Wolter van der Spoel Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 It took a lil bit longer but then the sweeter when one can finally puts his hands on it mobo~ ASUS Striker II Extreme CPU~Intel Core2 Quad Q9300 s775 CPU Cooler~Scythe Mugen CPU Cooler RAM~4Gig Team eXtreem DARK RAM DDR3 1600MHz PC3 12800 C7-7-7-21-2T HD's~5x Seagate Barracuda 500G SATAII 7.200rpm VCA~EVGA-GeForce 9800GTX SSC 512MB PSU~BeQuiet 700W ATX V2.2 PSU Straight Power, 24/20pins, active pfc, 2xpci-e, 8xsata, 4x12V Rails SC~Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series DVDR~2x Samsung DVD RW+/-DL SH230P black OS~Windows XPproSP3 UKversion case~Antec Performance One P182 I think it should be OK for the next week or so Now off to get everything tweaked installed tested etc etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwolb Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 sounds like nice system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Kae Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 Excellent stuff Wolter, I hope you enjoy FS even more with this rig ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Webb Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 That is one mean system mate!! Congrats!! Thanks also for putting up the links. I'm researching my next upgrade. Need a better video card, CPU and case... Cheers, Matt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwlee Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 Woohoo, Wolter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendigoandy Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 And you gonna LOVE how cool the 45nm cpus run, mine sits around 39-45 and 49 when being hammerd....love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Routley Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 I think all computer vendors should give FSX away with their systems. It is the only reason I upgrade anything because it is capable of bringing the most powerful systems to their knees. I think it would make them money. Wolter ... I'm green with envy. My E6600, P965, 4G Ram, 8800GTX (768Mb) is showing its age (18 months) - somehow seemed like lightning when I first got it! BTW That is by current standards, not a toy but a BEAST! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Meiklejohn Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 woo hoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted June 27, 2008 Author Share Posted June 27, 2008 Thankx guys for the friendly (and green) comments found the first bug, they forgot to activate all 4 cores ......... just did that myself worked a treat first installing all the needed parafanalia, when that is up and running I'll start with fsX ................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squeeker Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 I just followed the link to the Scythe Mugen CPU Cooler. Is this a computer or a nuclear reactor? Cool rig mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandit Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 Thankx guys for the friendly (and green) comments found the first bug, they forgot to activate all 4 cores ......... just did that myself worked a treat first installing all the needed parafanalia, when that is up and running I'll start with fsX ................. Activating all 4 cores - I asume thats an OS thing not a h/w thing right? Hows that done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted June 28, 2008 Author Share Posted June 28, 2008 Activating all 4 cores - I asume thats an OS thing not a h/w thing right? Hows that done? In the BIOS you only have to "enable" them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butch Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 Time to stock up on Nodoze, coke and chocolates...its going to be a long weekend!! Whoohoooo Cheers, Butch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Routley Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 ... they forgot to activate all 4 cores ......... just did that myself worked a treat Don't you love it when something is as easy as you think its going to be. When did just "enabling something in the BIOS" last work for me ....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulldog Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 It's ok for all you guys that can fix things but WHY CAN'T I GET THE BLOODY WIDGETS MAP WORKING #%$$&^&%&!^%#&@ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heiko Glatthorn Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 Paaaaaaarty ! Congrats Wolter, that's indeed a powerhouse . You'll have a lot of fun with it . Btw i ordered as well today. Should get my new 280 Black Pearl baby within 2 weeks. Now i am excited too . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted June 28, 2008 Author Share Posted June 28, 2008 Woohooo Heiko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwolb Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 you two make me sick! PS: Fledermaus, send some pic's of your new system if you can, sounds like a screamer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted June 28, 2008 Author Share Posted June 28, 2008 you two make me sick! PS: Fledermaus, send some pic's of your new system if you can, sounds like a screamer. if I do that would you be getting healthy again ............. or even sicker ? give me a day or so as I need to clear our some clutter here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwolb Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 cool, does sounds neat, cant wait to see some of your screen shots from your new system, and Mango's new 280 card in a couple weeks. Perfect timing for getting great pics of AU Green when it comes out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted June 28, 2008 Author Share Posted June 28, 2008 you can also check the links for the various components in the first post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 Hmmm, Wolter's post-count is slowing down .... he's got his head stuck into the case of the new superkickarseninja PC of his, LOL! Conga-rats gozer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwolb Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 Hey, I clicked on the different links, and I dont think that system will meet your needs. PM me and I will give you instructions on how to ship it to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tufnel Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 Congratulations Wolter. Sounds like you have a nice PC there. You think it will be able to run FSX well? Hahaha Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted June 29, 2008 Author Share Posted June 29, 2008 Thankx fella's Sorry for not beeing around to much, this thing needs some explicit reading and study of the various manuals first tests with fsX FTX look favourable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradHosking Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 Mate that sounds like a sick system. The motherboard you bought... damn $$ as much as my Q6600, Ram and motherboard combined which I am going to get once the tax cheque arrives in a few weeks.... The benefits I suppose of shilling out $4500 this year on IT courses... I gotta get some of it back Here is my lower end system I was going to purchase Q6600 - $227 from Umart (may change this to the E9300 depending on prices when I buy) Gigabyte GA-X48-DS4 - $243 from Umart G.Skill 5-5-5-15 2x2GB PC6400 (4GB) - $130 from Umart Will use this store as they offer a discount if you order over the web, and have never experienced any issues from them ever when having a fault. Plus their prices majority of times are some of the lowest. I believe the cheapest I could find the Striker II was over $550... And that would have blown my budget.. but it does look damn nice. As for Video I will use my current MSI HD3870 OC 512 Card which handles FSX very nicely. Might get a second and run in Crossfire as the cards have dropping in price for a single GPU card in a very big way. Some screenies mate once you get a chance... would like to see some of the magic you should be able to produce with that system. Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted June 29, 2008 Author Share Posted June 29, 2008 Brad, Thankx for the friendly coments what I can say is get a mobo that has future potential, that Gigabite is a good mobo, also a good PSU, for the moment you could go for the price worthy CPU and always upgrade in a later stage when the price for that "faster" one comes down again as they always do I'm still on the read and learn mode here as the *beep* manual for the mobo is over 200 pages of very fine print ! so as soon as I think it's worth it I'll toss up some screenies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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