Aeros Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 K here we goAfter a month of buying parts and waiting for them to arrive in the mail, I've finally setup my new computer, with the lovely assistance of Brian, what a darling. Alright so saturday we spent 8 hours assembling the PC. It really only took 5 hours of building and then 1 hour of waiting for Windows to install. But then tragedy struck. As soon as I connected my machine to the world wide intarweb I got the RCP worm thing, and like 5 other viruses. We combated the viruses for about 2 hours and all was well, we didn't even have to reformat my harddrive like brian kept insisting.Victory was hadThe PC rocksXp 3200+ processor (400fsb) on an Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard, 512MB Dual Channel DDR Ram and a 120 GB hardrive. Then I also put in my old sound card (Sound Blaster Live) and graphic card (Geforce 4 MX 440 yuck) but that's alright, because the graphics card is already performing 3x better since it's not limited to a 600Mhz 2x AGP environment.I'll be getting a new graphic card (probably Radeon 9700 Pro) later on, maybe for my birthday.Oh yeah, and I built this entire machine for under $500.It roxxOh and heres brian pretending to do somethingand what looks like me humping my PC, even though I'm notone wordwwwwwooooooooooooooooooooot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Tutankhamun Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 Neato!Ok, i see you fixed it.You look excited about your computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodeOptimist Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 Wowzers, under $500 too Where'd you order the parts? Newegg?Great pics, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeros Posted March 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 NewEgg and the wonderful Ebay By the way, the case was only $40 (+15 shipping) at newegghttp://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc........epa=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishstag Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 Very nice. Looks dead sexy in the dark like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodeOptimist Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 BTW that link is a bit broken CheeZy, I think you need to remove the last part ( §ion=4 ). Wouldn't work for me until I did Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkAngelBGE Posted March 23, 2004 Report Share Posted March 23, 2004 Very sexy PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonto_Icy_Tripod Posted March 23, 2004 Report Share Posted March 23, 2004 Wow, impressive stuff love the case too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quacker Posted March 23, 2004 Report Share Posted March 23, 2004 Haha, grats Bobby, knew you've been waiting a while for this Run some benchmark tests and let us know how it goes. You've given me inspiration, lol.Man, that 2nd picture makes you look 19 or something, yet you're 15... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeros Posted March 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 No one knows I'm 15 unless I tell them Anyway People usually don't go under the number 20 when trying to guess my age (in the online world), so the pic works well with that.And yes, I kind of have an aura of being older than someone, you can put me next to someone who's 16 or 17 and I'll look older. That's the case usually.Oh by the way, if I wear glasses (they actually make me look better, not worse) You'll think I'm married and have a family Unfortunatly, I don't need glasses...yet. By the time I'm 18 I'll probably be wearing them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Tutankhamun Posted March 24, 2004 Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 Ahhh that is true. It was funny you looked like a teacher at school when you put Brian's glasses on except you had some musturd stains. You have convinced me to make my next PC ( I had already wanted to). But alas that will be over a year away probably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeros Posted March 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 Yes that's good, I'm kinda late in building mine AMD is making their next break right now with the 64bit processors, the Athlon64 and Athlon FX processors are about 10-20% faster than anything Intel is trying to dish out. Give it a year or two and that should be the perfect time to buy - right in the middle of the next generation of processors. You shouldn't get the earliest or the latest version of a chip (unless you're like me and can find a good deal) because the performance facter won't outweigh the cost, basically, you pay more money for less value.Just try to soak up as much info as you can on www.tomshardware.com and you'll be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodeOptimist Posted March 24, 2004 Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 I'll suggest http://www.anandtech.com as well. Some people have complained (albiet on Anandtech's forums...) that Tom's Hardware is "biased". Could be completely false though...What are the exact specs on your new comp Bobby? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeros Posted March 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 How exact do you want them? Hehe, they were pretty exact in my post up top Athlon XP3200+ (2205Mhz), 512MB Infineon Dual Channel DDR ram, 120GB Western Digital harddrive, Geforce 4 MX 440 (64MB DDR) graphics card, Sound Blaster Live sound card, A7N8X Deluxe motherboard (6 USB ports, 2 firewire, 2 LAN ports, audio and DVI input, and integrated Nforce Audio - which I disabled for my Sound Blaster Live) running on Windows XP Proffesional, and then I kept my monitor, speakers, keyboard, and mouse from the old PC since they were very good and I didn't need new ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodeOptimist Posted March 24, 2004 Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 Argh, I didn't see the specs in between the pictures there Sorry about that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quacker Posted March 24, 2004 Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 Lol, still got the ole' MX440...when you get a new video card, don't go NVidia. Don't know if you were planning to or not, but don't.Glasses make you older? Show us a pic There are a few people that i know that look better in glasses, I spose i can add you to the stock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeros Posted March 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 Yes, I know When I got the card I knew nothing about computer hardware or graphics cards.Well really, theres only about a 5-10% difference in performance between Nvidia and it's Radeon Counterparts. The terrible Half Life 2 DX9 performance seems to have buzzed everyone into thinking Nvidia sucks all of a sudden, I think that it's not possible for a FX 5900 to get 10FPS on HL2 while a Radeon 9600 Pro gets 60 without some sort of tampering or optimizations going on at Valve's side, because an FX5900 does just as well as a 9600 Pro if not better at other games.But overall, yeah Radeon gives better value, so thats what I'll be getting, a 9700 Pro hopefully, since it's cheaper by about $100-200 from a 9800 Pro, yet it's only 5% slower in performance.Anyway look at this: http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/200312...1229/index.htmlIt'll answer any questions you have on graphics cards performance comparisons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quacker Posted March 24, 2004 Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 w00t, i'm gonna get me a XGI V3, baby! Great link, thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodeOptimist Posted March 24, 2004 Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 Yeah, those XGI V3's absolutely pwn!! It's nice to see another contender in the graphics card 'wars' but it's too bad XGI's cards weren't a little bit better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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