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theonejrs

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10. February 2008 @ 19:44

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OK! Stop the yelling. LOL!! Look here!

See those 2 black dots on the right side of the heatsink? That's where the two screws go for a 40mm fan! Right in between the fins! The fan slightly favors away from the CPU!

Best Regards,
Russ

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greensman

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10. February 2008 @ 19:49

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herrick,
I think that's the southbridge. ;) Can you use another PCI slot for the sound card? That would help matters tremendously.

Did you guys "alter" the heatpipe at all? You know different thermal paste.

You will have to get separate heatsinks for each of the bridges and mosfet chips. I'm not saying this will cure your problems but it seems like an issue with your setup for some reason. That's why I asked about the power settings before. :D

I know we can figure this out but the entire "village" is gonna have to help with this one. :P

...gm

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Mort81

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10. February 2008 @ 19:59

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you can mount a 40 x 40mm fan to most heatsinks simply by finding screws that will screw down into the slots between the heatsink fins. you'll just need to play around with an assortment of screw types and lengths. I used #6 machine screws on my northbridge heatsink and #4 wood screws on my southbridge heatsink to mount the fans.

I used the existing oem heatsinks but I did remove them and reseat them with AS5.

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herrick

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10. February 2008 @ 20:12

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Greensmen- heres another pic...as you can see there is very little room with this sound card...You think I can still water cool the brigde...I could move sound card to bottom PCI slolt but then it interferes with fan on Vid card.

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herrick

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10. February 2008 @ 20:26

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I will look into this in a bit...Jones has to go and I have some home work to finish...Thanks for all the help and no I have not messed with any setting [suggestions please] or the heat pipe yet- been at it all day- yesterday and most of today going to take a break and get some other stuff done- keep the suggestion coming and when Jones gets back we'll try again...its this case, never had any issues before in my smaller cases...the big vent at the top I beleive changes the preasure in the case and Im not moving the air as good as in a smaller...going to put some hard thought in water cooling, this case is set up for it,,,going to have to try moving sound card but it gets in the way of the vid. fan

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greensman

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10. February 2008 @ 21:03

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I'm gonna take a stab at this again. lol. From a different angle tho. :D

On your fan setup... how do you have it routed? If it were me I would look at this setup and see how it works...

Front fan = intake
Side fan = intake (is there a switch that indicates in/out?)
both Rear fans = exhaust
Top fan = exhaust

I think that configuration (if you don't already have it) will support the MOST airflow in your case. (no pun intended....hehehe)

GOOD LUCK buddy....... i know this has about driven you to drinking....lol. :P

....gm

ADD: I got my little Micro-ATX going today. LOL. Remember the 80GB HDD, well it's not "working" properly!! I stuck that OLD IBM Deskstar in and it works great. lol. I even installed Debian-linux just for poo-poo's and ha-ha's!! ;)

question: That 80GB seems ok when used as slave, would it be ok to use it that way or just toss it?? tia.......

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herrick

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10. February 2008 @ 21:11

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the air flow you suggested is the way I have it set up...going to down load some more pics for you in my shout page or where ever you add them...the ones we put in the thread are really big, going to have to pay around with it...

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greensman

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10. February 2008 @ 21:41

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herrick,
Just change it to a link instead of an image.

...gm

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herrick

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10. February 2008 @ 22:02

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@ greensmen or all

Go to my images... in my profile page- check out the pics and see if you can get something out of it that might help...when you water cool does it water cool the bridges? my temps are CPU 45c [just reseated it(yes artic 5) so it will take a couple hundres hrs? but the mobo is 52c...I could lower it by opening my intake fan in my room but it will be very cold in here ah,ah, I dont mind but everyone else it kills ROTFL everything is new, mobo, cards, PSU went from 580 hiper to cooler master 850... everything else is a little over a year or so...have NEVER ran it to its protentail...ever sense going to this case heat problems,,, I really want to see how farcry looks with these cards and Doom,,,nothing like killen some demons to help me sleep at night...old games and have really never been a gamer...and why? cant get my heat down to play...I shall cry now...not a good picture for a man to cry and be 6' 330+ lbs ROTFL

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theonejrs

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10. February 2008 @ 22:07

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herrick,
I would try making the side fan blow out! Just 4 screws to find out if it's better or not. Just flip it pver and screw it down! Create some negative pressure in the case which will draw cooler air in through the case vents! Worth a try!

Best Regards,
Russ

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GregI6

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10. February 2008 @ 22:07

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Yo sammyboy, i think im wanting to watercool for noise levels and such. Do you by anychance know of any decent watercooling kits for my quad, 3870 that will require minimal DIY and fit in my NZXT LEXA?

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herrick

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10. February 2008 @ 22:26

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@ theonejrs

Hmmm... will give it a try- tomorrow...I was going to rmove the black mesh behind the vents in front fan...see pics in my profile and youll get a better understanding what Im taking about and the case I have unless you know my case...the front fan takes up 3 bays and have with vents but has that black mesh behind it????

even then- I dont see that lowering my temps by 20+ degrees as I want...water cooling--- is there a system that will cool all the areas I need...[north and south and chip set and CPU and well anything else with my SET UP?]I am very upset with this build...I like the case because I do alot of projects at work where I need multable burners...I want to add one more burner to save time on making learning disks from my classes and well for what I have paid and got in this machine---it should be at least a mid. gamer and do what I want w/ out over heating PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!.

