New Gaming PC

[omgzLAZERpewpew]

Hey all, I'm new here (came from a forum that went bad) but I thought I'd show you my new midrange gaming rig that only cost $397 shipped on Newegg.

Specs are as follows:
Antec Solo Case
Antec NeoPower 500W High Efficiency Modular PSU
Foxconn A7GM-S Motherboard
AMD Athlon X2 5200+ (Brisbane)
Kingston 2 x 1GB (2GB) Dual Channel DDR2 800
Sapphire Radeon 4830 512MB 256-bit PCI-e 2.0 x16
Western Digital 250GB SATA HDD
LITEON 20x DVD+R SATA ODD
Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit

Previous PC was:
Cooler Master Centurion 5
Coolmax 500W (Terrible PSU, but it worked while it lasted.)
Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLi (stopped working, PSU at fault.)
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
Rosewill 1GB DDR400
ATi Radeon X1800XT
Western Digital 80GB PATA HDD
LITEON 52x CD-R PATA ODD
Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit

I also got those Z-2300's from my mom. 3DMark06 is around 9100, can't remember exactly the figure. Crysis optimized to run on Very High settings in DX9 drops no lower than 23 FPS with lots of AI. Windows Experience Index all but processor 5.9. Processor is 5.2. Everything else I throw at it besides Crysis runs at max and rarely drops below vertical synchronization at 60. I'm in love. I replaced the mobo and PSU in the old PC and gave it to my sister for The Sims 2 and Spore, but going from around 2500 3DMark06 (seems low) to around 9100 for less than $400 is throughly impressive.

 

[Dangman]

Welcome to the forums!

 

[omgzLAZERpewpew]

Thanks!

 

[Sathsayin]

Thanks!

Thumbs up on the desk. Where did you get it from?

 

[omgzLAZERpewpew]

From walmart I think, or do you mean the desktop wallpaper?

 

[Sathsayin]

From walmart I think, or do you mean the desktop wallpaper?

the wooden desk. What is the name of it do you still have the model number i keep all that stuff myself

 

[engiNURD]

Welcome!

Hey all, I'm new here (came from a forum that went bad) but I thought I'd show you my new midrange gaming rig that only cost $397 shipped on Newegg.
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Specs are as follows:
Antec Solo Case
Antec NeoPower 500W High Efficiency Modular PSU
Foxconn A7GM-S Motherboard
AMD Athlon X2 5200+ (Brisbane)
Kingston 2 x 1GB (2GB) Dual Channel DDR2 800
Sapphire Radeon 4830 512MB 256-bit PCI-e 2.0 x16
Western Digital 250GB SATA HDD
LITEON 20x DVD+R SATA ODD
Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit
...

You got all that for under $400 shipped from newegg?!? nice!

 

[omgzLAZERpewpew]

well my dad is part of msdn from work so i got vista for free

 

[engiNURD]

ahh... ok... still, not bad. thanks for the pics!

 

[Potatocodone]

Is your name Albert?

 

[omgzLAZERpewpew]

Actually no, I played Albert Peterson in the school musical Bye Bye Birdie

 

[hossdaddy]

welcome

 

[Everett1]

The Antec Solo is a damn nice case.

Your speakers, rig and name are nice too.

Does your sister make herself in The Sims 2? I've got couple of girl buds who make themselves in their game.

 

[omgzLAZERpewpew]

hah yeah thats all she does and in spore she just makes dogs

 

[Casper312]

Nice rig and welcome, almost the same as my buddies rig only with a 8600gt.

Now overclock that thing

 

[shagvirus]

The Antec Solo is a damn nice case.

Your speakers, rig and name are nice too.

Does your sister make herself in The Sims 2? I've got couple of girl buds who make themselves in their game.

pics of said sister or dogs, lol


hidey ho neighbor

 

[omgzLAZERpewpew]

Actually the video card was acting up so I'm RMAing it but I should be able to overclock that. I'm going to overclock my CPU to 3.0 or so today. What's weird is the bios reports different CPU temps than my mobo software. It's really confusing.

 

[engiNURD]

Use Realtemp or Coretemp.