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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Samwise on March 29, 2003, 08:12:19 AM
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I just ordered the parts for my new PC! Here are some specs for those geeks out there. ;)
. Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz, 533 FSB
. Asus P4PE motherboard w/ LAN, SATA, audio, firewire - the works
. 512 mb Kingston HyperX RAM
. LiteOn 48/48/24 CD-RW
. 120 gb Seagate, 7200 rpm, 8 mb cache
. Chieftech Dragon kabinet w/ 340W PSU
. Microsoft Multimedia keyboard
. Windows XP Pro
I\'m pretty excited. :)
Oh yeah, the gfx card so far will be a Geforce 3 (Asus V8200 Deluxe) I have lying around here. I\'ll upgrade it later when the next big thing comes out. :D
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intel cpu
good man
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Yeah, I know... I\'m secretly in love with Intel. :p
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Looks like an excellent system to me...................
well it is compared to my PII 233 anyway.
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so yer finally getting a new pc, congrats sammy :) and have fun with it!
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Sammy popular config... I have the same one. Super stable & speedy.
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great comp sammy. :) hope it goes well for u.
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Ah well, congrats Sammy. Your specs are a little better than mine, so I hope you paid more. :p Just kidding. Enjoy. :)
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intel cpu
good man
F-CK Intel those monopolistic bastards, NVIDIA256 glaces at his 2.4ghz 533fsb Intel P4 Chip overclocked to 3.2ghz(vapochill)
GO AMD....lol you guys can make it ( I must admit I have owned in my life mosty Intel, I remember my first AMD chip used in my 486)
Intel allways charges such a mark-up price on there chips, although P4 chips 2 weeks ago went down further in price 15% if you are looking to buy a new chip now is the time.
Personally the next Intel cpu i get will be getting is the 800mhz FSB chip unless AMD\'s 64bit chip proves to be better. We will just have to wait and see.
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Originally posted by Samwise
Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz, 533 FSB
. Asus P4PE motherboard w/ LAN, SATA, audio, firewire - the works
. 512 mb Kingston HyperX RAM
. LiteOn 48/48/24 CD-RW
. 120 gb Seagate, 7200 rpm, 8 mb cache
. Chieftech Dragon kabinet w/ 340W PSU
. Microsoft Multimedia keyboard
. Windows XP Pro
very nice comp
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Thanks Cosmo!
I got it up and running now... it turned on and booted without a problem the very first time - I was pretty amazed since I was prepared for the worst! :D
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Sammy! What\'s your video card?!
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Awy, it\'s a Geforce 3 (Asus V8200 Deluxe) that I had beforehand. It\'ll do for now, though I\'ll probably upgrade when R400 or better is out. :)
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should\'ve gone for the Radeon...
Awesome computer though, I like the specs.
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Bah Hurricane, do you think I\'m a millionaire or something! :p
Besides, at least now the Geforce 3 card will be in good use... then I\'ll get a sweet gfxcard later, when you\'re stuck on those slow Radeon 9700 Pro\'s. ;)
EDIT: Besides, going from 466 MHz, 128 mb RAM and a Voodoo3 to 2.4 GHz, 512 mb RAM and a Geforce 3 is a pretty big step. It\'s not like I\'m gonna feel "damn this is so slow compared to what I\'m used to!". :)
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Can I have your old system Sammy. :) I\'ll wait another 5 years and sell it on EBay as an antique. But it\'d help if you got really really famous too. :P
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Originally posted by Samwise
Bah Hurricane, do you think I\'m a millionaire or something! :p
Besides, at least now the Geforce 3 card will be in good use... then I\'ll get a sweet gfxcard later, when you\'re stuck on those slow Radeon 9700 Pro\'s. ;)
EDIT: Besides, going from 466 MHz, 128 mb RAM and a Voodoo3 to 2.4 GHz, 512 mb RAM and a Geforce 3 is a pretty big step. It\'s not like I\'m gonna feel "damn this is so slow compared to what I\'m used to!". :)
I was like that at first.. Then u start to feel your pc isn\'t fast enough. Till you get stuck on your old machine while your PSU gets replaced. Then you wake up and remember you\'re on a highend machine compared to most people.. :)
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Ok, I finally got bored of my old computer (as seen in the first post). Hell it\'s been more than 4 years now, I think I can justify it. ;)
Even though I upgraded my old PC with 1 gb RAM and a Geforce 6800gt, it\'s still ancient by today\'s standard.
Keep in mind that I\'m still a cheap bastard when it comes to stuff like this, so I\'m not gonna pay $999 for a high end CPU etc. :D But I still wanted reasonable performance and some room for upgrades. So here\'s what I ordered yesterday:
- Intel E2160 CPU
- Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 mb
- Corsair 550W PSU
- 2 gb Corsair XMS2 Xtreme Performance TwinX PC2-6400
- And a used 6600gt because I didn\'t have a PCI-E card on hand. It\'s obviously a temp card until I have decided which \'real\' card to get. I\'m waiting for new stuff from both AMD and Nvidia before deciding - might be Q1 2008 though. But I\'m just playing HL2 for now anyway and it\'s not all that demanding.
