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Valset

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Ok, I started out 4 months ago looking to play bioshock. ended up getting a dual core so I could. I was still running a 939 board with an 6800 (the 4 pipeline version). In all fairness it did a pretty good job. But my 19” CRT monitor had some issue with the going bright then flashing and going back to normal. Very irritating but I waited for it to die. It didn't die, just kept bugging me But I wanted to get better. www.fxvideocards.com had a sale and I grabbed a Zotac 8800GTX . Bought a BFG 800watt PSU to run it and had no end of problems. Even had the BFG guy tell me its overheating because the “other 500watts your not using goes to heat” I RMAed the PSU to tiger direct as they would not exchange it, refund only. Lost 30 dollars in express shipping. This time I went to new egg and got the Corsair CMPSU-750TX. Every thing worked great. Was still waiting for my monitor to die. Then a deal came up that I couldn't pass up. Got a 9600 back edition phenom with 2gb ram for 100 dollars. Bought an open box motherboard for 85. bough a good heat sink (S1283) all total around 230 dollars. I had two rocket fish cases at home and used one of them.

Now I had all this horsepower and a crappy monitor. I gave in. I went to bestbuy (I know, I know) and bought a 28 inch hannspree. I love this this thing. Only one fly in the ointment, no XP drivers.

So I took my old hard drive and everything else I could salvage from my old case and put in the new case. Had to do a little footwork to avoid having to reinstall and got my system up. I don't think I was entirely successful, I think I need to do a full install. But it is good enough that I could start overclocking my “new” rig. Ended up with a very stable 2.8gh for the CPU and 625/1575/1000, better then an ultra except for the memory speed. I can run a faster on all fronts but I like having some head room, took too much voltage to make me happy @ 2.9, for the 8800GTX I dropped everything 15mh below what tested stable.

So as today this is what I am running

System specs
28” Hannspree LCD monitor
9600 Phenom Black Edition @ 2.8GH @3.125 NB CPU NID @ 46C Load with a S1283
GeForce 8800GTX @ 626/1575/1000 stock voltage
DFI Lanparty 790FX-M2RS motherboard with 2gb of crucial Ballistic Tracer PC6400
Old 250gb maxtor (soon to be replaced, along with XP media center)
Corsair CMPSU-750TX 750W PSU
Creative Labs Audigy 2 sound card
Sapphire theatrix 550 TV turner.

Things I am going to add and soon
new hard drive, 640 or 750gb drive.
Windows vista (I hate to do this) 64bit version
add some more memory (I am scared to run vista with less then 4)

and if you read all the above I thank you for letting me share with you experience with making my wallet much, much lighter
 
Nice work!

It's always an interesting how a single upgrade can lead to a new PC. :D
 
Valset said:
and if you read all the above I thank you for letting me share with you experience with making my wallet much, much lighter
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And thank you for spending your money! :) Now, what would be more entertaining, is if you posted some pics. :p
 
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