Congratulations davidstone28 . You did better than me, I fried my 7900GT when installing the VM-102

mexell wrote:In the meanwhile, the tricools have evolved to having a little switch instead of three connectors But I guess they are still mostly the same.

Alas! Technology passes me by yet again

I think I will go with a lower power Seasonic PSU. The 380W should be enough? What about the 430W? I don't mind spending alittle extra now if later on I will be upgrading something and need more power. Is there any benefit to using the 380W version over the 430W (besides saving $20)? The SPCR Power...

I just built a Core 2 Duo system with an e6600 and a 7900 GTX with the 380W Seasonic S12 PSU and haven't had any problems yet. With your setup using even less juice should have no problems with a smaller PSU as Stromgald suggests. Originally I ordered the Gigabyte DS4 965 motherboard and had trouble...

Thank you everyone for their help, advice and reassurance. The 7900GTX arrived and is happily running in the system now . I haven't stretched it yet, but all seems good and silent enough for me.

Thanks guys! I have ordered a 7900GTX

Another question! I only have a Seasonic S12 380W psu with the following components:

Asus P5W DH Delux
e6600 Conroe
2 Gig of Memory
2 x 300 GB Samsung HDDs
DVD RW

Will it be able to handle a 7900GTX?

Tzupy: Thanks for the advice . It maybe a stupid question, but the 7900 GTX is in your Antec 3000B case?

I'm not too concerned about the harddisks having hot air blown over them as my intake fan blows cool air over them.

Thank you all for your sympathy. I don't think I crushed the core, but I would not be surprised if it was thermal grease or overtightening the screws or some other display of my incompetance. Anyway, I have decided to try and avoid DIY cooling of the replacement video card. I'm not sure my wife will...

I just killed my 7900GT in my new e6600 system and feel a right idiot :cry: I fitted a Aerocool VM-102 fanless cooler to the 7900GT and booted the system. It loaded fine and after a few minutes I decided to reboot. Nothing appeared on screen and the motherboard made some beeps, although they did not...

Be very careful with the RAM and a 965 chipset build. I purchased a Giga-byte DS4 motherboard and 2 sticks of Corsair DDR2 667 4-4-4-12 memory with my e6600 and had no end of trouble getting it to boot. The tech support for the supplier of the motherboard said it was compatability issues between the...

grats on a working system. 6600 is a beast :p It is certainly proving to be a sweet upgrade 8) I'm still installing software and transferring data over so have not had a proper play, but so far it all bodes well. I did try overclocking the 6600 to 3Ghz and it booted up with no problems. Ironically ...

Thanks! That makes sense as I didn't have time to do more than the most basic install to ensure it was all working.

Update: After frustrations with the DS4 motherboard I rang the retailers tech support and found a very helpful and honest guy on the other end. He admitted there were compatability issues with the mobo, the memory and CPU. He told me that some memory sticks are compatable with the mobo with certain...

VitaminC: I think you might be right. When I get the new memory I'll up the voltage and see.

Thanks!

I had a problem with my first build where one of the PSU molex connectors was near the CPU cooler and socket. I'd get a loud blaring "BEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPP" from the computer and it wouldn't post. I just shifted the molex connectors away and it fixed the problem. I could reproduce the problem half the ...

I've swapped to the other stick of memory and that doesn't work any better either :cry: Back to step one. Does your system power up at all originally? Or you meant your system doesnt POST (no BIOS screen)? And now you are using only single stick of RAM and you can POST? Have you try to POST using th...

After exiting the bios I am now in the same position as before with it cycling through on-off again. I don't have much stuff to swap in and out as my other PC is over 5/6 years old with only an AGP card. I'll try the other stick of memory and see if that works.

Very curious. I replaced the SI-128 with the Intel stock cooler and put in only one stick of memory. I had exactly the same symptons and after a few cycles through the on off routine the machine booted, but I missed the bios and went straight to booting off the DVD. This time I stuck in my XP disk a...

Thanks for the advice guys. I'll check the heatsink is mounted properly and try again!

It didn't get to the Bios on the first attempt, but took until about the sixth time if that helps.

I have just put together my new system I specced out here: http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=33387 It won't startup though. The fans spin up and then they stop and then they startup again and then they stop.... so on and so on! The machine did get past bios once and asked for a boot c...

Make sure you read the review: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article210-page2.html . Its a little tricky to get the front bezel off and to get it back on right. Also, it might be easier to install the drives, then the PSU. Then again, I kinda had trouble because I thought the optical drive installa...

Thanks Stromgald, I'll do that. I can live with the graphics card taking up a drive space. If I need more hard drive I'd rather replace those with larger drives than increase the number of drives. I have ordered all the parts now. The list is slightly different than original, but not by much: 1 x In...

Check out http://www.thermalright.com/ . Go under installation and select the XP-120 or SI-128 (yeah they're huge and scary heatsinks, but they're much lighter than a Ninja). Looking at your motherboard on newegg and Gigabyte's own site, I think it'll fit. There might be a smidgen of overhang from ...

Welcome to SPCR! Thanks 8) I dont know too much about the details of monitors so i'll skip that. I'd recommend looking into an Antec SOLO case. It should be quieter than the 3000B, and you can soft mount your hard drives better. The only drawback is the extra $40. To balance that, I'd recommend get...

Hi All, A long time lurker who has finally joined this great site :) . I have finally decided to build a new system and have pretty much settled on the specs.My current computer is five years old with the Intel OR840 mobo and PIII cpu's purchased second hand so they are even older. I'm definitely du...