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erdinger   07-18-2009 at 11:19:41 AM

Hellow together. Yesterday, I've started building my first system. There were a few "problems" I could solve myself but now Im facing one I dont know the solution for.

 

First of all thats my build:

 

Uses: GAMING, (watching movies, downloads, Surfing....)

 

Overclocking: YES a lot, The cpu is from the unlockable batch Xfire: maybe in future (don't think the 650tx is enough for two 4890's)

 

Corsair 650 tx

 

Cm 690

 

PhenomII x3 720

 

Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P (i know it's overkill but I "had" to buy it due to bad avaiability of the competitors)

 

His 4890

 

Ram : 4GB Kit of 2 2x240 DIMM, DDR3 1333MHz , 9-9-9-24, Matched XMS3 with New Classic Heat Spreader

 

Wd caviar black 640

 

optical drive: Samsung SuperWriteMaster 22x bulk

 

and in two weeks or so a Xigmatec hdt-s 1283 should also arrive. until then I'l be using the stock amd cooler.

  

So now to my questions:

 

The Front panel of the Cm 690 has many connectors. I was able to connect all of them except for the Audio connectors.

 

It is 1 cable with two connectors. The first one is labeled with: Hd Audio I figured it should be connected with the F_Audio of the motherboard.
The seccond connector is labeled with Ac'97 and looks exactly like the Hd audio.

 

Where do I have to connect the Ac'97? It is atached to the Hd_audio and there's no plug on the motherboard (in range) where I could connect it.

 

Another question: Should I buy thermal grease or is the one coming with the Xigmatec hdt-s1283 good enough?

 

Should I use the fan from the stock Amd cooler as a case fan afterwards (motherboard has 1(additional) 4pin connector so noise shouldn't be a prob)

 

Thank you for your answers I'm sure they will help me a lot. If new questions arise I will ask them here.

 

Kind regards Erdinger

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Bronze Home Brew badge jsc   07-18-2009 at 01:54:36 PM
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erdinger wrote :

 

The Front panel of the Cm 690 has many connectors. I was able to connect all of them except for the Audio connectors. It is 1 cable with two connectors. The first one is labeled with: Hd Audio I figured it should be connected with the F_Audio of the motherboard. The seccond connector is labeled with Ac'97 and looks exactly like the Hd audio.

 

Where do I have to connect the Ac'97? It is atached to the Hd_audio and there's no plug on the motherboard (in range) where I could connect it.

 

Another question: Should I buy thermal grease or is the one coming with the Xigmatec hdt-s1283 good enough?

 

Should I use the fan from the stock Amd cooler as a case fan afterwards (motherboard has 1(additional) 4pin connector so noise shouldn't be a prob)

 

Read your motherboard manual. It will tell you if you have HDA or AC97. Odds are that you have HDA. You only use one or the other. I just fold the extra connector back and tie it to the cable.

 

If I didn't already have some Arctic Silver, I would use the grease that comes with the HSF. For suggestions on how to apply the thermal compound to an HDT style heatsink:
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index. [...] mitstart=5

 

If you want to use the stock HSF fan as an extra case fan, sure. Why not?


Message edited by jsc on 07-18-2009 at 01:56:25 PM
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erdinger   07-18-2009 at 02:03:08 PM
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Thank you a lot for the answer, it really helped me alot!

also nice to have a link for the thermal.

I just thought maybe it is to crapy.... k Now il try to start the pc wish me luck.

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erdinger   07-18-2009 at 03:41:14 PM
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Started the Pc it took a few seconds but I could enter the Bios.

will soon install an Os

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erdinger   07-18-2009 at 06:01:15 PM
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I restarted the Pc and recognized that the motherboard doesn't make a beep sound. As I said before I can go into the bios but shouldn't the motherboard give a Beep that tells me that everything is ok?

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Silver Home Brew badge hunter315   07-18-2009 at 06:02:47 PM
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no, 99% of motherboards these days dont come with a case speaker or even a piezo buzzer so you wont get any beeps out of them. You need to buy a case speaker if you have an issue and need to hear the bios beeps.

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erdinger   07-18-2009 at 06:06:33 PM
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Oh one more thing learned thanks.

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