Anybody here seriously into the techincal side of pc's? I built my own with the aid of a friend and love playing with the components and buying and fitting new parts. my specs are as follows...

- AMD Athlon XP 2500 CPU overclocked to 2.1GHZ
with an Arctic Cooling Copper Silent 80mm Heat Sink & Fan

- MSI Mainboard

- 768MB of DDR Ram

- 2 Hard Drives, Primary is a 30Gig to store all important files, Slave is a 40Gig for gaming and such programs

- XFX Nvidia Geforce FX5700 256mb Graphics Card

- 52x CD/RW and 48x IDE Internal Atapi DVD Rom drive

- ThermaltakeX case with transparent side panel, Lockable with keys (so yer anoying family cant get to it) , 5 Fans, 2 just inside the panel, 1 on top to cool USB ports etc, 2 on back, plus CPU Fan and lots of cool lights and gadgets inside

- LCD 17" TFT Monitor by Digimate set to maximum resolution (1280x1024)

- Not a particularly special sound system. Just your average 2 set sterio multimedia speakers

Still looking to get a better processor, aswell as better speakers with sub woofer and surround sound for all my games :P


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Despite writing software for a living the most powerful computer here at The Towers is a 500MHz P2....:)

I think I'm just hitting the limits of that with some of the AI stuff I'm doing, so an upgrade is likely this year.

Their servers, etc. here are all P2 machines as well.

I always say it's not what you've got, it's what you do with it that counts... ;)

Joe

Originally posted by _Fate_
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I think I have

512 RAM

2.08Ghz

Athlon 2800+ XP

128 mb Graphics Card

120GB memory

AMD XP 2500+ @ XP3200+ (Barton core, can got faster but I cant be arsed) cooled with an SLK900a with a 92mm fan on it ;)

1Gb of PC3200 RAM, 6-3-3-2.5

Motherboard, Asus A7N8X-X, slightly modified, modded a 50mm fan onto the North Bridge, and sinks on the mosfits and south bridge.

3 HD's, 60gb main drive, 250gb storage, 80Gb connected to my IDE controller card for DVD "backups"

ATI Radeon 9800 pro @ 9800XT speeds, has a VGA Silencer on it.

Pioneer 107 DVD-RW, Lite-on 16x DVD-ROM, both connected to my IDE Controller.

Case is a Cheiftec Dragon, purple in colour, 5 80mm fans (2 front, 2 back, 1 side), PSU is a 550w dual fan by Qtec

15" LCD monitor by NEC (would love a beasty 19" CRT but just dont have the room for it in my bedroom :( )

This is far from my ideal system, I'm looking at an Athlon 64 and an X800 graphics card in the next 6 months, depends how I'm doing cash wise when it comes to the end of my year at Uni ;)

[edit]
Sound system, well, I just hook my PC straight into my stereo and blare it through my stereo speakers ;) surround sound?? bah, who needs 5 tiny eeny weeeny speakers when you can have two big ones? :P

I a semi-pro geek (doing research in department of computer science) and I run an aging duron 800 :o

Originally posted by evildrneil
and I run an aging duron 800 :o

Overclock it! Durons and the older Athlons are insane overclockers :D you could probably EASILY go over the 1Ghz barrier!

Kind of interesting that at least two of us involved professionally in IT have the lowest spec computers!

Weird!

Originally posted by JoePritchard
Kind of interesting that at least two of us involved professionally in IT have the lowest spec computers!

Weird!

Not really, unless you play games on your PC (which I do) then there really isn't any need for such a fast PC. I try and tell this to people when trying to help them buy a PC, but it's rare anybody listens :(

If your only going to do word processing and internet surfing you dont need anymore than a pentium 1 technically... I used to do word processing and web browsing on my 486 for christ sake :P

a P3 800mhz or similar will do for almost anyone unless they intend to use it for gaming.

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Also, if you do a lot programming then the extra mhz come in real handy ;) I can tell a HUGE difference in time when compiling on the 1Ghz systems at Uni compared with my home PC... especially when I'm including all the DirectX stuff... eeesh, that takes forever at times!

