Excitied about new rig....

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cismajor97

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I was able to pick up my new rig from the warehouse at lunch only to drop it off at home unopened. Should be a significant improvement from my previous system.

Old system spec:
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AMD Athlon XP 1.4ghz (processor died which may have to do with the fan dying :cool: )
512MB Ram
Maxtor 80gb IDE HD
Maxtor 60gb IDE HD
SB Live 5.1 Plat
GeForce 4Ti 4200 128mb
Viewsonic 19 CRT (color has faded, and starting to wave in the corners)

New specs are in the sig.
 
damn man nice system, do you game? if so its going to be an awsome improvement over your old system,
 
Yes when my wife allows me too. I play WoW, Oblivion (will install tonight), HL2, CS:S, might try and load EQ2 just for kicks to see how it runs as well. I normally don't have time to play all these games. I wanted a decent machine that would allow me to play video games when I need to, and to run many applications at once, SQL Server, MySQL, ColdFusion with JRun, IIS, Apache. I wanted a to build a machine that would last at the least 4 years, (as you can see I don't upgrade often.)
 
Congrats, cismajor97. :) I went to a new system from one similar to yours not too long ago and it's so nice. :D
 
Very nice system. I just received the final piece to my new build today, the elusive BFG 7900GTX, and I am super-pumped, but mine pales in comparison to that killer rig you got.
You should show us some benchies if you get a chance...3DMark06, Super PI 1M, etc.

Happy Gaming!
Bloodgod42
 
awesome man. i've been piecing together a rig the last 2 months.. ended up buying a new car in the middle of it and that slowed me down.

then i realized, i dont have a car payment for 45 days!! haha. so it'll be done next paycheck. i can't wait.

all i need is the video card, and power supply, and she's rolling. CANT WAIT!
 
itsmikey said:
awesome man. i've been piecing together a rig the last 2 months.. ended up buying a new car in the middle of it and that slowed me down.

then i realized, i dont have a car payment for 45 days!! haha. so it'll be done next paycheck. i can't wait.

all i need is the video card, and power supply, and she's rolling. CANT WAIT!
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Wow... all I can say is that I'm glad I don't have the same set of financial balls you have. :eek:
 
This computer is a beast. Right out of the box, I plug it in and start XP no problems. I barely hear the damn thing. Dell 24 is primo monitor real-estate. I think I might call in "sick" tomorrow, I feel a "cold" coming on. :p
 
PWMK2 said:
Wow... all I can say is that I'm glad I don't have the same set of financial balls you have. :eek:
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i'm 21 and single, have to blow that paycheck on something! :p
 
Well I've been due for a new system for a while now. I can only thank my wife who allowed me to keep my entire month's paycheck to get this system. She took care the rest of the bills.

On the other hand I had quite a scare this morning. I log on to test out WoW on my rig since Blizzard had "authentication logon maintance" planned for the rest of the night, and when I hearthed to Ironforge my motherboard started beeping non stop. What could be the issue?

Here is what I've done so far to the system. I installed my wifeless network card (don't ask, my wife hates wires, I have no choice). Second last night I put the computer in standby mode instead of turning it off completely. Could the return from standby mean that a fan didn't turn back on or something? During the beeping my temp LCD readout read 28C which is what it normally reads when I used it the night before (kept starting at the blue night, can't help it).

Any ideas?

By the way I'm 26 with a new car purchase as well and a child on the way. It's the American way. :cool:
 
woow that rig is amazing....

compare it to your old rig by installing oblvion on both and then see the difference...that will justify your purchase :p
 
Just FYI,

I found out that the noise was for the LCD Fan control on my computer not the motherboard. Apparently the company that put the machine together also set the timer to ring at 9:00am every morning. I can't really complain, at least I know they were thorough in testing my rig. I got an 8925 score on 3DMark05, don't know if that's decent or not with my rig. I'll google for SuperPi when I get home from work today.
 
cismajor97 said:
Just FYI,

I found out that the noise was for the LCD Fan control on my computer not the motherboard. Apparently the company that put the machine together also set the timer to ring at 9:00am every morning. I can't really complain, at least I know they were thorough in testing my rig. I got an 8925 score on 3DMark05, don't know if that's decent or not with my rig. I'll google for SuperPi when I get home from work today.
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oc the card and youll hit past 10k easily
 
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