Finally Built

shaz` · 20 May 2009 at 23:48

Hey chaps, you may have remembered my posts with regards to what parts to buy etc. I have got all the bits and now built the system and its all running awesomly. Had a wee problem with a bios error msg saying "Chassis intruder" which turned out to be a missing jumper on the board.... after a bit of panic of an RMA I got it sorted by nicking a jumper off an old cd drive :cool:

Pics of my bits sitting on my desk

My new 26" monitor in its box

Hadn't opened it at this point, though did sneek a peak.

At this point I was waiting on my Noctua NH-U12P cooler and some Noctua case fans. They arrived on Tuesday so I started building!

Managed to put it all together, no in progress pics but got it all running with Win 7 RC1 and here are some temp screenshots etc.

The temps look pretty good I think? This Noctua cooler is the business.

I Idle at around 35-37c, is this normal? Seems pretty good from what I've seen.

Will start overclocking in a few days or so, will let the system run and burn in a bit

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Will take a pic of the system too, managed to hide most of the cables (I have a new found love for modular PSUs) so airflow should be pretty decent. I'm amazed at how much air the Noctuas push whilst being totally silent!

Plec · 21 May 2009 at 00:11

That is a one huge monitor - i would like to see some pics of that in situ. And you have a serious amount of storage, 3TB total, you must have a lot of data

Nice spec - are you going to clock it? (not that you need to but you certainly have the components to have a healthy attempt)

icey_haj · 21 May 2009 at 00:22

Nice goodies there.

*Awaits pics of final build*

Ducky Spud · 21 May 2009 at 01:24

Yea, get some photos up of the finished thing! Looks like its got a pretty impressive spec

liquidex · 21 May 2009 at 02:09

Need some pics. Want to see that large monitor

Stelly · 21 May 2009 at 02:49

nice build there, I so have to upgrade to i7 very soon

Stelly

RJC · 21 May 2009 at 07:08

Very nice

Smoke-Alot · 21 May 2009 at 09:39

very impressive,
whats it like to have a monster monitor like that sat on your desk lol,

i have a 22" and that seems to big some days lol

shaz` · 21 May 2009 at 12:56

Haha yeah, the monitor is HUGE... taking a bit of getting used to. Just watched the 1080 trailer for transformers on it and I gotta say it looks amazing

Will take pics of the inside of the case, this kingston memory is pretty nice to look at haha! Noctuas push a lot of air for making no noise too!

I will be oc'ing. Going to run it stock for a week or so and stress test everything to make sure it's all good, then start with an oc'ing. I loaded the i7 965 profile in the RIIE bios and ran prime95 for about an hour and everything ran fine, but temps were getting a bit high (high 70s) so pulled it back and will oc manually. Just did it to check if it'd run stable at that speed. Memory is sitting at 1866mhz triple-channel which is nice

edit: Yeah thats a lot of storage, but I thought why not! I always buy a HD thinking... thats enough space, and always always run out. And yeah i have lots of media currently on about 4 different HDss (internal and external) so will be nice to have them on one HD and then stream to tv/xbox/laptop whatever from there!

Smoke-Alot · 21 May 2009 at 14:49

i bet, i wouldnt say no to a 24", weather it a bit big or not lol

looking forward to seeing the pics

do you already have a 1080p tv or is this your first time? (sorry got to ask lol)

shaz` · 21 May 2009 at 19:54

I've already got 1080p, and my last 20" LCD was a viewsonic that did 1600x1200 so could run 1080p videos, but they just look amazing on this LCD.

I'll be getting a 46" Samsund LED LCD soon for the living room

Smoke-Alot · 21 May 2009 at 20:15

you will have to let me know how the led tv is as that seems a really good idea due to the lextra tv life you will get due to it being led,

i currently have the LG6100, absolute bargin

highly recomended to anyone looking to go HD

RIZZEE · 21 May 2009 at 20:18

looking awesome!
hows the monitor?

Razor-BladE · 21 May 2009 at 20:24

Looking really really really nice

Looking forward to seeing the build

ceego · 21 May 2009 at 20:44

Awesome build! i'm in the process of saving up some money to upgrade to i7 as soon as i can!

Soldier786 · 21 May 2009 at 20:48

Wow dude impressive specs! Can't wait to see more

BTW could anyone tell me if this monitor is better than the NEC MultiSync 24WMGX3, thanks!

shaz` · 22 May 2009 at 19:19

Righto, some pics of the case. Photo's are brutally honest eh, as hard as I tried to tidy cables they seem to be all over the shop on the pics!

Please forgive my dire photography skills.

Check the fins on the 1866mhz Kingston 6gb kit

Some pics of my monitor as requested

Some pics of Terminator: Salvation trailer in 1080p

Ran Everest cache and memory benchmark just to get some numbers

And SuperPi 1mb

shaz` · 22 May 2009 at 22:40

Some help folks.

My idle temps keep creeping up. Just put system back to stock as I didn't like the load temps > 90c so will play with more settings when I am more awake lol!

But right now, idle, my temps are around 51c, is this normal on the Noctua cooler? Or should I check the heatsink is seated properly? Temps across the cores are pretty much the same.

Plec · 22 May 2009 at 22:42

No it's not normal for a Noctua.

Yes - check your heatsink as it sounds like it's not seated properly.

I would actually resit it whatever - as idle temps shouldn't keep creeping up. It may be that you haven't secured it tightly enough.

shaz` · 22 May 2009 at 22:56

I'm getting two different readings for my temps. Realtemp tells me around 50c idle, Speedfan tells me CPU temp is 41c, but core temps are around 48-50c.

Is it core temps I need to watch?