Building the new computer

Published October 26, 2009
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Here I am sitting infront of an old computer of my brother's refreshing the fedex tracking page waiting for the parts to arrive while everyones going to work or school :) The parts seem to be at the Toronto sort facility right now.They should be here in one hour.I will start assembling and post pictures and update this post as I finish putting it together.I have lots of installing to do and also some games to test.I hope nothing arrives dead so I don't have to deal with returns etc.This will be a fun day.

Edit 1 : Ok I am writing from the new computer after like 10 hours of installing testing and stuff :).Putting everything together took a lot more time than I predicted so I am a bit late.And after installing windows 7 the computer kept crashing and showing corrupted screens.At first I thought it was a fried graphics card but it was working perfect in games.I installed the three case fans on the same powersupply cord maybe that was causing some problems so I moved one of the fans to another cable.And check all connections and tightened everything.After that it didn't crash again and now it running smooth.I will post the pictures I took when I install an ftp client.I played a little WoW and Risen and they both ran perfectly.I also tried the new DX11 benchmark Heaven from Unigine which looks great and kills the GFX card.20 fps in some scenes at 1920x1080 resolution everything crancked up.Pics coming soon.

Edit 2: I made a small overclock to the CPU and its running at 3.0Ghz instead of the 2.66 stock speed.When turboboost kicks in it goes to 3.18 ghz.I ran superpi 32m and it calculated in 12minutes.I also ran 3d mark vantage and got 14k cpu score and 13k gpu score.

Edit 3: Ok here are some of the pictures I took :
















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Moe
So how do you find the 5850? Do you find it is enough horsepower to run most everything you throw at it?
October 27, 2009 10:39 AM
Black Knight
Well I haven't tested tons of games at it I only played WoW and Risen both at maxed settings and they both run smooth.I think the only game it can't handle is Crysis with everything maxed out even that would run acceptable on a lower resolution than 1920x1080 with no AA.
October 27, 2009 12:22 PM
Moe
How is the Radeon 5850 working for you? (I'm assuming that's what the card is - it's the right color and about the right length - either that or a 5770).
October 31, 2009 12:27 AM
Black Knight
It is a 5850.The 5700 series seem to run a alot slower.The first day I installed win7 I had some crashes but that was probably because I messed a setting in bios.I have played some crysis,race driver grid,risen and world of warcraft.They all run darn good.On my game dark age I had 30fps on my laptop with a 8600m gs.Now it hits 300 fps [lol].Some people are having issues with 5850 and 5870 in windows 7 like huge cursor and crashes.I havent encountered anything yet.
October 31, 2009 11:47 AM
Moe
Good to know.

The 5700 series is significantly slower, but also significantly cheaper. The cheapest 5850 I've seen is around $300 CDN. I've seen 5770s for ~$160. Given how little I'm currently playing games and the games I've been playing are reasonably old, I think a 5770 would be more than enough for me. Heck, I am still running my 4350, which seems roughly on par with my old 7600GS. I'm sure anything would be a massive speed upgrade from it.
November 04, 2009 09:54 AM
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