New PC; Lessons Learned?

[Wolfala]

Yea only had a minor snafu with them when PNY located in parsippany Jersery sent 70 units out to the wrong address when it was supposed to be going to Great Neck Long island, so I lost a week of time there. But they refunded the shipping, PNY took the hit with that and they both work beautifully.

What does yr final config look like?

[38ruk]

Now The WAIT

Man, i hate that part . lol

[Stone]

Leasons learned ?

Well, 5 days ago my Power unit broke
1) Buys a new power unit.
- Now the PC gets power, but does not boot up
2) Buys a new MOBO.
- Ok, up and running, but have to re-install XP.
- 20 hours of testing and installing I even get into the game, riding in BatFinks Spit, in 60FPS

Now comes the Leasons part I guess..

- Insertting the old soundcard and TV-tunercard and Track-IR + Joystick.
(Yes all at the same time)
- Having lots of trouble trying to install, and keep getting the strangest CRC error. Windows start to crash randomly. And finaly PC reboots randomly

Originaly somthing broke my powerunit and mobo, and I insert stuff from the old MOBO to the new one. Big suprice, I break the new MOBO

I wonder if one has to think twice or maybe three times, before re-using stuff from a PC that has broken down ?¨

I dont know what to do with the TV tuner card. If I try to use it, I might break yeat a third mobo.

Or maybe it is the sound card


Soon I have to give up and call Dell I guess.

[FireOf59]

Wolf,
As I said before, I'm not a PC pro, but I'll try to lay out what Ive ordered so far:

ASUS A8N-SLI Premium 939 NVIDIA Mobo
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ ClawHammer ! Ghz HT 939 Proc
Corsair XMS 2GB (2x1 GB) 184 Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (pc3200) Mem
ANTEC TP2-550 ATX12V 550W Pwr Sup
Audigy2 ZS Platinum Pro 7.1 Channels PCI Sound Card
16x DVD+-R DVD Burner

Thanks to your link to a vendor I'd never heard of; I also have the 7900 GTX w/512 coming also.

I cant help but think I'm still missing something, or not getting enough of something.

Whattya think?

[Wolfala]

Originally posted by FireOf59
Wolf,
As I said before, I'm not a PC pro, but I'll try to lay out what Ive ordered so far:

ASUS A8N-SLI Premium 939 NVIDIA Mobo
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ ClawHammer ! Ghz HT 939 Proc
Corsair XMS 2GB (2x1 GB) 184 Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (pc3200) Mem
ANTEC TP2-550 ATX12V 550W Pwr Sup
Audigy2 ZS Platinum Pro 7.1 Channels PCI Sound Card
16x DVD+-R DVD Burner

Thanks to your link to a vendor I'd never heard of; I also have the 7900 GTX w/512 coming also.

I cant help but think I'm still missing something, or not getting enough of something.

Whattya think?

Fans...fans...fans.

U got fans?

Hard drive?

How about fans?

[FireOf59]

Sorry, forgot to mention the HD; I already had that

500Gig, 7200 rpm, 18 Meg cache SATA Interface
(already found that on sale at CompUSA near my office)

For Fans, the case has a front bottom mounted 120mm lo speed and a rear top mounted 120 mm lo speed;

Should I put more in?

[Wolfala]

Wait and see. So long as there is a provision for more fans, I might have 1 on the side of the case for cross flow if the case allows it. Send me a link to yr case so I can get an idea of how its configured.

[FireOf59]

http://www.antec.com/ec/productDetails.php?ProdID=08005

Wolf,
Not good at links but above is a copy/paste of the address to the case I got. Please let me know if you think this wont provide the airflow I need. I dont wanna blow the thing up from saving a few bucks on the case.

Thanks Again,

Fire

[Wolfala]

For now that looks ok. See if the fans are speed adjustable in the bios. On the ABIT boards, they have a setting when the cpu and things get more use - the fan speed increases to compensate. That case should work ok. Also the power supply will have a fan blowing down from up top. And with the positioning of the front 120 mm fan, it'll be blowing right on top of the video card - so that should work out.

[eagl]

That case should have plenty of cooling unless you aggressively overclock.  I'd start with the fans on low and see how that works.  Make sure the hard drive is mounted in a slot that gets direct fan airflow instead of right at the top or bottom.

If you keep the cables neat so they don't block airflow, that should be plenty cool.  If your heatsink blows air sideways, try to get the airflow going towards either the rear exhaust fan or power supply air intake.

[Wolfala]

When you get XP up and running...give this video a look through.

http://38.118.213.221/fdiriymksb+/personal/m/mihapodb/angry_build-1a.wmv

Its about 30 mins long.

[Wolfala]

Originally posted by Wolfala
When you get XP up and running...give this video a look through.

http://38.118.213.221/fdiriymksb+/personal/m/mihapodb/angry_build-1a.wmv

Its about 30 mins long.

Addendum to this address:

http://files.filefront.com/Tweak_XPwmv/;4299655;;/fileinfo.html

[Stone]

I have that case "Lanboy", I like it very much. It is very quiet.

The big fans are very silent

[Roscoroo]

i'll add one thing here ... your system looks great so far (ive got the same mb on my work pc.. it runs like a rocket ship )

so here it is ..

SIDE CASE FAN  ... install this one so it always blows inward onto the cpu fan .

 keep it far enough away from a crt monitor that it doesnt suck in heat !!

i can feel mine move air from 2+ feet behind my case and its fairly quiet and runs a very decient temp for being oced hard .

[LePaul]

Wolf are you running 2 cards/SLI ?

Were you able to make a "profile" to run Aces in it?

Just curious.  Those cards (GTX) are awesome, read a lot of good things about them.  Whose brand did you go with?  Asus? MSI?

I wish nVidia made the cards and not just the chipsets!