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The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition
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10. February 2010 @ 08:52 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Oh I thought it was Fred that had made the typo, I didn't spot Rob's :P
I know what you mean... you just don't expect Robert to make a typo. :p
You know the 8800 back in the box didn't surprise me but the G.Skill RAM in the Mushkin box did.... hehehehe. :p I can't wait to see this thing up and "glowing". ;) He's supposed to paint the inside RED but I'm betting money he can't stand the wait and just throws the components in there!! :D
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10. February 2010 @ 08:58 |
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Oh wow, eagle eyed Greensman, I didn't spot that either! Must be my lack of sleep from last night.
Finally ordered my i5 750, only to find my bank blocked the payment, because I'd ordered from the same site the day before (new keyboard). All fine once I went through security and all that, but still a stressful experience. With luck, I'll be posting from the i5 tomorrow.
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10. February 2010 @ 09:28 |
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WOW!!!!!!!! this case is frig-gin HUGE. I can climb in this thing and take a nap.lol
Ive never had the 8800gts out of the box other than to look at it. i had to take a break for a second.i have everything in it now. just hooking up wires and such. only going to plug in 1 odd and 1 hdd at first just to get it up and running and install all the drivers needed.
GM your right i cant wait to get it painted i have to put it together now. i will paint it once i find a place that will do it for me, i want it done right and look good. oh yea you better not mess with Justin's cars crocks..lol as for the g-skill mem in the mushkin box, i just put them in the first mem box i came to yesterday when it put the E8400 rig back together and the mushkin mem is in this rig(E8400).. OK breaks over time to get it all together. next post i hope is on the new reincarnated BIG RED MACHINE
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10. February 2010 @ 09:32 |
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Fred it was a typo.. lol. He meant 250GB. ;)
Oh OK, LOL
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10. February 2010 @ 09:46 |
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Rob: Heh, the 922 is huge? Get a 932 and I can climb in with you :P Even then to be fair, the 932 is small compared to the biggest cases Lian Li offer. By the sounds of it it's just as well you didn't buy the 932 as it would have been a bit of a squeeze.
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10. February 2010 @ 10:07 |
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yea the only true reason i wanted the 932 was because it had 6 odd bays, and the wheels for the bottom. but i can order the wheels.
ok kinda hit a snag well not really just the power cables for the sata plugins are short and they are backwards you have to turn the cables upside down to get them to fit the drives odd or hdd and then that makes the conection for the PSU really short.. i know that dont sound right but its the best i can explain it. so instead of my odds being in the top 3 spots in the case i had to drop them down one place.
question about the G-sata port(2 of them) as of right now i have my main(os)hdd plugged into g-sata0 and my "main" odd is in g-sata1 is it ok to run these there? or should i put them or the hdd on the reg sata controller? i only have the 1 hdd and odd plugged in right now until i get it up and running.
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10. February 2010 @ 10:11 |
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Yeah, the power connections for hard drives can be a pain when there are lots of drives right next to each other, you have to basically power drives 1, 3 and 5 off one cable, and then 2, 4 and 6 off the other, and try not to get the cables too messy. Clearly I don't spend too much time on the latter :P
The Gigabyte S-ATA controller is just as fast as the ICH from what I can gather, you shouldn't have any issues using it for your OS drive, etc.
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10. February 2010 @ 10:22 |
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ok with that said i will be shutting this one down and then firing up the new rig and installing mobo drivers and gpu drivers and what ever else drivers needed..lol
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10. February 2010 @ 12:30 |
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10. February 2010 @ 13:26 |
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Oh how cute, a baby HAF! LOL! Just playing rob :p
So lian li makes a bigger freak eh. LOL! Perhaps next time. I can't resist large towers. They beckon to me every time :D I'll have my new toys tomorrow :) Though, I may wait til saturday on piecing her together. Though I may do the transfer of the old, into another case tonight or tomorrow. I noticed that "Outer limits, The new series" is airing on Syfy on the 12th. I wanna have my capture card ready :D I'm sorry syfy, but you haven't released most of it on dvd, so whats a guy to do :p
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10. February 2010 @ 15:08 |
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cincy, im not sure this comes from jelousy or being PC neat, BUT OMG those cables are all over the place!
other wise its soooooo sexy! bet you had a good time putting it together! nice one.
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10. February 2010 @ 16:03 |
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His cables aren't that bad. Mine are way worse! LOL! Though the next one will be perfect/semi-perfect LOL!
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10. February 2010 @ 18:13 |
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Quote:
(by Rob)question about the G-sata port(2 of them) as of right now i have my main(os)hdd plugged into g-sata0 and my "main" odd is in g-sata1 is it ok to run these there? or should i put them or the hdd on the reg sata controller? i only have the 1 hdd and odd plugged in right now until i get it up and running.
Rob,
I've heard of issues with the Purple ports and ODDs, but after reading more reviews, I think it's more a problem of understanding that if you want to hot swap or remove an ODD, you have to turn it off first. By unplugging one without clicking on "Safely Remove Hardware", you place the drive at risk of damage if you just unplug it. I've used the G-Sata ports for HDDs, but I never used them for ODDs. I'm currently using mine for G-Sata ports on the rear of the computer. They work as well or better than the regular Sata ports, and are slightly faster.
Russ
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10. February 2010 @ 18:26 |
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My 7200S is ran to one of the Gsata ports. If I install the sata drivers for those ports, nero inputs a strange signature on dvds...
