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Well, I just got my Blue 80mm Fan and Red 120mm Fan today, once I get my glass and get it mounted I will have more pictures. (My Green and Red fans look ugly right now due to being zip-tied instead of mounted.) I Overclocked my Athlon II a little farther, up to 3.75Ghz now. I am gonna see if I can get it to 3.9. I am not betting that I can, but I am really hoping towards it. Thanks, EBrown

Well, besides me hating Intel, it seems to look pretty good. If you wanted to save money, you should go with a Phenom II X6, as you can get a 6-Core 2.8Ghz for less than that i7. I was looking into a case like that as well. Seemed to have what I needed. Thanks, EBrown

You have to make that a Public Wishlist. Thanks, EBrown

I am thinking of a Frio. Thanks, EBrown

Yeah, I just ordered two fans for mine. Should give much more airflow. I was thinking of betting a better cooler for my CPU, although this one seems to be doing fine. Thanks, EBrown

TriRan, what case is that? It looks pretty BA. And what heatsink is that as well? I just ordered an 80mm Blue Fan for the rear exhaust, and a 120mm Red Fan for another intake on the side. I am getting a piece of plexiglass soon, so I will be making a window for my case. Thanks, EBrown

Yeah, that has a story. It had a fan once, but it died. And I didn't buy a replacement. I am planning on replacing it with a Red one, more than likely. Thanks, EBrown

Got a few pictures of it. That blue stuff is my cathodes. Two Blue ones, they can be off, on, or sound activated. (Pretty cool to watch when you have a movie on. ) Yes, the fan is green. The PSU fan is blue though, so we are good there. (And the cathodes really drown out that green fan.) That red blur is my LED. It tells me where it's at in the post if I have no Monitor in. It also has a built in Power, Reset, and clear CMOS button. (Power and RESET are next to that blur, Clear CMOS is on the back, though Idk why.) Pictures 1/2 are of the main board. (With and then without the Cathodes on.) Pictures 3/4 are of my Graphics card. (Same deal as 1/2.) Picture 5 is the main board with no ambient lighting. Thanks, EBrown

It's a Bios setting, which pissed me off. However, my Bios has the ability to save 3 profiles, so I may make two accounts, and then make two profiles. So all I have to do is reboot for hardcore gaming. Thanks, EBrown

I am using an Athlon II x2 right now. I am planning to switch to a faster more powerful processor when I can. I finished off my GPU overclock at: Core: 500Mhz to 600Mhz. Shader: 1250Mhz to 1500Mhz. Memory: 900Mhz to 1001Mhz. (I couldn't go 1000, it was either 999 or 1001...>.<) I changed the speed curve of my GPU fan to keep it at 47 C when there is no load on it. It seems to run fine now. I got Mass Effect 2 installed and I must say, it runs beautifully. The gaming on it is so smooth, I feel really happy that I got this new machine. I got two 12 inch, blue, sound activated cathodes installed in my case, and I must say, they light it up nicely. Thanks, EBrown

Well it wasn't very impressive. Gaming on it would be useless. (Which is why I disabled it.) I managed to get my GeForce 9800 GT installed and working. So far we have Overclocked the GPU to 600Mhz from 500Mhz, Shader Clock 1200->1400Mhz, and the memory frequency from 900Mhz to 950Mhz. (Not much, I know. But for me it is significant.) I am installing Mass Effect 2 right now and I am going to see how it runs at. I installed some Cathodes in it and it looks pretty sweet. I may post pictures later. I need to mod my case with a side-glass window so I can actually see them better. But so far I am fairly impressed with the rig. Edit: New screenshot of Windows Experience Index. Thanks, EBrown

Here's a screenshot of my Rating. (Ignore the Graphics, I am using an old SiS card with 4MB RAM, etc.) Besides the terrible graphic speeds, it seems to be running quite well. I will know more once I get my other Video Card and start Mass Effect 2 again. It is Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit btw. Thanks, EBrown

