New rig is finally.........

Jimmi · 28 Dec 2006 at 17:23

.......Up and running

Kit arrived this morning, nearly missed the delivery guy as i was sleeping :rolleyes:

(damn 9am deliveries)

Made one school boy error, hadnt connected the 12v cpu supply so machine wouldnt boot! Easily sorted after a quick read of the manual :cool:

XP went on no problems, untill i came to install the drivers. Seems it took a dislike to the gigabyte mobo drivers off the disc :confused:

.... during one of its reboots it failed to find the display driver. As i hadnt really got anywhere i decided a rebuild of xp was the easiest option. Downloaded the latest drivers from gigabyte and this seemed to do the trick.

So here i am, just waiting for the other 200gb of the hdd to format.

I'm amazed at how quick and how quiet it is compared to my dead rig (it was 5 years old and an athlon mind)

1.87ghz c2d
ga-965p-s3 Gigabyte mobo
2x 1gb OC 800mhz ram
250gb samsung hdd
256mb 7900gs OCUK graphics card

thefishdude · 28 Dec 2006 at 17:26

wooo congrats

seems like you had a typical build even down to forgetting the 4pin plug amazing how many times that gets forgotten. and i had simarlything installing windows on mine and like you as just started just wiped and done it again with new stuff and all is well

Jimmi · 28 Dec 2006 at 18:05

thefishdude said:
wooo congrats seems like you had a typical build even down to forgetting the 4pin plug amazing how many times that gets forgotten. and i had simarlything installing windows on mine and like you as just started just wiped and done it again with new stuff and all is well

its been 5 years since i looked inside a pc so it was re learning a lot of things and learning some new bits.....

has the 4pin plug for the cpu been a recent thing then?

thefishdude · 28 Dec 2006 at 18:15

noe been around since the pentium 4 came out soo about 3 years i think. but so easily forgotten. i allways put a floppy drive in my pcs you never know when you may need it. anway i have built about 6 pcs and i dont think i have put the cablle in the fdd the correct way round first time ever lol

Jimmi · 28 Dec 2006 at 18:18

i havent bothered with a floppy drive....i might rescue the one out of my old unit before it finds its way to the dump, just in case :cool:

But then XP boots from CD so is there any point :rolleyes:

thefishdude · 28 Dec 2006 at 18:20

you dont have to have it in just keep it handy. if you even need to recover from a bios crash or bios update gone nastily wrong you will need a floppy as its about the only thing that will still work and a ps2 keyboard. allways have one of them handy

TheNuju · 28 Dec 2006 at 18:21

Hey

Congrats on the machine, hope it brings you hours of pleasure

And yes the 4 pin is a thing I keep missing out lol, most of my building experience has been with the AMD's that dont require this and Im constantly forgetting it, my other mistake was as said above with the floppy cables! Its always the silly things lol

Lets see how my C2D build goes, will be ordering the parts on friday so should get them mid next week. (DQ6,C2D E66, 2gb Corsair, 8800 GTX)

Mike

Jimmi · 28 Dec 2006 at 18:22

thefishdude said:
you dont have to have it in just keep it handy. if you even need to recover from a bios crash or bios update gone nastily wrong you will need a floppy as its about the only thing that will still work and a ps2 keyboard. allways have one of them handy

Needed a ps2 keyb and mouse to get this machine up as i have a wireless combo.......amazing what you find in the attic

386 anyone???

thefishdude · 28 Dec 2006 at 18:24

not sure when you may need a 386

but thinking on it lol

Jimmi · 28 Dec 2006 at 18:24

TheNuju said:
Lets see how my C2D build goes, will be ordering the parts on friday so should get them mid next week. (DQ6,C2D E66, 2gb Corsair, 8800 GTX)

Mike

the C2D procs seems the bizz.......quite happily installs a couple of bits of software at a time and lets you surf the web :eek:

........looking on the task manager it still doesnt seem to be breaking a sweat doing all that

i could only do one thing on the old athlon before it decided it would start to cry

TheNuju · 28 Dec 2006 at 18:28

Jimmi said:
the C2D procs seems the bizz.......quite happily installs a couple of bits of software at a time and lets you surf the web ........looking on the task manager it still doesnt seem to be breaking a sweat doing all that

i could only do one thing on the old athlon before it decided it would start to cry

Hey

Yea I know what you mean, the machines we use at work are C2D e6600 and we can easily multitask between the macromedia apps and photoshop without any struggle whatsoever, in fact photoshop can be running a complex filter and dreamweaver works sweet as a nut, however on the AMD's we had before hand (AMD 3500) you couldnt do much else when the filters where being run.

Its for this reason plus the overclocking ability and other peoples comments that im getting a C2D for my home machine both for work and gaming! Combined with the 2gb DDR2 and the 8800 GTX it should be a blast, getting quite excited now, even more so than christmas!!

Mike

thefishdude · 28 Dec 2006 at 18:29

know what ya meani just came from a 2600xp amd to what i have now, im still a bit :eek:

now at *** difference lol