Gaming Computer Hardware help...

[Westside]

So I have the following mother board.

My CPU fan is extremely large, and I had to tilt the fan from the North Bridge a little bit in order for me to install the fan...

I took a few shots of the fan on the north bridge, and I was wondering if it is ok to do this... I have a Q6600 quad and 4 gigs of 800HMz RAM.

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[stormwolf18]

The north bridge doesnt really require a fan, a good heatsink is good enough.

 

[FAST6191]

Without seeing myself I am not willing to say definitively yes but you should be fine (fans on the northbridge are a fairly new thing).

However for such a new machine there should be a northbridge temperature readout from which you should be able to get temps (make sure to get them from a stress test and if overclocking after (if) you raise the voltage)

Failing that you should be able to buy a polymer tunnel (that fan looks to be a common size) and the stock CPU fan should be fine (if a shade noisy) until you do.

 

[Tripp]

As long as the northbridge fan is attached well I'd say you are looking fine. How did you get it to attach at that angle? Just monitor your temps with the hopefully provided utility.

 

[Westside]

I attached it only using two screws...
Now I have another question... the mobo has an 8pin 12v connector, my powersupply only has a 4pin 12v connector. What am I supposed to do?
NVM- it said that 4 pin will work too, but 4pin is not as good as 8pin?

 

[Tripp]

I attached it only using two screws...
Now I have another question... the mobo has an 8pin 12v connector, my powersupply only has a 4pin 12v connector. What am I supposed to do?
NVM- it said that 4 pin will work too, but 4pin is not as good as 8pin?

If the two screws were a forced/hacked install make sure to use canned air to get rid of metal filing and you are good.

As far as 4 pin being not as good I would say it is not because you are drawing the 12 volts off of one rail as oposed to 2 seperate 12 volt rails.

Read here for more info. http://www.playtool.com/pages/psuconnector...ors.html#4into8

Hope this helps...

 

[xJonny]

Is that an XFX 680i?

 

[Westside]

Is that an XFX 680i?

yes...

-EDIT- Sorry for the double post, can some one merge this one with the next post? Thanks...

 

[Westside]

Guys, thank you so much for the wonderful tips. I have fully installed, with one exception... my mobo only has 1 IDE serial port, which means I can use only 1 of my 2 hard drives, along with one optical drive. My optical drive is also serial... The obvious solution is to get a new DVD-drive that supports SATA... Stupid compatibility issues makes me want to throw a gamboy advanced SP...

 

[Mangofett]

What about getting a SATA hard drive? :|

 

[Westside]

What about getting a SATA hard drive? :|

I have a 500GB HDD that I wasted ALOT of money on, I don't plan to buy a SATA HDD, I know it's faster, but I can't afford it at this point. As for a SATA DVD, it only costs $29,99 here.

 

[Sick Wario]

obviously you OC that Q6600 (hoping its G0 stepping) so can i ask what you're running it at? vcore etc

 

[FAST6191]

Can you not just internalise a USB/firewire port and get an adapter?

 

[Westside]

obviously you OC that Q6600 (hoping its G0 stepping) so can i ask what you're running it at? vcore etc

I didn't understand a thing you said... I use windows XP, so I think the 3 other cores will go unused...

QUOTE(FAST6191 @ Apr 22 2008, 06:19 PM) Can you not just internalise a USB/firewire port and get an adapter?

I believe to a computer idiot like myself, it's much easier to just buy a SATA DVD drive, lol

 

[Tripp]

Can you not just internalise a USB/firewire port and get an adapter?

That would work, another option would be to put one of the hard drives in a external USB 2.0 case which makes large data sharing very easy.

 

[Westside]

Now, I know many people will be pissed... I have a Geforce 8800 GT, how well will it run with Q6600 4gig of 800MHz RAM under Windows XP? Wait... does it even run in XP?

 

[lenselijer]

8800gt will work very well, i have 2 of these cards in my system, and very happy about it.
To use all 4gb of memory you need to run windows xp 64-bit edition.
normal windows xp can only use 3,2gb max.

ps.
I use the Scythe Infinity cooler, it's very good cooling for overclocking quad-core processors

 

[stormwolf18]

that is way too bulky

 

[Westside]

8800gt will work very well, i have 2 of these cards in my system, and very happy about it.
To use all 4gb of memory you need to run windows xp 64-bit edition.
normal windows xp can only use 3,2gb max.

ps.
I use the Scythe Infinity cooler, it's very good cooling for overclocking quad-core processors

You are right... only 2.75 gig is recognized...
I really want to use the 4gigs without having to install X64... I heard it is crap...

 

[fischju]

Gamers either use XP 32 or Vista x64, the support for Vista x64 is very good. I used it for 8 months with 0 problems. (Except a BSOD because of Creative's shitty drivers)