That annoying moment when you are about to finish your big upgrade and realise at 10pm that your new mobo has no ide and all your opitcals you kept are ide and that your case fans need an adapter, if you wish them all to run, that you stripped many years ago.........and so another 24hrs must pass....
note to self.....don't leave upgrades to every 5 years
OMG.........
24 public posts in this discussion.
Post 2
OR plan to finish your upgrade before COB. :)
Post 3
I am doing a full upgrade next week
OLD
Q6600
4gb DDR3 1333
G41 chip set mobo
Geforce GTX285
New AMD Phenom 2 X6 1100T (Temp till bulldoser X8/X16)
GA-990FXA-UD7 AM3+
8GB DDR3 1600
2x Radeon 6970 2GB
Case DF85 or other
Post 4
Any reason why you're going with a Phenom? They're fucking shithouse. I wouldn't even go with one temporarily. :P
Post 5
it costs more for Quad Xfire/SLI Mobo for intel than AMD
I could go
Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD5-B3 Motherboard [GA-Z68X-UD5-B3] - $315.00 : PC Case Gear
Intel Core i7 2600K [BX80623I72600K] - $325.00 : PC Case Gear
Post 6
You're wasting your time with those GPUs and a shitty AMD CPU.
Post 7
Quote from craZy C;396685:
That annoying moment when you are about to finish your big upgrade and realise at 10pm that your new mobo has no ide and all your opitcals you kept are ide
Back to the topic starter; optical drives? Put your Windows install on a thumb drive, and download the rest of your software. I haven't had an optical drive in my PC since the end of 2008 - there's just no need for CDs anymore.
Post 8
Blue Ray!
Post 9
I've got one of those, in my media centre. That I haven't used in almost two years.
Post 10
But those of us stuck behind Telstra wholesale internet downloading high quality movies is not a option. I would play blueray dvds on the pc because I would have to turn on my PS3 to play them otherwise.
Post 11
i have the samsung bluray reader and i sold the 2nd one to lothar
Post 12
that should solve Crazy C's problem
Post 13
Quote from Xolares;396735:
i have the samsung bluray reader and i sold the 2nd one to lothar
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Post 14
Problem....nah......few more glasses of red and all was fine.....Finally got everything up and running and well sweet comes to mind....There was however the old OMG it wont start problem. Turns out you cannot mix one modular cable from one PSU with another.
Have got some piccies that i will post when i get a chance. OS took about 9mins to install, its going to take a few days to move everything around on the drives the way i want them.....
Post 15
Had the same issue with the sabourtooth mobo,
No IDE connections and my DVD burner relies on this
New comp is kicking ass thow
2600k
16gb gskill 4gb x 4 @ 2000
ASUS sabourtooth
500 hybrid drive
Post 16
Ended up going with the following
Intel Core i7 2700K (unlocked)
ASUS Sabertooth P67 Motherboard B3
Corsair Vengeance CMZ12GX3M4A1600C9B 12GB (3x4GB) DDR3 (1 more 4gb to come)
ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II Overclocked 1GB
OCZ Vertex 2 3.5in 120GB SSD
Seagate Momentus XT ST95005620AS 500GB
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCIe Fatal1ty Champ Series - Gaming X-Fi I/O drive
Lian Li USB 3.0/Esats/USB 2 5.25 Bay
MX700 Gaming Mouse
Samsung SH-B083A-RSBP BLU-RAY COMBO
Post 17
Very nice.
Post 18
Holy shit..... nice rig.
Post 19
very nice :)
i don't have and internal dvd drive, i have to many disks not enough space :)
I've been waiting for the 12 core intels to be released before i retire my I7 920.... mind you the 2600 was very very tempting to me.....
:)
Post 20
mm similar to mine just I have 2 raptors in raid 0 for steam and two 590gtx's for smashing cunts plus I went the ASUS P8P67 WS Revolution as it has that nifty nf200 thingo that is cool for graphics cards or something and dominator GT ram cause it has a fan for them... as if you don't need a fan for your ram!
Post 21
lol, you don't need a fan for your ram hahaha, i had a corsair one on my ram and it seemed pointless as my silverstone case has a very good cooling system
Post 22
Instead of RAM bling I went and got a NH-D14. Shit be massive. So yeah it'd be well worth it for crazy to grab a decent CPU cooler at some point.
Post 23
I went the h70 for water cooling...
Post 24
Quote from feary;396893:
I went the h70 for water cooling...
H70 is hardly water cooling. ;)
It's a decent cooler though which does well to separate heat away from other components but with decent case airflow these days it's pretty redundant. It does about as well as a decent air cooler. The fans on it are pretty rubbish and per-dollar higher end air coolers are better value.
RAM doesn't really need cooling beyond a decent thermalspreader for basic OC'ing unless you're planning to up the volts on your ram but that sort of OC'ing you'd be looking at a real water cooling kit anyway.
A swifty kit is what I would call water-cooling, and better value for your dollar but it's hardly cheap or easy to setup. H50/H70, great marketing.