The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

Use a Dremmel Tool and a cutting disk, otherwise you will bend the hell out of the metal, as Diagonal Pliers are lousy Tin Snips. You could drill a hole in it and use a small pair of curved tin Snips. Cut down in Pie Strips and very carefully, with a screwdriver or something other than you fingers, push them one at a time into the hole. With Dikes, there would be a lot of razor sharp edges sticking out. The debris will go away from the cutting surface, away from the cutting edge, and if you have a vacuum cleaner with a hose you can put it real close and you shouldn't have any debris. You could also use a piece of carpet or something to cover and shield the motherboard. Work with it laying on it's side and you could even cut it with the disk and remove the offending piece of metal. Cut toward the top of the case, using the vacuum and all you should have to do is vacuum the inside of the top of the case. Can't think of anything else!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

No, UK plugs look like this:

 

omegaman7 Use a large C Clamp 8" or bigger as required and a piece of wood. Chris

 

I like this.. just smash the SH!T out of it.

 

Sammy that is similar to ONE of the 220v-240v plugs we have here... I've NEVER seen the one that came with my psu. lol.

 

sam isnt it against the law to sell them with plugs? doesnt that go for most/all electrical appliences aswell?

 

Different laws different countries I'm sure Shaff.

 

My brother says his dremel is weak LOL! He is the one who suggested the Dikes. But I sure do like the C-Clamp idea LOL! I had a similar thought. All I'll have to do is vacuum up the paint shards.
Thanks for your input guys.

 

that i know lol jsut talking about in our country

 

Ho ho! Not too bad. I used the C-Clamp idea. It left a slight bubble in the bottom of the case, but that could be from not using a solid enough material. I used a very thick paper back book. Figured it wasn't much different than wood LOL! Aww well. Not a big deal. Since it will never be seen there
I also installed a Geforce 210 Video card. Mainly for its HDMI capabilities. Though some light gaming will probably be done LOL! I didn't wanna put a Ferrari card in there if you get me. I don't want this little case heating up. And I wanted this card to take some load off the CPU when playing BDs, and videos in general. The 5200 is stout, but when playing BDs, it would average 60-85% usage. At least this way, the PSU will take on the brunt of the heat. And if Seasonic is worth a half a nickel, it should be able to handle this.
I also replaced the IDE ribbon cable with IDE round cable. Much better. I even have room for a BD drive down the road Eventually, I'll probably remove IDE entirely.

 

I can think of dozens of cards much faster than the GT210 for the same price. Even integrated smothers it. If you got the card free, good on you. But if you just went and purchased it, a card roughly 5 times faster can be had for the same money. It won't even do light gaming at all(well not entirely no games but nothing remotely modern will run properly even with low settings.)

Not to be a buzz kill or anything Just saying for the purposes you outlined, almost any other card blows the GT210 away for the same price. Even in small form factor.

 

I bought it because it was Small form factor(Low Profile), Gigabyte, Nvidia, HDMI, it was only 50$. So if you were thinking of ATI, I'm afraid that wouldn't work. Or at least it would have been risky. And it's been said, that it doesn't expel that much heat
Because the board does not like several Ati series cards, it's risky in my opinion to run anything ati. I know this is ignorant, but this is not my build, so I won't be able to watch it like a hawk. LOL!

By the way, I'm installing the Tuniq 120 right now. IT'S A FRIGGIN BEAST LOL! In fact, it's nearly impossible. I'm having one heck of a time...

Also by the way, the integrated graphics are 6100 or 6200, so the 210 should stomp on that...

 

1000 Pixels is too wide? Granted I usually go 800 x 600 pixels, but I didn't think it was that big. But my monitor is freakishly large compared to the average Don't laugh sam!
As soon as my computer is back up and running, I'll edit the pic. But by that time, this page will probably be done and gone...

 

Actually no, the G210 gets outperformed by a lot of integrated cards. Maybe not the 6100, but it's the worst value graphics card in terms of performance per dollar there's been for years.

 

What would you recommend in the Nvidia scheme of things? Has to be Low profile, no more than 50$, and not exceed a 300W PSU.

 

Pff, I wouldn't. There aren't any good nvidia cards in that price range at all. Maybe an 8500 or something.

 

So...if you were in my situation, needed HDMI, and a converter box costs MORE than the Geforce 210, what would you do? And installing ATI cards is high risk for bugs. What ati card were you thinking of, which is low profile, and would smoke the 210? I really think that running ati is high risk though...

On another note, I have dual quad machines Up and running. Well...I'm installing Windows 7 on the other machine still

 

Wow estuansis. I like that Tuniq 120, but it sure was tricky at first. I watched a guy on youtube try to install one, that boosted my confidence LOL! Ehh, he did o-k for the cramped space he had. He really should have removed his board to do it though.
With the HAF 932 though, plenty of work space. It made me appreciate it once again. Had to remove the fan from the heat sink to make it easier though. And I think I got the thermal compound better this time. Felt a lot slimier than the arctic 5.

 

Russ, when I enable all of those settings, my CPU fan runs at 2200Rpms non stop! Perhaps that works for you, but my setup doesn't like that LOL! VERY obnoxious.

Here it is with auto GREEN settings. It seems to only engage the fan, when stressfull CPU usage ensues LOL!

This is the Tuniq 120 tower now, by the way

 

oman7,
I thought this was another computer, not the one you are assembling. Unless you have a PWM fan (doubtful), you need to set the CPU Smart Fan Mode to either Auto or Voltage and set it up to your tastes with EasyTune.try Auto first and if it suites you, fine. Only close EasyTune with the "-" key and be sure to hit set to check your settings. What I did was run Orthos on it, and tried different settings as I went along.

BTW! I don't see a CPU fan showing on your Everest at all. That tells me you don't have the CPU fan plugged into the 4 pin plug closest to the CPU, or the sensor Icon is turned off in the preferences. The other 4 pin is for a system fan, and it totally won't work for the CPU!

Russ