X1 QX6700 Street Racer BOMB System

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2011/05/24 14:10:43 (permalink)

X1 QX6700 Street Racer BOMB System

It's a BOMB System = Built On Minus Budget!

Just thought I'd put in a glimpse of my test rig for a QX6700 and mobo. I'm going to get this running as a separate system to see how it performs. I'm assured it will be better than a 5600+  QX6700 Rat Rig

The PSU is the original from a gaming rig of a mates; the system died under the weight of the death of 2 x GTX 8800's - I think the PSU may have felt that too? I need to get RAM and wipe another drive and I and set it up.

Anyone else like to work under such improvisation?
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QX6700, 4G RAM, DELTA 192, Samplitude 11 Pro, Win 7 32bit.
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    edjay
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    Re:X1 QX6700 Street Racer BOMB System 2011/05/27 08:34:42 (permalink)
    I found 2 major flaws:

    1. The PSU died during setup.

    2. The ASUS PN32-E SLI mobo doesn't support Win 7!? ( Which I thought was an odd discovery for a premium mobo. ) This caused the rig to hang during the install, so I loaded the OS on another computer and then added the drive to this one only to find again lots of hanging and no ability to restart.

    I got the info about the lack of support from the ASUS site.

    Today's job is to do an XP install after saving the software bundle.

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    Re:X1 QX6700 Street Racer BOMB System 2011/05/27 10:25:04 (permalink)
    I have a Q6600 running (for last 3 years) without problems on Win 7 64 bit.  But, I have an Intel motherboard that does support Vista/Win 7 (although the motherboard is now discontinued). 

    If that ASUS board supports Vista it should support Win 7, as Win 7 is basically just "Vista improved".  The device drivers, including motherboard chipset drivers, and sound drivers (if you are using on-board audio) and may be Ethernet are bsically all you need from the motherboard.  Most of the time the chipset drivers are not OS specific so XP chipset drivers should work.   

    I do a lot of users helping users support on the Dell form and we see people with "old" XP systems that according to available drivers do not support Vista/Win 7  installing Win 7 (32 bit version) and getting them to work.  But those with the "old" systems really are marginal and probably shouldn't be running Win 7. 

    The PSU is a separate issue and would have died regardless of the OS.

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    Re:X1 QX6700 Street Racer BOMB System 2011/06/01 20:37:53 (permalink)
     Intel DP35DP



    I have a love-love relationship with this motherboard.....
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    Re:X1 QX6700 Street Racer BOMB System 2011/06/02 14:10:17 (permalink)
    Hi Fireberd

    Re' the Vista/Win 7 drivers: It didn't like a fresh install on a formatted drive so I didn't think there was any point in taking it any further. I'm not on the net with my music rig anyway.

    The end result is that I got another 775 mobo.  :(

    I've just completed putting the rat-rig components into my music chassis with a retired 8800GT and everything's working fine; so the rat-rig chassis is free to become a testbed again - I've got the 5600+ I was using before with a Gigabyte mobo and 2 gigs of RAM to turn into something as well now.

    I'll let you know if it turns into a love-love thing.  :)

    QX6700, 4G RAM, DELTA 192, Samplitude 11 Pro, Win 7 32bit.
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