Budget gaming build

:D:D:D*UPDATE*:D:D:D

today i came home to find a ginormas box with my name on it.
it was my case.:D:D:D

i opened it to find a dusty akasa a62 case.
had a couple of bad things.
the motherboard tray needs modding to fit the heatsink mounts.
so tommrow evening that will be cut to the right size.

the top 120mm fan mount was custom made on the top panel of the case, the glue used was strong, but didnt keep the fan mounts in the right place.

so i am going to drill the holes for the fan mount through top panel of the case
glue the mounting screws in place, glue the shroud back in place.
trim the shroud so the fan lies level with the panel.
use a sheet of mush to stop dust getting in.

i also received and some cabling thermal compound.

so, over the next few days the case will be moded, i will boot a operating sytem. i will install a fan controller.

i will keep the system at 2gb ram for the moment, but i have enough money to upgrade, if necessary.

cant wait to get this system running properly.:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
 
yes, it holds 4 sticks of ddr2 pc5300f
may go 4, may go 6, may evan go 8 gb but probably not 10gb.
but for the moment i will stick with 2gb.
as for pictures ill have them up when im done.

anyway **Update**

everything in and wired exept the mobo and the top 120mm fan.
should be modding it tommorow evening, and also installing win7.
i will take pictures of it working, hopefully on saturday
 
well, i have it running, still not 100%.
system gave my cpu's a score of 7.5, witch is not bad, and everthing elese is about 5.5 giving a score of 5.8-ish
runs a charsm, its super quick, i installed adobe cs5 in under 20 mins
nothrbridge and ram seem to be exetreemely hot, after reinstalling thermal past the northbridge cooled a little
no freezez, and obv i chose to install win7.
my uknow graphics card turned out to be a 256mb or a 512 mb ardeon x1300/x1550 from a dell dimension.

my fan speed controller doesnt work. its 4pin and i have 3pin fan's
so i will get 2x fan controllers for 3 pin fans, as you can imagen this thing gets pretty hot

i palyed mafia 2 and a racing gam, they both ran realy well, and at most ive ony use 25% of my cpu power

anyone know any overclocking programs that will overclock the xeon 5435 cpu's?

anyway, once i have bought a few more tings, modded the case in som diffetrent ways and got everything runn 100% it will be time to post pics and share with you my creation
 
i have been playing mafia 2 smoothley, and i was only useing 20% cpu power.
speedfan is donwloaded. to be honest my temps look alright.
temp 1 49c
temp 2 60c northbridge
temp 3 35c cpu 2
temp 4 48c chipset
cpu 37c
ram 1 56c
ram 2 62c

so, as you can see the only overheat temps are my northibridge chipset and ram.
my northbridge has a small heatsink, but different fittings to normal, and my ram has ramsinks.

so im thinking of cuom making a biger, northbridge heatsink. and getting a ram fan cooler.

ive spent all my money, some on stuff for case, and cathodes.
btw this is not my first build, its my first exepensive scratch build, ive rebuild stuff before
 
i have touched the rams and northbridge, thats what gave me an idea about the temps.
i have ballenced a fan on my graphics card pulling air from the northbridge and ram witch saw the ram ducking to about 48c.

my gpu has been overclocked and made 700mhz core clock and 600mhz memory clock (i think)
i used msi after burner, and if i try increese over what i already have overclocked to it just rests them to 700. so i think my overclock is max.

as for the rest of it im still waiting on new fan speed controller and need some longer sata cables, then there will be a final tidy and it will be done and dusted.

A problem i have is you cant use ram on win7 32 bit. and on post it says 211 memory loading error, clot 2?
anyone have any clue how to fix this?
 
UPDATE>
i was installing a new NB cooler, i tooke of the cpu cooler and the cpu for a moment for some reason or another.

there was a bit of thermal compund on the cage for lga 771 (like 775)
It spilt onto the pins, it is a silver compound and has probably killed my motherboard hence it not turning on.
anyone got any ideas how i do this without having to save £450 to buy a skultrail gaming board
 
I am going to sell my 2 quad core 2.33ghz cpu's and hopefully earn enough moeny to get a amd phenom xII hex core cpu GOOD MOTHERBOARD that will alow overclocking and 4gb ddr3, and maybye the collermaster v8gt cooler.
anyone any thoughts abou that?
 
sorry, ive been away from this post and the forums for a while.

