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General Stuff => Hardware News & Views => Topic started by: [TiG]valen on December 21, 2005, 05:45:21 PM

Title: Advice on my new xtras?
Post by: [TiG]valen on December 21, 2005, 05:45:21 PM

The new memory I am getting is this (2 gig)...

http://www.planetamd64.com/lofiversion/index.php/t13864.html

And my new PSU...

http://www.mplex.com/cgi-bin/ccp51/cp-app.cgi?usr=51F141815&rnd=6937154&rrc=N&affl=&cip=&act=&aff=&pg=prod&ref=psu%2Fhip%2F580%2Fr&cat=psu&catstr=HOME:psu

And mouse....

http://www.mplex.com/cgi-bin/ccp51/cp-app.cgi?usr=51F141815&rnd=28265&rrc=N&affl=&cip=&act=&aff=&pg=prod&ref=mse%2Flog%2Fmx518&cat=mse&catstr=HOME:mse

And CPU cooler....

http://www.mplex.com/cgi-bin/ccp51/cp-app.cgi?usr=51F141815&rnd=9492044&rrc=N&affl=&cip=&act=&aff=&pg=prod&ref=hsf%2Fgig%2F3dro%2Fvg&cat=comp%2Fhsf%2F&catstr=HOME:comp%2Fhsf%2F


Opinions please as I am shite at these things.

Title: Advice on my new xtras?
Post by: [GiT]Legion on December 21, 2005, 09:12:46 PM

I have one of those Hiper PSU's,pretty damn sweet and near silent..word of warning tho make sure you have enough clearance in you case for the screw in cables,I had a coolermaster wavemaster and it was a tight squeeze, had to bend them down a bit so they would fit..needless to say i dumped the case :)

also...Razer copperhead  :wink:  http://www.razerzone.com/

Title: Advice on my new xtras?
Post by: [TiG]valen on December 21, 2005, 09:28:41 PM

I like that mouse tbh. Cheers m8.

Title: Advice on my new xtras?
Post by: [GiT]Legion on December 21, 2005, 09:29:34 PM

Pyro uses one Austin,ask him more about it,tis pretty sweet.

Title: Advice on my new xtras?
Post by: PJ= on December 21, 2005, 09:55:34 PM

PSU looks fine, and the memory you can't go wrong there. Corsair and Kingston are the most popular for RAM. As for the heatsink, you can get the AMD64 CPU's with a specially designed AMD heatsink. I got the 3500+ with 3 yr gaurantee and AMD Heatsink and I have never had a crash, or overheating problem so far. The previous AMD I had, the 2800+ did however overheat alot and it just had a normal Heatsink.

Title: Advice on my new xtras?
Post by: [TiG]Molc on December 21, 2005, 10:54:53 PM

Yeah agree witgh the lads. Have one of the coperhead mice myself - really can't use anything else after getting it - the biz :)

Title: Advice on my new xtras?
Post by: [TiG]valen on December 22, 2005, 08:00:02 AM

Actually, the heatsink I got with my 3700+ has never crashed. So just keep it standard?

Title: Advice on my new xtras?
Post by: PJ= on December 22, 2005, 11:35:29 AM

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Actually, the heatsink I got with my 3700+ has never crashed. So just keep it standard?

Rephrase please  :oops:  :oops:

Title: Advice on my new xtras?
Post by: [TiG]valen on December 22, 2005, 03:40:34 PM

Quote from: [TiG]=PJ=

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Actually, the heatsink I got with my 3700+ has never crashed. So just keep it standard?

Rephrase please  :oops:  :oops:

The heatsink I have seems to be fine as my CPU has never went above 41c.

Which is nice.  :roll:

Title: Advice on my new xtras?
Post by: PJ= on December 22, 2005, 04:02:25 PM

That is nice but is that a 64 bit processor or are you moving onto a 64 bit processor, if so you need better cooling.  :o  :?  8)  :lol:  :x  :P  :oops:  :cry:  :evil:  :roll:  :wink:  :odlums:  :salute:

Title: Advice on my new xtras?
Post by: [TiG]Molc on December 22, 2005, 07:59:29 PM

Quote from: [TiG]=PJ=

That is nice but is that a 64 bit processor or are you moving onto a 64 bit processor, if so you need better cooling.  :o  :?  8)  :lol:  :x  :P  :oops:  :cry:  :evil:  :roll:  :wink:  :odlums:  :salute:

Actually I think the 64 processors are more efficient and run cooler... Regardless if you get one of the retail CPU kits a heatsink and fan will come with it that will work fine, if maybe a littl loud )depending on the fan etc)

Title: Advice on my new xtras?
Post by: [TiG]valen on December 22, 2005, 11:01:01 PM

Yeah, the CPU is a 3700+ San Deigo AMD 64. It runs really cool on stock fan'age.

But, I got my gear today and its running sweet!!

Cheers lads. :salute: