Recent content by inovice

Thank you for correcting me, sorry, I do make mistakes sometimes (English is not my native language, I am french). I apologies for the incovenience. I am a uni-student, trying my best to communicate in English to solve my HTPC problem :) I have been in US for 1 year now, I was in England...

Great news…I have just received case and memory while I was doing some thermal paste painting. Good timing, I will mount the heatsink and try to sit the motherboard to check if the heatsink height/size is an issue Box looks quite big for a small case. Now, I just need to wait for SSD

While having coffee, I got an idea, removed some of the blades from the bottom part of the heatsink. Grabbed some tools and I removed the lower end of the heatsink, only on the side that would be close to the pcie. Finally it fits now…had to improvise. I am going to install the...

oh man….it is not a good day today. I just tried to sit the heat sink on the motherboard to check the space between memory dim and heatsink. It looks fine. Now I have another problem, the heatsink is too BIG, it covers the pcie slot. My raid card will not fit due to its height:( And if I...

ok, I was testing the PSU, there was a noise coming out of it. There was a small piece of plastic impeding the PSU fan, probably due to the shipment. Since I could see it inside the PSU, I decided to fix it by myself, I opened the PSU, removed the plastic and did a dust-off inside the PSU and...

Well it is Friday, and I still have not received all my pc parts yet……still missing PC case, SSD and Memory, hope to have everything by the end of the day :\ After reading couple of reviews online, I have finally decided to purchase Noctua fans. I bough a used 140mm fan and 2 new...

Alan and Charlie - Thank you very much! You guys rock!! I totally forgot about socket details and completely forgot to measure the height of the case for the heat sink. I thought all these parts are standard-size. I have to be more careful. I have already placed the order for the parts, with...

Thank you Charlie98, below is the spec of the motherboard that I just bought. http://www.msi.com/product/mb/Z87I.html Ok, I am thinking of purchasing this heat sink for my build. Anyone has any experience with this heatsink. It is cheap and within my budget...

Thank you Alan, I have a written confirmation from the ebay seller that the PSU works. It needs to be dust-off and cleaned, I will handle that when I receive the unit, I have just placed the order. I saw on another forum someone replaced the fans on Node 304 with some Notua fans. I read that...

Hello, Thank you all for your feedback, appreciate it. The MSI Z87i board has dual LAN ports and good features overall for $128. Hence I decided to go with MSI (but not purchased yet). I do not have wifi, I have a core 2 duo HP laptop and MacMini with i5 and Radeon HD 6630M as my main...

Hello, This is my first time to build HTPC. I am planning to build a basic HTPC with the parts below to watch movies and for light gaming I will use onboard Intel Graphics HDMI out to connect to my LG 42 inch TV or now. I need some advice whether the parts are fine or need to be changed...

Thanks james1701, I would start playing with my i7 980 over the weekend :D I still do not understand why Intel move from a tri-channel to dual-channel memory controller for this cpu. I understand their concerns about power management for mobile devices. But why in the world would you do that...

Thanks Brekyrself! I read that couple of weeks ago before buying my Gulftown. http://www.techreaction.net/2010/09/07/3-step-overclocking-guide-bloomfield-and-gulftown/2/

Hi lopri, Thanks for your input and you are right :thumbsup: The information below is from another webpage, similar question and it was answered by an Intel Engineer back in 2010. "Bloomfield i7 9xx offered three channels of DDR3-1066 support, Core i7-980X does that as well. But a number of...

Hello, I have just purchased a 2nd hand i7 980X to replace my i7 920. I have Asus P6T mobo with 6 GB of Memory and Zalman CNPS14X as heatsink. My 920 was OC-ed to 3.8 GHz which is largely enough for a noob like me:D I have been doing a lot of reading lately. I understand Core i7 980X gulftown...