Tech Smartly

It seems I spoke too soon about being able to use and benchmark my computer. Doing stress tests from a program called very easily gives me a blue screen of death, just for a flash, and then reboots the computer. I’m going to get myself a new motherboard now, since it obviously is not working, and I’ve heard of several problems that people have with this motherboard.

Unfortunately, the benchmarks will have to wait until later, as I have to remove everything and put it back in with the new motherboard. To clarify, I bought the new CPU and motherboard a week ago, but was experiencing problems with constant blue screens of death. this meant that I had to blog from another worse computer I had, seen to the left of the picture of the monitor. I’m still using it now to write, and unfortunately it has a spanish keyboard.

Since the computer crashed all the time, I got myself a better fan, one that is much quiter, as well as RAM that is tested and certified to work on the motherboard. Nope, still didn’t work. Well, here I am, blogging on a spanish keyboard, on a computer that only has integrated and no speakers. Meanwhile, next to me I have a quad core CPU with an 8800GTX just sitting there.

When I get this working, I’m going to do several tests, including crysis and 3dmark06. Hopefully by the end of the week, but maybe later.

I Just bought a new cpu, along with faster ram, and a new motherboard. These are the Specifications.

• P5N32-E SLI Plus motherboard
• 8800GTX
• 1.7 terabytes total hard drive space
• 2x 1 gig of 800MHz ram
• Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatality Chamion Series
• Yesico FL-550ATX Fanless 550w PSU
• NH-U12F Cpu cooler

• QX9650

Yup, that’s right. I got myself an extremely power cpu, which hopefully I will overclock to something like 4 GHz.

To begin with, first let’s show my monitor. I’m linking to the pictures so as not to use up bandwidth.

Monitor

The Ipod is a reference.

Second of all, the case:

Case

Again, the Ipod is a reference.

First off, the CPU was already inside and ready, along with stock cooling. I was having problems with heating, so I bought some a good, high quality unit. This is the picture of my ccopmuter before operation.

Whole computer

A close up of the RAM I’m about to put it:

RAM

Now, the motherboard with stock cooling:

Motherboard and stock cooling

I’ve taken the cooling off, and there is some thermal grease still on it that I cleaned up.

CPU

Now, I put on a MONSTER of a cooling unit that almost barely fit in the case.

Cooling unit

A close up of the power supply:

Power supply

And here are my 1.7 terabytes of hard drive space. The one labelled H is my backup hard drive with 750 gigabytes of space

Hard drives

And lastly, my whole computer. Everything I mentioned is in there, and it’s all set to go. Unfortunately, I’m having problems most likely to do with the motherboard. I’ll see if I can fix it some time soon, and play Crysis and post the FPS.

Complete computer

Unfortunately, the motherboard suffers from problems voltage problems, and I’ve been tweaking it for a while. Hopefully it’s stable now, and I’m going to run 3dmark06, as well as other benchmarks. I’ll be posting the results soon.