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Gaming => Video Games => Topic started by: scorcher on December 22, 2009, 07:09:44
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i have just built my new pc taking me a little while to do but it turned out pretty good for my first build and all perspexing and all fans had been cut and done by myself so for my first atempt im pretty chuffed i think ill try a bit of overclocking after to heres some pics and specs
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specs
q9550 quadcore 4x2.83ghz
asus p5p pro mobo
ddr3 ocz platinum 1333mhz 7.7.7.18
zotac gtx260 /216 cores
winpower pro 800watts 80amps
2x sony 24xdvd/dvdr/dvdrw/cd/cdr/cdrw drives
only got a 200gb hdd at the momment but will use it as a back up drive when i upgrade
coolers
ive done a push n pull on my freezer pro 7 which the temps never go above 40 degrees
2x22cm side panel fans 2x12cm ac ryan front and top 2x8cm fans on the back and a thermaltake hdd cooler
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Looks pretty sweet. And it looks like if the power goes out, you can load a few hamsters in that wheel. ;D
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haha lol the fans are pretty big aint they thanks im gonna leave prime on all night with it overclocked @ 3.7 see if its stable or not
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Very Cool!!!
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thanks wyldwing i have primed it all night with no problems for 8 hours @ 3.7 which i think is a nice overclock and my temps didnt go over 52 degrees i had lost a bit of memmory speed but gained in timings which is now 1331mhz 6.6.6.16 so that was a bit of a bonus to
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I've never tried overclocking before. What's involved?
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mmmmmmmmmmm first thing i done looked up on the net about my chip see what other people was over clocking to which i found out most people are getting 4ghz to 4.2ghz per core depending what board they where using and looked up what voltages they where on (cpu core/ vtt/nbv/) and whats the limit of the chip so i set a target of 3.7 a bit under theres second thing i done is find out what the multiplyer of my chip is then got a calculator out my multiplyer was 8.5 so x that 436 it was just over 3.7 so then went in to my bios and set my cpu ratio to manual and put 8.5 in there disabling the eo stepping and then changed my fsb to manual to 436 and changed my cpu core to 1.4v and left the rest on auto thought i would try my luck when u raise ur fsb ur memmory will also rise so u need to manualy adjust it to what it was or under a bit restarted the pc booted straight up did a few things on it looked fine so go back to the bios and start lowering the cpu core voltages i droped it down to 1.38 it was still going good so did it a few times more and went down to 1.35 but wouldnt boot to windows so then went back to 1.36 and all was fine again then using prim 95 which will make all ur cores work 100% i did it overnight about 8 hours and prime didnt pick up any errors so its all good and have run mem test to make sure theres no faults on the memmory due to over clocking thats fine to if u or any 1 is thinking of doing it and need some help let me know ill do my best to help hope i answered ur question
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UPDATE ... i bought this awhile ago cost me £10 which some 1 started to spray it but i think it didnt go the way they had visioned it i already had a few cans of black spray here modified it abit nothing much tho i have put 5 thermaltake 12cm patern fas in it as they spin the patern changes ;) which looks good and a new 20cm fan on top also i now got 2 x winpower pro 800watts 80amps power supplies gonna get 2 ati 5850s in it soon here are some update pics
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now :)
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those look sweet you should get some green lights in there instead =]
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i did want to go all green on this case coz i went with blue on the last case but the green patern fans where out of stock could only get red or blue at the time but still looks good :)
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I don't understand the need for all the lights.
Is it too hard to see the power button?
???
Mac
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lol the power buttons are at the back poking up 1 for each power supply i like lights ooooooooh they glow ;D
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Two power supplies in the same PC? I've seen that on a server, but never on a home computer before.
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who wants to build me something like this? ;D
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if i lived near you i would its not very hard to do tho its the overclocking is when you get to the hard bit
if you decide you wanna make 1 in the future give me ur budget ill search for the best parts for ur budget
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Two power supplies in the same PC? I've seen that on a server, but never on a home computer before.
ye i should i of bought 1 realy good 1 in the beginning the 1 i bought is good but 2 g cards on my current setup is gonna take it to the limit and make it run hot i think .so decided to add another 1 and keep it running cool
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well i would wait to do this when i have my own place and i'graduated so i have some understanding in electronics