Build Your Own - Step by Step ( i7 2600k)

[LEAPup]

Quote from Bolimomo:

It takes a minimum of 5 or something...

This thread should get better. My youngest Son has been wanting to "try out" my computer when I finally get it back this week. He's wanting to play a video game across 8 22" monitors. HELP!!!!!!!!:eek: I think I'm going to tell him to tap his savings for something he and I can build over a weekend rather than use mine for gaming.

My Wife said let him try it. I said, "the kids have been bringing viruses, colds, etc., home for years that I would usually catch. I have Nyquil for that, and am used to it. I am not, and will not get used to one of them on my computer though." Gotta draw the line in the sand somewhere.

 

[Scataphagos]

Quote from Bolimomo:

I had rated this thread as 5-star long time ago and it still had not shown up.

Let me pimp a little bit... To our dear viewers: if you think you have picked up some useful information reading this thread, please do a thread rating at the bottom of the page. ET has a policy to only show a thread's rating when more than X number of viewers have voted. Reward TIKITRADER's relentless effort in pulling information together and post in one place.

Rating? How to do? I don't have a "rate this thread" choice.

 

[chisel]

Quote from Scataphagos:

Rating? How to do? I don't have a "rate this thread" choice.

See the drop down menu in the middle of the page just under the last post.

 

[Bolimomo]

One word: McAfee... LOL

Yeah, the best is to remove the temptation. A kid wouldn't know Daddy missed a $10000 opportunity because he wants to play Doom (or whatever the equivalent is today) with an online pal...

 

[Bolimomo]

Ah! Five-star, finally!!! Thank you thank you thank you!

Tikitrader you deserve some recognition!

 

[mikat]

Five more.

 

[Bolimomo]

Some information from Microsoft about combining multiple physical disk drives to form a virtual volume. They call it "Dynamic Disk".

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363785(v=VS.85).aspx

 

[Bolimomo]

Got some temperature readings from RealTemp.

The one on left: i7-950 (faster processor) with a Cooler Master heatsink. The one on right: i7-930 with an Intel provided heatsink. Both under normal working conditions. Taken starting at about 10:00 am PDT.

The difference is about 10 to 15 degree Celcius, consistently. These added heatsinks do work... keeping the CPU nice and cool. I would imagine when the market gets hot and heavy, where the CPU need to crank up more calculations, the temperature will heat up a bit more. High temps are observed near market closed, 13:00 PDT.

 

[TIKITRADER]

I would like to say a very sincere Thank You for all the tremendously kind feedback.

More than anything I Thank You for all the contributions filled with endless knowledge from everyone of you, and the amount of time / efforts each has dedicated to help others.
What a kind and giving donation of experience on your part.
I only initiated a thread to hopefully help people out, and it has grown into an amazing catalog of knowledge completely because so many talented computer techies are posting like mad

I greatly appreciate all the shared experience and can only imagine how much readers are enjoying this thread.

This has really become a nice place to stop in and learn, including myself.

 

[Bolimomo]

Tiki you need to give yourself more credit. Thanks for taking the lead!