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Not sure of the total but alot. I got all of it from Newegg.com (great site.) My tax return check helped alot, but I had the put the FX-60 and Hard drives on credit.

Maybe I'm paranoid, but there seems to be lots of probs out there with this stuff, thats why I didn't get an EVGA overclocked card. Also why I'm not running SLI. Seems real buggy still.

Hopefully, I don't get any major probs...well see.

Anyways when the stuff comes all I have to do is slap the card in for the moment of truth.

This is your first built system?

All I can say is RTFM especially with that RAID.

There are a few changes I would make though:

G5 instead of G7, corded is better for gaming.

Different power supply. Look at Antec or PC Power and Cooling (best on the market these days).

Different monitor. Dell LCDs are in general kickass.

Username II wrote:

It's always the people who don't know what they're doing that get the ultra fast systems...

No offense, of course! You did say this was the first system you've built. lol And all that crap and you're planning on using integrated sound? Sheesh. Go buy an X-fi or three. On credit.

Tips from my last system:

If you've got an SATA system, you might find it helpful to check the bios about 15 times, I don't know if the motherboard manufacturers have cleared up that mess, but it's not hard to pick the wrong combination of controllers. And you're doing RAID...I spent about three months trying to figure out why my hard drive wouldn't boot. Fun.

Also, make sure the board is insulated from the case properly. I learned the hard way...the way which requires that you disassemble the whole system to remount the motherboard with the proper insulation.

Have fun with your great new system...

reminds me of a funny story for everyone else, when i got this box the parts arrived new years eve day(04/05) for a lan party i was hoting that night and i spent 14 hours trying to figure out why the fuck i couldn't get the xp disc to recognixe my drives, then wit han additional 2 hours of waiting for techshit support on the phone i put up with the lower guy for 5 min and then hour later a guy just told me to put the drivers on a floppy and hit F2, i was unbeleiveably pissed when this was resolved, but i think that for a $250 mobo(asus P5AD2 Premium - easily best P4 mobo at the time) they should put everything in the manuel, not to excuse my own stupidity.

I've heard thoae blue LED fans can cause retinal burn.....

J/K

If you are worried try checking out the guide I wrote in the tech section to at least get it to post.  After that it's all up to MS OS.

buttered noodle wrote:

Username II wrote:

It's always the people who don't know what they're doing that get the ultra fast systems...

No offense, of course! You did say this was the first system you've built. lol And all that crap and you're planning on using integrated sound? Sheesh. Go buy an X-fi or three. On credit.

Tips from my last system:

If you've got an SATA system, you might find it helpful to check the bios about 15 times, I don't know if the motherboard manufacturers have cleared up that mess, but it's not hard to pick the wrong combination of controllers. And you're doing RAID...I spent about three months trying to figure out why my hard drive wouldn't boot. Fun.

Also, make sure the board is insulated from the case properly. I learned the hard way...the way which requires that you disassemble the whole system to remount the motherboard with the proper insulation.

Have fun with your great new system...

reminds me of a funny story for everyone else, when i got this box the parts arrived new years eve day(04/05) for a lan party i was hoting that night and i spent 14 hours trying to figure out why the fuck i couldn't get the xp disc to recognixe my drives, then wit han additional 2 hours of waiting for techshit support on the phone i put up with the lower guy for 5 min and then hour later a guy just told me to put the drivers on a floppy and hit F2, i was unbeleiveably pissed when this was resolved, but i think that for a $250 mobo(asus P5AD2 Premium - easily best P4 mobo at the time) they should put everything in the manuel, not to excuse my own stupidity.

I've noticed that the ASUS manuals aren't very descriptive at all.  I got a real kick out of the BIOS section, especially.

yerded wrote:

I have almost the same 5k machine, and I also assembled from boxes.. I hate my audigy XFI xtreme, makes mic buggy.
carefull with the registry. contact a pro when software reveals itself to be the biggest issue which it will.
good luck

Thanks man,

Thats one of the reasons I haven't gotten any sound cards yet...I've been hearing about how buggy everything is and I figured that I would wait to see how it goes with the bare essentials.

Most motherboard manuals aren't terribly helpful except for the board documentation.

Those instructions were written by a fellow in Japan when they made this damn thing. They were probably translated by some gringo who was an expatriate American that couldn't get a job in this country. And then the Japanese guy probably translated him just to double check on him. You don't need these instructions. Not at all. Tear them up.  -Frank Corvin "Space Cowboys"

really nice choice of parts. except the zalman HSF. i woulda of just stuck with the stock cooler that came with ur fx-60. its actually a lil better.

and unless you plan to OC her a bit. shoulda of gotten someOCZ plant pc3200 memory, or some G.skills pc4000 for overclocking imo

and the PSU, the new silverstone quad rail 750 is a bit better. and has more AMprage per 12v line


but otherwise nice rig

Last edited by beerface702 (2006-05-18 21:55:18)

Thanks for the help guys, its all up and running although there is a few things I have to work out and som things I've noticed....

Keep in mind I haven't overclocked at all yet. I aslo updated all drivers and bios that I could (except video card bios.)

Idle temps are around 47 c (seems a little high?)

The memory I have has lights on it to indicate usuage. It seems the memory gets used alot its pretty much constantly blinking into the red zone.

Onboard audio really does suck. none of the front panel audio ports work, and the stereo headphones jack on the back doesn't send a stereo signal. Headphones are noisy and I only get sound out of one ear.

Performance loading ect. seems OK, but installing from CDS seems a little sluggish (maybe because I have 2 dvd burners in stead of CD/DVD read only drive?)

I've noticed that it really doesn't work the raid setup real hard, except defragging and somtimes loading stuff.

All in all I'm pretty happy, The 7900gtx is silky smooth with graphix on high.