WOOT! AT LAST! It's all coming together! (My Conroe air build)

[Moonraker™]

Just awaiting most of my parts now. But at last! - My Conroe has arrived, along with my heatsink! (well ok, 2 of them!)

Case: Antec P180 (delivered)
Cooling (air): 4x Sanyo Denki 120x38mm 102.5cfm (delivered) and 1x 120mm and 2x 80mm fans
Fan controller: Black Sunbeam Rheobus (delivered)
Monitor: NEC MultiSync LCD20WGX2 20.1" Widescreen
PSU: OCZ GameXtream 700w (ordered)
CPU: Intel Conroe E6600 (delivered)
Heatsink: Tuniq Tower 120 (delivered)
GPU: NVidia 7950GX2 (either ASUS, BFG or MSI - best OC'ers for unmodded air)
Mobo: DFI NForce 590 for Intel (not released yet)
Memory: (3GB) 2x 512MB (from XS COMP!) & 2x 1Gb G.Skill DDR2 PC2-6400 HZ Series 4-4-4-12 Dual Channel kits (link here)
HDD: 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache(link here)
Mouse Razer Diamondback (already using on current machine)
Keyboard: Saitek Eclipse RED (link here) (ordered)
Floppy / CD / DVD: 7in1 Media floppy (delivered) / still looking for CD & DVD

[[XC] moddolicous]

Looks like a good rig except I'm not sure that Rheobus will be able to handle 3x Sanyo Denki. How many watts do they each use?? Other than that, it looks like a good rig.

[NoSinder]

Nice. Where did you get those Tower 120s??

[Jester FPS]

why'd u get 2 tt's?

very nice though.

[Silver Bullet]

Nice. Where did you get those Tower 120s??

Ya .. where you get ONE ... let alone 2 Tuniq Tower 120s !!

[[TAG]Imp]

i'll buy one off of you

[Moonraker™]

Looks like a good rig except I'm not sure that Rheobus will be able to handle 3x Sanyo Denki. How many watts do they each use?? Other than that, it looks like a good rig.

• Power : 20 watt per channel
• Input voltage : DC 12V
• Output voltage: 0 ~ 12 V
• Output current: up to 1.67 A
• Dim: 148.5x 105x 42 mm
• Weight( Net) : 184g

why'd u get 2 tt's? very nice though.

Might as well have why I had another on the way, chuck another in to get most of P&P.

Nice. Where did you get those Tower 120s??

Ya .. where you get ONE ... let alone 2 Tuniq Tower 120s !!

Shipped from my friend in Japan.

i'll buy one off of you

I've had loads of enquiries. I'll ship to anywhere, as long as peeps are prepared to pay P&P for it. Open to offers m8.

[NoSinder]

That's a nice friend you got there in Japan lol. Woulda offered you something for one of them, but I just ordered a Scythe Mine the other day to go with my E6400.

[Moonraker™]

Yeah, I've had a plenty of offers and a few solid ones.

I'm just wanting to get my rig all sorted. I'm kinda wondering on the MOBO. I want one that's gonna allow a really high FSB. I know there's some out there running 450+.

[Asky]

Gr8 Rig there man.
grats

[Moonraker™]

Just thought I'd post an update as I've now deecided on a few different things and added a few things. If anyone knows where to get Pink cathodes from.. TELL ME!

Case: Antec P180 (delivered)
Cooling (air): 3x Sanyo Denki 120x38mm 102.5cfm, 1x Antec Tricool 120mm and 2x 80mm TBC fans
Fan controller: Black Sunbeam Rheobus (delivered)
Monitor: NEC MultiSync LCD20WGX2 20.1" Widescreen
PSU: OCZ GameXtream 700w
CPU: Intel Conroe E6600 (delivered)
Heatsink: Tuniq Tower 120 (delivered)
Chipset cooling: Thermaltake Extreme Spirit II
GPU: NVidia 7950GX2 (either ASUS, BFG or MSI - best OCers) or X1950XTX
Mobo: ASUS P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP
Memory: (3GB) 2x 512MB (from XS COMP!) & 2x 1Gb G.Skill DDR2 PC2-6400 HZ Series 4-4-4-12 Dual Channel kits
HDD: 1x WD Raptor 10,000RPM 74GB 16MB Cache and 1x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
Mouse Razer Diamondback (already using on current machine)
Keyboard: Saitek Eclipse RED
Floppy: 7in1 Media floppy (delivered)
DVD/CD: 1x Samsung SH-S162L/BEBN Lightscribe 16x DVD+/-R 48x CD-R
Mods: 2x 30cm blue and 2x 30cm pink (UV or red that looks pink) cold cathodes
Fan mod: 2x 5.25" bay mod, accomodating an 80mm fan for air intake

[Sanborn]

I'm having trouble finding red cathodes that don't look orange or pink.

[Moonraker™]

Sanborn. Show me the pink ones! I want.

[IMCL85]

how much for the entire set up?

[Moonraker™]

how much for the entire set up?

Well I'm not sure yet. I'm still buying stuff for it and looking out for places that are cheaper than others (trying to save cash on P&P by buying from one place too!)

I set 3 budgets

1. £2000 - Ultimate budget (I don't want to go near this!)
2. £1800 - Target budget
3. £1700 - This is where I use the extra £100 saved on getting hammered and celebrating!)

