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I built the PC, now what?
I'm putting together the parts to an i7 rig for a friend tonight. It's been a couple of years since I last built a PC.
Mobo: GA-EX58-UD3R
CPU: i7 920
Memory: 3*2 GB PC 1333 (forget brand, maybe G-Skill)
Vid: Nvidia 9800 GTX
HD: WD Caviar Black 1TB
PS: Corsair 650
Case: Antec 300
Edit: So I put the PC together last night and everything booted up just fine. We got Win7 RC 7100 installed and it's running fine. I installed the chipset drivers provided by Gigabyte w/ the mobo and downloaded the latest nvidia drivers from the web. I also ran 3Dmark06. I haven't run that program before and I noticed in the CPU tests we were 1-2 FPS. Is that normal, especially for an i7? Our final 3dmark06 score was about 15700. That seem alright for the parts we're using?
I just want to make sure that not only is the PC running, but that it's running as it should be. I've read some other threads about i7's not running up to par or slower than they should and I wanted to know what tools I could use to make sure this build is up to speed. I tried checking around the BIOS some, but a lotta the settings confused me as this is my first build in a while and it was already late.
I'm putting together the parts to an i7 rig for a friend tonight. It's been a couple of years since I last built a PC.
Mobo: GA-EX58-UD3R
CPU: i7 920
Memory: 3*2 GB PC 1333 (forget brand, maybe G-Skill)
Vid: Nvidia 9800 GTX
HD: WD Caviar Black 1TB
PS: Corsair 650
Case: Antec 300
Edit: So I put the PC together last night and everything booted up just fine. We got Win7 RC 7100 installed and it's running fine. I installed the chipset drivers provided by Gigabyte w/ the mobo and downloaded the latest nvidia drivers from the web. I also ran 3Dmark06. I haven't run that program before and I noticed in the CPU tests we were 1-2 FPS. Is that normal, especially for an i7? Our final 3dmark06 score was about 15700. That seem alright for the parts we're using?
I just want to make sure that not only is the PC running, but that it's running as it should be. I've read some other threads about i7's not running up to par or slower than they should and I wanted to know what tools I could use to make sure this build is up to speed. I tried checking around the BIOS some, but a lotta the settings confused me as this is my first build in a while and it was already late.
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