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About LinkBacksReally sorry; 20 posts on here, as Tao will tell you; nets you free postage.Originally Posted by thomson
It's a shame scan doesn't have one too, cost me a whole £7 there.
Really sorry; 20 posts on here, as Tao will tell you; nets you free postage.It's a shame scan doesn't have one too, cost me a whole £7 there
Why would you not use the stock cooler that comes with the 955? I have a Phenom II x3 overclocked using the stockcooler and its been rock solid. But guess too late now!
So I could have spammed an extra 5 posts and got free delivery? Well never mind.
I googled peoples builds with 955s, and most of them seemed to have aftermarket coolers, so I thought it would be a good idea. There certainly shouldn't be any disadvantage of the cooler, except for the fact I'll be paying a bit extra. I should probably have tried it out with the stock cooler first, but I didn't want to pay the £7 shipping twice.
No disadvantage from using the titan cooler, except for paying an extra £30 that could have gone towards something else in the system! aka graphics card. Just my opinion though!
I couldn't have got a better graphics card for £28 extra, what with me getting mine so cheap. I don't think I could have beat a GTX 260 with £112.
just to let you know the fenrir does fit in the antec 300 case with a bit of room to spare! checked it out in my brothers case in case he wanted one in the future! looks like a pretty decent build there as well for the money!
Came to about £535 for mine. A little bit more for my brother's horrible case.
Ordered this:
AMD Phenom II X4 955 BlackEdition,
BFG NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OC 896MB PCIe 2.0
Titan Fenrir V2 TTC-NK85TZ 120mm PW
Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3, AMD 870, S AM
Be Quiet 530W Pure Power PSU - 120mm Fan Dual 12V Rails 5x SATA 2x PCI-E
Antec 300 Three Hundred Case
Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333MHz Memory Kit Unbuffered CL9
LiteOn IHAS124-19 24x DVD±RW DL & RAM SATA Optical Drive
Seagate ST3500418AS 500GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm
The Seagate drive looked similar to the Samsung one, still a 7200rpm single platter drive. And I don't have to worry about compatibility
Oh, at some point down the line I'll probably be buying a second drive. Would it be worthwhile putting them in RAID 0, or just leave them alone? How much of a performance boost do you get?
was there alot of room in the case? Im just about to buy it but with a gtx 460
I think GTX 460s are really small
EDIT: Pic here. It's going to be shorter than your botherboard is wide
Last edited by thomson; 28-07-2010 at 10:42 PM.
Very nice, is that the one you just built?
No, google images
Mine still needs to be delivered. I'll stick pics up when I'm done if you like
Wow, pictures don't do the titan fenrir justice. It's huge!!
I bet it does the job though. I'm starting to wish I got one too !
I wish I'd just splashed out on next day ebuyer delivery now lol. I'm impatient to get started
Done
I think my speedfan is broken though
I was expecting the GPU to get hotter than that while folding, my GTS 250 in my other computer gets up to 84...
Will go run prime95 for a bit now and see how the cpu does, then go to bed and see if i can overclock it in the morning
The HAF 922 screwed your brothers build up royally! You should of gone for the GTX 460 at the price there selling for as well!
Kalniel: "Nice review Tarinder - would it be possible to get a picture of the case when the components are installed (with the side off obviously)?"
CAT-THE-FIFTH: "The Antec 300 is a case which has an understated and clean appearance which many people like. Not everyone is into e-peen looking computers which look like a cross between the imagination of a hyperactive 10 year old and a Frog."
TKPeters: "Off to AVForum better Deal - £20+Vat for Free Shipping @ Scan"
for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.
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