After 4 years new PC parts have been ordered

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03-11-2009, 05:48 AM
[AK]StitchJones

After 4 years new PC parts have been ordered

The wife gave me the green light to upgrade my aging PC. It's been well over 4years since I did my last major upgrade. With some discounts and coupon codes I have ordered the following parts from Newegg.com

1 x CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX 650W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply

1 x Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80601920

2 x OCZ Gold 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ3G1600LV6GK

1 x ASUS P6T LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard

1 x Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

I am also going to meet up with Rocks either Friday or early next week to buy his Evga GTX 260 video card. (Thanks ROCKS!)

I should have the parts hopefully be mid-day on Friday. If all goes well I will be built configured and online by primetime Friday night. I had bought a 9600GT card a few months back that will get me up and going until I get the updated card from Rocks.
03-11-2009, 05:57 AM
[AK]Bojan

Grats and enjoy!

I replaced my rig this year and am still loving it.
03-11-2009, 06:34 AM
[AK]Abaddon

That rectangular piece of plastic in front of the screen is called a keyboard. Some functions on it are analogous to those on an Xbox controller. :D
03-11-2009, 06:47 AM
Slaughter

http://www.pinnaclegameprofiler.com/

Just get a USB Xbox controller and have fun. ;)
03-11-2009, 07:10 AM
[AK]Bojan

Arnt all Xbox controllers USB?
03-11-2009, 08:20 AM
Slaughter

Wired ones, yes.
03-11-2009, 09:04 AM
[AK]Bojan

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...sefacepalm.jpg
03-12-2009, 10:35 AM
[AK]StitchJones

Stuff has shipped and will be here hopefully be 1pm tomorrow!!!

Hylander, I KNEW you'd bust my chops about the consoles. Your just scared because I'll have a machine worth's it's salt to play some games with you with..... Oh wait your Iracing only needs a pentium 200 to run :nuh:
03-12-2009, 10:39 AM
[AK]Abaddon

Um, Hylander hasn't posted in this thread, Xboy. :D
03-12-2009, 01:22 PM
[AK]StitchJones

Quote:

Originally Posted by [AK]Abaddon

Um, Hylander hasn't posted in this thread, Xboy. :D

YES HE DID. He flew down to San Antonio, stole your computer and made that post! I KNOW IT!!! LOL
03-12-2009, 01:40 PM
[AK]Clay

nice! So is that 6 Gb RAM?
03-12-2009, 05:55 PM
[AK]Hylander

http://www.dabbledoo.com/ee/images/u...fail_thumb.jpg
03-12-2009, 07:02 PM
[AK]Abaddon

LOL ... love that HD DVD logo. How's that working out, anyway?
03-13-2009, 03:39 AM
[AK]StitchJones

I was never a supporter of the HD-DVD format. I stood behind Sony and the Blu-Ray technology from the start. Over the past few years the Xbox360 has released some amazing games, but I still have a strong pull towards the Playstation3.

Clay, it's actually 12gb of ram :-) I bought two sets of (3 x 2gb DDR3 1600) So that's 6 sticks of sweet sexy memory.

Rocks, it was great seeing you last night and thank you so much for the GTX 260 card. That card is so darn big I used it as an ironing board this morning :-)

UPS shows the parts are out for delivery, it won't be long now!
03-13-2009, 06:04 AM
[AK]Hylander

http://www.richard-seaman.com/USA/St.../SunSpider.jpg
03-13-2009, 06:15 AM
[AK]Abaddon

Wow, that's one heck of a PC you're assembling. 12 gigs of ram is crazy.
03-13-2009, 01:16 PM
[AK]StitchJones

I received the parts just before noon. Got everything put together and...... it doesn't work. :-( when I power it on everything spins up just fine but no bios beep and no video at all. I have spent the past few hours trying every different config to try and get it to do something other then just spin around. No dice. I did some reading on the Asus website and it looks like it's the motherboard. I called newegg and I have a RMA issued. Gotta ship the board back and wait for a replacement. Looks like my excitement will be curbed for another week or so.
03-13-2009, 01:50 PM
[AK]Beaker

It knows you are a console fan boy and will not perform for you until you have demonstrated your worthiness!
03-13-2009, 02:10 PM
[AK]Clay

Quote:

Originally Posted by [AK]StitchJones

I was never a supporter of the HD-DVD format. I stood behind Sony and the Blu-Ray technology from the start. Over the past few years the Xbox360 has released some amazing games, but I still have a strong pull towards the Playstation3.

Clay, it's actually 12gb of ram :-) I bought two sets of (3 x 2gb DDR3 1600) So that's 6 sticks of sweet sexy memory.

Rocks, it was great seeing you last night and thank you so much for the GTX 260 card. That card is so darn big I used it as an ironing board this morning :-)

UPS shows the parts are out for delivery, it won't be long now!

Good Lord. I have 8 GB of RAM, and my RAM monitor almost never goes above 30% usage, even when I'm pushing everything as hard as I can (and yes, it's a 64 bit OS ;))
03-14-2009, 09:46 AM
[AK]StitchJones

It's working! I did more digging and putzing and I figured out the culprit. Once of the 6 sticks of memory was bad. And with my first few tests I kept using that bad stick of ram as my process of elimination. I need to contact Newegg and swap my RMA around to swap the memory kit out. So sadly i'm only running with 6gb of ram at the moment :-( LOL.

Looking at process manger with Vista installed blew me away, I wasn't expecting to see 8-cpu's listed with my one i7 proc.

I only have two words for this.... Wow.
03-20-2009, 09:41 AM
[AK?]Azmodious

yea, i just got done building almost the same system for a co-worker. i7, 12gig, 4 raided velociraptors, 3-way sli with 3 285 cards. he is running wow with a full custom UI and in nax 25 full AoE going he gets 65+ fps
03-20-2009, 09:51 AM
[AK]Bribo

Quote:

Originally Posted by [AK]StitchJones

I only have two words for this.... Wow.

What's the other word?
03-20-2009, 09:08 PM
Slaughter

I think he meant World (of) Warcraft... he was omitting the 'o'. ;)