Well I got all the parts except the video card and it's doing well so far. Only a couple issues. AMD Cool n' Quiet is a fail btw. I got the CPU overclocked to 3.6 ghz but that AMD thing kept setting it to 960 MHz. The CPU and ram are overclocked separate of the pcie bus. So when I add that video card it will run at it's normal speed. Thanks, EBrown

Alright, the GT's are simple slower than the GTX's from what I have understood. So I think I would be good then. I am actually looking into a cheap Phenom II X3 or X4, I might actually not even touch the Athlon II. All my stuff is arriving today, so by tomorrow I will have it all put together. (I won't get the Video card back until then, I let a friend borrow it for a test drive.) What did you overclock with this chipset? (I mean Processor Type) Thanks, EBrown

Well, I can still make it. (I lost all the source when one of my Drives died.) I would need someone who wants to design interfaces, I.e. the buttons, layout, theme, etc. If I get the necessary help, I could have most, if not all, of it done by the end of Christmas break. Thanks, EBrown

That is what I am saying, and I have been for the past 4 posts. So he's partially right, QOS will change much of the bandwidth sharing. However, on a shared medium, it will be half of the original, should no QOS be in place. For 1: I never stated that Full Duplex gave you 200Mbps in one direction. Bandwidth is the total amount of data that can possibly be transmitted over the medium at any one point in time. It is 200Mbps on a 100Mbps network. That cable can handle 100Mbps going both ways at any one point in time, with no collisions. And 2: Yes, they can BOTH be transmitting and receiving at the same time. Once can transmit out of the network while the other receives from a different server on the network. Thus you would have 200Mbps going through the network. Now if they are sending/receiving from each other, I am not sure that they can both do it at the same time. I guess it depends more on the NIC card for that. Should you use two NIC cards in each, then they can send and receive to each other at the same time. Thanks, EBrown

LMAO Switched networks work at Full Duplex with 200Mbps Bandwidth. Neither will have 50 unless they are forced to serve at that rate. I said Hubs, which is the exact same as wireless. (Alright, not the exact same, but mostly. They use different, albeit similar, protocols to take care of collisions.) That's like comparing apples to tangerines. Yeah, they're both fruits, but they work ENTIRELY differently. Switches/Routers would have been correct, but hubs share the media among all connected devices. Therefore the Bandwidth will be MUCH less. Switches and routers work at full duplex, therefore they will end up at 2000Mbps/200Mbps/20Mbps depending on the LAN speed you choose. QOS simple allows certain packets to take priority over others. Most people use it to allow Audio priority over Video priority over Data. I have no idea why you would use it for data servers, but that's entirely your choice. Or you can have both serving at 100Mbps and not worry about it. Unless you use a hub. You must be doing something wrong because those graphs don't correlate to each other at all. One of them dips down extremely while the other is chugging along. All that proves is that one of them worked slower for several hours. http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~westall/851/802.11/802_CSMA_CA.pdf Page 18. Also page 21, which gives you 9Mbps with RTS/CTS to protect you from having two nodes in range of the Router, but NOT each other. Thanks, EBrown

