My new PC

[Admiral Huddy]

Last week I was mainly building this beauty :



Inside :

Q6600 (go)
Asus P5KC
4x1GB GeIL PC2-6400
Geforce 8800GTX (from previous build)
500GB SATA-II Samsung Spinpoint
250GB SATA-II WD
Liteon DVD RW
Artic Freezer 7
2 x scythe bays each have 120mm fans at front
1 x standard 120mm + 1 x90mm case fans at rear
Corsair 620w PSU
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Professional
Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP 24" widescreen LCD Flat Panel
Windows Vista-64 Ultimate
Porn stash!

all neatly tucked away :




my desk looks much better :




my lovely new 24" WS bad boy



Not got any benchmarks yet but all stable but it leave my old AMD X2 4400+ standing. I'm hoping to get this upto 3.2GHz within a few weeks..

build pics to follow

[Stan_Lite]

Nice spec dude

How'd you get on with the Vista drivers for the Fatal1ty with that Asus board? Any problems?

I had no joy with mine with my Asus P5N32-E SLI, couldn't get any decent sound at all just crackles and pops. Did some research and apparently some Asus boards (mine included ) don't like the Creative Vista drivers.

Hope you have more luck with your Q6600 G0 than me, I must have got the only duff overclocking one in the world - can't get it stable above 2.70GHz

[Admiral Huddy]

This is a known problem as you know since the disappearance of the HAL. You would think that Creative would have come up with something by now.

It took me a whole eveing to get working. I just kept trying to install the drivers from creative download center but it seemed that Vista was off locating the drivers from it's own offsite database?? then it worked??

I found the the Alcemy utility works a treat.


What voltages were you using above 2.7Ghz? Did you change the FSB/RAM divider to syncronous? By default, I noticed from CPU-Z last night that it's set to asyncronous (2/3) this means at 300MHz your memory would become 450Mhz (900MHz effective). If you are using pc2-6400, then that's too ,much.. Sorry if you already know this.

[LeperousDust]

Wheres the water cooling Huddy, you have TONNES of room for a nice water cooled setup!

[LeperousDust]

//Edit: Ignore

[Admiral Huddy]

Originally Posted by LeperousDust

Wheres the water cooling Huddy, you have TONNES of room for a nice water cooled setup!

It's in my plans.. I've not installed a WC system as yet.. so I've asked Zirax to give me a hand. Once I've got the system past the 3GHz barrier then it's time to spend..

[LeperousDust]

It really is a lot easier than people make out, it only gets tricky or difficult when you're running out of room. Water cooling my shuttle was bad for my blood pressure, but sooooooo quiet afterwards. I could stick clock it well even though i was using the (as silent as you get) Zalman Reserator! I definately recomend that to you for a begginers kit, but its still reasonable out the box but you'll never turn back after experiences true silence

[Stan_Lite]

Originally Posted by Admiral Huddy

This is a known problem as you know since the disappearance of the HAL. You would think that Creative would have come up with something by now.

It took me a whole eveing to get working. I just kept trying to install the drivers from creative download center but it seemed that Vista was off locating the drivers from it's own offsite database?? then it worked??

I found the the Alcemy utility works a treat.

I ****ed around with it for ages and never got it to work and got fed up in the end and bought a Trust card which worked fine - until I installed XP64 to dual boot it (with Vista 32bit). There were no 64 bit drivers for the Trust card so I had to buy yet another card which could work with Vista 32 bit and XP64 - ended up with an M-Audio card which works just dandy with both and is quite a good card.

Originally Posted by Admiral Huddy

What voltages were you using above 2.7Ghz? Did you change the FSB/RAM divider to syncronous? By default, I noticed from CPU-Z last night that it's set to asyncronous (2/3) this means at 300MHz your memory would become 450Mhz (900MHz effective). If you are using pc2-6400, then that's too ,much.. Sorry if you already know this.

I tried everything from stock up to about 1.6V and it wouldn't have it.
I set my RAM speed manually - I have pc2-8000 RAM (1000MHz) which I had running at 1066MHz with the B3 Q6600. I even set the RAM to 800MHz and slackened the timings just to make sure it wasn't the RAM at fault. I tried the B3 chip back in and it behaved exactly as before so it's definitely the g0 chip.

I'm going to try it in another board when I get home, see if that makes any difference.

[Will]

A fair few fans in there - how noisy is it? Looks neat though Was it the software install that took a week or the build itself?

[Admiral Huddy]

Originally Posted by Will

A fair few fans in there - how noisy is it? Looks neat though Was it the software install that took a week or the build itself?

I can't believe how silent it is The Sycth 120mm fans are superb and really make a difference.

It was sorting out the endless software problems as nothing seemed to work with Vista 64: Sound and printer drivers, benchmarking tools, etc.. Even the bloody Asus utlity failed to work tut tut. Must of them just needed patches or updates but it all takes time. I hindsight, what I sould have done was to find out and download all the stuff BEFORE the build.. ho hum!

I would like to run CPC benchmarks but the gimp test just freezes.. However, this is a known problem.

Orthas runs ok but I'm not sure how I can get this running on all four cores?