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jim53 said:
The Antec 300 cable management is ok but i think they have room for improvement.
It does take some time to get the cables routed to look half way decent, did about the best i could without modding the case.
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You do have to consider that it's a $70 case.

The really funny thing is the new 480 is about 2 inches shorter than my 9800GTX from when it first came out lol.
 
Davidh373 said:
You do have to consider that it's a $70 case.

The really funny thing is the new 480 is about 2 inches shorter than my 9800GTX from when it first came out lol.
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Oh, don't get me wrong. I think it's an excellent case. I would highly recommend it and would buy it again, especially for $55.
 
Ok ran hw monitor, intel burn test and cpu-z.
Here are the results but i don't really understand
what i'm looking at or what i should be looking for.
I'm running at stock.
Does this look ok to you guys
comptest-1.jpg
 
You have good core temps, run prime 95 for awhile 8 hours or so, and take a screen shot while its running so we can see what you are getting under load.
 
Here is prime95. I ran it in blend mode 3hrs

prime95test.jpg


Then i immediately ran it in the In Place Large FTTs running for 2hrs so far

prime952.jpg


Does everything look ok so far?

I just noticed in cpu-z under the memory tab, at the top right,
does that mean i am not running in duel channel?
cpuzmemtab.jpg
 
How did you apply the thermal paste, Jim? Also check to see if both your sticks are being detected, maybe CPU-Z needs an update or something cause you're using the correct slots for dual mode.
 
Patrick Wolf said:
How did you apply the thermal paste, Jim? Also check to see if both your sticks are being detected, maybe CPU-Z needs an update or something cause you're using the correct slots for dual mode.
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I don't know why cpu-z isn't showing duel channel. Bios shows ram in slots 1&3. I thought i read at the official gigabyte forum that someone else mentioned that cpu-z wasn't detecting duel channel either so he downloaded a different program and it showed duel channel active. I will go back and find that thread to see what he used.

For the thermal paste i applied a dab to the heatsink a little bigger than the size of a pea and then took a old credit card and squeegeed it in to fill the low spots and microscopic scratches filling in all air space then i took a coffee filter (because it's lint free) and wiped off any excess which again filled all air space.
I then did the exact same procedure on the processor.
After that i applied a rice grain size of thermal paste on the center of the processor, set the heatsink on gave it a slight twist left and right then tightened it down.
Below is a shot of hwmonitor

these temps remained the same after running prime95 for 8hrs forgot to take a screen shot at 8hrs though

prime952.jpg


These are my current temps as i write this
currenttemps.jpg


I'm running at default settings.
So is it safe to say my readings are ok?
 
Temps look good. If you've got your DIMMs in the slots that the manual says you should put them in, I wouldn't worry about what CPU-Z says.
 
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