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My Christmas Present to Myself

Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 6:09 pm
by MadMojo
Sooo,

finally I bought some hardware, presenting it to myself for christmas. Thanks Mad hehehe :doh: :dance: :clap:

Here my desk, where I work when do HomeOffice and where I play of course.
You see there an ASUS Sabertooth 990FX, an AMD FX 6100 6-core processor and two Corsair 8GB DDR3 RAM.
Not the high end hardware but modern and upgradeable.
Think at Sunday I will start replacing....
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And just because I love our dog that much, here one of the latest pics
:animals-dogrun: :character-grommit:
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Re: My Christmas Present to Myself

Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 11:40 pm
by SouthAfricanBru
Very nice! jealous I am :)

Re: My Christmas Present to Myself

Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 3:10 am
by Al Hadzi
Great! - You are good for yourself :)

Re: My Christmas Present to Myself

Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 10:02 pm
by MadMojo
Well, after some trouble and those ******* BSOD it finally works!

Here some pics from the board, somehow cool looking :drool:
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All has increased but the HDD, will see if I can tweak it also a little bit with some driver settings.
Graphics increased by round about 0.5 points,
RAM +CPU about 1.5 to 2.0 points.
FRAPS now tells me an FPS between 35 and 60 which is very very very (have I said very?) noticable in gameplay :dance:
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Re: My Christmas Present to Myself

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 1:35 am
by Wolverine27
Good job with your computer parts..
But no one says anything about Ronda.. Nice dog you have there.. :)

Re: My Christmas Present to Myself

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 12:14 pm
by MadMojo
:handgestures-thumbupleft: Thanks alot Wolver

Re: My Christmas Present to Myself

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 1:56 am
by Al Hadzi
MadMojo wrote:Well, after some trouble and those ******* BSOD it finally works!

Here some pics from the board, somehow cool looking :drool:
IMG_0046.JPG
IMG_0047.JPG
IMG_0050.JPG
IMG_0051.JPG
All has increased but the HDD, will see if I can tweak it also a little bit with some driver settings.
Graphics increased by round about 0.5 points,
RAM +CPU about 1.5 to 2.0 points.
FRAPS now tells me an FPS between 35 and 60 which is very very very (have I said very?) noticable in gameplay :dance:
performance.png
SSD for a system and will be better.. I can recommend OCZ VERTEX 4 256GB

Re: My Christmas Present to Myself

Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 6:33 pm
by Al Hadzi
How working MadMojo ?

Re: My Christmas Present to Myself

Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 7:28 pm
by DangerousKitchen
Good question. And you have to write here Mojo, what is the temperature of Your CPU. I wonder because You have CPU fan as was attached within a kit I suppose. You can check it out with e.g. HWiNFO64..

Re: My Christmas Present to Myself

Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 9:23 pm
by MadMojo
Runs pretty well so far, no further problems, just smooth, in gaming and also while working on it.

About temperatures: Yes, I know, a boxed CPU has not such effective cooling system as special products, but I had good experiences before, and also now.

In usuall Windows mode it lurks around 20°C most often, while gaming around 55°C. Max for this CPU is about 90°C so there is enough room. And the CPU cooling fan is silent enough, usually don't hear it at all.