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Configuring new build with Rebuilder/CCE focus
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12. December 2007 @ 15:36 |
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@sammorris, thanks for the feedback on the cooler. :-)
That Zalman looks awesome and its actually 20mm smaller, while being only 1mm taller, than the Blue Orb II.
A review I saw here used the Blue Orb and it fit ok except you had to install the RAM first. He used a 8800GTS in the review and it fit OK.
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12. December 2007 @ 15:51 |
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Zalman coolers are much better than the Blue orb, you won't regret it!
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12. December 2007 @ 17:03 |
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I can certainly vouch for that; left machine on overnight moving many hundred GB around various disks and it greeted me this morn at 25C, nice (though the room was a tad frosty too)
Main PC ~ Intel C2Q Q6600 (G0 Stepping)/Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3/2GB Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500/Zalman CNPS9700/Antec 900/Corsair HX 620W
Network ~ DD-WRT ~ 2node WDS-WPA2/AES ~ Buffalo WHR-G54S. 3node WPA2/AES ~ WRT54GS v6 (inc. WEP BSSID), WRT54G v2, WRT54G2 v1. *** Forum Rules ***This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 13. December 2007 @ 03:28
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21. December 2007 @ 13:18 |
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Santa popped by early and noticed my PC Case had a few spare spaces so PC is now fully kitted out as follows -
CPU: Core 2 Quad Q6600 (G0 edition) @2.40GHz ie no Overclocking (yet)
CPU Cooler: Zalman CNPS 9700 LED Cooler (with fan in silent mode)
PC Case: Antec 900 (with all fans in silent mode)
PSU: Corsair HX Series 620W Modular
Motherboard: MSI P35 Platinum
Memory: 4GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 PC2-8500 1066MHz
Sound: Onboard 5.1 audio
Speakers: Logitech X-530 5.1 system
HDD's: 6 Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB SATA-II drives (couldn't fit any more in) :cool:
Optical Drives: 2 LG GSA-H66NBAL 18x SATA DVD-RW's, Benq DW1650 IDE DVD-RW
Graphics Card: cheap nVidia GeForce 6200LE (Silent Edition)
Monitor: Acer AL1916WAS
O/S: Just good old XP (as don't want Vista on there, stealing resources)
Used to swear by CCE as my favourite encoder but now prefer to use Hank's Encoder (version 0.22) http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_jump.cfm/335628/3628341
..as it properly utilises all 4 Cores 
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edited a little- as have added a couple more bits and pieces since the original build...
HDD's: 4 Western Digital WD5000AAKB 500GB drives in USB2.0 enclosures; also moved the 6th internal WD5000AAKS into an eSTATA/USB2.0 enclosure; also added a spare WD2500JB 250GB drive (previously used in one of my xboxes) into yet another USB2.0 enclosure as a spare work drive.
This brings the total of hard drives to 11.
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Optical Drives: added an LG 4167B drive internally (for ripping duties), also added 3 Benq DW1650 writers in USB2.0 enclosures
Misc.: a couple of USB2.0 leads with backplates to fully utilise the 2 unused onboard USB connectors
Main PC ~ Intel C2Q Q6600 (G0 Stepping)/Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3/2GB Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500/Zalman CNPS9700/Antec 900/Corsair HX 620W
Network ~ DD-WRT ~ 2node WDS-WPA2/AES ~ Buffalo WHR-G54S. 3node WPA2/AES ~ WRT54GS v6 (inc. WEP BSSID), WRT54G v2, WRT54G2 v1. *** Forum Rules ***
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21. December 2007 @ 13:24 |
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That's a fine silent encoding machine there, nice one!
