BaldEagl: UPS dropped of the Parts just NOW...

[bustr]

Bald,

Got all my parts, lets hope I'm still as good as used to get paid to be......

By the way a word of warning about shipping boxes and styrafoam peanuts. This is very important.


If you have cats, make sure after you get the parts out from the shipping box to reseal it before you leave the room. When I went back into the living toom to move the peanut filled boxes to my recycling area, 2 of my cats exploded up out of the first "closed" box I touched blowing all of the peanuts out into the living room everywhere.

The O'Lady will be home in 30 minutes and it will take me 30 seconds to change my underware......

[Rondar]

   This is about the funniest thing I have read in a while  

[The Fugitive]

was the highlight of  my dad !!!! Thankyou for sharing....ummmm how many less cats do you have in your house today 

[007Rusty]

                                 

[Motherland]

 

[BaldEagl]

By the way a word of warning about shipping boxes and styrafoam peanuts. This is very important.


If you have cats, make sure after you get the parts out from the shipping box to reseal it before you leave the room. When I went back into the living toom to move the peanut filled boxes to my recycling area, 2 of my cats exploded up out of the first "closed" box I touched blowing all of the peanuts out into the living room everywhere.

The O'Lady will be home in 30 minutes and it will take me 30 seconds to change my underware......

 

Good luck on the build.

[Getback]

Bald,

Got all my parts, lets hope I'm still as good as used to get paid to be......

By the way a word of warning about shipping boxes and styrafoam peanuts. This is very important.


If you have cats, make sure after you get the parts out from the shipping box to reseal it before you leave the room. When I went back into the living toom to move the peanut filled boxes to my recycling area, 2 of my cats exploded up out of the first "closed" box I touched blowing all of the peanuts out into the living room everywhere.

The O'Lady will be home in 30 minutes and it will take me 30 seconds to change my underware......

  A most worthy warning. Surgeon general where are you when you're truly needed.

Good luck on the build Bustr. Refresh my memory here. Is it an e8500 machine?

[DREDIOCK]

LMAO.

Yea one warning about New Egg
They LOVE their Styrofoam peanuts.


Probably why they went into business.

Some one ordered 4 tons of Styrofoam peanuts by mistake.

"WTF! How am I going to get rid of all these Styrofoam peanuts???"

"I know. I'll start selling computer parts. I'll ship them in boxes 16 times bigger then they need to be shipped in. And I'll fill the rest in with them"

Brilliant!

[Denholm]

That's hilarious!

[bustr]

A most worthy warning. Surgeon general where are you when you're truly needed.

Good luck on the build Bustr. Refresh my memory here. Is it an e8500 machine?

Asus P5Q Pro and Intel Core Duo 3.16Ghz E8500........

[Getback]

Asus P5Q Pro and Intel Core Duo 3.16Ghz E8500........

Now I remember, Good stuff there. Hard to keep track of you guys.

[bustr]

Shhhheeeesh,

Routing the power and SATA cables to insure all of the fans flow well is much harder now than in the past.

Inside of my case looks like an HP Proliant DL580 with power cables, SATA cables and IDE legacy flat cable routed to keep maximum air flow going. After I installed everything I had to go back and begin the odius art of cable routing and tieing.

That took some time due to the artistic nature of the process is never the same across brands of cases. Also my mother board P5Q Pro has the IDE connector just 1/4 inch past the end of the PCI Ezpress 2 connector for my Nvidia GeForce 9800GT video card. I had to get creative with the IDE flat cable to allow air flow from the fan in front of the Hard Drives.

Thank God for velcro and all the years I spent supporting Compaq and HP servers. Still my Audegy2 ZS has that non standard white connector. My front panel headset and microphone jacks are Hi Definition industry standard. So my investment in 3 foot rca mini extender cables has payed off.

Can anyone tell me if using the PS2 sockets for mouse and keyboard removes conflicts on the USB bus due to the OS seeing the HOTAS and rudder peddles as additional keyboards and mouse?

Maybe this is the answer to some players joystick and rudder peddle spiking.

[BaldEagl]

Don't know the answer to your question but your post brings up a couple of points;

I'm using PS2 sockets for both mouse and keyboard but I only use a twisty stick.

You can get a round IDE cable if you want.  My motherboard came with one.

Your Nvidia video card is going to want to run at ~80C.  Download Riva Tuner and set the fan speed for a constant 65% and it will run ~50C instead.  Don't install the Nvidia performance tools package if that's an option (not sure if it is on non-nvidia motherboards).

As to the PSU wiring, I've got a PC Power & Cooling 750W PSU and it's got masive amounts of cabling.  I bundled and tie wrapped the excess and shoved it into one of the upper 5.x" drive bays (front intake fan is at the bottom of the case in front of my HD's).

[DREDIOCK]

As to the PSU wiring, I've got a PC Power & Cooling 750W PSU and it's got masive amounts of cabling.  I bundled and tie wrapped the excess and shoved it into one of the upper 5.x" drive bays (front intake fan is at the bottom of the case in front of my HD's).

Yea. I have that PSU also
Thats exatly what I did.
First I untangled the mess it shipped as. that PSU has more wires then the space shuttle LOL
Then I only ran the wires I needed in the case. I got creative in my routing by snaking them around the unused drive bay brackets
And tucked the rest away in my uppermost drive bay
End result is a pretty open case.
And really easy to work on,and in.

I must say I really like this case Rosewill R5605-BK 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147083&Tpk=Rosewill%20R5605-BK
I removed the parts box though

[Dragon]

First I untangled the mess it shipped as. that PSU has more wires then the space shuttle LOL

I had a different PS, it's an 850 something, can't remember who makes it right now, too many Buds, but cables are tucked everywhere.  I think there are 20+ cables I'm not using.  If modular was a legitimate option, I'd have done it.  I'll have to post pics of my case.  Between the Big A@@ CPU cooler and the cables, I have like no air flow.