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PC Parts Guide + Matt's New Computer
DavidTheAsian
Total posts: 51
7/31/2006 10:42 PM
it makes me sad to think that i spent almost 300 for my athlon 64 3200 two years ago.
my 3200= socket 754 2.0 ghz single core
matt's = mine x 10 plus a personal geisha
pwnt by the market
my 3200= socket 754 2.0 ghz single core
matt's = mine x 10 plus a personal geisha
pwnt by the market
Drew
Total posts: 5111
8/1/2006 1:18 PM
I paid about $300 for my 3800 socket 939 2.4 ghz last May.
Matt's = mine x 3 + evening with Shawn's mom.
Matt's = mine x 3 + evening with Shawn's mom.
mwinter
Total posts: 4318
8/1/2006 5:29 PM
so that second part.. is that like a subtraction or what?
mwinter
Total posts: 4318
8/9/2006 12:20 PM
alright so my new computer is freshly constructed. my case has sexy hard drive bays that have rubber grommets to keep vibration to a minimum. the case also has some lights on the front that are pretty cool. more details to come.
mwinter
Total posts: 4318
8/9/2006 1:12 PM
So I took off my clothes and put on my anti static wrist strap and prepared for awesomeness. The cpu fell right into place but the heatsink / fan was a little interesting at first. the little snap/latch that you have to flip to secure it down was pretty tight and i didnt want to break anything.
everything else was pretty straightforward.. i had to swap out the plate on the back for the one that came with the mobo.. i had some trouble getting my hard drive into place because i didnt read the details in the case's instructions :-P my dvd drive is on spiffy sliders that will make it easy to take out / put back.. altho my dell case uses different sliders so it wont be easy to swap back and forth.
i have a dvd of "Post Beta 2" windows vista but it doesnt seem to work with my system (it just sits on the loading screen). i'ma put in my ubuntu dvd in there tonite and see if it makes any more headway.
everything else was pretty straightforward.. i had to swap out the plate on the back for the one that came with the mobo.. i had some trouble getting my hard drive into place because i didnt read the details in the case's instructions :-P my dvd drive is on spiffy sliders that will make it easy to take out / put back.. altho my dell case uses different sliders so it wont be easy to swap back and forth.
i have a dvd of "Post Beta 2" windows vista but it doesnt seem to work with my system (it just sits on the loading screen). i'ma put in my ubuntu dvd in there tonite and see if it makes any more headway.
mwinter
Total posts: 4318
9/10/2006 3:37 PM
woowoo moved my new desk + computer into my bedroom.. and added a lil bit of extra goodness:
Unfortunately I dont have enough power cords to go around; I had to take the power cord from the second monitor so I could turn the image server back on :)
Unfortunately I dont have enough power cords to go around; I had to take the power cord from the second monitor so I could turn the image server back on :)
acelxix
Total posts: 2394
12/28/2006 5:27 PM
Ok so here's what my cousin and I came up with:
Case
Motherboard
Power Supply
CPU
RAM
GPU (until DX 10 comes out and then who knows...)
Monitor (we didn't really hunt around for a monitor but we've been searching for about 6 hours)
I prefer Intel over AMD only marginally though. It comes out to $1309 (That's dollars/fun) after shipping but before mail-in rebates. Any suggestions/qualms?
Case
Motherboard
Power Supply
CPU
RAM
GPU (until DX 10 comes out and then who knows...)
Monitor (we didn't really hunt around for a monitor but we've been searching for about 6 hours)
I prefer Intel over AMD only marginally though. It comes out to $1309 (That's dollars/fun) after shipping but before mail-in rebates. Any suggestions/qualms?
Oscar
Total posts: 1323
12/28/2006 11:33 PM
mwinter
Total posts: 4318
12/29/2006 5:19 AM
looks pretty hot -- is this for you or your cousin?
Your mobo comes with SLI superpowers.. you might consider getting TWO gpu's (or perhaps FOUR gpu's) for a truly badass extreme machine. go big or go home.
Your mobo comes with SLI superpowers.. you might consider getting TWO gpu's (or perhaps FOUR gpu's) for a truly badass extreme machine. go big or go home.
acelxix
Total posts: 2394
12/29/2006 7:58 AM
The BenQ is pretty sweet. It also has much better pixel pitch and it's obviously widescreen. The only thing the viewsonic has over it is response time: 2ms vs 8ms. Is ghosting an issue (see this also)?
I never justified why I prefer Intel over AMD so here is what i've gathered so far. I feel that Intel's implementation of Quad-core is more efficient; AMD's Quad simply uses two processors so if Matt wants to move to Quad he'll have to buy a new mobo. The board I'm looking at supports Quad-core so hopefully upgrading in teh future will be smooth.
We made sure to look at boards that are SLI compliant. AMD/ATI have Crossfire but my cousin claims that SLI has more support and even out performs Crossfire in some cases. I have to look into that some more though. edit: Crossfire vs. SLI (I understand that AMD supports SLI too but the Quad-core issue still stands).
I wanted to buy this card but I want to wait for DX 10 to settle up before buying a killer card (or two or four). Plus the price is ridiculous. My guess is that games won't be utilizing DX10 (which i think Microsoft is calling D3D 10) for probably another year or so.
This is for me. I'm only waiting on finding a better monitor before ordering.
I never justified why I prefer Intel over AMD so here is what i've gathered so far. I feel that Intel's implementation of Quad-core is more efficient; AMD's Quad simply uses two processors so if Matt wants to move to Quad he'll have to buy a new mobo. The board I'm looking at supports Quad-core so hopefully upgrading in teh future will be smooth.
We made sure to look at boards that are SLI compliant. AMD/ATI have Crossfire but my cousin claims that SLI has more support and even out performs Crossfire in some cases. I have to look into that some more though. edit: Crossfire vs. SLI (I understand that AMD supports SLI too but the Quad-core issue still stands).
I wanted to buy this card but I want to wait for DX 10 to settle up before buying a killer card (or two or four). Plus the price is ridiculous. My guess is that games won't be utilizing DX10 (which i think Microsoft is calling D3D 10) for probably another year or so.
This is for me. I'm only waiting on finding a better monitor before ordering.