top of the case to remove the side panels. Easier to clean that way though, you can get the dust bunnies around the optical drive and power supply easier. I have large hands like my father, so I need space to work on a PC, especially when cleaning it without tearing it all the way down.
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he ain't exactly what you'd call a technician, but he knows how to build them and crap.
I rather suspect the latter skill was learned at a much younger age... ::)
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what!!?? your computer attacked you!!??
I had the case open an I was seeing if my board had an rj45 on it an I got my finger near the cpu fan an well you know what would happen at something going alot of rpm's so I had to get a new fan too.
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If you've assembled the computer correctly, the ethernet jack should be on the back of the system. Why would you be opening the case to look for an "RJ-45"? (technically the wrong name anyway)
Calling it an RJ-45 is like calling a headphone jack a microphone jack instead. While they do appear to be the same and have the same jack, they are in fact very different.
Why would you be poking around in the case with the system on or even plugged in anyway? Lucky your fingers were the only thing that got damaged. :-\
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Well my build is in my sig as well as my computer specs, i have to update the pictures on my website (http://www.cohens-site.tk)
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WOA michale why in the word do you need 6 moniters!!! what in the world do you do with that!!
I don't have a heater in my office, so I have to make do with computer parts. :P
Actually, I work in a process control environment. Having several monitors allows us to view more of what is happening in our system so nothing goes overlooked and no sewage gets dumped into our rivers and streets. We're actually planning on adding two more monitors and getting a couple atdec quad monitor stands in a few weeks for more monitoring.
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Wait, what city do you work for? I'll make a mental note to avoid it.. I mean, yeah, good work on keeping the streets sewage free!
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Wait, what city do you work for? I'll make a mental note to avoid it.. I mean, yeah, good work on keeping the streets sewage free!
What??? ??? His department is managing the situation -- it sounds like they're on top of it.
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Actually, the reason you'd want to avoid my city is to avoid the wonderful smelling paper factory. :P
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Actually, the reason you'd want to avoid my city is to avoid the wonderful smelling paper factory. :P
do you mean Pulp Mill?
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Or maybe he means... Pulp Fortress (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFQHZq9H2aw)?
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woa what was that
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What was what?
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Here's my game rig It's a Pentium 4 Socket 478, Intel SE7210TP1-E Sever Board, DDR RAM 1 GB, SATA Drives 160 GB 320 GB, HDA Digital X Mystique 7.1 Gold, Radeon X1300 This had a major problem that was posted around here. Thought about upgradeing it a little.
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Squall, personally, I think your rig needs to be retired if you game. Pentium 4's have outlived there usefulness as far as gaming goes. Although, I doubt many remember what a Pentium 4 originally was, the socket 478 P4 Willamette. Horrible processor that even at 1.73GHz couldn't out perform a 1.3GHz socket 370 Celeron, but that was also before Celeron's gained the D for Dyslexic.
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DR, not everyone has the money to constantly upgrade systems.
Not a bad rig IMHO although the graphics are very weak, I do like the motherboard.
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I'm flat broke, my desktop is cobbled together from leftover parts from my last desktop, and new parts that I almost never came up with money to get. I've got roughly $500 in this desktop, probably less, and the CPU, RAM, heatsink, RAM, and HDD are spare parts, but I counted the CPU, RAM, and HDD into the price because I still paid for them back in early 07. Didn't pay for the DVD burner, its left over from my last rig, paid $5 for the heatsink, bought it from my bro 'cause it wouldn't fit his rig. Its a true budget box, the 8800GS is a budget $85 GPU, its not that great, but it does the job. I'm not saying everyone should cough up for a Monolith of a computer, just that if you game you should find the money to at least invest in a bottom line system like i did. Only reason I cobbled this thing together is because my laptop's 8600M GT is a bit weak. Only took roughly $210 to rebuild this thing, give or take five or six bucks 'cause I can't remember the exact price of the hardware.
I think I need to reiterate the condition my desktop is in seeing as you seem to think I'm running some uber rig. So I'll put the two images below. Counting the game controller and mouse, thats another $58 roughly, so I got about $270 in this rig currently. I consider the other parts paid off because I got about a years use out of them before the motherboard cannibalized its self.
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g139/Dead-Reckon/pd8058800gs-i.jpg)
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g139/Dead-Reckon/pd8058800gs.jpg)
Desktop specs:
Intel Pentium D 805 2.66GHz/2MB L2/533MHz FSB
1GB DDR2 667 SuperTalent RAM
320GB IDE WD3200 series HDD
nVidia 8800GS 384MB/192 bit GPU
Socket 775 Foxconn M7VMX nVidia 7010+610i motherboard
Rosewill 550W PSU
Lite-ON DVD-RW
Eight or nine fans, lemme think... 92MM exhaust, 92MM CPU fan, 50MM chipset fan, 50MM GPU fan, two 80MM intake fans, one 80MM top exhaust fan, one 120MM PSU fan.. So thats.. Yeah, eight total. This thing sounds like the Hair Dryer from Satan's torture chest, but it works.
Another note, I currently have to use the aforementioned PC because I dropped my laptop and killed the audio port 'cause the jack on my headphones snapped it loose and shoved it back inside my laptop. Good thing the warranty is good 'til 2010 ;D
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Its fine for my games except one its not like I run any of the new stuff on it. I will swap it out of the case in near time an get something modern, but working on other machine an school an tring to get funds to do that stuff. I just recently got a wii, which took a good bit out of my funds. Aside from other work I need to attend too. I dont think that you can aid in that. At the time I did have a more powerful rig set up to get but I couldnt find the parts at places I shopped. I dont like going out of those in case you get scammed or something.
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Is this a self built rig squall? If so I'll add an icon for ya.
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I did the only thing is I havent had time to get pics or anything of it. You of all people should remember it. I got help from you I think. I cracked the case however getting updates the one day so other then that it runs well.
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Ahh yes that's right. Got you added and although pictures are not necessary I'm sure I'm not the only one who enjoys looking at them. :)
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I do as well, yeah, the nice thing is there is enough parts an funds an right price parts to build one like it.
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Oooh! Ooooh! Add me! Add me! I wanna be in the club too!
OS: Windows XP Pro, SP3
Motherboard: A8N-SLI SE (http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=15&l3=148&l4=0&model=789&modelmenu=1)
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2 GHz (dual core) (http://www.amdcompare.com/us-en/desktop/details.aspx?opn=ADA4200DAA5BV)
Graphics card: ASUS EN8600GT HTDP 512MB PCI E (http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=2&l2=6&l3=514&l4=0&model=1701&modelmenu=1)
RAM: Mushkin dual channel PC3200, 4 GB (http://www.mushkin.com/doc/products/memory_detail.asp?id=193)
HDD 1: 70 GB (part of RAID 0)
HDD 2: 70 GB (part of RAID 0)
HDD 3: 200 GB
HDD 4: 750 GB, Western Digital (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=337&language=en)
Sound card: On-board (see motherboard)
Speakers: Logitech 5.1
Keyboard: Saitek Eclipse (blue LEDs) (http://www.saitek.com/uk/prod/eclipse.htm)
Mouse: Logitech G5 (http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/mice/devices/359&cl=us,en)
Optical drive: DVD-ROM
Optical drive 2: Sony DVD-RW
Optical drive 3: HP DVD-RW w/ LightScribe
Display: Samsung SyncMaster 906BW 19" (http://www.samsung.com/us/support/search/supportSearchResult.do?
group=computersperipherals&group_cd=&type=monitors&type_cd=05020000&subtype=lcd&subtype_cd=05020100&model_nm=906BW&dType=&vType=R&mType=&prd_ia_cd=05020100&acc_ia_fl=N&disp
_nm=906BW&menu=main&isEqualsY=)
Case: Antec P182 (http://www.antec.com/usa/productDetails.php?lan=us&id=81820)
Power Supply: XCLIO X14S4P3 ATX12V 500W (http://www.xclio.com/product/PSU_GreatPower/x14-500w.htm)
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Parts are running me at 121 dollars mite try an get some else where.
