Originally Posted by cookie_365

Nope - delivery was only about £10 each - and only Dabs had the memory I wanted, Overclockers were doing a special discount on the very HDD I wanted and ebuyer? Well, they had the case I wanted .... or so I thought ...;)

Originally Posted by pedantic

Yup !! just checked ebuyer and it says out of stock, looks like they were trying to send you something else instead of what you ordered. :td:

Regards.

Originally Posted by cookie_365

Incidentally, while I'm waiting for the rest of the stuff I thought I'd start checking out what I've got so far.

With the graphics card I got a strange metal dooblie thingy.

I've never even changed a PCI card before but it's obviously a backplate. But why?

The graphics card itself has a backplate (otherwise you wouldn't be able to plug your monitor into it ;)) and what's this little padded corner bit at the top? What's it supposed to pad against?

The manual doesn't say, of course :)

Any ideas?

Originally Posted by Ramrod

It looks like a strange easy lift out blanking plate...........but whats the foam pad for?

Originally Posted by KingPhoenix

This holds the SLI riser card (the bit of board that connects the 2 SLI Graphics Cards) in place

Originally Posted by cookie_365

Ah, that makes sense. I'm not going to be using SLI anyway so that can go in the bottom draw.

So if you do want to use SLI you'll end up 2 of these things then .... maybe they could have made it a bit more fun by putting a random half in each box - there you are, just about to install the second card, but 'Blast, I've already got the foamy bit - anyone want to swap a metal screwy bit?' ;)

Ta

Originally Posted by cookie_365

Ah, that makes sense. I'm not going to be using SLI anyway so that can go in the bottom draw.

So if you do want to use SLI you'll end up 2 of these things then .... maybe they could have made it a bit more fun by putting a random half in each box - there you are, just about to install the second card, but 'Blast, I've already got the foamy bit - anyone want to swap a metal screwy bit?' ;)

Ta

Originally Posted by Dave Stones

no... you only need one, as you only have noe bridge connecting two cards ;)

Originally Posted by cookie_365

I know! :rolleyes:

That's why you're guaranteed to have one left over whether you're using SLI or not - either cos there's no bridge at all if you're not using it, or you get one with each card but only need one of the two cos there's only one bridge. :D

I dunno, with that kind of thinking, I think I'm safe from any cunning assassination plan you want to bounce my way ... ;););)

Originally Posted by Dave Stones

who needs to be cunning? i have a dragon :p:

it's zinglebarb you got to watch out for...

Originally Posted by cookie_365

I know! :rolleyes:

That's why you're guaranteed to have one left over whether you're using SLI or not - either cos there's no bridge at all if you're not using it, or you get one with each card but only need one of the two cos there's only one bridge. :D

I dunno, with that kind of thinking, I think I'm safe from any cunning assassination plan you want to bounce my way ... ;););)

Originally Posted by KingPhoenix

I got mine with my MoBo.... zippideee doo dah like that with my graphics cards :confused:

MoBo = Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
GFX Cards = 2 x Asus 6800 Ultra