New build up and running

[Devils-Blood]

I have finally got my conreo rig running. You will remember the trouble I had with a faulty asus mobo. I have some minor problems to sort out. Rear fans not working on the gigabyte case I bought from aria.

I bought a gigabyte D6Q mobo and it has a design flaw if any body wants to use a high end cooler. The crazy cool heat sink gets in the way. My artic cooling pro7 sits against the mobo heat sink and I am getting humming noise. I will look at artic cooling heat sink to see if i can do som mod work on it. For now back to stock intel cooler. I am going to water cool the cpu soon, one of the reasons I bought the gigabyte case, it is ready for water cooling with to rear holes in the case.

The gigabtye 3DAURORA case is the best I have come across. It is the easiest tools free case have assembled and it really is tools free. Putting in pci cards you lift a lever that locks all the pci cards in place, so easy to use. Its a full tower but not as big as some full tower cases I have come across.

[mac124]

Nice one mate glad you finally got it working 8)

[Devils-Blood]

Mac I was like a neverous wreck before pushing the button after the asus board shambles. If it didn't work I would of gone ga ga.

Just need to sort out the few little problems.

I got 2 belkin/stanley 6 block surge plugs yesterday. They were priced up at £26.99 each. I remebered they were on special a little while ago at £17.99. I Looked around and found a stack with a £17.99 price lable. I went to the checkout it came up at £26.99, but when I showed them the price tag I paid £17.99 each instead of the real price of £26.99 each. After having no luck I seem to be getting luck again :P

[mac124]

lol like the style mate, like the style.

meh the little problems are just that little niggles after the major head aches, kinda puts them in proportion fans and such like can be fixed for relativley pennies and you can fit exactly what you want.

[Devils-Blood]

Mac

Artic cooling pro 7 sort. Just a little go at it with a hacksaw solved the problem. A chunk cut off the corner of the fan holder.

Rear fans working.

Still getting a bit of humming from the front of the case, will investigate. Either hard drive hum being amplified through the case or the front fan is vibrating. Both should be easy to sort out.

I just need to tidy up cables.

[Barley]

I've never bothered with surge protectors. 10 years and no problems. They really worth it?

[Anonymous]

One major tip, they may say surge protector, but as i found out, Make sure they are garunteed surge protection, the last one I had blew my system, and afterwards I found out it wasent garenteed for protection, meaning that I had to pay for my new pc!

[Devils-Blood]

£50000 replacement protection.

Just oc conreo to 3GHZ

[Barley]

Surely your PSU will protect against any surges?

[mac124]

A decent psu should be able to cope with minor surges but not like a decent surge protector will. Belkin are a good make too, well hope they are i have an 8 way one :wink:

[Devils-Blood]

I have more than just pc connected to the surge plug. I have know people who's pc's or tv's burned out from a mains surge. It does happen. I have also read about cases in the paper and the fight people had to get their supplier to cough up for the damage. Its not only the bug surges but spikes that happens 100's a day in ring mains.

You might not see the damage from the spikes but they cause damage that cause equipment to fail earlier than expected by damaging capacitors.

The cost of a 6 gage socket £8 to buy one with surge protection £10. That will give £1000 to £2000 replacement costs. Its only £2 more. Go up the price scale and the surge protection increase as well as the replacement costs.

[t31os]

If you value you PC, buy a surge protector with cover.

Most belkin ones have this, my last belkin had £50000 of coverage, i've got a bigger more industrial one now, and can't remember how much it covers, but lets just say its alot.

Spend £500 -£2000 on a PC but fail to spend less then a tenner on protection, pretty brave..... you risk your PC every day like that.

[mac124]

[quote:0a711b6cba=\"t31os\"]If you value you PC, buy a surge protector with cover.

Most belkin ones have this, my last belkin had £50000 of coverage, i've got a bigger more industrial one now, and can't remember how much it covers, but lets just say its alot.

Spend £500 -£2000 on a PC but fail to spend less then a tenner on protection, pretty brave..... you risk your PC every day like that.[/quote:0a711b6cba]

I second that motion ^^

[Anonymous]

My power goes through a secondary system, so the lights will blow before my pc goes!