!!!!Brand New Gaming Rig Check Out The Specs!!!!

mikehud851984 · Feb 11, 2008, 05:15 AM

I just ordered all these parts I think it will be a pretty solid rig let me know what you think.

Mobo: Newegg.com - ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe/WiFi AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
Cpu: Newegg.com - AMD Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 2MB L3 Cache Socket AM2+ 95W Quad-Core Black Edition Processor - Retail
PSU: Newegg.com - Antec NeoPower 650 Blue ATX12V / EPS12V 650W Power Supply 100 - 240 V UL, CUL, CE, CB, FCC Class B, TUV, CCC, C-tick - Retail
Ram: Newegg.com - Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail

Also look at my sig that is the complete setup.

**kris23** · Feb 11, 2008, 05:23 AM

uhh.....

Phenom?

ASUS?

eh......... i guess..... congrats

you should have at least changed your board to Gigabyte and waited for the B3 chips

Asus seems to have a bit of stability issues with their stuff.... hell the whole Spider setup has stability issues.

mikehud851984 · Feb 12, 2008, 03:44 AM

I don't know I just went for it with this one sounded good price was right so I said what the hell I'll give it a shot we'll see what happens

Grace · Feb 12, 2008, 04:05 AM

Since you already ordered the parts, does it matter what we think about it?

I think that the system will be pretty much fine but you should get a slower 2X2GB set of RAM. Size matters much more than speed when it comes to RAM.

ChaosMinionX · Feb 12, 2008, 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Grace

Since you already ordered the parts, does it matter what we think about it?

I think that the system will be pretty much fine but you should get a slower 2X2GB set of RAM. Size matters much more than speed when it comes to RAM.

Yep faster is only better for benching really and epeen

Judas · Feb 12, 2008, 02:46 PM

yeah there are a number of occasions when i've seen 8gb of ram come in damn handy and show considerable impovements....

mikehud851984 · Feb 12, 2008, 04:53 PM

Well all In all I will most likely be picking up another set of the crucials I'm already getting but I am only running Vista 32bit so I would only see a 1Gig increase in the OS and the fourth would basically do nothing aside from run the onboard peripherals which I won't be using any onbord features aside from the wifi anyway so at the time of order I just didn't see any real importance of getting 4Gb right away two seems to do just fine in my current setup but I have not used quad core before so maybe going quad could benefit from the 4gb I'll just have to see. Anyway it should all arrive here in the next couple hours hopefully before the snow storm were about to recieve hits so that ups has no excuses to be as late as 9:00 pm as they were with my last order. To answer Grace's question, My sole purpouse of posting this thread was to get peoples opinnion of the new system I am going to put together as some of the readers have read some of my previous posts both on this name and the one I had about two years ago mikehud1984, and know that I have been working towards building a semi decent gaming rig and have seen how I have progressed in my upgrades this being the biggest and best that I have done to date. I for one enjoy coming to DH and GH to read about peoples systems and how they have put them together and what they came up from. So thanx for your negative criticism but it won't be needed.

Grace · Feb 12, 2008, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by mikehud851984

To answer Grace's question, My sole purpouse of posting this thread was to get peoples opinnion of the new system I am going to put together as some of the readers have read some of my previous posts both on this name and the one I had about two years ago mikehud1984, and know that I have been working towards building a semi decent gaming rig and have seen how I have progressed in my upgrades this being the biggest and best that I have done to date. I for one enjoy coming to DH and GH to read about peoples systems and how they have put them together and what they came up from. So thanx for your negative criticism but it won't be needed.

It is not negative critisism Mike, it is a question of logic. Why do you care what we think about it since you already ordered it and whether we like something or not, nothing can be done about it? It would be natural to post such a thread just before ordering the parts in order to read some opinions before proceeding, but after ordering the parts what we think about them is simply meaningless. You already ordered it so all you should want to do is build it and have fun with it.

Almost everybody's system specs (including yours) are right beneath their avatar, which is quite helpful for many reasons. It also is a good source of info since you like reading about people's systems.

Zardon · Feb 12, 2008, 06:17 PM

Hey Grace, cut the guy some slack, that sounded a bit rude.

Hey Mike, its nice to share opinions and I hope you have a great time with the system buddy, post some pictures when you get it built up, lets see how it looks.

Its a real pity you didn't really ask us beforehand because I would have recommended a core 2 cpu from intel.

