- Mar 6, 2004
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I've had my current computer for nearly 3 years. My only complaints are how much faster other computers load Windows and just feel snappier. After I got sick of BF2142, I kinda stopped gaming, but I'm dying to play Crysis and Bioshock, but want to be able to play them and enjoy them on high settings. I've got:
Athlon 64 X2 4200+ in ASUS A8N-E, right now it's at 235x10.5 (2470 MHz) @ 1.45 vcore, RAM is on 5:6 so it's at 391 MHz instead of 400, big deal. My OC needs a little bit more finetuning.
2 GB G.Skill PC3200, 2-3-2-5-1T
GeForce 7800 GT
Just bought a Velociraptor 300 GB, Antec P182, and Corsair 620W power supply to freshen it up a bit.
I look at what I can buy, and I'm kind of pissed off. AMD is still selling the same exact processor I bought 3 years ago, with DDR2 support. Phenom sucks clock for clock compared to C2Q, the only thing it has going for it is the fact that it's cheap. Deneb might not suck, Nehalem is out soon, and I really don't want to drop the cash I did on DDR again on DDR3. RAM is like $60 AR for 4 GB right now, that's ridiculous. Graphics cards are cheap as hell too, and if I wasn't worried about CPU bottlenecks, I'd just buy a 9600GSO right now for $50 AR and wait another year.
My laptop on the other hand, is starting to show it's age, and a vertical line of white pixels just developed on it for some reason, I think the LCD's logic board might be going bad.
Dell Inspiron 9300
Pentium M 740 / Dothan / 1.73 GHz, 2 MB L2
2 GB PC4300 4-4-4-12
GeForce 6800 Go 256 MB
And then I realized that the HTPC at my parents house is slow as shit. It's my old "rig"
AMD Athlon XP 2600-M, running at I honestly don't know what
ASUS A7N8X-E
1 GB PC3200
GeForce 6800GT
I have a desktop here at my college apartment, for really no reason other than I had most of the parts lying around. It's hooked up to my TV for watching H.264 because my laptop is too slow for that.
AMD Athlon 64 3200+, some Foxconn board, 8600GT I got for like $30 after MIR, and an Antec Solo + PSU I got for $20 after MIR from Fry's
Other than realizing I just listed all my computer parts, my plan as of now is to first and foremost get a new laptop. Then, I really don't know what I need to do if anything. Upgrade my desktop, but I don't know when, or with that. Put old desktops parts into HTPC to make it faster. Then put AXP 2600-M in sister's Shuttle XPC to make it a little faster and add some RAM to it. Etc. Or just forget about it all.
Athlon 64 X2 4200+ in ASUS A8N-E, right now it's at 235x10.5 (2470 MHz) @ 1.45 vcore, RAM is on 5:6 so it's at 391 MHz instead of 400, big deal. My OC needs a little bit more finetuning.
2 GB G.Skill PC3200, 2-3-2-5-1T
GeForce 7800 GT
Just bought a Velociraptor 300 GB, Antec P182, and Corsair 620W power supply to freshen it up a bit.
I look at what I can buy, and I'm kind of pissed off. AMD is still selling the same exact processor I bought 3 years ago, with DDR2 support. Phenom sucks clock for clock compared to C2Q, the only thing it has going for it is the fact that it's cheap. Deneb might not suck, Nehalem is out soon, and I really don't want to drop the cash I did on DDR again on DDR3. RAM is like $60 AR for 4 GB right now, that's ridiculous. Graphics cards are cheap as hell too, and if I wasn't worried about CPU bottlenecks, I'd just buy a 9600GSO right now for $50 AR and wait another year.
My laptop on the other hand, is starting to show it's age, and a vertical line of white pixels just developed on it for some reason, I think the LCD's logic board might be going bad.
Dell Inspiron 9300
Pentium M 740 / Dothan / 1.73 GHz, 2 MB L2
2 GB PC4300 4-4-4-12
GeForce 6800 Go 256 MB
And then I realized that the HTPC at my parents house is slow as shit. It's my old "rig"
AMD Athlon XP 2600-M, running at I honestly don't know what
ASUS A7N8X-E
1 GB PC3200
GeForce 6800GT
I have a desktop here at my college apartment, for really no reason other than I had most of the parts lying around. It's hooked up to my TV for watching H.264 because my laptop is too slow for that.
AMD Athlon 64 3200+, some Foxconn board, 8600GT I got for like $30 after MIR, and an Antec Solo + PSU I got for $20 after MIR from Fry's
Other than realizing I just listed all my computer parts, my plan as of now is to first and foremost get a new laptop. Then, I really don't know what I need to do if anything. Upgrade my desktop, but I don't know when, or with that. Put old desktops parts into HTPC to make it faster. Then put AXP 2600-M in sister's Shuttle XPC to make it a little faster and add some RAM to it. Etc. Or just forget about it all.