2 Ghz Athlon
256 DDR Graphics card
19" Screen in original upright arcade cabinet, sometimes use 23" LCD TV when gaming online gaming
160 storage on 2 hard drives
1 Gig of RAM
Adjustable speed `cooler master`

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Originally posted by xafier
Not really, unless you play games on your PC (which I do) then there really isn't any need for such a fast PC. I try and tell this to people when trying to help them buy a PC, but it's rare anybody listens :(

If your only going to do word processing and internet surfing you dont need anymore than a pentium 1 technically... I used to do word processing and web browsing on my 486 for christ sake :P



That's what I've always told folks - I suppose nowadays most home PCs are used a lot for gaming and media manipulation.

I still have a 25MHz 486 laptop that will surf, do e-mail and word process quite happilly! :)

Fortunately most of the stuff I compile is small(ish) DLLs - I have an object fetish when it comes to writing stuff! When I have the BIG compiles to do I just go and do something else...:)

I think the longest compile time I ever experienced was with a 640k IBM PC (8086 or was it an 8088?) compiling and linking Clipper and C code in the mid 1980s...oh joy....:)

Joe

AMD Athlon Mobile 1800 (processor is around 1.53 or 1.35. I sometimes get them mixed up)
20 Gig HD
Ext 120 Gig HD
256 Mb RAM

:)

Originally posted by John
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[/URL] 101 = :lol: such mirth, I wonder what tickled john? ;)

PC 1 - On it's last legs about to be thrown out; I'll build a new (my first) one soon.

C:\ 1x 80GB Samsung IDE HDD - Channel 0 - location 0 (Master)
E:\ 1 x 80 GB Maxtor IDE HDD - Channel 0 - location 1 (Slave)
512 MB DDR RAM - (not sure on the make - the usual sub-standard tosh that is put into NEC/PBs.
(This is poor for what I use it for).
D:\1x Toshiba DVD-RW - IDE - Channel 1 - location 0 (master)
F:\ 1x Samsung CDRW - IDE - Channel 1 - location 1 (Slave)
(I might get a DL DVDRW and check the CDRW out.
Gigabyte mobo - sub-standard - only 1 of the USB ports (out of 4) works :|
Netgear NIC - 10/100/1000 (PCI)
Pulled the 56k V90 PCI modem out.
On-board - GFX (poor), sound (poor), LAN (haven't used it - use the PCI NIC), 2x PS2 ports, 2 serial ports, and one parallel
Linksys WAG54G router (We will network them at some stage)
2.8GHz Celery :|
XP Prof. 15"TFT. Logitech keyboard. Crappy ps2 mouse.
Nice Yamaha 2.1 speakers.


PC 2 - (Also crap)
Crappy mobo (usual NEC rubbish)
1.0 GHz Celeron
128MB SDRAM!!!! LMFAO
C:\ 20GB Seagate HDD (IDE) Channel 0 - location 0 (master)
D:\ Panasonic DVDRom (knackered) channel 1, location 0 (master)
E:\ Lite-On CDRW (works) channel 1 - location 1 (slave)
All 4 USBs work

PC 3 - Not mine - now this is the joke.
500MHz P3
64MB SDRAM
3 - yes 3GB HDD - 5.25'' !!! (IDE) channel 0 location 0 (master)
CDRom Drive (IDE) channel 1 location 0 (master)
Floppy drive
ISA v90 modem
ISA sound card
Onboard everything else

PC 4 - lying in my room
A broken motherboard
a couple of IDE Cables
A CDRom drive
a case

PC 5 (Dad's work one) (which will go back when he returns after being ill)
55OMHz P3
128MB SD-RAM
CDRom drive (Location 0 , channel 0 ) - master
IDE 3.5" HDD - 20GB (Chan. 0, location 0) - master

Alex

This is my spec (i think,lol)

AMD1600 XP
64 meg graphics card
256 meg ram
LG CD drive and 2 lousy usb ports. :(

Think it might be time for a Athlon 64 soon..................

