Ahh, may I introduce Dean. A good friend of mine who is building the PC, with my very limited help (making cups of tea). Although, I do intend to learn a thing of two about putting a PC together :P

Just a quick update from work:

Two deliveries have been made at home (according to online parcel tracking). When I manage to leave work I should have a processor, DDR2, Graphics Card, Motherboard and lots of Artic compound.

8)

Uploading now...not long :P

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looks good so far, good to see foxconn supply plenty of cables.

he's got a scythe ninja. better than the zalman imo. I changed from a zalman to the scythe ninja, and my temps are on idle 9 degrees lower, and upto 12 degrees under load.

I agree though, the intel ones aren't very good, they are inefficient, noisey and a git to clean out.

Foxconn make most of the connector components for most motherboards. They have been making motherboards under there own name for a little while now. The foxconn boards are regarded as being better than intels own boards. Im not sure if they make AMD boards, personally I would like at the ASUS K8 series for the X2 chips.

Zalman was on the list, but I got a Scythe Ninja which arrived today....

Todays presents:
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couple of Scythe reviews:

(it should be noted that Scythe now ship their cooler with a 120mm fan)
http://hardware.gamershell.com/artic...cooler_review/
http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/cooling/air/scnj1000/

No problem, at the end of the day I did put up pics of the standard Intel item, so could understand where you were coming from :D

I have the speakers up and running. Ok, they are not going to win any award espcially against the system next door, but for £40 they are pretty damn good!! A VAST improvement over the tin pot speakers I got with my current computer.

One more delivery to go, it should arrive tomorrow. :P

good stuff good stuff, but why did you go INtel instead of amd?

his normal heater wasnt working well enough

I was just sticking with what I know :oops: Dean was/is an AMD man but I decided to plump for Intel. I appreciate that AMD are better on several points, such as power consumption, raw speed and I suppose overclocking potentail. However, I doubt that I would notice the difference.

My aim for the PC was to build a robust, stable and respectably fast PC which has the potential to be upgraded as and when. At this point, I doubt that I will be going down any overclocking routes. Therefore I wanted a PC that would run the latest games fairly well out of the box so to speak.

I also wanted to build a PC that was capable of running the next generaltion of games - albeit, potentially, with some upgrades.

I think the spec of the computer meets my requirements. You never know, next time I may go down the AMD route. 8)

p.s according to online tracking, my final delivery has made it to my local depot and is on route to my house :P I will as always, get pics up when I get home.

pps Dean!!

Just noticed your sig. Hahahahaha. The offer is still there, I will sue their ass if you want :wink:

Ok, everything is here 8)


My final Christmas day for a while -

One computer in parts:
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The bits in detail:
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There is also a HD and a floppy drive....but I suspect you all know what they look like lol

My vote for the best item goes to.........















.........the Enermax Liberty power suply. It rocks! Really well finished and solidly built. Big thumbs up from me on that front.

So there we go. All my orders are in. I will be building it with Dean (Dean will be building it lol) probably next weeked (April). I will get a running account of what is happening up and running just so I don't feel completely redundant! :P

congrats jon_s!. enjoy your new pc and laptop.