Originally posted by Lp531:

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I plumbed my house with pex tubing so I can water cool all my systems...all running to an external radiator mounted in my garage...

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Originally posted by rick5446:

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THANKS Russ

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Originally posted by cincyrob:

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i look at cases like a car(yes weve been down this metaphoric road before..lol)everyone likes what they like and if they can afford it why not lifes short enjoy it while you can. myself im with LP id have one of them cases(desparado) in a heart beat if i had the cash flow.

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ok guys ive gotten the call ive been waiting for.i am officially hired at my job the temp service i was with called and said the company is hireing me full time monday the 23rd.

with that news within 2 months i will have my quad build. not gonna be a entire new build. just mobo,cpu,and gpu. i have saved up $220 so far so im not gonna have to drop it all at once.
here is what im going with.
MOBO
CPU
GPU

total of $628 +s/h

i want the Q9650 but for .17mhz more(3.0 vs 2.83) its not worth $60 when i can OC it just the same. being EO stepping.

the only question i may have with the rest of my stuff well most my PSU is the corsair 750TX enough power for the way bigger GPU and the CPU.

also would it be better if i went to a 64bit OS to increase mem to say 6 gigs just for the fact the GPU has twice the mem mine has now.

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The MSI is actually a better card for less money. Very cool running compared to most as it has a nice heatpipe cooler on it. Only $109 after the MIR!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127401

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Originally posted by redice:

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hey russ

hows it going? as you may remember i have the MSI HD4850.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127370
now i see little to if any different in this card. then in the one you posted. whats so different about it? i would think it has to be different in some way for newegg to Deactivated the one i have.

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The MSI is actually a better card for less money. Very cool running compared to most as it has a nice heatpipe cooler on it. Only $109 after the MIR!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127401

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redice,
There's only a few differences. It's just that the model has been upgraded and replaced with the newer one. It's slightly faster at 640MHz than yours is at 625MHz. I don't really see any other differences! MSI changed the product number and the older product number is not available anymore, so Newegg deactivated it! Same card, just a little faster!

Best Regards,
Russ

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I plumbed my house with pex tubing so I can water cool all my systems...all running to an external radiator mounted in my garage...

Thats friggin awesome! Now There's an enthusiast if I ever saw one!

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Originally posted by Lp531:

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@omegaman7

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I plumbed my house with pex tubing so I can water cool all my systems...all running to an external radiator mounted in my garage...

Thats friggin awesome! Now There's an enthusiast if I ever saw one!

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I gutted my house down to the studs...my whole house is in pex...so I figured why not add it to the whole house concept...whole house computer...TV...Lighting...Audio and Video in every room including bathroom...
here is one dilemma I am looking at...right now I have it as one loop...should I brake it into a manifold with equal length runs of tubing...1 system...

I was also thinking of adding a chilled reservoir...then maybe the building up of heat as it goes from one system to the next would not be an issue...
or go individual systems...6 radiators...6 pumps...maybe I could double up 2 computer to each pump and radiator...cut the costs in 1/2...

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Originally posted by cincyrob:

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ok im drawing blanks here. how do i boot up in safe mode? ive gone into bios,just hit the rest button. i cant seem to get that window to show up to choose safe mode or normal start up ect....

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LP531,
Why not just recirculate the whole system, rather than individually. Then it shouldn't make any difference at all. I'm assuming that you have an outlet, back to the water system, as well as an inlet to each computer, so you shouldn't need any pump at all in each computer. You should be able to go with just the CPU cooler. With a solid metal one, leaks would be limited to the hoses themselves. No pump connections inside the computer, but just two lines for the water in and out. As long as you don't over-tighten the clamps, that shouldn't be a problem. I know one guy that bought very small worm drive clamps, and tightened them so tight that the barbs actually cut the tubing and caused them to leak!

