Phew! Just finished putting this all together inside a Lian Li A05b. Have to say i'm impressed with Lian Li's craftsmanship. This case feels and looks alot better than my 900.
I <3 Macro :yumyum:
Right lads. This is for my living room and will most likely sit next to the tv stand. My mum want's to start buying blu-ray movies as i was given an LG GGC-H20L as a birthday present for my 18th. This will be the PC's main purpose with a small bit of gaming and web browsing. Here's what i've got...
Just waiting on Wilsons Network card and 2 sticks of Corsair DDR from ebay and it'll be ready to go.
P4 Northy 2.4GHz @ 2.9GHz - 1.64v
768MB DDR266 (512MB Corsair :p)
Geforce FX5500
Gigabyte GA-8IE800 with NO ETHERNET!! :mad:
He currently has a Pentium 4 old style with a geforce FX 5500. Budget is around £200. I have no idea what his PSU is atm until i look at it.
E7200 - £83
Asus P5K iG31 - £37
Powercolor 4670 512mb - £61.89
2GB corsair pc2-6400 - £24
Total so far is £205. Adding a Hiper 420W psu on top of...
I've used up to 1.6v on my E8500 and i have so far 'experienced' no signs of degredation. Still using my previous overclock of 3.6GHz 1.16v vcore but my temps are really high for the cooling i'm using.
Currently getting 40C idle and 55C load with an Ultra 120 extreme, push/pull Yate loon 70CFM...
Testing my E8500 @ 533FSB so i can run my memory at 1066Mhz with a 1:1 ratio. I'm using 1.4v on the NB and i get prime errors pretty much straight away. Any recomendations as to what i should be using? :worship:
Just touched the NB heatsink and it feels warm. I have a 90mm fan blowing directly...
I'm currently troubleshooting whether my E8500 has received degradation or whether it's ATI's rubbish drivers as i'm crashing in various games and getting artifacts.
Reason being, i recently tried some heavy-ish overclocking on my E8500 and used 1.48vcore and 1.3v VTT/FSB. I know that 1.4v VTT...