Check my spec please!

Stelly · 19 Jul 2006 at 14:00

knowing that go for home its cheaper

I got my XP pro version for free

Stelly

Beenom · 19 Jul 2006 at 14:04

Ok thanks for your suggestion mate, will go for Home Edition then, already use it on my other pc so should be fine

. Cool thats sorted then!

Explicit · 19 Jul 2006 at 14:08

Great spec, very very similar to what I've got planned!

Go for it!

shodan · 19 Jul 2006 at 14:19

Your spec is very similar to the one I'll be building very soon. My first one too!

I was only planning on sticking with stock cooling solutions though. Does anyone know if the retail conroes come with prefixed conductive pads, or a tube of conductive paste? If the latter I might be a sheep and get some Arctic Silver like Beenom.

Stelly, you really scared me with your Home edition trivia, I'd ordered a copy of home less than half an hour ago! Thanks Hp7909 for setting me straight before I dashed off to all sorts of cancelling madness!

Stelly · 19 Jul 2006 at 14:24

shodan said:
Your spec is very similar to the one I'll be building very soon. My first one too!

I was only planning on sticking with stock cooling solutions though. Does anyone know if the retail conroes come with prefixed conductive pads, or a tube of conductive paste? If the latter I might be a sheep and get some Arctic Silver like Beenom.

Stelly, you really scared me with your Home edition trivia, I'd ordered a copy of home less than half an hour ago! Thanks Hp7909 for setting me straight before I dashed off to all sorts of cancelling madness!

Sorry about that

my bad

Just the stock cooling solution with Conroe has prefixed conductive pads... as I got my Conroe Extreme Edition yesterday... i can take pictures if you want mate??

Stelly

shodan · 19 Jul 2006 at 14:26

Stelly said:
Sorry about that my bad

Just the stock cooling solution with Conroe has prefixed conductive pads... as I got my Conroe Extreme Edition yesterday... i can take pictures if you want mate??

Stelly

Now that's an offer I can't refuse!

Will you be removing them and placing your own interface?

Beenom · 19 Jul 2006 at 14:27

Stelly said:
Sorry about that my bad

Just the stock cooling solution with Conroe has prefixed conductive pads... as I got my Conroe Extreme Edition yesterday... i can take pictures if you want mate??

Stelly

Noobish question:
Are the conductive pads pre fixed on the heatsink or the processor? Yes please takes pics mate

Explicit · 19 Jul 2006 at 14:28

Beenom said:
Noobish question:
Are the conductive pads pre fixed on the heatsink or the processor? Yes please takes pics mate

Heatsink

Stelly · 19 Jul 2006 at 14:29

The are prefixed onto the heatsink... like striped lines if I remember right... shodan I'm currently using watercooling so I'm not actually using the stock cooler... its just lying there

EDIT: I will take the pics when I get home from work and post them here

Stelly

Beenom · 19 Jul 2006 at 14:29

Explicit said:
Heatsink

Thanks Explicit, no scraping off the pad then, phew! Will put the Arctic Silver straight on

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Stelly · 19 Jul 2006 at 14:30

Beenom said:
Thanks Explicit, no scraping off the pad then, phew! Will put the Arctic Silver straight on .

best way I find

Stelly

hp7909 · 19 Jul 2006 at 14:36

Stelly said:
Sorry about that my bad {snip}

For that, all I ask for is more pics of your Conroe build/upgrade. Been following your thread (here) closely

Beenom, recommend you clean off any gunk on heatsink first (personally use IPA which comes highly recommended). See AS5 guide here

Beenom · 19 Jul 2006 at 14:42

hp7909 said:
For that, all I ask for is more pics of your Conroe build/upgrade. Been following your thread (here) closely

Beenom, recommend you clean off any gunk on heatsink first (personally use IPA which comes highly recommended). See AS5 guide here

Will do mate, hopefully there will be no gunk on the BT before hand. And yeah i've heard about IPA being good for cleaning, I've got some already

Stelly · 19 Jul 2006 at 14:43

hp7909 said:
For that, all I ask for is more pics of your Conroe build/upgrade. Been following your thread (here) closely

Beenom, recommend you clean off any gunk on heatsink first (personally use IPA which comes highly recommended). See AS5 guide here

Will do... I might post the heatsink in that thread as well

Stelly

shodan · 19 Jul 2006 at 15:30

Stelly said:
Ah shucks

Also those Akasa Ambers are deadly quiet... have 5 or 6 (lost count) installed on my computer and I only get a slight humming... I would consider partitioning your spinpoint, for the OS and the gaming unless you have a HDD already at home, and if your willing to splash out a little mybe go for a Raptor 36Gb just for the OS, but thats just my spending streak in me coming out, but that spec is turely really good

Stelly

What is the benefit of putting your OS on one drive/partition and everything else on another?

Stelly · 19 Jul 2006 at 16:02

better performance due to lower seak times.... also data recovery, you put your OS only on one partition and all your data (including documents) on the other partition, and if you have to format and reinstall your OS you will not lose all your data

Stelly

shodan · 19 Jul 2006 at 16:42

Stelly said:
better performance due to lower seak times.... also data recovery, you put your OS only on one partition and all your data (including documents) on the other partition, and if you have to format and reinstall your OS you will not lose all your data

Stelly

Sounds good.

That Raptor sure is expensive though!

Beenom · 19 Jul 2006 at 17:14

shodan said:
Sounds good.

That Raptor sure is expensive though!

You don't have to get the Raptor to do that mate. Just get any Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 hard drive which has perpendicular storage so its a bit faster than normal drives and make a partition on that.

shodan · 19 Jul 2006 at 17:38

Beenom said:
You don't have to get the Raptor to do that mate. Just get any Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 hard drive which has perpendicular storage so its a bit faster than normal drives and make a partition on that.

So, you have to split the disk into partitions before you install the OS?

To be honest, I've never even SEEN a pc which didn't already have the OS installed. Do you need a partition making program on a bootable disk or what?

hp7909 · 19 Jul 2006 at 18:04

shodan said:
So, you have to split the disk into partitions before you install the OS?

To be honest, I've never even SEEN a pc which didn't already have the OS installed. Do you need a partition making program on a bootable disk or what?

Use (& highly recommend) Acronis Disk Director Suite. Allows you to create a bootable CD which you can use to create/delete/resize/move/etc partitions (even with data) without going into Windows, or have any OS installed, etc. Windows installation also can do this, but not as well as the said software, e.g. can't resize, just create meaning you loose any data