Im sure it will suit your needs mate.

Grace · Feb 12, 2008, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Zardon

Hey Grace, cut the guy some slack, that sounded a bit rude.

My apologies then, that was certainly not my intention.

mikehud851984 · Feb 13, 2008, 09:57 AM

It's no problem but my thinking was that I had the money and I had better spend it asap before i didn't keep it for my comp. Yes I did kind of jump into it rather quickly but posting this thread after ordering is actually helpful because I could just as easily send some or all of it back and get something else. Anyway I am actually typing this post from the new machine as I install crysis I have been testing this thing out so far pretty impressed with the improvement but still some tweaking to be done new drivers to be installed yada yada yada. However straight out of the box new install of vista and all my preffered apps and some cleanup I managed to get 12,554 in 3DMARK06. This system does look very pretty and I would be more than happy to post some pics if you all would like to see them. Thank You for reading.

Zardon · Feb 13, 2008, 11:26 AM

good to hear. wouldnt be worrying too much about 3dmark, lets hear how it runs crysis!

mikehud851984 · Feb 13, 2008, 10:09 PM

Well I installed crysis last night but was falling asleep so didn't really play it to much however with all setting's on very high no AA and Vsync enabled it played a substantial amount better than my previous setup but still unplayable at those settings. With a combo of very high and high settings it still looks by far better than any game I have played before and runs smoothly. Anyway here are the pics of my rig. (sorry about the lousy quality the cam is a bit out dated only 4Mp).

It's nothing to fancy but I love it because it's built by me which is what I like the most about it. It's so much more satisfying to fire up a system built by you and play some awsome games for hours at a time and yet still be amazed by the quallity time and time again.

**Mousey** · Feb 13, 2008, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Zardon

Hey Grace, cut the guy some slack, that sounded a bit rude.

Hey Mike, its nice to share opinions and I hope you have a great time with the system buddy, post some pictures when you get it built up, lets see how it looks.

Its a real pity you didn't really ask us beforehand because I would have recommended a core 2 cpu from intel.

Im sure it will suit your needs mate.

Yeah i would have recommended a C2D as well, eh well. As long as you get the framerates you think you deserve or at least are happy with there's not much point in questioning your choices

Btw dude nice job, better cabling than in my rig lol

mikehud851984 · Feb 14, 2008, 12:26 AM

Yeah I toyed with the idea of going intel but in order to do that it would cost alot more for a nominal performance difference so I didn't since I couldn't break the bank without my wife breaking my b***s. $700 wasn't bad for these parts as far as I can see but thanks for the compliment it does look nice took awhile.

BlueMak · Feb 14, 2008, 12:59 AM

Is the front red or orange?

One day (my guess is about 2-3 years from now) I would love to get an orange case, but I have yet to find one that isn't part of some premade system.

Your system looks great, I agree that A)you could have asked us earlier :-p , B)that it would be better to go Intel, even with the extra cost, C) that it is a sweet new system. Congratulations.

I still can't figure out though how everyone and their grandmother manages to have a more tidy (cables) case than I can, even if I spend an hour into it. lol

EDIT: the not so good quality of many of the photos is not because of the camera being old and 4MP, but the lighting is not good for them and you need to do some white balance. Plus it seems out of focus for some.

EDIT2: That is one big ass fan over the CPU.

IEMC · Feb 14, 2008, 03:41 AM

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Originally Posted by BlueMak

EDIT2: That is one big ass fan over the CPU.

Quite.

And I've always wanted a orange case, too. When I get the money / if I get the money, I'll probably get a custom painted stacker or something.

Orange is sexy.

**dj_stick** · Feb 14, 2008, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by BlueMak

I still can't figure out though how everyone and their grandmother manages to have a more tidy (cables) case than I can, even if I spend an hour into it. lol

you're not alone, my case is an absolute mess of cables

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikehud851984

It's nothing to fancy but I love it because it's built by me which is what I like the most about it. It's so much more satisfying to fire up a system built by you and play some awsome games for hours at a time and yet still be amazed by the quallity time and time again.

there definately is a big sense of satisfaction after building your own rig and booting it up

**Mousey** · Feb 14, 2008, 11:11 AM

@ BlueMak and IEMC..
Buy NZXT Apollo - Orange*ApolloOG from CCL - Online Retailer of the Year 2007

BlueMak · Feb 14, 2008, 12:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mousey

@ BlueMak and IEMC..
Buy NZXT Apollo - Orange*ApolloOG from CCL - Online Retailer of the Year 2007

Thanks for the link.
Never heard of this company before.
Bookmarked.

