What else can i do with my computer?

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jEnkinsX

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Hopefully ill get a 2nd job tomorrow *crosses fingers* so 2nd income would be nice.. hehe i just cant stop the buying/selling hardware fever going around hehe ive went from a MSI RX9800Pro to a Leadtek TI4600 to a BFG 6800 OC and now a BBA ATi X850XTPE.. ive bought 2 17 inch flat crts for dual monitors but got bored of it so i sold it and bought a 19inch samsung 930B... so now, my system is all black.. except my case, a superlanboy.. so im thinking of getting a tsunami or a soprano... bah! so what do u guys think i can still do to improve my comp? no overclocking for me so...

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ WC
MSI K8N NEO2 Plat
768 MB DDR400
BBA X850XTPE

AMD Athlon XP 2500 BC
MSI K7N2 Delta L
256 MB DDR400
Leadtek TI4600

hhehe any advice would help
 
Buy, a Uber L33t, system. Athlon x2, 7800 GTX SLI, Water or vapo cool it. Buy a dell 2405. Sell your older system's to fund it. Also, get like a terabyte of hdd space. Ok, so don't go that Uber L33t. LOL. But something along the lines.
 
Get a Dell 2405, those are nice displays. I would sell the Athlon XP system, change the 768MB of RAM in your Athlon 64 system to at least 1GB, and get an X2 4200/4400 for it.
 
your one of the first people Ive seen thats gone from a dually to a single monitor
I run dual 21" CRTs

Im a big beleiver in infrastructure, items that youll get the full lifespan out of
UPS, KVM, good PSU, room AC ect

those items have depreciated the least in my rigs, and more importantly have insured my investments in more transitory equipment, well with the exception of the KVMs those are just necessary with multile computers and limited monitors

cheap seats, get a good ground check plug, wristrap, and grounding pad
a decent multimeter?
 
yeah definately get the dell 2405, i LOVE myne! that would be a first if i were u, cant stand small screens :( and yes 19" crt is VERY small to me :D
 
jEnkinsX said:
768 MB DDR400
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More ram. Plus, your other rig might like an upgrade (even for general desktop use 512 is much nicer than 256) and you could always just move any chips you take out over.
 
HardD99 said:
yeah definately get the dell 2405, i LOVE myne! that would be a first if i were u, cant stand small screens :( and yes 19" crt is VERY small to me :D
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the samsung 930B is an LCD
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TheMostWantedPolishTwin said:
your first system is more than decent.. just make it to 1 Gig of ram and you'll be just fine...
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i was thinking about that too yeah i need to run my system dual channel.. thats the reason why i sold my s754 set up so that i can run DC... hehe yeah another 512 kingston (i already have one 512) is on the way :D

Ice Czar said:
your one of the first people Ive seen thats gone from a dually to a single monitor
I run dual 21" CRTs
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well at first i thought dual CRTs was great.. but then i got bored of it... like the only time the other monitor is used is when i watch movies on one and surf on the other.. or play games on one and walkthru on the other.. but plain surfing (which i do most of the time) the other becomes useless... i had a 17 inch non-flat samsung 750s.. and 2xflat crts 753DF.. i bought the 2 753DF for 120CDN.. hehe.. i sold one of my 753's for 75cdn and my 750s for 70.. so that left me with a flat crt which is still good.. dual 21inch crts.. man.. how big is ur desk?? lol


lastly, im actually thinking of selling the Barton system and buy a MSI K8N NEo4 sli plat and a 6600gt (for now, when ultra's drop ill get 1 or hell if i get the 2nd job ill get 2) then AMD X2... but we'll see :D hehe...
 
really? Ive got 4 browser pages open acroos the two screens right now and a few tabs on some of them (plus a notebook and spellchecker) I write the frontpage on the weekends and start early, so Im often comparing multiple sources at the same time.

When Im not surfing like that, having multiple screens for the graphics aps is the real reason.

Have fun shopping ;)

PS Nice LCD
its been so hot here recently that during a part of the day I overwhelm my ACs cooling capacity,
thats one thing LCDs win hands down, they certainly dump less heat
 
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