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My wife built her first machine:

Fullmetal Chocobo

Fullmetal Chocobo

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CoolerMaster Centurion case
Asus A8N-E mobo
Seasonic 430w PSU
AMD Opteron 148
Thermalright SI-120 HSF w/ Sanyo Denki 102cfm fan
2 x 1GB Corsair Platinum PC3200 DDR
eVGA 7800 GT (currently being RMAed)
74gb Raptor

Sorry for the quality, but the lighting sucked...

Installing the mobo
#1
#2
#3

Holy sh!t, don't get between my wife and her application of thermal paste
#1
#2
#3
#4

She even sleeved her own cables
Is it hot enough yet?
Yep, it is.

the machine:
#1

finshed (with CPU & HSF), and she's happy
#1
 
Nice. Doesn't look like she's completely done though 😉

I've always wondered how the 120 looked on the A8N-E. Now I know....
 
Nah... She's got to do a lot of wiring and stuff. We rigged it up for now to get the software installed before we had to return the video card. Plus, all of my stuff is in to make custom length power and fan cables. So we get to have fun with that.
 
awsome

so how long did it take u to convert her into computers ^_^

cool pictures... i wish i knew how to build a computer X_X
 
dang, Thats hot

lol, but she doesnt know where to plug the cables in leave that for you? btw i bet that fan is loud
 
Originally posted by: w00t
dang, Thats hot

lol, but she doesnt know where to plug the cables in leave that for you? btw i bet that fan is loud
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She built the computer in it's entirety. I helped with the processor / HSF / fan, but that was it. She hooked up the wiring and did all of the cables and wiring. We started running it all nice and pretty, but finally she just wanted it hooked up. 🙂
 
Lookin' good Fullmetal.

What kind of fan control is she using ? I know that the Sanyo Denki 103cfm@39dBA will start/run in silence at 5V and still put out about 40+cfm 🙂

...Galvanized
 
what happened to a little dot in the middle of the cpu method of thermal paste application? the way she is doing it can lead to tiny gaps.
 
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
CoolerMaster Centurion case
Tyan A8N-E mobo
Seasonic 430w PSU
AMD Opteron 148
Thermalright SI-120 HSF w/ Sanyo Denki 102cfm fan
2 x 1GB Corsair Platinum PC3200 DDR
eVGA 7800 GT (currently being RMAed)
74gb Raptor

Sorry for the quality, but the lighting sucked...

Installing the mobo
#1
#2
#3

Holy sh!t, don't get between my wife and her application of thermal paste
#1
#2
#3
#4

She even sleeved her own cables
Is it hot enough yet?
Yep, it is.

the machine:
#1

finshed, and she's happy
#1
Click to expand...

Tyan A8N-E ????

Where did you get this board at?
 
Originally posted by: jlbenedict
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
CoolerMaster Centurion case
Tyan A8N-E mobo
Seasonic 430w PSU
AMD Opteron 148
Thermalright SI-120 HSF w/ Sanyo Denki 102cfm fan
2 x 1GB Corsair Platinum PC3200 DDR
eVGA 7800 GT (currently being RMAed)
74gb Raptor

Sorry for the quality, but the lighting sucked...

Installing the mobo
#1
#2
#3

Holy sh!t, don't get between my wife and her application of thermal paste
#1
#2
#3
#4

She even sleeved her own cables
Is it hot enough yet?
Yep, it is.

the machine:
#1

finshed, and she's happy
#1
Click to expand...

Tyan A8N-E ????

Where did you get this board at?
Click to expand...

The mobo was bought at Newegg.
 
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Originally posted by: jlbenedict
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
CoolerMaster Centurion case
Tyan A8N-E mobo
Seasonic 430w PSU
AMD Opteron 148
Thermalright SI-120 HSF w/ Sanyo Denki 102cfm fan
2 x 1GB Corsair Platinum PC3200 DDR
eVGA 7800 GT (currently being RMAed)
74gb Raptor

Sorry for the quality, but the lighting sucked...

Installing the mobo
#1
#2
#3

Holy sh!t, don't get between my wife and her application of thermal paste
#1
#2
#3
#4

She even sleeved her own cables
Is it hot enough yet?
Yep, it is.

the machine:
#1

finshed, and she's happy
#1
Click to expand...

Tyan A8N-E ????

Where did you get this board at?
Click to expand...

The mobo was bought at Newegg.
Click to expand...



🙂 I guess you still haven't noticed.. you meant ASUS instead of Tyan, right?

 
Hey, that's pretty darn cool...A good female friend of mine got to watch me build my new rig from scratch...She learned quite a bit from it, but she's nowhere near ready to build her own...

Pretty cool that you guys took pics of her 1st experience...
 