Or at least it used to LOL! Since I haven't installed those drivers, there hasn't been a problem ;) The basic windows 7 drivers are working wonderfully.
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10. February 2010 @ 18:57 |
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Originally posted by shaffaaf:
cincy, im not sure this comes from jelousy or being PC neat, BUT OMG those cables are all over the place!
other wise its soooooo sexy! bet you had a good time putting it together! nice one.
shaff, they dont look that way now. i left all the extra cables hanging there until i had the system up and running once i made sure all was ok i plugged everything in and have the wires as neat as i can get them tied down now. looks alot better than those pics. and on that note. tomorrow im takeing the odds out and rearranging them. and Russ the odd that is on the purple g-sata it isnt recognized as a AD7200s it has a bunch of other letters for what it is??? im gonna put my 500gb drive on it and move the odd to the normal sata controller.
and yes it was a blast putting it together. loved every second of it.. what made this one better than the first. i had none of the troubles i did with the first build.yea i know it was my first build and i know alot more now than i did then. even so everythign went so smooth. i did get my new WD3200AAKS today. maybe this weekend i'll get my 64bit win7 and get it installed. and tinker with that, once that is done and win7 is running fine without any driver issues with my hardware. ill get me the 4gb kit of g-skill mem and then this puppy will be done.......... i need to find some peeps around me thatneed/want a puter built... it is so fun and rewarding seeing your finished product that you did yourself.
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10. February 2010 @ 21:31 |
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Originally posted by cincyrob:
i need to find some peeps around me that need/want a puter built... it is so fun and rewarding seeing your finished product that you did yourself.
I need/want one... just get the parts and put it together. :D :D :D :P
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10. February 2010 @ 21:44 |
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rob, gm wants it free too.
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10. February 2010 @ 22:02 |
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well isnt that what we all want it for..lmao
its funny a guy i work with just built him the I5 rig(that i posted info on a while back) and he is allready wanting to do another. but is wanting to do a major hi end rig. I7, tripple SLI,8+gb of ram ect. it is addicting..lol
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10. February 2010 @ 22:24 |
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Looks Nice Rob Keep in touch about the setting If Need Be:)
Now you need to get you some All Red Sata Cables up in that puppy!
He knows what ,I'm talking about smartie pants...lol
Rob Checking out this site if you wanna get into modding. i got him as a friend on facebook,Bill Owens His work Great in Pro modding cases and painting
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10. February 2010 @ 22:38 |
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they are not all red as they have black ends unless you paint the ends red.
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10. February 2010 @ 23:00 |
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Originally posted by bigwill68:
Looks Nice ...
Now you need to get you some All Red Sata Cables up in that puppy!
I agree.... get dem YELLER thangs out of there!! ;)
Originally posted by BigWIlly:
He knows what ,I'm talking about smartie pants...lol
ddp... you gonna let him get away with that in open forum?? ;)
It does look nice Robert... smart build and easy on da eyes. :D
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10. February 2010 @ 23:03 |
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Omega: Better get your groove on, if all goes well my i5 gear will be with me tomorrow, and I won't be wasting much time on installing it I don't think :P
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10. February 2010 @ 23:21 |
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Originally posted by bigwill68:
Looks Nice Rob Keep in touch about the setting If Need Be:)
Now you need to get you some All Red Sata Cables up in that puppy!
Will,
It would be nice, but those particular cables in your pic have given me much grief in the past. I finally changed them all for the Orange ones that come with GigaByte Boards. Kind of an ugly color, but they do have locks on them and haven't given me any problems at all! I found the red ones started acting up, very quickly. Usually after a couple of burns. A burn would finish but fail, and you couldn't access or open the drive so you had to shut down and switch the two drives, and they would work again. The problem remained with the cable, not the drive, so I changed them all. Same drives, and they are still working fine on my Quad. The new AD-7240s was installed on the same data cable as the AD-7220s, I removed.
I also have some new Red ones I found that are much lighter, have a narrower thinner cable, and are pretty flexible. I think they came from BioStar or maybe Foxconn as I've had them a while. They also have locks, but they are internal and snap on and off, and only pressure installs or removes them. Should remain very tight! The brand is Comax. I'm going to try it tomorrow as I have an AD-7240s to install in the morning. If they work reliably, I'll let everyone know. The Orange ones look positively look fat next to these! LOL!!
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10. February 2010 @ 23:29 |
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Personally I find S-ATA cables to be too much of an unknown quantity. I've had cheap tacky red ones go bad, I've had Gigabyte yellow ones go bad, I've had expensive ACRyan UV ones go bad. It's really a case of use the one that suits you, and if it happens to break, oh well, unlucky, replace it. Annoying but that seems to be the way it goes with S-ATA.
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11. February 2010 @ 00:00 |
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Wow. It's unreal how many people have had trouble with Sata cables. And yet, I have over a dozen, of mixed varieties, and never once had a problem. And to think I DON'T think I'm lucky LOL! I have an odd blue one, that's yielded one of my best burn scans :p I think I prefer my yellow ones from Gigabyte. I don't know why, they just feel right...
Sam, I get my equipment in the morning :) Possibly the afternoon. between 12-18 hrs. That's right, it's a countdown buddy LOL!!!
Anybody ever use "Video Capture" software? What would you recommend? I've used nero, but it's just not that good...
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