A ZZZAC Thread: Project ZZZAC

Jayster · 25 Dec 2011 at 17:55

Cleeecooo said:
as long as you stay off fleabay for expensive purchases!!!

This

ZZZAC said:
ps. why is everyone "looking forward to this" this is a bad spec being modded and built by a kid? , its nothing specail

What makes it being built by a "kid" worse than being built by an adult?

KiiYzOo · 25 Dec 2011 at 18:22

I am only a year older than you zzzac

G-Dubs · 25 Dec 2011 at 19:43

so how old are you guys?

KiiYzOo · 25 Dec 2011 at 19:45

I'm sixteen

Tibbz2 · 25 Dec 2011 at 20:03

I'm 15...

I shouldn't be here so I shall go.

ZZZAC · 25 Dec 2011 at 20:04

Jayster said:
This

What makes it being built by a "kid" worse than being built by an adult?

yeah, im buying the i5 2500 and motherboard of a friend of mine, with warrenty through asrock and intel, as he never registered the parts in his name,
will also take my enermax over when buying it, watch it post and probably inspect the cpu socket

edit: being built by a "kid"
less experience, and general want to cheep out on everything

ZZZAC · 25 Dec 2011 at 20:06

Tibbz2 said:
I'm 15...

I shouldn't be here so I shall go.

im 15 too

stay

Tibbz2 · 25 Dec 2011 at 20:26

I shall be certainly watching this, seeing I am also building/going to be building around now

ZZZAC · 25 Dec 2011 at 20:35

Tibbz2 said:
I shall be certainly watching this, seeing I am also building/going to be building around now

been watching your thread as well
hmm im pretty confident that my 850watt yet 6 year old psu can power xfire 5830's
watched a review of the enermax revo (allot newer i know)
yet when on a psu tester, it can stably produce 1705 watts, within atx specification, and its rated at 1350w
they put over 2000watts through it, no flames sparks.ect what happened was... it turned itself of, and worked perfectly afterwards.
genuinely think enermax is right up there with seasonic
(xfx's oem is seasonic but they saw flames after exceeding rated power on a psu tester)

Tibbz2 · 25 Dec 2011 at 20:38

Hehe

I got a BeQuiet 600W which I think will be an awesome PSU. They are very good from what i've heard, and it is 80+ Gold so plenty of power

Only thing that bugs me is only 2 years warranty

But after the 2 years i'll buy another 6950 2GB and PSU for Xfire most likely

ZZZAC · 25 Dec 2011 at 21:04

Tibbz2 said:
Hehe

I got a BeQuiet 600W which I think will be an awesome PSU. They are very good from what i've heard, and it is 80+ Gold so plenty of power

Only thing that bugs me is only 2 years warranty But after the 2 years i'll buy another 6950 2GB and PSU for Xfire most likely

my power supply cost me £5 a month ago, was brought as faulty and overheating, i thought it would be a capacitor problem, turned up with nothing wrong with it

ZZZAC · 25 Dec 2011 at 21:10

sudden urge to change the threads name

Gundog48 · 25 Dec 2011 at 22:03

I used to be 15 too, then I turned 16. Good luck mate!

Tibbz2 · 25 Dec 2011 at 22:10

Gundog48 said:
I used to be 15 too, then I turned 16. Good luck mate!

Interesting story right there.

Gundog48 · 25 Dec 2011 at 22:44

Better than the version where I took an arrow to the knee! Overheating PSU? That's a new one! Got lucky there mate! You can't go far wrong with anything from Enermax, every PSU of them I've tested has been nothing but top notch!

ZZZAC · 25 Dec 2011 at 23:20

Gundog48 said:
Better than the version where I took an arrow to the knee! Overheating PSU? That's a new one! Got lucky there mate! You can't go far wrong with anything from Enermax, every PSU of them I've tested has been nothing but top notch!

yup,
considering im runnign a six year old psu in my rig and can run it and have ran it to over 750 watts, and capacitor aging shows that after like every years use it should supply 10% less power
so that's what about 450 watts left (according to a psu calculator)
what the hell are they making these power supplys out off?

saw it on ebay, was like hmm the worst problem a psu like that could have is a bad cap..... apparently it was struggling on a 560ti, and that uses the same amount of power as a single 5830
anyway, all i can say its im happy, and have decided to stick to enermax for my power supplys

powelly · 27 Dec 2011 at 03:04

so you've gone from cheaping out on a unnamed crap psu to cheaping out on a old nearly broken named psu

either way it should be good, looking foward and good luck

Jayster · 27 Dec 2011 at 13:04

ZZZAC said:
yeah, im buying the i5 2500 and motherboard of a friend of mine, with warrenty through asrock and intel, as he never registered the parts in his name,
will also take my enermax over when buying it, watch it post and probably inspect the cpu socket

edit: being built by a "kid"
less experience, and general want to cheep out on everything

Wanting to cheap out on stuff is not specifically a child trait thats for sure.

ZZZAC · 28 Dec 2011 at 16:18

powelly2010 said:
so you've gone from cheaping out on a unnamed crap psu to cheaping out on a old nearly broken named psu either way it should be good, looking foward and good luck

Jayster said:
Wanting to cheap out on stuff is not specifically a child trait thats for sure.

its not broken, runs like a dream

and yeah i supose, its just not having the money that makes you wanta cheep out
adn this project is slowly going no where, will be picking up the i5 and mobo soon, but am very busy at teh moment

ZZZAC · 2 Jan 2012 at 09:58

anyway, bout time for and update, today i willl strip my whole rig down
and by 1pm i will be in exeter collecting my i5 2500 stock cooler asrock exetreem 3 rev3 motherboard, and 4gb free ddr3 ram so

yet i go back to school tomorrow so im not sure when ill get time to put the pictures up
and to let everyone know this is a very slow moving project, with my hardware upgrades first, and will probably be going crossfire and maybe get a ssd boot drive before i move on to case modding.ect
my next sum of money should be coming in about 2 weeks