Recent content by naughty001

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    939 to AM2 worth it?

    why spend money on a sidegrade - even if you get the AM2 to overclock to around 2.5ghz - you wont even notice the difference - if you do want to spend money - then spend a bit more and get an E6300 and relevant mobo and ram - and you will see a difference worth talking about - especially if you...
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    Is the AMD 4X4 system out yet?

    AFAIK the amd setup is only going to work with socket F 1207 pin and specific FX cpu's designed to work with unregistered dims - so its gonna be server and workstation stuff with conventional ram - you wont be able to use 3800x2's at all in that configuration so you will need to buy a very...
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    Watercooling setup?

    havent you guys ever heard of a shroud - a properly designed and executed shroud will be more efficient than just sticking your fans onto the rad IMHO - im not going to go into the reasons - its been discussed to death everywhere where people discuss watercooling - and ive tried both ways - the...
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    Cable Management DIY guide *update 2* photos added!

    its very neat steve - i like it yours is very neat too - im sure you can get a converter from ide to sata - thus you plug it into the back of the ide unit and it will give you a SATA port instead if im not mistaken abit used to make one called the serrilelII - since them im sure there are...
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    Cable Management DIY guide *update 2* photos added!

    well where i live i can get rubber strips that fit over the edges - these are the type of things that old school modders used to use for casewindows - and these can form grommets - plus when i complete my mod all my cabling will be sleeved - so it minimises the risk of any cable getting pierced...
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    Cable Management DIY guide *update 2* photos added!

    i used a dremel - i actually cut the holes in rectangular shapes
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    Cable Management DIY guide *update 2* photos added!

    dude - you can drill some holes in the back of your case - and run those down under the mobo and then just route those behind the mobo tray - but if you do drill then remember to spray some tectyl to the drilled surfaces to prevent rust - that would depend on where you live ie coastal regions...
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    Cable Management DIY guide *update 2* photos added!

    check on the bottom right hand side - the power and led cables are all sleeved in black - when you look carefully - they are all there
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    case window questions

    oval and square are boring - heres a pic of my homemade window - sure i had this lasercut - but at that time i wasnt confident of my ability with a dremel or jigsaw - now ill take the project on without having it lasercut - BTW the lasercutting job cost me around the equivalent of $20 ie im in...
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    case window questions

    it would probably be cheaper just to buy a jigsaw and/or dremel and cut your own
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    Cable Management DIY guide *update 2* photos added!

    Hi thats got a 3500+ with an msi neo4 platinum with 2 gigs of ram and all of that with a ati x300se (all of those parts are my spare rig im probably going to remove and transplant my main rig stuff back in there - thats a more respectable setup ie 4800+ cpu and asus a8n 32 sli deluxe with...
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    AMD or Intel die hard fanboy

    im a hardware fanboy - i will chose the best option open to me at the time im buying
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    Has anyone ever put a heatsink on perfectly?

    i must have done over 200 - i cant recall any mishaps with any beginning from the first one 200 is a conservative estimate - its probably far more - but id rather give a conservative figure then be accused of boasting - and no those were not all my pc's - lots of them were clients or...
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    Cable Management DIY guide *update 2* photos added!

    heres what my case currently looks like - it will look different when im finished sorry editted to add pic - not used to this forum yet - havent posted much here recently interior
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    Are there any other boards like the A8N32 with dual x16 PCI-E?

    for every one person with problems you will have 99 more with great success - thats all ill say about the subject