The front Akasa LED fans were ridiculously noisy. I've just unplugged all these Akasa intake fans, so it's just running the two stock Antec exhaust fans top and back. MUCH quieter now! For just normal usage, it's stays under 30 degress C. Sitting at 27 right now.
Budget 2500K First Time Build
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Well, I've seen some people get 5.something on WEI but then it benchmarks normally (400-500MB/s ish). It seems WEI is a bit hit and miss apparently.
I'm looking to not spend more than £20-25 for a cooler, I doubt any decent water cooler would be that cheap. I was thinking about the Ghelid Tranquillo is about £25 new and gets good reviews. I don't even know if the radiator from those cooler would fit without modding.
Well I have two water cooling loops here, I'm sure I could sell you something pretty cheapYou'd just need a pump and a res if you wanted one
I'm sure that even a fairly good air cooler would allow you to give you more than enough room for a fairly high overclock
Oh, I thought you were talking about those little closed loop liquid coolers like the H60 or something like that. Thanks, but I'll just stick with a simple air cooler for now.
If I ever try proper water cooling, I'd do it in another case, not an Antec 300! 
I can barely think of a good reason to even overclock right now, let alone needing water cooling. Right now, I just don't do anything too intensive. Who knows what the future holds though. Batch processing a folder of 100 15MB RAW files may need some grunt, but I'm not there yet.
I can barely think of a good reason to even overclock right now, let alone needing water cooling. Right now, I just don't do anything too intensive. Who knows what the future holds though. Batch processing a folder of 100 15MB RAW files may need some grunt, but I'm not there yet.
Just installed Office 2010 and set up Outlook. I think it added a second or two to bootup. But I timed it at 27 seconds to desktop. I'll get around to tweaking later for faster boot up. Under 20 seconds would be nice, though I've seen some that are barely 12 seconds.
Waking up from sleep is faster than my monitor (U2311H). By the time the screen wakes up, it's already at the desktop.
Waking up from sleep is faster than my monitor (U2311H). By the time the screen wakes up, it's already at the desktop.
*googles coolermaster stackers*
*prefers simple understated cases*
Yeah, doing individual RAW files isn't too bad, but can get heavier with more and more image layers. But it takes too long doing that I just want to start batch processing entire folders. Also, I want to start doing family videos and things nearer summer when I have more time.
*prefers simple understated cases*
Yeah, doing individual RAW files isn't too bad, but can get heavier with more and more image layers. But it takes too long doing that I just want to start batch processing entire folders. Also, I want to start doing family videos and things nearer summer when I have more time.
I think most of all, I'm just really happy with how straight forward the actual build was. I just put everything together, turned on first attempt, booted up and installed windows first attempt. Installed drivers and basic apps. Zero problems so far.
Need to crack open this 500GB external HDD and pop it into my PC. Already putting files/data on now and don't want to start piling it onto the SSD.
Also, I need to get an HDD rack or tray for my case; the SSD is just sitting in there. -_-
Also, I need to get an HDD rack or tray for my case; the SSD is just sitting in there. -_-
I have the ap-d3 mobo that you have, and have been having problems with the USB slots with them not supplying constant power and it being abit hit and miss..
You haven't had any of these problems have you by any chance? Worth a shot
And nice build!
No, nothing that I've noticed so far. And I installed Windows 7 off a CF card in a card reader plugged into the front USB.
I've also installed loads of drivers and transferred several gigs from an external HDD. No problems.
I hope you get it sorted.
Just saw someone got a Mac Pro/G5 case and they're building a Windows machine inside. And the case only cost him £50 and was in good condition. I've found a few spares and repairs Mac Pro/G5s for around that, but many are in terrible condition.
That sounds like something I'd like to do eventually though. I think it's a sexy case.
That sounds like something I'd like to do eventually though. I think it's a sexy case.
It is a really good looking case. I'd happily sacrifice some desk space to put that on the desk instead of under. My desk is big enough.Wow, just looked at the Mac Pro case and its the best looking functional case that I ever saw!I'm usually completely indifferent to bells and whistles on cases, but this one IS cool. I like how it has its own tall "legs" too - this would save it from dust/carpet lint...
Just wondering, did you get in befre MM requirement was raised to 1000 posts?(I've got no hope now, as much as I wanted to- even forums where I was a member for 7 years, I'm still nowhere near 100 posts. I'm just too impatient with posting and just use search instead usually
The ****?
*looks into this*
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