Yes, the fact that I had used most of my other space proves that I got the other hard drive so my "e-penis" is bigger. Even though who the fuck gives a fuck about how much hard drive space someone else has? sleeping:

Porn


I'm still trying to find out whether or not my mobo supports Conroe.

what motherboard you got? what is the chipset? what socket?

Why'd you get an asus xtx? Those things generally cost quite a bit more for no real reason aside from a couple of shitty games no-one will ever play.

Good example, over here in the uk the x1900xt is selling for around £211 from sapphire, but the asus one is selling for £281.94. Retarded how they jack their price upto the hilt for something thats no different to any other version. annoy:

For conroe support you need an intel 775 mobo with the Intel 975X chipset. I THINK some 965 chipsets can also support it with a bios update.

Not for a good while, the x1950 is basically just a refresh, core speeds 650mhz like the x1900xtx but the ram is new gddr4 which can run a lot faster. I can see that card having supply problems, ddr4 is pretty new and hasn't been in production for all that long. Either way my crossfire setups not going anywhere for quite awhile, probably around r600 time.

ok so ive googled about but i cannot seem to find a straight answer so;


ive just got a free 250gb ide hard drive, now i already have a 200gb sata hd set up and i am wondering can you raid a sata and ide hard drives together?

I dont think you can raid them together, they have to be the same type

edit:ggnyck

So I decided I was going to rewire the comp sleve the wires and tidy up a bit...

BEFORE PICS:

[img]http://img437.imageshack.us/img437/9692/img0923lt2.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/1624/img0925sk0.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/1493/img0933dh4.jpg[/img]


AFTER PICS:

Here's me nearly finished sleeving the wires. Only 4 more hours to go!
[img]http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/6586/img1056pz3.jpg[/img]

Me expressing my feelings for the project. I must say that this was the most frustrating experience i've ever had with my computer. Now that i've done it once I think I would do it again, and it would look even better, but man, sleeving this thing pissed me the fuck off. I was ready to punch someone in the fucking face afterwords. Yes, I had all the tools, but I guess it was just inexperience at the task since i've never done it before. next time i'll know better. Getting the stuff back through the hole was a fucking pain in the ass.
[img]http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/3170/img1062am5.jpg[/img]

Took everything out because i'm gonna drill some holes to route some of the wires behind the case:
[img]http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/9824/img1066hd0.jpg[/img]

Holes drilled, and wires routed. Now I know why I need a motherboard tray:
[img]http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/4315/img1068sz8.jpg[/img]

Put everything back and hook it up. Looks pretty good to me eh?
[img]http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/2612/img1076yn0.jpg[/img]

Decided to get rid of the shitty round cables and try some cable folding. Got some double sided tape and I think it looks pretty slick, kinda looks shitty in the pic though:
[img]http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/7721/img1104xk9.jpg[/img]

PSU in, looks alright, although I would like it a bit cleaner. I think that maybe if I were to do it again, I would route ALL the wires behind the board, but I don't think this case has enough room behind. It's pretty tight back there. Molexes barley fit:
[img]http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/6374/img1114dw6.jpg[/img]


Wires behind the mobo. Fan controller up top so thats where all those wires are going into that bay. You can see the molexes. If I were to route everything back there I would have to take off all the sleeving, and after my ordeal, I wasn't about to do that. Maybe on my next rig.
[img]http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/8462/img1117ry8.jpg[/img]

Looks decent, but does it post?
[img]http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/7527/img1127lw6.jpg[/img]


Well after freaking myself out because I had the power switch one pin off, it ended up working pretty well. I'm pleased with what came about, but would like to clean up the PSU wires a bit still. Maybe when I get some more time i'll open it up and take a look, but for now it's good enough. Suggestions welcome.
[img]http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/9663/img1135ps9.jpg[/img]

All in all this project probably took 15+ hours. I had to do it over a few days after work. It took a lot longer than I thought it would, and really, all I had gone into do was sleeve it. then I decided to drill holes etc, which took a bit more time. I'd say sleeving alone took 8-10 hours for various reasons. After the sleeving was done, I had fun. I liked doing this very minor mod, I don't even know if i'd call it a mod, but it was good, and I think on my next rig i'll ahve some good ideas about how I want to wire it up, and i'll do it right from the get go.

hm, thats a pretty good idea have some wires behind.

I did a little case project of my own earlier in July, cut out a new fan hole from my case for the spare 120mm fan I had lying around. Looks pretty good but I still need to figure a better looking holding system. Right now it's just scotch tape.

Also I need to fix this shit...
[img]http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b23/Stammering/crap.jpg[/img]

Everything in every game I play looks like its at ultra low-res, with shite textures despite having the options saying otherwise. Not to mention they seem to run like shit. Empire Earth 2 is the worst of them all, it looks pretty good but when there are more then 100 units in the entire map not even on screen my game will freeze+chug+normal+freeze+chug+normal no matter how low I set the options.

Specs-
Mobo: BIOSTAR TForce4U-775
GPU: ATI X800XL 256MB GDDR3
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.0Ghz HT Enabled
Sound: On-Board RealTEK
PSU: AeroPower II+SE 550W
RAM: Value Selecet 1GB Module 240-PIN DDR2 DIMM
HHD: Maxtor 200 some odd GBs

Finished building my rig like 2-3 weeks ago. So happy with it, Conroe is amazing, especially oc'd to 3.15ghz

Intel Core 2 CPU 6600 @ 3.15GHz
ASUS P5W DH Deluxe
mushkin REDLINE 2GB DDR2 1000
320GB Seagate + 160GB Seagate + 2xWD 10K Raptors
ASUS Radeon X1900XTX
Dell 2005FPW
Sennheiser PC165USB Headset

My next system which i hope to be core 2 im not gonna bother with clocking it. Just gets to be a pain in the ass having to have all these extreme cooling methods in place for marginal performance gains while having to fight with the system to get stability.

Hopefully this time next year ill have this current system setup alongside my new system for lan games of c&c3. happy:

but how can you not oc a conroe? its so easy...