PC 1:

Pentium IV - 1.4Ghz
768mb RDRAM
HDD 1: 120gb w/8mb Cache
HDD 2: 80gb w/2mb Cache
HDD 3: 20gb Firewire External
DVD-Rom
16x CD-RW (Hell yeah, Oldskool to tha maxx :P)
Gigabyte motherboard, which despite being nearly 4 years old now is still pretty good.
256mb ATi Radeon 9550 (next gen card)
10 USB ports :gag:
2 Firewire ports :clap:
Case: Cheiftec Elite
Monitor: 17" Flat CRT Mitsubishi/Sony Hybrid

Its old, not worth pittance no more, but I love it :D same goes for...

PC 2:

Pentium I - 120mhz
32mb SIMMs
HDD 1: 1gb
HDD 2: 700mb
CD-Rom
4mb Graphics Card
Monitor: 15" CRT

whoa im surprised theres so many cool pc people here. i edited my specs if any1 cares.
Does any1 here play CounterStrike Source or HalfLife2 Deathmatch or any other games online?
Im looking to get a better CPU but not sure if i have to check compatibility with my motherboard first? i use mainly for gaming so ..
Also, does any1 know of any IT Technician placements/jobs in sheffield that dont require format IT qualifications?

Originally posted by _Fate_
Does any1 here play CounterStrike Source or HalfLife2 Deathmatch or any other games online?
Im looking to get a better CPU but not sure if i have to check compatibility with my motherboard first? i use mainly for gaming so

The games I'm currently playing at the mo are Vampire Bloodlines, Need For Speed Underground 2 and Chronicles of Riddick (completed it once)... I don't play online much, when I do its UT2004...

The only upgrade you would be able to do without swapping mobo's would probably be to get a 2500 or 2400+ mobile chip (barton cores!!!), because they have unlocked multipliers and work at a lower voltage... you can get them upto around 2.6ghz on really good air cooling provided you have decent RAM, know what your doing with overclocking (ie good understanding of voltage increases etc)

Originally posted by JoePritchard
Kind of interesting that at least two of us involved professionally in IT have the lowest spec computers!

Weird!
I noticed that. I work in, amongst other things, areas of IT and all my machines are 1Ghz or under PIIIs using everything on-board where possible. They all do the job intended admirably, (apart from the flaky AMD box in the corner but we don't talk about that)!

I'm just thinking of upgrading my main PC, a PIII 700, as it's starting to struggle a bit with some tasks.

Originally posted by xafier
.. I don't play online much, when I do its UT2004...

The only upgrade you would be able to do without swapping mobo's would probably be to get a 2500 or 2400+ mobile chip (barton cores!!!), because they have unlocked multipliers and work at a lower voltage... you can get them upto around 2.6ghz on really good air cooling provided you have decent RAM, know what your doing with overclocking (ie good understanding of voltage increases etc)

i have an XP 2500 overclocked to 2.1GHZ. can it go further with my current cooling? i have an Arctic Cooling Copper Silent 2 with a fan speed of 2200RPM. Says it can cool up to an Athlon XP 3200+

*waits for a reply*

Originally posted by _Fate_
whoa im surprised theres so many cool pc people here. i edited my specs if any1 cares.
Does any1 here play CounterStrike Source or HalfLife2 Deathmatch or any other games online?
Im looking to get a better CPU but not sure if i have to check compatibility with my motherboard first? i use mainly for gaming so ..
Also, does any1 know of any IT Technician placements/jobs in sheffield that dont require format IT qualifications?

Not being a hardcore gamer, I have still found upgrading very rewarding, spending a lot of time in fractals and photoshop.

I do play CS:source online, it's my online game of choice as its possible to dip in and out without a big time committment - unlike EVE and Aces High.

