Well, being the cheap person that i am, I decided to build my own computer. This was my first computer i ever built, all i did before that was add PCI cards, RAM, and harddrives. The Gigabyte MOBO was ideal for a noob, the manual explaned everything to a tee. Now i'm sitting pretty with my new computer and my brother got my old one (he had a p2 300MHz piece of junk). Well here are the specs from my old and new computer:
Old Computer:
P4 1.5GHz (423 pin) 400MHz FSB
Intel 850GB MOBO
512 MB of 800MHz RDRAM (4X128MB)
17" standard monitor (actually rather huge and heavy--horrible for a dorm room)
Nivida Geforce2 MX400
Creative Sound Blaster 16bit sound card
The computer had only 2XUSB ports (MOBO had ability for 2 on case, but didnt have a case with front USB)
New Computer:
P4 2.4GHz 800MHz FSB
Gigabyte P4 Titan Series 875P MOBO (GA-8IK1100)
512 MB (2X256) of Duel Channel 3200 Cosair DDRAM (MOBO has ability for 3 sets of duel channel DDRAM)
Benq 17" LCD with auto adjustment (no more manual screen adjustment for me
) Model 767
ATI 9600 Pro
Onboard Sound (6 Channel Realtek AC97)
ANTEC SOHO File ServerTower ATX Case Model SX1040BII with 400 Watt Smart Power, Power Supply
This comp has 8XUSB 2 and 2XFirewire (2XUSB and 1 Firewire on the front of the case)
My new computer got a 3285 on the Futuremark 3DMark03 test.
And with my old computer, using virtual dub (to encode tv shows) it would encode at 40 frames per second with nothing running. With this computer it was encoding at 97 frames per second.
I'm just as happy as a pig in sh!t.
Old Computer:
P4 1.5GHz (423 pin) 400MHz FSB
Intel 850GB MOBO
512 MB of 800MHz RDRAM (4X128MB)
17" standard monitor (actually rather huge and heavy--horrible for a dorm room)
Nivida Geforce2 MX400
Creative Sound Blaster 16bit sound card
The computer had only 2XUSB ports (MOBO had ability for 2 on case, but didnt have a case with front USB)
New Computer:
P4 2.4GHz 800MHz FSB
Gigabyte P4 Titan Series 875P MOBO (GA-8IK1100)
512 MB (2X256) of Duel Channel 3200 Cosair DDRAM (MOBO has ability for 3 sets of duel channel DDRAM)
Benq 17" LCD with auto adjustment (no more manual screen adjustment for me
) Model 767ATI 9600 Pro
Onboard Sound (6 Channel Realtek AC97)
ANTEC SOHO File ServerTower ATX Case Model SX1040BII with 400 Watt Smart Power, Power Supply
This comp has 8XUSB 2 and 2XFirewire (2XUSB and 1 Firewire on the front of the case)
My new computer got a 3285 on the Futuremark 3DMark03 test.
And with my old computer, using virtual dub (to encode tv shows) it would encode at 40 frames per second with nothing running. With this computer it was encoding at 97 frames per second.
I'm just as happy as a pig in sh!t.
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