| ehume | 7th February 2010 06:07 |
Climbing up that ole learning curve.
My first post.
I've been messing with micro computers since 1982, when I got an Apple ][+. I have a friend who worked at an Apple store, so we were modding the heck out of our machines. I settled in with a Z80 card, CP/M and Wordstar. I remember when consumer HD's first came out: $5K for 25K on a disk. Who could ever use so much storage?
But I didn't build my first machine until last fall, when my six-year-old Dell died suddenly. Then it was hurry up and learn. I put an i7 860 on a Gigabyte P55-UD2M with 8GB DDR3 2000 Ripjaws in an Antec NSK 4480 II, running Vista then Win7 64-bit. Too much noise, so I got an AC Freezer Pro 7.
All was sweet until I discovered overclocking. Now I'm on a mission. I just finished cutting a hole for a 120mm fan in the bottom of an NZXT Beta Evo. For good measure I cut the grill out of the bottom intake window for the PSU. Sheets of sticky weighted stuff, along with sheets of self-stick heavy foam at various places. Removed the HD cage to improve airflow. Tomorrow I'm stuffing another i7 860 in it, this time on a P55A-UD3P. I've split my memory, so I'll have 4GB on each machine. I have a Megahalems for it, and a whole bunch of fans to try. And a new Kingston 64GB SSD.
Can you tell I'm having a lot of fun with this? | 