Originally posted by: jlbenedict
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Originally posted by: jlbenedict
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
CoolerMaster Centurion case
Tyan A8N-E mobo
Seasonic 430w PSU
AMD Opteron 148
Thermalright SI-120 HSF w/ Sanyo Denki 102cfm fan
2 x 1GB Corsair Platinum PC3200 DDR
eVGA 7800 GT (currently being RMAed)
74gb Raptor

Sorry for the quality, but the lighting sucked...

Installing the mobo
#1
#2
#3

Holy sh!t, don't get between my wife and her application of thermal paste
#1
#2
#3
#4

She even sleeved her own cables
Is it hot enough yet?
Yep, it is.

the machine:
#1

finshed, and she's happy
#1
Click to expand...

Tyan A8N-E ????

Where did you get this board at?
Click to expand...

The mobo was bought at Newegg.
Click to expand...



🙂 I guess you still haven't noticed.. you meant ASUS instead of Tyan, right?
Click to expand...

ROFL. Ah, sh!t. Okay, gotcha. Thanks... 🙂 It's been fixed.
 
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Originally posted by: jlbenedict
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Originally posted by: jlbenedict
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
CoolerMaster Centurion case
Tyan A8N-E mobo
Seasonic 430w PSU
AMD Opteron 148
Thermalright SI-120 HSF w/ Sanyo Denki 102cfm fan
2 x 1GB Corsair Platinum PC3200 DDR
eVGA 7800 GT (currently being RMAed)
74gb Raptor

Sorry for the quality, but the lighting sucked...

Installing the mobo
#1
#2
#3

Holy sh!t, don't get between my wife and her application of thermal paste
#1
#2
#3
#4

She even sleeved her own cables
Is it hot enough yet?
Yep, it is.

the machine:
#1

finshed, and she's happy
#1
Click to expand...

Tyan A8N-E ????

Where did you get this board at?
Click to expand...

The mobo was bought at Newegg.
Click to expand...



🙂 I guess you still haven't noticed.. you meant ASUS instead of Tyan, right?
Click to expand...

ROFL. Ah, sh!t. Okay, gotcha. Thanks... 🙂 It's been fixed.
Click to expand...

Its no biggie..
I just had to take a double take, and had to do a quick search.. I was going to buy one of those boards immediately , if it was a Tyan. They are top notch for stability. 🙂


 
Originally posted by: jlbenedict
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Originally posted by: jlbenedict
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Originally posted by: jlbenedict
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
CoolerMaster Centurion case
Tyan A8N-E mobo
Seasonic 430w PSU
AMD Opteron 148
Thermalright SI-120 HSF w/ Sanyo Denki 102cfm fan
2 x 1GB Corsair Platinum PC3200 DDR
eVGA 7800 GT (currently being RMAed)
74gb Raptor

Sorry for the quality, but the lighting sucked...

Installing the mobo
#1
#2
#3

Holy sh!t, don't get between my wife and her application of thermal paste
#1
#2
#3
#4

She even sleeved her own cables
Is it hot enough yet?
Yep, it is.

the machine:
#1

finshed, and she's happy
#1
Click to expand...

Tyan A8N-E ????

Where did you get this board at?
Click to expand...

The mobo was bought at Newegg.
Click to expand...



🙂 I guess you still haven't noticed.. you meant ASUS instead of Tyan, right?
Click to expand...

ROFL. Ah, sh!t. Okay, gotcha. Thanks... 🙂 It's been fixed.
Click to expand...

Its no biggie..
I just had to take a double take, and had to do a quick search.. I was going to buy one of those boards immediately , if it was a Tyan. They are top notch for stability. 🙂
Click to expand...

I agree. Tyan and Supermicro. Although I consider Asus to be the stable ones of the more consumer-level mobos.
 
OMG you are so lucky! 😀

Very hawt wife who likes computers, enough to build her own!

/me wants the same kinda woman...where did you find her???
 
Originally posted by: n7
OMG you are so lucky! 😀

Very hawt wife who likes computers, enough to build her own!

/me wants the same kinda woman...where did you find her???
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probably at a lan center.
 
Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
Originally posted by: n7
OMG you are so lucky! 😀

Very hawt wife who likes computers, enough to build her own!

/me wants the same kinda woman...where did you find her???
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probably at a lan center.
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Actually, she kinda found me...

It all happened while I had basically told my ex to get out of the house while I decide what I want to do, as I was just tired of her crap. While she was gone, I was having a get-together here in Ingleside, and I had friends from Houston and Austin down. Well, I didn't know it, but Liz's friend was having her families yearly visit to South Padre, and her friend kinda ended up ditching her. So I somehow ended up talking to Liz on the phone, and asked her if she wanted to come over. She said yes, and we went and got here, and we had a good ol' time. And I've talked to her on the phone ever since.

When I was on deployment in San Diego, I proposed to her, and then we got married 11 months ago.
 
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