PICS of New Quad Core Build!

[trowand]

Hey, I just assembled my new build Saturday night and took lots of awesome pics for everyone's viewing pleasure. My new system is... Q6600, Asus P5K Premium, 2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 1066, Sapphire X1950Pro, PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad "Crossfire Edition", Scythe Infinity and an extra Silverstone 120mm fan to do a push/pull fan setup on the cooler. Check out the Scythe Infinity w/2 fans on it. The thing is AWESOME!

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[Krazeee]

Ahem...Ginormous.

[Chazell29]

very cool. congrats. enjoy.

[bd1886]

Man...looks like that can lay some serious rubber! What's your gas milage?

Very nice build!

[Alaron]

Edited your picture out of considerations for dialup users.

But looks like a nice system. Enjoy it. And that is one massive cooler! :D

[chuck4456]

Makes me want to try out one of those Scythes.

[trowand]

Makes me want to try out one of those Scythes.
FYI, it normally goes for around $58 but I got it for $38 from Directron.com which was a killer deal.

[LeftyAce]

Please tell me you're going to overclock with that massive fan?

Also, are you running Crossfire with 2 different brands of card? (They're different colors, is why I ask).

[perkster]

if that doesnt keep the CPU cool no idea what will!

[trowand]

Please tell me you're going to overclock with that massive fan?

Also, are you running Crossfire with 2 different brands of card? (They're different colors, is why I ask).
I'm having a HECK of a time trying to OC this thing. Any time I change ANYTHING in the BIOS it refuses to boot. It's really driving me nuts. These Q6600's are supposed to easily hit 3400 on air. So I'm drooling at the possibilities. ALSO, NO I'm not doing Crossfire with two different cards. That picture was just a pic of my old X800XT PE vs. my new X1950Pro. Sorry for the confusion there.

[LeftyAce]

Here's a pretty good overclocking guide: http://www.diy-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20823

It's aimed at A64 systems, so a lot of the discussion of ram settings doesn't apply to you (nor does the BIOS stuff for DFI boards) but the procedure for determining the limits of your system and figuring out what's causing instability as the speed increases is pretty much universal.

No apologies necessary on the vid card, I was being dumb, those are two completely different cards (AGP and PCI-E?) :-O

[Sharif]

Is the scythe heavy at all? I keep thinking it will snap off the motherboard

[trowand]

Is the scythe heavy at all? I keep thinking it will snap off the motherboardIt's not nearly as heavy as it looks. I expected it to be heavy when I took it out of the box and was suprised by it's weight. Plus all of the weight is at the bottom. It's very bottom heavy/top light so that helps put less stress on the mobo. I did have a hard time though clamping it down on the LGA775 socket. Three corners wanted to cooperate and the final fourth one did not which was a real pain. I'm not completely confident in it's attachment to the mobo. It on good for now but I'm afraid that one corner may pop off if the case is banged around. I'll have to keep an eye on it and temps. But the thing keeps the Q6600 seriously cool.

[Sharif]

Yes I can see that would you recommend it for a AMD 6000+