[Case Gallery] My aurora

[Deleted member 41019]

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Specs:
AMD ATHLON X2 BLACK EDITION 3.2GHZ / 2GB 667MHZ PNY RAM / 2X WD 250GB HDD'S (RAID 0) / ATI X1550 512MB / 800W PSU

Mods:
New Gigabyte 3d aurora with lots of features (google it theres some awesome reviews out there) akasa C.P.U cooler with fan controler and 3 120mm gigabyte cooling fan system and pre-made holes for future watercooling system.////NEW/// AKASA EVO BLUE CPU COOLER SO NEW PICS ADDED. THE PICS OF THE OLD AMBER COOLER ARE N/A TO THIS MOD

Lots of features on this case. Like i said its worth finding out some info as gigabyte have done well on there first lot of cases.
All the pics are from diffrent times of the day while i was building the system will add more if you guys want. (so just ask......lol) And big thank you to the missus for supplying the money for it.

 

[Deleted member 41019]

If your gonna leave a vote then justify it please. (2..............LMAO!!!!!)

 

[NeoCrisis]

I agree Gigabyte has done a good job in designing their cases. Great full tower at its price range. Only thing i dont like is their front panels... it just donest appeal to me.

anywho back to the rig. Needs some work on wire management try mounting your HDD the other way around. Also you should take out the accessory box out. Its blocking the air flow from the front of the case

 

[Chewy]

Whats that matting you have in the bottom? I gave you a 6 but I think you should of went with a c2d. and dont you mean 1650xt?

The door hinges really impressed me on that case.. to bad they stopped using the same ones on thier other cases.. the e6750 stock is faster than that amd x2 black edition stock by a little bit.

 

[JC316]

Very nice rig. The video card and RAM could be upgraded, but still nice. 7/10

 

[Deleted member 41019]

I agree Gigabyte has done a good job in designing their cases. Great full tower at its price range. Only thing i dont like is their front panels... it just donest appeal to me.

anywho back to the rig. Needs some work on wire management try mounting your HDD the other way around. Also you should take out the accessory box out. Its blocking the air flow from the front of the case

Strangley the hdd rails are made that way and can't be turned.

 

[Deleted member 41019]

Very nice rig. The video card and RAM could be upgraded, but still nice. 7/10

Yeah im looking into video card's. Anyone got any ideas?

 

[Deleted member 41019]

Whats that matting you have in the bottom? I gave you a 6 but I think you should of went with a c2d. and dont you mean 1650xt?

The door hinges really impressed me on that case.. to bad they stopped using the same ones on thier other cases.. the e6750 stock is faster than that amd x2 black edition stock by a little bit.

Nope it's an x1550. And a core 2 duo? HA! no when the Phenom comes out i will have a real quad with real power.......lol (with a wicked smile) Sorry intel fans not into overclocking and trying to make my cpu something it's not. No offence.

 

[shoktongxxx]

I love this case and miss its original led color.8/10 vote.^_^

 

[Deleted member 41019]

I love this case and miss its original led color.8/10 vote.^_^

This was yours was't it (http://www.techpowerup.com/gallery/1096.html) Yeah they are nice when i saw yours i google'd it and fell in love with it so it was deliverd monday. Its still not finshed as (when it was in its old case it was away for a few days for repair) Not that i cant do it myself the mobo was faulty and they replaced it. However im now off to look @ some new bits namley the Nvidia 8800gt as i can now afford it and i have an Nvidia chipset on the mobo with the x1550 so it dont run too well. Anyways im off to go buy stuff laterz dude. (p.s you got a kick ass little pc there enjoy it in your new case. I will with mine) lol

 

[otero51]

Any actual mods done to this case??

 

[Chewy]

Nope it's an x1550. And a core 2 duo? HA! no when the Phenom comes out i will have a real quad with real power.......lol (with a wicked smile) Sorry intel fans not into overclocking and trying to make my cpu something it's not. No offence.

we wont know till the time comes if its going to really be much faster than the new intel quads.. but yeah with intel you gotta overclock for them to really shine though a e6750 is faster than the Amd x2 6400 Black 3.2ghz, at its stock speed of 2.66ghz and has huge overclocking room unlike the 6400 black which runs a bit to hot at stock.. I reviewed both chips for a build Im doing for my boss.

Atm intel rains champion with no real competition, when Phenom comes out it might take the performance crown but than only till Nov/2008 lol long ways away... meh I like getting some overclock out of my hardware since theres no harm in a little bit of overclocking and well worth the performance gain if you have an overclocking chip.

When is Phenom due out anyway? if its really going to pwn theses upcoming 45nm intel quads I may just go that route.. I'm planning on getting a new 45nm quad in January in the $400-600 price range... they do look like a winner the extreme chip can do over 4ghz on air! with only like 1.45v or something! thats about as many volts as I would put into a chip for daily usage with water cooling.


COME TO THE DARKSIDE... BUAHAHAHA. LOL

No but seriously when is phenom due out again?



Edit: it dont matter if its a "real" quad (in some peoples minds), as long as the performance is there.