Cool. Whats your exact username on there? Ill search you. my name on there is : [-= Fate™=-]

Originally posted by _Fate_
i have an XP 2500 overclocked to 2.1GHZ. can it go further with my current cooling? i have an Arctic Cooling Copper Silent 2 with a fan speed of 2200RPM. Says it can cool up to an Athlon XP 3200+

which XP2500? is it multiplier unlocked? if not you'll be totally bottlenecked with your memory and motherboard and wont get much beyond 11 x 215 unless you have an amazing mobo and some PC3700 RAM or something ;)

and your cooling may cool upto 3200+, but thats for a real 3200+ thats meant to run at 1.65v stock, not about 1.7v which most 2500+ need to run at 3200+ speeds without errors...

anyways, be happy with what you've got, to go faster without upgrading to Athlon 64 you going to need to replace a fair bit.... plus, your main bottleneck for gaming is your graphics card, it wasnt even top of the range for the last generation :P

soz im not as intelligent as u lol ... jeez i didnt think they'r would be such smart a$$es on here... all i know is its an AMD CPU and a new MSI mainboard. all i know about ram its that its DDR type and theres 768mb of it. i dont know a lot about overclocking but i know it would be pushing it to go any further than 2.1GHZ when its a 2500 .. right?

Main rig:

Abit NF7-S Rev 2 with Vantec cooler on the north and southbridge
Athlon XP2400@2.1ghz with Thermalright SI97 and 92mm fan
1gb Mushkin black ddr-400 in dual channel with copper heatspreaders
Gainward FX5900xt, bios flashed to 5950 Ultra
2x Pioneer DVR108 DVD Rewriters
1x Maxtor 60gb, 1xIBM 120gb H/Ds
Jeantech case with 120mm fans front and rear, and Fortron 550w PSU
19" CRT monitor


Second rig:
Unknown IBM mainboard
P3 550mhz CPU
Geforce 2 mx
Soundblaster Live! 5.1
384mb Ram
14gb H/D
LG CDRom
Pioneer DVDRom
No-name case and PSU
17" CRT

Originally posted by JoePritchard
Kind of interesting that at least two of us involved professionally in IT have the lowest spec computers!

Weird!

My PC at home is pretty rubbish too, not that it gets much use, except to surf the net.

Main (Laptop)
2.60 GhZ Processor
1Gb RAM
17" Screen
40GB HDD
DVD / CD-RW Combo

Main Server
1GhZ Processor
1Gb RAM
No screen - remote admin
2mbit DSL Line :D
Raid Array in 0
4 x 250GB drives
No CD or DVD drives do everything via broadband

Coolermaster Wavemaster Blue/Silver Aluminium PC Case
525w HiperPower 3rdGen Power Supply Unit
AMD Athlon 64Bit 3500+ 'Skt 939' Processor
Asus A8V Deluxe WiFi-g Motherboard
1Gb (2x512Mb) Geil Dual Channel PC3200 Memory
256Mb Galaxy GeForce 6800GT Graphics Card with Glacier Cooling (overclocked and faster than Geforce 6800 ultra)
160Gb Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 (7200rpm, 8Mb Cache) Hard Drive
Silver Coolermaster Musketeer System Dynamics Detector
Sony Silver x16 Dual Layer DVD-R/RW
1.44Mb Sony Silver Floppy Disk Drive
Creative Labs SoundBlaster 5.1 Sound Card
Logitech Z640 5.1 Speakers.
LG L1710M 17in MM TFT Monitor

erm the last thing i am is geeky mind!!

Originally posted by John
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He, you geek you just did :hihi:

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OK here is mine, I just upgraded a few bits this week so it's not bad, just not as good as Bedhead's.

Abit KV8 Pro 3rd eye motherboard
Athlon Sempron 3100+ (overclocked to 2.43Ghz)
Radeon 9200 se 128mb graphics card
512mb RAM (soon to be 2gb)
80gb HDD with cooling fan
Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS 24bit soundcard
8 USB 2.0 ports
4 Firewire ports
A dual layer DVD burner
A CD/RW
500w Power Supply Unit
19" TFT monitor
Harman/Kardon Soundsticks II speakers and sub
EZcool Alpine silver case with LCD display
2 blue neon cooling fans
3 other fans
Rounded EIDE cables (supposed to improve airflow and look less cluttered)

I believe this will probably give me geek status.

