my new upgrades pics included

[rick fowler]

hi all well finally at 1.10pm my gtx 285 and my asus 22" true hd monitor arrived.
all nice and packaged well thanks ocuk another great delivery and all up and running.been running for over an hour now so touch wood everything will be ok.
so i thought i would do another step by step of my install heres my previous thread on my build i did last year just so you know what i go in the box.

click on the small pics to enlarge

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17927553&highlight=username_rick+fowler

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nice fancy box



closer look inside hmm nice



compare my 4850 to this beast



ooo this looks nice



inside my antec case i know cables everywhere



talk about tight fit just enough room give or take



just a few mils above that copper square(is it the north bridge) phewwww





hers's my setup with my new 22" asus true hd monitor,i love it and im getting another in a month so i can have dual monitors



so there we go my upgrade hope you enjoyed looking and please leave feedback.
will post another pic when i get the other monitor.

dont think im going to overclock it as i think its fast enough ans also i dont know how to.

 

[toblarone45]

Nice set up and sweeeeet monitor if only i had the space for two or even one 22"

 

[evil-onion]

nice lookig upgrades, my card is huge as well, almost touches the hdd bays the other side of my case... you got the antec 300 as well?

 

[rick fowler]

yes i have mate just about fitted in as well,i moved the hdd down two

 

[evil-onion]

does your gpu have 2 power inputs?
do both of these have to be used? or do you just use one plug?

 

[daniel_bourton]

both have to used

 

[siumatfung]

wow very nice robbie i have that feeling of satisfaction i have helped another fellow bro!!!

 

[rick fowler]

wow very nice robbie i have that feeling of satisfaction i have helped another fellow bro!!!

hahaha love the robbie and i have heard that so many times

would'nt mind his bank account tho

 

[rick fowler]

whys is it i went to the nvida site to get the lastest drivers and dowloaded them it wouldnt work gave up half way said driver cannot be modified??

but there's allways a but!!

i went to download some new drivers for windows 7 as i had nine new ones,i saw the driver 185.5 i think for the 285 downloaded is rebooted and guess what it works what is wrong then,i went through all the right selections in the boxes o well least its updated now.

 

[rick fowler]

me thinking i might upgrade mobo and cpu what on offer which would be a good improvement than what i got

 

[tcody]

Nice Very... Sceptical that my 285 will fit now...

And you beat me on delivery, mine came at half 2!
If you've got the time, my thread's getting lost (as am I)

 

[setter]

Thats still a pretty decent spec your running tbh, should have quite a bit of life in it yet.

 

[rick fowler]

i know just thought i ask see whats on offer how much more life you reckon my pc got?

 

[RJC]

Looking good

I agree with setter, your rig is still pretty good, Intel is due to launch the I5 in a few months, might be worth holding off for a while and see how that fairs

 

[setter]

Id say it would be good for another couple of years at least, my second rig is an athlon 64 4000 single core with 2gb of ram and if i was to add a decent graphics card to it, it would play most modern games easily enough.

 

[rick fowler]

hmm ok your the boss after you rjc did the shopping list,just had some spare cash that i thought i could put on the pc 300 notes i won.

 

[rick fowler]

more ram, bigger hardrive could do with a better cpu fan what you two reckon lol its this bug of upgrading i cant stop!!! just want me pc in top notch she's me baby lmao