Cujo December 29, 2005 Share Cujo Member December 29, 2005 (edited) update 2. now have an x1800xt running every thing full at 1600x1200. also have high quality af and adaptive antialiasing in the drivers on. ~100fps with hitting 50-60s in heavy firefights on aztec. oh and i work full time at a computer store so i'll be upgrading regularily now. Edited December 29, 2005 by Cujo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preacher December 29, 2005 Share Preacher Member December 29, 2005 Soyo Dragon Case modified by me with side window w/ 92mm 450 Watt Soyo PS with 3 external 110 plugs Thermaltake Silent Cat Fan 120mm Thermaltake tricolor LED Smart Fan 80mm Thermaltake Smartfan for exaust Asus A8V Delux MB AMD 3400+ 939 (yes it does exist) Thermalright XP-90C CPU Cooler w/ Thermaltake UFO 92mm Fan 1GB of Duel Channel DDR Ram 2-2-2-5 200GB Maxtor Diamonmax Extreme ATA-133 W/ 16mb buffer ATI X800GTO 256mb Video Card Vantec UV LED Blue Spectrum Fan Card w/ duel 70mm fans Sony 16x Duel Layer DVD+/- RW Aopen DVD/CDRW Drive Sony 1.44mb Floppy drive 5 1/4 bay exaust fan Logitech Duel Optical Mouseman w/ Func 1030 Gaming Surface Standard Compaq Keyboard V7 12ms 17" LCD Monitor Onboard Sound AC97 Logitech 5.1 THX Doulby Digital Surround Sound Speakers and standard Creative desktop mic. Headphones are RCA Wireless 900mhz Lexmark 510 Printer I guess that's all, I tried to be thorough lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
potato salad January 18, 2006 Share potato salad Member January 18, 2006 My computer is totally budget but it gets the job done: Intel Pentium 4 3.0E Prescott (800mhz FSB, 1MB cache) ASUS P4P800SE 768MB PC2700 (crappy mis-matched speed, genericness) FX 5200 Ultra (oh noes) onboard sound 80GB 7200RPM 2MB cache maxtor crap drive 17" Flat CRT Logitech MX500 crappy MS internet kb Logitech X-230 speakers/sub Yah thats pretty much it. I plan to get 1gb of dual channel PC3200 OCZ CL2.5 RAM and an Audigy2 ZS some time soon. Following will be a 6800GS most likely. After that I will decide if I should ditch it for AMD or keep going with outdated hardware. I was going to go with AMD when I purchased the 3.0E on boxing day but I would of needed a new motherboard, which I did not and still don't have the money for. I would of also needed a new video card. Another thing I don't have money for right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antirecoil January 21, 2006 Share antirecoil Member January 21, 2006 This is what I ordered for my new PC, since the incident w/ my house. I should be getting the parts this week comin up. I already received my Dell 19" inch lcd. here's my specs: Dell 19" lcd monitor 800:1 contrast $299 2 Maxtor 6L300S0 300GB Serial ATA 7200rpm 16MB Hard Drive HD-MX300L6 $237.90 1 Coolmax CXI-600B 600W SLI AMD64/XEON Power Supply PS-CXI600B $76.22 1 [PW] Thermaltake Soprano VB1000SNS Mid Tower No PS Case (Silver) CA-1000SNS $84.52 1 x AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core 4800 Retail Box $774.99 1 x Performance Series - PC3200 CL2 1Gb Dual Channel Kit $139.99 XFX PV-T70F-UNF7 GeForce VDPEXF78GX25 1 $469.99 7800 GTX 256MB GDDR3 SLi * Enhanced LOGITECH G5 LASER MSE-USB 2000DPI .4MP $45.65 CREATIVE LABS SOUNDBLASTER X-FI PLATINUM PCI 7.1 24BIT W/ X-FI I/O DRIVE REMOTE $166.93 LOGITECH (967415-0403) Media Keyboard $19.97 ============================================= $2315.16 i still gotta buy a dual layer dvd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo January 21, 2006 Share Cujo Member January 21, 2006 good on everything cept the power supply. a 600w for 75 bucks gives me the shivers. also, for the money you dropped you should got 2gigs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antirecoil January 21, 2006 Share antirecoil Member January 21, 2006 good on everything cept the power supply. a 600w for 75 bucks gives me the shivers. also, for the money you dropped you should got 2gigs. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> i was thinkin about those 600w 20-30$ power supplies, but i didnt wanna drop all these money on good stuff and go cheap on the power supply. i rather spend the extra 30-40 to get a name brand that i know , u know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo January 26, 2006 Share Cujo Member January 26, 2006 (edited) even $75 sounds cheap. the cheapest 600w that i'd buy is well over $100. coolmax i've not heard of. is it heavy? that's usually the best indicator of a good psu. a good rule of thumb is ~10% of your system value should be in the power supply. so basically if your system is worth ~$750 then that's a good psu for you. for comparison, my