The wife's build

[kalniel]

Well cabling is a little worse that the pictures show as the hard drive cage isn't so well thought out - if you keep the fan in front (which I did) the hard drives protrude into the case quite a bit, and getting cables into the angled sata connectors on the motherboard is also tricky with hard drives in place!

She loves the door - it looks good and cuts the noise. It's self-shutting due to gravity but is light enough that you can open it with the dvd tray.

Final pic showing slightly worse cabling!

[melon]

Supposedly,Anandtech overclocked their Core i5 2500k to 4.4GHZ using the stock cooler:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/t...-2100-tested/3

4.4 ??

you mean the water cooler thing ?

[melon]

Well cabling is a little worse that the pictures show as the hard drive cage isn't so well thought out - if you keep the fan in front (which I did) the hard drives protrude into the case quite a bit, and getting cables into the angled sata connectors on the motherboard is also tricky with hard drives in place!

She loves the door - it looks good and cuts the noise. It's self-shutting due to gravity but is light enough that you can open it with the dvd tray.

Final pic showing slightly worse cabling!

I like the case a lot more than ones Ive seen , even the Empire Snow Flake doesnt look as forbiding as my Darth Vader Fortress ./ postbox

Can you still get these cases ?

m

[kalniel]

4.4 ??

you mean the water cooler thing ?

Anand used the stock low profile air cooler (see the picture on that page) and still managed to overclock the processor to 4.4ghz (from a normal non-turbo speed of 3.3ghz).

Case: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/silve...m-fans-w-o-psu

[melon]

Anand used the stock low profile air cooler (see the picture on that page) and still managed to overclock the processor to 4.4ghz (from a normal non-turbo speed of 3.3ghz).

Case: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/silve...m-fans-w-o-psu

Would this take a 12 " video card ?

Theres actually some quite nice ones from asus i dont mind on that scan site.

m

[kalniel]

It could, but I wouldn't recommend it as the hard drives would be right against it. If you took out the front fan there would be more room, but I'd go for a different case with side mounted hard drives or better still configurable drive layouts like the Coolermaster HAF912 etc.

[melon]

It could, but I wouldn't recommend it as the hard drives would be right against it. If you took out the front fan there would be more room, but I'd go for a different case with side mounted hard drives or better still configurable drive layouts like the Coolermaster HAF912 etc.

or just sell the videocard..

I suppose if i managed to win the bid at a good price it would still be more than worth it, or is that problem with midsize i.e. none take 12 " ?

m

[mrskalniel]

Am I alone in feeling slightly let down that a thread entitled "My wife's build" turned out to be about computers?

[mrskalniel]

Anyway, this is my new computer and I loves it. Amazingly quiet (quieter than 'the husband''s rig) and so far runs all my games fantastically (haven't yet booted up TW2 - need to get through another run-through of TW1 first!) and on full detail. Only disappointment so far is that TES 4 DLC doesn't seem to work on 64-bit, which is a bit annoying, but I'll live with that. Yay!

- mrskalniel

[Terbinator]

I wondered why a user with one post was shocked until i read the name and clicked Welcome to the forum!

[jim]

Only disappointment so far is that TES 4 DLC doesn't seem to work on 64-bit, which is a bit annoying, but I'll live with that. Yay!

Strange... guessing that's the retail version rather than Steam?

[mrskalniel]

Oblivion is the retail version and the DLCs were a direct download from BethSoft (or whatever their online store is called). Apparently from trawling t'Internet, the direct DLC is not compatible with 64-bit (if I'd bought the retail DVD DLC collection it would have been compatible it seems).

Allegedly, should be possible to get a refund and then buy the retail version which is compatible, but to be honest for a 5-year old game I'm not sure it's worth doing - it's not like I play it that regularly these days

[melon]

Oblivion is the retail version and the DLCs were a direct download from BethSoft (or whatever their online store is called). Apparently from trawling t'Internet, the direct DLC is not compatible with 64-bit (if I'd bought the retail DVD DLC collection it would have been compatible it seems).

Allegedly, should be possible to get a refund and then buy the retail version which is compatible, but to be honest for a 5-year old game I'm not sure it's worth doing - it's not like I play it that regularly these days

I wouldnt bother , Im pretty sure I read something about it being included with the new Oblivion coming out - though I must admit Im not really an Oblivion fan myself.

Aside from Guild wars 2 , the game Im really looking forward to playing is the new Alice - as the first was probably one - if not - my favourite games of all time.

I also like the look of the new BioShock a lot too and Paper Maro on the 3DS.

melon

[jim]

I wouldnt bother , Im pretty sure I read something about it being included with the new Oblivion coming out - though I must admit Im not really an Oblivion fan myself.

It's all been included in the GOTY version for a while now

[kalniel]

It's all been included in the GOTY version for a while now

Yup, just no point getting to GOTY if you bought the DLC separately.. except if the DLC doesn't work and you're desperate to play it

[jim]

Oh yeah, but there's definitely no need to buy the special edition that's coming out soon.