The £400 Beige Monster

[theonetruewill]

Here's the 7600GT from Inno3d

I'm pleased with the cooler as ebuyer said that it would come with the bog standard one. So the new cooler (Zalman I think) could give me some more overclocking potential. I am going to get some additional Zalman heatsinks for the memory chips though.

 

[theonetruewill]

Ordered Arctic C. 64 pro and Arctic C silver 5.

Jimminy crickets my money is all going, and one of my cash injections for the ram and hdd are dead.... Hmmm going to have to sell some things on eBay. I wonder if I have any of those old trading cards I wonder if they're still collectable by some obsessed kid.

 

[theonetruewill]

Just put on my AC 64 pro and AS5.

Bloody hell getting the old standard HSF off was difficult. I am never ever putting one of those old ones on again. Once the lever had been put to the losses position the bloody clips needed a screwdriver and some serious wedging to get out. I tested if this was the case with the new HSF and no problems at all.

Loving it by the way!

OK only HDD and RAM to go, decided to go XP pro until I can get more RAM.

 

[tkpenalty]

Inno 3D are known to make pretty good stock coolers. Is it the GDDR3 model? It looks like it.

 

[theonetruewill]

Inno 3D are known to make pretty good stock coolers. Is it the GDDR3 model? It looks like it.

Yes it is.
Also for interest's sake I have ripped off the fan off the AMD HSF (needed another fan and I'm skint ) The old HSF was buggered anyway. Bloody thing was bent inside I ofund out on closer insepection. And its bent oddly too, not the angle its supposed to be at, and I don't believe that was my doing. Might explain the difficulties in its removal though. (clip mechanism was bent. Invisible externally, only when fan was removed (ps not the normal bend I know that ones is there)

Pic shows HS after fan removal (a bugger getting that off too)
Sorry havent' shown the bent bit, but its the metal clip that attaches to the mobo that you can see. On the left of the middle of it, along with the normal bend it was twisted and a bit warped .

 

[theonetruewill]

Final Total Price

Made the final order today, will arrive on Thursday (GMT)

Price up so far
Cpu: £71.77
Mobo: £67
Gfx: £65
Case+PSU: £38 (made a deal for the two together)
HDD: £45
DVD: £23
RAM: £47

Total: £356.77

What a pwnage of a price! And proof that a gaming PC does not have to cost the Earth

 

[kwchang007]

Just put on my AC 64 pro and AS5.

Bloody hell getting the old standard HSF off was difficult. I am never ever putting one of those old ones on again. Once the lever had been put to the losses position the bloody clips needed a screwdriver and some serious wedging to get out. I tested if this was the case with the new HSF and no problems at all.

Loving it by the way!

OK only HDD and RAM to go, decided to go XP pro until I can get more RAM.

that's a sweet hsf. huge, just the way the best are

 

[theonetruewill]

Look at my price up dude!

HDD: Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 250Gb
RAM: Corsair XMS2 2x 512mb 667
DVD: Asus Lightscribe DRW-1814BLT

 

[kwchang007]

Look at my price up dude!

SWEET, very nice, very nice.

 

[theonetruewill]

The Colossus Awakens

OK here's my machine!

 

[theonetruewill]

OK quick summary of cooling:

Main intake fan at the front of the case (120mm) Coolermaster
Secondary intake fan at the bottom grill of the side of the case (120mm) CoolerMaster
Main exhaust fan at the back of the case (92mm) Zalman (with resistor)
Secondary exhaust fan at the top grill at the side (92mm) Zalman (with resistor)

 

[kwchang007]

OK here's my machine!

NICE!!!!!! dude awsome, how's it do compared to the laptop?

 

[theonetruewill]

NICE!!!!!! dude awsome, how's it do compared to the laptop?

ATM! f*****g craply! I got some bloody pirated version of Windows, thought the seller looked dodgy. Now its dying very 5 seconds. Thats it I'm gonna get all my stuff online now, you just can't trust ordinary folk.

 

[kwchang007]

ATM! f*****g craply! I got some bloody pirated version of Windows, thought the seller looked dodgy. Now its dying very 5 seconds. Thats it I'm gonna get all my stuff online now, you just can't trust ordinary folk.

