by J_Th4ng » Mon Feb 14, 2011 2:14 pm
Nice Stu, glad to have you back online again. Thanks for offering up your tags in homage on Saturday night

@Phats - Had my monthly shearing on Saturday morning, so that haircut is as fresh as it comes.
@Paul - Lee suggested a 750W PSU for the build. I think that there is plenty of headroom, but apparently the GTX280 is a bit of a power leech. Regardless, the PSU has 4xPCI-E power connections, so SLI in the future wouldn't be a problem (except for the fact that the Rampage Formula motherboard is an X48 chipset that doesn't support SLI (CrossFire only).
As for the parts, thanks to Sheri and Dirk for the discounted pricing on the Mobo, Ram and CPU and to Lee for the very generous donation of his old graphics card. And of course to the slush fund contributors for permission to use some for this project. It's awesome to see how the clan can pull together to get a brother back online again. One of teh things that makes [grrr] the clan that it is.
Nice Stu, glad to have you back online again. Thanks for offering up your tags in homage on Saturday night ;)
@Phats - Had my monthly shearing on Saturday morning, so that haircut is as fresh as it comes.
@Paul - Lee suggested a 750W PSU for the build. I think that there is plenty of headroom, but apparently the GTX280 is a bit of a power leech. Regardless, the PSU has 4xPCI-E power connections, so SLI in the future wouldn't be a problem (except for the fact that the Rampage Formula motherboard is an X48 chipset that doesn't support SLI (CrossFire only).
As for the parts, thanks to Sheri and Dirk for the discounted pricing on the Mobo, Ram and CPU and to Lee for the very generous donation of his old graphics card. And of course to the slush fund contributors for permission to use some for this project. It's awesome to see how the clan can pull together to get a brother back online again. One of teh things that makes [grrr] the clan that it is.