the "experience" ***56K DIALUP WARNING!!!!!***

[DMB2000uk]

Well after being so careful, you deserve to get a trouble free install

Have fun!

Dan

[stopthekilling77]

oooh man i have been! to go from my old celeron to THIS..... unbelievable.

played some Unreal Tournament 2004, Test Drive Unlimited, got some HD wallpapers and now for some pic uploading!!!

i'll redo this post in a few minutes, i've gotta find more batteries for the camera

[Sparky]

Oh yeah!! Can't wait to see the pix. I get the same way whenever I plan a new build except I wind up reading and re-reading the manuals and all documentation. It all it pays off with a nice machine that you can take pride in the fact that it's all yours and you built it from scratch!

[stopthekilling77]

okay, so slight difference in translation: i was like "i'll be right back and upload the pics," but my body said "screw you, idiot, we've had like 4 hours of sleep in the past 48 hours now conk the hell out"

lol so here we go!

i got my parts about 6pm EST on friday, and i was very stoked: first plan of action, drool over the parts


arent they all so purrrrdy?


as for the CPU, i dont think the pic got it very well but here's how it reads:
Intel (m) (c) '05 E6750
Intel (r) Core 2 Duo
SLA9V MALAY
2.66GHZ/4M/1333/06
L722A4494 (04)


the card i got from Tech_Greek and the mobo pre-HSF

view 2 from the same moment


glistening in the sun...


that'd be my buddy ed, who assisted me until about 1am, holding stuff, fetching parts, etc... he was sweating cause the room didnt have a fan, thus the gloves


"damnit ed, we put the fan on backwards!!!!!"


mounted and looking pretty damn cool


slow and steady... we were trying to figure out how to put the HDD in.... no laughing please. we eventually figured it out after a few beers


HDD installed, connecting the PSU and all...

now my BEST pic

POSTING THE FIRST TRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


saweeeeet!


thar beeeee the parts i won from LR!!! the RAM fan didnt fit on my mushkin, but i'll be using it soon enough :D thought i'd show you all it because i can


the final product!

and this is what i replaced (now resting in peace in my brothers room)


thank you so much to EVERYONE who threw their 2 cents in, linked me to information, encouraged me to do something i never thought i could do, and especially a big thanks to Nate, Matt, Ken, and Dan! if i could, i'd take you guys out for some drinks!

phase 1 complete... next will be overclocking, but i think i'm gonna enjoy my 2.66Ghz love for a day or two first ;)

[kenc51]

Nice job!!!

[DMB2000uk]

Nice one

I've never really had a sense of scale with the U120x until I saw it in your case!

Thanks for the shout out, you could post me beer if you want

Dan

[stopthekilling77]

Nice one

I've never really had a sense of scale with the U120x until I saw it in your case!

Thanks for the shout out, you could post me beer if you want

Dan

hahaha yeah i was like O.O when i held it first, but i gotta say it IS deceivingly light

with all the fans on low its still a little noisy, but when the music/games are on, you dont even notice!

eventually i'll go under water, but i'll have to get an 8800 GTX before that happens :D

[Sparky]

Very nice! Wow, that CPU cooler is HUGE!

[CMcguire]

Nicely done.. quite similar to my own system.. and personally i found the clips on the heatsink to be very easy maybe its just me.. (or maybe just in comparison to the scythe ninja i originally had..)

On mine though i had to stick the HD in the bottom HD box as i can't have the one in the middle with the huge gtx8800 in there.

I found the case to be near silent when i first had it running.. but the q6600 and gtx8800 needed more fresh air that they were getting so i took off one of the top panels (you know for cd/dvd drives) to let in more fresh air... so obviously with a hole in the front it get quite a bit noiser..

Now make sure you test your temps just to be sure.. that was the problem with my system.. it posted fine and everything then got core temp and 85C idle... yikes.. thankfully now at 70ish under full load for like an hr...

