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Time to upgrade (part 2)

Dark Mantis

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Re: Time to upgrade (part 2)
« Reply #15 on: December 24, 2011, 05:27:32 pm »
Too late now but I would have agreed with your Thermaltake choice althjough the Corsair wasn't bad.

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He also claims that the graphics card has a power connector that is "8 pins" (Im assuming thats 2x4 as I havent seen it, and getting a pic out of him is like getting blood from a stone at the moment). Im confused as I thought you only need that when youre using the card with Crossfire?

Although I think that was the initial idea that is not the way that it panned out. If you have an ATX socket for the 12v connector you must fill all the pins for the motherboard to work. If it has a 4+4 pin you must connect all 8 pins or at best it will be unstable although more than likely it will just not work.
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Re: Time to upgrade (part 2)
« Reply #16 on: December 24, 2011, 05:39:18 pm »
Quote from my mate about the PSU: "and loveing the psu. got that here its bloody heavy"

By the way it wasnt on the motherboard; it was on the graphics card.

And yeah we knew about the 2x4 block for the motherboard.

Anyway its all sorted. He hasnt moaned at me for a lack of performance (in fact hes been raving on about it - until I shut him up with "yeah, but I got my quad core CPU last year, and didnt need a new board." (Its all harmless fun really and we are always like this)).
Nothing to see here, move along....

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Re: Time to upgrade (part 2)
« Reply #17 on: December 24, 2011, 05:41:29 pm »
Cool anyway! Same goes for the GPU as well.

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Gigabyte X58A-UD7
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Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy