New Build

[aux9o]

My best bud died a little over a year ago and he is the one that got me into this hobby so I decided to build a computer to crunch on in honor of him. He was always a fan of the space type programs so I am going to be running milky-way on it for now. But anyway here are the details on the machine.

Logisys Corp. 368 Cost was 33.99

ASRock G41C-GS cost was 64.99.

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz Cost was 20.00

Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 800MHz DDR2. Cost was 20.00

Cooler Master Hyper TX3 - Cost was 22.00

Antec 400w Power Supply Cost was FREE

Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7970 3 GB GDDR5 Dual X Cost was 175.00

I had a hard drive so that was free also I am running Windows 7 on it.

Here it is all together as you can see I had to twist it to get the GPU in there it was a tight fit! I have to do some cable management and add some more fans but other then that it is on bonic running milkyway right now!

[zombie67]

Nice GPU cruncher there!

[myshortpencil]

A very appropriate tribute.

[E-30]

looks nice man

[Fire$torm]

Very nice way to honor your friend. Thanks for sharing.

And not to be an @ss, but I think your going to have a power problem soon. The reason is your PSU will hold up to the strain of driving any older Intel CPU (Pre 2nd Gen. Core i3/5/7, as they are all very inefficient power hogs) and a high end GPU like that HD 7970. A good minimum recommendation would be a 620 Watt PSU like the Antec 620C.

One reason for this minimum: All PSUs lose output over time. Well made PSUs lose a LOT less over a longer period of time. Some as little as 10%~15% over their lifetime. Budget brands can, and quite often do, lose 20%~40% in the first 12 months of use.

Maybe if we ask JPM real nice like, he could find info on avg. life/output rate for some or many of the major brands out there.

So like JPM, can you? (With sugar on top)

F$

[E-30]

You need more ram in there get at least 8 gb


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[aux9o]

I made a mistake on the power supply mine is a 500 watt antec I will run it until it starts giving me problems. I just ordered 8 gig of ram for my big computer so I will be installing my old 4 gig set into this computer. Im doing this on a budget got to stay off the radar of the wife! I am keeping a watch out for a good deal on a quad core 775 for it.

[E-30]

Look on ebay they have core 2 quads cheep I have a 9400 and a 6600 both run good

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[aux9o]

Im running a oced q9400 in my main computer. They are still going for more then I thought a old processor would be on ebay! I am going to start getting things ready to move up to a i7 devils canyon I think on my main system. And will use old parts to upgrade this unit. I would like to be able to have something that can CPU crunch and make a dent. Ive always ran GPU's but never had a cpu machine. I just have not a clue where to start as there are so many options.

[E-30]

Yep my q 9400 is at 3.2 ghz now at 55c full load

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