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21. December 2007 @ 19:56 |
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Originally posted by creaky:
Santa popped by early and noticed my PC Case had a few spare spaces so PC is now fully kitted out as follows -
CPU: Core 2 Quad Q6600 (G0 edition) @2.40GHz ie no Overclocking (yet)
CPU Cooler: Zalman CNPS 9700 LED Cooler (with fan in silent mode)
PC Case: Antec 900 (with all fans in silent mode)
PSU: Corsair HX Series 620W Modular
Motherboard: MSI P35 Platinum
Memory: 4GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 PC2-8500 1066MHz
Sound: Onboard
Speakers: Logitech X-530 5.1 system
HDD's: 6 Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB SATA-II drives (couldn't fit any more in) :cool:
Optical Drives: 2 LG GSA-H66NBAL 18x SATA DVD-RW's, Benq DW1650 IDE DVD-RW
Graphics Card: cheap nVidia GeForce 6300LE (or 6200LE, can't remember) (Silent Edition)
Monitor: Acer AL1916WAS
O/S: Just good old XP (as don't want Vista on there, stealing resources)
Usually i use CCE as my favourite encoder but now prefer to use Hank's Encoder (version 0.22) http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_jump.cfm/335628/3628341
..as it properly utilises all 4 Cores
.I still use CCE sometimes though.
creaks,
How do you like the Q6600?? I'm sure (if memory serves) you're running so fast now you don't even know what to do. :P
Oh and LG's?? You like those pretty well?? How are they treating your TY's and RICOH's??
As sam said it seems you have a VERY quiet puter even with the Antec 900 and all those fans. You changed the fans right? Can't remember which ones you went with. Do you mind sharing? tia... ;)
Good luck to you creaky and may you encode fast and many times. :D
Oh and YEAH for Santa. He dropped by early for me too. lol. Got an unexpected BONUS from work for Christmas..... whooo-hoooo!!!!!
...gm
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21. December 2007 @ 20:08 |
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If I'm honest, you don't really need to change the case fans included in the 900, just run them at a silly low speed, the PC will still be cooled adequately.
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22. December 2007 @ 05:43 |
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Exactly, they're the original Antec fans so they're staying, they're set to the lowest setting, nice and silent; as to the LG drives, i'm not a big fan of LG burners anymore, my 3 or so 4167B's have always been a bit flaky, the new new LG SATA's i only bought as (from what little i could find on the internet said that) apparently they are quite quiet; all i ever read about SATA optical drives is that they're all noisy and these are hopefully quiet. It's not that i want everything completely silent, it's just that there's no excuse in this day and age for noisy optical drives; remember back when 40x and 52x cdrom drives came out, a lot of them were stupidly loud, it seems SATA opticals are like that; if the LG's are too loud i might send them back. I haven't been at home much to do any actual burning, i have a backlog of about 70+ movies to do :)
The Quad runs very well, so much so that it's now frustrating using other PC's, ie my older ones and any crappy work machines
Main PC ~ Intel C2Q Q6600 (G0 Stepping)/Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3/2GB Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500/Zalman CNPS9700/Antec 900/Corsair HX 620W
Network ~ DD-WRT ~ 2node WDS-WPA2/AES ~ Buffalo WHR-G54S. 3node WPA2/AES ~ WRT54GS v6 (inc. WEP BSSID), WRT54G v2, WRT54G2 v1. *** Forum Rules ***
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22. December 2007 @ 05:51 |
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Haha, I see your silentPC interest doesn't go as far as mine. Them all on low equates to 'a bit noisy' in my terms. Even with 4 hard drives at the front and the fans set to the minimum speed such that they will start moving by themselves, I have no heat issues in my 900, so I leave it like that. Nice and quite except for the fact that the WD2500JS makes an annoying high pitched whine, and I have two of them. It's not at all loud, but prominent.
The two LG drives I've had have been a normal 48x16 DVD-ROM and a GSA-4163BA which I had no issues with at all.
I also see you've caught the fast PC bug, fast becomes normal, and normal becomes "how did I ever put up with this?"
