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[XC] MarioMaster
10-12-2006, 05:39 PM
I've had these parts since July, the system hasn't posted until this afternoon. Long story short, I've had to RMA at my own expense, the MB, CPU, and ram in an attempt to get this pc working. I had been rather lazy about doing it since my pc worked fine for what it was used for. Anyway Abit finally released a compatibility report on supported ram and got a stick which made the pc magically boot instantly, it just hated the 1 gig stick of Patriot I had bought before. Oh well - all is good now. :)
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=549204

AMD Athlon64 3800+
Abit KN9 SLI
OCZ Powerstream 520watt
EVGA Geforce 7900gt
2x 250gb SATA2 Western Digital Drives - RAID 0

I have some pics, but they're not great since it was pretty dark in my room.
http://www.imagecross.com/images/6502pc1.JPG
Side view - case isn't screwed shut at this point so that's why you see the metal on the side - still also needs some cable management
http://www.imagecross.com/images/1433pcside.JPG
In the dark
http://www.imagecross.com/images/4330pcdark.JPG
The gauges on the front are a VU meter, Temperature (probe), and fan speed monitoring for the built in fan controller.
Overall build cost was around $900

Now to get it running WCG :slapass: :D
[XC] mysticmerlin
10-12-2006, 05:43 PM
Nice, slap that chiller on it and get the WU's moving through. :toast:
[XC] hipno650
10-12-2006, 06:16 PM
nice rig man just hurry up getting it to wcg:D nice man!
[XC] serlv
10-12-2006, 06:49 PM
Looking good! I have a 3800+ Venice crunching, too. Fast chips!

w00t! Another cruncher!

But, man, what an odyssey to get it going! Glad to hear it is over and ready to roar. :)

Scott
[XC] MarioMaster
10-12-2006, 07:17 PM
Thanks guys, and it's actually an Orleans core :)
http://www.imagecross.com/images/2513cpu.JPG
[XC] serlv
10-12-2006, 08:09 PM
Oh sure! Go new skool on me! :)
DAK1640
10-13-2006, 01:06 AM
Good job & nice case. Thanks for contributing...:toast:
Fr3ak
10-13-2006, 04:38 AM
The case looks nice, but from the inside its worse than my cheap 20$ case with psu.
I had to use my dremel quite a bit to make everything like I wanted to hehe
Good thing it wasnt for me anyway. I hurt myself badly on a sharp edge and couldnt use my finger for 3 days.
If I would have bought the case for me, I would have sledgehammerd it :P
But when I was done, it was nice looking, which was the only thing that counts to the person I sold it to hehe.

Are you using the stock AMD cooler for a reason? I havent used one for ages, so I have no idea how they perform.
[XC] MarioMaster
10-13-2006, 12:30 PM
yeah it wasn't a great layout internally, but i didn't have the cash for a Lian case or anything like that, but it does what i need it to.
and the stock amd heatsink is doing quite well, this chip runs extremely cool, right now running WCG my cpu is at 93-95f :)

i will replace the 7900gt fan before i do the cpu fan, damn it's noisy
[XC] Teroedni
10-13-2006, 12:37 PM
your going to overclock right?
BandofBrothers
10-13-2006, 12:41 PM
Nice rig there:toast:

Do you plan to run it 24\7?;)
[XC] MarioMaster
10-13-2006, 01:29 PM
yeah i'm going to overclock soon but it's only been working for part of yesterday and today, and i'm going on a camping trip this weekend, so maybe next week i will have some results :)