Neshi · Feb 14, 2008, 01:18 PM

they make some great looking cases. I was once the happy owner of the NZXT Lexa, but it lacked some quality which I demand in a case.

**Mousey** · Feb 14, 2008, 04:11 PM

And btw @ IEMC
Buy CoolerMaster Stacker 831 Orange*RC-831-OKN1-GP from CCL - Online Retailer of the Year 2007

xD

IEMC · Feb 14, 2008, 08:18 PM

I would so buy that if the colors were reversed.

The first one is cool but I don't like those bulky front panels. Too clumsy.

**Mousey** · Feb 14, 2008, 09:07 PM

lol if an orange case was sat on my desk i'd be embarassed to show my face at a LAN unless i had like 4x 8800 Ultras in it and a QX9750 xD

BlueMak · Feb 14, 2008, 09:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mousey

lol if an orange case was sat on my desk i'd be embarassed to show my face at a LAN unless i had like 4x 8800 Ultras in it and a QX9750 xD

That's because you are a teenager.

mikehud851984 · Feb 16, 2008, 01:39 AM

LOL You guy's are funny. Hey just had a question about my setup I don't believe that I am getting the full performance of the system anyone know of a good somewhat simple way to determin where I may be experiencing a bottleneck I mean I am only able to get 12,500 points in 3dmark06 and crysis is unplayable even at medium settings. I am really getting dissapointed and am just about ready to send it all back unless one piece of my hardware is defective and not running upto par. Also I tried to OC even by the smallest amount and it will not boot it says an error message saying (Bank Interleave request error overclocking failed please enter setup to re configure your system) And there are alot of options that are un changeable in the bios as well such as cpu voltage it is only running on 1.20 volts which is pretty low to me but I am really at a loss with this I can't figure out where or how I could have a bottleneck everything is running at normal operating frequencies so I'm really confused as to how it's running so lousy I mean it's a hell of alot better than my previous setup which only got a 9,880 in 3dmark06 but I still expected a bit higher performance out of it.

mikehud851984 · Feb 16, 2008, 01:42 AM

Also just to add one more thing I have owned a few asus boards and they have never had any options of the bios un changeable so I find it really strange that they have this board which is fairly high end and marketed towards oveclockers that won't take even a 100mhz OC what gives???

BlueMak · Feb 16, 2008, 02:10 AM

Have you checked the manual and any jumpers on the mainboard?

I wouldn't put too much trust on 3dmark.

Have you installed mainboard drivers? have you installed all the updates for your OS? Have you installed DirectX? Have you installed latest drivers for all the hardware? Including the CPU?

What is the performance index under Vista?

Zelig · Feb 16, 2008, 03:13 AM

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Originally Posted by mikehud851984

Also just to add one more thing I have owned a few asus boards and they have never had any options of the bios un changeable so I find it really strange that they have this board which is fairly high end and marketed towards oveclockers that won't take even a 100mhz OC what gives???

The Phenoms are notoriously bad at overclocking by increasing the HT Reference bus, which is part of the reason why the black editions where released. I wouldn't expect to get anything past 100 MHz over stock working.

edit: Oh, I see you have a black edition, in which case, you probably want to up the multiplier, as opposed to the HT reference bus. There are a number of other settings to tweak to keep other frequencies in working ranges, best to look up some guides for said purpose.

**kris23** · Feb 16, 2008, 03:13 AM

thats why we all recommend Intel, you bought very poor quality parts. not good.

the CPU is buggy and cant overclock for shit currently, newer revisions have hope but they'll never ever touch Intel's OC. the simpler a design, the more durable is usually it. that why intel is currently better

the ASUS board BIOS or hardware is buggy and cant overclock for shit neither, thats why recommended Gigabyte.

