Greetings all:
Although kindness is appreciated as I am VERY new and only did my first custom build June of 2011, it is not in any way, required. Thus, should anyone feel the need, please flame away. I may learn something.
I selected the XL ATX Gigabyte G.1 and made the horrible mistake of purchasing the Xigamtek Elysium case. After the first install it simply cannot take the weight. The damn thing warps and bends and the drive cages suck. However, I deal with Microcenter henceforth “MC” and since I work in the software industry, I get excellent pricing. Unfortunately, MC carried only one XL mobo and one XL case.
Net-net: The mobo is fried and the CPU which was an i7 960 I acquired for $139 is also fried.
1. The first call I received blamed insertion of the front I/O USB 3.0 Plug. For those familiar with this mobo, there 2 of these blue plug-ins on board and I screwed up, since I only noticed after the fact, the first one had bent pins out of the box. With 4 USB 3.0 in the back, two I wired to the front of the case, combined with the mobo bracket which contained two more USB 3.0, an OC button and a direct SATA plug-in all under the top Sata Dock, I think I had more than enough USB 3.0 I/O’s. BTW, Is it only me, or does anyone else find these docks useless given the frail nature of drive cable plug-ins? Just curious.
2. I ended up using the second on board plug-in and it worked fine, with one exception. It would not stay plugged in.
So, my critical question is, I considered RAID ten. Not so much for performance, (the Vertex 3 takes care of that) but for more redundancy. Yes, overkill, but I have the drives and this is why I needed to take apart what I was lucky enough to put together correctly the first time, but which did not start up. No power. I also use Acronis are multiple steps, so I am expecting someone to say, you're an iddiot and have no need for RAID. which would be good. That said:
3. I was told the bent USB fried the board. Aside from one being bent from the start, the one I used never worked correctly, in that the darn think kept coming out.
Does anyone know if this is possible? Can you fry a board in this manner?
Then worse news came in. The store is telling me the CPU is also fried because of the same USB. Here’s the rub. I wasn’t buying this but I could be completely wrong. Then an email came in telling me the pins which seat the CPU were bent. Unfortunately, CPU’s although seemingly easy, I did not want to take a chance, so I did not initially install it. MC did and that card is in my pocket.
So, how was it working all this time? Aside from the contradiction, can the CPU also be friend by that blue USB Plug-in? I do not believe this, but I wanted to get an opinion from the experts.
Lastly:
The case is going back, since it is defective, I have already decided to go back to ATX and this time I handpicked the case, which is the Corsair 600T. Chubby, but rock solid and looks like a mid-tower if it were not for the depth. I also choose the Gigabyte ATX Guerilla (something about these mobos I like).
I am forcing MC to find me one of the i7 980x chips they claim are not in stock, since a week ago they were selling them for about $489. I believe all know the 990x at $999 is nowhere near the price difference and this is why their install of mthe 960 is in my pocket.
Given the new configuration I have decided on, does anyone feel I am making poor judgement for what I do?
I do not play games I run web services on Windows 7 as well as massive digital libraries with indexes in excess of 13-15 GBs constantly changing and video editd above:
Both mobos have virtualization on board, thus I can run my legacy ERP Applications via a web based VPN in Windows XP SP3 and be able to do my job, which is splitting co-exist JD Edwards instances. (i.e., Green screen 7.3 and the 8.0 versions) to prepare the data in 1/4 the time it takes to do a traditional
migration to a fully Web Based ERP back office system .
Regarding the new configuration as descrive
Am I using the best HW config for what I am doing? Thanks in advance for your help, expertise and advice (and any flaming as well for making some stupid decisions)
Dean Poulos
Although kindness is appreciated as I am VERY new and only did my first custom build June of 2011, it is not in any way, required. Thus, should anyone feel the need, please flame away. I may learn something.
I selected the XL ATX Gigabyte G.1 and made the horrible mistake of purchasing the Xigamtek Elysium case. After the first install it simply cannot take the weight. The damn thing warps and bends and the drive cages suck. However, I deal with Microcenter henceforth “MC” and since I work in the software industry, I get excellent pricing. Unfortunately, MC carried only one XL mobo and one XL case.
Net-net: The mobo is fried and the CPU which was an i7 960 I acquired for $139 is also fried.
1. The first call I received blamed insertion of the front I/O USB 3.0 Plug. For those familiar with this mobo, there 2 of these blue plug-ins on board and I screwed up, since I only noticed after the fact, the first one had bent pins out of the box. With 4 USB 3.0 in the back, two I wired to the front of the case, combined with the mobo bracket which contained two more USB 3.0, an OC button and a direct SATA plug-in all under the top Sata Dock, I think I had more than enough USB 3.0 I/O’s. BTW, Is it only me, or does anyone else find these docks useless given the frail nature of drive cable plug-ins? Just curious.
2. I ended up using the second on board plug-in and it worked fine, with one exception. It would not stay plugged in.
So, my critical question is, I considered RAID ten. Not so much for performance, (the Vertex 3 takes care of that) but for more redundancy. Yes, overkill, but I have the drives and this is why I needed to take apart what I was lucky enough to put together correctly the first time, but which did not start up. No power. I also use Acronis are multiple steps, so I am expecting someone to say, you're an iddiot and have no need for RAID. which would be good. That said:
3. I was told the bent USB fried the board. Aside from one being bent from the start, the one I used never worked correctly, in that the darn think kept coming out.
Does anyone know if this is possible? Can you fry a board in this manner?
Then worse news came in. The store is telling me the CPU is also fried because of the same USB. Here’s the rub. I wasn’t buying this but I could be completely wrong. Then an email came in telling me the pins which seat the CPU were bent. Unfortunately, CPU’s although seemingly easy, I did not want to take a chance, so I did not initially install it. MC did and that card is in my pocket.
So, how was it working all this time? Aside from the contradiction, can the CPU also be friend by that blue USB Plug-in? I do not believe this, but I wanted to get an opinion from the experts.
Lastly:
The case is going back, since it is defective, I have already decided to go back to ATX and this time I handpicked the case, which is the Corsair 600T. Chubby, but rock solid and looks like a mid-tower if it were not for the depth. I also choose the Gigabyte ATX Guerilla (something about these mobos I like).
I am forcing MC to find me one of the i7 980x chips they claim are not in stock, since a week ago they were selling them for about $489. I believe all know the 990x at $999 is nowhere near the price difference and this is why their install of mthe 960 is in my pocket.
Given the new configuration I have decided on, does anyone feel I am making poor judgement for what I do?
I do not play games I run web services on Windows 7 as well as massive digital libraries with indexes in excess of 13-15 GBs constantly changing and video editd above:
Both mobos have virtualization on board, thus I can run my legacy ERP Applications via a web based VPN in Windows XP SP3 and be able to do my job, which is splitting co-exist JD Edwards instances. (i.e., Green screen 7.3 and the 8.0 versions) to prepare the data in 1/4 the time it takes to do a traditional
migration to a fully Web Based ERP back office system .
Regarding the new configuration as descrive
Am I using the best HW config for what I am doing? Thanks in advance for your help, expertise and advice (and any flaming as well for making some stupid decisions)
Dean Poulos