And so it continues....

I got a few bling toys today via the UBT. I'm real tired cuz I've had a buncha other stuff going on, but I made a quick update to my build diary to show the new stuff which will require a bit of wiring (and thinking...something I'm not up to at the moment.)

http://www.raytherat.com/dreadnought/page7.html

I started out with the idea of having a visible temperature indicator on the front panel and it sorta got outta hand. :blink:

The new "registered" memory should be here tomorrow (02/02/10) and then we may get a chance to see what happens. I sure hope there's no smoke nor blinding flashes. :scared:

Nice additions. Whats the spec on the fans you will be running?

Right at the moment, they'll be the (I hate to write this) "stock" fans that came with the case.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811119160

Just so I can rationalize my decisions, I'll say that I'm gonna use that as a benchmark and if needed, I can adjust from there.

I think I'm a charter member of the "I can't leave nothin stock" club. When I bought my last car (95 Suburban...works great as a photographer's vehicle...and rolling motel room for the salt flats) I told myself I wasn't gonna mess with it. So now it's got an upgraded sound system (mainly the head unit (love the USB thumb drive input), but the speakers, especially the rears are gonna get replaced as soon as the weather warms up a bit cuz they've become kinda crackly in the cold), an electronic shift kit and old skool painted rims with dog dish hubcaps and beauty rings. The next mod I'd like to do is lower it 4 inches all around and add lakes pipes to the sides...functional pipes so I could open 'em up to pure V8 noise.
http://www.chevyasylum.com/95burb/Welcome.html

Oh..and the electric fan and remote start/keyless entry (I already have these parts on hand) on and frikkin on...
http://www.chevyasylum.com/95burb/Welcome.html

I hope the Rat gets running this year, as well as the Monte Carlo. I got too many damned projects.

Haha, u got lots to do, good thing you don't sleep ;)

Yanno, before the heart trouble got bad (2004/05) I could start early in the morning with a bare block and a buncha parts...and by 10 pm, I'd have a running car (bottom of this page):
http://www.chevyasylum.com/Previous%.../68nova08.html

But I can't work that hard anymore. I gotta take breaks. And I'm fallin asleep at the keyboard. Hmmm...to go to bed or not...that is the question.

More will be revealed.

It's alive! :thumbsup:

http://www.raytherat.com/dreadnought/20100202_035r4.jpg

Boots from the SSD in 15 seconds. Amazing. :cool3:

I'll have the build diary updated soon.

:happy2:

Man that is one violent looking rig... I like it!

Thanks. It's just beginning to awaken. Those long exposure shots sure make it look malevolent. It's gonna be one STEEP learning curve, since I missed the Vista experience and went from XP to Win 7. I got a lot to learn.

I tried to run wPrime last nite and kept getting "Unexpected errors." Hell, aren't any program crashes unexpected? Jeeze. Back in the day when I wrote code for a living, if I'd written that I woulda had my hands slapped for not providing more diagnostic info.

I finally blundered thru disabling User Control and got it to run. It ran the 32m test in 16.34 seconds. Compare that to my current, dual-core, 3ghz, 2gig ram XP box that ran it in 84+ seconds; roughly 5 times the speed of the dual quad-core systems.

I guess you could say that it ran that test "at 5 times the speed" of the XP box, even though that's sorta misleading. But it's a hell of a lot faster.

I sure like those 15 second boot times.

Don't forget to set the thread count in benchmark setttings. 4 threads for a quad core, 8 threads if running HT. Run CPU-Z to see how many threads are running. Benchmark will run faster with matching thread count ;)