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The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

Discussion in 'Building a new PC' started by ddp, Jul 16, 2008.

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  1. abuzar1

    abuzar1 Senior member

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    Good for you.

    I just recently ordered the PC2-8500 Dominators with the fan. Cant wait for the new build!
     
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    you goning to keep this one ?
     
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  3. abuzar1

    abuzar1 Senior member

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    lol

    Everyone asks me that. This is a temporary build anyway. To hold me off till Nehalem. So I wont be keeping it long, but I will follow it up with another one.
     
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    cool , Nehalem is going to be expensive though when it first hits the market.

     
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    A GPU will only introduce visual corruption in my experience if the memory overheats. if the core overheats the system will give you a blank screen and either reboot, or sit there with the monitor on standby. The GPU is the most likely candidate based on my experience with the exact same graphics card.
     
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    Nehalem 2.66Ghz CPU is going to be the same price as your Q9450. They have already released official pricing info. Probably gonna be expensive if you dont pre-order and then demand will jack up the prices or it wont be in stock or something.
     
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    Yes but can you pre-order a reasonably priced motherboard for it?
     
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    IDK, we shall see when it comes out. I don't expect it to be more expensive than when X38 mobos fist came out, etc. At least officially. The prices might be jacked up by retailers due to demand.
     
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    At the price that some of these guys paid for all those high end Nvidia chipset based Asus boards it probably won't seem that expensive. Intel will also release a second chipset aimed at middle priced boards. We now have X48 with a budget chipset P45 so perhaps there will be an X58 and P55.

    Since Nehalem is due to be released sometime in September by Christmas there should be reasonable support for it so I'm think January or February as a good time to start looking at a build. I want to read a little feedback on them before I invest, because when Nehalem hits the market all of the current processors are going to drop.
     
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    Little cooler bench I developed, if you're looking for a quiet cooler for your power hungry CPU (tests done with D950). Amazing how much different these brutes are to the stock cooler...

    Quiet:
    Ultra-120 Extreme 33ºC
    HR-01 Plus 34ºC
    HDT-S1283 34ºC
    Ultra-120 36ºC
    Ninja 38ºC
    CNPS9700 42ºC
    HDT-SD964 42ºC
    Freezer 7 Pro 51ºC
    Stock cooler: above 75ºC

    Near silent:
    Ultra-120 Extreme: 35ºC
    HR-01 Plus 36ºC
    HDT-S1283 36ºC
    Ultra-120 38ºC
    Ninja 39ºC
    CNPS9700 45ºC
    HDT-SD964 47ºC
    Freezer 7 Pro 60ºC

    Dead silent:
    HR-01 Plus: 37ºC
    Ultra-120 Extreme: 38ºC
    HDT-S1283: 39ºC
    Ninja: 41ºC
    Ultra-120: 42ºC
    HDT-SD964: 52ºC
    CNPS9700: N/A
    Freezer 7 Pro: above 75ºC
     
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    Exactly what i had. Defo graphics i think. I'll post back if i have any other issues when im encoding.

    Oh and i have a GO if anyone needs to know.
     
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    Something else I worked out...
    If you game on average 6 hours a week, but leave your PC on 24/7 when at idle, an HD4850 wastes sufficient power at idle to cost an extra £60 in just one year compared to the HD3870, despite having an almost identical load power rating. Ouch.
     
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    sammorris,
    It can also cause the screen to freeze with the computer locked up solid!

    Russ
     
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    Yep, been there done that too, although I tend to see that more with drivers than hardware.
     
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    abuzar1 Senior member

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    I'm so bored.

    P.S. For some reason I'm not getting notifications.
     
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    abuzar1, edit your sig as it is out of spec!!
     
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    How is it so? Tell me whats wrong and I'll fix it.
     
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  18. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    look at the forum rules & you'll see what you did wrong when having a picture with text.
     
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    Fixed.
     
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    me too. i have not had any notifications all day.
     
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