:clap:

Originally posted by adlinds
OK here is mine, I just upgraded a few bits this week so it's not bad, just not as good as Bedhead's.

Abit KV8 Pro 3rd eye motherboard
Athlon Sempron 3100+ (overclocked to 2.43Ghz)
Radeon 9200 se 128mb graphics card
512mb RAM (soon to be 2gb)
80gb HDD with cooling fan
Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS 24bit soundcard
8 USB 2.0 ports
4 Firewire ports
A dual layer DVD burner
A CD/RW
500w Power Supply Unit
19" TFT monitor
Harman/Kardon Soundsticks II speakers and sub
EZcool Alpine silver case with LCD display
2 blue neon cooling fans
3 other fans
Rounded EIDE cables (supposed to improve airflow and look less cluttered)

I believe this will probably give me geek status.

:clap:




Lol. Almost. Maybe if you knew what type of RAM u had, the full capabilities of all your components and a few others things, u'd be a regular geekazoid. :D
I know my ram is DDR, and i think its PCI2 ... not sure tho lol.

the RAM is DDR but thats all i know without opening my case which i can't be bothered to do right now.

4 PCs here (all pretty old, but none are used for games - that's what the PS, PS2, XBox is for;) )


PC 01 (Gateway\LAN Server):

Pentium 1@100Mhz
8G HD (4 partitions)
64M RAM
Cirrus Logic 5446 PCI - ancient GFX
50X CD
No Audio
AIST Vision 4i Monitor - ancient

This PC is used solely @ a gateway for the next 3:



PC 02 (Kids):

Pentium 2@233Mhz
2.38G HD
80M RAM
Cirrus Logic 5446 PCI - ancient GFX
4X4X32 CD/RW
32X CD
Crystal CS4232/36/37/38 Audio - ancient



PC 03 (GF):

Pentium 1@133Mhz
20G HD (5 Partitions)
192M RAM
Matrox MGA Mystique - ancient GFX
4X4X32 CD/RW
16X CD
Crystal CS4281 Audio - ancient


PC 04 (This One):

AMD Duron@600Mhz
40G HD (11 Partitions)
192M RAM
SiS 6326 AGP - ancient GFX
52X32X32 CD/RW
DVD ROM
H801 Audio - CR4P




Keep promising ourselves a small(ish) upgrade but, as everything is working and talking to each other, and there's always something else to take money away, I'm a bit reluctant to do so (maybe the GF's PC soon though;) )!

Originally posted by adlinds
OK here is mine, I just upgraded a few bits this week so it's not bad, just not as good as Bedhead's.

Athlon Sempron 3100+ (overclocked to 2.43Ghz)
Radeon 9200 se 128mb graphics card
512mb RAM (soon to be 2gb)
80gb HDD with cooling fan
500w Power Supply Unit
19" TFT monitor

I believe this will probably give me geek status.

:clap:

I believe it wont ;) Sempron's are like AMD's celeron ;) the 9200se is about as sucky as you can get without having on-board graphics, especially when your running a 19" monitor!! 1600 x 1200 resolution on a 9200se... hope you dont play games :?

500w power supply? obviously not a decent brand, because you wouldnt need that much power from an Antec or anything ;)

anyways, not trying to rip you... but your system isn't as good as your making out... its pretty average

Originally posted by xafier
I believe it wont ;) Sempron's are like AMD's celeron

This is true of the socket A semprons but mine is a socket 754 which means my Sempron 3100+ would run around 10% faster than a 3200 XP. The Sempron 3100 gives about the same performance as an Athlon64 2800 but without the 64bit support and when overclocked it beats Intels new 915G chipset, a 3.2GHz Pentium 4e at 2D benchmark tests.

