[Eltocliousus]

Just got all my parts for my custom rig and im going to start building it as soon as my folkes wake up and my friend comes round, hes going to help.

Here are the specs:

E8200 45nm CPU, OC'ing to 4.0ghz+
2gb 800mhz ram
8800GTS
CoolerMaster eXtreme 650 SLI / Crossfire ready power supply.
Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3l Solid capacitor motherboard.
Asus silent square EVO Cpu cooler
Standard DvD-Drive 16x
standard Hard drive 250gb.
NZXT maximum cooling perfect symmety ( thats all it says on the box xD )

So if anyone is interested i might take some pictures but i don't want to seem to geeky but i know i love it.

I'll also take some pictures/Video when its finished if anyone is bothered about it.

Thanks for reading, have a great morning ( its 9am and i just can't keep still )

[Cew27]

take pictures, i always do

[alex]

He's not kidding Eltoc.

Yeah, post 'em up I'd like to see them.

[Gazmondo]

Originally Posted by eltoc Just got all my parts for my custom rig and im going to start building it as soon as my folkes wake up and my friend comes round, hes going to help. Here are the specs: E8200 45nm CPU, OC'ing to 4.0ghz+ 2gb 800mhz ram 8800GTS CoolerMaster eXtreme 650 SLI / Crossfire ready power supply. Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3l Solid capacitor motherboard. Asus silent square EVO Cpu cooler Standard DvD-Drive 16x standard Hard drive 250gb. NZXT maximum cooling perfect symmety ( thats all it says on the box xD ) So if anyone is interested i might take some pictures but i don't want to seem to geeky but i know i love it. I'll also take some pictures/Video when its finished if anyone is bothered about it. Thanks for reading, have a great morning ( its 9am and i just can't keep still )

Hope everything goes to plan.

You could have probably squeezed a slightly higher spec for a tiny bit more

Just out of curiosity, what RAM did you go for?

[Eltocliousus]

Not sure on the make of the ram, its 800mhz. Someone in my old custom rig thread told me that the Processor would be bottlenecked with 667mhz, I listened

Problem though, i spent all day yesterday got everything correct but the motherboard does nothing.
I tryed the power supply with my old computer, that works.
I tried my old CPU ( pentium D ) with the new motherboard but it still doesn't boot up.

When i say boot up i mean, i plug the 24pin and 4pin in the motherboard and ofcourse everything else, turn the power supply on but nothing happens. Ive tryed connecting the NZXT case power button to it but still nothing.

I'm going to take the motherboard to a computer shop near me and pay a small price £5 to see if it is broken, he/she will probably just test it and see if it works or not.

If it works then i guess he/she is going to tell me what i did wrong

And if it doesn't back to microdirect it goes!

If anyone can help that'll be great
Have a good morning. (3:31am and im still trying to fix it)

[Eltocliousus]

ok so, i spent the WHOLE of yesterday building and re-building and the whole of this morning to come to nothing.

Then my friend came on and said " Oh you need to put the little Power switch on the case to the motherboard "

Long and behold the power came on and the fan started spinning ( on the power )

A whole day wasted but worthit

So now im just trying to figure out where the rest of the little case wires go on the motherboard and then i'll be done. Dam little wires

[thingie2]

it should say in the motherboard manual where they go (or atleast it did for mine)

[Gazmondo]

Originally Posted by thingie2 it should say in the motherboard manual where they go (or atleast it did for mine)

Yeah it will. The first time I tried to match them up however I found it very confusing, though after a few times it's just second nature

[Eltocliousus]

Its all done ^^
Won't be to long till pics.

How its going:

Nice shiny red and blue neon's, very nice.
Very loud but CPU at 24C and 45% fan speed IDLE. so im happy.
big case, looks really nice and traded my old PD to a friend for a 17" flatscreen so i can dual screen ^^

[Baxter]

PICTURES

24c idle at stock. OC that to 4ghz, im curious to see the temps then.
congratulations on the new build. Those little wires can be tricky. but its gotta be done!!