3DMark sucks and vista benches suck, but Crysis is the truth.....

i really recommend a Q6600 or E8400 with a P35 Gigabyte board and the Transcend 1200 sticks if you can get them, if not then Crucial 1066

your video card is a monster but your machine's other parts are pathetic. the CPU is crappy and you can get 50%+ if you get a Q6600 and OC it to 3.6-3.8GHz man....

only way to OC Black Edition is the Multiplier, but i haveent seen OCs out of the 2.8-3.0 range

Feb 11, 2008, 05:15 AM	#1
mikehud851984 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Dover NH U.S.A Posts: 75 Rep Power: 0	!!!!Brand New Gaming Rig Check Out The Specs!!!! I just ordered all these parts I think it will be a pretty solid rig let me know what you think. Mobo: Newegg.com - ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe/WiFi AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail Cpu: Newegg.com - AMD Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 2MB L3 Cache Socket AM2+ 95W Quad-Core Black Edition Processor - Retail PSU: Newegg.com - Antec NeoPower 650 Blue ATX12V / EPS12V 650W Power Supply 100 - 240 V UL, CUL, CE, CB, FCC Class B, TUV, CCC, C-tick - Retail Ram: Newegg.com - Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail Also look at my sig that is the complete setup. __________________ Mobo: ASUS M3A32 MVP Deluxe Wifi AM2+ Chipset:AMD 790FX/AMD SB600 Southbridge CPU: AMD Black Edition Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3Ghz Quad Core Video: Sapphire Ati HD3870X2 1GIG Dual GPU Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 906BW 2ms 2000:1 Ram: 2GB Crucial Ballistix 1066Mhz DDR2 Storage: Maxtor SATAII 300GB With Bonus 20GB. Power: Antec NEO 650Watt Cooling: CPU:Thermaltake Ruby Orb 120mm, Intake: Thermaltake Thunderblade 120mm, Exhaust:Thermaltake Thunderblade 120mm, Side Panel modded stock case 80mm, and Arctic Silver 5 on cpu heatsink.

Feb 11, 2008, 05:23 AM	#2
kris23 Going Insane..... Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,018 Rep Power: 131 System Specs	uhh..... Phenom? ASUS? eh......... i guess..... congrats you should have at least changed your board to Gigabyte and waited for the B3 chips Asus seems to have a bit of stability issues with their stuff.... hell the whole Spider setup has stability issues. __________________ Hardwareheaven Super-Moderator Building a new computer system and not sure where to start? Click Here! last updated (5/18/11) Rosewill FUTURE case replaces CM 690 II with its greater interior length. Building a PC: Step by Step Guide Written by Kristopher Pedemonte and Nathan Marks-Forder Edited by Allan Campbell Questions or Comments? feel free to post them in the forums!

Feb 12, 2008, 03:44 AM	Thread Starter #3
mikehud851984 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Dover NH U.S.A Posts: 75 Rep Power: 0	I don't know I just went for it with this one sounded good price was right so I said what the hell I'll give it a shot we'll see what happens __________________ Mobo: ASUS M3A32 MVP Deluxe Wifi AM2+ Chipset:AMD 790FX/AMD SB600 Southbridge CPU: AMD Black Edition Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3Ghz Quad Core Video: Sapphire Ati HD3870X2 1GIG Dual GPU Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 906BW 2ms 2000:1 Ram: 2GB Crucial Ballistix 1066Mhz DDR2 Storage: Maxtor SATAII 300GB With Bonus 20GB. Power: Antec NEO 650Watt Cooling: CPU:Thermaltake Ruby Orb 120mm, Intake: Thermaltake Thunderblade 120mm, Exhaust:Thermaltake Thunderblade 120mm, Side Panel modded stock case 80mm, and Arctic Silver 5 on cpu heatsink.