I know the grahics card is nothing special but after spending £650 on my computer in the last month I thought I would wait a month or 2 before upgrading that. (The only games ever played on it are Football Manager and I have recently become annoyingly addicted to Spider Solitaire)

I don't know if its a good make but my PSU is made by EZ, the same as my case (EZ cool 7105H), I'm not sure if it's a good PSU make but their cases are top notch.

Originally posted by xafier
your system isn't as good as your making out

I only said "it's not bad"

Lol. Nice come back adlinds, and Xafier, your cool. Im gonna PM you about my PC.

Originally posted by adlinds
Rounded EIDE cables (supposed to improve airflow and look less cluttered)
I believe this will probably give me geek status.

:clap:

those cables alone swing it for me :)

(now say a silent prayer for all those clockcycles spent on System Idle Process)

I usually use it for web design where I have Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, at least 2 web browsers and more often than not Spider Solitaire open at once, and keep flicking between them.

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
those cables alone swing it for me :)


The cables are actually even more tacky than I first said, they glow under the neon light. Although my case doesnt have a window, it is made out of mesh like the Mac G5 so the light glows through that.

Lol... I personally tried to describe as much as i could about my pc but telling every1 about your cables is takin it too far .. lol

They were different to the ones you normally get so I thought I'd give them a shout out. :D

My keyboard has a button on it that automatically brings up the calculator so I don’t have to muck about with start etc.

Originally posted by Disco_Cat
My keyboard has a button on it that automatically brings up the calculator so I don’t have to muck about with start etc.

:o wow!

I gotta get me one of those :P:P:P:P

Originally posted by IanMitchell
:o wow!

I gotta get me one of those :P:P:P:P

Do you know if it’s possible to reprogram it so that solitaire opens up instead.

Originally posted by Disco_Cat
Do you know if it’s possible to reprogram it so that solitaire opens up instead.

My KB's got an additional 20 buttons (above the Function keys).

They are originally programed with functions for web browsing, email, multi media.

However, each one can be re-programmed;) to whatever you like.

Originally posted by _Fate_
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PC1 'Captain_Scarlet':
AMD Athlon XP+ 1.7GHz (2100 i believe)
Random MSI mobo.
GF4 graphic card with TV/Video connection.
Creative Sound Blaster 5.1 sound card.
512MB DDR SDRam.
4 Hard Drives: IBM 40GB, 2 x Barracuda 7200.7 Plus 120GB UDMA100, Western Digital 40GB.
CD Drive 54X.
DVD Drive 16X/48X.
LG CD R&RW 16X/10X/40X.
8 USB1 ports.
5¼floppy.
5½disk.
Eizo shielded 17" screen.
Azerty keyboard.
'cro$oft optical mouse with wire.
HP PSC750 printer/scanner/copier.

PC2 ' Lieutenant_Green':
Random evil Packard Bell mobo.
Celeron1 466 MHz.
Riva TNT2 16MB graphics card.
onboard never used sound card.
64MB SDRam.
1 X 500MB Hard Drive.
2 USB1 ports.
5½disk.
Shared with PC4 screen.
Azerty keyboard.
mouse.

PC3 'Colonel_White':
Random Packard Bell box with stuff I don't have clue what's inside but with;
120MHz
8MB graphics card.
no sound.
8GB Hard Drive.
8X CD Drive.
48MB SDRam.
2 USB1 ports.
random 14" screen.
Azerty keyboard.
mouse.

PC4 'Captain_Blue':
Identical to PC2 Packard Bell evil mobo.
Pentium 3 500MHz.
GF2 graphic card.
onboard sound.
128MB SDRam.
8GB Hard Drive.
Shared with PC2 screen.
Azerty keyboard.
mouse.

All 4 keyboards have had their 'power/sleep/' button taken with much anger as well as the Window$ button, might as well take off what isn't needed and they're all Azerty so I don't have to go looking for random stuff all over the place.

