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What's your next big computer purchase?
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eplebnista
Lifer
New 120mm Case Fan
SynthDude2001
Lifer
Indeed they are. :thumbsup:😀
SynthDude2001
Lifer
Not unless you want to buy it from me 😛
just picked up a 400G Seagate to hold my own collection of Dead shows 🙂
like archive.org has
me-178 shows and counting
like archive.org has
me-178 shows and counting
2cpuminimum
Senior member
I'll get one of those quad core athlon systems when they come down below $100 for a motherboard+cpu. By then hopefully I'll have money.
So
Lifer
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😎
Edit: I won't be doing any more upgrades for SOME time. 😀
DragonMasterAlex
Banned
Mine will be almost complete system, probably around the end of the summer. I'm going to try to go
FROM:
Asus A7N8X Deluxe 2.0
Athlon XP 2700+
1.5GB PC3200 DDR
1x30GB Primary drive
1x160GB primary drive
1xNEC 3500a DVD Burner
Radeon 9800 Pro 256bit 128MB AGP
TO:
Athlon64 Dual Core (speed uncertain, depends on prices)
nForce4 Mobo
Radeon X800 XL 256MB PCI-e (tentative, though an nVidia SLI solution is possible)
3-4GB PC3200 DDR memory
10,000RPM Raptor 74gb Primary
300GB+ 7200RPM secondary
NEC 3500a DVD Burner (still works great, no reason to upgrade yet)
I'll keep my same case (just got it in February and to date I LOVE it, best case I've ever had! 🙂, keyboard and mouse, though.
Jason
FROM:
Asus A7N8X Deluxe 2.0
Athlon XP 2700+
1.5GB PC3200 DDR
1x30GB Primary drive
1x160GB primary drive
1xNEC 3500a DVD Burner
Radeon 9800 Pro 256bit 128MB AGP
TO:
Athlon64 Dual Core (speed uncertain, depends on prices)
nForce4 Mobo
Radeon X800 XL 256MB PCI-e (tentative, though an nVidia SLI solution is possible)
3-4GB PC3200 DDR memory
10,000RPM Raptor 74gb Primary
300GB+ 7200RPM secondary
NEC 3500a DVD Burner (still works great, no reason to upgrade yet)
I'll keep my same case (just got it in February and to date I LOVE it, best case I've ever had! 🙂, keyboard and mouse, though.
Jason
SynthDude2001
Lifer
That's what you say now. 😉
SketchMaster
Diamond Member
When I have the money, most likely by the end of the year, I'm going to overhaul my computer.
-X-2 AMD CPU.
-New PCI-E Motherboard.
-Video Card to go with PCI-E.
-Two 200Gig SATA HDDs.
-As much RAM as I can buy/fit.
-New case, probably going to be the Antec P180.
-Cooling parts to better silence my computer.
-And anything else that I feel like buying if I have any money left over.
-X-2 AMD CPU.
-New PCI-E Motherboard.
-Video Card to go with PCI-E.
-Two 200Gig SATA HDDs.
-As much RAM as I can buy/fit.
-New case, probably going to be the Antec P180.
-Cooling parts to better silence my computer.
-And anything else that I feel like buying if I have any money left over.
I'm not sure I would load up on 4gb of DDR ram. Who knows when AMD will switch to DDR2 or even 3. I just ordered this:
MSI Neo4 Platinum
3200+ A64 (planned upgrade to an X2, was going to go with a 3700+)
2GB Corsair Value DDR400
X800XL PCI-E
80gb SATA Seagate drive (have 500 gigs of other PATA storage)
MSI Neo4 Platinum
3200+ A64 (planned upgrade to an X2, was going to go with a 3700+)
2GB Corsair Value DDR400
X800XL PCI-E
80gb SATA Seagate drive (have 500 gigs of other PATA storage)
revnja
Platinum Member
Well, I just bought a ton of parts from newegg so I'll be having a nice 3.2ghz HT P4 computer here soon. Can't wait to have a real x86 box for once (had to rely on my shoddy 1.3ghz celly forever it seems like). My next purchase will probably be a new HD so I can back up a ton of my stuff, but that won't be for a while. Unless I find one super cheap.
DragonMasterAlex
Banned
I think you'd see a better performance gain by using one Raptor as your primary with your OS/pagefile/etc on it and the other as your secondary with your games loaded on it.
Jason
SynthDude2001
Lifer
True.
I'm still on an Athlon XP though (albeit highly overclocked 😉), so I'm starting to feel the upgrade bug. I also have a 6800GT, but I have a friend who wants to buy it for a pretty good price, so I figure I may as well sell it while I can still get a lot of money for it (since if I did an NF4 system I'd need a new video card anyway).
SynthDude2001
Lifer
That's the plan. 😀 (well, that or an R520, whichever happens to be faster - and isn't being price gouged for $1200 😛)
for my main box:
-Radeon 9800 card (within the next 2-3 months)
-73GB raptor (within the next 6-12 months)
for my dvr:
-ati AIW card (sometime before fall season)
-third hard tv tuner card (sometime before fall season)
-another 512MB of ram (within the next 2-3 months)
edit: long-term, I probably won't be upgrading to a PCI-E motherboard for another year or two. only pc game I play is WoW, so I don't see much benefit to jumping on board right now.
-Radeon 9800 card (within the next 2-3 months)
-73GB raptor (within the next 6-12 months)
for my dvr:
-ati AIW card (sometime before fall season)
-third hard tv tuner card (sometime before fall season)
-another 512MB of ram (within the next 2-3 months)
edit: long-term, I probably won't be upgrading to a PCI-E motherboard for another year or two. only pc game I play is WoW, so I don't see much benefit to jumping on board right now.
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