Building a new rig for the first time in 3 years

hpntct · 03-31-2008, 09:07 PM

Building a new rig for the first time in 3 years, just thought I'd share. It's going to be my new entertainment center, video editing and surveillance machine. Specs in the sig. Should have everything put together and running sometime this Saturday. Then I get to test some blu ray movies for the first time

Don't know why I didn't just buy a blu ray reader cause I don't see myself burning any blu ray at the price it costs per disk but it's nice to have the option to write when prices do drop.

rhino56 · 03-31-2008, 11:05 PM

man that sounds like a great rig for what you plan on with it.

hpntct · 04-03-2008, 12:22 AM

Thanks, as I don't play games, this is going to be perfect. I've heard great reviews with the 780G chipset thus I opted for this motherboard. All the parts finally arrived today, hopefully I'll be able to get it up and running Sat.

rhino56 · 04-03-2008, 12:28 PM

you should take some pics of the build and post it in the modding/construction area

hpntct · 04-08-2008, 10:53 PM

Well, I finally got it put together and have like 4 monitors hooked up to it. Works like a charm. Never used anything so fast in my life

It installed Vista in like 6-8 minutes. There are a few problems though. Vista only see's like 2.4GB of my 6GB and for some reason, only some blu ray discs play in PowerDVD 7.3. I'll post some pics as soon as I get home from my vacation.

Oh and my brand new Thermaltake PS blew up after 20 minutes, got myself a 400W Ultra PS as a replacement. Going to remove all the sleeving and sata connectors and put it on my Ultra PS instead.

J2T · 04-10-2008, 02:32 PM

Are you using the Vista 64bit? Cause 32bit will only show about that much RAM. Just curious but what Ultra power supply did you get?

hpntct · 05-18-2008, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by J2T

Are you using the Vista 64bit? Cause 32bit will only show about that much RAM. Just curious but what Ultra power supply did you get?

I believe it's a 550W Ultra (all black)... can't remember and don't feel like opening up the case

But I've upgraded to an OCZ 520 12U 520W PS with modular sleeved connectors. It's a nice PS with 2 large quiet LED fans and has a mirror finish. I'm using Vista 32bit and I'm only registering 2557MB + 512MB shared video. That's still under the 3.5GB that most people can get and the 4GB that Vista should support. I've tried all the online tricks to get the memory up but they don't seem to work.

As for the Blu Ray playback problem, I've got that fixed since PowerDVD came out with an update (v7.3). I've yet to burn a Blu Ray disc though.

03-31-2008, 09:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
hpntct Sergeant Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Vancouver, BC Canada Posts: 382	Building a new rig for the first time in 3 years Building a new rig for the first time in 3 years, just thought I'd share. It's going to be my new entertainment center, video editing and surveillance machine. Specs in the sig. Should have everything put together and running sometime this Saturday. Then I get to test some blu ray movies for the first time Don't know why I didn't just buy a blu ray reader cause I don't see myself burning any blu ray at the price it costs per disk but it's nice to have the option to write when prices do drop. __________________ Cooler Master Elite 332 ATX case \| ThermalTake TR2 430W PS \| Gigabyte GA-MA78GM 780G MB \| AMD Phenom X4 9500+ \| 6GB OCZ Titanium Ed Dual Channel DDR2 RAM \| Thermalright Ultra-90 Heat Pipe Cooler \| Maxtor ML Plus II 250GB SATA HD \| LG GGW-H20L Blu Ray Writer & HD Reader\| HIS Radeon HD3450 256MB crossfired with onboard HD3200 \| Folding 4 team 32 since 2005/01/22 as hpntct & hpjtv 2005/02/25

04-08-2008, 10:53 PM	#5 (permalink)
hpntct Sergeant Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Vancouver, BC Canada Posts: 382	Well, I finally got it put together and have like 4 monitors hooked up to it. Works like a charm. Never used anything so fast in my life It installed Vista in like 6-8 minutes. There are a few problems though. Vista only see's like 2.4GB of my 6GB and for some reason, only some blu ray discs play in PowerDVD 7.3. I'll post some pics as soon as I get home from my vacation. Oh and my brand new Thermaltake PS blew up after 20 minutes, got myself a 400W Ultra PS as a replacement. Going to remove all the sleeving and sata connectors and put it on my Ultra PS instead. __________________ Cooler Master Elite 332 ATX case \| ThermalTake TR2 430W PS \| Gigabyte GA-MA78GM 780G MB \| AMD Phenom X4 9500+ \| 6GB OCZ Titanium Ed Dual Channel DDR2 RAM \| Thermalright Ultra-90 Heat Pipe Cooler \| Maxtor ML Plus II 250GB SATA HD \| LG GGW-H20L Blu Ray Writer & HD Reader\| HIS Radeon HD3450 256MB crossfired with onboard HD3200 \| Folding 4 team 32 since 2005/01/22 as hpntct & hpjtv 2005/02/25

04-10-2008, 02:32 PM	#6 (permalink)
J2T Super Moderator <<<[MP]Major Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 2,133	Are you using the Vista 64bit? Cause 32bit will only show about that much RAM. Just curious but what Ultra power supply did you get? __________________ System 1 5000+ Black Edition @ 3Ghz Biostar TPower N750 SLi 2x2Gb G.Skill PC2 6400 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB XFX Geforce 8800GT Alpha Dog Ultra X3 600W System 2 C2D E8400 @ 4Ghz Biostar TPower I45 2x2Gb G.Skill DDR2 8800 XFX HD4890 1GB Ultra X3 1000W

03-31-2008, 11:05 PM	#2 (permalink)
rhino56 Administrator General Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 6,813	man that sounds like a great rig for what you plan on with it.

04-03-2008, 12:22 AM	#3 (permalink)
hpntct Sergeant Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Vancouver, BC Canada Posts: 382	Thanks, as I don't play games, this is going to be perfect. I've heard great reviews with the 780G chipset thus I opted for this motherboard. All the parts finally arrived today, hopefully I'll be able to get it up and running Sat.

04-03-2008, 12:28 PM	#4 (permalink)
rhino56 Administrator General Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 6,813	you should take some pics of the build and post it in the modding/construction area