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 Post subject: Worked on hiding my cables today.
PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:41 pm 
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really nice by my standards...just hope chumly doesnt find this... :shock: :wink: :lol:
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Nice job. The only thing left to do is clean off the HSF. It looks to have some nasty bad dust built up on it.
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Piddlewog wrote:
It looks to have some nasty bad dust built up on it.


Yeah it does.

Also, I notice that you have your ram in banks 0 and 1. To get dual channel performance out of them, and significantly increase the speed of your memory intensive applications, you need to have one stick in one colored slot and a second stick in the other colored slot. So one in bank 0 and one in bank 2. You will then notice when you first start up you computer, an entry that says something about dual channel. Then you know it's set up right. :wink:

Also, since you don't have three drives in that lower drive cage, move the drive mounted in the middle to the outside edge of the cage. That way, you will have an opening between the two drives and airflow will be better between the two, keeping them cooler. If the cabling allows, I would set them in the cage so that the PCB's are facing inside....towards each other. This allows the air to flow over the PCB's, cooling the circuitry down better.

Looks pretty good. That's about all I care to do myself now-a-days.
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Quakindude wrote:
Piddlewog wrote:
It looks to have some nasty bad dust built up on it.


Yeah it does.

Also, I notice that you have your ram in banks 0 and 1. To get dual channel performance out of them, and significantly increase the speed of your memory intensive applications, you need to have one stick in one colored slot and a second stick in the other colored slot. So one in bank 0 and one in bank 2. You will then notice when you first start up you computer, an entry that says something about dual channel. Then you know it's set up right. :wink:

Also, since you don't have three drives in that lower drive cage, move the drive mounted in the middle to the outside edge of the cage. That way, you will have an opening between the two drives and airflow will be better between the two, keeping them cooler. If the cabling allows, I would set them in the cage so that the PCB's are facing inside....towards each other. This allows the air to flow over the PCB's, cooling the circuitry down better.

Looks pretty good. That's about all I care to do myself now-a-days.



On my motherboard Dual channel is with both sticks next to each other. Take my word on that :lol:

But thanks for the suggestion. If I move the hard drives I will have to turn them around, and don't want to do that. Otherwise I would have spaced them apart.
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Quakindude wrote:
Also, I notice that you have your ram in banks 0 and 1. To get dual channel performance out of them, and significantly increase the speed of your memory intensive applications, you need to have one stick in one colored slot and a second stick in the other colored slot. So one in bank 0 and one in bank 2. You will then notice when you first start up you computer, an entry that says something about dual channel. Then you know it's set up right. :wink:
Not always...pic shows his mobo is a Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-SLi, directly from the manual for that...
Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-SLi Manual wrote:
2. To enable Dual Channel mode with 2 memory modules (it is recommended to use memory modules of identical brand, size, chips, and speed), you must install them into DIMM sockets of the same color.

it is either 1 per color, or both next to each-other...it varies between different boards...

After reexamination, my only comment is that you should try covering those psu cables...either shrink wrap or some braided cable sleeving...
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My Asus M2n32-sli deluxe is the same way they are right next to each other.
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nebbuchanezzar wrote:
Quakindude wrote:
Also, I notice that you have your ram in banks 0 and 1. To get dual channel performance out of them, and significantly increase the speed of your memory intensive applications, you need to have one stick in one colored slot and a second stick in the other colored slot. So one in bank 0 and one in bank 2. You will then notice when you first start up you computer, an entry that says something about dual channel. Then you know it's set up right. :wink:
Not always...pic shows his mobo is a Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-SLi, directly from the manual for that...
Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-SLi Manual wrote:
2. To enable Dual Channel mode with 2 memory modules (it is recommended to use memory modules of identical brand, size, chips, and speed), you must install them into DIMM sockets of the same color.

it is either 1 per color, or both next to each-other...it varies between different boards...

After reexamination, my only comment is that you should try covering those psu cables...either shrink wrap or some braided cable sleeving...


The PSU cable is sleeved. However it is sleeved short for whatever reason. I ran the cable behind the Motherboard tray, but 95% of the cable is sleeved.
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aahhh...i see it now...
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xveganx wrote:
On my motherboard Dual channel is with both sticks next to each other. Take my word on that :lol:

But thanks for the suggestion. If I move the hard drives I will have to turn them around, and don't want to do that. Otherwise I would have spaced them apart.


Ahhh, ok. I had a mobo like that once. Screwed me up trying to figure out why it wouldn't post with Dual Channel. I actually had to look in the manual. :lol:
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Nice job man! I need to work on mine! :(
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envy!:mrgreen:

mines a mess and it makes me sad to look through the window everyday. the cables on my psu are waay to short to do any house cleaning like that...actually...any advice to that end?
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advice: if you trust your knoelwdge of the area, simply cut the wires, and add length...then sleeve and hide...
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:08 am 
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ive built a whole new computer since I posted this the other day...

Q6600
Zalman CPU Cooler
Corsair 620W HX Power Supply
EVGA 8800 GTS (512)
G Skill PC800 DDR 4gb 2x2 dual channel ram
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Now your just showing off :P


of course I would too, if mine looked that good
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mucho bueno...
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thanx again guys for all the support. Just wait in a few months when I get out of this apartment and find a house with a garage/basement, thats when the real modding begins. :twisted:
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