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Sable

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Spot as many computer bits as you can. Winner wins nothing apart from being chief nerd for 20 seconds.

I've got a list of 10 things I want you to spot. An obscure one which might need a knowledge of the motherboard.

I'm obviously looking for the usual suspects. For PSU it's obviously obscured but if you get the make that's good enough.

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Fractal Design R3 Arctic White || Asus P8Z77-V Pro ||Intel i5 2500k @ 4.6ghz 1.34v || Arctic Freezer i30 HSF || 8GB Corsair Vengeance LP @ 1600mhz || eVGA GTX 680 2GB || Samsung 830 256GB SSD || WD Caviar Black 1TB || Samsung 500GB + WD Caviar Black 500GB RAID1 || 2x WD Green 2TB RAID1 || Corsair AX750 || BenQ XL2420T
 
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HN said:
Fractal Design R3 Arctic White || Asus P8Z77-V Pro ||Intel i5 2500k @ 4.6ghz 1.34v || Arctic Freezer i30 HSF || 8GB Corsair Vengeance LP @ 1600mhz || eVGA GTX 680 2GB || Samsung 830 256GB SSD || WD Caviar Black 1TB || Samsung 500GB + WD Caviar Black 500GB RAID1 || 2x WD Green 2TB RAID1 || Corsair AX750 || BenQ XL2420T
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That's a good guess, but it's not right.

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(one for the uk peeps)


And I'm adding another one. 11 things you have to get.
 
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Thermaltake Tsunami Dream (?) case
8800 GTX (EVGA?)
Powercolor HD 4870
EVGA 7800 GT
WD 250 GB (Black?)
Looks like a Zalman heatsink on the Southbridge
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it's a nVidia 680i motherboard
PSU looks like a Rosewill model, I recognize the sleeved cables

Edit: some caps and a soldering iron in the background; looks like you're getting ready to re-cap the motherboard

Can't quite tell what the SSD is, so I'm going to guess it's an early Intel or OCZ.
 
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I also see an external USB adapter (for rear of case). Near the tape roll.

I also see one IDE hard drive.

I also see one of those external IDE/SATA adatpters for cloning/copying drives. At the case bottom. Red sata cable coming out next to the molex plug.

And the drive bay above the IDE hard drive looks to have something in it. Could be a floppy drive or an SSD.


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DVI to vga adapter for that 7800 video card.


Also, looking at that bend in the IDE cable, it looks like there may be two IDE hard drives.
 
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CurseTheSky said:
Thermaltake Tsunami Dream (?) case
8800 GTX (EVGA?)
Powercolor HD 4870
EVGA 7800 GT
WD 250 GB (Black?)
Looks like a Zalman heatsink on the Southbridge
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it's a nVidia 680i motherboard
PSU looks like a Rosewill model, I recognize the sleeved cables

Edit: some caps and a soldering iron in the background; looks like you're getting ready to re-cap the motherboard

Can't quite tell what the SSD is, so I'm going to guess it's an early Intel or OCZ.
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Good effort. Motherboard and PSU are incorrect, the motherboard is somewhat more antique than a 680i. Good spot on the caps and the heatsink.
 
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Sable said:
Good effort. Motherboard and PSU are incorrect, the motherboard is somewhat more antique than a 680i. Good spot on the caps and the heatsink.
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Asus A8N-SLI motherboard. You replaced the God-awful tiny fan with the Zalman heatsink.

Silverstone PSU?
 
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Ichinisan

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The CPU HSF is oriented to blow toward the top of the case instead of blowing out the back.
 
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CurseTheSky said:
Asus A8N-SLI motherboard. You replaced the God-awful tiny fan with the Zalman heatsink.

Silverstone PSU?
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I was going to say that. I had an Abit AN8-SLI myself but I used that exact same Zalman chipset HSF on my Shuttle SN45G2.
 
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I wish high-end video cards were still powered with a single power connector. :(

Why can't someone do another card like the 9800GT-EE (which was bus-powered)?
 
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Ichinisan said:
I wish high-end video cards were still powered with a single power connector. :(

Why can't someone do another card like the 9800GT-EE (which was bus-powered)?
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With the power tune and equivalents whatever highest nomenclature card that doesn't require an external cable IS the most powerful card you can get for the power budget.

It's not so much that the lower level cards are slower than than they used to be but that they've figured out how to cram more power and dissipate more heat in the high end cards than they could back in the 9800GTX days.
 
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