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New computer ordered
2006-02-05, 8:22 PM #1
I'm building it. Here's the specs:

Pentium 4, 2.8Ghz
250 gig HD
Geforce 6600LE 256 megs
1 gig RAM
DVD burner
And a neat lookin case right here. (even though you'll say it sux cus thats what people around here do).

Cost around $600... but it blows away the POS I have right now.

So post your specs, or something.
"Guns don't kill people, I kill people."
2006-02-05, 8:32 PM #2
Not only does Powmax make the crappiest power supplies in existence, but that case is also very gaudy. All your other specs are cool though.

Anyway.

AMD Athlon64 3200+ s939
Asus A8N32-SLI Motherboard
2x512 Corsair PC3200C2
2x Leadtek 6800GTs PCI-E
PC Power & Cooling 510-SLI
WD 74GB Raptor
Thermalright XP-90
Thermaltake Armor
<Lyme> I got Fight Club for 6.98 at walmart.
<Black_Bishop> I am Jack's low price guarantee
2006-02-05, 8:37 PM #3
Dell Dimension 4700
Intel Pentium 4 3.0Ghz with hyperthreading
1.5Gb dual channel DDR2
160Gb Seagate SATA 7200.7
40Gb Western Digital SATA
VisionTek Radeon x800 PCI Express 128mb
NEC MultiSync LCD 1760NX
Logitech Z560s
Saitek Gamer's Keyboard
Saitek Cyborg
Logitech optical wheel mouse
Logitech MX1000
Kinoka Minolta PagePro 1350W
RoadRunner 5Mbps/384Kbps cable
woot!
2006-02-05, 8:49 PM #4
Eww on the P4s!!!

I still hold second place for fastest CPU (damn you NoESC)

AMD FX-55
2GB RAM
40, 120 IDE, 160 SATA HDDs
6800GT
SB Audigy2
2006-02-05, 8:53 PM #5
AMD 64 3000+
1 GIG RAM
Leadtek 6600GT w/128 megs RAM
Soundblast Live (old, but still works great, so I'm not complaining)
40 GIG HD
19" Flat screen monitor

It'll run all current games decently, so I'm happy with it.
Life is beautiful.
2006-02-05, 8:56 PM #6
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (2.0GHz)
1GB RAM
ATI Radion 9600XT
Sound Blaster Live!
60GB, 20GB hard drives :(
DVD R/RW
19" CRT
2006-02-05, 8:57 PM #7
Originally posted by KOP_Snake:
I'm building it. Here's the specs:

Pentium 4, 2.8Ghz
...


Looks decent for the price, but I would have spent less on the size of the HD and more on a better processor, regardless of your choice between Pentium or AMD.
2006-02-05, 9:06 PM #8
You could've gotten a lot better computer for that amount. Seriously, you should've been able to pull off a 6600GT (the LE has 2 less pipelines I think, along with much lower clock and regular GDDR instead of GDDR3), an AMD64 3000+ at least (socket 939).

AMD Athlon XP 1800+ overclocked...too much (33% speed increase)
1 gig of PC3200 Corsair Value
40gb Maxtor and 160gb Western Digital
LG DVD Burner
Chaintech 6800GT

That's it as far as the tower goes.
D E A T H
2006-02-05, 9:22 PM #9
Athlon XP 3000+
1 GB PC3200
Radeon 9700 @ 360/290
16x DL DVD burner
One 74 GB, 10K RPM WD Raptor
One 120 GB WD ATA drive
One 300 GB, Maxtor SATA drive
Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.
2006-02-05, 10:00 PM #10
Athlon 64 3400+
1.5 GB DDRRAM
2* 200 GB hard drives
GeForce 6800GT
8x DVD-RW
52x32x52 CD-RW/DVD-ROM
19" Sharp LCD
Stuff
2006-02-05, 10:33 PM #11
Athlon 64 3500+
1 GB Corsair PC3200
eVGA GF 7800 GT
160 GB Seagate 7200.9 SATA
120 GB WesternDigital PATA
SB Audigy 2
Plextor PX708A 8x DVD+-RW
Antec TruePower II 550w PSU
19" Samsung CRT (LCD soon to come)

The old hdd, dvd writer, and sound card were from my last PC.
2006-02-06, 1:59 AM #12
1.2 GHz athlon
768megs of sdram
one generic 80gig hd
dvd-rom
cd-rw burner
16mb Nvidia TNT2
Compaq case.