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Nicely Done Ego...
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Nice setup Ego. I've got you added.
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w00t! w00t! I finally BELONG!
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Is that it in the cooner on fire?
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Yes, that computer is on fire. It's my job to run around and "put out fires" on the network. Seems appropriate. :)
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???? But thats only a single unit.
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It's difficult to depict an entire network in an avatar. Wireless access points, routers, switches, IP phones, mice, keyboards, etc. aren't depicted either, but I deal with those too. :P
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I didnt mean all that just a simple peer to peer network.
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http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk403/squall_131/DSC00822.jpg
http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk403/squall_131/DSC00823.jpg
http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk403/squall_131/DSC00826.jpg
Here's my system, its some what messy its going to get some grills in it come thursday an such.
http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk403/squall_131/DSC00828.jpg
http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk403/squall_131/DSC00829.jpg
The one I'm working on
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you might want to cover the CPU socket squall.
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Pictures look good thanks for sharing Squall
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nice pics! besides the dell but i have that same dell
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For the most part. I got that for free my dad got it for my sister when she got her laptop I got that one.
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cool that dell (the same my parents have) when they get a new comp im genna get that too
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Mite not be its a 2350
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close i have a 2400
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4400 here. Are we comparing our Dell dimension model numbers?
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yup
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88,000 here.
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My work PC is a Precision T3400. So . . . there! Take that!
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Take that!
Sure. would you like my shipping address?
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Sure. would you like my shipping address?
Umm . . . maybe after I find another job. ;D I think my employer would be displeased if my workstation were to disappear.
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4400 here. Are we comparing our Dell dimension model numbers?
Shouldn't be. It is the Self Built Computer Club after all. :P
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true true
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I, uh, built my own Dell...yeah, that's the ticket! ;)
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Yeah, yeah! I build computers FOR Dell! Yeah! That's the ticket!
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I build computers FOR Dell!
My condolences. ;)
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I am considering it a great priv-uh-lidge to be working for the Dell. Now if you will be excusing me I must go build anudder one.
;)
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You are to be building faster! You are not to be taking time to talk or think or breathe! ::)
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Tech Support: "I'm needing you to right-click on the desktop."
Customer "Ok."
Tech Support: "Are you getting a pop-up menu?"
Customer: "No."
Tech Support: "Ok. Right click again. Are you seeing a pop-up menu?"
Customer "No."
Tech Support:: "Ok, sir. Can you tell me what you have done up until this point?"
Customer: "Sure, you told me to write 'click' and I wrote 'click'."
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lot of part juggleing today got some in new pc going up.
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Here's mine =]
OS: Windows XP Pro SP3
Motherboard: Asus M2N-E AM2
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ @2.9 GHz (2.6 stock)
Graphics card: Overclocked MSI GeForce N9600GT 512mb GDDR3
RAM: 4GB Transcend DDR2 800
HDD 1: 160 GB Western Digital
HDD 2: 320 GB Western Digital
Sound card: On-board
Speakers: Logitech 5.1
Keyboard: Unknown
Mouse: Unknown
Optical drive: Ben-Q 1640 CD/DVD-RW
Display: Proview 19" @ 1440x900
Case: Unknown
Power Supply: Rosewill RP550-2 550W (dual rail)
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Welcome to the club. :)
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Thankies =]
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shouldnt be to many issues there expect it being crowed. I make pcs for bill gates ha ha ha
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You are to be building faster! You are not to be taking time to talk or think or breathe! ::)
"I be missing parts needed finish dis one here"
"den bild knew parts,fool, no waste time talking about wok, you sine non-dis-klow-shure agreement, no give deetales."
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You are to be building faster! You are not to be taking time to talk or think or breathe! ::)
"I be missing parts needed finish dis one here"
"den bild knew parts,fool, no waste time talking about wok, you sine non-dis-klow-shure agreement, no give deetales."
Classic !
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rouge pengiun slap, this is the fourm for those whom were wondering.
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I got new pictures of my desktop, anyone who wants to see can go here (http://s55.photobucket.com/albums/g139/Dead-Reckon/Desktop/).
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nice place for controllers lol
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Yeah, worked out good, not like I have any bay covers for the tower. Its seen better days, oh, and, the front panel, its not painted black. I used a Marks-A-Lot marker little by little while waiting for games to load to color it black 'cause I got bored of the primer gray paint. I mounted that stuff in the bay to get it out of my way and off of my desk. The control just sits in there, the infrared receiver is held in with bread ties fed through mounting holes of the bay.
The front USB cables are just hanging out front of the case 'cause I got no way to mount them, the optical disc drive is temporary. I threw it in there because its the only burner I got left that works. Its a CD-RW, 32x read, 8x write, not great, but it works. You can't see the 2.5" SATA150 laptop drive, but you can see the SATA cable disappearing and re-appearing in the mess of cables i got tucked in that thing. Oh, and if you look close enough, you might actually be able to read the GPU says XFX on the side. Its a re-enforcement bar to keep heavy heatsinks and such from sagging/warping/cracking the GPU. The CPU heatsink is held in with stove bolts and nylon washers/nuts. I'll get pictures of that eventually when I get a better camera.
As for the motherboard, Look closely at the motherboard, you'll notice there's no south bridge. The chipset is all built into that chip where the north bridge would be, north bridge, south bridge, onboard GPU, bus controllers, all that is built into that chip. It runs a lil warm because of that. Its a nVidia 7050./610i chipset. Great chipset, not the best out there by a long shot, but for what it is, that being a budget chipset on a budget board, its absolutely great. The motherboard is a socket LGA775, supports up to four gigs of DDR2 800. Has PCI-E 16x, and PCI-E 1x, but it only has 2 PCI slots. It also only has one IDE port, which means my secondary drive has a crazy long cable daisy chaining it to the optical drive. It has four SATA ports though, which sortof makes up for it since SATA drives are so cheap and so much faster. That and SATA cables ain't fickle to setup like IDE cables, they're small, don't block much air, and quite easy to route. Now they just need to do something to phase out those damned annoying molex plugs... Anyway, the board supports dual and quad core CPU's, its what I call a "*censored*" board. It supports a wide variety of hardware, IE, it'll work with anything, therefor, its a "*censored*" board.
The GPU I have in there is an XFX 8800GS XXX 384MB 192 bit PCI-E 16x 2.0 "Alpha Dog Edition" nVidia GPU, again, great GPU, but budget. It runs games great, though, I mostly play stuff like Counter-Strike: Source, it'll run it maxed.
The CPU in there was about mid range when I bought it nearly two years ago. Its a Pentium D 805 smithfeild 2.66GHz CPU, 533MHz FSB, 2MB L2 per core.
The RAM is the same DDR2 667 that I bought nearly two years ago, only a gig, going to get four gigs this Christmas hopefully. Ironically I paid a mere $85 for that GPU and it stomps the $150 7600GT I had back in 07. Yet, its a budget card, *censored*, I paid $120 for that CPU.
As for storage, the hard drives are in this order, a Hitachi 60GB SATA150 2.5" w/ a 8MB buffer notebook boot drive, and a Western Digital 3200 series 320GB ATA100 data drive w/ a 16MB buffer, might be 8MB, I ain't looked in a good while. I mentioned the optical drive above, and that's it for storage unless I break out the USB to IDE adapter to transfer something.