Feb 12, 2008, 04:53 PM	Thread Starter #7
mikehud851984 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Dover NH U.S.A Posts: 75 Rep Power: 0	Well all In all I will most likely be picking up another set of the crucials I'm already getting but I am only running Vista 32bit so I would only see a 1Gig increase in the OS and the fourth would basically do nothing aside from run the onboard peripherals which I won't be using any onbord features aside from the wifi anyway so at the time of order I just didn't see any real importance of getting 4Gb right away two seems to do just fine in my current setup but I have not used quad core before so maybe going quad could benefit from the 4gb I'll just have to see. Anyway it should all arrive here in the next couple hours hopefully before the snow storm were about to recieve hits so that ups has no excuses to be as late as 9:00 pm as they were with my last order. To answer Grace's question, My sole purpouse of posting this thread was to get peoples opinnion of the new system I am going to put together as some of the readers have read some of my previous posts both on this name and the one I had about two years ago mikehud1984, and know that I have been working towards building a semi decent gaming rig and have seen how I have progressed in my upgrades this being the biggest and best that I have done to date. I for one enjoy coming to DH and GH to read about peoples systems and how they have put them together and what they came up from. So thanx for your negative criticism but it won't be needed. __________________ Mobo: ASUS M3A32 MVP Deluxe Wifi AM2+ Chipset:AMD 790FX/AMD SB600 Southbridge CPU: AMD Black Edition Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3Ghz Quad Core Video: Sapphire Ati HD3870X2 1GIG Dual GPU Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 906BW 2ms 2000:1 Ram: 2GB Crucial Ballistix 1066Mhz DDR2 Storage: Maxtor SATAII 300GB With Bonus 20GB. Power: Antec NEO 650Watt Cooling: CPU:Thermaltake Ruby Orb 120mm, Intake: Thermaltake Thunderblade 120mm, Exhaust:Thermaltake Thunderblade 120mm, Side Panel modded stock case 80mm, and Arctic Silver 5 on cpu heatsink.

Feb 13, 2008, 09:57 AM	Thread Starter #11
mikehud851984 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Dover NH U.S.A Posts: 75 Rep Power: 0	It's no problem but my thinking was that I had the money and I had better spend it asap before i didn't keep it for my comp. Yes I did kind of jump into it rather quickly but posting this thread after ordering is actually helpful because I could just as easily send some or all of it back and get something else. Anyway I am actually typing this post from the new machine as I install crysis I have been testing this thing out so far pretty impressed with the improvement but still some tweaking to be done new drivers to be installed yada yada yada. However straight out of the box new install of vista and all my preffered apps and some cleanup I managed to get 12,554 in 3DMARK06. This system does look very pretty and I would be more than happy to post some pics if you all would like to see them. Thank You for reading. __________________ Mobo: ASUS M3A32 MVP Deluxe Wifi AM2+ Chipset:AMD 790FX/AMD SB600 Southbridge CPU: AMD Black Edition Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3Ghz Quad Core Video: Sapphire Ati HD3870X2 1GIG Dual GPU Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 906BW 2ms 2000:1 Ram: 2GB Crucial Ballistix 1066Mhz DDR2 Storage: Maxtor SATAII 300GB With Bonus 20GB. Power: Antec NEO 650Watt Cooling: CPU:Thermaltake Ruby Orb 120mm, Intake: Thermaltake Thunderblade 120mm, Exhaust:Thermaltake Thunderblade 120mm, Side Panel modded stock case 80mm, and Arctic Silver 5 on cpu heatsink.

Feb 12, 2008, 04:05 AM	#4
Grace HH's Tomboy Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Anywhere but in my house! Posts: 776 Rep Power: 56	Since you already ordered the parts, does it matter what we think about it? I think that the system will be pretty much fine but you should get a slower 2X2GB set of RAM. Size matters much more than speed when it comes to RAM.

Feb 12, 2008, 06:17 PM	#9
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	Hey Grace, cut the guy some slack, that sounded a bit rude. Hey Mike, its nice to share opinions and I hope you have a great time with the system buddy, post some pictures when you get it built up, lets see how it looks. Its a real pity you didn't really ask us beforehand because I would have recommended a core 2 cpu from intel. Im sure it will suit your needs mate.

Feb 13, 2008, 11:26 AM	#12
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	good to hear. wouldnt be worrying too much about 3dmark, lets hear how it runs crysis!

Feb 13, 2008, 10:09 PM	Thread Starter #13
mikehud851984 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Dover NH U.S.A Posts: 75 Rep Power: 0	Well I installed crysis last night but was falling asleep so didn't really play it to much however with all setting's on very high no AA and Vsync enabled it played a substantial amount better than my previous setup but still unplayable at those settings. With a combo of very high and high settings it still looks by far better than any game I have played before and runs smoothly. Anyway here are the pics of my rig. (sorry about the lousy quality the cam is a bit out dated only 4Mp). It's nothing to fancy but I love it because it's built by me which is what I like the most about it. It's so much more satisfying to fire up a system built by you and play some awsome games for hours at a time and yet still be amazed by the quallity time and time again. __________________ Mobo: ASUS M3A32 MVP Deluxe Wifi AM2+ Chipset:AMD 790FX/AMD SB600 Southbridge CPU: AMD Black Edition Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3Ghz Quad Core Video: Sapphire Ati HD3870X2 1GIG Dual GPU Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 906BW 2ms 2000:1 Ram: 2GB Crucial Ballistix 1066Mhz DDR2 Storage: Maxtor SATAII 300GB With Bonus 20GB. Power: Antec NEO 650Watt Cooling: CPU:Thermaltake Ruby Orb 120mm, Intake: Thermaltake Thunderblade 120mm, Exhaust:Thermaltake Thunderblade 120mm, Side Panel modded stock case 80mm, and Arctic Silver 5 on cpu heatsink.