I can play all the latest games!(The flash ones, anyway)

o.0
2006-02-06, 2:18 AM #13
Uhg, if I see one more PC case with a biohazard sign, I think I'll puke. I also hate glowy cases, with windows. Lame. Its not like theres anything exciting to look at on the inside of a PC. Whats that? There isn't. Oh yeah, thats why they put Neon lights on the inside..


Dell Dimension 9100
PentiumD Processor 840 3.20GHz, 800FSB
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs
160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) (Don't know what brand, haven't felt like pulling it out to look. The things are so ridiculously cheap now, I don't care if it goes up anyways.)
Geforce 7800GTX 256mb (Dynamic Overclocking mahoosit from MSI, works great.)
SB Audigy2 VALUE (Yeah, I'm replacing this as soon as I can and selling it.

I'm selling my old graphics card, its a bare bones PCI-E Geforce 6800. Neat card, works great.

$170, special Massassi price.
2006-02-06, 2:53 AM #14
Pentium IV 2.66 ghz
1536 MB RAM
160 GB HD (Western Digital SATA)
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
GeForce 6600 256 mb RAM
Some odd DVD/CD drive which can burrrn

Suits me for now.
Star Wars: TODOA | DXN - Deus Ex: Nihilum
2006-02-06, 5:51 AM #15
Too lazy to post all my specs but I did recently order some Logitech Z-5500 speakers for my comp. :P
2006-02-06, 5:54 AM #16
TT SHARK W/WINDOW *ALU* NO PS (SILVER)
2x - 1Go DDR400 PC3200 Corsair Value
Asus A8N SLI
CPU AMD Athlon 64 3700+ S939
GF6800GT
Power Supply Best Power 500 Watts
2x SATA SEAGATE 160 GB (7200rpm) 8MB NCQ RAID
Was cheated out of lions by happydud
Was cheated out of marriage by sugarless
2006-02-06, 7:37 AM #17
well, heres the plan....still lookin for the money


athalon x2 4800
2gig pc4200
200 gb hd
2x evga geforce 6800gt sli'd
dvd burner(maybe blu-ray by the time i get the money lol)\

thats the plan, at least
2006-02-06, 8:28 AM #18
[QUOTE=Cool Matty]Eww on the P4s!!!

I still hold second place for fastest CPU (damn you NoESC)

AMD FX-55
2GB RAM
40, 120 IDE, 160 SATA HDDs
6800GT
SB Audigy2[/QUOTE]

Just wait till I have my Opteron 165 running at 2.8 Ghz. How fast is NoESC's CPU?
2006-02-06, 9:30 AM #19
Originally posted by (TNA)hayl:
well, heres the plan....still lookin for the money


athalon x2 4800
2gig pc4200
200 gb hd
2x evga geforce 6800gt sli'd
dvd burner(maybe blu-ray by the time i get the money lol)\

thats the plan, at least

If you're going to spend that kind of money on a CPU that will do you no good for gaming, for the love of christ why would you get a 6*00 series GPU?
D E A T H
2006-02-06, 9:37 AM #20
[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]If you're going to spend that kind of money on a CPU that will do you no good for gaming, for the love of christ why would you get a 6*00 series GPU?[/QUOTE]

My thought exactly.
Was cheated out of lions by happydud
Was cheated out of marriage by sugarless
2006-02-06, 12:02 PM #21
Celeron D 335 2.8 ghz (overclocked to 3.04 ghz)
768 mb RAM
80 gb HD
Radeon 9600 XT (256 mb RAM)
Creative 24-Bit Sound Blaster Live!
DVD RW/CD RW/ Burner/Player
Linksys Wireless Adapter

Might be in the lower class of PCs, but is able to play games like HL2 and Battlefront II on full graphics and sound quality online, without a hint of lag.
The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.

-G Man
2006-02-06, 1:24 PM #22
AMD 64 3200+
1GB RAM (about to be 2gb)
Geforce 6600GT PCI-E (about to be better)
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamer
5.1 surround
Pics are before the sound card so empty PCI slots.
Way too many fans, my box sounds like a jet engine and CPU never goes above 35C, even in the midst of summer under heavy load. I'm about to install a custom switch that kills all lights and fans except the vital ones when they're not needed, like on cool nights if I want to listen to soft music and the PC must be running.
Custom trained LEGO PC repair crew ;)


[http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/9282/pa0200073ry.jpg]

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2006-02-06, 1:29 PM #23
Originally posted by KnightRider2000:
Celeron D 335 2.8 ghz (overclocked to 3.04 ghz)
768 mb RAM
80 gb HD
Radeon 9600 XT (256 mb RAM)
Creative 24-Bit Sound Blaster Live!
DVD RW/CD RW/ Burner/Player
Linksys Wireless Adapter

Might be in the lower class of PCs, but is able to play games like HL2 and Battlefront II on full graphics and sound quality online, without a hint of lag.

