Christmas present ideas.

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I have about 400-500 dollars to spend for Christmas and was looking for ideas on what to get.

At first I was thinking maybe a new hobby (gas/nitro powered R/C car) guys in the Hobby forums kinda shot that down by saying how hard it was to start dealing with Nitro/Gas powered cars if you have never delt with it.

I am on the computer all the time so i was thinking maybe an upgrade in my computer.

Main Rig:

3.0Ghz P4 Prescott
9800 Pro
36Gb Raptor
1Gb Ram

I was also thinking of upgrading my server

1.0ghz
512mb ram
80 + 40 Gb hdd's

Any how I was thinking of upgrading the stuff in my server (add new mobo + cpu + more hdd's, maybe more ram). I don't really use that much hdd's space but still like to have enough to be comfy :).

Any ways, any ideas are welcome :).
 
let me tell you, Nitro cars are for the people with deep pockets. I had bought a nitro truck and spent $1100 on aftermarket, repairs, engines, radios, etc. It is a lot of fun, very exspensive, and the bottom line was, i only played with it for one year! :( now, i dont even get it out during the summer. And also nitro is really really hard to get it tuned right and there is always possiblities of overheating them and ruining the engine. So if i were you I wouldn't even get into that, unless you want electric. It is a big money pot! Fun for the first couple times then that it. Unless of course you would want to get a helicopter :eek: those are some sweet machines.

Do you game alot? if you do how about a newer vid card, i dont know how old that one you have is, but its not one of the frequent ones i hear about *shruggs shoulders*...also your server ideas sound good.
 
Viper16 said:
let me tell you, Nitro cars are for the people with deep pockets. I had bought a nitro truck and spent $1100 on aftermarket, repairs, engines, radios, etc. It is a lot of fun, very exspensive, and the bottom line was, i only played with it for one year! :( now, i dont even get it out during the summer. And also nitro is really really hard to get it tuned right and there is always possiblities of overheating them and ruining the engine. So if i were you I wouldn't even get into that, unless you want electric. It is a big money pot! Fun for the first couple times then that it. Unless of course you would want to get a helicopter :eek: those are some sweet machines.

Do you game alot? if you do how about a newer vid card, i dont know how old that one you have is, but its not one of the frequent ones i hear about *shruggs shoulders*...also your server ideas sound good.
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For the uninformed, the 9800 PROs were top-of-the-line two years ago, now they're close to the bottom.

Since you must have an AGP mobo considering your 9800, you could always upgrade to a 6800 or an X800GTO2 for less than $250 - of course, if you are a gamer. Your CPU on your current computer looks good. I don't know much about servers so I don't know what you'd need to upgrade on that to get optimal performance (other than the processor ;) )
 
I do not game a ton any more with school going on but I do load up UT2k4 ever now and then.

I was strongly considering get a new setup for my server replace the mobo / cpu / ram add some more hard drives. It doesn't have to be super fast but a little upgrade won't hurt :D
 
PWMK2 said:
or an X800GTO2 for less than $250
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These are PCI-e only, however I think there is a GTO (non ^2'ed, for AGP).

I'd suggest a X800 Pro or XT. They can be found sub $275 as of recent.

I'd think about getting a new HDD too, at least 120GB or so.
 
Megadeth_Guy01 said:
These are PCI-e only, however I think there is a GTO (non ^2'ed, for AGP).

I'd suggest a X800 Pro or XT. They can be found sub $275 as of recent.

I'd think about getting a new HDD too, at least 120GB or so.
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Yeah if I do anything was going to get some more HDD's either for the server or for my main rig. I don't know if i can justify spending another 250-300 bux on another video card that already does a good job for marginal performance.

I was seriously thinking about just getting another mobo + ram + cpu + hdd's for the server and or them speakers.
 
Megadeth_Guy01 said:
Maybe a new monitor?
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Got a very nice 21" CRT monitor I LOVE + 19" LCD panel :(.


Anyone have any good suggestions on super stable Intel based motherboards? I have had good luck with the Asus P4P800.

Dual looks nice but for what its being used for it probably would be over kill.
 
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