As for cooling, there are two front 80mm fans (intake/HDD coolers), one top 80mm fan (exhaust), one 120mm PSU fan (exhaust), one 92mm rear fan (exhaust), one 50mm GPU fan, one 92MM CPU fan, and a 40mm chipset fan. I think that's all of them... Eight fans total for now. The CPU heatsink is a $20 rosewill heatsink my bro bought for his rig but it wouldn't clear the capacitors near the CPU, so he sold it to me for $10. I put a better fan on it because the stock one moved NO AIR and made a LOAD of noise. Chipset cooling is stock except I added the 40mm fan. GPU cooling is completely stock, case only has one modded fan port so far, and that's the top one.
As for power, I have a rosewill RP550 550W PSU with two 18A 12V rails, its sufficient, I think. It may be the cause for the black screen of dhoom during fallout 3, I dunno. I'll find out if upgrading the and HDD doesn't fix it. In which case, I'll get a Kill-A-Watt.
As for the computer chassis its self, it was our family PC many years ago. Few rough transports later between here at my grandma's and my dads, it started falling apart. Face plate was the first thing to go, now its literally coming apart at the weld joints. Its beat to crap, bent, warped, like I said, literally falling apart. I'll junk it eventually, for now its my best bet at a system. Thinking of getting a smaller form factor case if I can find one to suite my needs. My father still uses the 478 socket MSI SiS based motherboard we had in that rig. Not sure what happened to its CPU, think it toasted. Pretty sure it did actually. He' s running a 2.93GHz celeron D, 1GB or 1.5GB of DDR 400, and a nVidia FX6600 AGP 8x GPU, and a 450W power supply in an Antec case and a 80GB IDE HDD, 20X DVD-RW. He mostly uses it for Ebay and stuff so it does its job great. Anyway, I literally gave him that motherboard for free even though it was mine after I was done with it. Quirky piece of crap gave me *censored* to no end when I used it. Damned SiS chipsets.
Anyway, I'm gonna get some sleep, its nearly 2AM EST. I've rambled enough for one night.
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i thought the psu was overheating
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I don't know for sure if it is, its a possibility. It only does it during Fallout 3, might not upgrade this machine at all. I need a source of transportation, and I can get a 49CC moped engine for my bicycle for $150 roughly, I can scrounge that much out of Christmas, and i got a bajillion bicycles out in the motor home garage. So yeah, I'll probably throw it on that old three speed Sears Free Spirit bike I got from the 60's since its the only one that hasn't broken yet. Or fix one of the mountain bikes out there... Or something, don't care what, I need something to get around on. My grandmother isn't really reliable for getting things done, and her idea of getting things done seems to be waiting for as long as possible before taking action. Currently, I can't really wait around much longer.
I plan to go to a local Arnold R Burton school for adult education classes so I can get my MCP and A+ certs for free or next to nothing, gotta get in before my 21st birthday in august of 2010 though. So, that means, this fall, before my 20th birthday, I gotta have a source of transportation (Seeing as my grandmother would gladly run my god d**med sister all over the world, but not do a *censored* thing for me because she's too "Busy" helping my sister) to get back and forth from the classes. The center its self is only about two or three miles away, could pedal there if need be, even in the winter, but I'd rather have a motorized source of transportation. Namely the 49CC motor I mentioned. Now, the reason for choosing the motorized bicycle is simple; It doesn't require a license (State law says "Under 50cc is a pedal assist device"), tags, insurance, or anything. I don't even have to pay attention to traffic laws such as speed limits unless I'm on a state highway. Though, about the last thing I'd do around here is run a stop sign, the people around here seem to make sport of making road kill out of people on bicycles.
Anyway, I've ventured off topic, I'll end my rant now.
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I build all my own computers, I refuse to let a shop do it for me :P
I am a student so have little/no money..so I spent a max of $150 on this system:
ASUS P4PE Mobo
2.5GHZ Celeron skt-478 w/ Deepcool Cpu cooler.
1.5GB Legend DDR400
ATi Radeon 9700 Pro - 128MB
500W PSU
iCute Case
1x80GB Hdd
3x40GB Hdd
1x Lite-On LH201ap all purpose 20X DVD writer.
BT878 based tv card.
Windows XP SP3
and another ancient computer for the lounge room for emails, some games etc, that I spent no money on whatsoever!
Gigabyte mobo (not at home atm so not sure of the model no)
1Ghz Pentium 3 skt 370 adapted to slot-1
512MB 133Mhz SD ram.
ATi Radeon 9200 se
350W PSU
2x40GB Hdd
1x13GB Hdd
Some non-brand case.
And now, In a few weeks I am looking to spend approx $400 on this:
ASUS P5N MX
Intel E7300 Core 2 Duo CPU
2GB DDR800
Radeon x700
some type of HDD array.
my iCute case.
Will post pix of the new build as it comes together.
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I envy the American prices! :-\
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That isn't American prices :)
Thats New Zealand Dollars :)
it used to be 2 NZD to 1 USD but now its different
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I build all my own computers, I refuse to let a shop do it for me :P
Welcome to the club.
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thankyou :)
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I worked in a PC repair shop. Once built a computer for a customer, PSU fan wouldn't so I pulled it and looked, had a glob of glue holding the fan shut that was supposed to prevent coils from contacting or arcing on the main heatsink. A glob of GLUE! That's it! And the boss insisted that I use tweezers and pull it from the fan! From the look of that power supply, I'd give it a year at most with light use. Can't remember the brand, it had a blue gear on the side of it as a logo though. Anyway, the local shops only carry cheap crap. They can't sell anything good because they want too much for it. Anyway, I might have $500 tied in my desktop. Its cobbled from new and old parts.
The CPU is a Pentium D 805 from my last build, 2.66GHz, 533MHz FSB, 2MB L2
RAM is 1GB of DDR2 667 from my last build, super talent brand
GPU is a new nVidia 8800 GS 384MB 192 bit PCI-E x16 2.0
Board is a new foxconn nVidia 7050/610i based M7VMX-K M-ATX LGA775 board,, 1x PCI-e 1x 1x PCI-E x16, 2x PCI (in that order top to bottom)
PSU is a new Rosewill RP550 550W ATX 2.0 PSU
Primary drive is a used 60GB SATA150 Hitachi Travel star 2.5" laptop drive from a dead dell inspiron 1525
Secondary drive is the 320GB ATA133 WD3200BEVS Western Digital hard drive from my last build
Optical drive, for now, is just a 32x read/8x write HP CD-RW drive 'cause my DVD-RW drive died and I don't have cash to spare to replace it.
Case is this beat up mid tower with no face plate, generic mid tower I've been beating on for years. It has 4x 5.25" external bays, supports M-ATX, or ATX motherboards, 6 internal 3.5" bays, 2 external 3.5" bays, room for a 80mm, or 92mm, or 120mm fan in the back, self made vent for a 80mm fan in the top, two 80mm fan vents in the front. My desktop has 7 or 8 fans, don't feel like counting 'em.
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woot! so you can play fallout 3 now?
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Yeah I worked in one for a while too...
Mostly the computers came in for virus repairs/spyware/adware ect but a few came past me for RAM upgrades, and the guys there just had a pile of RAM sticks ranging from SD-RAM to DDR2 RAM all in a pile, and he just said select a DDR400 stick from the pile and throw it in there and give it back.
I said "shouldn't we test it first?", he replies with "just give it a quick power on and see if it boots, if it does it's fine".
