Journal #6051

Sexy.

What are you crossfiring there?

I think the proper term is SLI-ing, as it is an Intel-based board.

yea, I have two 9600 GT's in sli, next year I'm going to uprade the vid cards to having 2, 295's.. just don't have a grand to spend right now..

Fuck proper terms, I'm used to ATI's terms.

Hold on a second,....you said you still need to put 3 things yet, which include the Core i7-920 chip, which I assume is the processor. Now, correct me if I am wrong, but I was under the impression that before the mother board is installed inside the case, the processor needs to be connected to the mother board first. Also, those 2 red round things, is that the heat sink or cooling fan for the processor?

You can see the fan between the two red heatsinks.

Tito: It certainly makes more sense to put the processor in first, but as with most things, there's more than one way to do it. The processor will go in fine with the motherboard already installed, but he'll need to take his pretty heatsink off again, which is a bitch to do even with the motherboard outside the case. It's probably going to be a huge hassle.

I can second what srry just said.
But that's sick! Cant wait to see what you can do with that beast.

BTW, did water-cooling fall out of style or something? I never see high end systems utilizing it anymore.

Watercooling does more damage than good. Also, why bother with it if you don't plan on overclocking?

Also, SLI is kinda a waste of money. Twice the price, only about 30% extra performance. It's probably a better idea to keep one of those 9600's and use it as a dedicated physics card with a single high-end card.

Yea, the Heatsink is a big newsance.. ..as for Tito, it is'nt mandatory to install the chip before you install the motherboard, but you do have to install the Heatsink fans before you install the motherboard, found that out the hard way, had everything installed, then when it came to install the heatsink, found out I had to take everything apart again to install it because the heatsink screws screw up from under the motherboard.. lol I wish the motherboard would say that on the first page of the manual..
Did you install the Heatsink bracket first?

EDIT:

Ok guys, I have a question:
I just bought a keychain remote that when pressed, it switches a power plug on so to speak.

What I want to do is have my pc always on kinda, then when I press the button on the remote, it provides power to the PC, and powers it on (turns it on).

Is there any easy way to do this? I was think of wiring the switch on the pc so its no longer a switch but then it would probably conduct 5volts all the time that its on? Would'nt it?

Edit:
Picture:
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/9664/powerv.jpg

QUOTE: "BTW, did water-cooling fall out of style or something? I never see high end systems utilizing it anymore."

@ srry: Not really, they are still around, mostly being used by the so called high end PC boutique vendors like Alienware, iBuypower and CyberPower, just to name a few. Now, one company that has taken PC cooling technology to the extream, is none other than Dell!

For an example, Dell uses on their XPS 730x line of gaming PC's a propertiery two-stage cooling system they call "H2C", which is some kind of ceramic based hybrid solution. To quote from Dell, this is how they describe it:

"Combines a liquid radiator, a thermoelectric cooling module and control circuitry, which optimizes CPU cooling with minimal power consumption". It is probably the most complicated cooling system ever. More info and photos on this Dell crazy cooling gadget: http://hothardware.com/articles/Dell_XPS_710_H2C_Performance_Gaming_System/Default.aspx?page=4

I've had a water cooler burst on me in the past. You should install it yourself and use non-conductive coolant, if you do at all. If it busts, your stuff wont get royally screwed.

Sorry to hear that, sounds messy. I had one time something nasty spilled on me....Once while mixing some enamel paint at work, I accidentally splashed some toluene on my eyes! Toluene is a powerful industrial solvent used to make paint and other chemicals. My eyes were on fire, felt like needles being poked in to my eyes, man that shit hurt like crazy!

So I found a way to change the bios settings so that if the power is cut out, once the power is restored the it automatically boots up:
Its called 'AC Power Loss Restart'
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/bios-beginners,1126-8.html