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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: WhiteHawk on March 24, 2006, 02:14:19 PM
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Just finished new system. Up and running. Important lessons, 1.) make sure you know which is slave and which is master. 2) dont drop screws on mobo, cuz when yer sht dont boot up properly, that is all you can think aobut..
Side by side..
new rig
abit kn8 Ultra mobo
AMD 3700 sandiego core
1 gig OCZ pc 3700 RAM
Radeon x1800xl
old rig listed below. First comparison of 2 brings, all thiings being set equal in cat control center, old rig 157 fps whit ati tool 3d view, and 250 fps with new rig in same. Spent 965 dollars on new rig from top to bottom. Still need dvd burner, and to solve OS question.
Played doom 3 for a little bit with max res and it was pretty near flawless. A cupple of slight stutters when fire and smoke and all that, but real smooth over all. Thus far i am real happy with it. It should just get better as it gets broke in, and I give it a little OC kick.
thanx to all for help, and . It gets kinda lonely right before power up, but everything ok so far.:)
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For me, WD hard drives, Liteon CD/dvd.
Set jumper to cable select on all. Plug em in, no worries.
BTW I prefer to keep HD's on first ide channel, cd/dvd's on second.
As to screws on motherboard, yes that can be a worry.
I have at times picked up the whole case, inverted it, and shaken it. Just to be certain sure I didn't miss one. :)
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you should see what happens when you drop a screw into the power supply and forget about it.
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Originally posted by JTs
you should see what happens when you drop a screw into the power supply and forget about it.
Done it. Made for an interesting conversation with my RA in the dorms back in the day.
OF course...that was 5 motherboards and 3 video cards later before I forest gumped my way to figuring out how to build a system that worked...
Important lessons..
Motherboards aren't just screwed into the metal base. They have those funny brass spacers for a reason.
Cases and components get hot during use - fans take that heat away and keep you warm at night while you sleep and your roomate falls off thetop bunk drunk.
Video cards - the same rules apply for heat.
Pressing the reset button over and over again does bad things to hard drives - especially when they are filled with porn.
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I killed a PSU, one MB, one heatsink/fan, technically one vid card (sent it back thinking it was dead...there was a molex connector on the back. Woo...), two hard drives, a CD/DVD-ROM drive, a really old WinXP CD, and burnt a chip onto the top of my floppy drive (which is still in there) for this computer.
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points to the pile of burned up ram from ocing to hard --->
and over there is a stack of fried power supply's ^
and in that drawer is about 6 old k-6 cpu's ive popped and a couple of 800 tbirds ..
I killed most of this stuff just playing around ... (its way to easy to get free pc's here just to learn with)
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Yes, but all of this hardware was brand spanking new and all for one computer. :D
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ive popped Ram in my new pc befor along with a antec ps .. but that was from bad ram .. wasnt even oced yet .