But I think it's be there and there abouts of £1800.

Remember, the UK is pricey! well more expensive than the US!

[havoxz]

why didn't u ship in parts from the US?
!

[Sanborn]

^^ Because the shipping/import fees would probably be a beast wouldn't they? Hell I don't know how that stuff works.....is there an import fee?

[Moonraker™]

We can get charged tax here and there. But the way to send between US and UK is to tick everything off as a gift. But imagine asking Newegg that.

Oh I mate, I'm from England. You reckon you could... lol.

As Sanborn also said, shipping fees are crazy. Bloody governments. Don't they realise our countries are related lol. I mean come on. Lower shipping prices! IT'S FAMILY! he he.

[Sanborn]

Im still waiting for the bullet train between England, Australia, and America to be built. Then they can just rename us all to Amerengaus haha. Maybe after flying cars.....just maybe.

[Moonraker™]

Oooooooohhhhhhhhhhh yesss! My Sanyo-Denki's came today! Courtesy of mr J-Mag on this forum! linky here to FFS (fans for sale! not the other one!).

I've updated the first post with what has been changed as I ordered my PSU today as well

I've only tested these on my old rig through my Sunbeam Rheobus. OMFG! These bays shift air. They were pushing themselves back on my table!

They are noisy at full whack. Nothing at all like how loud I hought they would be though. I turned them down about 15% and they were more than fine on the ears, and this was outside of the case! So they've pukka inside the case

[Moonraker™]

Some beauties....

Also got my Saitek "Eclipse" Keyboard, 4GB of GeIL PC6400 DDR2's and Delta 80cfm @ 59.5dBA fan for when I get the 5.25" bay mod.



Here's a pic with Sanyo-D's fitted and the GXS 700w

[Celcius]

Looks like that's going to be a great rig!

[AnjinSan1966]

Its coming together nicely!!
Good choice of keyboard,i have the blue version myself and loving it

[Moonraker™]

Thanks guys.

I was thinking of plugging the keyboard in now to "get used to it".

If I hadn't of brought my dads stuff in advance for him I would have got my mobo by now and started setting stuff up. I'd have still be waiting on GPU, Monitor and DVD drive though!!! - along with some other minor bits.

Here's an updated spec list. Looking back it's amazing at how many changes have been made. I mean the first spec list (that I wrote down before I joined here) was nothing like now. But hey, you learn a lot here

*AND STILL!!!... if anyone knows where to get Pink cathodes from.. TELL ME! - I'm a bit of an 80's nut! *


Case: Antec P180 (rev.1) (delivered)
Cooling (air):

• 3x Sanyo Denki 120x38mm 102.5cfm (delivered)
• 1x Antec Tricool 120mm [NOT YET DECIDED ON THIS]
• 1x Delta 80mm fan (5700RPM, 80CFM, 52dBA // 4900RPM, 68CFM, 48dBA) (delivered)
• 1x Sharkoon SilentEagle 2000 80mm fan

Fan controller: Black Sunbeam Rheobus (delivered)
Monitor: NEC MultiSync LCD20WGX2 20.1" Widescreen
PSU: OCZ GameXtream 700w (delivered)
CPU: Intel Conroe E6600 (delivered)
Heatsink: Tuniq Tower 120 (delivered)
Chipset cooling: Thermaltake Extreme Spirit II [NOT YET DECIDED ON THIS]
GPU: NVidia 7950GX2 (either ASUS, BFG or MSI - best OCers) or X1950XTX
Mobo: ASUS P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP
Memory: 4GB (2x 2*1GB) PC6400 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit 4-4-4-12 (delivered)
HDD: 1x WD Raptor 10,000RPM 74GB 16MB Cache and 1x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
Mouse Razer Diamondback (already using on current machine)
Keyboard: Saitek Eclipse RED (delivered)
Floppy: 7in1 Media floppy (delivered)
DVD/CD: 1x Samsung SH-S162L/BEBN Lightscribe 16x DVD+/-R 48x CD-R
Mods: 2x 30cm blue and 2x 30cm pink (or red that looks pink) cold cathodes
Fan mod: 2x 5.25" bay mod, accomodating Delta 80mm fan (for air intake)

[Moonraker™]

PHEW!

3 things left! (unless I do get the NB cooler and extra 120mm fan).

Just ordered:

ASUS P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP - £128.53 (incl. VAT)
320Gb Seagate ST3320620AS Barracuda 7200.10 16MB Cache - £66.87 (incl. VAT)
80mm Sharkoon SilentEagle 2000 17.8 dBA / 22.7 CFM Fan - £4.57 (incl. VAT)
Samsung SH-S162L/BEBN Lightscribe 16x16 ±R/RAM DLayer DVDRW Writer w/ Nero - £22.47 (incl. VAT)
74 Gb Western Digital Raptor, SATA, 10000 rpm, 16MB Cache - £110.44 (incl. VAT)
Sharkoon 12" *Red* CCFL 2in1 Kit (x2 CCFL Tubes + dual Inverter + adhesive Velcro) - £4.65 (incl. VAT)

I also decided to get one of these (to see if it does anything underneath the GPU):

Akasa PCI Slot System Blower *Red* (Exhausts Hot Air from System) - £2.93 (incl. VAT)