Best Regards,

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redice,
There's only a few differences. It's just that the model has been upgraded and replaced with the newer one. It's slightly faster at 640MHz than yours is at 625MHz. I don't really see any other differences! MSI changed the product number and the older product number is not available anymore, so Newegg deactivated it! Same card, just a little faster!

Best Regards,
Russ

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Originally posted by Lp531:

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@Russ

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LP531,
Why not just recirculate the whole system, rather than individually. Then it shouldn't make any difference at all. I'm assuming that you have an outlet, back to the water system, as well as an inlet to each computer, so you shouldn't need any pump at all in each computer. You should be able to go with just the CPU cooler. With a solid metal one, leaks would be limited to the hoses themselves. No pump connections inside the computer, but just two lines for the water in and out. As long as you don't over-tighten the clamps, that shouldn't be a problem. I know one guy that bought very small worm drive clamps, and tightened them so tight that the barbs actually cut the tubing and caused them to leak!

Best Regards,

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I want to pull all that heat out of the house...
This is how I have it laid out now...pump & radiator in garage...no pumps or radiators in cases...inlet and return lines going from one computer to the next so that the water would be get hotter as it travel down the system...that is why I am thinking more along the lines of how they plumb a tankless water system...with a single line going to a manifold with home runs that goes to the individual computers...do the same with the return...that way the heat of one computer does not go to the next...

I would also like to chill the whole system...pex will not sweat like copper or cast...I am sure there is something industrial that I could use...not super chilled...but cold...no condensation...

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New Intel CPUs and price cuts loom, report claims
by Cyril Kowaliski ? 11:05 AM on March 19, 2009
Intel has several rounds of price cuts and new processor introductions lined up for April, May, and July, according to DigiTimes. The site has used its sources at motherboard manufacturers to amass a detailed list of the incoming changes.

The first set will come on April 19. That's when Intel will roll out a $183 Core 2 Quad Q8400 clocked at 2.66GHz, hand-in-hand with a lower-power Q8400S version. Price cuts will come, too, but don't get too excited?DigiTimes says they'll only apply to the now long-in-the-tooth Core 2 Quad Q9300 and low-power derivatives of current Core 2 Quads. These "S" models have 65W power envelopes, down from 95W on the regular quads.

On May 31, DigiTimes claims Intel will follow up with a 3.33GHz Core i7-975 and 3.06GHz Core i7-950 priced at a respective $999 and $562. At the low end, you can look forward to a $133 Core 2 Duo E7600 and a couple of new sub-$100 chips. Interestingly, the list of cuts doesn't mention any changes to current Core i7s, even though the two aforementioned chips will purportedly have the same prices as the existing i7-965 and i7-940. Maybe Intel will just swap them out.

Finally, on July 19, rumor has it the chipmaker will bring the Core 2 Quad Q8300 to $163, drag the Core 2 Duo E7500 to $113, and apply $10 price cuts to a couple of 45nm Pentiums and a dual-core Celeron. Nothing particularly groundbreaking there, perhaps, but the Pentium cuts could put some pressure on AMD. Then again, the rumor mill hints AMD will have some 45nm Athlon X2s ready the month before.

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Originally posted by cincyrob:

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well i got my HDD back with windows preinstalled in it. plugged it in everything loaded ,the windows screen came up and then BLAMMMM shut down got the blue window that said windows has shut down to prevent damage to your computer screen. telling me to boot in safe mode. so i tried that .. hitting F8 goes to the screen where i can choose safe mode. it startes to load then BLAMMMM same blue screen saying windows shut down to prevent damage..... so i changed boot sequence to boot from cd/rom/ put my windows disc in and try to boot from that... same error... i dont have any of my other HDD's hooked up only this one. was it a bad install of windows causeing this problem?

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Originally posted by cincyrob:

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i just bought a new 500gb segate put it in and am trying to load windows on a fresh drive and im getting the same error i cant laod windows? do i need to clear cmos on the mobo and try it? should i try putting the sata cable in a different port????? i dont know what to do now??

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