got my new comp¡¡¡¡

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bmdean

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Got my new mobo and processor in on Tuesday, built it, but waited 'til yesterday when i got a chance to go to office depot and get a 200gig drive for 80 bucks. got it all setup last night and got windows installed. this is kick ass system. couldn't of ever ran farcry on my old comp, but this runs it great.
specs:
amd athlon 64 3500+ venice
msi k8n neo2 platinum
crucial ballistiix 512mb (the one with the led's)
maxtor 200gb, 8mb cache

gonna have a new dual layer dvd burner and a different dvd drive cause mine likes to not read dvd's or just plain old cd's a lot. may get the freezer 64 hs/f. but not 'til i decide to overclock. just wish i could've gotten some of the parts as a birthday present since today's my 17th birthday. techinically it is until i move the money over from my account to pay for it.

Brandon
 
just using the one i had in my old comp. BFG fx5500oc 256mb.

Brandon
 
I recently moved up from an Athlon XP 1700+ to an Athlon 64 3000+ Venice. Man, what a difference. Windows no longer takes two minutes to load to the desktop. Programs are so much snappier. I can run Grand Theft Auto: SA just that much better.

Along with the CPU I purchased a new DVD burner (NEC 3540A) even though I'd bought a 3520A about a month prior. I figured, hey, with my DVD-ROM not working quite right anymore, and the 3540A being so cheap, why the heck not? I'm glad I did. :)
 
yea i just moved up from an 1800+ on a abit kt7a with 512mb of ram. it's going to be my dad's comp, cause he's still using a hp something that's 5 years old, the only thing we've done to it is a new vid card and a processor that still doesn't run at the speed it's supposed to.

Brandon
 
You know, the crazy thing is that my 1700+, together with a 9600XT and 1GB of Kingston HyperX RAM, all on a KT333 motherboard, still ran most of my stuff just fine. Half-Life 2 and FarCry were completely playable (decent settings, too) and I could do essentially everything I wanted. Empire Earth II was the tipping point. There's just so much that goes on that's CPU dependent that I knew I had to upgrade. When the Venice core got down to around $150, I jumped on it. I'm certainly glad I did!
 
soulsaver, i'm gonna get pics up as soon as possible. gotta wait 'til i get home to a digital camera.
aratech, i was thinking about starting doing that with my extra comps since most of the time they just sit there. i'll have to see when i get home. and i'm going to game most of the time, along with surfing and typing the occasional school report. i think only one class this year i will have reports in and i'm thinking of switching out since i don't need it.

Brandon
 
Aratech said:
With that kind of power you might consider joining the H]orde for the good of mankind. Check it out at www.hardfolding.com or visit the DC forums
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I just might do that myself. I'm a Seti@Home fan, but their newest client is all goofy and such so I might switch over to something that benefits all of mankind. Not that finding aliens wouldn't be beneficial... ;)
 
carl67lp said:
I just might do that myself. I'm a Seti@Home fan, but their newest client is all goofy and such so I might switch over to something that benefits all of mankind. Not that finding aliens wouldn't be beneficial... ;)
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Finding aliens would be beneficial unless they were hostile and decided to kill us all. :p
 
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