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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. sammorris

    sammorris Senior member

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    How so. Can you give us a picture or describe it?
     
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    Only if it affects the contact between the heat spreader and heat sink and if the fan can't blow over the radiator effectively. People bend and mod fans all the time when possible to make them fit.
     
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    It's like this. When you put it on a flat surface one heatpipe is bent.

    It's alright I guess.
     
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    shaffaaf,
    The DS3L, by virtue of it's sales and performance for the dollar and the DS3R for having enough bells and whistles to be taken seriously by enthusiasts. The GA-965P-DS3 put GigaByte on the map as a serious contender, and the DS3L and the DS3R kept them there!

    Best Regards,
    Russ
     
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    That's probably one of the most accurate sentences I've read for quite some time. Couldn't have put it better myself.

    Abuzar: It doesn't sound too serious. Fire it up and have a look at the temps!
     
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    Make a judgment call and return it if you feel uncomfortable with it. The main thing is doesn't it get in the way and it does what it's supposed to do, but that being said you also♠ not be nagged by what ifs'.
     
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    id have to agree with that.

    wonder how their P45s will be, as from my knowlege, DFI and asus were the main sellers for the X38/48
     
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    shaffaaf,
    Both the X38 and X48-DS4s were good performers! So far no bad reports on the GB P-45s at all. I haven't found any Tom's or Anandtech reviews or tests yet, but they'll be along! LOL!! I'm sure we'll get a proper P-45 MB Shoot out before long, with all the MB manufacturer's represented!

    Best Regards,
    Russ
     
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    As an X38-DS4 owner, I'm delighted with it. Cool running chipset, monstrously powerful PCI express bus, rock solid stable, ample USB, Firewire ports etc. Can get a bit cramped when using crossfire, but what board doesn't?
    My only criticism is the sideways IDE port. That's a pain when you use a midi tower case with a non-removable bay rack.

    http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...tm_source=newsletter30072008&utm_medium=email

    There's a Rampage Extreme now? What have they added?
     
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    yeah, i know they were good :D

    and yeah, not seeing much for the P45s, where as everyone has done all the ASUS's already, so its unfair to judge yet. we need a shootout :)


    as for the rampage extreme, its DDR3 and OCs as good at the P45s.

    i havent read alot, but i willl do and report tomorow :)

    plus is looks sxy haha
     
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    Looks expensive.. You could buy two X38-DS4s for that...
     
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    16 phase design.

    watercooling for NB

    tubing, cliping etc etc (for water cooling)

    lcd post

    extensive bundle

    you can sign the mobo (THATS THE KILLER FEATURE HAHAHA)

    x-fi sound card (i pronounce this as X F I, not X fi) with support up to EAX 4.0 (no 5.0 but its FAR better than onboard)
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    multiple heatsinks for mofsets and NB supplied for hight differences and water cooling


    conc:

    im pissed off that they didnt overclock..... :(
     
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    The P5Q Deluxe has a 16 phase design and I built my own water cooling. :p
     
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    does it have hardware OCing on the fly AND A PLACE TO WRITE YOUR SIGNATURE....THOUGHT NOT!!!

    HAHAH

    i joke.


    IMO its not worth it, just like the blackops, but for the exreeeeeme e-peen 3dmarker it seems perfect :)

    http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/604467/asus-overclocks-fsb-to-2840mhz-with-rampage-extreme.html#

    they took it to 710 on the FBs, which is under the biostars 724 IICR BUT it is X48 so that makes it very impressive, the biostar was P45.

    either way, its not worth it for everday clocks, because i am sure the P5E3 will be mroe than enough for non benching OCing.
     
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    By the time I remove all the features most high end board that I don't use I am about right where I am now. I'm not going to make any more purchases until I see what Nehalem has to offer. I do a lot of video compression and for now what I have has been good but ripping and compressing a 30 Gigabyte Blu-Ray movie with H.264 encoding has changed all that. I remember back when I was converting movies to SVCD and Mpeg 4 and how it took as much as 7 hours and then faster computers came along and DVD compression which reduced the time to less than an hour for encoding and less than 12 minutes for transcoding. Now here I am again looking at more than 7 hours with all this power. It never ends!
     
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    looking them over the P45 DQ6 looks like the best one. just in my eyes that is.
    the GIGABYTE GA-EP45-DS4P doesnt look to promiseing.
    less sata hook ups. but it does have plenty usb plugins and 2 lan ports. can only run crossfire at 8x8
     
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    Sophocles,
    Bloop Ray takes that long? glad I passed on it! LOL!!

    Russ


     
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