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SLI rig built pictures soon!! (like 30 minutes or so)

post #1 of 62
1/28/05 at 2:52pm
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it is built and purdy....I was up to 4 this morning troubleshooting the 'puter. Just for the record...ASUS send a DEFECTIVE floppy cable...geez..that took 20 minutes to figure out and fix...then i had to find my one and only floppy

the case fans are blue and the PSU is see thru with green UV reactive braided cables. Case temp monitor is on crack...im using the stock cooler because my heatsink is on backorder...dammit....but the cae temp says the CPU is 16C...I wish....oh man.....


pictures will come soon...wiping and formatting my cameras CD in a few...after some well deserved coffee
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post #2 of 62
1/28/05 at 3:14pm
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Pictures...YAY

here are the pictures...try not to drool too much sorry for the blur...my camera has been acting funky





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post #3 of 62
1/28/05 at 5:57pm
sweeeetttttt
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post #4 of 62
1/28/05 at 6:01pm
Awesome, time for some benches!!
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post #5 of 62
1/28/05 at 6:54pm
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coming soon...just spent 30 minutes optimizing BIOS and cleaning up the inside a little more...better air flow. it is stable at 2.365...benches (3DMark 03) coming soon...
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post #6 of 62
1/28/05 at 7:35pm
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8153 in 3DMark03...good?
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post #7 of 62
1/28/05 at 7:45pm
Did you update your bios? ASUS boards are notorious for having invalid Temps, but are usually fixed in bios updates. Get the latest and greatest.

BTW, what kind of desk do you have there and where did you get it?? I am looking to get a generic type desk, basically just a table, but I am having trouble finding one. Any ideas. In fact, maybe I should start my own thread on this.
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post #8 of 62
1/28/05 at 7:55pm
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Originally Posted by AMDZen
Did you update your bios? ASUS boards are notorious for having invalid Temps, but are usually fixed in bios updates. Get the latest and greatest.

BTW, what kind of desk do you have there and where did you get it?? I am looking to get a generic type desk, basically just a table, but I am having trouble finding one. Any ideas. In fact, maybe I should start my own thread on this.
tis a standard oak desk from office depot...or was it office max ...very sturdy...less than $100 USD
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post #9 of 62
1/28/05 at 10:19pm
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Originally Posted by Technomancer
8153 in 3DMark03...good?
I would have thought it would do better than that in 03?....
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post #10 of 62
1/28/05 at 10:26pm
What cards do you have, dual 6600's?
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post #11 of 62
1/29/05 at 1:47am
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8153 in 3DMark03...good?
No. '05... yes.. '03.. no. My sig shows my top '03 and '05 score with a single 6800 GT and 3.2P4 with no overclocking.
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post #12 of 62
1/29/05 at 2:37am
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Originally Posted by Melodis
No. '05... yes.. '03.. no. My sig shows my top '03 and '05 score with a single 6800 GT and 3.2P4 with no overclocking.
I'll run it again....also with no OCing...to answer another question...they are dual 6600GT (500 core and 1000)
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post #13 of 62
1/29/05 at 3:53am
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well...hehe...im a little embarassed...I only enabled SLI in BIOS...not in Windows. My latest score is, in 03, 10,248...im going to do some tweaking and see if I can get a better score...check back tomorrow morning.
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post #14 of 62
1/29/05 at 2:15pm
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I was actually hitting the high 11k range with full OCing....the average score was 11,473 and the highest score was 11,634. After running 3 benches, the temp never rose above 52C...it idles around 36-37C...pretty dang good
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post #15 of 62
1/29/05 at 2:37pm
sweet, what are your other specs?
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post #16 of 62
1/29/05 at 4:17pm
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full specs:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ @ 2.4 GHZ (pure copper Thermal Take cooler)
Asus A8N SLI Deluxe w/ nForce 4 SLI chipset (socket 939)
2GB Ultra Low-Latency RAM
Dual PNY GeForce 6600 GTs 128MB in SLI mode (500 core and 1000 RAM)
Western Digital 10K RPM Raptor SaTa 740GD
Seagate 7.2K Barracuda 120GB SaTa
D-link Air Plus Extreme G 108mbps wireless card
MSI 16x DVD-ROM
Teac 8x DVD burner
miscelaneous black floppy drive
500 watt PSU with green UV-Reactive braided cables
Aspire X-Connect case (black) with silver front panel
Blue lighted fans (5x80mm 1x120mm...side fan)
oh yes....the pretty Athlon 64 case sticker....
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post #17 of 62
1/29/05 at 5:49pm
wow very nice, I might be building myself a new PC this summer or spring. So this is good reference. How much did it cost you total??


PS: What kind of keyboard is that? I Saw it before.
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post #18 of 62
1/29/05 at 6:13pm
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Originally Posted by Sasuke808
wow very nice, I might be building myself a new PC this summer or spring. So this is good reference. How much did it cost you total??


PS: What kind of keyboard is that? I Saw it before.
saitek gamer keyboard...even has a blue back light

price...gee, thats tricky....the mobo,CPU,case,PSU,and vid cards was around 1100 USD (the other parts I already had)...the cooler was 35USD. the raptor drive was 170 USD and the CD/DVD drives were less than 100. I have no clue what the ram costs today (I bought it a year back for another system similar RAM 4x512 costs 300 USD) nor do I have a clue what the seagate HDD cost. The external audigy cost 120 USD and the keyboard cost 40USD at Best Buy.

total comes to 1865, if my math is correct. a similar system from AW costs 2995 USD....

oh I forgot I had to add one lighted 80mm fan...6-7bucks...so that would make it 1870 USD approx.

Total assembly time was 35 minutes and various words of profanity the darned EZ plug poped out and the installation of windows and norton and overclocking and unreal tournament was 1.5-2 hours.

Very stable system and worth the monkey.
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post #19 of 62
1/29/05 at 6:30pm
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Very stable system and worth the monkey.
I don't know if I could give up my monkey, even for that...
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post #20 of 62
1/29/05 at 7:14pm
wow $1.8k thats not bad.
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