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« Reply #225 on: Monday, February 4, 2008, 08:55:21 » |
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you can get better dual core processor than that and 4gb isnt necessary as has been alluded to previously. Posting from the new beast thanks to advice from this thread  how is your new system? whats the Foxconn mobo like? mine is sat at home just waiting to be used. my cpu and heatsink come today. then hopefully my case and psu will arrive tomorrow. how i'm going to carry it all home on the train i don't know :? |
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« Reply #226 on: Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 07:51:38 » |
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loving it. lovely and quiet and shits on my last system. half hour to encode a movie from 3 1/2 |
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magicroundabout
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« Reply #227 on: Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 10:22:35 » |
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mine is all sat at home waiting to be put together.
my new case and psu should arrive tomorrow/thursday.
then i'll sick my old XPS case etc on ebay. someone will pay £30/£40 for it.
Did you get that Arctic Cooling fan that SiPi promotes?
did you use the thermal compound which is already attached to it or did you use something different?
i've got some Arctic Silver 5 which i'm thinking of using instead
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Simon Pieman
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« Reply #228 on: Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 11:01:45 » |
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Magic - I am probably going to redo my heatsink with AS5 so I can give you a before and after temperature comparison.
The stuff that comes on the heatsink is pretty thick.
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« Reply #229 on: Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 11:40:03 » |
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yeah i noticed it was pretty well packed.
but my new E8400 should run cooler anyway.
But i suppose when overclocking i'll need a better compound to keep it even cooler.
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« Reply #230 on: Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 17:26:57 » |
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yeah i got the arctic cooling fan, just used the compound that comes on it. not overclocking just running stock so couldnt really advise  |
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« Reply #231 on: Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 19:19:50 » |
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what cpu did you chose Lash_sumthin,
reading about my new E8400 there is reports of well over 4ghz which is the dogs.
i wouldn't want to run it at full clock cos i've heard it'll kill my cpu
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« Reply #232 on: Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 19:23:51 » |
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« Reply #233 on: Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 22:04:58 » |
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I got all my bits through today. couldn't help but have a look and ended up putting most of it together. I think I need a SATA cable - don't think there's any other way to link the optical drive. Gonna have to get you to check my mess out though Si (that and the RAM and BIOS and stuff) |
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« Reply #234 on: Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 22:07:37 » |
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You will need sata cables and sata power cables if they aren't on the psu. I have some handy so give me a shout what you need.
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« Reply #235 on: Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 22:10:50 » |
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I've got 2 SATA power cables which I've plugged the OD and HDD in with, I've goit one SATA cable that I've plugged the HDD in with but I need another for the OD. I was just about to order one but if you have a spare that I can pur-chase from you then that would be ace.
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« Reply #236 on: Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 22:12:53 » |
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You can have it free mate, I've got about 3 or 4 I'm not using at the moment.
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« Reply #237 on: Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 22:14:40 » |
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wicked, cheers dude.
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« Reply #238 on: Thursday, February 7, 2008, 07:33:41 » |
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what cpu did you chose Lash_sumthin,
reading about my new E8400 there is reports of well over 4ghz which is the dogs.
i wouldn't want to run it at full clock cos i've heard it'll kill my cpu the E8200 |
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« Reply #239 on: Sunday, February 10, 2008, 12:21:14 » |
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well the PC is all up and running once i'd connected the case cables to the motherboard correctly!!!! :| tit my machine is now showing 3325gig ram (old dell only recognised 2.00) vista scores are (in order) 5.6 (CPU) overclock needed  5.9 (RAM) 5,9 (AERO Graphics) 5.8 (Gaming Graphics) 5.3 (harddrive) so next step is a faster harddrive. can anyone recomend one? i've seen people mention the Samsung Spinpoint. are they any good? |
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