The (new) Official PC building thread!

@marsey99

Have a Good one...Thanks for all your help

To All... Have a good one and thank you everyone for all the help I have recieved here at AD

 

ok theres one thing i wanna know for a long time...bout hard drives...which one is beta/faster...SATA 1 or SATA 2?

 

The Artic Silver thermal past has made a differance already... should see even better temps after break in time... Thanks for the heads up, I will stop crying for now

Off hand or point me in the right direction... at what temp should I let my burners cool down at?- I run three per sig. so I figure they should generate some heat after a while?

 

no it was the GT it was also on a rebate though. RIght now you can get a 7900 GS for 140 or a 7600 GT for 110 both with small rebates. I am just waiting for more 8 series cards to push down the 7950 price I think. Right now I can get a nice BFG one for about 250 But I wanna try to get one for about 200.

 

SATA I runs at 150MB/s SATA II runs at 300MB/s

II is just newer and made to work faster. It is backwords compatible though. So if your MOBO is SATA I you can buy a SATA II HD and dont need to worry.

 

hey all

so I bought this sound card the other day but now that I looked back at it I see that it needs a PCI 2.1 bus, which I hope to god I have. So my question is how do I know if my PCI bus is 2.1? My computer is pretty old, I'd say 3-4 years, and it has a PC Chips M851 v1.3A mobo, if that helps. I hope it does have it or I might just have to make my computer upgrade 6 months early.

 

Don't worry about the PCI...that sound card will work...

 

i'm setting my computer up for SLI...

anyone think any of these psu's are good/ won't fry my hardware:

http://www.pricewatch.com/power_supply_for_case/600w.htm

 

Do you have a budget for the power supply? Coolmax and Thermaltake are good brands. Make sure you look for something that is SLI certified.

 

actually i found a really good one, it's 550Watts but from nvidia's site they go as low as 500watts for my cards

http://www.xoxide.com/ultra-x-connect2-uvblue.html

does anyone know where to get a COOL looking case?? everything in my search is butt ugly

 

xomblei, this is the case i have and its VERY COOL looking . my temps are low also

http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=15900#

 

yeah that's what i'm talking about, it's cool in more than one aspect haha

thanks

Edit: wow i really like the setup of this case, psu on bottom, mobo on top, usb and fpa on the top so it's PRACTICAL!! i'm totally getting this case

 

and it holds a 120mm fan in the side also, match it up with the front fans with the neon blue lights . thats what i did looks totally cool.

check out my PC spes.( per my sig) everything i have fit perfectly into this case

 

i just ordered one!

 

great , you will def. be happy with it . let me know how it works out

 

Any ideas where to get a full tower case [ need to hold 3 bennqs and 1 controller and 1 sound carg " x-fi fatal1ty"] lots of fans also

 

herrick , that Antec nine hunderd will hold your parts fine and cools very well

 

Really, looking at it seems there are only two fans and three bays... so that case has 5 bays on top of those fans....

 

do you need to put the 1 controller in a front bay? your sound card will go in the rear of the case.

it will hold three drives in the front with the two fans . if you take one fan out you will have three more bays you can use for a total of 6 bays

 

Yup Nine Hundred is a sexy case...