Look what I woke up to this morning.

[Chewy]

for regular ddr and overclocking this is what you need

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820231015

ram meant to keep up with an amd64

[soup]

That's just for regular not what you do?

[Chewy]

Regular as in ddr one, not two, and that is the ram I wish I had paired with my 40% overclock, of course according to all the experts but the one I followed, what I am doing won't work. My Hypertransport is 1400

[nwg]

I am using my new computer now.

A couple of difficulties. It is the first time I have had to use the 4 pin power connector. I just put on the normal ATX connector and just got the fans, processor and hard disks going. As soon as I put the 12V connector in I got it working properly

I am using four 512MB DDR400 sticks of RAM. It seems that only three are working. The BIOS recognised all four sticks but only saw 1536MB. The three sticks also show they are single channel and running at 333mhz. Is that because there is only three. Will it go up to 400mhz once I get a new stick?

I am using onboard video which uses 128MB of the system memory.

I have the cover off at the moment as I put in a sound card and USB 2.0 card. The temperture guag on the front show 22 C for the CPU and 29 for hard disk C. I have cool 'n' quiet on.

The next thing is a black DVD writer (beige looks crap) and maybe a internal card reader

I will put some pics up if you lot are interested.

[atifsh]

congrates on ur new pc, check one chip at a time they should work at 400. dual channel will work if u have it in pairs and u do have pairs, [4 pieces of RAM]
usually bios shows speeds of each ram , so see if all or anyone shows 333, physicaly check the ram, kingston does have printed 400 in there serial/model or 333.

[soup]

I would be interested in pics nwg.

[Chewy]

lots of weird stuff happens with more than 2 sticks of ram and bios is screwy,
try 2 sticks in the dual channel mode, and use everest to monitor.

[nwg]

Here are some pics.

It took 2 hours to do which I thought was quite good. Windows was fully installed in 20 minutes.

I will have another stick of RAM shortly to try. I have also got no lights on the front for hard disk. The power button and reset work ok.

http://www.apah20.dsl.pipex.com/newcomputer/case1.JPG

http://www.apah20.dsl.pipex.com/newcomputer/caseinside.JPG

http://www.apah20.dsl.pipex.com/newcomputer/front.jpg

http://www.apah20.dsl.pipex.com/newcomputer/mobo.jpg

http://www.apah20.dsl.pipex.com/newcomputer/rear.jpg

http://www.apah20.dsl.pipex.com/newcomputer/rightside.jpg

http://www.apah20.dsl.pipex.com/newcomputer/top.jpg

http://www.apah20.dsl.pipex.com/newcomputer/windows.jpg

[Jack Lurker]

Nice, looks like there is a lot more room inside than a "standard" case. How big are the hard drives in there?

[soup]

Well that looks great & thanks for sharing the pics. I like the case.

[nwg]

Nice, looks like there is a lot more room inside than a "standard" case. How big are the hard drives in there?

It is a rather small case with a micro ATX mobo. There isn't as much room since I put in in USB 2.0 card (gives a total of 10 USB 2.0 sockets) and the sound card.

Drive C is 80GB and Drive D is 300GB. They are both Maxtors.

Here is a pic of the temperture gauge.

http://www.apah20.dsl.pipex.com/newcomputer/temp.jpg

Here is a really good review of the case.

http://www.anandtech.com/casecooling/showdoc.aspx?i=2464

[UncasMS]

i'd never use a case like that seeing how close your drives have to be mounted to one another

[Jack Lurker]

I want one!!! I really like the look of the case and the features. Time to start saving the pennies methinks........

[nwg]

i'd never use a case like that seeing how close your drives have to be mounted to one another

Why not? The case does a great job at cooling them. It is deisgned to make the drive cool at possible. So far, drive C hasn't got above 28 degrees C.

I have always had them that close in all my computers.

[nwg]

I want one!!! I really like the look of the case and the features. Time to start saving the pennies methinks........

Start saving. They cost £80 (usual £1 to $1).