Next problem was the motherboard only had 2 slots, each with a 256MB DDR400 stick in them. He told me to pull a 256MB stick from the machine and throw it in the pile, and replace it with a DDR400 stick from the same pile!
Now, this i kind of stupid I mean you could have some overstressed/overclocked RAM from someone else who just came into the shop 2 minutes before you!
They had PSU's all over the place and gfx cards just gathering dust...kinda glad I don't work there anymore!
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thats terrible! they should put each stick in a case and lable it and test it and everything first! used ram! thats terrible!
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Exactly, I did go through at one stage and place them all in anti-static bags but I left soon after that so I have no idea what happens there now :)
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The shop I worked in wasn't quite that bad, we at least mostly used new parts unless the person requested them. Anyway, I'll clarify, I bought my CPU, RAM, and secondary drive in January of 2007, the motherboard was a replacement to my old one that i also bought then. My old board's heatsink mount loop broke off the north bridge and the north bridge cooked, cooked my 7600GT somehow too, oh man did that piss me off.
I bought my current motherboard in January of 2008, my GPU in august of 2008, and the Rosewill PSU was also bought in January of 2008. My old Apevia 500W PSU is in my older brothers HP Pavilion backup machine... He still owes me $25 for that power supply... *Makes mental note to collect debt on power supply
I didn't pay nothin' for the 60GB primary drive, it was scavenged from some kid's dead laptop. He didn't want it since the thing was toast 'cause some idiot spilled something in it and toasted the GPU and motherboard. So I still got its combo drive (Which I would put in my desktop if I could find a JAE50 to IDE or JAE50 to SATA adapter), its 15.4" widescreen, its 60GB drive, its half gig of DDR2 553, and I think that's all that was good in it. Oh, got the keyboard, but its missing some key or another, don't remember which. Its proprietary to the 1525 series though. Might fit some other laptops, I dunno. Anyway, I got loads of junk like that, old slot 1, socket 7, socket 370, and some socket A stuff, couple old 478 boards that only support early celeron's and northwood's with a 400MHz bus. General junk no one else wants that I really can't find a use for. I got like, a half dozen socket 370 intel CPU's, mostly celeron's, ranging from 667 to 800MHz, got a 800MHz PIII, and a 933MHz PIII too, both socket 370, got a couple PII's too. Don't remember there speeds, *censored*, I've got a socket 478 CPU, but its a celeron-prescott, and none of the boards I've got support it. All of this stuff was scavenged or given to me. The main thing I'm short on are power supplies, I could have several PIII systems going if I had more power supplies. Oh, I even got a working 486 AT Shannon office PC. Well, it posted once.. Now it won't... I don't feel like messing with it, I'll probably chop it out to work as a ATX mini-tower. I Think I got a AT to ATX PSU adapter bracket around here.. If not I got scrap metal and a dremel. I got so much old crap I can't even list it all. Mostly useless, but I'm sure I'll find a use for some of it someday. If/when I get my own ISP I'm going to setup a firewall/router using one of my old PII board's, probably an old HP pavilion board and a 350MHz PII. It has three or four PCI, and AGP, plenty. Who knows? I could setup a small firewall farm with the crap I've got.
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haha that sounds like my bedroom :P
Lots of junk everywhere, PCI cards and 32MB AGP cards no-one would even want for free :P
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i put my old stuff in my closet but i dont have that much stuff
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I got a 4MB AGP 1/2x nVidia Rivia 128 GPU I'm sending to a friend in Florida with a gateway board and 240MHz PII to use as a router board. My friend's Packard Bell socket 7 486 system he was using as a router died. Not surprised, its been chugging along for over seven years loyally as a router in a crate.
Oh, got a 2MB PCI S3 Verge GPU too. Ask Zylstra about his vintage hardware, I think he's got a 4MHz IBM somewhere.. I won't keep 'nothin that old, the slowest CPU I got is a 133MHz Pentium MMX, and I doubt it works.
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i want more vintage hard ware
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I don't see why, only reason why I keep it is because I'm a packrat, I keep everything. I got three 19" TV's up here between my two rooms. Two of which I use, one of which I had to repair the audio output port on recently. Solder joints where loose, quick fix. The only non-custom system I have ever owned and actually used is this laptop, Dell Inspiron 1720 notebook, don't feel like listing its spec's, there in my spec's thing to the left.
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Not too bad...i have a few pentium CPUs lying around at home too in a box...three i think so technically it's a Pentium 3 box :P
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(http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/769/dsc00343om9.jpg)
(http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/5472/dsc00348ku1.jpg)
here's my home build.. built a few previous ones. mouse over the bubble to see specs etc...
btw, its a thermaltake soprano case
i'm looking for an upgrade for my computer so please offer any advice- http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,73721.0.html (http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,73721.0.html)
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http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk403/squall_131/DSC00822.jpg
http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk403/squall_131/DSC00823.jpg
http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk403/squall_131/DSC00826.jpg
Here's my system, its some what messy its going to get some grills in it come thursday an such.
this one died the Motherboardds capitor came loose an I tried to replace it.
http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk403/squall_131/DSC00828.jpg
http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk403/squall_131/DSC00829.jpg
The one I'm working on
I got this one almost working thanks to the parts from my gaming rig some what.
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Is that a Radeon 9200 SE :O ;D
seriously...is it?
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lol @ the cases. I gotta laugh, the Xion looks like a eMachine. Is it flimsy? Looks like aluminum. And that batman case, that's funny.
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its not a batman case its jsut an undeserving case that got a batman sticker put on.
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lol @ the cases. I gotta laugh, the Xion looks like a eMachine. Is it flimsy? Looks like aluminum. And that batman case, that's funny.
My case is an iCute...and i makes a funny boing noise when you push on the top when the panel isn't on :P
But it is heavier then any case I have had...made of rounded metal
I'll get some pics and upload - the specs are on the side there, and alos posted a page or two ago.
The reason I'm taking pics of this one is my new build may take longer than I had hoped.
I need $370 NZ I have $210 ;D
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Here we go
Outside case and Desk:
http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo57/kurtiskain/Computer/DSC00727.jpg (http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo57/kurtiskain/Computer/DSC00727.jpg)
http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo57/kurtiskain/Computer/DSC00730.jpg (http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo57/kurtiskain/Computer/DSC00730.jpg)
http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo57/kurtiskain/Computer/DSC00729.jpg (http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo57/kurtiskain/Computer/DSC00729.jpg)
http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo57/kurtiskain/Computer/DSC00732.jpg (http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo57/kurtiskain/Computer/DSC00732.jpg)
http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo57/kurtiskain/Computer/2e3254e4.jpg (http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo57/kurtiskain/Computer/2e3254e4.jpg)
Inside Case:
http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo57/kurtiskain/Computer/DSC00732.jpg (http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo57/kurtiskain/Computer/DSC00732.jpg)
http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo57/kurtiskain/Computer/DSC00733.jpg (http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo57/kurtiskain/Computer/DSC00733.jpg)
http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo57/kurtiskain/Computer/DSC00734.jpg (http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo57/kurtiskain/Computer/DSC00734.jpg)
Yes the system is running...as you can see form the blue of the side fan. but the camera took the photos with a large aperture and small open time...resulting in a freeze frame of the fans hehe.
Let me explain the cardboard.
I had a USB game controller in the side ports, and my brother tripped over the cord and snapped the black plastic in the ports, and so nothing works in them now.
i got annoyed at reaching around the back for USB ports, so I insulated and mounted an old front USB 2.0 ports from an older case and then pushed it into the floppy drive slots and plugged it up, works just fine :)
and yes that is a hard drive mounted in a disk drive bay....just didn't have a 80 conductor long enough to have the DVD drive over the top of the HDD. I didn't want the DVD drive being the master on that line.
