New computer ordered :)

[Fooby]

that's what your mum said

[samass]

about your arse?

[Rippthrough]

And there's me mooching about on ebay for a cheap 775 quad core to bump the Core 2 Duo into the bin.

Swap you?

[Skank_army]

Ripp, I have a q9650 if you want it? Only been clocked very mildly. Pm me for details dude.

[Fooby]

Well i've started to put this together. Started with (in my eyes) would be the hardest part, something which i've never done before. Fit a non-standard CPU cooler/bracket

So,


CPU
   

Silicon rubber strips applied to hopefully stop fan vibration/tapping /ed doe
   

CPU+memory in with mounting points affixed.
   

Heatsink attached with 1x Fan.
   

Both Fans.
       
Now I'll start work on the PSU installation as well as the case work.

[darrenjlobb]

Got enough heat paste on there foobs lol?

Epically jealous though!!!

[Fooby]

yes darren :p

http://www.arcticsilver.com/pdf/appmeth/...e_v1.1.pdf

see page 5


moff out to get some compressed air so i can clean up my old PSU, gti6 offence time.

[cpikey316_]

Which version of windows is going on it? :p

[Fooby]

Which version of windows is going on it? :p

get out..

Debian will be my main OS.. and for any games that dont play on wine/linux ... windows 7 will be used.

also, calling it a night for tonight. Opened up the case and saw this.. just for itself no motherboard:
   

So I'll get a nights sleep and figure that out tomorrow!!

[kyleo92]

ok so the case may be a little on the large side...

(can of coke used for size reference)

That is a MIGHTY fine case you have there...

Pics for final build needed!!

[Scott]

@ the OS comments and the cabling!!

[Fooby]

Well, since I was using my old PSU (presumed working) i decided that before i wire the whole thing in that i bench build it as such.

So, I did that and here are the results:




















I was actually very nervous about doing this, as my old computer died a death (wouldn't post). I blamed the motherboard, although I do know that faulty power supplies can cause issues, I figured I was ok in my case.

Last night I took the PSU cover off to give it a clean and dust with compressed air, to find a bit of metal fall out... So after buying a whole new PC, it might have been that my PSU was faulty!! I inspected closely and determined it wasn't important and nothing looked blown/broken.

In the video above (for people who cba to watch it), it posted fine and behaved. So i'm hopeful the PSU is ok. If i do get any weird issues the first thing i'm doing is replacing the PSU.

So, let the build and cabling commence!!

   

[Scott]

Awesome mate, very cool That's a Logitech keyboard I see there right? Which model is it?

I'm trying to decide on a mouse and keyboard for my new build. I'm using Corsair RAM and am likely to be getting this Corsair case, and am now turning into a Corsair whore as I like the look of and have been reading great things about their M60 mouse:
http://www.corsair.com/vengeance-m60-per...mouse.html

I'll probably get that to be honest, though I'm not sure on a keyboard just yet

[Fooby]

make sure you get the exact same ram I have, best stuff and (again make sure you get the same i.e. white) as its exactly the same timings but a lower voltage (meaning you could put it up to "stock" voltage and get more performance )

The keyboard is old as hell, its a G15, I don't use it for gaming really (has loads of bind-able keys and other gay stuff that i cba with) but back when I ordered it, it was the only keyboard with backlit keys.

[Eeyore]

good stuff! I go for the dogpoo method of applying thermal paste instead of the line. I have to say that adding my watercooling heatsink was a lot easier than putting on the stock intel heat sink as the plastic clips were complete crap and resulted in the heatsink falling off sometimes when i moved the pc! Not me being a tool it literally was the crapest design ever!

[Scott]

Last time I built a PC was a few years ago and I found I had the same difficulty with the heatsink not clipping in properly. I'm hoping that with the new build it'll be easier!

[Scott]

Oh and I forgot to mention, I see you built most of it up outside of the case? Is that just personal preference?

[Fooby]

its easier to attach CPU/Ram etc from outside the case. I've built a few PC's in my time and i've just found it easier.

The above was most of it out the case since i wanted to test it actually all worked before I spent this afternoon making it fit.

Its all built now anyway and it still works wouldnt fit under my desk so a room re-arrange was done. Just going to install debian and i'll post pics up

[4WayDiablo]

   

[Fooby]

Well as above, it's built

   

Won't fit under my desk
   
   

So some re arrangement was done.

   
   

[Scott]

Awesome.

By the way mate, not sure if you'll have seen but there is recent news of Steam being built for Linux! Left 4 Dead seems to be the main 'big title' that's making its way over initially, but from what I've read most of the games which are available on OS X will also be available when Steam comes out on Linux. Very interesting though...I was going to be using Windows 7 but I'm considering a dual boot solution

[Fooby]

Yeah i know about steam and linux

hopefully wont really need windows moving forward.

Open GL > directx

[Niall]

Such geeks








(but secretly i miss this shit)

[stevieg]

"oohhhhhh thats shiny" FLOL

[306Puggy]

That's not a bad build Foobster, but I question people who build their own PCs. My craptop just died of death (6 beeps before POST=dead GPU) so I am gonna spec a reasonably powerful desktop system. I am gonna buy this:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-I5-4670-...RTM1506421

And simply swap out the PSU for a decent one, add a GPU and use my old craptop's hard drive.

All in all it will come to about 600 quid for a 4th gen Haswell box. The reason I am going all out on the CPU is that my main games (Half-life 2, Supreme Commander) are very CPU intensive and it is far easier to replace the other components rather than the CPU.

So for the price of a pre-built bare bones rig I really can't see the point in building your own.

[Carlos182]

That's not a bad build Foobster, but I question people who build their own PCs. My craptop just died of death (6 beeps before POST=dead GPU) so I am gonna spec a reasonably powerful desktop system. I am gonna buy this:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-I5-4670-...RTM1506421

And simply swap out the PSU for a decent one, add a GPU and use my old craptop's hard drive.

All in all it will come to about 600 quid for a 4th gen Haswell box. The reason I am going all out on the CPU is that my main games (Half-life 2, Supreme Commander) are very CPU intensive and it is far easier to replace the other components rather than the CPU.

So for the price of a pre-built bare bones rig I really can't see the point in building your own.

For the price of HDD's nowdays you might as well go SSD or SATA3 for a larger drive and sack off the old HDD.

As for GPU, depends how much you want to spend?
GTX570 can be had for relative peanuts nowadays and still perform fairly well. I could even be persuaded to part with mine if need be

[lolsteve]

Should have gone AMD Overclock madness

[Carlos182]

Should have gone AMD Overclock madness

Used to be the case, had a phenom 955 BE, well still have it, but running in a sevrer, and that clocked like mad.

However 2500k will happily clock over 5 without much problem at all!

[THE_Liam]

[Jimmyboycheck]

Errr sounds excellent.....but you forgot a floppy disk drive?!