pcp&c psu cost me ~$350cad at the time. edit - on actually going and finding that psu it's not half bad. it's certainly better than a no name brand. you're probably ok with it. updated system specs below. DFI NF4 ULTRA-D A64 X2 3800+ Manchester @ 2.4GHz w/ 1.5v 2x512MB PC3700 OCZ EB @ 240HTT w/ 2.9v ATI X1800XT PE VIVO (bios flashed to 700core, 800ram) SATA1: Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB 16MB Cache SM: Pioneer 16x Slot Load DVD SoundBlaster X-Fi Platinum Tt Armor Aluminum Tower PCP&C 510W SLI Edited January 26, 2006 by Cujo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kruten January 27, 2006 Share Kruten Member January 27, 2006 Schweet, Cujo, schweet. 3DMark06 and PCMark05 scores? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo January 28, 2006 Share Cujo Member January 28, 2006 i get about 46xx in 3dmark 2k6. i've never ran pcmark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kruten January 28, 2006 Share Kruten Member January 28, 2006 i get about 46xx in 3dmark 2k6. i've never ran pcmark. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ah. I usually do both since the vid card makes a bigger difference with 3dmark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo January 28, 2006 Share Cujo Member January 28, 2006 3d mark 2k1 is good for cpu performance. as i stated in the other post the newer futuremarks are intel biased. in 2k6 even though it's intel biased the cpu actually has a large role in final score. if i had a single core i'd have been down about 800 marks lower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kruten January 29, 2006 Share Kruten Member January 29, 2006 3d mark 2k1 is good for cpu performance. as i stated in the other post the newer futuremarks are intel biased. in 2k6 even though it's intel biased the cpu actually has a large role in final score. if i had a single core i'd have been down about 800 marks lower. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, but 2k1 is really outdated now. With your rig you will be scoring more than 30k. Didn't know that about Futuremark loving up Intel though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo January 30, 2006 Share Cujo Member January 30, 2006 outdated but still a good indicator of cpu/ram performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kruten January 30, 2006 Share Kruten Member January 30, 2006 (edited) outdated but still a good indicator of cpu/ram performance. Yeah, wondering if we should expect a PCMark06. Random image I just took. Edited January 30, 2006 by Kruten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo January 31, 2006 Share Cujo Member January 31, 2006 sli? give me a sec to beat that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo January 31, 2006 Share Cujo Member January 31, 2006 hmm, i only hit 18159. you must have sli. also odd is that the sound tests killed my comp. thought x-fi would score me much better than that. i'll have to do some investigating later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kruten January 31, 2006 Share Kruten Member January 31, 2006 Lemme help you out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alvin February 1, 2006 Share alvin Member February 1, 2006 Motherboard: ASUS A8V Deluxe Processor: Athlon64 3200+ Video Card: ATI Radeon 9800 Memory: Kingston Value Select 512 *only 1* Umm.. old and bad computer.. Only running on a heatsink fan because the other fans got dusted up so much that they won't turn anymore. New Computer: Case: CODEGEN E-6097-CA *Currently running 5 fans* Motherboard: ASUS A8N5X Processor: AMD Opteron 148 (CACJE) *will OC to 2.8 or 2.9 when i get the chance* Heatsink+FAN: ZALMAN CNPS7000B-Cu Video Card: ATI Radeon X850XT Heatsink+FAN: ZALMAN VF700-CU Memory: Corsair XMS 2GB (2 X 1GB) Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 Z5 Floppy/Burner/DVD/CDROMs Hard Drive: Western Digital Raptor *74GB* Power Supply: Rosewill RV350 350W Finally a new computer after 4-5 years On the old compu i had to replace the mobo and cpu because they fried.. so i got a new video card at the same time *2-3 years ago* now i think this new computer will last me a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo February 1, 2006 Share Cujo Member February 1, 2006 (edited) kruten, you bastard. i won't even bother running at those settings. alvin, just wondering why half your upgrade is to outdated stuff? audigy2 zs? x850xt? that mobo isn't much and that powersupply is pathetic. good luck hitting 2.8ghz with either part. good on the 2gigs and the vga heatsink but there are better cpu heatsink options. btw, why buy the expensive