New build complete! Pic heavy!

[Spaceboy]

As some of you may know I've been building a new PC - discussion thread here :- http://forums.aria.co.uk/showthread.php?t=36479

First, grab the old case Antec P180 case and rip out the guts :D
This used to contain my old fileserver - motherboard had 4 IDE ports so 7 IDE hdd's were in there, mostly striped together... 2x80g, 3x120g, 2x300g.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1329/5128286448_2c39065345.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/purplebint/5128286448/) http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/5127683321_ef111bdbce.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/purplebint/5127683321/)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1083/5128288790_b3f8c5ff58.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/purplebint/5128288790/) http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1417/5127687465_5fd4593ce0.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/purplebint/5127687465/)

That's the old stuff out leaving me a nice shiny empty case :D
It was at this point I had a little helper :rolleyes:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/5127695001_d202658086.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/purplebint/5127695001/) http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1225/5127694549_fa0eb9e3ca.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/purplebint/5127694549/)
PSU and hdd's (1x1TB, 2x500g, 1x300g IDE) in place.
Motherboard, cpu, cooler and ram next :thumb:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/5127696715_b70d435c37.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/purplebint/5127696715/) http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/5128302206_763a258897.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/purplebint/5128302206/)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4108/5127699805_a6b49db9ec.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/purplebint/5127699805/) http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4064/5127700331_25af1e2277.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/purplebint/5127700331/)

[Spaceboy]

Board installed :)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1396/5128306300_9349bf0739.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/purplebint/5128306300/)

Graphics
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1060/5127703683_e1d8b864f5.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/purplebint/5127703683/)

Now I see why new cases have cable management :D Notice the cpu power cables routed under a small gap left by the Palit :ninja:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1228/5128308640_d5f27deffc.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/purplebint/5128308640/)

Quick Benchmark :thumb:
http://www.spaceboy.co.uk/general/Clipboard01.jpg

Fun and games with Windows 7 family pack though :D
First off I striped the 2x500g drives - no mention in the motherboard manual how to do this though :rolleyes: - yay for google :D
Then the windows installer wouldn't install to the new volume... fix was to change the order of the boot devices to put the RAID volume as the first boot device and use the boot menu to select boot from DVD... then the installer was able to install to the RAID volume :thumb:

Then the product key wasn't recognised during the install - although it worked fine on the wife's 32-bit upgrade from Vista-32 (she didn't want a fresh install to 64, and no need with only 3gig ram)... Managed to skip the product key on the next reboot, hacked the registry in accordance with the Win7 upgrade install tips posted before, kicked off the product activation and it worked straight off :thumb:

So, all sorted now and working well :) Big thanks to all of those that advised and especially to NickCPC (http://forums.aria.co.uk/member.php?u=11489) :thumb:

[watercooled]

coming along nicely

[Pullen]

Interesting to think those 7 hdds can be replaced with 1 drive (like a 2tb) and it would have almost double the amount of storage as you had with all of them!

[NickCPC]

Great stuff, looks like it's come together really well :lol: nice work Spaceboy!

Hope you're pleased with it, and you get a chance to put it through its paces soon :D

[Mr. Strawberry]

nice
you should get some very nice results from that i5 and GD65

[Spaceboy]

Just getting all the software I use installed for now... and getting games running (WoW looks good with max everything :D ), and turning off all the bloat :D

I might play with an overclock next week - busy weekend tomorrow/monday :rolleyes:

[Mr. Strawberry]

wait till you get a third party cooler if i was you
i managed to get my old i5 to 4ghz on a coolermaster hyper 212+

[Lorem-Ipsum]

Very nice.

Could do with some more cable management though XD

[watercooled]

get a decent cooler 4ghz is so so easy

[Gav]

Yeah, I wouldn't attempt any serious OC on the stock cooler.

[Spaceboy]

best prog to monitor temps / speeds ? ;)

[Gav]

I usually use Coretemp and CPU-Z

[ZodiarK]

youneed to enter my comp and win the cooler though not sure that will do 4ghz depends if you got a lucky chip lol

looking good anywho

[Spaceboy]

I usually use Coretemp and CPU-Z

cores spiking from 40-45C under 3DMarkVantage - not bad :)

[KarlHungus]

Good work m8, looks ace :)

[AmdOverclocker]

cores spiking from 40-45C under 3DMarkVantage - not bad :)


use Linx for short term stress testing, then try 3.6GHz first shouldn't need to change voltage at all, then if temps stay below 60 or so continue to OC but i don't think you'll get 4GHz on a stock cooler.

[Gav]

I got an i3 to 4.2 on the stock cooler. Peaked at 75 during Linx. Doubt you'd get near that with the quad though.

[Mr. Strawberry]

to test for a 3.6GHz over clock just use the OC gene button on the board use to give me a 3.6GHz OC

[conoflex]

Looking good ! :)

[Guest]

The build looks great.

[Faz]

really nice, cables dont look bad actually!!

[Spaceboy]

cheers :) It's a bit messier than I'd like, might get some cable ties in there :D

Now I'm trying to knock the temps down a bit... http://forums.aria.co.uk/showthread.php?t=36997

[Zaim]

Looks great mate :thumb: