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Well to anyone who has been following my story:
I got all the parts for my new computer friday night, thanx UPS for the 7pm delivery......
Core 2 Duo E6700 (arrived las monday)
Scythe Ninja+ CPU cooler (this thing is HUGE BTW)
Asus P5W DH Deluxe
4GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800
eVGA GeForce 7900GTX rev.2
Creative Soundblaster X-Fi
OCZ GameXtreme 700W PSU
WD Raptor 150GB (sytem)
Thermaltake Armor Series Black (with 250mm side fan)
and some nice assorted round IDE cables, color coded; you know, blue for primary IDE, black for secondary, red for floppy.... Oh whatever, it was cool to me!
I took my time building it yesterday, and i have the cerimonial cuts and puncture wounds to prove it
. Just finished placing it in my home office and am loading windows XP x64 as i type (on my laptop).
Alot of people have had issues with the P5W DH bios thing... so i wanna tell u all how that went. In 2 words, NO PROBLEM.. Basically, before i even put anything in the case, i set the mobo in a peice of cardboard, put in the memory, cpu, and a heatsink, hooked up and old video card and power supply, thru in a floppy drive, and booted it. my P5W DH came with v401 bios, and it booted with my Core 2 Duo with NO PROBLEMS. In fact it asked me to please go into the bios to tell it what to do with this CPU... So i rebooted, hit Alt-F2 to access EZ-Flash, put the bios disk in the floppy drive and 2 min later, DONE. no problems whatsover. Booted with no problems after that. SO in short you DO NOT need a chip, that's BS, you just need to flash the bios. and you DO NOT need another CPU either.
everything BARELY fits in my armor case.. and the case is huge!!! the scythe cpu cooler has about 1/4 inch clearance from the huge 25cm side fan on the armor case. good thing the cpu fan mounts on the side of the heatsink. But if anyone was wondering, the scythe ninja does fit on the P5W DH with no problems. you just can't install the active chipset cooler b/c the heatsink is so big.. but if you have proper ventilation, u shouldn't need it anyway. in the bios the c2d idled at 19c, and the mobo at around 35c.
Now comes the long part, loading the OS, reloading all my programs, games, and data. when i'm done i'll run some benchmarks and post them, along with some actual pictures of the computer, if anyone is interested in how everything fits in there.
I got all the parts for my new computer friday night, thanx UPS for the 7pm delivery......
Core 2 Duo E6700 (arrived las monday)
Scythe Ninja+ CPU cooler (this thing is HUGE BTW)
Asus P5W DH Deluxe
4GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800
eVGA GeForce 7900GTX rev.2
Creative Soundblaster X-Fi
OCZ GameXtreme 700W PSU
WD Raptor 150GB (sytem)
Thermaltake Armor Series Black (with 250mm side fan)
and some nice assorted round IDE cables, color coded; you know, blue for primary IDE, black for secondary, red for floppy.... Oh whatever, it was cool to me!
I took my time building it yesterday, and i have the cerimonial cuts and puncture wounds to prove it
. Just finished placing it in my home office and am loading windows XP x64 as i type (on my laptop).Alot of people have had issues with the P5W DH bios thing... so i wanna tell u all how that went. In 2 words, NO PROBLEM.. Basically, before i even put anything in the case, i set the mobo in a peice of cardboard, put in the memory, cpu, and a heatsink, hooked up and old video card and power supply, thru in a floppy drive, and booted it. my P5W DH came with v401 bios, and it booted with my Core 2 Duo with NO PROBLEMS. In fact it asked me to please go into the bios to tell it what to do with this CPU... So i rebooted, hit Alt-F2 to access EZ-Flash, put the bios disk in the floppy drive and 2 min later, DONE. no problems whatsover. Booted with no problems after that. SO in short you DO NOT need a chip, that's BS, you just need to flash the bios. and you DO NOT need another CPU either.
everything BARELY fits in my armor case.. and the case is huge!!! the scythe cpu cooler has about 1/4 inch clearance from the huge 25cm side fan on the armor case. good thing the cpu fan mounts on the side of the heatsink. But if anyone was wondering, the scythe ninja does fit on the P5W DH with no problems. you just can't install the active chipset cooler b/c the heatsink is so big.. but if you have proper ventilation, u shouldn't need it anyway. in the bios the c2d idled at 19c, and the mobo at around 35c.
Now comes the long part, loading the OS, reloading all my programs, games, and data. when i'm done i'll run some benchmarks and post them, along with some actual pictures of the computer, if anyone is interested in how everything fits in there.
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