Monday 1st September 2008

Readers Drives - Positive Education

Posted at: Monday 1st September 2008 by Tom Logan

Tom Logan started building his customised water-cooled computer just a month after buying his first PC, which shows what a combination of skill and helpful advice can do.

My girlfriend Emma definitely deserves a mention for putting up with all the mess and the endless late nights, and not complaining about how much I spent on this PC.

System Specifications:

Case: Lian Li V2000 (modded)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 G0 (running at 4GHz)
CPU cooling: Water cooling (XSPC Edge)
Motherboard: Asus P5K Premium
Memory: 2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2, PC2-6400
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT (overclocked)
Hard disks: 37GB Western Digital Raptor, 750GB Seagate Barracuda
DVD: LiteOn external DVD writer
PSU: Corsair HX520w

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Well done... BUT.

This is all very well but we have all seen this project over and over again throuogh the months. This is nothing new and certainly nothing radical. So why the extremem focus? I am losing interest in CPC as a magazine and online... It seems to be turning in to a personal blog rather than an independant resource of info. As an example I 'll use the latest podcast... first of all, we were told in the previous podcast that the podcasts would be more frequent and would contain more info as the CPC team had been increased. But what we got was mor bull shit and uselerss chit chat with someone int he background that we couldn't even hear. I learned not one single thing from the podcast as everything covered was old info from the previous mags or articles on the website... so what was the point of it? I have to say that I am on a knife edge from cancelling my subscription. Even the artlicles seem to be useless these days... a recent one about media PC's didn't even mention 64bit or current driver support. The whole article was a waste of time and sounded like a noob rom pcworld.

Comment by PokerMuppet at 1:19am 24th September 2008

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First Build??

Puts my first attempts to shame, and even my 5th! (nearly done :D) Great case, and the guys at OC3D and WCUK are a great help for these things to anyone who needs help

Comment by gavin_maw at 9:02pm 22nd September 2008

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Great Rig Tom

What can one say but....."Superb"

Comment by Gz_mpwaldtef9596 at 8:55pm 22nd September 2008

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Cool Build,

Nice build, the colours work really well. The V2000 is the best case for modding. Some good hardware in that build Tom. Looks like lots of effort and time has gone into that. Keep up the good work.

Comment by katiephil at 7:29pm 22nd September 2008

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lush pc

nice job m8, sexy looking,good choice on the raptor, ive to great drives

Comment by iceman at 10:06pm 21st September 2008

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O just thought i would ask

Why a raptor there not really that fast anymore right and still quite expensive.

Comment by Cool_CR at 10:32pm 17th September 2008

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Now that is how to do it.

Thats what home building is all about the huge overclocks save so much money and other than the blocks the rest of the cooling stuff can be used again in a new build unlike a of high end hardware that just ends up in the attic (ebay if you smart)