Legit Reviews

Merlin, I was just trying to get some indication (a "beep") that the board was starting the boot process before I went any further. It was just mobo, CPU, RAM (1 stick), PSU, and case (mainly for the switch and speaker). It wouldn't even power on, the CPU fan would spin for a couple of sec...

duplo83, We just tightened the screws until they were solidly against the board. We used the stand-offs provided with the case all the way around. The case being "cheap" definitely isn't a problem- you'd have to look far and wide to find a case more expensive that the ones made by Lian-Li ...

DMB2000UK, Thanks for the confirmation. Tony got a RMA from newegg (I love newegg) so we'll be taking it apart later today, and shipping it off to them. Let's hope the second mobo is better than the first. I don't know if I'll be working on it for a while, because Tony wanted to actually put it toge...

Dicecca112 If that's true then it's got to be the motherboard. I started with only five components (Motherboard, CPU, RAM, PSU plus the Case) so that if one of them was bad I'd be able to tell which one it was. It can't be the RAM or the CPU because the system would at least power on. It can't be th...

DMB200uk (Dan,) Nope. I tried hooking up the video card and all the case fans to that monster (1.2 KW) of a PSU, you know, just to give it a more reasonable load. Still nothing, nada, zip, zilch. The CPU fan spins for a couple of seconds and then that's it. I'm beginning to suspect the board is just...

Vbironchef, The reason for the RAID 10 array is simple- SPEED!! No matter what speed your system is the biggest bottleneck is always the hard drive data transfer rates. Don't be fooled by the speeds listed for the different drive types (IDE 66, IDE 100, IDE 133, SATA 1.5Gb/s,SATA 3.0Gb/s, the 5000 f...

Vbironchef, There are actually 2 separate RAID arrays. The first is a RAID 10 array (a mirror of stripes) consisting of four drives, which is hooked up to a RAID card (a 3Ware PCI X4 with it's own processor) for both speed and stability. The second array is a RAID 1 (a simple mirror) that uses the o...

Hey folks, I think I may have figured out the problem. I've got a 1200 Watt PSU powering this, I've heard (don't ask me where) that under-powering a PSU can cause problems, maybe my PC Power & Cooling (they're the BEST- but boy do you pay for it) unit is powering itself down to avoid damaging it...

Hey guys, thanks again, I told my friend I really wasn't up to this, several times, at the beginning. He just wouldn't take no for an answer (you'd have to know him,) Anyway after all the assurances he has calmed down, there is no longer smoke coming out of his ears, and he's finally willing to let ...

Hey Guys, Thanks for the quick responses, It's A Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DS5 board, Phenom 9600 Black Box CPU, I stick of 2GB Crucial RAM, hooked-up to a PC Power & Cooling 1.2 KW PSU, in a Lian-Li A70 case. I haven't hooked anything else up yet, I'm just trying to get it to beep for me, so far no j...

Hello, I am kind of new to building new computers, I've played around with older systems with somewhat mixed results. I just built myself a new system (the first NEW rig I've ever had.) A friend asked me to help him build a new system for himself, a real monster, everything on the bleeding edge. Any...