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Building the new computer

Building the new computer

Black Knight
Under a ShadowyTree · · 2 min read
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Here I am sitting infront of an old computer of my brother's refreshing the fedex tracking page waiting for the parts to arrive while everyones going to work or school :) The parts seem to be at the Toronto sort facility right now.They should be here in one hour.I will start assembling and post pictures and update this post as I finish putting it together.I have lots of installing to do and also some games to test.I hope nothing arrives dead so I don't have to deal with returns etc.This will be a fun day.

Edit 1 : Ok I am writing from the new computer after like 10 hours of installing testing and stuff :).Putting everything together took a lot more time than I predicted so I am a bit late.And after installing windows 7 the computer kept crashing and showing corrupted screens.At first I thought it was a fried graphics card but it was working perfect in games.I installed the three case fans on the same powersupply cord maybe that was causing some problems so I moved one of the fans to another cable.And check all connections and tightened everything.After that it didn't crash again and now it running smooth.I will post the pictures I took when I install an ftp client.I played a little WoW and Risen and they both ran perfectly.I also tried the new DX11 benchmark Heaven from Unigine which looks great and kills the GFX card.20 fps in some scenes at 1920x1080 resolution everything crancked up.Pics coming soon.

Edit 2: I made a small overclock to the CPU and its running at 3.0Ghz instead of the 2.66 stock speed.When turboboost kicks in it goes to 3.18 ghz.I ran superpi 32m and it calculated in 12minutes.I also ran 3d mark vantage and got 14k cpu score and 13k gpu score.

Edit 3: Ok here are some of the pictures I took :
















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