My New PC
Well my old trusty Athlon 800 Motherboard blew last week.
I guess I can consider myself lucky it lasted that long. When I was installing it about 3 years ago, the corner of the drive bay caught a transistor as I was putting the motherboard in the case. It caused it to bend. I bent it back and fixed the contacts and its worked this long.
Well the other day I was working and the board just went... it didn't recognize any Ram after that and noticed the contacts were gone and the transistor was off.
So anyways, I decided it was time to finally upgrade and put together this nice little package for myself:
Processor: Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53 GHz reading) formally a Athlon 800 Slot A
Motherboard: Abit KR7A-RAID formally a Asus K7V
Ram: I went DDR, and bought 2 x 256 megs of PC 2400 CAS 2 sticks. poping my old 512 meg stick of PC133 in another system
HDs: I'm going to reuse the 3 61.4 Maxtor ATA/100 HDs I have here.
Video: VISIONTEK XTASY 6964 GEFORCE3 TI 500 64MB DDR AGP W/ TV OUT & DVI, formally a original Geforce 256 DDR card (Going in another system)
Also bought a 16x DVDrom drive, 24x Sony CD burner and the new SuperDrive Pioneer A03 DVD burner. All the needs to rip any and all PS2 games
I guess I can consider myself lucky it lasted that long. When I was installing it about 3 years ago, the corner of the drive bay caught a transistor as I was putting the motherboard in the case. It caused it to bend. I bent it back and fixed the contacts and its worked this long.
Well the other day I was working and the board just went... it didn't recognize any Ram after that and noticed the contacts were gone and the transistor was off.
So anyways, I decided it was time to finally upgrade and put together this nice little package for myself:
Processor: Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53 GHz reading) formally a Athlon 800 Slot A
Motherboard: Abit KR7A-RAID formally a Asus K7V
Ram: I went DDR, and bought 2 x 256 megs of PC 2400 CAS 2 sticks. poping my old 512 meg stick of PC133 in another system
HDs: I'm going to reuse the 3 61.4 Maxtor ATA/100 HDs I have here.
Video: VISIONTEK XTASY 6964 GEFORCE3 TI 500 64MB DDR AGP W/ TV OUT & DVI, formally a original Geforce 256 DDR card (Going in another system)
Also bought a 16x DVDrom drive, 24x Sony CD burner and the new SuperDrive Pioneer A03 DVD burner. All the needs to rip any and all PS2 games
Comments
<strong>You are telling people about your PC purchase in a Mac BBS
Of course... got to let them know what they are missing <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
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Of course... got to let them know what they are missing <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
The ability to rip PS2 games?
<img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
<strong>PCs rock!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Is it just me, or is this forum filled with trolls?
Also bought a 16x DVDrom drive, 24x Sony CD burner and the new SuperDrive Pioneer A03 DVD burner. All the needs to rip any and all PS2 games <hr></blockquote>
Nice...but.
I'd strongly recommend you either wait to get a new GeForce 4 Ti 4200 (will blast a Ti 500 out of the water for $199), or get a Gainward Ti 200 and try your luck overclocking. Many have been able to overclock Ti 200s to Ti 500 speeds or beyond.
Other than that, looks like a great system. Nice!
<strong>PCs rock!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Let's be a little more precise, shall we: "PC hardware rock!"
It is a very interesting thing to do. But that doesn't mean I will get rid of my Macs.
Macs ain't about the hardware, Macs are about the OS.
Seriously though, I just wanted something that can hold me over for a couple of years and this system will... that was my goal when ordering everything.
Oh and for the video card you might be interested in eVGA's step up program. Buy a Ti4600 from them now for $399 and you can upgrade to any of their Nvidia video cards until October 24th, 2003 for the cost of s/h. Basically you get a $399 credit against the purchase of a GeForce5 or what not good for nearly a year and a half. <a href="http://www.evga.com/products/preorder/default.asp?Switch=6"; target="_blank">http://www.evga.com/products/preorder/default.asp?Switch=6</a>; for details
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Processor: Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53 GHz reading) formally a Athlon 800 Slot A
Motherboard: Abit KR7A-RAID formally a Asus K7V
Ram: I went DDR, and bought 2 x 256 megs of PC 2400 CAS 2 sticks. poping my old 512 meg stick of PC133 in another system
HDs: I'm going to reuse the 3 61.4 Maxtor ATA/100 HDs I have here.
Video: VISIONTEK XTASY 6964 GEFORCE3 TI 500 64MB DDR AGP W/ TV OUT & DVI, formally a original Geforce 256 DDR card (Going in another system)
Also bought a 16x DVDrom drive, 24x Sony CD burner and the new SuperDrive Pioneer A03 DVD burner. All the needs to rip any and all PS2 games
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You forgot to say what OS you loaded on that sucker!
<strong>Hey, I'm a Mac user and I say there is nothing wrong with building a PC. It is actually a lot of fun to do. And if you think about it, except for the motherboard (mobo), CPU and a few IC, the rest of Mac hardware is "PC components". To call them "PC components" is foolish actually. It's just computer hardware that can be used in many, many different systems.
It is a very interesting thing to do. But that doesn't mean I will get rid of my Macs.
Macs ain't about the hardware, Macs are about the OS.</strong><hr></blockquote>
yea that and the whole risc powerpc chip design
What I want to see is more hackers getting so called 'pc' hardware...hacked into a mac...but I guess thats not hard....its getting drivers to run the stuff that would be the real challenge...especially since that would probably be illegal...oh forget I said anything!
I just want a creative audgiy damnit!!!(or extigy)
<strong>Win2k, I hate XP with a passion</strong><hr></blockquote>
Amen
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Macs ain't about the hardware, Macs are about the OS.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I don't know...I've ran across enough really crappy PC components to make me think a lot higher about Apple. They make some classy stuff.
I do use PCs as well as Macs. I'm typing this on a POS Gateway 2000 right now. It runs Windows 98 and has to be reformatted every few months!! The floppy drive (remember those) died. The cd-rom was flaking and had to be replaced. The fans are noiser than a 747. POS!!!!
At work I get to use a PIII at 600mhz with Windows 2000. It used to run Windows 98 and sucked, but after upgrading to Windows 2000 it's pretty damn stable. I was used to daily reboots 3 -4 times. With 2000 I can go a month without a crash or reboot and the computer is always on.
However I drool at a G4 dual Ghz with a cinema display. BEAUUUUUUUUTEEEEEFUL!!!!!