Nice machine   But why is the card reader sticking out?  Won't fit?

ProperBritish Wrote:
Windows Experience Index (gimped by my HDD, whcih can't really be changed much short of getting a ridiculously expensive SDD)

Actually, there is an easier cheaper way, simply get 2 normal HDDs and use RAID0.

ProperBritish Wrote:Before when the pins were bent i needed to hold down the power button to shut down. This time i only needed to press it. I changed output to the DVi and vrooooom! It burst into life =D I'm so happy to have the most annoying PC build ever behind me.

How did you even managed to put the CPU on if the pins were bent?  It's not supposed to go in... unless i7 is really that different from what I've worked with (core2 and AMD)...

And how was installing the heatsink and fan?  I remember on my brother's old Intel machine the push pins were so retarded and hard to get down wee spent like 2 hrs on it, Zinga mentioned a similar experience too when he bought his computer.

Well, at least your computer didn't blow up on you.  Mine did, literally, in the 1st few hrs of use.

./xitherun.sh Wrote:holy spoon that fan.

Err.... that's just the Intel stock fan...

ProperBritish Wrote:More info (i.e. benchmarking) to come soon =D

If you can be bothered, do the x264 HD Benchmark too.   http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=520

(This post was last modified: 10/02/2010 06:33 PM by Assassinator.)