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Vario said:
Love that red lighting, like an undersea glowing jellyfish or something.
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About the light on the case , there is a 140mm polimatech vortex as the bottom which i love ,it just produces great red light and it is a very good noise performance fan. And I have some LED strips that I have put at the side panel if you see a photo with it removed you will notice some wires at the top left the same wires are at the side panel and when I attach it the led turns on good right?
 
Picked this up today. Another person and I were talking about computer related stuff and one of the teachers asked if we would like to look at the stuff in the staff room that was going to be thrown out. Noticed this and couldn't leave it there. Tomorrow I'll grab the 2nd XPS, an older one (600 I believe). None of it came from the school so who knows where it came from.

Got it like this:
Q6600
No ram
No HDD
GT240 1 gig
Sound Blaster XF-i SB0460
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Fixed some cable management (hard to do in this case) and put some different parts in it.
Q6600
1 gig of ram. As with every other Dell in existence I've tried the Patriot ram does NOT work as a pair, only one stick at a time despite passing memtest multiple times.
750 gig Hitatchi HDD
GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512 meg. Not as much video ram as the GT240 but being as the GTS250 was in essence a rebadge of the 9800 GTX+ I don't see how it could be any better.
Random PCI wireless card
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Compgeke said:
Picked this up today. Another person and I were talking about computer related stuff and one of the teachers asked if we would like to look at the stuff in the staff room that was going to be thrown out. Noticed this and couldn't leave it there. Tomorrow I'll grab the 2nd XPS, an older one (600 I believe). None of it came from the school so who knows where it came from.

Got it like this:
Q6600
No ram
No HDD
GT240 1 gig
Sound Blaster XF-i SB0460
8sk.jpg


Fixed some cable management (hard to do in this case) and put some different parts in it.
Q6600
1 gig of ram. As with every other Dell in existence I've tried the Patriot ram does NOT work as a pair, only one stick at a time despite passing memtest multiple times.
750 gig Hitatchi HDD
GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512 meg. Not as much video ram as the GT240 but being as the GTS250 was in essence a rebadge of the 9800 GTX+ I don't see how it could be any better.
Random PCI wireless card
SB XF-i SB0460
1fh.jpg
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Q6600 is a nice find! Give that baby a nice spring clean and she'll run like butter ;)
 
RCoon said:
Q6600 is a nice find! Give that baby a nice spring clean and she'll run like butter ;)
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Yep. Q6600s were/are great chips.
CompGeke, if you find yourself wanting to OC that chip (which I would suggest doing only if it's a G0) but the board doesn't allow it, there are BSEL mods to change the FSB and VCore. I believe I have a few 775 pinouts with mod points marked on my home PC if you want me to look.

EDIT: not the same places I found mine, but here's one for VID and one for FSB. You could easily do the 1066 to 1333 mod and boost that sucker to 3GHz.
 
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Nothing much on the inside, got a new case first to replace my Antec 900. I just put in a 60GB Corsair Force LS and I have another 4GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz on the way. In a few months I'll be getting a 4670K, MSI Z87-G45 Gaming, MSI R9 270X and a Hyper 212. But first a new desk. There's room for the PSU to pull air, but it doesn't need it as it's passively cooled under 200w :)

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DaveK said:
Nothing much on the inside, got a new case first to replace my Antec 900. I just put in a 60GB Corsair Force LS and I have another 4GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz on the way. In a few months I'll be getting a 4670K, MSI Z87-G45 Gaming, MSI R9 270X and a Hyper 212. But first a new desk. There's room for the PSU to pull air, but it doesn't need it as it's passively cooled under 200w :)

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Yankee Candle its the same as Yankee Doodle but you can burn them? :D
 
RCoon said:
Q6600 is a nice find! Give that baby a nice spring clean and she'll run like butter ;)
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Cleaning is the next thing on the list, once weather permits that is. Started raining yesterday afternoon and I'm not into making dust mud.
 
mine a bit of a mess lol.

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Quick phone image.
Just put it together to check that everything's working proper.
Will need to wait for a few more days, then its time to take it all apart and install watercooling for all parts, including a
Alphacool LCD-Display i was thinking of mounting behind the smaller right window.
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And from earlier misstake, system spec for this one is for the time:
Intel Core i7 4770K
ASUS MAXIMUS VI EXTREME
Corsair Hydro H100i (to be replaced with proper watercooling for entire system)
Corsair (4x8GB) CL9 1600Mhz DOMINATOR (will be upgrade soon)
2 x ASUS GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB DirectCUII OC
2 x Samsung SSD Pro Basic 840-Series 256GB in raid 0
2 x Corsair SSD Force GS series 240GB
3x 3TB WD Black (actually think ill scatter these within the home network instead of having them in this computer)
1x 4TB Seagate SSHD 8GB 7200rpm 64MB
ASUS BW-16D1HT
ASUS Xonar Phoebus
Be quiet! Dark Power Pro10 1200W 80+ Gold (Waiting for the AX1500i to be available here)
Phantek Enthoo Primo
 
Nice setup you got there :respect:
 
My new MSI R7 250 2GB DDR3 OC card for my Kaveri for some fun with dual graphics. :D
 

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finally got my i5 in....had to add a little color to the sg05.
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Definitely gonna order a slot loading optical.
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did manage to squeeze a h80i in there....with the help of my saw
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Disassembled the 902...maybe i'll paint it white...... wifey now has a lot of room on her desk.
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this is whats coming..

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Corsair Carbide 540 AIR. Right I decided to change the bottom end of my case as for some reason the bottom of the 540 is open. So got some acrylic and carbon and red bolts from a shop called pro bolt here in the UK and closed it up. Also changed my wiring from white to red and the red clip ons on the corsair fans. Hope you like.





 
Looking very neat and tidy
 
cadaveca said:
got it together:

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Memtesting rig:

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That SLI bridge :respect:

Where can I get one of those beauties?

Awesome rig man! :toast:

EDIT: Never mind, just found it and ordered it from Amazon :) thanks for your pics Dave!
 
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cadaveca said:
Had to do some surgery on the ram, flash EVGA SC BIOS to the cards for a bit extra clock without any software:

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is there a 2 slot spacing in between the 2 cards? cause i own the maximus vi formula and i do have sli conf on 1 and 3rd pci and i want to get one of those evga bridges
 
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