Other A tale of woe. Follow it here!

I'd love to help with a PSU, but I've only got a spare 400W one which I'm not sure would even remotely stand up to a RoG Crosshair...

 

haha no worries there dude

I don't mind waiting even if it takes weeks. I've always fancied the Colossus (it's the lights.. That's like Disneyland to an autistic person !) so even though it's a bit pants I'm sure I'll be doing some mods. Sans any hardware of course, that'll go in once and go in last

I know the Survivor I had was really quirky.

 

I can't remember if you're a bf3 fan Andy, but it looks like the 8350 overclocked is going to beat the 4770k in bf4, based on reports of the beta so far. Well ahead of i5s.

 

I'm getting it. The single player can't possibly be any worse than BF3

About time I updated the thread !

My Colossus came. I wasn't expecting much for £60. I was pleasantly surprised then when it turned out to be still sealed and brand new. Box was smothered in dust though, so maybe it had just sat around for a bit?



I did check the bottom tape too and that had never been cut either. I dare say my luck might be changing as I always have rotten luck

Any way here is the case.



And the partial build



H100 looks lost in there. And where I am up to.



Even a big board like that looks lost in there. You can see my build log here

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/60992-alien-antidote-the-colossal-colossus/

I was going to post it here but its not a mod, just a basic sort of build.

 

Nice build.

Have you got it booted up yet?

 

No power supply

Though that is probably sorted

I still need a couple of cables to arrive and some cable ties too.

 

5GHz here we come?

 

How's the new PSU coming along Andy?

 

Good ! got it in last night

 

lmao during the night a bird (blackbird) came down the chimney and shite all over my Alienware

 

Birds hate alienware.

 

Just heard back from "The company" who have now been messing me around for ages.

What would you know? apparently my motherboard works perfectly, even though it does this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEiHshTpBA8

When underclocked and this



When clocked to the factory setting. It seems they didn't test it very well.

As the days go by I am beginning to feel like naming this company just to warn others off of buying from them. A terrible show so far tbh,they've not even replaced the defective cable.

 

Looks like your having a nightmare with them.

Have they got your cpu and motherboard or just the motherboard?

Personally by now I would have named them and also ask for the hardware back and paid for it to be shipped to the manufacturer to be tested and then taken it from there.