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11-24-2005, 04:57 AM
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Some parts have arrived....
...not to make you guys jealous or anything, but I've had a few deliveries these past two days. Today's package took a beating inside, mostly because there was a PSU in the package with my RAM and CPU! Maybe I should have ordered those separately. Anyway, I think the parts survived the ordeal.
New parts for this project now on my workbench: PSU = Enermax Liberty ELT500AWT CPU = AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (socket 939) Memory = Corsair 2 X 1 GB XMS 3200 c2 (2 GB total memory) Hard drive = Hitachi HD250G 250GB SATA2 NCQ DVD Burner = Plextor PX-740A Videocard = BFG 7800 GT OC My motherboard is due in on Friday, 11-25-05. It is the Asus A8N-VM-CSM. The CPU cooler comes along in that package too, it's the Zalman CNPS9500 LED cooler.     bigal
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Aww, for me? You shouldn't have!
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Thank you.
Yes, it's fun spending money. I can hardly wait for the credit card bills to arrive. Here are a few more pictures. You can see the CPU box took a big hit in transit.
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Ouch! Hope it still works.
Credit card bills, yeah, I remember those. They were fun to ignore. The Modfather |
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I'll find out soon.
I'll be assembling the motherboard on the bench, hopefully before the weekend is over. My motherboard and CPU cooler arrived today, just before we left to see a Shakesphere play titled, "Much Ado About Nothing". It was interesting, but not as good as gaming! I've just finished mounting a Zalman Northbridge cooler I had in stock on to the built-in Geforce 6 GPU on the motherboard. From experience, I know these babies get hot when you are using them, and I hope to use this one to run the internal LCD, if I get one that is.
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The jealousy grows...
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You said it Silver one. Yeesh! Can't wait to see the project though.
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Hate to break it to u al but ummm the only that thats going to keep cool is the video card, theres no northbridges on AMD 64 mobos u know why? theres no need for a external memory controller  Man i am so jealous i want to steal your gear  unholy |
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Yeah, he said, he installed it on the GPU. I have a funny feeling he knows there's no northbridge to install it on, considering he installed it.
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Only one problem...
...the Zalman cooler is pretty tall. I installed the PCI-express BFG 7800 GT videocard last night and it just clears the Zalman cooler on the side, but if I try to install any PCI cards (like a soundcard), the tall Zalman cooler will be in the way. So, if I do need to install other PCI devices down the road, I may either swap this out for a low-profile fan cooler (Cooler Master makes a good one), or I could cut it a bit to provide room for a card to pass overhead. We'll see how this works out. The motherboard has tons of built-in features, but I was thinking about using
 a Soundblaster Audigy ZS card that I have in my stock.Hey, I have a name in mind for this machine. How about "Osbornagain" ? bigal
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