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My new PC! :D :D :D

July 19th 2003, 12:14 PM
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Take a look at the specs:

PROCESSOR Intel Pentium IV Processor at 2.400GHz, 533MHz FSB, 512K Cache
CASE Multi-Color Medium Tower w/See Thru Window+Neon Light AMD/INTEL 350W
CASE COLOR Silver
MAIN BOARD Shuttle AV49N VIA P4X400 w/DDR400 533MHz FSB 8X AGP U133
MEMORY 512MB PC-3200 DDR 400MHz Memory (2 X 256 MB Modules)
HARD DRIVE 1 80GB Ultra DMA 133 7200RPM Hard Drive
HARD DRIVE 2 None.
VIDEO Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 8X AGP 128MB
CD/DVD Internal 16X DVD-ROM Drive (Silver)
CD-RW Internal CD Writer 52X24X52 (Silver)
SOUND Onboard PCI 5.1 6-Channel Sound
MODEM Internal Intel Ambient 56K V92 Modem w/Voice
NETWORK CARD Onboard 10/100 Ethernet Port
FLOPPY DRIVE 1.44MB 3 1/2 Floppy Disk Drive (Silver)
KEYBOARD Multimedia Keyboard 9110 (Silver)
MOUSE Optical 4D Mouse with Hardware Scrolling Button PS/2 (Silver)
SPEAKERS Altec Lansing AVS-200 Stereo Speakers
MONITOR Elements Cyclone 7D 17" 0.27dp 1280X1024 Digital Control Monitor (Black)
OS Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
SERVICE Standard AtlaShield 3-Year Limited Warranty with First Year 24/7 Support
PRINTER None.
ZIP DRIVE None.
STORAGE MEDIA None.
FIREWIRE/USB CARD Onboard USB 2.0 4-Ports
SOFTWARE BUNDLE Norton Anti-Virus 2003
ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE None.
Price: $942.00

Anything I should add/take away before I purchase it?
July 19th 2003, 12:21 PM
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Humm... Isn't this off-topic? Anyway, Geforces FX are bad. If I were you, I would choose an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro or something like that.
July 19th 2003, 12:27 PM
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Oh, I forgot. I think I was going to change video card with this PC and my new one. This one has a GEForce4 Ti 4600, and the GEForce FX came free.
July 19th 2003, 02:08 PM
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Kat
Peasant She/Her Canada
We can out-drink most Americans! 
Is that all your computers got Amoebaloerd??
Does it fly or make itself dissappear?
>^..^<
July 19th 2003, 03:38 PM
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SabreTrout
Noble He/Him United Kingdom
Tigertigertiger. 
I heard on the grapevine that Dukie's computer hsa a warp-flux capacitator and a time machine...oh wait, that's just his bong.
July 19th 2003, 03:41 PM
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Binirit
Peasant She/Her
 
Hmm... yours looks a lot like mine, AmoebaLord. Go for it, I'd say.
July 19th 2003, 03:52 PM
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I'd say....purchase it!
July 20th 2003, 02:32 AM
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Dukie
Peasant He/Him
 
I heard on the grapevine that Dukie's computer hsa a warp-flux capacitator and a time machine...oh wait, that's just his bong

You so stole that from a movie
July 20th 2003, 04:44 AM
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SabreTrout
Noble He/Him United Kingdom
Tigertigertiger. 
Well, actually I didn't.

The warp-flux capacitator and time machine bit comes from an ongoing joke me and my friend have about this muppet I know, who talks non-stop about all the gadgets his car has.
The time machin part also comes from a episode of Futurama, where they find a hippy van, and upon the question "Where is the time machine?", a bong is promptly whipped out.
Excellent.
July 20th 2003, 09:03 AM
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Dukie
Peasant He/Him
 
Futurama, oh yeah
Anyway, I knew you stole that bong joke
July 20th 2003, 09:21 AM
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Kat
Peasant She/Her Canada
We can out-drink most Americans! 
Sounds more like the movie *Back from the Future* (except for the bong part...that's Dukie's area of expertise )

>^..^<
July 20th 2003, 12:40 PM
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Nice, but:

replace:

Geforce Fx -> Geforce TI 4200 128mb agp 8x

HD -> Same HD with 8mb CACHE

stock HeatSink+Fan -> A good copper one

When you got a good HSF then overclock the p4 @ 2.8Ghz
July 20th 2003, 01:08 PM
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merlin
Peasant He/Him
 
Okay, why the heck would you overclock it? With the prices as they are now, overclocking is just so you can say that your system is overclocked. "Yep, she's overclocked" (said with a slight hillbilly accent as you lean back in your chair, arms folded at the chest). That's about all the advantage you get.

If you want to seriously overclock, you need to shell out hundreds of bucks on water cooling systems, etc., when you could just pay a quarter of that money toward a faster processer. In this case, theprophet, why not just use the HS/Fan combo money toward a faster retail processor?

While I would reccommend the 8MB hard drive cache, unless you're writing huge volumes of data to the disk at one time (i.e. video editing), you're performance improvement is not that great. You're better off getting a 150 MB/s HDD, like SerialATA, if you want a good performance boost.

Now, about the motherboard. If you want to see RDRAM performance, I would take a look at a motherboard equipped with the Intel E7205 chipset, such as the ASUS P4G8X. It has a feature that can double the DDR-RAM performance so you get a FSB speed of up to 533MHz. This is a huge performance boost, because the processor is made to operate at 533MHz. While it has that speed between the Processor and the (Northbridge chip?), quicker access to the RAM allows for faster cache reads and writes. Other than that, you have selected a pretty nice motherboard.
July 20th 2003, 02:44 PM
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You dont need watercooling, i've got a p4 2.2 running at 3.4Ghz with a Peltier. Took some time to make it run good though...
July 20th 2003, 05:02 PM
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Arik
Peasant He/Him
 
I steal all my jokes, otherwise you'd all think I have no sense of humour.
Which is quite likely the case!

And yeah, warp-flux capacitator is from "Back from the Future".
July 20th 2003, 05:12 PM
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SabreTrout
Noble He/Him United Kingdom
Tigertigertiger. 
As those of you who know ARik might have guessed, that was me SabreTrout. My poor english is nothing compared to his style of writing...oh dear...
August 9th 2003, 10:18 PM
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Timo
Peasant He/Him
 
I have Sapphire Ati Radeon 9500
August 10th 2003, 01:52 PM
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joshriot
Peasant They/Them United States
keep it real 
does the PC have little elves that pop out and dance around and sirens and firecrackers? i am so jealous.