There is also supposed to be a front 'door' that covers the front however that is at home and one of the clips is broken :P
It was a free case and so I'm not displeased with it.
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When you said an iCute case I was expecting some pink little case I'd probably paint black and use as a doorstop, or foot stool. I'll go ahead and re-show the hardware setup I got for the fiftieth time:
The camera I took the pictures with was this horrible .3MP camera, it did the job.. Sortof...
Here's the photobucket album there in:
http://s55.photobucket.com/albums/g139/Dead-Reckon/Desktop/
The USB ports to the far right are, for some reason, USB 1.1 only. Old ports, the ones to the left are 2.0. There the only ports I had that would reach, the brilliant minds designing the foxconn motherboard I bought thought it would be a great idea to throw the USB headers at the near absolute back of the motherboard. As a side note, that is not paint on the front of the case, it is a result of too many long load times and a Marks-A-Lot marker laying on my desk.
'Nother side note, I'm considering getting this case:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811110002
I'll quote a friend's reaction to seeing that case;
I can't do that Dave.
The case takes up little space, will fit a full ATX motherboard, and the hardware I have, and yes, it has a optical drive bay. Lets see if you can find it, Rob couldn't ;D
If I get that case, I'm definitely going to try to find a big red LED fan for the side, like, 250mm. Going to make it glow red, even going to replace the blue LED PSU fan with a red one.
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When you said an iCute case I was expecting some pink little case I'd probably paint black and use as a doorstop, or foot stool.
haha not quite, apparently they are a reputable brand, though I had never heard of them until now.
and glad to see my case isn't the most destroyed here ;D
EDIT: I give up finding the drive bay ??? I cannot even see where you would put the HDDs :-\
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My new build:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/patio/sky-puter.jpg)
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Replaced this one:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/patio/mymachine.jpg)
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kurt you need to defrag more
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kurt you need to defrag more
i know it's shocking! :o
Thank God for defraggler because the windows one just gave up lol.
this drive is particularly stubborn though...the others took maybe an hour for 40GB drives, this ones taken over 4 for a 80GB drive...it's still mostly red :P ;)
My new build:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/patio/sky-puter.jpg)
I would actually like to see how that runs and how efficient the cooling is on that lol
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kurt you need to defrag more
Why?
I personally have almost never defragmented a hard drive, except when I'm REALLY bored.
fragmentation doesn't really cause drive failure. Although it could cause filesystem problems.
sure, fragmentation may cause more wear, but then again, so does regular defragmentation.
Replaced this one:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/patio/mymachine.jpg)
melts in your face and in your hands.
THEN you realize that it's a bit stuffy.
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My case is some generic that has been transported the left back lower rear corner has come loose, spot weld broke. Its bent, beaten, banged up, but its a case, sturdy enough. Not flimsy like some of these modern foil cases, but no where near the tank my old case was.
This is my old desktop case:
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g139/Dead-Reckon/desktop007.jpg)
I had to shove the monitor back against the dresser to get that picture, so yeah, it is on the verge of falling like it looks to be.
this was the inside of my old desktop:
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g139/Dead-Reckon/desktop009.jpg
that rig's specs where:
CPU: Intel Pentium D 805 2.66GHz/533FSB/2MB L2
GPU1: EVGA nVidia 7600GT 256MB 128 bit PCI-E 16x 1.0
GPU2: (Was not installed at the time) WinFast nVidia MX4000 64MB 32 bit PCI
RAM: 1GB DDR2 667 Super Talent
HDD: 320GB Western Digital IDE
ODD: HP 8x read/write DVD-RW
PSU: Apevia 500W ATX 2.0 PSU
Oh, and it had 12 fans, 3x front 80mm intake, 2x rear 80mm exhaust, 1x 92mm side intake, 1x 50mm northbridge fan, 1x 50mm GPU fan, 1x 92MM CPU fan, 2x 80mm PSU fans, and 1x 80mm hard drive fan.
At the time of the pic the 92mm side fan was exhaust, I flipped it so it would blow onto the GPU.
Oh, and this is what the second GPU I mentioned was for:
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g139/Dead-Reckon/mypc004.jpg
Second GPU ran the far right monitor and the TV, worked great, I hope to get back up to 3 monitors here soon as I feel like installing the MX4000 in this rig.
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Oh, and it had 12 fans, 3x front 80mm intake, 2x rear 80mm exhaust, 1x 92mm side intake, 1x 50mm northbridge fan, 1x 50mm GPU fan, 1x 92MM CPU fan, 2x 80mm PSU fans, and 1x 80mm hard drive fan.
What are you thinking!? Are you trying to kill your computer by overheating it?!?
Seriously though...sure you have enough?
I have 1x 80MM intake side fan, 1x 80MM exaust real panel, 1x 120mm front intake, 1x 80MM CPU fan, 2x 80MM PSU fans, 1x (god knows what size) GPU fan, it is some 'arctic iceburg' thing...tiny fan with millions of blades and a large copper heatsink that takes up an extra PCI slot to push it all out the back, which it does a crap job of doing :P
so that is....7 fans lol it is quite a noisy rig at night.
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i've got 2x120mm, 1x80mm, 1xCPU, 1xGPU and 1xPSU and thats all you need- that's loud enough!
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my current rig has a load of fans..
2x 80mm front intake, 1x 80mm top exhaust fan, 1x 92mm CPU fan, 1x 120mm PSU fan, 1x 92mm rear exhaust fan, 1x 50mm GPU fan, 1x 50mm chipset fan, 1x 50mm secondary GPU fan, 1x 92mm PCI blower fan, and I uh.. think that's it..
corrent temps:
Motherboard 84F
CPU 86F
MCP 113F
GPU 118F (its running a tad hot, dunno why...)
GPU ambient 81F (no clue what this temp is)
Hitachi primary HDD: 73F
Western Digital secondary HDD: 61F
Drives are chilled, wish I could chill the GPU and chipset a bit more. (Chipset is the MCP temp)
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i have 2 atm but when i put the side panle and top window on I will have 6
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Got my rig done for the most part. was going toc use a 10 gig for additonal an 160 gb for the master which would have 2k on. I ended up having to use a 300 gb sata an just my 80 gb that has my data on. even though it only has a fan on the cpu. I got a dual 3.5 drive fan which I fixed. was unable to mount it cause the things were the screws went into came out.
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I'm running the monolith built by gnomes from middle earth. Nah, kidding, kidding, some custom box thrown together from scrap.
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How do i join
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I'm running the monolith built by gnomes from middle earth. Nah, kidding, kidding, some custom box thrown together from scrap.
How do i join
Post your specs and any other interesting info e.g. case mods, photos. and the CH Admin will be around sometime and will add you to the group :)
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By the way ghost, kudos on the reference to the Evil Dead series ;)
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cant wait to get my gaming rig back up soon.
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my new rig it's a work in progress
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By the way ghost, kudos on the reference to the Evil Dead series ;)
Thanks, I was starting to think no one noticed.
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By the way ghost, kudos on the reference to the Evil Dead series ;)
Thanks, I was starting to think no one noticed.
There is supposed to be a remake coming out some time soon :D
With the same Ash in it though...so he is gonna be alot older :-\
my new rig it's a work in progress
What r it's specs?
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lol, that Ash guy is still sore about Duke Nukem 3D using his lines. they weren't even his, the writers were the ones that made them. I think he's just pissed that more people recognize some of the lines as being from Duke Nukem 3d as opposed to Army of Darkness and Evil Dead.
