Basically I was getting a bit bored recently of my Q6700, so I sold it and replaced it with an E8600 for some high clocking fun before switching to i7.
My Maximus can't quite do what I want it to do with this chip so I figured I'd do some small upgrades to help me.
Now I was just gonna put all this in my current case (Antec 900) but am now thinking I'm gonna put in the ATCS 840 I've had sitting in a box in the other room for a couple of months. Reason for this (and the thread title for that matter) is that I'll probably be keeping this rig until the 32nm's come out next year, so while I can't go 8 months without using the new case, it's still only temporary.
Aaaaaanyway I've got a few bits together now but will have to wait a month or so to actually finish as I wanna wait for the new PA120.3s to come out with the 15mm spacing so I don't have to butcher the roof mounts that come with the ATCS.
Without further ado, here are some of the pieces to my jigsaw.
Excuse the shonky pictures... The light in my room is abysmal (stupid energy efficient light bulbs).
Mmmmm yummy Asus P5E64WS will give me lots of FSB to play with!
These are for the Mosfets (obviously)
A couple of these will go on the lil PLX chip just above the south bridge. And now lots of fan controller bezel pics..
Tom is right about being tough to get a decent pic of this sort of paint so here are a load.
Last but not least the DDR3 memory
Will really have to crack out the case at some point....
My Maximus can't quite do what I want it to do with this chip so I figured I'd do some small upgrades to help me.
Now I was just gonna put all this in my current case (Antec 900) but am now thinking I'm gonna put in the ATCS 840 I've had sitting in a box in the other room for a couple of months. Reason for this (and the thread title for that matter) is that I'll probably be keeping this rig until the 32nm's come out next year, so while I can't go 8 months without using the new case, it's still only temporary.
Aaaaaanyway I've got a few bits together now but will have to wait a month or so to actually finish as I wanna wait for the new PA120.3s to come out with the 15mm spacing so I don't have to butcher the roof mounts that come with the ATCS.
Without further ado, here are some of the pieces to my jigsaw.
Excuse the shonky pictures... The light in my room is abysmal (stupid energy efficient light bulbs).
Mmmmm yummy Asus P5E64WS will give me lots of FSB to play with!
These are for the Mosfets (obviously)
A couple of these will go on the lil PLX chip just above the south bridge. And now lots of fan controller bezel pics..
Tom is right about being tough to get a decent pic of this sort of paint so here are a load.
Last but not least the DDR3 memory
Will really have to crack out the case at some point....
I hated taking pics of that case, needed to be video'd