So recently i sold my cpu's as a lot and only got £225 for them :0
but i also sold my set of beats solo Hd,
for £80 a bike headset and a
xbox 360 with a laser problem (witch ive fixed and now im selling)

Tonight i orderd the Lian li 2x 5.25 bay hotswap drive EX-H22B.
i also orderd Lian li vented pci slots and a new front case board, as i severd the other one to solder the motherboard, due to different conectors.

So my plans are, Wait till tuesday, buy a phenom x4 blck edetion, shipped from japan that has a garenteed to unlock to a x6 1705t witch runs stable at 3.5ghz witout overclocking.
Then i will wait till my birthday, 10th of april, where will ask for 2 1tb drives, after destrying my 2 300gb hard drives by droping them in use.
then i plan on getting the MSI 870A-G54 AMD 870 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard
with 4gb of giel ddr3 1600mhz ram
and a akasa venom cooler.
and yes i sold my gpu and am plating to either get a turbo ati hd5770
or a XFX ATI Radeon HD 6850 Black Edition.
and yes i will have to save up and work and sell a lot, but i think ill have it done by the end of aprill.

Any thoughts?
Thankyou for youre support
 
cammy5477 said:
if it is this.....the add looks fine...you have buyer protection so in any case will get money back if it fails to show up ;)
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Yep thats exactly the one, being ebay i do get buyer protection from both ebay and paypal

John101 said:
Ym zac... can you cancel that order?

Seriosuly Zac, there isn't a 970T or a x6 1705t! :o Did you not do your research?
never retail released check the bay link, OEM release

You would be much safer buying component that have been officaly released you know :p

never retail released check the bay link, OEM release

Oh wait ive found it... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AMD-Phenom-II...Motherboards_CPUs&hash=item3cb532b3a5#vi-desc : /
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yep you certainly did :P

cammy5477 said:
tell them to lower the value for customs and it will sail through charge free ;)
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ebay, it dont charge in customs, just shipping, i know, cus my fan speed controllers came from hong kong aswell


i plan to order it tommoroww evening after i get home from college
 
* sorry , i do feel smarter calling it by what its called, witch is south dartmoor comunity college, but in reality, its just secondary school, with a sixth form *
 
oh yeah, and this is no **** take, im 14, and can build computers, if you ask me its kinda like a easy jigsaw puzzle :S
i also make money out of working for people on computers, so i cant complain
 
cammy5477 said:
customs officers charge customs though......and thats right were your package will be going through......your chip will be dearer than the fan speed controllers and will be eligible for it unless you ask them to lower the value on the package :)
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thanks for the advice, i will :p
 
joemo13 said:
Any pictures of the rig as it currently is?
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you sure, :rolleyes: you do realise its just a case with 2 fan controllers a psu and optical drive haha

Tonester007 said:
I don't understand why you are doing this; you could sell the old drives instead? :confused:
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urm, yeah the breaking of my 2 hdd's happend a while ago, i was just explain why i was getting new drives :L


no post yet, looking forwar to reciveing more stuff, im ordering the cpu tonihgt hopefully :)
 
joemo13 said:
As it was with the two processors in then?
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nah, there long gone, i sold em to get the cash together to build my next gaming machine

help raise money.

bike headset £15

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....72247&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_500wt_1156

core 2 duo e6300 £25

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....53638&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_500wt_1156

2gb pc 5300Fb server ram (ECC)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....59919&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_500wt_1156


anyway cpu orderd tonight, but i wont get it for the next 9 days as its being shipped.

hopefully my lian li rack and my new front headers will arive tomorow
 
^^^ runnig at about 12 fps with my old 4650, but i got rid of that a while ago :LL
todays been intresting, i recived my new front button pannel, and did a lil bit of soldering to sort out my cheep fan controllers
 
well its zosma, that is actualy the thuban version of the 970, meaning it should unlock to a x6 at dtock speeds of 3.5ghz
 
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