The (new) Official PC building thread!

Cheers Sammyboy!!!!!!

One last thing, see if i still have in my basket a "today only" offer that was added like 3 days ago.

Will it still be eligible with scan?

 

It's your call on that one, I highly doubt it...

 

love the ICE Q 3 coolers form HIS. my x1800GTO had one, and clocked amazingly

 

I think you're giving the cooler a little too much credit there. The HR-03 on my card doesn't earn me an extra mhz more overclock - I'd need to up the voltage. HIS just obviously know how to make graphics boards.

 

@Lp531,
Sorry about that and thanks for pointing out the differences. Didn't make a good enough effort at looking that up for the Corsair HX-520.

NOW on to my problems which haven't gone away. lol.

I'm still having problems with the 7600GT!!

Russ which "driver cleaner" did they give you?? If you can link me to it that would be great. I've used Driver Cleaner Pro more than twice and it seems there is something that is still affecting my graphical experience....lol.

HECK I even tried the BETA version of the NEWEST firmware just for giggles and it was SH!TE too!!! Unfortunately I'm lost on this deal. I've never had anything NOT work properly after some "tweaking" and such. ;P Any more ideas from you "masters" would be great. I'm still L@@KING and haven't given up yet but I'm really close to buying another frikkin gpu!!!

What really pisses me off is I'm not able to do anything with the NEW system because this is my present main rig for EVERYTHING!!

@sammyboy,
With my present graphical experience it really SUCKS to try and scroll thru post after post. And besides that you cheeky bugger, I'm lazy most of the time. ~

....gm

 

Just being curious here.. i know your answer to this greensman, but do the rest of yu guys that post in this thread on a regular basis(guess im beging to be one of them) outside of building puters do ya do any burning?????lmao

with all the time in here and building stuff how do ya get the time to burn? or is that the benefit of have a C2D rig???lolcan do more than 1 thing at a time????

 

I burn some games once in a while, just for backing up.

GM, I have a question for you. I have some Divx files that I want to burn as a DVD. I uses nero to burn them but it came out crappy. Like it would have weird sounds, the movie would hang up, and there would be square things all over. What do you use to convert and burn them?

 

@abuzar1
now your talking about something i know a little about....lol
those little squares yur getting are pixels showing up....
myself i dontlike nero to convert divx/xvid to dvd

theres a great program called convertxToDvd.it will let you choose alot of options on your converting, menu's, chapters, ect. for me it will take about a hour to do 700mb xvid clip.

sorry to get off topic fella but i had to chime inwhen i could..lol

 

Thanks for that, I'll try to use that. I have I am Legend right here waiting to be seen on my Big Screen lol.

 

abzur1
try this link for it

http://www.softpile.com/Multimedia/Video/Review_50273_index.html

 

Rob, it's shareware to I'll just torrent it


How much do you guys think this is worth?

 

new DVDFlick is free and good too. http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_tools/dvd_flick.cfm/v1_2_2_1

 

got a case here i would like ya all top look at. tell me if there would be enough air flow in this. it only looks like it can hold 2 fans. 1 in the front 1 in the rear..

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119115

ga-p35-ds3r
e6750
2 gigs of corsair mem ddr2(maybe 3 gigs)
ac freezer 7 pro
small gpu
CM real power 550w psu

thats what i plan on putting in it

 

Rob that's a good little case and worth the money but check this one out and see what you think. It has an optional front case mount as well. the EGG link too....

hth.....

btw you should have purchased the one I linked you to the other day. ~ hehehe....

...gm

 

@greensman.
yea i should have gotten that one then but i didnt..lol to be honest im still set on the CM690. i just like the looks of that case.

plus i guess for me i am wanting the option of 3 or more fans. just for the fact of my house tends to be a little on the warm side plus ihave fuel oil as my heat. so thats dusty as can be..so the more fans the better in this case...atleast thats my logic on it..lol

edit to add
that egg link there i just looked at that same tower but the one with the real power 550w psu in it... once again im concerned if there will be enough air flow in it...

 

Everyone has seen this before but I just took the "screeny" for you ROB. It's in my X2 3800 AMD rig and has been running for over 6 hours but NOT at load just idle and internet speed. lol.

The case is a Cooler Master 330 Elite.... link to screeny...

Trust me it'll cool just fine and even on this cpu. The cpu you are looking at runs MUCH cooler than this one does. Of course it's not OC'd right now cause of the STUPID gpu!!!

....gm

 

GM, you haven't overclocked your CPU? GPU doesn't have anything to do with CPU overclocking...

EDIT: I'm going to be building a new PC soon. I'm not getting the Armor(while still an excellent case) again because of the lights and I want to try something new lol.

The Cosmos seems pretty cheap.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119138

 

aight greensman your not the only person havin video issue with your card..I got this cheapee card here when i did my built sorry fokes.i'm not into all that gaming on the computer.i'll just grad the ps2 instead.the card did'nt come with any disc with drives it's working normal without drives but .i do get(the new hardware message found) everytime i start up..lol. i tryed to find some sites on the drives but if anybody can do better let me know and if there the same site.i seen.i'll let you know..thanks
http://microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0262700

 

ok here are your drivers:

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/radeonx-xp

Seriously you have a very good machine, you could have splurged about a hundred or so to get a decent card no?

 

Yea true..lol but my pockets ain't that deep..video display don't impress me that much long as it shows up on the monitor..lol plus it's the motherboard and cpu that counts to me power and a decent looking job putting it together all in all the out come and what it can do..
thanks for the link brother..