New Goodies

Heofz · 1 Jun 2009 at 10:38

Sweeeeet, some new goodies arrived this morning:

Thanks to the free DPD delivery at OcUK :cool:

garylouden · 1 Jun 2009 at 10:49

I should have the i7, UD5, 6gb Kingston 1600mhz RAM, Silverstone fortress and a Noctua cooler arriving tomorrow........cant wait

I love opening the boxes

Heofz · 1 Jun 2009 at 10:50

teehee yeah, its like christmas all over again

edit: one question: I currently have the Thermalright 120 Extreme for my current system (in sig)... will this fit on the UD5 straight away or do I need some sort of adaptor?

garylouden · 1 Jun 2009 at 10:57

Heofz said:
teehee yeah, its like christmas all over again

edit: one question: I currently have the Thermalright 120 Extreme for my current system (in sig)... will this fit on the UD5 straight away or do I need some sort of adaptor?

I'm sure I have read somewhere an adapter is required.

bledd · 1 Jun 2009 at 11:06

Heofz, fancy doing some before and after benchmarks of a few games for us?

still using my q6600 and see no reason to upgrade.. (yet)

edit, same case :cool:

and speakers

Heofz · 1 Jun 2009 at 11:10

bledd. said:
Heofz, fancy doing some before and after benchmarks of a few games for us?

still using my q6600 and see no reason to upgrade.. (yet)

edit, same case and speakers

Sure

I'll do Crysis, Crysis Warhead, FEAR 2, GTA4, FarCry 2, and for old time's sake Counter-Strike:Source

no_1_dave · 1 Jun 2009 at 11:21

Got my i7, UD5, 6Gb patriot and Noctua cooler arriving tomorrow too!
Can't wait!!!
Also ordered a couple of Noctua case fans to replace my ambers.

boxman2000 · 1 Jun 2009 at 11:23

Heofz said:
Sweeeeet, some new goodies arrived this morning:

Thanks to the free DPD delivery at OcUK

Still waiting on this which is on back order due to lack of stock, so I can't do anything with it yet apart from take a photo of it and brag about it on forums

Good luck with the realtek drivers! Nightmare on mine!!!!!

Heofz · 1 Jun 2009 at 11:54

boxman2000 said:
Good luck with the realtek drivers! Nightmare on mine!!!!!

I'll be disabling the onboard audio straight away as I have an X-Fi Fatal1ty sound card

mjones1 · 1 Jun 2009 at 11:56

Don't you just love the smell of new stuff!

garylouden · 1 Jun 2009 at 12:05

Heofz said:
I'll be disabling the onboard audio straight away as I have an X-Fi Fatal1ty sound card

So shall I be so I wont run into this problem I have been reading about

Saltank · 1 Jun 2009 at 12:16

Heofz said:
I'll be disabling the onboard audio straight away as I have an X-Fi Fatal1ty sound card

Good luck with the X-FI card :rolleyes:

Sparx · 1 Jun 2009 at 12:20

Well that RAM says there is 10+ in stock now so you should have it soon I take it?

Good luck with your build!

Heofz · 1 Jun 2009 at 14:31

Sparx said:
Well that RAM says there is 10+ in stock now so you should have it soon I take it?

Good luck with your build!

Their system is a bit borked according to the sales guys when I rang a few days ago and this morning, they actually dont have any in stock at all, and haven't done in the last week, but are expecting new supplies to arrive any day now.

Saltank said:
Good luck with the X-FI card

been using it for well over 2 years now, never had a single problem with it... :confused:

bledd · 3 Jun 2009 at 16:19

any update?

Heofz · 3 Jun 2009 at 16:34

bledd. said:
any update?

Bought the LGA1366 bolt-thru-kit for my thermalright cooler, just waiting for the RAM now

Come on OcUK hurry up! I need some ram! lol

Heofz · 9 Jul 2009 at 01:32

Right, my upgraded system is up and running now, and wow is it a beast

Achieved 4Ghz with my 2nd try on this cpu/mobo. Left it looping 3dmark overnight and it was still going the next morning with no problems with temps less than 80°C. Memory running @ 2000MHz. I call that stable :cool:

Great board and was able to hit 4.2ghz with intel turbo feature, but hit BSOD during prime95. Disabled for now. Will tweak further soon...

I'm glad I upgraded

3DMark06 Score: clicky

3DMark Vantage Score: clicky

more benches to follow