Yuck, my grandparents had a pirated version of windows (i think it was just the key) and ms caught it. good thing you're getting it legal, otherwise you'd lose whatever you have on your comp, and im betting the thing will run amazing compared to your laptop (well, you beat my x1400 , im just waiting for r600 and asus xg station if the r600 will fit)

 

[theonetruewill]

Yuck, my grandparents had a pirated version of windows (i think it was just the key) and ms caught it. good thing you're getting it legal, otherwise you'd lose whatever you have on your comp, and im betting the thing will run amazing compared to your laptop (well, you beat my x1400 , im just waiting for r600 and asus xg station if the r600 will fit)

There seems to be know way round it without just cracking and I don't want to have to do that, its too illegal. So I'm a bit buggered as I don't have any £££ for a new XP, spent my last £50 on that one...

WTF! 100 more posts than me!?

 

[kwchang007]

There seems to be know way round it without just cracking and I don't want to have to do that, its too illegal. So I'm a bit buggered as I don't have any £££ for a new XP, spent my last £50 on that one...

WTF! 100 more posts than me!?

that sucks, spent your last bit of money on a crap version of xp. oh and 100 more...idk how that happened, lol.

 

[theonetruewill]

that sucks, spent your last bit of money on a crap version of xp. oh and 100 more...idk how that happened, lol.

Well I spent all day on it today (hence it being 3am now) and I've "sorted" the problem
ATM 6197 3dmark05

 

[kwchang007]

Well I spent all day on it today (hence it being 3am now) and I've "sorted" the problem
ATM 6197 3dmark05

nice, i bet it felt really smooth compared to the laptop? lol. GRRR 1886 on 3dmark05 here, lol. i might have to by a 8500 gs or 8600 gs (maybe gts if i get the money) or of course if i get a bunch of money, i'll just go and buy myself an asus xg station, that way i don't have to use the p4 for gaming.

 

[TSX420J]

Sweet setup. I wish I had joined this forum before I started. I bought a bunch of
crap and want to return most of it now because I want better stuff. Too late though.

 

[theonetruewill]

nice, i bet it felt really smooth compared to the laptop? lol. GRRR 1886 on 3dmark05 here, lol. i might have to by a 8500 gs or 8600 gs (maybe gts if i get the money) or of course if i get a bunch of money, i'll just go and buy myself an asus xg station, that way i don't have to use the p4 for gaming.

Good position on the gfx; I tell you, now I've enabled SATA-II the HDD is like lightning! Makes a difference from the 4100rppm model I had before!

 

[theonetruewill]

OK when I next upgrade what do you guys think,

another 7600GT for about £60 for SLI
or another 2x XMS2 512MB RAM?

 

[kwchang007]

OK when I next upgrade what do you guys think,

another 7600GT for about £60 for SLI
or another 2x XMS2 512MB RAM?

id say either skip the next upgrade, and the time after that you have money, get a better vid card. or if you really want an upgrade asap, get the sli, then ram, since you're not using vista, 2 gb is nice, but you don't need it.

 

[theonetruewill]

id say either skip the next upgrade, and the time after that you have money, get a better vid card. or if you really want an upgrade asap, get the sli, then ram, since you're not using vista, 2 gb is nice, but you don't need it.

The things is, the next time I get some cash it won't be enough for a new better gfx but it will be about thr right amount to get me another 7600GT so I thought, shove em in SLI, screw DX10 cos I don't have that sort of money to waste on bloated artistic oversecured shi.... I mean on a new operating system like Vista. Thus, extra 256 VGA memory, = much better performance in games, if not an all round boost from RAM. but benches and framerates are where it counts!

Plus, telling peple I've got SLI is cool!

 

[kwchang007]

The things is, the next time I get some cash it won't be enough for a new better gfx but it will be about thr right amount to get me another 7600GT so I thought, shove em in SLI, screw DX10 cos I don't have that sort of money to waste on bloated artistic oversecured shi.... I mean on a new operating system like Vista. Thus, extra 256 VGA memory, = much better performance in games, if not an all round boost from RAM. but benches and framerates are where it counts!

Plus, telling peple I've got SLI is cool!

hahaha sli is cool! hahahaha oversecured.....turn off UAC yeah, if you're going to upgrade, get the extra vid card

 

[Ripper3]

Pretty good build, and just goes to show that you really don't need a grand or more to build a decent PC.
Mine started out like that too, a build in progress. So far, all that hasn't changed at all from the original specs from 2 years ago is one of my two sticks of RAM (everything else has either had upgrades or RMAs, so technicaly, been replaced, heh). Everything else has been sold off either on Ebay or one of those computer stores down Tottenham Court Road.
BTW, those are pretty good specs over all, and I bet you're glad AMD lowered their prices AGAIN.