Budget Machine Thread Of Joy™

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 12th, 2007, 22:14

amblin wrote:£20 shipping???

*falls off chair*

Nice cpu and psu though.. *covets*

He has the girly psu

1kw PSU FTFW

amblin · Post by **amblin** » December 12th, 2007, 22:22

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 12th, 2007, 22:24

Yay for recently rewired house (with my bedroom on its own circuit)

amblin · Post by **amblin** » December 12th, 2007, 22:30

Post by **FatherJack** » December 12th, 2007, 23:09

Very nice rig there 'rif.

Also PSUs only pull what they need, having a larger capacity one doesn't automatically make your fuses blow and electricity bill go up - it's just sensible to have enough overhead to cover what you might need, and the reliability/stability to keep a system solid.

My Enermax has been good, but went beyond that to amaze me last week. I had two brownouts - where the lights all flickered and went dim for a while. My main PC carried on regardless, whereas all the others in the house were beeping and rebooting.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 12th, 2007, 23:15

FatherJack wrote:My Enermax has been good, but went beyond that to amaze me last week. I had two brownouts - where the lights all flickered and went dim for a while. My main PC carried on regardless, whereas all the others in the house were beeping and rebooting.

I've had that a few times, really quite surprising when it happens.

Sheriff Fatman · Post by **Sheriff Fatman** » December 13th, 2007, 1:29

HereComesPete wrote:Wooo, sheriff has a berk card!

And a whole new system, although was the enermax branded powerstation or the mobo necessary? Also can't believe how cheap top notch ddr2 is becoming!

My current box is a X2 Shuttle, with a 7800GTX. Whilst I might be able to fiddle a bit to get better performance, I erred on the "fuck it; spend as much as you can afford" side.

The PSU is overkill, and I'm not entirely sure with regard to the mobo, however with this being a "normal" box, I figure I can upgrade the various parts as and when necessary.

Sheriff Fatman · Post by **Sheriff Fatman** » December 14th, 2007, 18:12

All the goodies arrived this morning in good order. The build went without a hitch and my new toy is now working perfectly.

The only minor niggle is the case. Everything fits ok but there is an annoying lack of places to secure the cables. None of the case fans have guards, on the inside, so I had to do some real fiddling to route the octopus-like PSU cables away from them.

System temps are good; around 35c for chip and case whilst idle (I've yet to test it under load). The 8800 is idle at 58-60c, which is higher than I would like but it is factory OC'd, and apparently a normal temp.

All-in-all, very happy so far

amblin · Post by **amblin** » December 18th, 2007, 19:31

Post by **FatherJack** » December 18th, 2007, 21:37

amblin wrote:lion shit is £5 a bag and keeps cats outta the garden

I'd imagine it keeps everyone out of the garden.

Post by **HereComesPete** » December 19th, 2007, 0:54

Although it's probably not as effective as the actual lion would be.

Post by **HereComesPete** » January 5th, 2008, 16:47

Bump. This could do with being stickied.

Post by **deject** » January 5th, 2008, 17:07

HereComesPete wrote:Bump. This could do with being stickied.

I would do so if I could/knew how. The option to <strike>cum all over this thread</strike>sticky this thread does not seem to be in my mod panel.

Post by **FatherJack** » January 5th, 2008, 20:11

deject wrote:I would do so if I could/knew how. The option to <strike>cum all over this thread</strike>sticky this thread does not seem to be in my mod panel.

You edit the first post.

Post by **HereComesPete** » January 8th, 2008, 16:25

Right, ordered and awaiting delivery of -

1x Q6600 95w go stepping - £160.90

1x Gigabyte ga-p35-ds3 - £64.99

1x Antec 900 - £69.99

1x OCZ 2x1GB pc2 8500 cas5 - £70.49

1x Samsung sata 20x dvd+/-rw - £19.96

Total monies spent (inc delivery charges) = £410.73

To go with a Hiper 500w type r and a point of view 8800gtx

Total monies when psu and gpu added =£844.95

This will* see me running games at top spec for a good few years.**

*should (apart from crysis

).

**may be upgraded in 6 months.

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » January 8th, 2008, 16:42

So, anything to add to the spare hardware thread then?

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » January 8th, 2008, 16:52

HereComesPete wrote:To go with a Hiper 500w type r

Post by **HereComesPete** » January 8th, 2008, 17:18

Lateralus wrote:So, anything to add to the spare hardware thread then?

Nope. It's being given to the mater and pater because I'm fed up with them complaining about their 2.4 p4 with 512 of ram pos dell being slow, I know it's slow, I did tell them it would be and I did also tell them I'd put moar ram in, loathe as I am to touch the inside of one of those bloody things, they said no. I'm pretty much forcing them to have this one, have to see if the 6600 and the crappy ebyuer psu still work, or they'll have a big black box that does bugger all.

If they downright refuse then I'll sneakily put another gig of ram in theirs.

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » January 8th, 2008, 17:23

2.4 p4 with 512 of ram, pah! My mater had a Pentium 2 with 64MB of ram! Couldn't even fit more ram if I'd wanted to, and I even looked.

Post by **HereComesPete** » January 8th, 2008, 17:58

The thing is, it took them long enough to upgrade from a pentium mmx 233 to the p4. I think it was a millennium deal at dell online that swayed my dad.

They view pc's as tools, not shinies. Even though both of them have a new car every three/four years and a new tv every other year, and they decided to buy double glazing and a few grands worth of orthopaedic bed, a few hundred quid on a new pc is far too much money for them.

Also, they both use pc's in work every day and those pc's are both 3-4 times faster, yet they eye me with great suspicion if I even mention putting moar ram in their home machine, it's not like I've built a few systems or anything...