Update! Items arrive!

Fanaticjam · 19 Sep 2012 at 15:14

Hey all!

Time to update my rig, got the new parts today, thought ya'll might care to see!

As usual super service from OCUK! Ordered yesterday and here it is!

The main thing is the new GPU, twin 256GB Samsung SSDs and extra ram!

This is to upgrade my current system which is

i5 2500k @ 4.3ghz
8GB Ballistex 1600mhz ram
EVGA GTX 460 SC
2TB HDD
320GB HDD
64GB SSD etc etc.

I'll update this post as I go along, wish me luck

Cromulent · 19 Sep 2012 at 15:16

Always nice to have a load of boxes with new stuff in them

. Hope it goes well.

Catanonia · 19 Sep 2012 at 15:50

Nice, always great when postie arrives with new toys like christmas all over.

Must say, the courier OC use are the best I have ever experienced.

ninjag · 19 Sep 2012 at 15:57

Wow, that's fast delivery! I ordered mine from the rainforest and although most came within a few days the case has only just arrived this morning and I'd ordered it last Monday!!!!

jas72 · 19 Sep 2012 at 16:06

Grats, mine has been shipped today but as I live in Belgium I don't expect it before end of next week and it will spend 2 days hanging around antwerp taking in the sights before trundling down the 60KM to my house hehe...

enjoy the new parts

Fanaticjam · 19 Sep 2012 at 16:49

Got the ram installed and now doing the drivers for Sata 6gb/s controller card. (=

Surprised you're ordering from the UK if you live in Belgium! I would never have thought to do it when I was living in Antwerp

DPD seem okay to me, not as good as some though!

Fanaticjam · 19 Sep 2012 at 17:29

Got the twin ssd in raid, but which do I partition it with, striped? ^^

Fanaticjam · 19 Sep 2012 at 17:51

RAID 0 SSD.. Can't be correct. Guess it may be this controller card...

Watlinguk · 19 Sep 2012 at 17:56

Loving the boxes! Let us know how you get on

BluSky · 19 Sep 2012 at 18:02

Looking like a sweet upgrade. Are you planning on raiding the samsungs?

SlugForAButt · 19 Sep 2012 at 18:33

That's some low speeds for a pair of Sata6Gps Sammys. :confused:

Fanaticjam · 19 Sep 2012 at 18:36

I changed the new SSD's to directly to the mobo, I think PCI x1 was bottlenecking it.

New speeds are :

Want to get it higher though, pref 900mb/s read/write, made a thread in storage forum, hopefully can get some advice there!

Fanaticjam · 19 Sep 2012 at 18:51

pastymuncher · 19 Sep 2012 at 18:55

What motherboard do you have? Unfortunately that add on card uses the awful Marvell controller so if you have a board with sata 3 provided by the Intel chipset you will be better off using that.

Idleman · 19 Sep 2012 at 19:00

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-364-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990

This, according to his other thread.

Fanaticjam · 19 Sep 2012 at 19:18

Aye, that's the one. They're running on it now, those two benchs above your post are on the mobo

Fanaticjam · 19 Sep 2012 at 23:21

This is probably where I will leave it with SSD's unless anyone has a decent suggestion how to get more out of them?! It'll just be for programs anyhow

Gave COD MW2 a quick look and got 90FPS on max settings @ 1920 x 1200!

[TW]Sponge · 20 Sep 2012 at 00:26

Fanaticjam said:
This is probably where I will leave it with SSD's unless anyone has a decent suggestion how to get more out of them?! It'll just be for programs anyhow

Gave COD MW2 a quick look and got 90FPS on max settings @ 1920 x 1200!

You do realise in COD there is a framerate limit set to 90??

Push the console button and type /com_maxfps 200 or something along those lines and you will see an increase.

Fanaticjam · 20 Sep 2012 at 01:22

[TW]Sponge;22804106 said:
You do realise in COD there is a framerate limit set to 90??

Push the console button and type /com_maxfps 200 or something along those lines and you will see an increase.

Ohahaha, didn't know; it's not a game I play much but I knew I had it far from where it is now before!

Will that work in multiplayer?

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