Friday, March 9, 2012

New Motherboard

So this last Wednesday, I made a trade with a friend.  I received a new motherboard, an ASUS Rampage Formula.
 

 
 
Since this is a much higher-end board,  I decided to put my highest end hardware in it: my Pentium E5300, 2 gigs of ram, and my tower-style heat sink.

 Here's some in-progress shots of my desk:

And of my current set up in my basement:

SO basically, the next step for me is to continue stress testing this new board; as I type this at school, the system at my house is running a stress testing program continuously, and has been since last night.  Anyways, right now I'm thinking I won't use this new board for submerging in oil.  I think I may replace what was in my old computer with my current 'desk' set up, which may require me getting a new case.  I think at this point, I am probably going to use my old computer, which would involve a full-sized board, so I will need to factor that size difference into my current case design.
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  1. UnknownAugust 22, 2012 at 1:07 PM

    It's a good thing that you're stress testing your new motherboard. During the stress test, we would be able to see if you're motherboard is doing well with the other hardware, but I guess, it should run well under any circumstances, as you've said it is a high end motherboard. By the way, what type of video card did you use?

    Benita Bolland

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    1. Joey MenzenskiAugust 22, 2012 at 4:48 PM

      The motherboard in this post actually didn't end up in oil. The board that went into the oil was an old DFI Infinity P965-S. The Video card is an old EVGA 9600 GSO 384Mb. I have a whole mess of pictures still to upload, and finish off this project. I will try to do that shortly.

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