First Time Build

[Davidh373]

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.

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.

 

[jim53]

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.

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.

 

[fffblackmage]

I have both the 300 and 900. For a lower price, the 300 has surprisingly better cable management than the 900.

 

[jim53]

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

 

[mnewsham]

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.

 

[jim53]

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.

Will do, i'll download it now.
Thankyou

 

[mfenn]

Cable management looks pretty good to me actually. Better than mine at least! :whiste:

 

[jim53]

Cable management looks pretty good to me actually. Better than mine at least! :whiste:

Thanks, it took at least 3 hours though.

 

[jim53]

Here is prime95. I ran it in blend mode 3hrs

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

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?

 

[mnewsham]

Temps and voltages looking good

 

[Patrick Wolf]

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.

 

[jim53]

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.

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

These are my current temps as i write this

I'm running at default settings.
So is it safe to say my readings are ok?

 

[mnewsham]

Your readings are quite good.

 

[mfenn]

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.

 

[jim53]

Ran Aida64 this shows dual channel

I have another thread started here in regards to my samsung hd
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2140469

Wondering if you guys could check it out
Thanks