next on the shopping list an i7 (build log - LOADS-O-PICS)

neil_g said:
it is a really nice case, my only gripe with SFF cases is the lack of space to work in them and the lack of cable management. but lian li do always seem to put out some great cases.. i had the PC-Q07 for the last desktop, got the PC-C37 for the HTPC and now the PC-V354 and theyve all been without fault.
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I am looking for a case that will take 3/4 drives, optical drive, memory card reader, 1Kw PSU, have a 5.25" face plate free (for my custom additions - LCD screen sockets etc. I am adding a small project inside which will sit on the network and connect to this computer plus the other 4 nearby and allow me to monitor them, turn then on and off remotely, share USB keyboard & mouse, allow remote access from the laptop elsewhere etc.)
 
When I did my first self build a few months back I only got a cheap case so I am now looking for a new one to put all my bits in.

I have been looking at the Cooler Master cosmos s, very nice case indeed
 
Having now had a few cases, there is one thing I insist upon in any new case I build. Power supply at the bottom, not at the top above the heatsink. I think it's better thermally, plus should you need to change the power supply, it's a heck of a lot easier....
 
I think that the £35 cases with PSU are far better than £25 without!

Why on earth you bought 8Gb of RAM you could not use is beyond me?

On the other hand I will probably join the I7 club in due course, now that the SATA doo dah is over!
 
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Mikesphotaes said:
Why on earth you bought 8Gb of RAM you could not use is beyond me
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I didn't. The board should accept 16gb DDR3 1333 across 4 slots which is what I bought. Gigabyte do publish a compatibility list however it is woefully out of date however the closest match did have identical latency, cas and voltage ratings.

Still waiting in gigabytes response to the support ticket on whats on the up to date memory list.
 
neil_g said:
I didn't. The board should accept 16gb DDR3 1333 across 4 slots which is what I bought. Gigabyte do publish a compatibility list however it is woefully out of date however the closest match did have identical latency, cas and voltage ratings.

Still waiting in gigabytes response to the support ticket on whats on the up to date memory list.
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That's disgraceful, I always thought Gigabyte were pretty much the mobo leader too.
 
Looking good Neil (y)
Nice and neat installation.


Keith W said:
When I did my first self build a few months back I only got a cheap case so I am now looking for a new one to put all my bits in.

I have been looking at the Cooler Master cosmos s, very nice case indeed
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I have one it's awesome, very roomy, did have a waterloop in there at one point, (see my gallery :) )


Mikesphotaes said:
That's disgraceful, I always thought Gigabyte were pretty much the mobo leader too.
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Asus comes pretty close although there support sucks IMHO
 
Rob 80386 said:
Asus comes pretty close although there support sucks IMHO
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Certainly the Asus mobos were best value/featureset when I bought my P67 based board.

I'd agree with the support sucking though. When Intel found the chipset bug and offered replacement boards, the other big manufacturers shipped boards and then collected the old boards once you had replaced them. Not Asus - ship us your board back and we'll send you a new one. I can't be without my main PC for 10 days... I ended up buying another mobo and selling the replacement on via e-bay. Cost me £35 just to swap boards. Grrrr
 
after going back to gigabyte asking about high performance memory from other brands such as corsair etc they responded basically saying i should ask corsair.

no more gigabyte kit is going in my systems.
 
Nice when people take responsibility for their designs....
 
bloody useless. almost like the conversation i had with our works ISP support person (who sounded 12 by the way) this morning who was suggesting that they could not un-blacklist their mailserver (which we route through) from a recipient ISP because the bounce back email did not have a link in it to take them to the de-blacklist page like it would normally. therefore i should speak to them.

i think i made him cry with my reply.
 
have a really boring desk update..

after a trip to the osteopath this weekend she told me to sort my workstations out, so toddled (maybe that should be hobbled, after the cow tried to twist me in half) off to Ikea and got some bolt on shelves to get the screens up.


