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I went to sleep at 5 in this morning. It took a while to get the machine running properly and install Vista on it. Actually not more than maybe 2 hours, but the rest of the time I was just impressed how fast it is compared to my old machine (P4 @2.9GHz, Nvidia 6800 256MB, 2GB mem).
First it didn't start normally. It powered up, shut down just seconds after and then booted to BIOS giving error message about unrecognised CPU. After fiddling with bios a bit and setting up the RAID 0 I still had the occasional and quite frequent shutdowns. At this point I was getting a bit nervous. Then I saw the BIOS showing CPU temperature at 110C. That lead me to think that the BIOS has fault reading the temp sensors and shuts down because of that.
Luckily I had downloaded the latest BIOS and after disabling the CPU temp monitoring I was able to enter the BIOS flashing program. The EZ-Flash utility is the easiest one to use I've seen. After the BIOS update everything was fine.
Vista also had a little problem installing, but the fix was very simple. There was an option in BIOS to enable and disable the UPnP function for OS. I enabled it and got everything working.
Next in the process is to run a few benchmarks and slap a little bit of overclock on the machine. Not that I'd need that, but just to show off actually :D
Project log about building the watercooled custom gaming computer called El Jefe.
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Congrats, buddy. Nice setup you got there. Still looking forward to seeing it in its case. Now lets see some benchmarks! :)
The benchies are coming as soon as I have a minute to run and post them.
The case and I have a scheduled appointment on saturday at the latest. If I get the tubing back next monday, I might put the watercooling on next week.
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