My New Rig! Need help fine tuning - Page 3

Zoopy · 03-31-2007, 08:15 PM

Depending on how much overclocking you want to do, I'd recommend getting an aftermarket heatsink. Something along the lines of this:

http://www.us.ncix.com/products/inde...ctic%20Cooling

Nothing to crazy, just a good cooler for under $30. But you should be able to get 3GHz stock most likely.

RedTalon · 03-31-2007, 08:53 PM

Ah that is the same one I was looking at...that is a lot cheaper than newegg. Boo really did not want ot have to order parts from two places. That NCIX site process and ship order fairly fast?

=Sarc= · 04-01-2007, 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by RedTalon

Ah that is the same one I was looking at...that is a lot cheaper than newegg. Boo really did not want ot have to order parts from two places. That NCIX site process and ship order fairly fast?

It's probably cheaper because NCIX is a Canadian retailer.

RedTalon · 04-01-2007, 03:49 AM

Actually was looking around and everywhere is cheaper than newegg...I think newegg mislisted it. Because even on arctic freeze's website they list the sale price as ~30. Newegg wants 60.

RedTalon · 04-01-2007, 09:58 PM

Ordered it on new egg

If I am only running the SATA drive, am I going to have troubles installing the OS on it? Heard there are problems with doing that, because it requires drivers and such. Something about BIOS not seeing the drive? There a fix for this?

*EDIT- did some checking around seems you need a floppy to do this, is there way to do this with out a floppy drive, as I have none.

UnDeaD77 · 04-01-2007, 11:16 PM

I never had to install drivers for my sata, bios just read it fine.

**sordavie** · 04-01-2007, 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by RedTalon

Ordered it on new egg

If I am only running the SATA drive, am I going to have troubles installing the OS on it? Heard there are problems with doing that, because it requires drivers and such. Something about BIOS not seeing the drive? There a fix for this?

*EDIT- did some checking around seems you need a floppy to do this, is there way to do this with out a floppy drive, as I have none.

You won't need to on newer motherboards, since they'll autodetect SATA drives.

RedTalon · 04-02-2007, 01:11 AM

oh sweet, well that makes things much easier.

RedTalon · 04-07-2007, 03:30 PM

So got my rig built, and it is kicking ass at stock speeds. Going to wait till the AC5 cures to overclock. Only problems I had in set up was the fact the motherboard auto detected the CPU and RAM wrong...but I knew this was going to happen from reading reviews. Pretty much had a heart attack when I saw the heat sink thoug, but I was able to sqeeze it in my case, along with the GTX.

It's such a nice feeling to be able to run everything on high, and get good FPS.

03-31-2007, 08:15 PM	#31 (permalink)
Zoopy Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,870	Re: My New Rig! Need help fine tuning Depending on how much overclocking you want to do, I'd recommend getting an aftermarket heatsink. Something along the lines of this: http://www.us.ncix.com/products/inde...ctic%20Cooling Nothing to crazy, just a good cooler for under $30. But you should be able to get 3GHz stock most likely.

03-31-2007, 08:53 PM	#32 (permalink)
RedTalon Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 518	Re: My New Rig! Need help fine tuning Ah that is the same one I was looking at...that is a lot cheaper than newegg. Boo really did not want ot have to order parts from two places. That NCIX site process and ship order fairly fast?

04-01-2007, 03:49 AM	#34 (permalink)
RedTalon Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 518	Re: My New Rig! Need help fine tuning Actually was looking around and everywhere is cheaper than newegg...I think newegg mislisted it. Because even on arctic freeze's website they list the sale price as ~30. Newegg wants 60.

04-01-2007, 09:58 PM	#35 (permalink)
RedTalon Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 518	Re: My New Rig! Need help fine tuning Ordered it on new egg If I am only running the SATA drive, am I going to have troubles installing the OS on it? Heard there are problems with doing that, because it requires drivers and such. Something about BIOS not seeing the drive? There a fix for this? *EDIT- did some checking around seems you need a floppy to do this, is there way to do this with out a floppy drive, as I have none.

04-01-2007, 11:16 PM	#36 (permalink)
UnDeaD77 Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Fort Worth,Texas Age: 22 Posts: 5,925	Re: My New Rig! Need help fine tuning I never had to install drivers for my sata, bios just read it fine. __________________

04-02-2007, 01:11 AM	#38 (permalink)
RedTalon Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 518	Re: My New Rig! Need help fine tuning oh sweet, well that makes things much easier.

04-07-2007, 03:30 PM	#39 (permalink)
RedTalon Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 518	Re: My New Rig! Need help fine tuning So got my rig built, and it is kicking ass at stock speeds. Going to wait till the AC5 cures to overclock. Only problems I had in set up was the fact the motherboard auto detected the CPU and RAM wrong...but I knew this was going to happen from reading reviews. Pretty much had a heart attack when I saw the heat sink thoug, but I was able to sqeeze it in my case, along with the GTX. It's such a nice feeling to be able to run everything on high, and get good FPS.

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