Author Topic: New $500 Gaming Rig (Read 4529 times)

Da6onet · « **Reply #15 on:** April 30, 2010, 11:22:27 am »

Quote from: "Jeyk"

Can you post a picture of the IO portion of the board? I have a couple of spare IO shields, and I would hate to see you waste any additional money on sending it back if we can find something that will adequately replace the one it is missing.

Is there any way you can pick up a cheaper case on Newegg and return the one you currently have once it arrives?

nah don't worry about it jeyk, I already sent back the mobo and bought both the case and new motherboard at the local computer store (actually saved a few $$ because of lack of shipping costs).

I could have picked a cheaper case, but having looked at the features of all of them, I decided to get one that will last for years of ugrades (an investment if you will). The board isn't that much more expensive, but it is the most important component of the computer. At that point I was worried that the thing was going to be DOA anyway.

Jeyk · « **Reply #16 on:** April 30, 2010, 01:15:43 pm »

10-4. That's unfortunate to hear that you had a bad experience with Open Box; every now and then it can indeed turn out to be a disappointment.

Da6onet · « **Reply #17 on:** May 08, 2010, 11:50:39 am »

Windows Score
Processor AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 B55 Processor 7.5
Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB 7.5
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series 7.5
Gaming graphics 2807 MB Total available graphics memory 7.5
Primary hard disk 57GB Free (112GB Total) 5.4

As you can see just a simple switch in the BIOS and the system thinks my BE 555 x2 is now a whopping x4 (and I haven't even touched the voltage or multiplier :-)

Anyhoo, pretty obvious that I reused an old hdd from another computer, would like to get my hands on a 10k rpm raptor drive (of course after I get a 2nd card for crossfire ~ 6 months). Wish I could play games all day, but I have things on my plate the rest of the day, perhaps tomorrow.

Da6onet · « **Reply #18 on:** May 15, 2010, 06:19:13 pm »

Ditched the stock cpu heatsink and fan for this
http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=6603

While I would eventually like to go the water cooling route (piezo's after that), I can currently keep my cpu over clocked as a 3.6ghz quad core at roughly 40c under load and my 5770 at 960mhz core 1370mhz memory at 65c under load. Even so, I still can't quite get 60fps in darkfall with shadows on high :-/