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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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 Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:27 pm Post subject: Christmas Came Yesterday (My New Computer) |
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So yesterday I finally got to buy my new computer after waiting for about a year. Anyhow I met Demophobe at Yongsan at around 9:50 and parked at the building where he knows a guy. Well, whaddya know the building is closed on this Tuesday. Curses.
Onward to 선인 Plaza. The first shop we went to said that the P5KC was out of stock in the whole building - I was starting to get a bad feeling about that. Anyhow we went a couple of shops down the hall (2036 Hankuk Inwhoe Inc 최덕선 - The shop with the attractive girl who knows tech and speaks English well). This shop had the motherboard and this is where we stopped and picked everything up.
CPU - Q6600
Asus P5KC
DDR2 1G cpc-640a (4x)
VGA ATI HD3850 256mb
HDD 500gb SATAe (2x + 1 more already at home)
650W powersupply
DVD Multi shs 203p
Monitor 22" Topsync (pivot)
Monitor 22" Topsync (no pivot)
and a couple of peripherals
total damage 1.8million
Got home and started assembling it.
With some help from Demophobe, coffee & pizza we got everything assembled. We also swapped out the celeron chip from my old computer and put in a pentium 2.8 chip, switched in some new ram (both courtesy of demophobe) and then cleaned out the hordes of dust in there.
Time to install windows right? Wrong!! - won't power up. lights are whizzing, but nothings happening. We worked at it for a while, re-seating the video card, CPU & fan, & Ram - still no go. Off to Yongsan to see what the problem is.'
Well it turns out that one of the RAM sticks was a dud and the whole system wouldn't boot up. Back home, time to install windows, right? Wrong. The damn drive kept giving an error that there was no windows compatible partition available. During the install we would format go to install and be told to format. It was a never ending circle. Even put the drive into my external case and formatted it with my other computer - no go. A little googling and we found a solution that involved copying some files to the boot sector and we additionally ran spinrite on the drive.
yeah booting up works, time to install right? Wrong. Get to the serial entry screen for the x64 edition and the serial didn't work. googled and torrented and emuled and still couldn't get a working key. Finally gave up and installed 32bit until I get a working 64bit CD.
Everything is running well. A couple of days ago I made a post about [url=http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=108207]benchmarking my old system against the new one[url]. Here are the results.
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| I then took a short video I made of my daughter and added a title to it in premier and exported to wmv at 640x480 1173kbps and rendering took 1:04:13 - unbelievably long. The entire clip is only 4:16 so the render took 1 hour longer than the actual clip. I'm looking forward to seeing what the Q6600 and 4gbs of ram can do to this time. |
Well I re-rendered this project on my new rig while moving 20gb of data across drives, surfing and installing MS Office.
Render time: 00:11:43! |
Yeah a 1 hour 4 minute (doing nothing else) render reduced to 11 minutes while doing other stuff.
Yes I am a happy camper. and here is a shot of my case and desk.
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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It's a beauty.
Sure you have enough hard drive space!!? 
Funny you position your DVD-drive in the very top bay. I've always preferred my DVD-drive at the very bottom so I don't need to trail that big ribbon cable too far. Plus, it's a bit cooler near the bottom of a case. Ah! I see you're using a SATA cable for the DVD drive.
That power supply looks good. How much?
I see your mobo supports SLI/Crossfire. I hear two HD3850's work great in Crossfire! Already discussing the next upgrade!  |
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kprrok
Joined: 06 Apr 2004
Location: KC
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:30 am Post subject: |
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Looks nice. Glad it's all up and running. I hope my build will go a bit smoother than that!
KPRROK |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:14 am Post subject: |
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Congrats buddy. You deserve it.
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:37 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
It's a beauty.
Sure you have enough hard drive space!!? |
Actually I almost bought another 500gb, but figured I can wait.
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| Funny you position your DVD-drive in the very top bay. I've always preferred my DVD-drive at the very bottom so I don't need to trail that big ribbon cable too far. Plus, it's a bit cooler near the bottom of a case. Ah! I see you're using a SATA cable for the DVD drive. |
Didn't think about that - it was all about ergonomics for me. It's easier to reach the tray if it's at the top of the box, plus I think it looks better there...
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| That power supply looks good. How much? |
130,000
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| I see your mobo supports SLI/Crossfire. I hear two HD3850's work great in Crossfire! Already discussing the next upgrade! |
Yeah, but if I do that, then I'll have to buy a new case as my harddrives are blocking the other graphics slot. And then with the extra card I know I would have to buy a further 2 monitors and I don't think my wife would be too impressed with that. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:15 am Post subject: |
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is it loud? did you buy any fans??
one thing I cant stand is a loud pc..
I installed a zalman on my CPU and a zalman on my Graphic card
sometimes I need to check if my pc is breathing! hahahaha
I love it.. |
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SHANE02
Joined: 04 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:04 am Post subject: Re: Christmas Came Yesterday (My New Computer) |
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| - the attractive girl who knows tech and speaks English well). |
Now you tell me! I'm allready married dam you! |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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| itaewonguy wrote: |
is it loud? did you buy any fans??
one thing I cant stand is a loud pc.. |
incredibly quiet
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I installed a zalman on my CPU and a zalman on my Graphic card
sometimes I need to check if my pc is breathing! hahahaha
I love it.. |
Just a stock cooler - forgot to pick up an after market when I was at Yongsan. Will get one when I decide to o/c
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| SuperHero wrote: |
| - the attractive girl who knows tech and speaks English well). |
Now you tell me! I'm allready married dam you! |
Doesn't mean you can't go window shopping. |
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chevro1et
Joined: 01 Feb 2007
Location: Busan, ROK
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Really nice rig!!! Merry Christmas to you!! |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Merry X-Mas Superhero! |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 2:13 am Post subject: |
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What brand PSU...Zalman? BTW, lucky guy, NICE ONE!
And, how much for the monitors... |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 2:51 am Post subject: |
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| And, how much for the monitors... |
monitors included in the 1.8 but seperately they were 315 and 340
don't know the PSU brand off hand, but will check later - on my laptop right now in the kitchen watching the kids play. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:07 am Post subject: |
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| They're nice...a good choice. Could have saved a little ordering from gmarket though, 299 and 315 respectfully. Actually, I see the box for the PSU in your pic and it's a Skydigital Powerstation2 or something like that. Looks good though, nice cable insulators/covers and all and a decent price for a 650. |
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OneWayTraffic
Joined: 14 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:08 am Post subject: |
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Nice rig. 1.8 is a little steep though; I think I could get a new one for about that. Tell you what because it's Christmas, I'll offer you 850,000 and you can keep one of the monitors.
Spliffed! |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:11 am Post subject: |
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| OneWayTraffic wrote: |
Nice rig. 1.8 is a little steep though; I think I could get a new one for about that. Tell you what because it's Christmas, I'll offer you 850,000 and you can keep one of the monitors.
Spliffed! |
Yeah but right now I'm watching a movie, surfing with multiple tabs open, downloading with utorrent and emule, and rendering video and my computer hasn't heated up or slowed down. This machine is well worth the money. |
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