Feb 14, 2008, 12:26 AM	Thread Starter #15
mikehud851984 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Dover NH U.S.A Posts: 75 Rep Power: 0	Yeah I toyed with the idea of going intel but in order to do that it would cost alot more for a nominal performance difference so I didn't since I couldn't break the bank without my wife breaking my b***s. $700 wasn't bad for these parts as far as I can see but thanks for the compliment it does look nice took awhile. __________________ Mobo: ASUS M3A32 MVP Deluxe Wifi AM2+ Chipset:AMD 790FX/AMD SB600 Southbridge CPU: AMD Black Edition Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3Ghz Quad Core Video: Sapphire Ati HD3870X2 1GIG Dual GPU Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 906BW 2ms 2000:1 Ram: 2GB Crucial Ballistix 1066Mhz DDR2 Storage: Maxtor SATAII 300GB With Bonus 20GB. Power: Antec NEO 650Watt Cooling: CPU:Thermaltake Ruby Orb 120mm, Intake: Thermaltake Thunderblade 120mm, Exhaust:Thermaltake Thunderblade 120mm, Side Panel modded stock case 80mm, and Arctic Silver 5 on cpu heatsink.

Feb 14, 2008, 12:59 AM	#16
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,465 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	Is the front red or orange? One day (my guess is about 2-3 years from now) I would love to get an orange case, but I have yet to find one that isn't part of some premade system. Your system looks great, I agree that A)you could have asked us earlier :-p , B)that it would be better to go Intel, even with the extra cost, C) that it is a sweet new system. Congratulations. I still can't figure out though how everyone and their grandmother manages to have a more tidy (cables) case than I can, even if I spend an hour into it. lol EDIT: the not so good quality of many of the photos is not because of the camera being old and 4MP, but the lighting is not good for them and you need to do some white balance. Plus it seems out of focus for some. EDIT2: That is one big ass fan over the CPU. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Feb 14, 2008, 11:11 AM	#19
Mousey Synth's Long Lost Bro Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Web Design Hell Posts: 7,189 Rep Power: 245 System Specs	@ BlueMak and IEMC.. Buy NZXT Apollo - Orange*ApolloOG from CCL - Online Retailer of the Year 2007 __________________

Feb 14, 2008, 01:18 PM	#21
Neshi S.N.A.F.U. Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Wellington, NZ Posts: 3,378 Rep Power: 177 System Specs	they make some great looking cases. I was once the happy owner of the NZXT Lexa, but it lacked some quality which I demand in a case. __________________ If one does not attach himself to people and desire, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live? Life is just too damn short for if's and maybe's

Feb 14, 2008, 04:11 PM	#22
Mousey Synth's Long Lost Bro Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Web Design Hell Posts: 7,189 Rep Power: 245 System Specs	And btw @ IEMC Buy CoolerMaster Stacker 831 Orange*RC-831-OKN1-GP from CCL - Online Retailer of the Year 2007 xD __________________

Feb 14, 2008, 08:18 PM	#23
IEMC Neighborhood screw up. Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: MI, US Posts: 770 Rep Power: 55 System Specs	I would so buy that if the colors were reversed. The first one is cool but I don't like those bulky front panels. Too clumsy. __________________

Feb 14, 2008, 09:07 PM	#24
Mousey Synth's Long Lost Bro Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Web Design Hell Posts: 7,189 Rep Power: 245 System Specs	lol if an orange case was sat on my desk i'd be embarassed to show my face at a LAN unless i had like 4x 8800 Ultras in it and a QX9750 xD __________________

