New PC build

[Scotty J.]

What size moniters and res you guys running?

All I can say is, you obviously were born with two mouths and one ear. You don't listen to anything anyone says, you just want to talk.

 

[michowski]

Well depending what kind of connection you got to your tv, resolution can be affected. If its svideo your gonna be severely limited. Even if its vga you still cant max it out. Hdmi connection and you can run the highest.

For example, with my svideo cable I max out at 1024x768. With hdmi I can get 1920x1200. HUGE difference in the power needed from the gpu to run something at MAX settings.

 

[Scotty J.]

Why do you assume that you know more about this than me? Perhaps you should create an "I'm the smartest person regarding PC's on this board" thread so that everyone can worship at your feet.

 

[michowski]

Im asking you for the facts, didnt say I know more. Shared my experience with the hardware and you disagree with it. Im just curious what your setup is that you had better results with so I can further educate myself. The pc world changes every day and new things are always brought out or changes so im just trying to expand my mind a little bit here. Sorry for seeking more knowledge, maybe I was asking the wrong person.

 

[Jaymz9350]

Like I said before, there probly not high resolutions. Im talking about 1920x1200 +. Also l4d does have a fantastic anti lag system built into it. You can still play at low fps like 30. What size moniters and res you guys running? Im assumming all digital connections right?

No you didn't say not at high resolutions of 1920 x 1200+ you said they were at low res, which today would be 1280x1024 or lower. By today's standards 1680 x 1050 is about normal res which is what I run (and stated earlier if you would have bothered to actually read the post) and yes the 8800GT will struggle at 1920 x 1200+ but for a 3 year old card will still hold it's own.

 

[LearjetMinako]

At Lear, That card will do you just fine, in fact if your not a gamer unless you use anything that takes advantage of CUDA then anything more would be a waste.

Actually, quite the opposite. One of the reasons why I out grew my old system is the lack of CPU power to process the GPU CUDA data. When it is time to upgrade the GPU for a better one, the new system will be ready to handle it.

 

[Jaymz9350]

Actually, quite the opposite. One of the reasons why I out grew my old system is the lack of CPU power to process the GPU CUDA data. When it is time to upgrade the GPU for a better one, the new system will be ready to handle it.

Ok that's kind of what I said, unless you use CUDA which you do, then 480 up by all means lol.

 

[michowski]

Why do you assume that you know more about this than me? Perhaps you should create an "I'm the smartest person regarding PC's on this board" thread so that everyone can worship at your feet.

I reread my post today and I can understand why it got you a little upset. Definatly could of worded it better. My apologies, sometimes I forget im not actually talking to somebody face to face when I type. Also like I said in my last post, I was merely trying to figure out your setup and why it worked for you. In my own experience with that card, I did not have as good of results.

 

[LearjetMinako]

Got my PC in yesterday and put it together yesterday. Today, I'm working on the little bugs. I already srcewed up and forgot to set the CMOS sata to RAID profile. So I had to reload the OS again. But thats fixed and my Raid 5 is being built. Vista 64 is up and running, thou on SP1. Will need to do a lot of updates. The PC case is a little longer than what I wanted. So I had to find a new spot for it. Which is here my UPS were, and the UPS are now where the old PC was. At least my new PC is out of danger of being banged against my chair. The SSD is proving to be a fast speed devil. Everything just pops open right away and installs take only a quarter of the time that they use to. I already foresee an upgrade, the Mobo NorthBridge cooling fan is noisey. Not the best design, so I will be looking into upgrading that.

Pictures are to come soon. As soon as I get everything stable.

 

[LearjetMinako]

Photo time:
The photos are of my first setup. Afterwards, I decided to add another HDD for Recording TV, Backup, and Video Games. This way I save the SSD space and speed for programs that can benenfit it.

First shipment. No case yet, so I just got to look, stare, and read the instructions.

Salvaged parts from my old PC. 3x Seagate 1TB HDD, 1x Geforce 9800GT, 1x ATI Theater 550 Pro TV tuner, 1x Creative Labs X-Fi, 1x DVD-Rom, 1x DVD Burner.

The new PC case with the Western Digital SSD already installed.

Monster size Zalman PSU 850W. I choose this one because of the huge 120mm fan and dual heatpipe heatsinks. I wanted no noise.

