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Vfreitas

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« on: March 17, 2007, 12:18:00 PM »
I've been using this old office PC I bought off my father's company a few years back, right now it's pretty much a piece of crap, really can't run any new games to my liking. Although it's just perfect for running the usual internet surfing/media playing. So I've been saving up for a couple months and decided to drop some cash on a new rig. It's basically going to be a media center for myself, with the capacity to game whenver I want to. I used to be big on PC gaming but ever since I started to get into the whole xbox scene I lost touch. A spark might happen along the road though so I've prepared myself for it with this.

https://secure.neweg...hListTitle=word

Basically I'm looking for critiques and comments. I assembled this with the help of some friends, but of course having more opinions sure helps when you're dropping a decent amount of cash.
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jon_jon

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« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2007, 01:22:00 PM »
It looks like a decent setup.  I like the fact that you selected a motherboard and power supply that are SLI-ready in case you want to add a second graphics card for later on.

I personally prefer the Intel Core 2 Duo, but the AMD X2 systems are definitely solid.
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« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2007, 04:15:00 PM »
Great job. The only things I would suggest are probably worthless for what you are doing but, I would do it for mine.
1. Get some Artic Silver and a good Heat Sink. (probably won't matter, unless you overclock, but running cooler gives the CPU more life regardless.)
2. Make sure you have audio inputs for both DVD burners. It can be annoying to not have an audio hookup from your secondary one, and you have to change drives so you can give a listen to see if a newly burned audio CD-R worked.

Also, make sure you save enough money for an OS, keyboard/mouse, speakers, scanner, printer, router, memory card reader, Video-In card, 2nd harddrive for RAID, 5 1/2" floppy drive, thumb drive, CD-Rs, DVD+R DLs, groceries or anything else I am not thinking of right now. smile.gif

Edit: I meant 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" floppy drives. I thunked faster than I typed.
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Vfreitas

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« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2007, 04:35:00 PM »
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Also, make sure you save enough money for an OS, keyboard/mouse, speakers, scanner, printer, router, memory card reader, Video-In card, 2nd harddrive for RAID, 5 1/2" floppy drive, thumb drive, CD-Rs, DVD+R DLs, groceries or anything else I am not thinking of right now. smile.gif


Got it all covered.

Well, maybe not for grocceries, but who needs food anyways?
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« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2007, 10:08:00 PM »
https://secure.neweg....asp?ID=6019607
this is what im thinking about buying it is 805 with shipping
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« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2007, 06:56:00 AM »
QUOTE(greenday54261 @ Mar 17 2007, 11:19 PM) View Post
Haha. I laughed at that... biggrin.gif

Does anyone even use floppy drives anymore?
About a week ago, my father brought over his box of floppies. He said "Can you put these on a CD for me?" I showed him every computer I owned... He said "oh sad.gif"
 I do think I have an old Win98 laptop with a floppy drive buried in a closet somewhere. I just would have to take it out, get it on the network, transfer... I am too lazy for a couple of pictures from 1985. Taken on his old ass Mavica.
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« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2007, 12:02:00 PM »
Those 5-1/4" floppy drives gotta be in the museums now.  I still use the 3-1/2" floppy drive for an emergency boot drive and to flash firmware from DOS (safer than from Windows).
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« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2007, 02:35:00 PM »
QUOTE(greenday54261 @ Mar 18 2007, 03:19 AM) View Post

Haha. I laughed at that... biggrin.gif

Does anyone even use floppy drives anymore? Almost every new motherboard you buy can boot from CD, USB, etc., and you can't even get a system with a floppy from any of the big manufacturers. I think the box of floppies in my computer room is probably about eight years old.

I use floppies quite regularly.  Many of my machines are very old laptops which either don't have a CD-ROM or can't boot from it.  Also my USB stick died a horrible firey death (it got so hot that an SMD capacitor de-soldered itself - don't ask how!).
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« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2007, 03:13:00 PM »
That's nice little PC,  For sure get yourself some artic silver.  With any luck your am2 could overclock like my 939 X2 3800+.  I'm at 2.7ghz 24/7 stable.
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« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2007, 05:14:00 PM »
QUOTE(greenday54261 @ Mar 17 2007, 08:19 PM) View Post

Haha. I laughed at that... biggrin.gif

Does anyone even use floppy drives anymore?



I had to use one last night to install RAID controllers on an Asus P5LD2 motherboard last night.
Couldn't install Windows XP 64Bit edition without the Raid controllers for the SATA hdd's.  mad.gif
At windows install, I had to press F6 and manually install the Raid controllers before attempting to install XP.
I searched around my closet for an old floppy drive and cable only to find out I had no floppy disks.

Everything is up & running just fine now and it only cost me about $400 in parts.
Aside from the system being Pentium D and the motherboard not supporting SLI  . . . all the other specs were similar to yours at half the price.  smile.gif

Ebay and free after rebated deals really kick ass.


I nearly went with an AM2 motherboard and AMD X2 3800+, but since my buddy wanted a budget gaming PC. . . it cost me less to build a Dual Core Pentium system instead of a Dual core AMD system. I used the Pentium D 920 (2.8Ghz w/1MB L2 CACHE) and got Windows XP 64 bit edition dirt cheap: Click Me
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« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2007, 06:46:00 AM »
I do like that setup. I am currently building my new setup as well, AMD X2 also. Just waiting for my Zalman heatsink and ill be ready to go. I basically have what you do, same memory i have 2 sticks, same evga video card except mine was 512mb, and my processor is 2.6 i believe. Other than that i cant wait to get my first AMD up. Good luck on the project.
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Vfreitas

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« Reply #11 on: March 20, 2007, 10:16:00 AM »
Man I love NewEgg. I placed the order on Saturday night and two out of three packages are en-route to my house now. The last one won't arrive until Thursday, $20 that it's the tower and I won't be able to assemble until Thursday. tongue.gif
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« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2007, 03:33:00 PM »
Newegg was much better when they used FedEx express saver shipping.
I used to get my packages the day after I ordered them.
Hell, I once ordered my stuff around midnight and the package arrived at my house at noon. 12 hours for shipping was the fastest I've ever seen.

Under FedEX, their estimated delivery dates are always wrong (that's a good thing). It would tell me 3 days for delivery, but it would arrive in 1 or 2 days.  smile.gif

Now with UPS, if it says 3 days. . . it really is 3 days. Sometimes even 4 or 5 days.  grr.gif
Unless it says free shipping, I pay a little extra for the FedEx option.
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