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Cafe => General Discussion => Topic started by: arkayn on July 23, 2011, 09:57:30 AM

Title: Just ordered...
Post by: arkayn on July 23, 2011, 09:57:30 AM
A GTX560-1GB.

I plan on putting it into my AMD machine and move the GTX460 over to the Q8200 machine.

I have the HD5830 out on RMA, so I want to put it back into the Q8200 machine once it gets back.

After that, I will get a new Motherboard and PSU and run both the 560 and 460 together.
Title: Re: Just ordered...
Post by: arkayn on July 25, 2011, 08:18:39 AM
Looks like it will be here Wednesday, then I just have to swap out the cards and get back up to production speed.
Title: Re: Just ordered...
Post by: arkayn on July 27, 2011, 09:03:19 AM
Now running on my primary CUDA machine, waiting for some ATI stuff to finish on the Q8200 before I put the 460 in there.
Title: Re: Just ordered...
Post by: arkayn on August 22, 2011, 09:41:31 AM
Just changed out the motherboard on the AMD machine.

Now it is AM3 only and supports DDR3-1600 memory.

Also includes 2 PCI-E 2.0 slots so I can put in a second GPU once I upgrade the PSU.
Title: Re: Just ordered...
Post by: arkayn on August 23, 2011, 10:19:55 AM
Of course I still have to order the 850 Watt PSU (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817121069), another 8 GB of Memory (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148421) and a processor upgrade.
X6: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103849 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103849)
X4: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103808 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103808)
Title: Re: Just ordered...
Post by: arkayn on August 30, 2011, 12:04:36 AM
PSU ordered.
Title: Re: Just ordered...
Post by: arkayn on September 21, 2011, 03:36:43 PM
Only one thing left to order and that will probably be on hold for a while. I do have the 12GB of RAM in the machine along with both cards and the PSU.
Title: Re: Just ordered...
Post by: arkayn on September 30, 2011, 12:54:00 PM
I how have a second hard drive and a second DVD drive installed in the computer.

1 HD and 1 DVD are IDE and the other HD and DVD are SATA.

Biggest problem was after moving things around in the case, I forgot to hook back up the IDE power connectors and could not boot. After that I had to do a little wiggling on the SATA power connector as the new drive was not showing up.

Now I am in the process of coping over my Steam game library from the external drive to the new internal drive so I can getter better game play.
Title: Re: Just ordered...
Post by: Caprio on June 08, 2012, 07:33:55 AM
Why not get a 560Ti instead of 560?
Title: Re: Just ordered...
Post by: arkayn on June 08, 2012, 07:56:07 AM
Price at the time, plus the 560 is actually newer tech than the 560Ti.
Title: Re: Just ordered...
Post by: arkayn on June 18, 2012, 01:31:35 AM
I now have 11,300 BTU's of cooling in my bedroom. Only problem is it is 2 different window A/C units.

I also have the swamp cooler in the living room, but that is on the south side of the mobile home while the bedroom is on the north.