Out with the old, in with the new - Page 2

ninty · 05-15-2007, 12:44 PM

didn't they recommend a 450w for the 1900xt series? i think it's pretty good you got it to run on a 350w.

geRV · 05-15-2007, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by 1080jibber

you must have a lot of pc parts laying around. what do you do with all your old shit?

Usually sell it off or have a spare pc made out of it. My new ati card arrived today and so did a cooler i ordered a while back for my x1900.

[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.marley/new-cooler.jpg[/img]

Unfortunately its too bulky to fit in my shuttle, prolly end up selling it of eventually.

geRV · 05-15-2007, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by ninty

didn't they recommend a 450w for the 1900xt series? i think it's pretty good you got it to run on a 350w.

Yeah the shuittle psu's are very efficient, a 400 watt shuttle psu is more like a 600 watt desktop psu according to some people. Now ive to order up one of those tomorrow and hope it supplies enough power.

Simo Häyhä · 05-15-2007, 01:15 PM

800 watt psu is where its at these days. If you want your room to turn into a sauna happy:

strvs · 05-15-2007, 01:16 PM

I just got my computer built yesterday, i have an 8800GTS superclocked.. haven't had the chance to test it out because my optical drive is fucked, keeps screwing up reading cd's or having errors during installation. annoy:

geRV · 05-15-2007, 01:20 PM

[quote="Simo Häyhä":3ebf9]800 watt psu is where its at these days. If you want your room to turn into a sauna happy:[/quote:3ebf9]

Thats really why i got the shuttle, had a 3.2p4 @ 4ghz on watercooling, room was boiling, had crossfireed x1900's with a watercooled opteron 165, room was boiling. Now ive got the shuttle ive an inadequate powersupply to do the job, annoy:

Just hope this 400 watt is upto it as its supposed to be designed for multi gpu configs.

geRV · 05-15-2007, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by strvs

I just got my computer built yesterday, i have an 8800GTS superclocked.. haven't had the chance to test it out because my optical drive is fucked, keeps screwing up reading cd's or having errors during installation. annoy:

take a hatchet to the bastard.

What spec did you end up settling on anway?

ninty · 05-15-2007, 01:28 PM

Yeah, i have a 430w psu and my room gets smoking hot. on my next build i'm probably looking at a 750w. ed: want to put in some leeway, as my 430 isn't really enough for me to upgrade to a x1950pro agp at the moment. I think they recommend a 450w for that as well.

geRV · 05-15-2007, 01:32 PM

Friend of mine bought this pc

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... 81&subcat=

The case might look a bit "cheap" but it has some amazing cooling in it, bigass 200mm fan at the top of the case near the back, few large intakes and a large exhaust. You can put your hand on the grill of the fan and its really cold feling. Seems to do the job pretty well.

ninty · 05-15-2007, 01:34 PM

Thats the case I have planned to build my new rig in. That is unless something betters comes out between now and then.

geRV · 05-15-2007, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by ninty

Thats the case I have planned to build my new rig in. That is unless something betters comes out between now and then.

Only prob with it is cable management, psu goes into the bottom of the case and there doesn't seem to be anywhere really to hide the wires.

http://img121.imagevenue.com/img.php?im ... _623lo.jpg

http://img12.imagevenue.com/view.php?im ... _963lo.jpg
top intake:

http://img176.imagevenue.com/img.php?im ... _597lo.jpg

Milla · 05-15-2007, 01:48 PM

Gerv i'll buy your vid card. Im in the market for one, i was looking at the 8600GTS (the DX10 card) because its like 179 (which is cheap) on newegg.com

ninty · 05-15-2007, 01:50 PM

That's something i hadn't considered. With th psu on the bottom, you're right, there's no place to hide the wires coming out of the psu. when it's on the top of the case, you can't see them. I suppose you could get them to run in one nice tight strand, and hide excess behind drive bays if there's room. Of if there's room between the motherboard tray and the back panel, could drill a hole and run them under the motherboard.

geRV · 05-15-2007, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Milla

Gerv i'll buy your vid card. Im in the market for one, i was looking at the 8600GTS (the DX10 card) because its like 179 (which is cheap) on newegg.com

8600's a pile of dick, buy a 8800gts 320mb or something happy:

First dx 10 demo coming tonight, lost planet. happy:

Stammer · 05-15-2007, 02:48 PM

Is a Radeon X800 still considered 1337-hardware?