My new toy...
I pensioned off the P4/3.0 and dragged my system into the 90's
Monday, June 8, 2009 by Jafo | Discussion: Personal Computing
The old box served well for over half a decade ..... but eventually life was passing me by.... particularly during the FULL boot time being around 10 minutes....
It was [in its day] a fairly decent machine...P4/3.0 in an ASUS P4P800e Deluxe mobo with 2 gig [4x500] ram and eventually about the 'fastest' AGP card still around....a HD3850 with 512 GDDR3...all in an old Lian Li P60, powered by a TruePower 550 Watt PSU.
Then I got hacked....ending up as a mule server for email spam [I think] ... along with my having a Win 7 RC to experiment with prompted me to 'do it' sooner, rather than later.
So, off I went to my fave Comp shop armed with a list...
...and a credit card.
Just a little time later.... I had a boot full of boxes and not much money left.
Thursday last it was....as I get it all home and eagerly started poking and prodding and lots of RTFM-ing.
Friday, and out came the drill and jigsaw to cut a hole into the MoBo tray of the Case ..... so the after-market cooler would fit.... bugger of a bloody big thing it was, too.
By Saturday arvo I was sitting at the dining table with fingers in my ears as I switched it on...no OS, etc....no Keyboard or Mouse .... just to see if lights would come on....and there'd be NO smoke......
They did...and there wasn't.
Sunday...was OS time...so in went Win7 RC1 [32 bit].
Took 4/5ths of eff-all time to install and there it was in all its quasi-Vista 'splendour'.
About the only way to describe it all [other than black - as in the box] was/is "fucking fast".
I ain't got the MoBo drivers all in [Win7 compatibility]...and haven't rebooted yet since the Graphic Card driver install....
Can't even see it in real detail/scale as it's currently on a 17" CRT ....
...and I'm learning all about what won't always work as expected [like Sysmetrix]...but darn it's good...
The 'bits' I already have....to migrate across to the new machine ar the bits that plug in .... The DiNovo Edge KB ...the MS Explorer mouse ...the ASUS M221u LCD....scanners....printers....Logitech G15 wheel and pedals...etc.
What I got....
Lian Li PC-A6010 case [black]
Antec TruePower Quattro 1000w PSU
ASUS P6T-se X58 i7 MoBo
Intel i7 920 2.66Ghz LGA1366 CPU
OCZ 6G-Triple [3x2G] PC12800 Gold Ram
CoolerMaster V8 CPU Cooler [that bloodey big thing]
Vantec EZ2 Sata hot-swap racks x2
1TB Seagate Sata2 7200 HD x2 [for backup/data]
250G Seagate Sata2 7200 HD x2 [for OS]
ACR-105 Multi card reader
LG Sata DVD-RW x2
XFX 1G GTX285 Black Edition [vid]
When Win7 is finally released I'll opt for the 64bit ver...and possibly double the ram....
Funniest thing is....I thought sysmetrix wasn't working....looking at CPU load and ram usage.....till I looked closer....
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Reply #2 Monday, June 8, 2009 5:30 AM
Congratulations Paul on your new machien. Sounds good...
Reply #3 Monday, June 8, 2009 7:20 AM
Sounds good and I bet it looks good too!
Photo's where are the photo's - I always take photo's of things I put together...???
and yep that V8 is a bad ase cooler to put on - but I have yet to saw a case tray to mount one - yet...
that board and simular memory is what I recommended to fuzzy just the other day over in UK. It is a good setup!
Reply #5 Monday, June 8, 2009 7:58 AM
Congrats on the new rig,Jafo. With those specs you should be set up quite nicely for a long time to come.
Reply #6 Monday, June 8, 2009 8:19 AM
This.....
Antec TruePower Quattro 1000w PSU
ASUS P6T-se X58 i7 MoBo
Intel i7 920 2.66Ghz LGA1366 CPU
OCZ 6G-Triple [3x2G] PC12800 Gold Ram
CoolerMaster V8 CPU Cooler [that bloodey big thing]
Vantec EZ2 Sata hot-swap racks x2
1TB Seagate Sata2 7200 HD x2 [for backup/data]
250G Seagate Sata2 7200 HD x2 [for OS]
ACR-105 Multi card reader
LG Sata DVD-RW x2
XFX 1G GTX285 Black Edition [vid]
is NOT a new toy.