With the same Ash in it though...so he is gonna be alot older :-\
Just so long as it doesn't become a second Rocky Series.
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Yeah that would just about put me off all of them :-X
Oh well...I always took the Army of Darkness and Evil Dead 1 & 2 to be more comedy anyway...I mean the facials and effects....just too much.
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my new rig it's a work in progress
Looks good welcome to the club. :)
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ok here's the basics
Asus P5E deluxe motherboard
Intel core 2 E8400 (o.c.to 4.05)
2 gig U.S. Modular cold fusion ddr2 1066
(2) western digital 150 raptors (raid0)
(1) western digital 500 (storage)
(2) writemaster dvd/rw
Antec 850w psu
after market cooler on cpu done forgot what kind but it works pretty well
(1 for now)Sapphire Radeon 4870x2
Princeton 24" monitor
Antec 900 case (for now,1200 on the way)
Xp home sp3
Anything else just ask
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ok here's the basics
Asus P5E deluxe motherboard
Intel core 2 E8400 (o.c.to 4.05)
2 gig U.S. Modular cold fusion ddr2 1066
(2) western digital 150 raptors (raid0)
(1) western digital 500 (storage)
(2) writemaster dvd/rw
Antec 850w psu
after market cooler on cpu done forgot what kind but it works pretty well
(1 for now)Sapphire Radeon 4870x2
Princeton 24" monitor
Antec 900 case (for now,1200 on the way)
Xp home sp3
Anything else just ask
Nice! ;D
Makes me feel so out of date...
Speaking of new builds, my kit is now fully paid for! (after the guy rang me and said the P5N MX is no longre available, and would I like to spend a little more to get the P5KPL-CM) I admit though for an extra $22.33 it is sort of a good deal still
So my kit now contains:
E7300 Core 2 Duo at 2.66GHz stock.
ASUS P5KPL-CM Motherboard
2GB Hynix DDR800 Ram
For NZ $398.00
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ok here's the basics
Asus P5E deluxe motherboard
Intel core 2 E8400 (o.c.to 4.05)
2 gig U.S. Modular cold fusion ddr2 1066
(2) western digital 150 raptors (raid0)
(1) western digital 500 (storage)
(2) writemaster dvd/rw
Antec 850w psu
after market cooler on cpu done forgot what kind but it works pretty well
(1 for now)Sapphire Radeon 4870x2
Princeton 24" monitor
Antec 900 case (for now,1200 on the way)
Xp home sp3
Anything else just ask
Looks good, course I wouldnt have installed sp 3 it seems still a little questionable. But thats my opion.
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sp3 is fine. There is nothing wrong with it.
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maybe not if I tried know.
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what
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maybe not if I tried know.
Yeah SP3 did have its issues when it was released as a Release Candidate....this is still technically a BETA and so it not meant to be taken to be totally reliable.
I run SP3 with no issues what so ever, I even decided to make a new windows disk with SP3 merged into it.
Runs great, and removes the need to download GB's of updates when I reformat :D
what
Squall simply meant he had tried SP3, and it was no good for him, and that it seems to be a while ago, and that he might give it another try.
;D
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Thanks for the translation! I installed it when it first came out and it messed everything up. i waited and then it worked fine
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You are welcome :)
I installed the RC1 and it did mess up a bit, my explorer windows seemed to take forever to open, so back to SP3 it was.
All SP's are treated the same though.
When SP2 came out people were like oh no! don't touch it! SP1 for Vista...same thing
It's the same with microsoft's OSes, too. ME rolls out, 99% of people I know said it was a waste of time/most buggiest thing they had ever seen. 2000 had better results, though still not exactly welcomed graciously. XP came out people said it was junk! Vista....well we all know the story with that.
My experiences with vista have been mostly happy ones, apart from having to run programs as an admin and the allow/deny/continue crap. XP has been great to me. The only times it messed up was HDD Failure (which isn't even XP's fault!) or by my own actions.
Anyways the main point of my rant it that SP3 is great, I recommend it!
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maybe not if I tried know.
Yeah SP3 did have its issues when it was released as a Release Candidate....this is still technically a BETA and so it not meant to be taken to be totally reliable.
I run SP3 with no issues what so ever, I even decided to make a new windows disk with SP3 merged into it.
Runs great, and removes the need to download GB's of updates when I reformat :D
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Squall simply meant he had tried SP3, and it was no good for him, and that it seems to be a while ago, and that he might give it another try.
;D
more or less till there ironed out abit more I wont using it. But its starting to be were it wants it no matter. So I dont now. just deleted stuff with out me inputing any answers.
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SP3 is fine at the moment, nothing wrong with it.
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+1 (http://bestsmileys.com/hyper/3.gif)
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LOL @ the smiley.
Btw ComputeRuler you need to update your spec's listing ;)
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Why yes I do! I will do that now
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Well...I finally got my new build today :D
ASUS P5KPL-CM Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 (they sent me a E7400 rather than a E7300...but I'm not complaining!)
2GB DDR800
Radeon X700
2xIDE RAID Card
Those new Intel heatsink/fan combos are a blimming pain-in-the-bum!
The motherboard had a bug when I first installed it...Said the CPU temp was flat out at 100 Degrees Celcius :o
But after many removals/placings of the HS/Fan I decided it was a bug as it was always 100, not 101 not 99...anyways did BIOS update and all is well now :)
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Good to hear, Kurtis.
Nice new build you have there.
I agree about the Intel push-pin mounting, it's an awful design.
I'm upgrading my heatsink soon solely for that reason - it uses the same system, and after you've installed it once (with difficulty) it gets harder and harder to do, until it's impossible. I've had one replacement and have been very careful with this one - this is my third installation of it, and I really don't think it will stand another.
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Yeah on the first go I admit I bent one of the bits that separate when the pin is pushed through...
But bent it back and tried again.
Only lasting three times you say?
Mine been on and off perhaps 6 times in the course of a day...the CPU temp bug was driving me nuts :-[
Not so great for games...it seems portal runs slightly better ton my old rig then this one, but WoW runs 3x Faster on my new one *sigh*
Cant wait to get my hands on a cheap, better gfx card though :) maybe a 8800GT or something.
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Perhaps I'm doing it wrong.
I've only installed the stock cooler twice, so I'm not sure how well it stands up to being removed and installed - my cooler is different, but uses the same push-pin method.
As for your graphics, not sure of NZ pricing but over here the 4670 is at a good price, as is the 9600GT, 9600GSO, and 4830. 8800GT is a good deal if you can pick one up used, but here an 8800/9800GT new isn't really worth it.
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Had to reformat the drive thing was ask to activate before the use of the thridy days. Found a cd drive for it which was hard to find slapped it in there. I needed an wanted a black one to match the tower.
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Perhaps I'm doing it wrong.
Probably not. I just realized it could just be of different quality materials.
But it confused the bejeebus out of me how the whole twist to remove thing works...then you have to twist it back to get it to click down ::)
I was pushing it down only to have it pop back up ;D
Anyway...is 40 Degrees Celcius acceptable at Idle for a E7400?
Yeah the x700 is alright, but a better card would be nice :)
NZ Prices for better graphics cards are quite high at the moment....but aside from the graphics card I would also need a new PSU for the 4/6/8 pin PCI-e power thing...I wouldn't want to use an adapter for it.
Some prices:
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB PCI-Express 7 prices $169.54 PC OnLine Shop
And this just confuses me ???