Again, keep in mind that I\'m going for the most performance for the money. Hence why I\'m aiming to overclock the CPU to 3 GHz-ish (funny, that was also my aim 4 years ago :)). And I chose a P35 mb so I can drop in a Penryn quad core, when the price is right. :)
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Intel has some great CPU\'s, just can\'t bring myself to jump the AMD ship yet. I\'ll stick around till it sinks, I guess.
What OS? If you run a 64bit Vista, go for at least 4 gigs of RAM.
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What OS? If you run a 64bit Vista, go for at least 4 gigs of RAM.
I\'ll stay with XP for as long as humanly possible... If I upgrade to Vista I\'ll get more RAM. But hopefully that day won\'t come soon. :D
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I\'ll stay with XP for as long as humanly possible... If I upgrade to Vista I\'ll get more RAM. But hopefully that day won\'t come soon. :D
i feel the same way man. i\'ve played around with Vista and i really hate it. as long as they have the updates for XP, i\'m keeping it
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Disable UAC.
Disable Aero.
Change Interface.
You have XP.
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Really I dont even know the purpose of Vista.
I ve seen nothing new worth talking about in it and takes too much memory resources needlessly.
It is stupid really. Technology improves, costs are reduced, and when you can finally have better and cheaper hardware to run things faster, MS comes up with an OS that takes up a lot from the hardware\'s CPU and memory, making things slower again.
I am trying to get a new computer with no Vista but they all sell new computers with Vista, and most of the time with just 1GB of RAM.
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i see. remember windows 98? microsoft later release another version called windows 98 second edition.
Even Windows XP have several versions going on with it too. Such as Service Pack 1, 2, 3, and the latest is the 4th version i think.
i wouldn\'t be surprise if Vista will have similiar approach in the near future.
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haha when I first clicked this thread and read the first post I was thinking
wow you really bragging about that thing?
the I realized that post was from 2003.
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haha when I first clicked this thread and read the first post I was thinking
wow you really bragging about that thing?
the I realized that post was from 2003.
:laughing:
Yeah I guess I should just have made a new thread. :D
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I done the exact same thing, I couldn\'t figure out what he was bragging about.
On another note, come Friday I order my Evga 8800 Ultra!
Yes, $629 bucks down the drain!
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On another note, come Friday I order my Evga 8800 Ultra!
Yes, $629 bucks down the drain!
*gulp*
Congrats, I\'m quite envious. :D
(not about spending $629 though!)
What happened to the 2900XT(s)?
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Benchmarks show the 2900 trailing behind.
Part of me really wants to get a 2900 due to the fact I have a Crossfire board, but Crossfire is still half-ass supported. Just going to buy one big card and be done with it. If I need, I can always replace the motherboard with a SLi board (doubt that ever happens tho).
But to be perfectly honest, my X1950 Pro does just fine running TF2 and the Quake Wars demo.
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The 8800 Ultra is damn fine, no doubt about it. But damn, it\'s a lotta money!
I heard AMD is releasing a 2900 Pro now. The only difference between it and the XT is the clock speed, so you can just overclock it a bit and viola! Instant 2900 XT. And it\'s like $270 I think. :)
Then again, the 2950 is just round the corner and should be even faster... Decisions, decisions.
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The 8800 Ultra is damn fine, no doubt about it. But damn, it\'s a lotta money!
I heard AMD is releasing a 2900 Pro now. The only difference between it and the XT is the clock speed, so you can just overclock it a bit and viola! Instant 2900 XT. And it\'s like $270 I think. :)
Then again, the 2950 is just round the corner and should be even faster... Decisions, decisions.
NewEgg has the 2900Pro in stock as of now.
And yeah, it\'s a lot of money, it\'ll put my current setup around the $2500 mark and I\'m still adding to it. Need to hurry up and finish it , so I can put more money towards my media server and then another rig after that.
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I got it up and running yesterday. No problems whatsoever (always nice!). I\'m running at 3.1 GHz right now and will probably keep it here because I\'m still on the stock heatsink/fan, so I don\'t want to increase vcore voltage.
Anyway, it\'s great. I was surprised how silent it is, running with stock HSF and all. [Borat] Very nice! [/Borat]
Now I just need some HD2950/8800GT reviews!
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Haven\'t even bothered to overclock this CPU (X2 6000). Still running stock on everything also, may pick up an aftermarket cooler and some start my overclocking, after I am done buying everything else (getting my Ultra, Logitech G15 and G5 gaming mouse Friday).
As for videocard reviews, if you want a budget card, I don\'t think you can beat the 2900Pro. The current reviews if it against the GTS favors the Pro. Not to mention you can flash it for XT speeds.
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As for videocard reviews, if you want a budget card, I don\'t think you can beat the 2900Pro. The current reviews if it against the GTS favors the Pro. Not to mention you can flash it for XT speeds.
Yeah, it looks very nice indeed. But I think I\'ll wait and see, because it\'s:
a) louder than a GTS
b) uses more power
c) the AA performance is worse than a GTS
d) available in limited quantities only and about to be replaced by the 2950Pro/XT (55nm, DX10.1 etc.)
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Didnt want to bother to make a new thread. My father found me a Desktop PC in UAE which is cheap in Cyprus standards (e are a god damn expensive country)
These are the specs I know so far
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
2GB RAM
250 GB HDD
Gforce 8800 256MB