100Mbps LAN will give you 200Mbps on a full duplex switched network. Dlewis, you know what Hub's are? A hub is an intermediary device, such as a switch or router, but it doesn't work very efficiently. Just like wireless. In a hub, when a packet arrives to a port, it is repeated to ALL other ports. This forces a hub network to work at half duplex, meaning data can only go one way with one packet at a time. Bandwidth is shared in an ALMOST identical way to wireless networks, but you don't lose bandwidth when you use a single computer on a hub. Hub's, and ALL other Wired Ethernet Media, use CSMA/CD, Carrier Sense Multiple Access Collision Detection. This means it will look out on the network, JUST like wireless, and see if it is available. If it is, it sends it's packet. The only difference is, Wireless keeps collisions to a bare minimum, CSMA/CD allows collisions on a 10/100 Hub network. This means that if two devices send at the same time, and they see the collision BEFORE they finish transmitting the packet (which is why it doesn't work on Gigabit) they will send a 32-bit signal to inform ALL devices on the network of the collision, and every device in that collision domain will back off of sending for a certain amount of time, which is randomly generated by the NIC card. Now, when you think about it, all that 100Mbit bandwidth is actually split in half for every connected device. As NO TWO can send at once. Same thing with wireless, if Device A and Device B send at once, they will be alternating for each packet, therefore only getting 13.5 of the available 27 Megabits of bandwidth. CSMA/CA is still working, so it requires that half of the bandwidth. You end up with A sending a packet and then B then back to A, etc. They can't both do that at full speed. And even if I am wrong about the CSMA/CA keeping that half of the bandwidth for the full time, you still have the devices transmitting together. Leaving you half bandwidth. Sure if you stopped using every other wireless device you would get the most bandwidth you could, but that's a hypothetical situation. You can also use 802.11a which will have MUCH less interference than 802.11b/g/n, because 802.11a works on the 5Ghz frequency, whereas 802.11b/g/n work at 2.4Ghz, just like your cell phones. Thanks, EBrown

This article explains more. Although it is lacking some. http://www.hackorama.com/wifi/ Wi-Fi uses CSMA/CA, Carrier Sense Multiple Access Collision Avoidance. This takes up half of the bandwidth immediately because it has to check whether or not the network is available. Once it determines network availability, it can then send it's data. This is because Wi-Fi is a Shared Medium. This leads to the bandwidth being shared by every device connected to that particular Access Point. Thus you end up with half the bandwidth you would have originally gotten, under best circumstances. Thanks, EBrown

I think I'll get a small SSD then. Seems cheaper than buying 2 more 1T HDD's for Raid 10. Thanks, EBrown

So I want Raid 1 then? Thanks, EBrown

Yeah, I do plan to buy another drive soon. Prolly another 1T and a SSD for my OS. (Although that's pretty expensive.) And I planned to Raid 0 the two 1T's, and then use a different disk for my OS. (As I already do. I use an IDE one though, so it's pretty slow.) Thanks, EBrown

Alright, cool. It should work fine for gaming, right? Won't be to extremely slow? I am mostly worried about the GFX card, as I can always order that other RAM pretty cheap and run myself up to 8 gig. Thanks, EBrown

Welcome jacatone. Wireless Bandwidth will be much slower than wired. What I recommend: -Ensure you don't have to many devices connected to your adapter. Bandwidth is cut in half for each additional device. So one device on a 54 Mbit Network is actually 27 Mbit. Two would be 13.5 Mbit, etc. -Ensure that neither the router, nor the adapter are near sources of interference. Fluorescent lights, radios, TV's, CRT Monitors, Computers, etc. -Encryption will also slow your wireless down. Albeit not by a hugely extraordinary amount, but still. Keep that in mind. Those are my tips. Thanks, EBrown

I kinda stated this before, but now is the time. I just ordered a new kit for my computer. I was wondering if anyone had any advice on additional items. (Tight budget, but I didn't do to bad.) 1 ASRock 870 EXTREME3 AM3 AMD 870 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157198 1 AMD Athlon II X2 250 Regor 3.0GHz Socket AM3 65W Dual-Core Desktop Processor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103903 2 Kingston 2GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Desktop Memory: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134785 1 BFG GeForce 9800GT Eco (Already had it.) 1 Rosewill 550Watt PSU (Already had it.) 1 WD Cavier Green 1T HDD Sata 3Gb/s (Already had it.) What do you all think? Fairly decent for gaming? (Mass Effect 1/2, Starcraft 2, CoD MW2/CoD Black Ops, C&C The First Decade) I do plan to overclock it and use ASRocks UCC to turn that X2 to an X4 I believe. Should get it all by Wednesday/Thursday so I'll find more out then. Thanks, EBrown