My New Rig

Adalard · 18 Jun 2009 at 22:08

Hey guys. Thanks in particular to ro55o, shadowake, RJC, JonJ678, Audigex, wupwup, steve258 and RizlaKing, today me and Hlebio put together my new rig. This is what I got:

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.2GHz (Socket AM3) -Retail
Asus ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (66I-01939)
Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD5001AALS)
OCZ Platinum AM3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C7 1333MHz Dual Channel (OCZ3P1333LVAM4GK)
Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU)
Pioneer DVR-216DBK 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black)
OEMOCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Modular Power Supply

Couple of pics too....as you can see pretty pre-cable management!

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/5022/dsc02893r.jpg

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/4762/dsc02894w.jpg

Running like a beast at the moment, just got 294fps average on CS Source

Thank you forum members for advising us, and thanks to OCUK, love my new PC

RJC · 18 Jun 2009 at 22:12

Nice one, pleased I was of some help

Enjoy

LukeTW · 18 Jun 2009 at 22:15

Are you trying to make us jealous with your new rig AND that plant in that bag?

siumatfung · 18 Jun 2009 at 22:21

CS source isnt excatly benchmark tbh
try something more strenuous

eddie86 · 18 Jun 2009 at 22:23

So that's what you bought with the money you saved on an i7 build eh

Enjoy your new rig!

Adalard · 19 Jun 2009 at 02:32

Yeah I am trying to make y'all jealous, and I'm pretty sure I'm succeeding hehehe!

When I've tried something more taxing I'll post how it handles.

Ucof · 19 Jun 2009 at 07:07

Omnomnomnom..

oh, PC isn't too bad either.

ArcAneTSGK · 19 Jun 2009 at 08:59

Play crysis on Ultra high with DX10, and tell us what your FPS is

Mr-White · 19 Jun 2009 at 09:52

just need to sort the cable management out now

MW

Adalard · 19 Jun 2009 at 15:48

Rattling Noise

Have tidied up cables now, but currently I am suffering from a noisy GPU. And a fairly strange problem it seems too.

Upon running the rig for the first few hours all was fine, no above average noise. But since last night the GPU has started making a continuous rattling, as if the fan is catching on something inside. However upon inspection this does not appear to be the case. Compounding the weirdness is that this rattling runs at a constant while the PC is idle, or doing little to no graphic intensive work. But say if I'm on a webpage and I scroll down far quickly the rattling momentarily stops for when it's doing something even slightly taxing. I have been playing a bit of Chess Titans. When no one is moving the rattling is going on - when a piece moves it momentarily ceases, then continues when the move is finished.

I have so far installed CS Source, Battlefield 2 and FEAR, all of which when played do not make the rattling/catching noise (because it's having to actually do something?). I should stress that when a game is being played it's nice and quiet, sounds fine. When I exit them and go back to desktop, it begins again. Here's a pic of my idle temp and fan speed:

Then here is a pic of when I have been playing FEAR on the menu screen then alt-tabbed back to control center and quickly took a screeny:

0% to 90%?

Here is another pic of after playing FEAR and running the video stress test (about two minutes worth) and doing the same:

Have I got something set up wrong in the Catalyst Control Center or is it a faulty fan/GPU? Any advice would be very much appreciated.