I am stripping the guts (EVGA 750i SLI FTW motherboard, Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz with an Asus Silent Square cooler, 8Gigs OCZ Platinum 1066MHz PC2 8500, Dual-EVGA GTX-275 896MB Superclocked videocards, ASUS Xonar Essence STX Click to show) out of this old case and putting them in a new case so I can have it up and running while I put the new guts in this NZXT Phantom:
The new case with the power supply installed. This 600watt power supply does not have all the plugs my 750watt had, so I will have to do quite a bit of jumpering & doubling to fit into all the plugs on the motherboard:
Empty bay of the new case waiting to get stuffed:
Old motherboard (minus cpu cooler) screwed down to risers:
My beautiful baby scornfully eye-ballin' me:
Cpu cooler installed. I removed 1 of the 2 overhead fans I installed as it would have just been blocked by the cpu cooler. The cpu cooler has its own fan buried within the cooling tower that exhausts heat to the back fan and out the back of the case:
The mother board power, front panel, & fans wired in:
Solid State hard drive & DVD burner plugged in:
Video cards & sound card in:
On her feet and and ready to roll:
Buttoned-up and go-go-gadget....hopefully.
She was a tight fit, but as you can see from this post, she works just fine!
Looking good, Boonie! I swear, one of these days I REALLY need to build or upgrade my old PC. I haven't done anything to the one I built over 8 years ago.
I also picked up this to power my 2-channel house speaker collection through my Xonar Essence soundcard:
I coulda' went with 2.1 powered computer speakers, but I got a nice home speaker collection in my closet just aching to be used. And I can plug into the front of it anything with a 3.5 headphone jack and amp up the sound from ipods, tablets, laptops, phones, etc. through those good speakers. It is also AC/DC, so I can also use it in cars, boats, motorcycles, etc.
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I have something almost like that, but from a different company and I use it to power the speaker from a 60s radio. I use it as a charging station and music center. Cool!
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Got my 120 SSD in. All systems go!
I also picked up this to power my 2-channel house speaker collection through my Xonar Essence soundcard:
I coulda' went with 2.1 powered computer speakers, but I got a nice home speaker collection in my closet just aching to be used. And I can plug into the front of it anything with a 3.5 headphone jack and amp up the sound from ipods, tablets, laptops, phones, etc. through those good speakers. It is also AC/DC, so I can also use it in cars, boats, motorcycles, etc.
Boonie, I didn't want to steal your thunder, but seeing as how you enjoy both posting AND looking at computer builds, I thought I'd show you a shot of mine that I built last year, just before the new Haswell CPU's came out. Had I known, I would have waited. I wasn't quite done when this was taken...I started out using the on-chip graphics, but eventually went to a standalone video card. I hadn't done any cable management, either. Specs are below...
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77X-UP4TH Processor: Intel I7-3770K CPU Cooler: Corsair H80i Water Cooling Memory: Crucial Ballistics Sport DD3 16 GB (2x8GB) Video Card: EVGA NVIDIA GTX660 Power Supply: Thermaltake TR2 700W Storage: Crucial M4 256GB SSD, WD 1TB Black Series HDD Optical Drives: Pioneer BDR 2208 BDXL Blu Ray Reader/Writer, HP DVD 1260i DVD/CD Reader/Writer Speakers: Klipsch Promedia 2.1 Speakers Chassis: Cooler Master CM Storm Enforcer with 2 Antec True Quiet 120mm fans in addition to factory fans Operating System: Windows 7 Professional
You can probably nix those two 120mm fans on the radiator, considering it already has fans above it. Just a thought.
My thoughts too, but the consensus is that the push/pull for this exact setup works really well. And a part of the 200mm fans are still grabbing air around the space the radiator don't take up. I'll take all the top-venting I can get!
If I had my druthers, I'd vent everything out the top.
Yup. The two GTX-275's that came over on the Mayflower. I am stone-cold out of money. Paul Rodgers at the end of this month with hotel & some gambling money pretty-much closes me out.
However, if I could find a $200 closeout on a $400 dollar videocard brand new, I would deffinatly make that happen......somehow.
Yup. The two GTX-275's that came over on the Mayflower. I am stone-cold out of money. Paul Rodgers at the end of this month with hotel & some gambling money pretty-much closes me out.
However, if I could find a $200 closeout on a $400 dollar videocard brand new, I would deffinatly make that happen......somehow.
I'd keep an eye on the GTX 770's, I'm pertty sure they'll be in the lower 200's USD (with rebate) in the next month or so.
I will have to do something about my radiator push/pull set-up....I'm getting a slight "wind buffeting" noise......similar to aircraft propellers. Not horrible, but noticeable.
EDIT: Heh, it was my 20" house fan blowing into the side of my computer on the test bench! DOH!
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I also want to say what a pleasure it was to have my old system up and running while I built my new system. It was possible only because of all the spare parts (power supplies, hard drives, DVD drives, etc.) I had collected over the years. Transferring my old guts into another case while installing new guts into my case allowed me to take my time, to stretch it out and not worry or get all stressed out while configuring the new system.
Thats pretty warm, it gets above 75 here and I have to go find a cold beer. Somewhere with AC
Yeah, I have had 2 computer boxes, 1-46" TV, 1-39" monitor, 1-23" monitor & 3-worklights running all day. The heat really builds up over the course of the day in that situation.
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I don't know if this is good or bad, but from a deadswitch start to the time the desktop timer-circle thingy stops rotating & you're good-to-go: 35 seconds.
I don't know if this is good or bad, but from a deadswitch start to the time the desktop timer-circle thingy stops rotating & you're good-to-go: 35 seconds.
Windows 7? Look for a quick boot option in the bios, might help some.
Mine boots from cold to full desktop in 5 or so seconds, but I use Win 8.1
Love the NZXT case BTW, and the PFF dedicated monitor.
I have now completely transitioned over to the new system. The multiple cores of the new processor are performing just as I had hoped when downloading movies, playing music, surfing the internet, watching videos, playing games and editing photos all at the same time. Every window instantly pops open, no stutter, no delay, no time-out's, no hassles!
Sure is great when a plan comes together!
All I really need now is video cards.......card.......something up-to-date. Everything else is golden!
Did I mention how much I LOVE my quality soundcard & quality headphones? Best thing I ever bought me! Changed my life.
The build now moves into the slow & steady overclocking phase...
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