[Littlebender]

Just got these two beauties yesterday and the rest should be arriving today.
I almost got undressed when I saw this case. It weighs around 30 lbs. I think I might toss
it around the bed tonight huehuehue.

[Corrderio]

Wow....

[Littlebender]

The rest has been delivered woot gotta find some way to go get it...

[Littlebender]

Lets see if I can build my first pc without destroying it.

[Keylime]

Littlebender, on 08 September 2010 - 12:47 PM, said:

Lets see if I can build my first pc without destroying it.

If that is OCZ Gold RAM DDR# 1333, you may have to manually adjust the cas latency in the bios. I had to with the OCZ Gold Ram I purchased. There are walk throughs if you google it.

[Littlebender]

Hm its uh... OCZ Gold 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000) also turns out the audio card isn't compatible with the mobo ugh.

[Littlebender]

Hm it says 6 gigs of ram but only 2.49 is usable.

[Chriscoffey]

Littlebender, on 08 September 2010 - 04:23 PM, said:

Hm its uh... OCZ Gold 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000) also turns out the audio card isn't compatible with the mobo ugh.

With a stock fan for the CPU.. damn man just what the hell. Why spend all the cash without properly cooling the primary part that "thinks" for it. Looks decent enough though and have to give props to people that build their own not those who buy that shit from the stores. I can also see where the bottom graphics card is close to the PSU for cooling just wondering if cools sufficient enough for that. I have read many of the nviidia cards are bad to overheat so just keep a close eye on that since it's new.

This post has been edited by Chriscoffey: 08 September 2010 - 04:38 PM

[Littlebender]

What CPU fan would you suggest? I've got a sound blaster PCI card but it wouldn't even plug into mobo.

[Chriscoffey]

Littlebender, on 08 September 2010 - 04:38 PM, said:

What CPU fan would you suggest? I've got a sound blaster PCI card but it wouldn't even plug into mobo.

They typicall change with each CPU change as to what is "best" just depends on your Intel CPU. I believe if you just built this you are running off the i7 set and I'm sure you could google search " best air cooled fan intel i7" and could find results from that. I found this to be a great cooler if you have the room for it and using the 1366 platform. It's compatible with all these from Intel LGA 1156 / LGA 1366 / LGA 775.

Prolimatech Megahalems Rev.B CPU Cooler

This post has been edited by Chriscoffey: 08 September 2010 - 04:47 PM

[Littlebender]

Yeah it's an i7 and good god that thing looks huge.

[Chriscoffey]

Littlebender, on 08 September 2010 - 04:47 PM, said:

Yeah it's an i7 and good god that thing looks huge.

Yeah well thats how you air cool better buy bigger but i think you have to buy separate fans for it. I haven't personally built another PC but i would use that according to what people were saying about temp drops. I overclock my stuff to a moderate speed so any help is a plus.

Here are some fans a guy bought for it but most people run into the problem of case space. The fans are (COOLER MASTER R4-L2R-20CR-GP). Your case kind of looks like a full ATX tower so i believe u would be ok but i would still measure to make sure about fans and it being installed. They also make low profile fans that cool well and could try researching those as well. I mean it doesn't really matter too much as long as you aren't on stock fans as they are complete shit at least to me.

This post has been edited by Chriscoffey: 08 September 2010 - 04:53 PM

[fairleigh]

Littlebender, on 08 September 2010 - 04:29 PM, said:

Hm it says 6 gigs of ram but only 2.49 is usable.

Are you using 32-bit windows? I believe that has a RAM usage limitation, so you'll want to use the 64-bit version.

Oh and congrats, that's a nice looking system you have there!

[Keylime]

fairleigh, on 08 September 2010 - 05:15 PM, said:

Are you using 32-bit windows? I believe that has a RAM usage limitation, so you'll want to use the 64-bit version.

Oh and congrats, that's a nice looking system you have there!

Beat me to it.

[Littlebender]

Before.

After.

I have another question. There is and 8 pin socket on mobo for power and there is another one right next to it with a sticker on
it saying that if I plan on superclocking I should plug another 8 pin into it. The cord I used only had one so I didn't plug another in.
Both my video cards are super clocked but they seem to run fine. CPU isn't capable of being over clocked. Is it necessary to plug another 8 pin in?

[firefeng]

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CPU isn't capable of being over clocked.

Wut?

[Keylime]

Are you using an i7 or i5?

[Littlebender]

i7.

[Keylime]

With a decent heatsink you can over clock an i7. Just be warned that if you fuck up and fry it, Intel will not give you a new one.

[firefeng]

Also depends on the motherboard. I've got a cheapy mobo as part of a combo, and with just one stick of memory I can OC fine, but if I add in another one the northbridge heats up (from ~45 degrees C. to 58-60 degrees C.) and overclocking my Phenom II from 3.1 ghtz to 3.7 ghtz is out of the question because of stability issues. So now I've got 6 gig of ram and can only use 2 gigs...

...time for a new mobo! With a better motherboard, shouldn't have any problem OCing my processor to 3.8~4.0 ghtz.

This post has been edited by firefeng: 11 September 2010 - 02:49 PM