Building first machine...

Discussion in 'New Build / Upgrade Advice' started by steel_phantom, Jul 3, 2005.

  1. max12590

    max12590 Masterful Geek

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    Well just make sure that an upgrade to the premium is worth it. I'm not saying its not, I don't know, but don't buy it because it has something you'll never use.
     
  2. steel_phantom

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    I hate fan noise more than the average person. Getting a fanless motherboard is worth the extra $30 for me. I'll probably be replacing all the fans in the case with the quietest fans possible in the future.

    The fan noise in my TIVO bothered me so much that I put the machine in the next room and used a remote extender along with long wires to get rid out the problem.

    One step closer to pure silent makes it worth it to me.
     
  3. zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG

    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG HWF Guitar Freak

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    wow then IDK if you'll like it, you can probably replace it with a special heatsink or quiet chipset fan, they sell those seperate and chipsets don't heat up THAT much.

    and max, hes not buying something he will use, hes gonna use it, but why not just take the free stuff with the performance thats already worth the money haha

    they even have an external serial ata drivex2 ports that take a PCI slot and you can plug a SATA drive right into the PCI input, its crazy, but free
     
  4. max12590

    max12590 Masterful Geek

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    Alright, whatever floats your boat.
     
  5. steel_phantom

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    Actually, I would probably be fine with the fan noise, but its worth the money to me to make it as quiet as possible. I have heard that the fan "slot" is not a standard size so there aren't many fans or heatsinks that fit. There is a heatsink that I know many people are using, but its pretty large and clutters up the space.
     
  6. max12590

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    I'm not bothered by noise in the least so I go for absolute maximum speed/CFM fans and OC like ****.
     
  7. zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG

    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG HWF Guitar Freak

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  8. steel_phantom

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    Thanks for all the help guys!

    I went a little more overboard than I planned for, but I have one quality machine shipping today.

    Thanks again!
     
  9. zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG

    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG HWF Guitar Freak

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    it always ends up happening like that my friend haha

    i was supposed to pay 1800 ended up paying around 2100 haha well the additions were really from parental pity, so my account didn't suffer haha
     
  10. Exfoliate

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    Nice steel_phantom:good:, you lucky dog zRock, wish my parents were as understanding as that.
     
  11. max12590

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    My parents bought me my whole rig, but then again my brother has been getting free golf clubs from them for a while so now <evil tone>it's payback time</evil tone>.
     
  12. zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG

    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG HWF Guitar Freak

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    yeah but this is big pity i had a 1 ghz p3 with 128mb of RAM and integrated graphics
    with ubuntu linux (thats good ^ - ^)

    I nearly cryed when I turned my baby on haha
     
  13. max12590

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    Hahahahaha. Yes, pity can work wonders. There was a little of that in my case but thats another story.
     
  14. Exfoliate

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    Man you don't know how good you have it dudes, I had to beg my parents just for them to allow ME to buy my own computer, and then there was some ridicule from my grandfather but I'm still happy I went through with it:)
     
  15. zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG

    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG HWF Guitar Freak

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    ex, I've been waiting 6 months for the upgrade before the parents allowed it

    SIX MONTHS of NOs
     
  16. Exfoliate

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    That's about what I went through, the only difference is your parents don't seem to mind you upgrading, mine do:(
     
  17. Addis

    Addis The King

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    I can remember when i built my first one a year and half ago. At first it didnt work and it was 12 midnight, just got parts that day. properly seated the heatsink and it started up. Its noisy, masculine and full of insolence but i like it.
     
  18. Exfoliate

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    I remember a couple days after I finally remembered to plug in the video cards molex connector (thought of it in the shower as you know) my cpu cooler fell off, that was an exciting time right there. Didn't seat it very well obviously, though it was a real tribute to how cool the Winchester line can run if it was okay after loosing it's cooler.
     
  19. zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG

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    mine was real lucky, everything worked right out of the box, i had no problems (whew)

    its just that second of silence that can make you happy, or very very pissed off haha
     
  20. max12590

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    Yea well I had a ****ed BIOS chip in mine so I had to wait 4 weeks to get the mobo RMAed. Course that is the one I just built. I think my first one all worked out ok.
     

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