Recent content by Coffee Warlord

Quick little update/thanks. Took me a bit of fighting and wrangling, but my spiffy new build is up, running, and rocking (and downloading a bajillion patches, applications, etc etc etc). Thanks again for the help folks!

As an amusing side...best freakin' computer I've ever had, here. Old AMD 1.2ghz I dug out of the garage, having sat there through an entire Chicago winter, having survived me swapping parts out of it left and right to test things, having survived 3 moves... I found the original HD for it...

Whelp, after cutting the hell outta my hands testing the old machine (note: this case blows for swapping power supplies)...time to upgrade a very screwed machine. The AMD quad core build won. My streak of non-intel machines continues. :) Much appreciated, folks!

Being able to play good old Football Manager while not having to watch grass grow would be a rather drastic improvement. :)

Finding out if that is indeed the case this evening, when I get the always fun chore of gutting the machine and confirming the diagnosis. Preparing for the worst (and I was kind of looking for an excuse to do a major overhaul anyway), however.

Be ready to tell me it was a blessing that this sucker died. Without actually having the machine in front of me... AMD64 1.8ghz, socket 939. 2 gigs DDR, the aforementioned 8800 GT. 430W Thermaltake power supply, 80GB SATA HD.

I admit, I was being lazy. I threw in the ones that I figured were relevant. :) The ones I ommitted... 3) Where do you live? Chicago. 4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. Please be very specific. CPU, RAM, motherboard, power supply, HD, and almost certainly...

Now, here's the Big Question (tm) right away...is it worth the extra cash to bother with the quad core & DDR3?

Coworker pointed me over here, saying he had gotten some great feedback from folks. Long story short, motherboard on my rapidly aging computer died a horrible and painful death last night. Thus, it be time to put together a new rig, or at least part of one. Anyway, it's been a good long while...