You don't support overclocking "popor little dual core chips"? Your the most arrogant person i've ever met.
Poor little dual core chips? Didn't you BUY the chip to overclock it? The main reason buy these chips are either because they're cheap or because they can overclock the NUTS off them.
You don't need a quad core and water cooling to get a good overclock, seems like you prefer the bragging rights to overclocking, not the actual reason you do it - to get a performance increase.
Well, most of my PC is super modern, and yet I've still got an older graphics card. It's by no means a bad card, but I need something more powerful for some of the games I like to run (at the resolutions and settings I'd like to run them at - like X-Plane.) I could also use another 2 Gb of RAM, which is next on my list. Other than that, the only other thing I want to upgrade really is I do want to go to water cooling eventually.
And not to sound like a complete ****, I am all about the looks of the computer. I've already got a sound card with the ports that light up, and a mobo with the same feature, and everything glows blue nicely. Which means there's one more thing I'd like to eventually get even though I don't really need it, hehe: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ ... aspx?Item=N82E16817814015
I just want everything in this thing to be top o' the line. I'm a neat freak, so I want EVERYTHING in the computer to match correctly, even in terms of style. I always like to buy the top end components - which is why it took me YEARS to get this computer to where it is now. Through those years, I've had "that feeling" I was talking about.
Nah. I'm not so much into the GOWING CABLES and LIGHT TUBES and that kind of stuff. Just that the parts I got happened to glow blue, so it ended up looking nice. The fans glow blue, the CPU fan glows green (annoyed me at first, but makes for a neat contrast) the mobo has 30 LEDs that light up to help you plug stuff in, the I/O panel at the back lights up blue, and the sound card's audio ports are lit from the inside in different colors. I just thought it would be neat to have that PSU too, lol. The case DOES have a window, so what the hell, y'know?
Yea, I think the differences are like airflow or something. Like the PC-60 has the side fan while the PC-7 doesn't. O wait, the pic doesn't show that... now I'm thoroughly confused. Lian-Li has way to many similar models, lol. You've got me, I've no clue. All I know is I have the PC-60
Here's the case I have and reccomend for both quality and a good price.
The front of the case is perforated mesh metal, providing great airflow for the price.
I'm just wondering, I know it does make a difference, but how much louder is a case where the whole front is perforated? I almost got one like that but I feared it would be too loud.
It's all come at last but there's no thermal paste with the processor (I thought there would be?) and the Intel processor install instructions make no reference to thermal paste so I assume I don't require any with the retail heatsink/fan?
The retail heatsink should have a "thermal pad" on the bottom. It's square shaped (don't touch it - it's basically thermal paste thats printed onto the base of the heatsink.) It's not as good as thermal paste, but it works just fine. You DO need something though. If it truly didn't come with anything it's a manufacturing error, and you'll likely overheat your CPU in seconds if you try to run it.
It had the stuff printed on the bottom of the heatsink, I just hadn't realised
Another question, my case has two fans in it. I've got 4 fan connectors on my mobo, NB, SYS, PWR and CPU. Which fan should go where? Obviously the CPU fan is obvious but what about the other fans? The instructions say to connect the Northbridge fan to the NB connector but there are no fans on my mobo and AFAIK it's passively cooled.
You probably have the fanless version of a mobo that also comes with a Northbridge that DOES have a fan. Either that. or they're using a generic board layout for multiple configurations? Nothing to worry about. You could probably mount one on it if you wanted, but if it didn't come with one you probably don't need it. In general though, you can plug your case fans in wherever you like aside from the CPU.
When I got mine, the first thing I did was removed it. I made the mistake of using the back of a knife and scratched the copper on the heatsink, but I quickly realized it and just rubbed it off with my finger, cleaned it with alchohol, and put some Arctic Silver 5 on it.
Up and running. Vista has already really pissed me off though, how can I get rid of all the questions? It asked me four times whether I was really sure I was wanting to do what I was doing installing CMX Viewer, once for creating a folder in Program Files, once for moving a file to program files, once for the extractor and once to open the viewer :doh:
Well after a few days running it I'm very impressed. Only regret was the case, pretty crapply designed. The concealed CD flap keep jamming on my DVD drive so I took the front panel off to move the drive into a lower bay, only problem being I didn't think to remove the front panel connectors from my mobo and feed them through the slot in the case. It wouldn't have been an issue if the case didn't need so much force to rip the front panel off, I really dislike that kind of push fit, ended up pulling the red LED that tells you when it's doing something (what is the point in it?) which I had to tape back in and seems like it's pulled out the connector for the big power light, which only lights when you tap the case now. The power button and USB ports still work so no harm done really, in fact I prefer not having a light show from my computer case, in fact I might disconnect the remaining status LED thingy because it pisses me off whenever I have the lights off
Lol, I must say, you could use the power LED on my case to guide the Queen Mary in on a foggy day. I'm used to it now, but I mean jezus it's bright. It's seriously brighter than a lot of LED flashlights I've seen.
Akasa Zen white, seemed like good value and I didn't want a case covered with lights and I definitely didn't want a window. I think it's still a good case for the money, just the front panel attachment was badly designed.
