Computer Build – Part 2
Well I finally finished putting the thing together on saturday. I nabbed the sound card and the DVD drive out of my old machine and fitted them in my new machine. Spent ages routing the cables behind the motherboard tray but eventually it all when in. Looks really tidy too.
One failing I found, which could be attributed to the case really, is that because the power supply is located at the bottem, it is a real stretch for the 4pin power to reach the top of the mother board. Also, the main 24pin power socket is kind of awkwardly placed. If you have a graphics card that is longer than the one I have, it will interfere with the power supply cable. Also the placement for some of the ports made it difficult to route the cables nicely.
I couldn’t be arsed with taking photos of the second part, it was just too much bother for a boring part of the build. i do have some of the result however =D
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- Woohoo!
Installed Vista with no problems. On first impression I would bet that my old machine is faster for desktop actions, I am sure it boots faster. Once in Windows however, its fine.
Got a lovely 5.9 for everything from Vista. And its quite a quiet machine, doesn’t rattle like my old machine. I left all the fans on medium, seems to be the best overall choice.
Blue screened my machine twice though within as many hours, nTune was not happy, so I cannot find out the temps for my graphics card. CPUIDs Hardware Monitor puts the CPU @ 45ish C on idle and 60 C under load. Couple of months time I’ll stick a new cooler on it.
Once all the crap was out of the way I got stuck into installing games. Vegas 2 runs like a dream, only I still die as much… can’t use the stuttering anymore as an excuse ;)
Also stuck Sacred 2 on it as well. Now, this was the game that gave me the nudge to get a new machine as it failed to render graphics on my old machine. However I ran into the same problem again. Thanks to Matt though, he gave me a command line to use (/skipopenal). It seems to be an issue with Sound Blaster sound cards, can’t understand why but that all works now too.
End result, I am a happy chappie.