GODJonez
Half-New Computer, day 2
2009-08-21 4:07 PM PDT
Apparently I hit the maximum post length for Xfire blogs... continuing here.
Now to Wednesday. The morning at work as usual, then afternoon continuing with the new parts. I already had opened the motherboard box at Tuesday to try if the cooler at least would fit on it, and it did. Anyway, here's the unboxing of it:
Wiser from yesterday installing the giant cooler for the new AMD Phenom II 955 was a lot easier, especially since it could fit on the Gigabyte motherboard without cutting off the metal. It still had only one hook on each side, so most of the holes were unused, but at least it fits there nicely and doesn't even move around like the previous installation. Here you can see the new black Nexus Cloudius case with the Corsair TX650 PSU installed in it, and the motherboard with CPU, it's cooler, and the DDR3 sticks on it. Of course the floor is filled with all kinds of other necessary stuff such as the hard drives and PCI cards as well as the old GPU since I still don't have the new one. Fortunately the server's BIOS is able to boot up without a graphics card, my previous server couldn't.
Here's a more close-up view of the motherboard:
And here's the whole stuff inside the case:
Thanks to the many hard drives in it (3 of them, 2 with SATA, 1 with PATA) and the small case, it was quite difficult to arrange all the cables and wires for best possible cooling solution. A bigger case would have helped with that tremendously, but since I have a specific place to place the computer to, the possible size is limited. Even this case was a bit too big to fit to the "hole" dedicated for it. I did clean up the wires a bit before closing the side panels, but it's still not perfect. But it is good enough for me. After all, I didn't even buy the most expensive and fastest stuff like Core i7 and GTX 295, because what I bought was cheaper and follows what I said: "good enough for me".
The next two days went with adjusting the computer's settings and installing Operating System and all the necessary applications to resume normal operation. It was already Friday when I could get back to post to the Xfire blog about the Beta release of Xfire 1.113 that was released days earlier when all my computer stuff was around the floor.
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Now to Wednesday. The morning at work as usual, then afternoon continuing with the new parts. I already had opened the motherboard box at Tuesday to try if the cooler at least would fit on it, and it did. Anyway, here's the unboxing of it:
Wiser from yesterday installing the giant cooler for the new AMD Phenom II 955 was a lot easier, especially since it could fit on the Gigabyte motherboard without cutting off the metal. It still had only one hook on each side, so most of the holes were unused, but at least it fits there nicely and doesn't even move around like the previous installation. Here you can see the new black Nexus Cloudius case with the Corsair TX650 PSU installed in it, and the motherboard with CPU, it's cooler, and the DDR3 sticks on it. Of course the floor is filled with all kinds of other necessary stuff such as the hard drives and PCI cards as well as the old GPU since I still don't have the new one. Fortunately the server's BIOS is able to boot up without a graphics card, my previous server couldn't.
Here's a more close-up view of the motherboard:
And here's the whole stuff inside the case:
Thanks to the many hard drives in it (3 of them, 2 with SATA, 1 with PATA) and the small case, it was quite difficult to arrange all the cables and wires for best possible cooling solution. A bigger case would have helped with that tremendously, but since I have a specific place to place the computer to, the possible size is limited. Even this case was a bit too big to fit to the "hole" dedicated for it. I did clean up the wires a bit before closing the side panels, but it's still not perfect. But it is good enough for me. After all, I didn't even buy the most expensive and fastest stuff like Core i7 and GTX 295, because what I bought was cheaper and follows what I said: "good enough for me".
The next two days went with adjusting the computer's settings and installing Operating System and all the necessary applications to resume normal operation. It was already Friday when I could get back to post to the Xfire blog about the Beta release of Xfire 1.113 that was released days earlier when all my computer stuff was around the floor.
