KWSN Orbiting Fortress

Blurf · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:14 pm Post subject: Down a machine

My trust dual-core took a dive last night...either power supply or MB...no idea yet. My hands are bad for hardware work so I have someone coming in Friday to assess it.
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Killerrabbit · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:06 pm Post subject:

I will pray for its silicon soul.

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Idan · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:10 pm Post subject:

Let us know if he survived the procedure Rolling Eyes

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Blurf · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:10 pm Post subject:

The HD was ok but the Motherboard and Video card both are history. Just going to wait awhile and build a new machine.
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Blurf · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:22 pm Post subject:

stooper101 · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:36 pm Post subject:

Be careful with the HDD cage and the length of the GPU. I'm always leery when it looks so short. But sometimes the cage is farther away than it seems or can be moved/removed.

I can vouch for the AMD 555. Mine unlocked to 4 cores with a budget version of an MSI board and was even able to hold 4 ghz with gentle boinc projects (probably couldn't hold the LLRs at PG though). I've since backed off to stock speed while keeping the cores unlocked and it hums along just fine when I can afford it. If unlocking/OCing you will need a cooler. I chose the Zalman Performa (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118059).
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Blurf · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:56 pm Post subject:

I don't overclock.
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Mildew · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 8:59 am Post subject:

That is a horrible pimp-box! Shocked

I always go for black boxes, and even disconnect the power LEDs if they are too bright... Rolling Eyes

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Blurf · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:32 pm Post subject:

Changed my mind..getting a Core I-5!
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Altivec · Knight Joined: 13 Aug 2003 Posts: 88 Location: Hawaii

Looks like I chimed in late. If you were going amd I would go for a AM3+ board as it will still work with the current AM3 processors.
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Gemjunkie · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:26 pm Post subject:

This case has much better ventilation, bottom mounted power supply, room for the largest graphics cards and heat sinks and a mounting point for a 2.5 in. drive in case you get a SSD.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119233&Tpk=HAF%20912

Consider a SATA III HD, costs about the same.

Which i5 are you looking at?

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Blurf · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 12:04 am Post subject:

New machine is up and running...

Win7 Premium 8 gig of RAM....having some freeze issues though. The monitor was listed as a Generic PNP so I updated it--it shows correctly as Viewsonic now.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=6166940
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Gemjunkie · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 1:12 am Post subject:

Congrats, what hardware did you finally settle on?

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Plomos · Prince Joined: 26 Apr 2011 Posts: 859

Looks like you went with the Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30GHz afterall and a NVIDIA GeForce GT 220. 8 GB of RAM is awesome, should do nicely for whatever projects you want.
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Gemjunkie · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 2:02 pm Post subject:

What can you crunch on a GT220? Besides Folding?

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