Geforce 8800 GT, 512MB, PCI Express 58 prices $248.75 iFocus
It is nearly $100 more :S
Meh...I'm happy enough for now :)
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WOW!!!!!!!! those prices are OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!!!!!! (http://img117.exs.cx/img117/5601/n1qshok.gif)(http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/haushalt/k050.gif)(http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/6236/shockedsmileyzn3.gif)
I hate the pushpin thing. I bent one of mine and I am surprised the motherboard didnt break when I was putting it on
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I built my computer, but I don't see anything in my profile that says anything about this club... :-\
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WOW!!!!!!!! those prices are OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!!!!!! (http://img117.exs.cx/img117/5601/n1qshok.gif)(http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/haushalt/k050.gif)(http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/6236/shockedsmileyzn3.gif)
I hate the pushpin thing. I bent one of mine and I am surprised the motherboard didnt break when I was putting it on
And yeah, though we are sort of like the lower of the developed countries.
Oh and CR..those are NZ prices, so the 9600 is probably close to $88 USD
Yeah so was I ::) Had to push so *censored* hard, and my new mobo is m-ATX so only having 4 off-stands kinda made it even worse...
also scared the crap out of me when the fan spun fast as *censored* during first boot...them spins down when Q-Fan kicks in.
The fan cut me too ;D When I was trying to cop a feel of the heatsink lol to see if it really was 100 Degrees... :-[ oh well...
I built my computer, but I don't see anything in my profile that says anything about this club... :-\
You have to post about it here first, and CH Admin will come by from time to time and add newer members
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I built my computer, but I don't see anything in my profile that says anything about this club... :-\
You have to post about it here first, and CH Admin will come by from time to time and add newer members
Oh. That explains it. :P
I don't have any pictures (I don't have a digital camera), but you can see from my specs that I don't have a cheap Dell. ;)
This is my case. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowImage.aspx?ISList=11-156-078-S01%2c11-156-078-S02%2c11-156-078-S03%2c11-156-078-S04%2c11-156-078-S05%2c11-156-078-S06%2c11-156-078-S07%2c11-156-078-S08%2c11-156-078-S09%2c11-156-078-S10%2c11-156-078-S11%2c11-156-078-S12%2c11-156-078-S14%2c11-156-078-S13&S7ImageFlag=1&Item=N82E16811156078&Depa=0&WaterMark=1&Description=RAIDMAX%20SMILODON%20Extreme%20Black%20ATX-612WEB%20Foldout%20MB%20Computer%20Case%20With%20Side%20Panel%20Window%20-%20Retail) Sorry, I don't remember what everything cost (about $1,200 in total), and I salvaged a few little things (like the DVD drives) from my old computer. I put it together over a year ago...
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That's a nice case!
I forgot to take pics of my new build coming together too :O
Perhaps next time ::)
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Kurtis - 40C idle is safe but a little high, check your load temps though as that's what matters.
If you've reinstalled the cooler a few times you may need new thermal paste (if you haven't already done that).
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I 'tortured' the processor for 15 minutes just now with Prime 95 and it only reached 49, then every few seconds would drop to 48, then back up to 49 ???
Then as soon as I stop the test...the temps drop back to 38-39 almost immediately/
Never seen this kind of behavior in temperatures.
The other odd thing is that temps don't seem to be changed until the processor is stressed up to 90+%
EDIT:Motherboard is running at 34, HDDs at 38ish....
I find it odd it has such a high idle, yet when stressed, it only goes up by 10-11 ???
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49C is fine for load, actually pretty good with the stock cooler.
Dropping to 48, then going back up to 49, would mean the actual temperature is between 48 and 49C. The quick drop is because it's a cool running CPU, and I would also think Speedstep would be kicking in, dropping the clock speed and VCore whilst the processor is idle, which reduces temps even further.
My CPU is similar in a way, it idles at around 25C, and loads at around 47. Drops straight back down if I stop stressing it, and returns to idle within a few seconds. Remember mine is overclocked, but my case cooling is excellent (loving my new Antec 900).
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are you doing it with the board mounted or unmounted?
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I find it odd it has such a high idle, yet when stressed, it only goes up by 10-11
Why is that odd? It would seem you don't want a lot of variance in operational temperatures.
(Not trying to "bust your chops." I don't know a lot about this -- or a lot of other stuff, it seems! ::))
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It's not odd- it's a good thing, after all.
But if it's a problem kurtis- just scrape the thermal paste off and place some more on sloppily. That should increase both your idle temps and the amount is goes up when stressed. ;D
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Added an 80 mm fan from my other pc so this one would have better cooling hopeful get what I need next week for my gaming pc.
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Hunter: Nice case! I have the same cpu. Very nice.
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Hunter
Your build is almost the same as mine... ;)
Currently not running crossfire though.
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Ah ok well it isn't so bad then I guess :)
Squall: Mounted in the case, with both side panels on.
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just wondered cause the airflow wouldnt have been right
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Argh ohhh nooo! just cleaned out my PSU today...my old faithful 500W unbranded PSU...
And there are 2 rusting capacitors :-[
I've had this for about 4 years second hand now...still runs A-OK though!
Suggestions for replacements?
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My last one was an OCZ and i'm very pleased with it...
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I have an antec and its pretty good. Crosair is very good too
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Google guides to replacing capacitors Kurtiskain, its not hard, there through hole, if you have basic soldering skills and a decent iron or gun it'll be easy. Just be sure to discharge them before removing them.
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here I finally uploaded the pics of it.
http://s310.photobucket.com/albums/kk403/squall_131/?action=view¤t=DSC00905.jpg
http://s310.photobucket.com/albums/kk403/squall_131/?action=view¤t=DSC00902.jpg
its messy in there cause the one drive drops off but i plan on getting more drive for space.
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I love that case XD
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I do tooooooo........ :D :D :D :D The only thing is the logo was slapped on there latter. The nice thing is it can accomidate what I needed it for an make it look really good with some customized things. Sounds,wall paper ect....
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If you're going to put wallpaper on your case you should use Sanitas...
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Man that case looks flimsier than the one I'm stuck with, and I hate flimsy cases.
This is my rig:
http://s55.photobucket.com/albums/g139/Dead-Reckon/Desktop/
Pentium D 805 smithfeild 2.66GHz/533MHz FSB/2MBL2 LGA775 CPU
LGA775 foxconn M7VMX-K series nVidia 7050/610i based M-ATX Motherboard
Generic case
32X HP CD-RW drive 'till i can afford a new DVD-RW drive
320GB WD secondary 3.5" IDE HDD
60GB Fujitsu travelstar 2.5" SATA primary HDD
8800GS 384MB/192 bit PCI-E 2.0 GPU
D-link wireless PCI adapter, can't remember the model
rosewill 550W PSU
and uh, like, eight or nine fans that I'm too lazy to list.
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Got you added back to theclub.
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it does a bit but your over looking what it can do. Mine looks so good compared to the other machines. second to the gaming machine which will be up latter today!!!!!!!!!
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I recently build a custom pc. It has an AMD Phenom 9600, 4 gb G. Skill ram, Ati Radeon HD 4650, LG super-milti with lightscribe, a gigabyte motherboard, and windows xp home. I just got a plain white case, which I wish I didn't get because it is very dull and boring.
(http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq65/paudashlake/IMG_0583.jpg)
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I just love that canada flag ;D ;D ;D
Nice computer btw
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haha thank you for the flag ordeal. My room is full of them!
Like your compuetr as well, btw.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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thanks
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I would like to do some wire management. It is truly a mess inside.
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Same. That new psu is too big though and I cant fit the 24 pic motherboard connector on the other side so I cant see it. File time!
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I don't get the dislike for "boring" cases. All the LED's and lights are fun to look at, for a while, but they don't do a thing to enhance performance.
