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How to build pc?
Freedom Kira:
That's a pretty cool-looking graphics card.
Are you using only one RAM stick? I can only see one. If you use multiple, try to match them as well as possible (dual-channel kits are best), and fill in the black slots before you start filling in the blue ones.
As for cable management, the most important thing to keep in mind is to avoid blocking airflow. The three key areas are the fan in the back, the CPU fan, and the vents on the front of the case in front of the hard drive area (looks like there's a fan there).
Your power supply should have a couple of cable ties that would help you with the cable management. While some may disagree, bundling up your cables into a huge ball and tying them together with a tie is perfectly fine, as long as it doesn't block airflow.
My friend told me a trick he uses for the SATA cables. He takes a pencil and rolls them up, so that it looks like a phone cord. It's not something I do, personally, but it's a pretty neat idea.
krumm:
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on January 08, 2012, 05:44:40 AM ---Are you using only one RAM stick? I can only see one. If you use multiple, try to match them as well as possible (dual-channel kits are best), and fill in the black slots before you start filling in the blue ones.
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Why would you do that? That is no different then using only one dimm.
Clannad_92:
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on January 08, 2012, 05:44:40 AM ---Are you using only one RAM stick? I can only see one. If you use multiple, try to match them as well as possible (dual-channel kits are best), and fill in the black slots before you start filling in the blue ones.
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yes...its 4gb stick...well, ive read some tech book and they also emphasize that (fill the same colour first, then the other one)
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on January 08, 2012, 05:44:40 AM ---As for cable management, the most important thing to keep in mind is to avoid blocking airflow. The three key areas are the fan in the back, the CPU fan, and the vents on the front of the case in front of the hard drive area (looks like there's a fan there)
Your power supply should have a couple of cable ties that would help you with the cable management. While some may disagree, bundling up your cables into a huge ball and tying them together with a tie is perfectly fine, as long as it doesn't block airflow.
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hmmm, how should i do that? but, the casing comes with a cable-holder thinggy (look at the black thing near the psu, just dunno how to bend/put the cable into it)...and yes, one back fan, 2 upper fan, and front fan...haha, im happy with my new casing...
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on January 08, 2012, 05:44:40 AM ---My friend told me a trick he uses for the SATA cables. He takes a pencil and rolls them up, so that it looks like a phone cord. It's not something I do, personally, but it's a pretty neat idea.
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is that a good thing to do? well, maybe i will follow that too...
kitamesume:
^ if i had a camera i'd show you my sata cables~ its all telephone-cord looking, theres also a trick where you use the SATA cables as the cord holder(wind the SATA cable around a bundled cord, creating a sleeve effect).
anyway, multi-channeling(double-channel and triple-channel) rams increases it's overall bandwidth, theres a very little improvement from 1x1stick than 2x1stick on real-life performance, but down to processing performance you'd see quite a bit of performance.
another thing to note is that if your processor is a much more monstrosity then it'll require more bandwidth, though still too small to notice.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/PARALLEL-PROCESSING,1705-12.html
to explain why did they even create multi-channeling(double-channel and triple-channel), about a decade ago rams were uber slow, so creating a trick called dual-channel doubled it's bandwidth which obviously improved the performance of the PC. but now a days rams have insane speeds that increasing the bandwidth does little to no profit at all.
Clannad_92:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on January 08, 2012, 08:53:34 AM ---^ if i had a camera i'd show you my sata cables~ its all telephone-cord looking, theres also a trick where you use the SATA cables as the cord holder(wind the SATA cable around a bundled cord, creating a sleeve effect).
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wanna see it...that way, i will do better cable mngement...
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