In computing terms, it's a piece of artillery. Now it may not be the heaviest piece of artillery there is, but (using a Ted Nugent quip from 'Double Live Gonzo') it's guaranteed to blow the balls off a charging rhino at a hundred paces...effing show off. 
Reply #7 Monday, June 8, 2009 9:51 AM
I was thinking he bought it off that spammer the other day selling dreadknots.
Reply #8 Monday, June 8, 2009 10:04 AM
Reply #9 Monday, June 8, 2009 11:06 AM
about that V8, is the fan blowing out and the logo so it can be read or did you take it apart and mount the fan to blow the opposite direction? when i bought mine, if i had mounted it so the logo could be read, teh fan was blowing back into the case. i took it apart to turn the fan around plus sleeve the wires. and yeah, it's big bit it looks great and does a superb job of cooling.
congrats on the new rig, paul. i'm glad you didn't have the issues with changing the cpu cooler you had before.
Reply #10 Monday, June 8, 2009 11:17 AM
Hmm... the parts list seems cool but I would recommend a zalman cooler, they are the best imo. But otherwise looks like you will be having a lot of fun!
Reply #11 Monday, June 8, 2009 11:30 AM
Yeah, it always blows me out of the water when I get a new computer every 4-5 years, just how slow my old one was 
Reply #12 Monday, June 8, 2009 11:41 AM
Really nice idea Pas - got to try that one.
My problem is though all in all "what is a good way to bring the total case temp down?" I've got plans for this for my next cooling system
Thus I've got a real problem with case design and keeping everything super cool inside of that case. Plans so far look at some sort of dry air conditioning system attached to the case itself. No water cooling and just fans with a cooler that actually sits outside the case with a refrigeration system type cooler.
Reply #13 Monday, June 8, 2009 11:55 AM
Nice, but did you really need that long of a post?
Reply #14 Monday, June 8, 2009 11:55 AM
zalman? i've used zalman, thermalright, thermaltake, and the V8 thru the years. i'll take a thermalright TRUE 120 or the V8 any day over a zalman cooler. don't get me wrong, zalmans do the job well but a TRUE or V8 do it better.
Reply #15 Monday, June 8, 2009 12:08 PM
I am going off my personal experiance, incorperated with Maximum PC and Tom's Hardware reviews, but in general, they are get the job done relativly well.
Reply #16 Monday, June 8, 2009 12:10 PM
Ok Mooster resized the post.
Pas got to look into that True cooler a bit. But I've got this idea that is hard to get rid of at the moment.
Reply #17 Monday, June 8, 2009 12:58 PM
And, you're predicting a 64 bits OS? Who sold you that allllmmmoooost too low amount of RAM?
I'd rephrase that "process" with a Bios setup (test) phase if i were you, but i'm not.
Soooo, what is it about switching systems and the longevity of gears these days?
1-- Your predictable needs.
2-- Coincidental pricing variations.
3-- Whomever stocks both when you show up.
Strangely, i still had the dual/quad speedy decision to make last summer and yet, if i had waited long enough the comparative costs wouldn't have changed that much.
Call it misinformation, by degree. Or M$ asynchronous releases of services & support to Vista. How time flies when proper drivers fail to follow within weeks.
Reply #18 Monday, June 8, 2009 3:22 PM
I have the same graphics card and cooler, very nice. did you notice the pot to increase/decrease fan speed. mine is set at about a quarter on. not showing off or anything like that...
oh yeah
Reply #19 Monday, June 8, 2009 8:51 PM
Pas...now you have me wondering...I'd assumed they'd know which way was 'out' in most case designs [if not all].... but now I'll have to look specifically.
6Gig was $245 AUD ....and with a 1 gig GPU a 32 bit OS will be lucky to see about a third of that.
Win 7 will be my ONLY purchase of a 64 OS [unless I grab the 64 RC before]....and that won't be till it's out [October-ish], by which time a further 6 gig may be somewhat cheaper....or who knows....a revision UP to 24gig....if the price is right....
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Reply #1 Monday, June 8, 2009 4:04 AM
Great machine jafo!
But the title of the thread seems....a porn film (My new toy)