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22. December 2007 @ 06:03 |
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One thing i cannot stand is whining hard drives. Some of the drives i have are donkey's years old, they get recycled thru all the older PC's every now and then, but any that whine go in parent's pc's (as their ears are a little less sharp!), but at work we have to use old crap pc's long past their sell-by date; for instance they are too stingy to give us new pc's for linux use but my main one is ok as it's a P4 2.4 (and it's quiet!), though my other 2 pc's are slower, the other linux pc is an old P3 800 with a high-pitched whining drive (headphones are worn often) and the XP pc is a P4 2.66 i think but it runs like crap (but at least it's quiet). There's always whining hard drives around the office but we get used to it over the years as long as it's not too close by. Our 100s of call centre agents have brand new pc's (dual core Exx0 series) and they just use Internet Explorer and MS Office, so we've complained and we've been promised new ones soon; at least that means we can keep the faster of our current machines and use for linux and ditch the really old ones (or take them home). But yes, i've always got by with old machines, when you get spoilt by new stuff it's very frustrating going back to the old; (but of course that only really applies in Windows, any of my linux pc's are generally ok grunt-wise, it's only Windows that lets the side down!)
Main PC ~ Intel C2Q Q6600 (G0 Stepping)/Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3/2GB Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500/Zalman CNPS9700/Antec 900/Corsair HX 620W
Network ~ DD-WRT ~ 2node WDS-WPA2/AES ~ Buffalo WHR-G54S. 3node WPA2/AES ~ WRT54GS v6 (inc. WEP BSSID), WRT54G v2, WRT54G2 v1. *** Forum Rules ***
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22. December 2007 @ 06:09 |
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I can relate. I suppose you wouldn't be too pleased if I told you my Linux command line server has an X2 4200+ with 2GB of RAM in it. I'm well aware it's utter overkill, but they're the parts I used to use in my gaming PC, no point wasting them!
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26. January 2008 @ 06:54 |
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An update - am loving this machine more the more i use it; still haven't overclocked it (very much doubt i will be now, no point), am now seeing just how powerful this CPU is.. Am running DVD Rebuilder (with HC Encoder 0.22 thus all 4 cores are going full pelt), DVD Flick and ConvertXtoDVD together (with all fans on minimum) and still the machine is very responsive (and quite cool - it's very chilly in here today so the machine is running cooler than usual); haven't yet used TheFilmMachine on this PC so will be installing/configuring that next (with HC Encoder).
Main PC ~ Intel C2Q Q6600 (G0 Stepping)/Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3/2GB Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500/Zalman CNPS9700/Antec 900/Corsair HX 620W
Network ~ DD-WRT ~ 2node WDS-WPA2/AES ~ Buffalo WHR-G54S. 3node WPA2/AES ~ WRT54GS v6 (inc. WEP BSSID), WRT54G v2, WRT54G2 v1. *** Forum Rules ***
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26. January 2008 @ 07:03 |
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Haha nice - as someone who doesn't edit video or rip DVDs at all, you can understand how I wouldn't know what to do with a quad core...
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26. January 2008 @ 12:49 |
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creaky,
Good to here the NEW PC is operating like it should... I've got mine to about 3.78Mhz now and it's frikkin fast. lol. E6850 cpu btw. ;)
What are your times out of curiosity with DVD RB Pro?? I haven't ran it yet but I'm about to this weekend. Been trying to get everything in order... ;)
good luck to you......
...gm
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26. January 2008 @ 12:54 |
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Haha, tried running Stalker with my graphics card overclocked - it got a bit hot (95C) and started producing errors, so I had to up my fan speed... :(
I'll see how the game runs on my 3870, who knows I may not even need to overclock it!
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26. January 2008 @ 13:25 |
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Hey GM, i haven't been checking times with the very latest version of DVD-RB (paid for it via paypal a few nights ago, a measly £15 which is $30 dollars approx - way cheaper than overpriced gumpf like AnyDVD, but i digress) as i've been running it alongside the other programs; normally my times are insanely fast, ie like here - http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_jump.cfm/335628/3628341
Main PC ~ Intel C2Q Q6600 (G0 Stepping)/Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3/2GB Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500/Zalman CNPS9700/Antec 900/Corsair HX 620W
Network ~ DD-WRT ~ 2node WDS-WPA2/AES ~ Buffalo WHR-G54S. 3node WPA2/AES ~ WRT54GS v6 (inc. WEP BSSID), WRT54G v2, WRT54G2 v1. *** Forum Rules ***
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26. January 2008 @ 14:05 |
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That's nice creaks!! I bought DVD RB Pro about a year ago I guess. Heck for $30 I couldn't see NOT buying it. lol. Get all the updates and everything!!! :D
I'll have to do a proper encode soon to see how fast this thing really is. :D
happy encoding and burning to you!! ;)
...gm
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6. March 2008 @ 19:24 |
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Finally making the jump... Q6600, Zalman 9700, and Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4 on the way!!!!