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cincyrob

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10. February 2008 @ 22:27

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got a question here. ive been reading the pdf manual for my mobo. it has 6 sata and 2 Esata hookups.it comes with 2 esata connection for the back of the board. the case has a esata on top. can you use the regular sata plugin for the esata. i got 3 esata and only 2 connection.... will the reg sata work?

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abuzar1

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10. February 2008 @ 22:27

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Guys something horrible happened! I took apart my computer and when I started to try to get the Heatsink off my northbridge I accidentally scratched some tiny motherboard wires! Damn I hope it works!

I'll put it back together tomorrow after I get home from School.

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theonejrs

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10. February 2008 @ 23:04

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cincyrob,

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can you use the regular sata plugin for the esata. i got 3 esata and only 2 connection.... will the reg sata work?

Yes, but why would you want that many E-Satas? I would stick either with what came with the motherboard or the one on the case and not both! The 6 orange looking Sata ports are the intels and the two purple ones the custom Gigabyte controller ones by Realtec. They'll all work! If you hook them all up and need one in the future, just loose the case hookup and you'll still have 2 on the back of the computer!

Best Regards,
Russ

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ddp

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10. February 2008 @ 23:10

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those are called traces & i used to repair them when i worked at celestica working on cisco & sun microsystems boards & other ones. use a magnifying glass if have 1 to see if cut thru or not as most likely just scratched it.

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Mort81

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11. February 2008 @ 00:49

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herrick,

water cooling is a pretty big leap and why most don't mess with it. water and electricity don't mix so you've got to be very careful and keep an eye out for leaks.

you can buy kits for particular cpu's but you will need to buy the water blocks seperately for the NB, SB and GPU in most cases.

most ppl buy all the water cooling components seperately as they tend to be better. BigDK is the person to ask here in regards to water cooling.

BTW I don't know what all you have done. your cpu temp isn't all that bad, after all we're talking AMD dual core not Intel C2D. have you performed the mod (reseated with AS5) to your NB and SB heatsinks?

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herrick

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11. February 2008 @ 01:16

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@ Mort81

On this Mobo No I have not done the Mods [artic 5] BUT I did on the last MOBO I had... which is the same as what I have now and there was little differance...got this board from greensmen to replace the same board I had already

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greensman

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11. February 2008 @ 02:18

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Oh crap don't blame me. :P I was just the delivery boy. ;)

herrick i'm sure we'll get this figured out, i have no doubts.

....gm

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Mort81

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11. February 2008 @ 02:27

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herrick,

I reaseated the NB ad SB heatsinks first with as5 which lowered my mobo temp about 5 - 6 defrees C. I then mounted a 40 x 40 x 20mm fan on both the heatsinks which lowered the mobo temo about another 5 - 6 degrees C.

my mobo temp was between 46 and 47 C when I first got it but it is now running between 34 and 36 C. I have the chipset fans on high now but I am going to slow them down using the speed settings in my bios. one hooks up to a fan header on my mobo and the other hooks up to an auxilery header on my mobo. both use the small 3 wire plugs and I can adjust the fan speed for both in the bios. hope that makes sense. I took an ambien to help me sleep and I'm a little groggy now.

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Random5

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11. February 2008 @ 07:12

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Hello again everyone, well I built that PC I ordered here it is....
It all worked out perfectly, put it together in 4 hours, had some problem with drivers but it all gravy now. Its a monster, running COD4 at full settings with a sky high frame rate. Bloody SWEET. Haven't overclocked yet, I won't need to for a while I'd imagine. Thanks for everyone's help when i was putting the order together.

Core duo E8400 3.0 Ghz

Gigabyte GA P35C DS3R motherboard.

OCZ tech stealthXstream 600W power supply.

Coolmaster elite 330 case.

Samsung 320Gb Hard disk.

OCZ tech 2x2Gb ddr2 Gold

Lite on 20XDVDRW,

Gigabyte GeForce 8800GTS 512MB DDR3. (I ordered and payed for the 8800GT but they sent me this one. Happy days.)

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Pepp77

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11. February 2008 @ 07:15

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Random5 - where are you based? If UK where did you get the 8400 from. Nice build by the way.

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Random5

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11. February 2008 @ 07:27

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Ireland, I was trying to order the lot through Dabs.ie, which is really Dabs.co.uk with euro prices. They couldn't get their hands on a E8400, I was waiting about a week, and they couldn't give me a date. So I said Fup it, canceled the processor on the order, told them to send the rest and went looking for the CPU elsewhere. I found it on tekheads, checked in the morning, noone had one, including tekheads, checked again after lunch and they must have just got the order in. They had 10, by the time I had filled out the order they had 5, I checked the dispatch status that evening and they were sold out. They are going like hot cakes. No suprise, there isn't many about at the mo and they are fantastic value for money. A lot of bang for your buck. Best thing to do is just keep checking and hope you get lucky. Good luck.

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Pepp77

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11. February 2008 @ 07:39

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Scan should have some in tomorrow according to their website, so Ill see if they do come in and whether I can get one, otherwise Ill probably just go for 8200 (same price as 6750 but with more L2 cache).

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Random5

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11. February 2008 @ 07:45

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Yeah, you'll overclock that to 3G easy anyway. (although you'll overclock the E8400 to 3.6ish with no real bother too...)

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