Self build advice

[funkyCable]

I GOT IT!!!!

I GOT A FEELING....THAT TONIGHTS GONNA BE A GOOD NIGHT!!!! lol

[funkyCable]

I need some help.

I got following in

CPU + Fan
RAM
Graphics Card
PSU

Is there suppose to be two cables attached from the PSU to the motherboard?

[Graham M]

Yes you should have a 24-pin ATX Connector and 4-Pin P4 Connector

[funkyCable]

ok my 24pin is made up of two connector and then there should be another 4 pin. is this used for the cpu?

Originally Posted by Graham M

Yes you should have a 24-pin ATX Connector and 4-Pin P4 Connector

or 2x4 pin Aux connectors. 8 pin is not unusual nowadays

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Originally Posted by funkyCable

ok my 24pin is made up of two connector and then there should be another 4 pin. is this used for the cpu?

The is a second aux 12 volt 4 pin or 8 pin required yes

[funkyCable]

The new machine was born last night.

I got Windows installed and installed the Graphic Card driver/software. I ran the "Rate this PC" and got 5.9 everything was 7.0 to 7.9 except the HDD transfer which was 5.9.

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Looks like I need to get a new wifi PCI card as well. I have a USB one at the moment and would like to get PCI one. Could you recomment a decent priced one? Possibly an N one?

Originally Posted by funkyCable

... except the HDD transfer which was 5.9.

Should have got a SSD!

[damien c]

Originally Posted by funkyCable

The new machine was born last night.

I got Windows installed and installed the Graphic Card driver/software. I ran the "Rate this PC" and got 5.9 everything was 7.0 to 7.9 except the HDD transfer which was 5.9.

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Looks like I need to get a new wifi PCI card as well. I have a USB one at the moment and would like to get PCI one. Could you recomment a decent priced one? Possibly an N one?

Think I get about 7.5 or 7.6 as my lowest can't remember and that is the hdd that is lowering it, but will have to re run it and see what happen's.

Originally Posted by LSainsbury

Should have got a SSD!

Well I am looking at this from a philosophical viewpoint.

Do I pay £200+ more than my 1tb Samsung just so Windows installs ( although its already installed on the spinpoint) and boots the little bit quicker and programs installed on it load quicker also.

My personal answer to that is no. SSD drives are still way to expensive. My system is set up to be relatively efficient programs run of other drives than the OS and when I am working off one it writes to another so there is no read write bottleneck in my system at all. I have an extra 30 seconds to spare while waiting for windows to boot and I have an extra 5 seconds for Word and other programs to open.

For SSD to be any real benefit in my system I would need 6 of them with at least half a tb each so that would cost me what?( I do not even think they are available and 200 gig+ models are 300 to 500 quid)

If I was building a system and I had 250 quid left over before looking are hard drives I would buy 5 1tb samsungs over the 128 gig ssd (sata3) anyday myself

oh and as for WEI its just a bloody meaningless number always has been

[damien c]

I like my ssd's from pressing the power button to being in a game take's about a minute or so, iirc from the last lan when we timed it.

They are expensive but if you have just a 64gb for your window's install they are about £120 and load window's in about 15 second's where, as even with a velociraptor or f3 spinpoint it was about 45 - 60 second's just to load window's never mind the thing that my board, does at the start of checking the ram cpu and vga bios etc etc.

I would hate to see how long it would take for windows to boot on 1 of my 2tb drive's as they are only 5400rpm, so slow but large storage and not allot of room taken up.

As I said I have a spare 30 seconds lol

Dont get me wrong I like the tech I am just not going to pay the price just yet

[funkyCable]

Exactly my thought I would love to have one but not at that price and the size of them that puts me off. If I had an extra £250 or even £150 I would have bought i7 as opposed to i5.

[funkyCable]

Had the machine on all night. CPU 26degree C and system 29degree C

thats not stress tested is it? prime95 or similar?

[funkyCable]

No, once I get online I'll try dl prime95 and run it. Thats just with playing some music while having the virtualbox open and me workign on it.