Desk with new add-on shelf. by neilgates, on Flickr

managed to conseal all of the cables behind the uprights (only 3 on show at desk height are the power and cat5 for the laptop and the cable for the spyder) and looks pretty neat i think.

note the lack of nas, ive pulled all the drives out and boxed it off ready to be RMA'd. running off my backup IcyBox IB-RD4320StUS2 (2x 2Tb) USB which is normally plugged into the back of the Synology and shared out through that. got the cable looped into the front of the computer.
 
Neil: the porn is inside the enclosure... ;) We're not at all interested in how tidy your desk is.. :p
 
got some joy from Corsair, they suggest "CML16GX3M4A1600C9 as these modules are made for and tested on Intel Sandy Bridge chipsets."

so just ordered some from dabs, everywhere seems to be ordered on request though. if this fixes it i'll be selling the XMS3 on.
 
Lets hope they work :)
 
Can you not RMA the XMS3, it wasn't fit for purpose. It didn't work!
 
Well I need to build a new computer for my workshop or at least fit a different graphics card!

I am still running a 3.6GHz (overclocked from 2.66GHz) pentium 4 with 4Gb DDR2 and a 7300GT for Windows. It was never an issue but now I want to run Eagle CAD, AVR Studio, the software for my DSO etc across 2 24" monitors. Might start with a new graphics card and a fresh install first though....
 
cowasaki said:
Well I need to build a new computer for my workshop or at least fit a different graphics card!

I am still running a 3.6GHz (overclocked from 2.66GHz) pentium 4 with 4Gb DDR2 and a 7300GT for Windows. It was never an issue but now I want to run Eagle CAD, AVR Studio, the software for my DSO etc across 2 24" monitors. Might start with a new graphics card and a fresh install first though....
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Wow. A pentium 4!!!! @ 3.6GHz!!!! That's from the ark! My favourite all-in-one-number-but-in-reality-means-nothing CPU benchmark would score that around 500. My i7 comes in at 11100.

You got Photoshop there? Try running the Retouch Artists benchmark and see what you come out with... http://clubofone.com/speedtest/
 
arad85 said:
Wow. A pentium 4!!!! @ 3.6GHz!!!! That's from the ark! My favourite all-in-one-number-but-in-reality-means-nothing CPU benchmark would score that around 500. My i7 comes in at 11100.

You got Photoshop there? Try running the Retouch Artists benchmark and see what you come out with... http://clubofone.com/speedtest/
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It is sat next to my Mac Pro Quad Xeon work station that would basically annihilate it in any benchmark but that doesn't matter as it is not doing anything that requires more power at the moment. I think a decent graphics card would sort it. Might stick an advert in wanted, something from 18 months ago would probably be all I need. Eagle CAD is not the most taxing of applications.

It feels quite zippy in Windows 7 and on the internet but then again it is not full of dross. All the software on it is genuine from discs so I don't even need anti virus (it isn't even running email).
 
It is actually a Pentium 4 805D I think. The one before CORE chips came in.
 
cowasaki said:
It is sat next to my Mac Pro Quad Xeon
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Aha! Not the workhorse :) I had visions of you off making cups of tea whilst you waited for the images to load :D
 
cowasaki said:
It feels quite zippy in Windows 7 and on the internet but then again it is not full of dross. All the software on it is genuine from discs so I don't even need anti virus (it isn't even running email).
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You do know that you can get viruses from the internet don't you (or do you mean when you tried it, it was quite zippy but you never actually connect it to the internet in real life).
 
arad85 said:
You do know that you can get viruses from the internet don't you (or do you mean when you tried it, it was quite zippy but you never actually connect it to the internet in real life).
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I browsed TP to see the difference and downloaded some drivers from Epson, that was it.
 
Swap the mobo for a p67 based one. Not only will you be able to overclock it, but you will have 4 channels of memory
 
Yup. Asus were the best when I looked.... (although I didn't specifically look for mATX, they had best price/feature set for the ATX boards). I have a P8P67 ATX board
 
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