"John Ward"
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jrmward@tpg.com.au
Posted on:
Nov 16, 2007, 7:02 PM
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Hi Ibby,
Well, despite what I was PROMISED, after I phoned, ~ a week ago, and
despite the fact that I've already paid for my Ultra video card and the
courier to my front door, I still haven't got the card.
Its the last bit I'm waiting before I can start building, and then
testing, enjoying...
The card was clearly listed as "In Stock" when I paid for it - the
bastards!!
I'm getting totally fed up with the way people, all over the world, seem
to conduct themselves these days, apparently!!
Regarding the new PC, which I've treated myself to, after a helluva long
time with the current one (which I'm just giving to my best mate, no
charge), I'm lucky enough to know a few experts, as well as have my own
knowledge - Katy Pluta was a fantastic help in selecting a few of my
components, particularly the graphics card and CPU.
If I could only just get the bastard built, and up and running, so that
I could enjoy it all.
I've stuck with my preference of removable drive caddies, so I'm going
to have all the options of Win Xp Pro, and Vista Ultimate, 64-bit, and FS9,
and FSX, mate...... Yeehhaawww!!!  ))
I'm feeling pretty let down by some of these blokes, particularly since
I've already paid my money, and they're now earning interest on my money,
and despite their promises I still haven't got my goods!!!
I also have an issue going on with an ex family member (one of my two
brothers), regarding a lot of money, in my terms, which is not resolved yet,
and which I'll win, hands down, which I'm ABSOLUTELY SAVAGE about - I now
have one less brother, thank Christ, and also thank Christ, when it comes to
my Will.
So there you go, mate, that's exactly how I feel at the moment. )
I probably should just shut up, and say nothing, for a while, and thats
exactly what I'm going to do, mate.
Regards,
John Ward
"Ibby (The Artist Formerly Known as Chris)" <cjibbotson@tiscali.co.uk> wrote
in message news:1194994469.937961.294110@v2g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
John
I think my greed for an even faster pc has actually cost me in
performance. The system became a little unstable. I downloaded and
installed the latest BIOS for my motherboard from Abits website to
hopefully get more out of it but on setting it up with the same
voltages and cpu speed even with default ram speed it refuses to
boot. I have to drop the cpu speed a way down to near stock levels
which disgusts me. When I built this system I spent a lot on a top
quality board £180 and an Antec case with huge fans to aid cooling £80
and all for what to get a few extra mhz after a crap BIOS update. I
reinstalled the previous bios but still have the same problems with
overclocking.
In my frustration earlier this evening I upped all the voltages 1
level about what I was comfortable with but it still wouldnt boot. My
board allows me to save 5 different BIOS profiles which can be
reloaded. The 'safe' one was loaded with default cpu and ram speeds
and timings and I then got loads of hardware failures just as windows
opens the desktop. No explanation of the proplem, no stop screen with
a problem code. Talk about panicing - felt physically sick. System
now costs around £2500 with additional ram and hard drives that I have
installed since I built it in August and I thought I had totally
fucked it up with my bloody greed on speed. Fortunately whilst it had
booted before this the profile saved had the memory command rate set
to 1T which can be demanding on systems especially with the tight
latencies my ram has. This was causing the crashes tonight.
Glad to at least have it working, it is running entirely at stock
speeds with Prime95 doing stress tests to make sure all seems well.
I have complained to Abit about the BIOS update but they will probably
just say overclocking is at your own risk even if they allow it in the
BIOS, encourage overclocking by huge statements about the products
protential and even provide a program with the board for overclocking.
Sometimes we can become complacent about the risks until its too
late. I now know to fair on the cautious side.
Thats it for my 'exciting' evening, how are you John?
Ibby
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