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[Christopholofigus]

Here is my silent build:

I bought myself a Biostar T550 AM2 board bundled with an AMD64 X2 3600 (which i have heard you can OC to 3.0 GHz on just air). I also bought a EVGA GeForce 7600GT 256mb, a wonderful Zalman CNPSHSF9500 HSF, 2x 1gb Corsair XMS DDR2 800 (i plan to buy 2 more sticks as well) and a Thermaltake TR2-430w PSU. Let me tell ya, she's a beaut!
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Believe it or not, the biostar board is pretty nice. I am just using the "idiot" OC settings in it right now, but once i break it in, i will try and reach the 3.0 GHz mark. I am using my Samsung Lightscribe DVD burner from my old build, my Seagate 320gb hdd (finally running at 3.0) along with my XION case. Yep that is my external hdd you see up on top (WD ATA100 250gb hdd):
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I am running Vista x86 (i will try out x64 eventaully once i get to know the OS better, dont cha worry) with some fabulous results. Here is a screeny:
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Well, there you have it. My upgraded compy LOL. Yeah, i know, the bottom of the barrel for the AM2 socket, but at least i am there now.

P.S. For those of you that still frequent PAMD64, look familiar? LOL :crazy:

[simon]

very nice build !!! I have that case only in green !

[Scuba]

Very Nice!

[chriso_86]

Very cool man!! It looks really awesome!!!!!!!! Can't wait to hear what you can do with the manual OC!!

[Red Hawk]

very nice work! i'm going to be starting up a project of my own very soon. gave me some good ideas for that. keep us posted on how things go.

[VROSA]

Nice build and nic pics man ! I am happy ya made it !


I also want to put more 2 x 1GB sticks on my recent build. The thing is gonna be insane with 4 GB

I am also very happy with my vid card, the 7600 is beter than i imagined !

What about games Christo, what have you played so far and how is performance ?

[Christopholofigus]

vrosa x64, on Mar 14 2007, 07:56 AM, said:

Nice build and nic pics man ! I am happy ya made it !
I also want to put more 2 x 1GB sticks on my recent build. The thing is gonna be insane with 4 GB

I am also very happy with my vid card, the 7600 is beter than i imagined !

What about games Christo, what have you played so far and how is performance ?

I haven't touched a game on my new PC as of yet. I'll let you know how it goes when i do. I am trying to get the specs from someone who has the exact MD and processor running at 3.1 GHz.

That would be cool.

[Camaro]

Well im still running along on my 939 single core 148 opty, an ATi X850xt pe lol an my dfi board, all that I got last year, 06 income tax refund. this year's refund went to more important things, I wanted to upgrade the computer stuff but I did manage to get a 22" widescreen monitor this yr.
course now it wont wake from standby, or sleep mode, stupid thing, getting it fixed is going to hurt too. I called the company an they said send an email, I did that now they want a fax. I dont have a fax nor access to one.

[David_Heavey]

Camaro, on Mar 14 2007, 10:25 PM, said:

I dont have a fax nor access to one.

Any net cafs near you? Or an office supply store maybe. Must of those would have a fax.

[Camaro]

David_Heavey, on Mar 14 2007, 06:12 PM, said:

Any net cafs near you? Or an office supply store maybe. Must of those would have a fax.

Unfortunatly no, this is a town of less then 2,000 people, an the nearest one that would have something that would do the trick is 80 miles one way, an they dont even have a net cafe. not to many of them in my part of the world.

[Christopholofigus]

Sorry to hear that camaro. I wish you luck with it

[bluerip]

way cool rig. Love the blue!

[m.oreilly]

bluerip, on Mar 15 2007, 10:39 PM, said:

way cool rig. Love the blue!

[Christopholofigus]

I haven't reached 3GHz yet, but i bet i will.

Here are my setting atm:
CPU Vid Control [1.450v]
Memorry Voltage [2.100v] (yes that is how it is spelled in my BIOS :hysterical: )
Chipset Voltage [1.550v]
HyperTransport Voltage [1.250v]
CPU Frequency [275]
NPT Fid Control [x10 2000MHz]
K8<->7NB HT Speed [3x]
Timing Mode [Auto] (for the RAM)



I left my RAM on auto (check out the pic for the speed on that baby!!! - oh and i just ran the onboard MB memory test for 5 hours while i was at work, and no errors at all)

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[chriso_86]

Sounds good man!!! Hope it keeps running stable for ya!!