[DMB2000uk]

Now make sure you test your temps just to be sure.. that was the problem with my system.. it posted fine and everything then got core temp and 85C idle... yikes.. thankfully now at 70ish under full load for like an hr...

Your C2Q is really hot >_<

I guess it uses lots of Vcore to be stable. I think mine is in a similar vein of hot C2D's as it requires shed loads of voltage to get anywhere above 3.2.

Dan

[Apoptosis]

not sure if someone else pointed this out, but your memory is installed in the wrong slots... use either the pair of blue or the pair of white slots for dual-channel performance. Right now you have them in blue/white, which is single channel!

I suggest running the sandra memory bandwidth test before and after to see the difference ;)

Looks great though! Congrats on the build!

[DMB2000uk]

not sure if someone else pointed this out, but your memory is installed in the wrong slots... use either the pair of blue or the pair of white slots for dual-channel performance. Right now you have them in blue/white, which is single channel!

Haha, nice catch.

Dan

[CMcguire]

Now make sure you test your temps just to be sure.. that was the problem with my system.. it posted fine and everything then got core temp and 85C idle... yikes.. thankfully now at 70ish under full load for like an hr...

Your C2Q is really hot >_<

I guess it uses lots of Vcore to be stable. I think mine is in a similar vein of hot C2D's as it requires shed loads of voltage to get anywhere above 3.2.

Dan

mines a quad

[DMB2000uk]

Your C2Q is really hot >_<

Hence why I wrote C2Q and not C2D

Also the current quads are basically two C2D's strapped together, so you might have gotten 2 similar cores needing the high voltage like mine.

Dan

[stopthekilling77]

not sure if someone else pointed this out, but your memory is installed in the wrong slots... use either the pair of blue or the pair of white slots for dual-channel performance. Right now you have them in blue/white, which is single channel!

I suggest running the sandra memory bandwidth test before and after to see the difference ;)

Looks great though! Congrats on the build!

So lemme get this again lol cause i read that friggin manual a few times... to run in dual channel i need to put them OUT of A1+A2 and IN to A1+B1?

[kenc51]

Open CPUZ a check, It does look like Apop is right though!

[Darkstar]

Sweet, cant wait to see the pics!

[stopthekilling77]

no problemo, i'm off work early today and it's about 103 defrees Fahrenheit today +humidity and about 10 degrees on the heat index... staying indoors and doing a little tinkering :D

to do:
- load sandra off of the external harddrive
- post bandwidth
- switch ram
- post new bandwidth
- show bios update
- start OC-ing

[Apoptosis]

you got it ;)

links for you

Sandra 2007 XI SP4a - http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/fclick/fclick.php?fid=49
CPU-Z 1.40.5 - http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpu-z-140.zip

[stopthekilling77]

ran the memory bandwidth test without any changes and heres what i got!

now my motherboard manual says "for dual-channel configuration, the toal size of memory module(s) installed per channel must be the same (DIMM_A1 + DIMM_A2 = DIMM_B1 + DIMM_B2)" so it'd make sense that 1G of RAM in A1+B1 would be dual-channel, right? and will i have to enable running dual channel in BIOS? i JUST switched over to the latest BIOS Revision 1203 if that helps

"SiSoftware Sandra

Benchmark Results
RAM Bandwidth Int Buff'd iSSE2 : 5456 MB/s
RAM Bandwidth Float Buff'd iSSE2 : 5447 MB/s
Results Interpretation : Higher index values are better.

Performance Test Status
Run ID : IANS-PC on Wednesday, August 08, 2007 at 11:40:41 AM
Platform Compliance : Win32 x86
Memory Used by Test : 512MB
NUMA Support : No
SMP Test : No
Total Test Threads : 1
Multi-Core Test : Yes
SMT Test : No
Dynamic MP/MT Load Balance : No
Processor Affinity : P0C0T0
System Timer : 2.7GHz
Page Size : 4kB
Use Large Memory Pages : No