Linkin's AMD Rig - In Progress!

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Hello ComputerForum! This is going to be my first proper AMD build. The first AMD system I ever used was some old Socket A, Athlon XP prebuilt! And boy did it beat my Pentium 4 system into the ground!

How things have changed!

I snared an ASRock Extreme3 880G board on eBay for $65 AUD including postage yesterday!

And today, I have just ordered an Athlon II X4 630 and a kit of Corsair 2x2GB DDR3 1600mhz/CL9 stuff!

Also, I am sorry to dissapoint my potential sellers this time around. I could not resist new stuff!

Every other part will be the same as in my sig, I'm not that rich :lol:

I'm expecting everything to arrive next week sometime. When anything arrives, pictures will obligatory, of course.
Right now I'm shaking with excitement, having just ordered everything. Oh, my poor wallet!

This post will be updated as soon as any parts arrive. Expect pictures!

EDIT:

3/08/2010 - First Item arrives.

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5/08/2010 - Motherboard arrives. Cleaned out case of dust, reapplied thermal paste on GPU, ordered AM3 retention bracket.

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9/08/2010: CPU Arrives!

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:D

EDIT: Later that day, I had another knock on the door... What could it be!?

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You know what this means!!? Everything is here!!! Time to get building! CPU goes in first!

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Followed by the RAM...

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The soundcard was very lucky, it only just fit:

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Last but not least, the 5770 goes in:

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And we have lift off! After configuring some BIOS options of course...

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EDIT: 16/8/10 - More stuff arrives! I awoke at 7:15AM today to find a courier knocking on the door! What goodies does he have for me this time?

EDIT 2: Hit picture limit! check my next post down.
 
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Awesome Linky dont forget to post pics!

linkin said:
, having just ordered everything. Oh, my poor wallet!
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Yeah everythings so expensive these days with new pc parts :cool:,But at ;east you can still sell your old stuff and get some cash back! ;)
 
EDIT: 16/08/10: New cooler & Replacement 4850

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And my replacement 4850 from XFX:

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And a quick temperature test. For fan speed I settled on Level 5 in the bios, which equates to ~1250 RPM.

This is a cold boot idle temp:

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And after a few minutes of Prime95:

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Should be overclocking a bit further now :D
 
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:rolleyes:

We don't use American english in Australia. Aluminum = Aluminium for us :P

EDIT: brainfart. it's stil, spelled wrong either way. If it bothers you that much I'll change it :D
 
Yeah. I've also sold my current CPU, mobo, RAM and cpu cooler already! That makes me back like $150 of the $300 or so i spent.
 
Actually my brother has a sapphire 5770 1gb and a crosffire cable...

Nothing in the mail today, but it's only 3:45pm, the courier comes by until 5. hoping for something today :)
 
linkin said:
Actually my brother has a sapphire 5770 1gb and a crosffire cable...

Nothing in the mail today, but it's only 3:45pm, the courier comes by until 5. hoping for something today :)
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nothing worse than the waiting game when it comes to computers :( except maybe a BSOD :P
 
Speaking of bsods, the school computer i was using today bluescreened on me. My brother's computer shit the bed too because he used some dodgy program to "move windows files to the inner of the hard drive" (sounds good in principal) and it crashed... basically his registry is gone! :P
 
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