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[370forlife]

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I have the older version of that case (the one that both side panels and top panel is one, and slides off frontwards), it is indestructible.

[Phaihn]

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Cool i also have that used HP i just got and i need a extra CPU cause i am giving that one to my mom and dad.

[370forlife]

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Cool i also have that used HP i just got and i need a extra CPU cause i am giving that one to my mom and dad.

Is it that socket 478 board?

I might have a cpu for that if it takes celerons, too.

[Phaihn]

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Is it that socket 478 board?

I might have a cpu for that if it takes celerons, too.

Yeah it is i got it in 2004. could also use it on the one i am giving them i was thinking of getting a pentium 4 from ebay if i could find one that waas a bit faster.

[Phaihn]

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it should be able to take celerons i think.

[ratdude747]

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Rosewill cheap crap case

i hope you bought that before you knew better... my powmax just got stomped into a pancake (too bent to function so i got mad at it... ). id post a pic if it my parents didn't give it to the trash guy today so easy to stomp- what a POS!!!

[s0lid]

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I know. I am also surprised that a 300W Fortron can handle an i7 based PC.

I have a sneaky suspicion that this "BQT 500W" PSU can't deliver anything near 500W.

However after a quick google search I found that BQT is the acronym for the Be Quiet brand. According to a poster on another forum, BQT power supplies are Seasonic or CWT units. The innards look pretty good for a few of the power supplies that I have seen on the Internet.

Maybe the BQT that you have is a fake. Or possibly faulty.
I just do not see how a 500W Seasonic or CWT power supply can not handle an i7 rig yet a cheapy but reasonable 300W power supply can.

Nah it's the dfi's mobo which causes problems, for example they won't work with enermax psus either, some weird problem with -5V lines...

According to jathardwares psu listing 500W and up of Straightpower series are done by fortron but who knows. Since this psu still works with other HW i'd say to problem is with DFI...

[370forlife]

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FSP has been getting worse and worse now.

Their epsilon platform is slipping, most units based on them tested have out of spec rails and such.

Shame, fsp used to be good cheap and reliable psu's.

[etnietering]

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Desktop (getting upgraded later this week)

Intel Pentium D 830
Intel D955XBK
4x OCZ ddr2-667 512MB
eVGA 8800GTS 640MB PCIe
HT Omega STRIKER 7.1
Xigmatek S1284 on the CPU
Zalman VF-1000/RHS-88 on the GPU
Thermaltake something 520W PSU
320GB WD
250GB WD
640GB Seagate
Silverstone TJ-09


Server

Tyan Tiger i7501r
2x Intel Xeon 3.06GHz
4x Kingston ECC registered DDR400 512MB
ATi Radeon 7000 64MB PCI
30GB Quantum Fireball (maybe?)
Rosewill 430W PSU


Lappy #1

Apple iBook G4
1.33GHz G4
1.25GB DDR
ATi Radeon Mobility 9200 32MB
14.1" screen
OSX 10.4


Lappy #2

Gateway Solo 2650 (I think)
Pentium 2 Mobility 333MHz
192MB SDRAM
12.1" screen
Xubuntu 7.10

[370forlife]

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Uhhh, how are you running that server on a solytech 430W rosewill?

[etnietering]

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well it has 1 hard drive and no optical drives, and the Xeons are the old socket 604 ones....that's the computer that used to be running on the 330W logisys...with the rosewill the exhaust from the PSU isn't even warm...

[ratdude747]

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rosewill bad, delta/seasonic/recapped higher end antec/recapped hipro good

logisys worse than bad

[Phaihn]

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The HP that i got used i am giving it to my parents.

HP Compaq d530 cmt

Pentium 4 3GHZ CPU for the time being.

3gbs RAM for the time being its from my computer just wanted to see how this would run with more ram.

[370forlife]

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rosewill bad, delta/seasonic/recapped higher end antec/recapped hipro good

logisys worse than bad

New antecs are FSP (basiq,) seasonic or delta (Signature series, some earthwatts, rumored that the basiq 550 is delta). New being since about 2006-7.

I have a pair of 3.06 604 xeons on a MSI/IBM board, they easily chow down 100W each

[s0lid]

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Just added:
E6420 @ 3GHz with Quads boxed
Gigabyte EP45-DS4 ES
1GB ddr2
6600GT
7GB Maxtor with XP, only left here

[c_hegge]

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My "Hovercraft" (People call it that because it has 10 fans in it!) is as follows:

Pentium D.C. E5300 2.6GHz (OC to 3GHz), Might upgrade to core 2 duo later
4GB Kingston ValueRAM DDR2 800
250GB Seagate HDD
Samsung writemaster DVD Burner
ATI/AMD Radeon HD3850 Video Card
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L Motherboard
CoolerMaster Xtreme power 550W PSU
Antec Twelve Hundred Case (Damaged - Top comes off when you try to lift it!)
Windows XP Pro

In spite of all the fans, it isn't too noisy.

[weirdlookinguy]

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May as well, now that it's finally finished:

"Stephanie" (I name all my machines after chicks):

-Core 2 Duo E7500 2.93Ghz
-HD Radeon 4850 1GB
-Gigabyte EP45-UD3P Motherboard
-6GB 4-4-4-12 PC6400 RAM
-640GB WD Caviar Black
-AcBel API4FS06 PSU (the famous hypermicro 550W model)
-Optiarc SATA drives
-Antec Solo case
-Windows 7 64-bit



(Old pic, it now runs Windows 7 and has a card read and an optical in it)

[EGuevarae]

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"Stephanie" (I name all my machines after chicks):

Funny. My main rig always was named like a girl. The last one named that way was "Claudia". Then one day I got married with a girl named Claudia, and I stopped naming the rig that way (I named it before knowing her, not because of her).
Now the system, on my internal network is called "Hellraiser". Please, don't ask .....

[KeriJane]

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Odd.

I find it interesting that some people call their machinery (such as cars, planes, trains, boats, weapons, tools, computers) "She" or "Her" and also sometimes give them names.

I invariably call a machine "It". Not to disrespect advanced technology in any way because without our tools people are just clumsy monkeys that fall out of trees a lot.

My computer is referred to as "(a, my, the) Mac Pro".
My car is well, "My Car" or "A Tercel" or "That red car over there"
My Sewing Machine, Oscilloscope, Lawnmower and other great wonderful tools all have equally unimaginative names.
I made a tool designed to test ATX Power Supplies under load.... never once have I referred to it as a person.

Now Beanie Babies on the other hand.... that's different!
Anything with a face around here gets a name.

Maybe that's it? I give names only to faces?


Ahhhh!!!!!! Philosophy 101,

Keri

Who never Personifies Objects or Objectifies People.

Well, hardly ever.

[ratdude747]

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the only machine to get a humanistic name was the holly, because that at beast was in a holly branded case.

i once had one named "the alladin" (ga-5ax board with ali alladin V chipset).

once in awhile the computer will get a temporary name: turd, F**Ker, PIG, Piece of s**T, s**tbox, you get my drift... sometimes i get out of hand. bad computer!