That makes me a geek. Still, better that than beeing a shav and not beeing able to speak or worst, a Wednesday supporter... :hihi:

Originally posted by adlinds
OK here is mine, I just upgraded a few bits this week so it's not bad, just not as good as Bedhead's.

Abit KV8 Pro 3rd eye motherboard
Athlon Sempron 3100+ (overclocked to 2.43Ghz)
Radeon 9200 se 128mb graphics card
512mb RAM (soon to be 2gb)
80gb HDD with cooling fan
Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS 24bit soundcard
8 USB 2.0 ports
4 Firewire ports
A dual layer DVD burner
A CD/RW
500w Power Supply Unit
19" TFT monitor
Harman/Kardon Soundsticks II speakers and sub
EZcool Alpine silver case with LCD display
2 blue neon cooling fans
3 other fans
Rounded EIDE cables (supposed to improve airflow and look less cluttered)



I have just updated my RAM, I now have 1GB DDR PC3200, I also got some RAM heatspreaders so they last longer and a dual exhaust fan. Now got got 7 fans in total, that should be enough for now. With the heatspreaders I got some RAM heatsinks but I'm saving them for when I get a new graphics card.

Lol. Fans for your RAM? <_< ooook ..

adlinds... you do realise that DDR memory really doesnt get all that hot, certainly not hot enough for heat spreaders or RAM sinks to have any effect what so ever on their performance or overclockability? ;)

its a myth, the only RAM that heat spreaders are paritally useful for is the old SD-RAM... but even then, it wouldn't improve overclockability in another more than about 1mhz :P

As I mentioned before, your CPU is a big bottleneck, the Semprons only have a 128kb L2 cache if I remember correctly... compared with 512kb on the Barton core CPU's, its a major performance downgrade... and your graphics card has a lot to be desired for ;) but good luck in your search for spending lots of upgrading everything needlessly!

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Oh sorry, Mine's bigger than yours. So there.

Lol Xafier, your too smart. where'd u learn all this stuff? Id like u to teach me! :D:D

Originally posted by _Fate_
Lol Xafier, your too smart. where'd u learn all this stuff? Id like u to teach me! :D:D

by using PC's since I was 10 years old :P and now I'm nearly 20, so you go figure, its a lot of years of PC hardware knowledge... I keep myself up to date with hardware talk and hang around on specialist forums... mainly www.guru3d.com which specialises in graphics card advice and processors and overclocking ;)

PC hardware only becomes interesting when you start using a dremel, an old aluminium heatsink and silver epoxy compounds ;) oh and, 2B pencils or thin wire for pin mods etc on older processors... lol

LOL. Ok. Maybe ill be similar to you in about 10 years then ... cos i only got into it all last year. lol

so how do i make these buttons do something cool? Like bring up a funny picture.

Originally posted by Disco_Cat
My keyboard has a button on it that automatically brings up the calculator so I don’t have to muck about with start etc.
Pah! I've got a little box with buttons on that does calculations all on it's own, and it doesn't take a while for it to boot up. You just press on and it's on.

Originally posted by Disco_Cat
so how do i make these buttons do something cool? Like bring up a funny picture.

Apparently if you press the right arrow key with your left hand thumb and the escape key with your little finger at the same time it turns your monitor into a mirror!

Incidently, for a laugh.. who remembers their first PC set up?

486 sx 33
4mb RAM
170mb HD

Nearly crying with excitement when I got a 2x CD-ROM drive.. woohoo!

Originally posted by Bedhead
Coolermaster Wavemaster Blue/Silver Aluminium PC Case
525w HiperPower 3rdGen Power Supply Unit
AMD Athlon 64Bit 3500+ 'Skt 939' Processor
Asus A8V Deluxe WiFi-g Motherboard
1Gb (2x512Mb) Geil Dual Channel PC3200 Memory
256Mb Galaxy GeForce 6800GT Graphics Card with Glacier Cooling (overclocked and faster than Geforce 6800 ultra)
160Gb Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 (7200rpm, 8Mb Cache) Hard Drive
Silver Coolermaster Musketeer System Dynamics Detector
Sony Silver x16 Dual Layer DVD-R/RW
1.44Mb Sony Silver Floppy Disk Drive
Creative Labs SoundBlaster 5.1 Sound Card
Logitech Z640 5.1 Speakers.
LG L1710M 17in MM TFT Monitor
mine is similar to that
just take away the mobo case and replace wiv the good ol shuttle sn95g5 ;)

