New computer parts

[bornl33t]

I finally got my puter back up to date.

Replaced the old 256megs of pc 133 with 512 megs of 400mhz p3200

and the old 10 gig 66ata was replaced with a new WD 120 7200rpm 8 meg cache

This was added to an earlier upgrade this year of a elitegroup mobo and a XP 2000 with a nice fan.

I spent a totall of 515.93$ on the whole upgrade and man this thing SCREAMS!! I'm very happy...

[SpongeBobSquarePants]

dude that system sounds awsome im sure it does scream sounds mad sweet what kinda of video card do you have in there

[lopxtc]

Sounds nice ... more RAM though :) hehehe Ive got 1.5 gig in mine :) heehehe but I also have a triple booted system running WinBlows/OpenBSD/Linux ...

Waiting on Serial ATA drives to be more common before I update my motherboard though ...

Aaron

[irbodden]

Originally posted by lopxtc
Sounds nice ... more RAM though :) hehehe Ive got 1.5 gig in mine :) heehehe but I also have a triple booted system running WinBlows/OpenBSD/Linux ...

Waiting on Serial ATA drives to be more common before I update my motherboard though ...

Aaron

Specs please.. ;) :D

[lopxtc]

PIII 1.2 GHz
1.5 gig PC-133 (3x512 sticks)
ATI Radeon 9000 pro 128 Meg Video
3x40gig 7200 rpm drives
SB Live (Im cheap with sound)
19" Flat Panel(not LCD) display (1600x1200x32@85)

Triple Booted with Win2k, RedHat, and OpenBSD ... although to keep the family off my BSD partition I do have that one accessed through a boot disk only.

Like I said I have no intention of upgrading the MB/CPU/RAM until there are more Serial ATA devices out there. At the moment I know of one SATA HD for sale.

120gig partition out as the following

--HDA--
10 gig to WinBlows for work access only ...
30 gig to Linux
(3 gig devoted to swap)

--HDB--
40 gig to Linux

--HDC--
40 gig to OpenBSD
(3 gig devoted to swap)

--HDD--
CD-RW/DVD Combo drive ....

I also have;

-dual 800 G4 Cube with GeForce 2MX 32Meg Video card and 1 gig of RAM
-dual 200 MHz Pentium Pro with 512 Meg Ram running Solaris 2.8 ... used for testing personnel web-sites and PHP/MySQL work.

:)

If you want more details feel free to ask in a PM.

Aaron

[irbodden]

Nice. :D

[digitard]

If I did graphics design I'd want an Apple SOOOO badly ... they're SO fast, but software companies dont design "game" type products and hardware as much for them :( soooo expensive to upgrade.

My system specs:
- OS: WindowsXP Pro & Lindows
- Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2100+
- Memory: 768Megs PC2100 DDR
- Video card: 128Meg GF4 TI 4200 overclocked to 4600
- Hard Drives: 60gig ATA100 & 40gig ATA100
- Drives: 16X DVDROM & 20X CDRW (replacing w/ the new t@2)
- Sound: Sound Blaster AUDIGY w/ 4.1 surround
- Extras: Hauppage WinTV card (used for cam transfers)
- Cooling: Multiple case fans and a Volcano 7+
- Monitor: 17" Flat CRT screen

The rest is pretty standard ... although in about 4 months I'm upgrading the board to a newer ASUS board (I have an ASUS A7V266-E right now) and processor to a 333mhz FSB chip and a gig of PC3200... as well as an 18" LCD (gotta love working for a computer company)

Sincerely,
Dave K

[lopxtc]

Actually more and more are ... the original Doom III demo was run on a GeForce 4 video card on a Mac machine. There are a ton of games at places like CompUSA on the mac. Also Everquest is supposed to be coming out on Mac this year ...

Aaron


Originally posted by digitard
If I did graphics design I'd want an Apple SOOOO badly ... they're SO fast, but software companies dont design "game" type products and hardware as much for them :( soooo expensive to upgrade.

[digitard]

You sure? I thought it was run off the 9700 ATI ?

Sincerely,
Dave K

[lopxtc]

The original demo before the GeForce 4 was released. I know the leaked "pre-alpha" (at best) is supposed to be ATI optimized .... but even on a 9700 pro we got about 12 fps ..


Aaron


Originally posted by digitard
You sure? I thought it was run off the 9700 ATI ?

Sincerely,
Dave K

[bornl33t]

I have a modest little setup that was cheap. I didn't want to go ALL OUT, I've been building pc's for years and have learned that going all out is just a waste of money, cause in a week I can have the all out system for half price.

I have the same 3.5 floppy my first puter ever used in my current comuter and it's over 5 years old :D

I started with a elitgroup mother board with a SiS 735 chipset for two reasons. 1) CHEAP 2) uses both pc-133 and DDR ram. Because when I got it I wasn't sure how soon I could even afford DDR ram.
Then added a athlon XP 2000 why? We all know AMD kicks intels butt and they do it cheaper too yet. And had my buddy hook me up with a nice copper heat-sink with a chromed fan. Why? just because he got it for me cheap as one of those plastic ones ;) Friends in high places ya know...

Then yesterday added a WD 7200RPM 120 GIG 8 meg cache HD and 512 megs of p3200 400mhz ram with a heatsink.. yeah I was surprised too!!

Then I put it all into an OLD case that is beat to death, but still works with a 320watt powersupply. and add the parts I had leftover from my old PC:
geforce 2 MMX ( it was cheap...free :D )
a HP 10 speed CD burner
a toshiba DVD CD
old 3.5" floppy
10 gig WD HD

Sound card, lan card are both built into the mother board.

That simple.

[bornl33t]

CLEAN desktops are nice!

[alkafluence]

Originally posted by lopxtc
PIII 1.2 GHz
1.5 gig PC-133 (3x512 sticks)


I take it you're running ECC?

[lopxtc]

Not for a home game-machine ... maybe if I was using this machine in a production environment do business type work ... but no otherwise.



Aaron


Originally posted by alkafluence


I take it you're running ECC?

[synreal]

does anyone by chance have experience/opinions on the ASUS A7V8X family of mobos? time to cram some new life into another system.

[alkafluence]

Originally posted by synreal
does anyone by chance have experience/opinions on the ASUS A7V8X family of mobos? time to cram some new life into another system.

Synreal- I just put together a pretty tight system using the A7V8X (the one with only the lan and audio built in). I picked up the board for around $110 (maybe a little more)

The A7V8X will support all the latest processors from AMD and will accept DDR400 (ie- PC3200) with the KT400 chipset.

I had no problems putting in:
XP 2100+
512mb Crucial DDR (PC2700)
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz (after disabling onboard sound)
56K USR PCI Modem
GF4 Ti4400 128mb
+all the drives

I didn't even have any issues that sometimes arise with the Via 4 in 1 drivers. I let the thing burn in for 3 days straight just looping a DVD and doing some other things, plus playing a few games and she didn't have a problem. The board is stable, well layed out, and has all the goodies you might want. The fancier ones even support the new serial ATA, or if that's not your style you can get the RAID version. Plus the BIOS is great for tweaking.

Overall a nice board and worth the purchase.

[pbzmag]

Asus mobo's are great. I have the A7V266-E and have no problems with it.

pbzmag