Simviation Forum - Final Checkout!

	Search the archive:

Simviation Main Site | Site Search | Upload Images

Simviation Forum › Computer Hardware & Software Forum › Hardware › Final Checkout!

(Moderators: Mitch., Fly2e, ozzy72, beaky, Clipper, JBaymore, Bob70, BigTruck)

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

Pages: 1

Final Checkout! (Read 314 times)

Jul 25^th, 2004 at 4:38pm

Scorpiоn Offline
Colonel
Take it easy!
The Alamo

Gender:
Posts: 4496

So, I'm pretty much ordering/buying now (the store and the website have wildly different prices) and need y'alls opinions. In other words, no major changes! (Why NVidia? etc.) Wink

Am I forgetting anything? Kiss

AMD Athlon 64 3000	$219.99
Asus K8V-SE Deluxe	$119.99
Corsair 1GB PC3200	$199.99
NVidia PNY Ti4200 64GB	Used from current PC
Hitachi 250GB Internal	Used from current PC
Phillips Sonic Edge 5.1	$39.99
Memorex DVD+/-RW	Used from current PC
MGE ECO L5 ATX 350W	$39.99
Microsoft Wireless Combo	$29.99
Any cheap LCD	$?

« Last Edit: Jul 26^th, 2004 at 7:38am by Scorpiоn »

The Devil's Advocate.&&

IP Logged

Reply #1 - Jul 25^th, 2004 at 6:40pm

Delta_ Offline
Colonel
Woah!
London, UK

Gender:
Posts: 2032

Floppy drive, speakers, OS.

Also don't forget to get the latest drivers for your system, and make sure it is not connected to the net when you install the os and then enable the firewall before going on the net.

My system:Intel Q6600@3.6GHz, Corsair XMS2 4GB DDR2-6400 (4-4-4-12-1T) , Sapphire 7850 OC 2BG 920/5000, X-Fi Fatality, Corsair AX 750, 7 Pro x64

IP Logged

Reply #2 - Jul 25^th, 2004 at 7:52pm

Scorpiоn Offline
Colonel
Take it easy!
The Alamo

Gender:
Posts: 4496

I really despise floppy drives, so it's one of the ways I'm cutting corners. Grin

I plan to use a ZIP drive later on. I'm not connecting this future computer to the internet, instead everything shall be connected from the office PC (my dad's) to my PC via ZIP disks. At the very most, I'll set up a LAN between the two.

And I'm using Microsoft XP Home. Wink

And I'm reverting my dad's PC back to Windows 98, since he really hates Windows XP's interface, even after these several months (He says it's too mickey mouse.).

And, I'm using my stereo's auxiliary channel for speaker. Oh yeah, 4-way surround sound. 8)

The Devil's Advocate.&&

IP Logged

Reply #3 - Jul 26^th, 2004 at 6:13am

Daz Offline
Colonel
in the morning im making
WAFFLES!
Leeds, UK

Gender:
Posts: 1171

if your reverting back to windows 98 then loose half the ram as win 98 only makes use of 512 mb's worth. if you change the xp interface to the classic mode it almost looks like windows 98 and overall performance will be better with xp

as for the rest of the system its very nice although next option would be to upgrade the graphics card but the ti4200 are still great cards and as long as your happy with it then thats ok

AMD athlon XP2800+ @2.34ghz&&Epox 8RDA3G 400 fsb, 8x AGP&&1024MB DDR400 PC3200&&XFX 256MB FX5950 Ultra (oc 525/1.04)&&40 gig maxtor 7200rpm&&80 gig seagate baracuda 7200rpm&&

IP Logged

Reply #4 - Jul 26^th, 2004 at 6:14am

Daz Offline
Colonel
in the morning im making
WAFFLES!
Leeds, UK

Gender:
Posts: 1171

EDIT: missread sorry thought u said u was reverting back to win98.. i need glasses i swear Roll Eyes

AMD athlon XP2800+ @2.34ghz&&Epox 8RDA3G 400 fsb, 8x AGP&&1024MB DDR400 PC3200&&XFX 256MB FX5950 Ultra (oc 525/1.04)&&40 gig maxtor 7200rpm&&80 gig seagate baracuda 7200rpm&&

IP Logged

Reply #5 - Jul 26^th, 2004 at 11:53am

congo Offline
Colonel
Make BIOS your Friend
Australia

Gender:
Posts: 3663

Consider an nForce3 150 chipset for your mainboard, they are out now.