Keep telling yourself that slugger ;)
D E A T H
2006-02-06, 1:42 PM #24
Venus (Desktop):
Athlon64 3700+
1024 MB RAM
80 GB IDE
80 GB x 2 SATA (RAID0)
Radeon X1800 XL
Audigy 2
24" widescreen LCD

and Neptune (Desktop):
AthlonXP 3200+
1024 MB RAM
250 GB IDE
Radeon X800 Pro
Soundstorm audio
19" LCD

and Saturn (Laptop):
3.4 GHz Pentium 4
1024 MB RAM
80 GB IDE
Mobility Radeon 9800
Intel AC97 Audio
15.4" LCD
2006-02-06, 1:45 PM #25
Originally posted by Rob:
Uhg, if I see one more PC case with a biohazard sign, I think I'll puke. I also hate glowy cases, with windows. Lame. Its not like theres anything exciting to look at on the inside of a PC. Whats that? There isn't. Oh yeah, thats why they put Neon lights on the inside..

I agree, except for a few cases, like what Lian Li and Silverstone offer. And half the time they don't have windows anyway.

Actually, though, sometimes there IS something cool on the inside. I've seen people mask off board traces with flourescant paint or ink, it looks awesome under UV...
Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.
2006-02-06, 2:23 PM #26
Windows XP Home
P4 2.6Ghz @ 3Ghz
1024MB PC3200 (2x512 Duel Channel)
9800 Pro 128MB @ 445/365
160GB HDD
Audigy 2 Value

Just barely enough to play Oblivion. :(
Got a permanent feather in my cap;
Got a stretch to my stride;
a stroll to my step;
2006-02-06, 2:31 PM #27
Originally posted by Emon:

Actually, though, sometimes there IS something cool on the inside. I've seen people mask off board traces with flourescant paint or ink, it looks awesome under UV...



....it's still just a box with a bunch of wires. Soup up something that matters LIKE YOUR SINK!
"Those ****ing amateurs... You left your dog, you idiots!"
2006-02-06, 4:33 PM #28
Currently?

1.05 ghz AMD God-knows-what
384 SD RAM
40 gig HD that's crapping out
nVidia GF2 MX200 (32 mb of Vram)
A broken CD-R, DVD rom, and a crapping out CD-R.

In a few months when I buy my new computer?

I don't know what to call this proccessor other than some Athlon 64 3700+ that runs at 2.2 ghz

The mobo, Gigabyte GA-K8N-Other stuff

GeForce 6600GT or somesuch.
DVD burner.

1 gig of DDR RAM, I may buy a second stick as well.

80 gig harddrive, I will probably put my current harddrive in my new computer as well since it contains my music.

And the case. I don't care about looks.

Parts for new computer list provided by DJ-Yoshi. Total comes out to $613 believe with one stick of RAM.
I had a blog. It sucked.
2006-02-06, 4:42 PM #29
I'd go with a different mobo (at least one that has a 5 star rating on newegg, at any rate), and I don't trust Maxtor. I'd get a SATA drive since you're getting a new board anyway, like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148040


Only a couple bucks more, much better warranty, and SATA.
2006-02-06, 4:57 PM #30
Any mobo you'd like to reccomend?
I had a blog. It sucked.
2006-02-06, 5:17 PM #31
Dell Dimension 8250

Pentium 4 2.40Ghz
512MB PC1066 RDRAM
128MB ATI Radeon 9700TX

Looking to upgrade to 1 Gig of RAM and a much newer(But still affordable) Gfx Card.
Price Range: About $300ish

Should I go with a new Radeon should I go back to Nvidia? Haven't had a Nvidia product since the TNT2...
<Rob> This is internet.
<Rob> Nothing costs money if I don't want it to.
2006-02-06, 5:35 PM #32
[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]If you're going to spend that kind of money on a CPU that will do you no good for gaming, for the love of christ why would you get a 6*00 series GPU?[/QUOTE]


It's fine for gaming. Using single core apps, it perform slightly better than a regular 2.4 GHz CPU. It should over clock well too. Games are so GPU limited now days, he probably wouldn't see any benefit upgrading to a FX57, unless he's running HL2, and then it will be negligible.
2006-02-06, 8:18 PM #33
Originally posted by Obi_Kwiet:
It's fine for gaming. Using single core apps, it perform slightly better than a regular 2.4 GHz CPU. It should over clock well too. Games are so GPU limited now days, he probably wouldn't see any benefit upgrading to a FX57, unless he's running HL2, and then it will be negligible.

