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The (new) Official PC building thread!

Discussion in 'Building a new PC' started by creaky, Nov 27, 2006.

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  1. sammorris

    sammorris Senior member

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    That's an impressive burner for sub $40...
     
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    yea i know. thats what a lot of us here have been wanting lately but not available at a decent price. i even just bought the Liteon LH-20A1S for $32....go figure...lol
     
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    I think I can wait Rob, thanks for the heads up though. I need to get connectivity issues sorted first....seems I scared everyone away with my last post. :p

    Big words and lots of numbers scare me.
     
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    man im not sure if i should have shipped my mobo back useing UPS. scheduled delivery day is 4/3/08. a week from yesterday when i sent it out... i think reg mail would be quicker.
     
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    creaky,

    that antec 1200 isn't a bad looking case. too bad it's not aluminum and they aren't truely tooless.
     
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    Greensman - as requested I have posted on the thread you linked to with my experiences of the 215's.

    Sam - I already have the PS3 for bluray - and I have a friend who has a HDDVD player already and has quite a few discs - so for under £30 im thinking why not - yes the format lost the war but there are literally hundreds of films out on HD not on BD - ie transformers and the matrix - probably two of the best examples of HD out at the moment. Only reason Im umming and arring is because Im hoping that they will soon bring out a HD DVD player that also does normal DVDs and Divx, then I can replace my current Divx DVD player with one and be done with it. At the moment the best I can find is a standard HD player (no Divx) for about £50.

    Rob - soon you will have some real luck with this build of yours - we thought intels turnaround was the start of your luck but obviously not lol - chin up though aye.
     
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    sammorris,
    This is what should have come with your new MB!

    [​IMG]

    These are the specific extras listed in the parts list, so why you didn't get 2 right angle Sata cables is a good question. Maybe they just were out of them at the time, but you should have everything shown in the pic! I've gotten a pair of right angle Sata cables with all three GigaByte motherboards I've owned!

    Best Regards,
    Russ
     
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    Mort: Is any case truly tool-less? In all honesty, doing a few screws up doesn't really bother me, you're still going to have to screw things like the motherboard in place, so why not do the rest?

    Theone: That's exactly what I've got, except as far as I can see the right-angle cables shown to the right are the same as the pair to their left. Maybe I didn't look hard enough, I'll have another check. The P35C-DS3R certainly came with all four cables flat. It doesn't really bother me to be honest, until I do a proper cable tidy, it wouldn't make any difference, I get the right number of cables, and that's all that matters!
     
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    My P35C-DS3R definitely came with 2 straight and 2 right angled - they are sitting in the cupboard right now as I wanted blue cables :)
     
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    right, I'm checking the box for the X38-DS4.

    Yup, four flat cables, as before. It doesn't bother me, but weird how I never get the right-angled ones.
     
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    Hmmm... My EP35 DS4 board came with 2 rt angle sata cables also....
     
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    Well sammy looks like you and I are hated by G=byte. lol. Didn't get the proper cables according to the other either... but like you I don't need them. :)

    ....gm
     
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    As far as I'm concerned, I've got my 4 cables, I'm happy. :)

    [​IMG]
     
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    Sam

    keep us posted on how well that board works because i'm looking at that board for when i make my jump to core 2 duo in a couple of months.
     
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    Will do. It may not be running crossfire for a couple of weeks but it should be up and running in my PC, hopefully by around the 7-8th April since that's when I'll be back in York.
     
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    well I screwed up on my bargain (or so I thought) 120mm antec tricool fans. they don't have the 3rd yellow rpm sensing wire or a 3 pin connector. now I've got to order some more and I might as well go led too but I can't decide between red and green.
     
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    All the Tricool 120mm fans I've had have been lacking the 3-pin connector. I didn't even realise you could get ones that do, I gauge their rpm by ear.
     
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    the blue led 120mm tricool fans I have in this case both have three wires (red, white, yellow) and the power lead is three pin but they came with 3-4 pin molex adaptors too in case you want to hook directly to the psu. I want to regulate the front and rear through my mobo.

    I also found out antec makes different grade tricools. these bargain ones are only sleeve bearing where the better grade are double ball bearing.
     
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    Interesting, the fans for my 900 were DBB I think. Sleeve bearings are good for quietness, but as far as endurance at high speed goes, Ball bearing is definitely the way to go.
     
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    well let me Chime in before you know who does...lol
    there is no way you can go wrong with the RED LED fans Mort, none at all. i wouldnt let anyone try and tell ya them GREEN ones are the way to go either....lmao

    @sam
    what CPU you putting on the X38? quad?
     
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