EVGA X58 3-way SLI motherboard.

Parts installed and cards installed. Just gotta work on the wiring and drives.

Wiring done and drives ready.

You know, this has got to be the nicest layout print that I have every got to use. Most MoBo layouts are in the instruction manual. Not on a full color, large print out.

And here it sits in its new spot. Amie dog approved. She already doesn't mind it since it is quite.

When I built this PC, I had a few set goals. 1.) Massive storage, 2.) Quite, 3.)Power. I have achieved all three. Storage is on this layout, 1x 128GB SSD (OS and Programs), 1x 500GB HDD (Recorded TV, Backup, Games), 3x 1TB HDD in Raid 5 (All my encoded video, Anime). As for being quite, can barely tell that it is running. Just the soft idle humm of the fans. And CPU power is not to be taken lightly. Had a full HD video (1080P, 5.1 Sound) that requires a lot of processing power. My old Pentium D was just barely up to the task, but video lagged in some fast action scenes. The new Core i7, just a walk in the park. Cpu usage difference is >95% (PenD) to <15% (i7).

 

[AllanD]

Got my PC in yesterday and put it together yesterday. Today, I'm working on the little bugs. I already srcewed up and forgot to set the CMOS sata to RAID profile. So I had to reload the OS again. But thats fixed and my Raid 5 is being built. Vista 64 is up and running, thou on SP1. Will need to do a lot of updates. The PC case is a little longer than what I wanted. So I had to find a new spot for it. Which is here my UPS were, and the UPS are now where the old PC was. At least my new PC is out of danger of being banged against my chair. The SSD is proving to be a fast speed devil. Everything just pops open right away and installs take only a quarter of the time that they use to. I already foresee an upgrade, the Mobo NorthBridge cooling fan is noisey. Not the best design, so I will be looking into upgrading that.

Pictures are to come soon. As soon as I get everything stable.

Why did you need to reload the OS to reset the CMOS to raid?

You can reset CMOS by pressing DEL, F2 or F10 (depending on your specific bios) early in the boot-up.



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[LearjetMinako]

Why did you need to reload the OS to reset the CMOS to raid?

You can reset CMOS by pressing DEL, F2 or F10 (depending on your specific bios) early in the boot-up.



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Once you load the OS on a IDE setup, Intel's Rapid Storage won't load through Windows. And when I changed the CMOS SATA profile to Raid, Windows would not load. So in order for it work, gotta set the SATA profile to Raid first before loading the OS. Then set the Raid array up later through Intel Rapid Storage console.

Any how, it is working fine now. Extended my Raid 5 to 2TB of space. When I need more space, I'll just add another 1TB HDD to the Raid 5.

 

[LearjetMinako]

I'm finally getting to settle in and start gaming on my new rig. Thou I found some new problems.
1.) The annoying buzzing noise that I keep hearing is coming from the PSU. And I also find out that the fan doesn't work. When it does try to come on, its makes a clanking noise, thou is free of obsturction. So I filled a RMA with Zalman Co. for that.
2.) Flight Simulator X is very nice looking now. The FPS are holding steady at 30fps. Now the GPU is maxed out and when it gets hot enough, the fps start to flux a little. Which means on my old system, the CPU wasn't able to feed the GPU enough data to keep the fps up.
3.) Everything runs so smooth and fast. I love it.
4.) First game I played is an old time favorite, HomeWorld2. Thou I could have played the first one. I never got around to playing the second one. Which now I have and beaten within 3days.
5.) Having multiple HDD setup is turning out to be a nice thing. I was cruising the web, recording a tv show, installing Flight Sim X, and downloading new Anime shows and torrent them back. All at the same time without a single hicup or delay.

 

[Mark_88]

Nice system...seems like I've been out of the PC world loop too long...equipment is similar to what I used to build, but now there are way more options than back in 2004 when I built my last computer...

Is there no end to it? lol

 

[LearjetMinako]

Nice system...seems like I've been out of the PC world loop too long...equipment is similar to what I used to build, but now there are way more options than back in 2004 when I built my last computer...

Is there no end to it? lol

There is no end to an ever evolving techonolgy. I just found out that Intel is planning a LGA2011 cpu socket that is gonna support quad-channel memory and have the PCI-e controller built into the CPU. Already making the LGA1366 socket obsolete.