...

Are you ****ing with me? Or did I seriously just read this post? I mean, games being GPU limited...that's gotta be a joke. Please tell me that's a joke.

Zloc--don't listen to matty. Trust me...he's just going to tell you anything non-Gigabyte and non-Maxtor because he's biased. And you can't really afford much else.
D E A T H
2006-02-06, 8:20 PM #34
Originally posted by Emon:
I agree, except for a few cases, like what Lian Li and Silverstone offer. And half the time they don't have windows anyway.

Actually, though, sometimes there IS something cool on the inside. I've seen people mask off board traces with flourescant paint or ink, it looks awesome under UV...


Thats still MAKING something interesting to look at.

Which are why windows and lights are stupid.
2006-02-06, 8:33 PM #35
Athlon 64 Venice 3000+ (O/Cd 500Mhz on air baby)
1GB Crucial Ballistix 2-2-2-5 PC3200
MSI K8N Neo4 SLI Platinum
Radeon x800XL 256MB PCI-E
Creative Exitgy external sound card
Logitech Z-680 5.1 DD/DTS System
Pioneer DVR-A05 4x DVD Burner (ewwwwww)
52x/24x/52x CD Burner (no clue what brand, but it works)
2x200GB Seagate Barracuda
2x160GB WD Caviar SE
Viewsonic N1750w LCD/HDTV
"His Will Was Set, And Only Death Would Break It"

"None knows what the new day shall bring him"
2006-02-06, 8:43 PM #36
Desktop (FreeBSD 6.0-Stable):
AMD Opteron 148 2.2Ghz
Asus A8V-MX
2 GB Corsair Ram
Nvidia GeForce 6800GT
Headroom Microdac
Western Digital 80 GB HDD

Laptop (FreeBSD 6.0-Stable):
Compaq R3000z
Athlon 64 3400+
1 GB Ram
Nvidia GeForce 400 MX

Server (OpenBSD 3.8ish):
Athlon 64 3000+
Asus A8V Deluxe
512 MB Ram
2x120 GB Seagate HDD
[This message has been edited. Deal with it.]
2006-02-06, 9:15 PM #37
Computer on Order:

AMD Athlon™64 X2 4200+ Dual-Core
16X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER
160GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8M Cache 7200RPM Hard Drive
2048 MB (1GBx2) PC3200 400MHz Dual Channel DDR
NVIDIA Geforce 7800 GT 256MB 16X PCI Express
PRICE: $1363

Current Computer:

AMD Athlon™64 3.0 ghz
80GB SATA 7200 HD
1024 MB PC3200
RADEON 9550 256MB AGP
52x32x52 CDRW
8x DVD Drive

JKSERVER:

AMD Athlon 1.25 ghz
512 Megs PC133 Ram
Geforce3 Ti-200
30GB IDE 7200 HD
32x10x40 CDRW
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2006-02-06, 9:16 PM #38
Originally posted by Zloc_Vergo:
Any mobo you'd like to reccomend?


You'd have to spend about $40 more for a really good one.

DFI has great ratings, and Asus still makes good boards.

And don't ever listen to just one person's opinion (like Yoshi wants you to do). Take everyone's input, make your own mind up.
2006-02-06, 9:59 PM #39
[QUOTE=Cool Matty]You'd have to spend about $40 more for a really good one.

DFI has great ratings, and Asus still makes good boards.

And don't ever listen to just one person's opinion (like Yoshi wants you to do). Take everyone's input, make your own mind up.[/QUOTE]
I don't care if he listens to Emon, Buck, Yecti, SD_Rakishi, Aglar, or most other technically able massasian's input. Hell, for that matter, almost any tech-savvy massassian period. I'm saying it for his own good--you're biased for poor reasons against a lot of companies. Not only that, but he can't afford a bigger better board and doesn't need one in any way shape or form because he's not going to overclock on his first pc.

EDIT: I take that bit back about Obi.
D E A T H
2006-02-07, 4:05 AM #40
[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]I don't care if he listens to Emon, Buck, Yecti, SD_Rakishi, Aglar, or most other technically able massasian's input. Hell, for that matter, almost any tech-savvy massassian period. I'm saying it for his own good--you're biased for poor reasons against a lot of companies. Not only that, but he can't afford a bigger better board and doesn't need one in any way shape or form because he's not going to overclock on his first pc.
[/QUOTE]

I gave perfectly legit reasons for not getting either of the products you mentioned. You'll have to find a better reason than "I'm biased" to counter it.
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