opteron if you're gonna oc anyway? why not a 144 or 146? and another thing, your old one wasn't that bad compared to a lot of people's on here. sorry if i'm coming off a bit harsh but you've made some odd choices on where to spend your bucks and i'm just wondering why. Edited February 1, 2006 by Cujo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alvin February 1, 2006 Share alvin Member February 1, 2006 I'm only aiming to get CS:S on max settings and decent FPS Also, with M2 motherboards and processors with 65NMs coming out this year, it'd be a waste of money to max out so soon. Opty 144 and 146 are harder to find and my mom won't let me buy from ebay or any other sites like that There are a lot of things i could have gotten.. With a max budget of 6000, i didn't want to go past 1500. And yes i know a lot of people have about the same set up as my old computer, some worse and some better.. I was kind of happy to get a new computer finally.. but now i just feel ._. .. I wasn't expecting to get scolded in a topic called "Your RIG" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo February 1, 2006 Share Cujo Member February 1, 2006 higher gfx settings do place a higher load on the cpu/ram as well. you didn't really need to spend extra money on some things is all i was pointing out. the heatsink for your cpu, for example, is dated and for the price, not worth it. you'd have been fine on the stock heatsink. the reason i posted so harsh is that it's frustrating for me because you could have got much better value for your money. after reviewing newegg, the cpu was probably a good buy as it's not much more than the 3700. that said, the rest of the system will limit you long before your cpu so the extra money is somewhat wasted, especially when you're gonna keep it for 2-3 years. by that time there'll be a new socket coming out so your reasoning for not spending more goes out the window. if you'd bought with an upgrade path in mind then 6 months to a year from now you'd just need a bit to get you back up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boiler February 1, 2006 Share boiler Member February 1, 2006 (edited) Here's my baby (first-ever build!) - Please don't laugh, I cheaped it up a couple places cause I bought it all at once (in Nov. '05): P4 630 3.0GHz w/ HT, 2MB L2 Cache, currently running at 3.41Ghz on stock cooling (56C max under load) ECS 945P-A 1.1 (cheap, I know, but good features and OC, and stable) 1GB (2x512) Corsair DDR2 @ 533MHz RAM 200GB WD Caviar SATA-II eVGA 7800GT CO Lite-On DVD +/- R/RW EDIT: *thanks cujo, no NEW "el cheapo" on the horizon, saving for antec 500w beaut to replace my current "el cheapo" that came w/ case* Just ran 3DMark05, got 7133 for your reference Edited February 2, 2006 by boilersax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo February 2, 2006 Share Cujo Member February 2, 2006 that's not a bad score in 2k5. the only thing i will laugh at is your intel. see my other post about your psu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackieChan February 2, 2006 Share JackieChan GC Alumni February 2, 2006 These are my parts for when I bought em back in July 2005: mobo: MB ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe NF4 RTL video card: VGA SPPHRE X800PRO 256M 100600SR-RD PS: POWER SUPPLY ANTEC TP2-550 EPS12V CPU: CPU AMD 64 |3500+ ATHLON 64 939 RT HD: HD 250GB|WD 7200 WD2500JS SATA2 Sound Card: SOUND BLASTER|AUDIGY 2 ZS PCI OEM Ram: Crucial 2GB kit (1GBx2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scourge February 2, 2006 Share Scourge Member February 2, 2006 (edited) I've been slowly adding to this system since early Dec. Tower, Case: Antec Sonata II, 120mm tri speed exhaust fan, 120mm tri speed intake fan Motherboard: MSI K8N-Neo Platinum, 80mm vantec fan rigged to cool the NB Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3400+(S754) running at stock 2.2ghz Heatsink+FAN: XP-90 with a thermaltake 92mm fan Video Card: BFG 6600GTOC (Clocked to 583mhz core and 1.15ghz memory) Heatsink+FAN: ZALMAN VF700-AlCu Memory: Generic 1gb + 512mb ddr400 running at 333 (2.5-3-3-8) Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 OEM Floppy/Burner/DVD/CDROMs Hard Drive: Maxtor SATA 250gb 16mb Power Supply: Antec Smart Power 2.0 450W Other Tools of the Trade, Keyboard: Logitech G15 Mouse: Logitech MX510 Monitor: Samsung 930B 19" lcd Headset: Logitech 350 USB Speakers: Logitech X-530 Camera: Canon Rebel XT Printer: Epson Photo Stylus R300 -George Edited February 2, 2006 by Scourge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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