Another System Spec Thread for you to Peruse and Criticise

[Clunk]

Did you find out if the board will boot with an e4300? If you dont have a spare 775 cpu, you can get scan to do it for you, it costs a tenner plus vat I think.

[Flewis]

Or take the risk and if it doesnt work then pop down to your local pc repair store. Im sure they would sort u out.

[Gerrard]

Did you find out if the board will boot with an e4300? If you dont have a spare 775 cpu, you can get scan to do it for you, it costs a tenner plus vat I think.

Didn't realise you could get that done! Anyway, looking at the beta BIOSes for the board, there doesn't seem to be any mention for adding E4300 support, just fixing various IDE/RAID issues. So it looks like it should support it with the original BIOS, especially as I have seen people say they are using both together.

[DecomposingStar]

I looked at the Corsair PSU and can't really see the point for an extra £30 over the Zalman for what I need. However, at least it's in stock at the moment!

You can remove the cables you don't need on the Corsair Power Supply. Tidy box = Cool box = More stable PC.

[Gerrard]

Got all the stuff today and it is now built. Slight panic as I plugged everything in, press the power button and nothing happens. Oh..., try the reset button and the thing springs into life, ah...

MB booted with the E4300 without any problems or needing a flash. The system seems to be running stable and cool on stock at the moment. Will have to re-install windows as I couldn't work out how to RAID the hard drives. The MB manual is the most useless I've come across for BIOS info. One page saying not to change anything unless you know what you are doing, but then gives no information on any thing in the BIOS itself. Also didn't realise it has lots of flashing blue LEDS underneath it. Gave me quite a surprise to see that!

Will probably start overclocking it tomorrow as well, slow and steady.

You can remove the cables you don't need on the Corsair Power Supply. Tidy box = Cool box = More stable PC.

The Zalman is modular as well, so cancels out that argument

[DecomposingStar]

Got all the stuff today and it is now built. Slight panic as I plugged everything in, press the power button and nothing happens. Oh..., try the reset button and the thing springs into life, ah...

MB booted with the E4300 without any problems or needing a flash. The system seems to be running stable and cool on stock at the moment. Will have to re-install windows as I couldn't work out how to RAID the hard drives. The MB manual is the most useless I've come across for BIOS info. One page saying not to change anything unless you know what you are doing, but then gives no information on any thing in the BIOS itself. Also didn't realise it has lots of flashing blue LEDS underneath it. Gave me quite a surprise to see that!

Will probably start overclocking it tomorrow as well, slow and steady.


The Zalman is modular as well, so cancels out that argument

Nice one. Have fun!