Dropbox: http://db.tt/p5P9bH1d
System 1: Core2Quad Q6600 O/Ced @ 3.15 GHz, Gigabyte GA EP35 DS4 mobo, Zalman 9700, 4GB PC6400 RAM, Sapphire Radeon 2600HD Pro, Samsung 920BW 19" Widescreen LCD, Hauppauge! PVR-350.
System 2: Core2Duo E6400 O/Ced @ 3.2 GHz, Gigabyte GA 965P S3 mobo, Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro, 2GB PC6400 RAM, PNY GeForce 6600, Hyundai B70A 17" LCD. |
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6. March 2008 @ 22:01 |
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A CNPS9700? How much did that thing set you back?
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7. March 2008 @ 00:33 |
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$59
Dropbox: http://db.tt/p5P9bH1d
System 1: Core2Quad Q6600 O/Ced @ 3.15 GHz, Gigabyte GA EP35 DS4 mobo, Zalman 9700, 4GB PC6400 RAM, Sapphire Radeon 2600HD Pro, Samsung 920BW 19" Widescreen LCD, Hauppauge! PVR-350.
System 2: Core2Duo E6400 O/Ced @ 3.2 GHz, Gigabyte GA 965P S3 mobo, Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro, 2GB PC6400 RAM, PNY GeForce 6600, Hyundai B70A 17" LCD. |
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7. March 2008 @ 09:40 |
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Not too bad I suppose. I've become a bit of thermalright fanboy of late, since you can get big time cooling performance with quiet, slow fans. If noise doesn't bother you though, I suppose there's no reason to avoid Zalmans.
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7. March 2008 @ 17:57 |
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I was initially gonna use my Raidmax Smilodon case, and I didn't have enough clearance for the thermalright, thermaltake, or tuniq without removing the fan on the window. I have now ordered an Antec 900. The noise won't matter because whenever I am in my office, I am usually bumping tunes anyway...
Dropbox: http://db.tt/p5P9bH1d
System 1: Core2Quad Q6600 O/Ced @ 3.15 GHz, Gigabyte GA EP35 DS4 mobo, Zalman 9700, 4GB PC6400 RAM, Sapphire Radeon 2600HD Pro, Samsung 920BW 19" Widescreen LCD, Hauppauge! PVR-350.
System 2: Core2Duo E6400 O/Ced @ 3.2 GHz, Gigabyte GA 965P S3 mobo, Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro, 2GB PC6400 RAM, PNY GeForce 6600, Hyundai B70A 17" LCD. |
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7. March 2008 @ 18:05 |
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I have now ordered Antec 900 case, Antec Neopower 650 psu, Q6600, Zalman 9700, Gigabyte EP35-DS4, SeaGate 250 GB HDD to go with Plextor 760, Pioneer 112, Seagate 80 GB SATA HDD for OS, SeaGate 400 GB SATA HDD, SeaGate 500 GB SATA HDD, Hauppauge 350 tuner card from the rig in my sig. I have a few old burners lying around. I may just order another video card and keep the old rig fully functional. I don't game, so, it won't be expensive to get another videocard...
Dropbox: http://db.tt/p5P9bH1d
System 1: Core2Quad Q6600 O/Ced @ 3.15 GHz, Gigabyte GA EP35 DS4 mobo, Zalman 9700, 4GB PC6400 RAM, Sapphire Radeon 2600HD Pro, Samsung 920BW 19" Widescreen LCD, Hauppauge! PVR-350.
System 2: Core2Duo E6400 O/Ced @ 3.2 GHz, Gigabyte GA 965P S3 mobo, Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro, 2GB PC6400 RAM, PNY GeForce 6600, Hyundai B70A 17" LCD. |