Originally posted by khizman
mine is similar to that
just take away the mobo case and replace wiv the good ol shuttle sn95g5 ;)

i've actually not got it yet but it's being made at the moment! should be receiving it next week - can't wait!!!

just working out where my first upgrade will be.....
would prefer a SoundBlaster Audigy2 ZS THX 7.1 Sound Card but that can wait
wouldn't mind a plextor dvd R/RW

2 x 256Mb XFX GeForce 6800Ultra Graphics Cards (SLi configured) would be pretty cool!

Originally posted by iffypop
Incidently, for a laugh.. who remembers their first PC set up?

486 DX2 50mhz
8mb RAM
1MB SVGA graphics card
325mb HD
2x CD drive :D

wow, I was so amazed playing Megarace and Lemmings 2 on that thing... 486's rocked!

Originally posted by iffypop
Incidently, for a laugh.. who remembers their first PC set up?

386 SX 25Mhz
4Mb RAM
85Mb HD
1x3.5" floppy
14" SVGA monitor
3 button mouse!
Epson FX-85 9 pin dot matrix printer
DOS 5\Windows 3.1

I've still got it somewhere, it stopped working when the battery spilled it's guts across the motherboard!

Originally posted by iffypop
Apparently if you press the right arrow key with your left hand thumb and the escape key with your little finger at the same time it turns your monitor into a mirror!

you've been had mate.

Originally posted by Disco_Cat
My keyboard has a button on it that automatically brings up the calculator so I don’t have to muck about with start etc.

Ah yes, shortcut buttons - amazing things - mine go to iTunes and Firefox. - as I changed them all from the standard dross they have them set to.

You could always click the shortcut on the desktop - save going through Start etc. ;) Or Run "Calc" from the DOS dialog box.

Alex

Originally posted by iffypop
Incidently, for a laugh.. who remembers their first PC set up?


Er im not too sure cos i hardly knew anything about pc's when we got ours. I was like 8 years old. I think its something like this:

64mb RAM
10 Gig HD

Cant remember the CPU, Gfx Card or anything. The remains of it are under my bed in its original case but i cant be arsed to get it out and look.

first PC -

Zenith "Portable" Z171

640x200 mono LCD screen

fold out keyboard

twin 5 1/4" floppies

NO HDD! (you had to have one boot disk constantly mounted)

80C88 processor. (oh the speed)

640Kb RAM - the maximum available on *any* PC at the time.

We ran MS-DOS and the free package GW Basic that came with it. Wordstar and SuperCalc spreadsheets. And that was about all it could do.

First computer was an Amstrad CPC 6128+, it took floppy disks and some kind of cartridge. Next I had Atari ST and the Amiga A500.

My 1st PC was a 486DX, it had a 650MB HDD and 8mb RAM which was later upgraded to 12MB at a cost of £55. I remember being very impressed when it played small fuzzy video clips in Encarta 95.

I also had a some kind of games console it was a Phillips G7000 and had some top quality games such as space invaders. Has anyone else ever heard of the Phillips G7000? It was similkar to the old Atari games console but about 4 times the size.

FIRST PC:

E machines 620 home pc

2.7 GB Celery processor

80GB HD

512MB RAM

CD/RW

DVD player

15" TFT monitor

As you can probably guess, i did not own or know anything about pc's until 18 months ago :thumbsup:

First PC:

Amstrad 1640 PC.

Don't know the specs but:
2 X 5¼" floppy.
No Hard drive.
16 colour graphic card.
Tweater.

Windows 2.0

It owns, I still use components of that PC in this one (Captain_Scarlet)