Project Beg, Borrow or Steal

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not going too well unfortunately :(


serious temp problems under load, currently have 2x120mm fans in there one front and one rear(the fronts cable tied into the 5 1/4 bays nice and tight. but core temps are hitting mid 70's after 25 mins of 4xprime95 blend :(

might have to have a rethink about the sonata and look to rebuild it into the spare antec 300 i have
 
Well things have taken a turn for the worse recently :(


his psu went and died so it was time to order a new one and do a quick rebuild



SOOOO

new psu arrived
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and I was immediately disappointed by how short the cables are :(
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think i'll need to get some extensions ordered for a neat build


back to stripped again for yet another rebuild
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and one of the bestest tools ever for when assembling a PC
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bit of a disaster though, it turns out his mobo if also fried :(

so he's back running on a 945 which doesn't support quads so I dug a 2160 out the spare parts box and clocked it to 2.8ghz for now :( not great but at least he's gaming for now

got a p35c ds3r coming from the MM and i'm on the hunt for a decent gpu for him.

watch this space for yet another set of build pics
 
the 945 is a piece of poo. but it does have some redeeming features, its supposed to only support 2 gigs of ram but with 4 gig fitted I've got a usable 3.25gigs :) even with the x1900xtx which has received a bit of an o/c its certainly providing playable frame rates for lego batman 2 :)
 
p35c is confirmed and should be here in a few days. now just to find something to replace that god awful 1900xtx. fair play to it though I've clocked it to death and its providing playable frame rates in Arkham City at 1600x900 :)
 
most excellent. new mobo is out for delivery today :)

so we'll be back in business with a 3.6/3.8 ghz quadcore and 8 gigs of ram.
 
and a quick swap out and rebuilt begins. :)

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front fans installed to give some much needed airflow, an Antec 300 isn't exactly the first word in terms of cool as standard.


no pics of during the build but I did break out one my my favourite things in the world.

CABLE TIES !!!!!!!

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not exactly the neatest build in the world but in a case with poor cable management and a hyper 7 year old desperate to play lego batman it will suffice for now at least till I get some braided extensions and a new case

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excellent,


just picked up a 4870 1gb for £30 quid :)
should certainly show an improvement over the 1900xtx :)
 
woot 4870 arrived and installed :)


wee fella is enjoying a bit of arkham city right now :)

mild overclock up to 930 MHz 1050 MHz

next on the list some cable extenders and sorting out the disaster of the wiring
 
Tattysnuc said:
This has been a real labour of love for you hasn't it. :) Any chance of a picture in focus?

What case are you going for?
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iPhone FTL case wise it's most likely to be another nzxt phantom appearing on my doorstep in bright red :)
 
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