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I love the leds
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Don't get me wrong -- I like LED's too. To me, though, it's more important to have a quality case to protect the components, and have a case in which one can easily work.
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I like a good big case with a side window and some ccfls
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What is a ccfl?
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I actually think the case looks quite nice.
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Looks good paudashlake I've got you added to the club. Welcome. ;D
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What is a ccfl?
Im going to guess that is a Cold Cathode FLourescent?
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I don't get the dislike for "boring" cases. All the LED's and lights are fun to look at, for a while, but they don't do a thing to enhance performance.
I like boring cases.
I bought a new case (Antec 900) which came with LED fans. First thing I did was swap them all for non-LED models with better performance - two bonuses in one.
I can't stand neon tubing, CCFLs and flashing lights (Kurtis is correct about what CCFL stands for, to my knowledge).
My ideal case would be a huge beige box actually, and one day I will get around to creating one for myself.
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What is a ccfl?
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/ccfl.htm ;D
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good point but you can get lots of stuff but heat becomes the major issue and thats why you see the large cooling in the Batman not that it has anything really connected but the cooler the parts the better they'll run till it like over heats or something.
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Well, I understand how the case isn't that important, but mine is hard to work with. The power button, usb's, headphone, and microphone jacks are on the bottom front of the right side. Also, I bet if my house was ever to get robbed, they would take the monitor and not the computer because it looks pretty dull. But it ain't!
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thats a good thing
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CCFLs dont make much heat. Thats why they dont use neon ::)
I have 2 ccfls and 6 led fans When I finally put them all in and that nice paint job
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Well, I understand how the case isn't that important
On the contrary, the case is extremely important.
It's one of the most important factors in cooling, and it protects your computer from dust, dirty and stray feet.
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also fingers, but thats why you get fan grills.
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I agree that a case is all about cooling and protection, though it is always nice to have some pretty lights and such, but too much and it just looks silly.
My ideal case would be a huge beige box actually, and one day I will get around to creating one for myself.
I agree, old 'beige' cases are great, they are made of actual metals, not some flimsy aluminum.
You can get nice cases these days for $120 that wont bend so much...but why do that when an old beige case you could get off Trademe/eBay for $5?
Plus as they are made out of older 'purer' metals....they conduct heat really well!
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I want one to mod
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I agree, old 'beige' cases are great, they are made of actual metals, not some flimsy aluminum.
You can get nice cases these days for $120 that wont bend so much...but why do that when an old beige case you could get off Trademe/eBay for $5?
Because the older cases don't have the cooling ability without modifications, and I don't have the tools for that.
There was one case I had that showed a lot of promise, but I destroyed the front panel by accident ... also it wasn't as roomy inside as it looked, and was half plastic too.
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well that shouldnt stop you. The batmans front wont stay on but I got it too thanks to some mod.
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glue ??? :D
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some what as well as the fan and two cd/dvd drive is keeping it there.
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GLUE FTW! and ducktape too! ;)
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No glue! If it stays in place, it's all good! (Nothing worse that the front of a case you can't get off if you need to do so!) ;)
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fine
ducktape FTW
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no freakin duck tape. The nice part is that you have to pry it off like if it had been new.
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it's "DUCT" tape, people. I mean, think about it- would you really need a special tape for ducks?
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what ever!!!!!!!!
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Well, I would just use any old tape, scotch tape works. Heck, even super glue, if the ducks refuse to pay their bills... I mean, shut their bills.
Although in such a situation I would probably ask myself, "why am I torturing ducks by taping their mouths closed?"... Then I would hopefully wake-up.
I think the reason Duct tape is shiny on the outter side is to try to match the galvanized steel that most air ducts are comprised of.
What about electrical tape?
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you probably run a short by doing that if your not careful.,
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There is a brand, here in the US, called "Duck Tape" -- probably just because so many people mispronounce it.
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Heh. All this conversation about duct tape reminds me of this:
(http://www.oddpic.com/data/518/lan-party-strapped.jpg) (http://www.oddpic.com/showphoto.php/photo/2638/cat/518)
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OMG!! XD XD XD ROFL!
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OMG!! XD XD XD ROFL!
looks more like rocl
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huh I dont get it
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rolling on Ceiling laughing.
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oooooooooo lol
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Heh. All this conversation about duct tape reminds me of this:
(http://www.oddpic.com/data/518/lan-party-strapped.jpg) (http://www.oddpic.com/showphoto.php/photo/2638/cat/518)
hmmm looks like ceiling room only?? hate to be that guy if I had to use the bathroom.
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what if he has to go?
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what if he has to go?
Then you will not want to be the guy underneath him. :)
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that wouldnt be all that great :o
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If you wish to join this club check the box in your Forum Profile Information and your system info in the computer section. Once checked you'll have a link in your profile as shown on the left of this post.
If you wish to participate in this group post some information about your custom built computer and the admin will add you shortly after your post.
I built the computer I'm using now (in my specs) a few weeks ago and would like to join the club. This is the first personal computer I've built although I have similar experience in my work in factories that have extensive use of programmable logic controllers (PLC). I don't do much program writing but I do a lot of editing, troubleshooting and installations. I found that wiring AC motor drives, connecting to PLC networks, and working out the programming bugs is similar to building a personal PC, just on a larger scale. It would be fun if I could sell the finished product and build these on a semi-regular basis. :)
Some pictures (http://s243.photobucket.com/albums/ff1/letrocrew/Mikes%20Xclio%20A380/) of my semi-finished machine. I've got a few more plans for it.
(http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff1/letrocrew/Mikes%20Xclio%20A380/pcsidecoveroff-1.jpg)
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I built the computer I'm using now (in my specs) a few weeks ago and would like to join the club. This is the first personal computer I've built although I have similar experience in my work in factories that have extensive use of programmable logic controllers (PLC). I don't do much program writing but I do a lot of editing, troubleshooting and installations. I found that wiring AC motor drives, connecting to PLC networks, and working out the programming bugs is similar to building a personal PC, just on a larger scale. It would be fun if I could sell the finished product and build these on a semi-regular basis. :)
Some pictures (http://s243.photobucket.com/albums/ff1/letrocrew/Mikes%20Xclio%20A380/) of my semi-finished machine. I've got a few more plans for it.
(http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff1/letrocrew/Mikes%20Xclio%20A380/pcsidecoveroff-1.jpg)
Looks good I've got you added to the SBCC. ;D
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probably over heats a little.
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Looks good I've got you added to the SBCC. ;D
Thanks. :)
probably over heats a little.
Yes, but the nine fans sure look good. ;D
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hate to say that it doesnt if that really happens.
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Why would it overheat?
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leds fans.....
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Uhh ok..........
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leds .....
You may have a point. (http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff1/letrocrew/hyper.gif)
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No leds wont make it overheat. They dont make a difference.
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oh oay see..... the thng s that ts seems lme t would
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See there, mom was right when she said I needed to take one of those classes in school. I'm already lost. Again. ???
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book was on the keyboard it messed it up.
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Can you retype is without a book on the keyboard?
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oh oay see..... the thng s that ts seems lme t would
Oh, okay, see....the thing is that it seems to me it would
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Oh thanks for clearing it up. LEDs and CCFLs make almost no heat at all.
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except in a whole lot of series.
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the Radio Shack type LED's have very little heat, those LED's current rating is about 5 to 10 mA, thats about 0.05 watts.
The large power LED's can be many watts each, which can add up and including the power source heat as well.
here's a link on a type of LED lighting source, with LED heatsink
http://www.luxeonstar.com/luxeon-heat-sinking.php