The Re-Birth

Since the last blog post about my system I have gone through alot of changes. First was the motherboard swap to the new ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe. I then added a fourth Sapphire Toxic 3870 and attempted to upgrade my PSU to a Corsair 1000W. However the PSU turned out to be incompatable with the board. So I ended up selling the Corsair and getting an Ultra X3 1000W PSU instead. At the same time I replaced all four of my Sapphire Toxic 3870's with three Visiontek 4870's and...

POWER, MORE POWER

Well as it turns out the problem that I talked about in Part 3 was not specificly case related. It just so happens that it is Power Supply related. I guess in a sense it has to do with the case since there are more fans in the case and they are more powerful. So they are sucking just enough juice to deprive the CPU it's necessary diet. With that being said I decided to embark on trying the Dual Power Supply tactic.

The Hookup

Hooking up...

Well now that I have gotten my new case and installed everything in there it is time to rant and rave again.

The Case

The case is a COOLER MASTER Centurion 590 which comes with a drive cage pre-installed and a rear exhaust fan. I installed the drive cage that I had in my previous case, but changed out the fan to one of the four Scythe 120mm "Slipstream" 110cfm case fans that I ordered for the case. Two of the other fans went in the top as exhaust fans and the...

In Part 2 of My Spider Adventure I will be covering some of the changes I have made so far and the good and bad of each.

Cooling:

The main issue I have with my system is cooling. I believe this is more related to the case that anything else. So I decided to add some additional fans.

I first started by ordering the following harddrive cage with a 120mm fan attached:

Cooler Master 4 in 3

I then pulled an old 80mm fan from the stock...

It has been several years since I have built a new pc from scratch. Even then I typically go for the pretty cheap stuff. However this time around I have gone for something a little more....well fun.

The Spider - The Reason

The reason I went with AMD and the Spider platform is because it sounded like it would be something cool to have and it looked like it would preform great. I am not against Intel by no means but after comparing the cost at the time I gathered the parts...