Feb 16, 2008, 01:39 AM	Thread Starter #26
mikehud851984 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Dover NH U.S.A Posts: 75 Rep Power: 0	LOL You guy's are funny. Hey just had a question about my setup I don't believe that I am getting the full performance of the system anyone know of a good somewhat simple way to determin where I may be experiencing a bottleneck I mean I am only able to get 12,500 points in 3dmark06 and crysis is unplayable even at medium settings. I am really getting dissapointed and am just about ready to send it all back unless one piece of my hardware is defective and not running upto par. Also I tried to OC even by the smallest amount and it will not boot it says an error message saying (Bank Interleave request error overclocking failed please enter setup to re configure your system) And there are alot of options that are un changeable in the bios as well such as cpu voltage it is only running on 1.20 volts which is pretty low to me but I am really at a loss with this I can't figure out where or how I could have a bottleneck everything is running at normal operating frequencies so I'm really confused as to how it's running so lousy I mean it's a hell of alot better than my previous setup which only got a 9,880 in 3dmark06 but I still expected a bit higher performance out of it. __________________ Mobo: ASUS M3A32 MVP Deluxe Wifi AM2+ Chipset:AMD 790FX/AMD SB600 Southbridge CPU: AMD Black Edition Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3Ghz Quad Core Video: Sapphire Ati HD3870X2 1GIG Dual GPU Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 906BW 2ms 2000:1 Ram: 2GB Crucial Ballistix 1066Mhz DDR2 Storage: Maxtor SATAII 300GB With Bonus 20GB. Power: Antec NEO 650Watt Cooling: CPU:Thermaltake Ruby Orb 120mm, Intake: Thermaltake Thunderblade 120mm, Exhaust:Thermaltake Thunderblade 120mm, Side Panel modded stock case 80mm, and Arctic Silver 5 on cpu heatsink.

Feb 16, 2008, 01:42 AM	Thread Starter #27
mikehud851984 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Dover NH U.S.A Posts: 75 Rep Power: 0	Also just to add one more thing I have owned a few asus boards and they have never had any options of the bios un changeable so I find it really strange that they have this board which is fairly high end and marketed towards oveclockers that won't take even a 100mhz OC what gives??? __________________ Mobo: ASUS M3A32 MVP Deluxe Wifi AM2+ Chipset:AMD 790FX/AMD SB600 Southbridge CPU: AMD Black Edition Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3Ghz Quad Core Video: Sapphire Ati HD3870X2 1GIG Dual GPU Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 906BW 2ms 2000:1 Ram: 2GB Crucial Ballistix 1066Mhz DDR2 Storage: Maxtor SATAII 300GB With Bonus 20GB. Power: Antec NEO 650Watt Cooling: CPU:Thermaltake Ruby Orb 120mm, Intake: Thermaltake Thunderblade 120mm, Exhaust:Thermaltake Thunderblade 120mm, Side Panel modded stock case 80mm, and Arctic Silver 5 on cpu heatsink.

Feb 16, 2008, 02:10 AM	#28
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,465 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	Have you checked the manual and any jumpers on the mainboard? I wouldn't put too much trust on 3dmark. Have you installed mainboard drivers? have you installed all the updates for your OS? Have you installed DirectX? Have you installed latest drivers for all the hardware? Including the CPU? What is the performance index under Vista? __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Feb 16, 2008, 03:13 AM	#30
kris23 Going Insane..... Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,018 Rep Power: 131 System Specs	thats why we all recommend Intel, you bought very poor quality parts. not good. the CPU is buggy and cant overclock for shit currently, newer revisions have hope but they'll never ever touch Intel's OC. the simpler a design, the more durable is usually it. that why intel is currently better the ASUS board BIOS or hardware is buggy and cant overclock for shit neither, thats why recommended Gigabyte. 3DMark sucks and vista benches suck, but Crysis is the truth..... i really recommend a Q6600 or E8400 with a P35 Gigabyte board and the Transcend 1200 sticks if you can get them, if not then Crucial 1066 your video card is a monster but your machine's other parts are pathetic. the CPU is crappy and you can get 50%+ if you get a Q6600 and OC it to 3.6-3.8GHz man.... only way to OC Black Edition is the Multiplier, but i haveent seen OCs out of the 2.8-3.0 range __________________ Hardwareheaven Super-Moderator Building a new computer system and not sure where to start? Click Here! last updated (5/18/11) Rosewill FUTURE case replaces CM 690 II with its greater interior length. Building a PC: Step by Step Guide Written by Kristopher Pedemonte and Nathan Marks-Forder Edited by Allan Campbell Questions or Comments? feel free to post them in the forums!