therascalking
Devious Techie
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- Fullerton, CA, USA
WHOOO! okay so my parts got here yesterday, and i was up till about 1 in the morning working on assembling it... and i took a BUNCH of pictures along the way... i wasss going to wait until my Tempest got here, but i got a message from the ebay store i bought it from saying that it had been recalled and wouldnt be here for another week...
so i started it anyways and just put everything in my old case for now... ill put more pics up once i get my Tempest... also, i (again) didnt bother too much with the wire management... both because this case isnt really built great for it... and because its only gonna be in this case for another couple days... so, i know its messy... but im writing from it right now, and its pretty darn amazing, so idc... haha... anywho... pictures!
heres all my parts the way they came
heres what i started with... my old M2N-SLI, X2 6000+, and Ultra X-Finity...
ill be reusing my RAM and 8800GTS until the 9900 series cards come out this July... so i set those aside...
got the power supply out, and my Zalman 9700 HSF off... ill be reusing it too...
used the ArctiClean stuff i bought... and it worked reallyreally well on my HSF and my old chip... good stuff, and much easier than the alcohol wipes i used before... and theres plenty left to use later...
busted open my new QUAD-CORE CPU... (btw, intel has some of the most infuriating packaging EVER... XD) im not going to be using the stock cooler... anyone want it? haha
opened up my new Asus Rampage Formula motherboard too... like a Maximus... but better hehe
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so i started it anyways and just put everything in my old case for now... ill put more pics up once i get my Tempest... also, i (again) didnt bother too much with the wire management... both because this case isnt really built great for it... and because its only gonna be in this case for another couple days... so, i know its messy... but im writing from it right now, and its pretty darn amazing, so idc... haha... anywho... pictures!
heres all my parts the way they came
heres what i started with... my old M2N-SLI, X2 6000+, and Ultra X-Finity...
ill be reusing my RAM and 8800GTS until the 9900 series cards come out this July... so i set those aside...
got the power supply out, and my Zalman 9700 HSF off... ill be reusing it too...
used the ArctiClean stuff i bought... and it worked reallyreally well on my HSF and my old chip... good stuff, and much easier than the alcohol wipes i used before... and theres plenty left to use later...
busted open my new QUAD-CORE CPU... (btw, intel has some of the most infuriating packaging EVER... XD) im not going to be using the stock cooler... anyone want it? haha
opened up my new Asus Rampage Formula motherboard too... like a Maximus... but better hehe
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