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**Capper** · April 17th, 2008

Theres nothing at all wrong with the HD3870 cards, they pretty much split the benchmarks with the 9600GT. I'm using one on my testbench...and have a HD3870X2 in my personal system

System Building Part I: Choosing the Right Parts
System Building Part II: Putting It All Together

diabloplayer75 · April 17th, 2008

Alright Parker! theirs the picture hahaha.. Yes its all inthe box still! :P

TheBobGoat · April 17th, 2008

This is pretty exciting stuff. It is a preview of my kitchen table in about 4 months.

Parker · April 17th, 2008

Nice! Looks great!!

Ok, one thing to be aware of, be careful touching the mobo and video card. Stay away from cotton as much as possible. Because you could fry the boards with just a little bit of static electricity. Just be away of that, and especially watch out for the RAM, only touch the heatsink on the RAM sticks.

So start with the mobo. Put the RAM in the yellow slots, put the CPU in (careful of the gold contacts!!!), put TIM on the CPU, put the IO plate inside the case where all the ports are going to be from the mobo, screw the mobo into the mobo tray inside the antec 900 (theres 6 mobo screws on that board), mount the ZEROtherm on the CPU using the instructions included with it.

Then post another pic, and any questions you've got!

Yellowhello · April 17th, 2008

Dang, if that were me, all those boxes would have been ripped open within 2 seconds of the UPS guy getting to my house. Looks great, too bad the TIM is taking so long to get there...

Parker · April 17th, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yellowhello

Dang, if that were me, all those boxes would have been ripped open within 2 seconds of the UPS guy getting to my house. Looks great, too bad the TIM is taking so long to get there...

Haha! yea seriously, I'm like that... but I know that you guys all love pics and will get mad if I didn't take any so I always take pics before I open things....

diabloplayer75 · April 17th, 2008

haha yeah the TIM should be here by tommarow i think Yellow! i really appreicate it by the way. The fan i got came with a free Zerotherm thermal grease, so i can use this for now until the good stuff comes! :)

In the meantime, very very slowly putting this together with help from parker via aim :)

Stormcrow · April 17th, 2008

Oh yeah baby...even though we have our own rigs, still seeing all that new hardware gets us computer geeks excited. Thats gonna be one kick ass system, man. Good job.

Yellowhello · April 17th, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by diabloplayer75

haha yeah the TIM should be here by tommarow i think Yellow! i really appreicate it by the way. The fan i got came with a free Zerotherm thermal grease, so i can use this for now until the good stuff comes! :)

In the meantime, very very slowly putting this together with help from parker via aim :)

The Zerotherm TIM should be fine. It actually only performed ~1C worse at load compared to AS5 (what I'm sending you), and basically the same temp at idle according to the HL Thermal Paste Roundup.

Captain Crunch · April 17th, 2008

Man that Photo is just pure bliss..........gives me goose bumps..........
That's a really nice rig your going to have there........I"d loose the pine cones though!

April 17th, 2008	#161
Capper I'm Evil Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Las Vegas, NV Posts: 5,592 Blog Entries: 6	Re: Need Help Building a computer, new to this Theres nothing at all wrong with the HD3870 cards, they pretty much split the benchmarks with the 9600GT. I'm using one on my testbench...and have a HD3870X2 in my personal system System Building Part I: Choosing the Right Parts System Building Part II: Putting It All Together INTEL QX9650 ASUS P5E3 Premium 4GB DDR3-1600 Sapphire HD 3870X2 Danger Den Tower-26 (Custom W/C) 5 x Seagate 250GB HDD in RAID5 BFG ES 800W PSU

April 17th, 2008	#162
diabloplayer75 Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 190	Re: Need Help Building a computer, new to this Alright Parker! theirs the picture hahaha.. Yes its all inthe box still! :P

April 17th, 2008	#163
TheBobGoat Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Everywhere!! Posts: 20	Re: Need Help Building a computer, new to this This is pretty exciting stuff. It is a preview of my kitchen table in about 4 months. System Pending...but think about what I can get for 2 grandish. ::Wishlist:: nvidia 790i (ultra) or x48? Cooler master Cosmos 1000 Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 OCZ 4GB (2X2) DDR3 1600 Seagate 7200 Barracuda 750 gb, 32 mb Corsair 650W PSU ASUS GEforce 9600, 512MB cooling?? Thermaltake Big Ty Vx 120 22-24 inch screen

April 17th, 2008	#164
Parker piano boy is dangerous. Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: East Bay, CA Posts: 1,418 Blog Entries: 1	Re: Need Help Building a computer, new to this Nice! Looks great!! Ok, one thing to be aware of, be careful touching the mobo and video card. Stay away from cotton as much as possible. Because you could fry the boards with just a little bit of static electricity. Just be away of that, and especially watch out for the RAM, only touch the heatsink on the RAM sticks. So start with the mobo. Put the RAM in the yellow slots, put the CPU in (careful of the gold contacts!!!), put TIM on the CPU, put the IO plate inside the case where all the ports are going to be from the mobo, screw the mobo into the mobo tray inside the antec 900 (theres 6 mobo screws on that board), mount the ZEROtherm on the CPU using the instructions included with it. Then post another pic, and any questions you've got!

April 17th, 2008	#165
Yellowhello Muse is Music Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Pacific Grove, CA Posts: 4,236	Re: Need Help Building a computer, new to this Dang, if that were me, all those boxes would have been ripped open within 2 seconds of the UPS guy getting to my house. Looks great, too bad the TIM is taking so long to get there... Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 + Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme DFI Blood Iron P35-T2RL + Thermalright HR-05 IFX 2GB G.Skill 800MHz F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB Silverstone Decathlon 650W Western Digital 250GB SATA II

April 17th, 2008	#167
diabloplayer75 Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 190	Re: Need Help Building a computer, new to this haha yeah the TIM should be here by tommarow i think Yellow! i really appreicate it by the way. The fan i got came with a free Zerotherm thermal grease, so i can use this for now until the good stuff comes! :) In the meantime, very very slowly putting this together with help from parker via aim :)

April 17th, 2008	#168
Stormcrow HL's Technomancer Join Date: May 2007 Location: Frozen North Posts: 1,168 Blog Entries: 1	Re: Need Help Building a computer, new to this Oh yeah baby...even though we have our own rigs, still seeing all that new hardware gets us computer geeks excited. Thats gonna be one kick ass system, man. Good job.

April 17th, 2008	#170
Captain Crunch Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Right side of middle Earth Posts: 657	Re: Need Help Building a computer, new to this Man that Photo is just pure bliss..........gives me goose bumps.......... That's a really nice rig your going to have there........I"d loose the pine cones though!

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