Rynox7 2.0

So its been a long time sense my last post. life as it always does moves on and there is much to take the time to lay down in the written word. For now I just continue on with this little gem.

Behold Rynox7 2.0!


Now for those that are going what the difference? I'll tell you...

Rynox7 now is equipped with a Nvidia 9800GTX 512 ver.2 video card and a XION 800 watt modular power supply. A friend of mine bought the card under my recommendation for his home theater PC. Long story short his case was to small for the card and he was going to be stuck paying a restock fee, (BOO NEWEGG! Honestly people www.tigerdirect.com Way better service and much better prices) so I manned up and offered to buy the card (with the wifes approval). When I got it home, being the amazing tech that I am, made sure that it would work in my system. I knew the case was going to be fine, (look in that thing the case is HUGE!) but I was concerned about the power. My little 500W simply was not going to be enough. Thus the new supply. So since this system was becomeing my little experement into case modding, (more on that later) I wanted to get a supply that would

A. Provide enough power while still being efficient.
B. Looked nice.
C. Allowed for advanced cable management techniques that would provide better airflow.

Look at the pics and you would see that I think I fould the ALMOST perfect one.

800 watts of power while being a member of the power supply 80 bronze club. That means that at least 80% of the power coming into the supply is actually converted into power for the system. Only 20% is wasted in the conversion from AC to DC power. Not many know this but the average power supply in a home PC is only 30% to 50% efficient. Think about that when you get your power bill.

Looked nice. um... It's a tech thing really but compaired to a grey steel box... much better.

Advanced cable management.
It's modular. Rather then have all the cables that I dont use bound up and hidden away, I only use the ones I need. As you can see I only used half of the cables. Now the motherboard cables are still hard wired. Honestly I'm ok with that, they just needed to be a bit longer (this is the part that made it almost perfect). This supply has the standard 4pin mobo cable as well as the newer 8pin one. The 8 pin was just hidden in the back. One cable to run the video card. One cable to run all the drives. One cable to run all the fans. All the cables are tied up and out of the way for good air flow.

Mission accomplished.

In the future rynox7 2.1 will get its post. Some case modding to show. See ya then.

Rynox7 LIVES!!!!!!

So the tax man was kind to me this year. I was able to get caught up on all my oustanding debts that I owed some people and so the wife demanded that I get something for myself. Her reasoning is that she can never get me to do it any other time of the year so now would be the only time we had the money to do so. I told her that i really wanted a new PC as the last one I built was going on 4 and half years old now. It was not having issues or like and in fact is a quite a good system for its time. However its time had come. I present to you Rynox7.



Ok so time to turn tech on you.
AMD Phenom 2 920 quad core 2.8ghz CPU
4gb Corsair Dominator 1066 ram
Asus M378A-T Motherboard 790GX NB and 750 SB
XFX 8800gt OC 512mb
Thermaltake truepower 500 watt power suppy
Westerndigital sata 2 250g 7200rpm drive
Liteon SATA lightscribe DVD burner
Coolermaster CM690 midtower case

Yes the Vidcard is dusty. I cleaned it later. I'm running Win XP and Windows 7 beta 7000 build. I have to say, Windows 7 is very nice. It is totally my main OS at the moment. We shall see what Microsoft does, but they could release this beta now and the market would gobble it up.

Anyway the system is a dream, after some beginning issues getting the ram to run at the right speed and configuring how the ram functions (ganged vs unganged mode look it up lots of info on what they do but little on how to actually set it...), it runs like a dream. I was playing WoW, running Itunes, had vent up, Yahoo chat too, firefox all churning away and not one of them flinched. Even WoW was turning in some very nice frame rates in Dalaran where all the cool peeps hang out. On my old system I could have been doing this, but it would be choking somewhere. Now, it seems that the new system is begging for more.

I am very pleased with how this came together and I'm sure that for long times to come this system will get teched and messed with for a long time. If anyone out there in the void has any questions or comments feel free. Pc hardware is a small passion of mine and I love talking shop with anyone that will listen...

The cry of a waring heart.

I have never known strife and war.
I have never tasted the Fear of battle.
I have never looked in the eyes of a dyeing man.

I have seen death griping the bodies of warriors.
I have seen mothers wailing for their stolen young.
I have seen blood flowing as rivers down city streets.

Why oh God does my heart yearn for something that I have never known,
when my eyes have seen the horrors that would result?

Why father does the lifeless eyes of the of the children fail to shame
my heart into submission?

Why do the tears of the heartbroken not soften my lust for the glories of battle?

Why Father do you tarry even now?
Why do the children pay for the sins their long dead forefathers?
Why must we wait for your justice to be metered out?

Please my father, give wisdom to your servant.
He desires to understand your ways.
He longs to know the depths of your heart.

Keep him from the wrath of his heart.
Do not allow him to be tainted by the very evil he would seek to destroy.
Allow the peace that flows from your being to pervade him.

Gaza 2009
In any war there are those that are innocent. The children pay the price for the evils of men that are killing because of an ancient family feud, Or because their God demands them to. How much blood must be spilled before men will do as God demands and let him punish the evils of this world? How many mothers will have to wail and morn before we stop. How many fathers will have to bear their sons into the cold earth before the wrath of the human heart is subdued. What will it take to make us see the horrors and evils of our dark and hardened hearts? I don't know why God allows this evil to go on, but I do know that when the time comes, his wrath will be perfect and his justice will be swift. Please father let it be soon.