Up the Power supply to at least a 450watt one.

Some gamers are complaining about "ghosting" effects on LCD monitors due to a lag in pixel refresh.

Do you need a 250mb hard disk? All your eggs in one basket with that.... consider a second drive instead. The formatting, disk checking, and defrag times will be quite long on a 250gig drive.

Realise in advance that you won't see any fantastic performance increase with the same video card

good luck and have fun!

Mainboard: Asus P5K-Premium, CPU=Intel E6850 @ x8x450fsb 3.6ghz, RAM: 4gb PC8500 Team Dark, Video: NV8800GT, HDD: 2x1Tb Samsung F3 RAID-0 + 1Tb F3, PSU: Antec 550 Basiq, OS: Win7x64, Display: 24" WS LCD

IP Logged

Reply #6 - Jul 26^th, 2004 at 9:36pm

Scorpiоn Offline
Colonel
Take it easy!
The Alamo

Gender:
Posts: 4496

Well, it's all set in stone now. Which could be a good thing or a bad thing... Tongue

I'll look into 450 watts.

I think I will go with a CRT monitor, because I've become spoiled with CFS3 running at 1600x1200! Cheesy

LCDs and expensive, buggy as far as I can tell (dead pixels) and now this ghosting! Tongue

Better go with the CRTs...

I really want to go with a master/slave configuration, but the price tag was already big enough, but I'm going to see what I can do in the coming days to get a 50GB master.

The Ti4200 isn't top of the line, but it's pretty good. As I see it, I'll be paying $200-300 for 5 extra FPS judging from benchmark scores.

The Devil's Advocate.&&

IP Logged

Reply #7 - Jul 27^th, 2004 at 5:41am

Daz Offline
Colonel
in the morning im making
WAFFLES!
Leeds, UK

Gender:
Posts: 1171

yeah get 2 40 gig hard drives to speed up formatting etc and defrag

thats what i got in my current machine i use the 40 gig for backup

AMD athlon XP2800+ @2.34ghz&&Epox 8RDA3G 400 fsb, 8x AGP&&1024MB DDR400 PC3200&&XFX 256MB FX5950 Ultra (oc 525/1.04)&&40 gig maxtor 7200rpm&&80 gig seagate baracuda 7200rpm&&

IP Logged

Reply #8 - Jul 28^th, 2004 at 8:05am

Gixer Offline
Colonel
Lets go fly a kite!!

Posts: 1540

Congo me ole mate its up to nForce3 250 now!! though I am sure it was just a finger slip Wink

Fast Fast Fast Grin

That is a huge old HDD Grin

I would definately partition it if you plan on keeping it, this will make it easier to keep tidier etc and reduce de-frag times on each partition. Also format NTFS, its not meant to be quite as fast as FAT32 for gaming but the difference is negligable and NTFS is so much tidier and de-frags are sooooo much quicker.

Good choice sticking with the CRT for a while. I just reverted back to one from a TFT as I cannot afford a TFT that does high res Sad

Only gripe with the CRT is their size my IQ is better than on the TFT Grin

AMD64 3500+ @ 2200MHz 400FSB&&MSI K8N Neo 2 mobo nForce3 chipset&&1gig Corsair XMS PC3200 timings @ 10.2.2.2 &&XFX 6800 Ultra @ 450/1200&&80gig HDD&&Loadsa fans!!!

IP Logged

Pages: 1

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

« Home

‹ Board

Top of this page