 

[Morgoth]

nice case! i have the black version

 

[Bonder000]

I voted 2/10 because:

it just doesnt look like a good casemod!

 

[Deleted member 41019]

we wont know till the time comes if its going to really be much faster than the new intel quads.. but yeah with intel you gotta overclock for them to really shine though a e6750 is faster than the Amd x2 6400 Black 3.2ghz, at its stock speed of 2.66ghz and has huge overclocking room unlike the 6400 black which runs a bit to hot at stock.. I reviewed both chips for a build Im doing for my boss.

Atm intel rains champion with no real competition, when Phenom comes out it might take the performance crown but than only till Nov/2008 lol long ways away... meh I like getting some overclock out of my hardware since theres no harm in a little bit of overclocking and well worth the performance gain if you have an overclocking chip.

When is Phenom due out anyway? if its really going to pwn theses upcoming 45nm intel quads I may just go that route.. I'm planning on getting a new 45nm quad in January in the $400-600 price range... they do look like a winner the extreme chip can do over 4ghz on air! with only like 1.45v or something! thats about as many volts as I would put into a chip for daily usage with water cooling.


COME TO THE DARKSIDE... BUAHAHAHA. LOL

No but seriously when is phenom due out again?



Edit: it dont matter if its a "real" quad (in some peoples minds), as long as the performance is there.

Oh yes all valid comments. As for the phenom i dunno when it's out i suppose when amd pull there thumbs out there ass then we will get a date. My cpu however did not come with a heat sink as amd suggest useing something like what i had but even then it was running hot (51-c) and now after spending £50 i got a new heat sink and the temps are an unbleaveable 9-13-c.

However with all new cpus i gotta have a new mobo too and they will be based on socket F and amd have finally scraped k8 the athlons core structure. (yay!)

So my question is do we suffer cpu failure from a rushed release or do we wait untill they perfect the new architecture?

Whatch that space i guess.

 

[Deleted member 41019]

nice case! i have the black version

Cool Cool. What are your views on it? (or post it on here and we will keep a look out)

 

[Deleted member 41019]

I voted 2/10 because:

it just doesnt look like a good casemod!

Fair play thanks for the vote and comment.

 

[Deleted member 41019]

Any actual mods done to this case??

Not as yet but we will see.

 

[Morgoth]

my case is more messy fulled up with wires and fans extreame aircooling
stil planing to get thermantake hr-03 with a 140x140 on it with an adapter for it and extra 140x140fan at the side of the case

 

[Deleted member 41019]

my case is more messy fulled up with wires and fans extreame aircooling
stil planing to get thermantake hr-03 with a 140x140 on it with an adapter for it and extra 140x140fan at the side of the case

Go on show us some pic's. Don't worry about the mess.

 

[Morgoth]

i toke out the harddrivers and the ram is broken and gona get tested if the are broken if so i get 3 new sticks of 1gb


this is what i am using now

 

[Deleted member 41019]

i toke out the harddrivers and the ram is broken and gona get tested if the are broken if so i get 3 new sticks of 1gb


this is what i am using now

I must say dude its nice. Whats the full spec? (i might not reply now untill 2moz as goin bed soon)

 

[Morgoth]

Mainboard Aopen Ax4spe-N chipset 865pe
Ram DDR400 3gigs 3.4.4.8 400mhz
Intel Pentium 4 3ghz 800fsb socket 478 (planing 4ghz oc)
Videocard X1950pro 512mb agp8x (planing to buy HD2600xt or x1950xt agp8x + Thermaltake hr-03 140x140fan)
Operating system WIndows XP 32bit (planing to get vista)
250gigs harddriver ide/ata
60 gig harddriver IDE/ata
550watt psu

 

[Deleted member 41019]

Mainboard Aopen Ax4spe-N chipset 865pe
Ram DDR400 3gigs 3.4.4.8 400mhz
Intel Pentium 4 3ghz 800fsb socket 478 (planing 4ghz oc)
Videocard X1950pro 512mb agp8x (planing to buy HD2600xt or x1950xt agp8x + Thermaltake hr-03 140x140fan)
Operating system WIndows XP 32bit (planing to get vista)
250gigs harddriver ide/ata
60 gig harddriver IDE/ata
550watt psu

3.0ghz p4 on a 478? that must get hot. Not only that save your money with the whole gpu thing agp has gone to the limit and pci-e is the way forward you can get the same card im sure for half the price in a shop. (lol). And as for the o/s stick with what ya got im useing vista and its shite im goin back to xp but only untill i can buy some games for my mac as they play all mainstream games now. (if ya really still want vista you can have mine........lol) and no joke

 

[Morgoth]

for free?
i havent tested the 3ghz yet but the 2ghz oc 2,70-2,80ghz maxium tempload ever with prime95 is 39c after running cpu burn for 30min at maxium and the cpu cooling block doest get aboven 33c btw i can easly oc the agp socket to 800mhz i did mine agp4x to 390mhz
so i might get a bether northbridge cooler