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poopsquaw
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22. July 2006 @ 13:36 |
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Yes I'll be ordering XP Home from newegg as well, just didn't bother to post it. Kind of worried about the hard drive, should I step that up or am I just getting worried because I'm about to spend a lot of money?
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22. July 2006 @ 13:56 |
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Nice case, sound is fine (in fact, same as mine so definitely fine). Step up from 320GB? That's a lot of room, more than I have. I wouldn't worry too much unless you torrent 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Good luck with your build!
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22. July 2006 @ 13:58 |
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Congrats poopsquaw,
I just built my first computer a month ago. Putting it together is the easy bit. The hard bit is speccing it out!
Good luck, Take your time and mainly have fun!
Lecsiy
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poopsquaw
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22. July 2006 @ 14:02 |
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Everyone is so nice and encouraging here. I should build computers more often. Thanks everyone, I'm finally ordering!
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22. July 2006 @ 14:24 |
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Lol glad to know we're appreciated, and remember, if you ever get stuck, you only need ask! :-)
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22. July 2006 @ 17:05 |
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poopsquaw ,about that Zalman 9500 cooler for your cpu, make sure you mount it on the cpu carefully (air blowing to the back) using "Aritic Silver" thermal paste ,connect it dirctly to the mobo and dont use the speed control fan that comes with it
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23. July 2006 @ 10:07 |
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wild77 ,looks like we have almost the same build . did you have any over heating problems with that case? i did and had to redo the fans being the back fan was pulling the air in and the Zalman 9500 blowing the air towards the back of the case it just didnt work so i flipped the rear fan around to blow the air out along with the Zalman blowing the air out seem to solve my problems.and i did add a video card cooler also. hows yours setup? heres my pc specs.
Lian-Li V1000 Full Tower/Antec-TruePower550-Watt/ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe MB Socket 939/ Seagate160GB Barracuda/ Westeren Digital Raptor 150 GB Sata/NVIDIA Geforce-7800 GTX KO ACS-3 Edition/ CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 433(PC 3500)/AMD Opteron 175 Demark Dual Core/Zalman CNPS-9500 LED Cooler/2-Plextor PX-716A Drives/Lite-On SHW-160P6S/View Sonic-VP2030b 20.1"LCD 1600x1200 res.8ms Respone Time
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23. July 2006 @ 12:12 |
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an X2 4600+? Seems a bit of a weird choice, but oh well, suppose I'm in the same league there! Nice powerful and smooth, but probably quite hot. How cool does it run?
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23. July 2006 @ 13:45 |
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wild77,
I don't know how you feel about overclocking but last week I made my virgin attempt at it and easily OC'd my 4200+ to 4600+ speeds. With a nearly $200 price difference between the two that's sure something to consider :)
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23. July 2006 @ 15:12 |
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but neph, the 4600 has 1mb cache, instead of the 512 of the 4200. but that still is an amazingly fast cpu and i hope i can do the same with my next build.
Intel C2D E8400|Asus P5Q Pro|Diamond Radeon HD 4850|WD 640GB SATA 2| Pioner DVR-215BK|2GB Corsair PC 6400| Corsair HX-520|Antec Three Hundred
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23. July 2006 @ 15:30 |
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My killer sig came courtesy of bb "El Jefe" mayo.
The Forum Rules You Agreed To! http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/2487
"And there we saw the giants, and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight" - Numbers 13:33
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23. July 2006 @ 22:46 |
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I could very well be mistaken but I believe the 4600+ has 2X512 L2 cache, same as my 4200+.
I've seen two flavors of the X2, one with 2X512 (3800, 4200, 4600) and one with 2X1MB (4400,4800).
nope, u are right on the money Neph...only the 4400+ & the 4800+ of the x2 series have the 2x1mb L2 cache; and naturally the high end FX series (ie. fx-60 & fx-62) being dual core also have the 2x1mb L2 cache as well~ :)
ALL the remaining x2 series have the 2x512kb L2 cache~ :)
it's all about keeping the information ACCURATE~
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23. July 2006 @ 23:19 |
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Ken add the AMD Opteron 175 in your list too lol!! (which i have) and BTW i have my system running much cooler to the tune of about 12 to 15 degrees cooler with a different fan setup and a videocard cooler
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24. July 2006 @ 00:18 |
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Did you get the Artctic Cooling Accelero?
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"And there we saw the giants, and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight" - Numbers 13:33
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24. July 2006 @ 00:21 |
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yes i did Nephilim , it did the trick ,thanks for the tip
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24. July 2006 @ 09:11 |
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yep the 4600 has 2x512K like the 4200, totalling 1MB. the 4400 and 4800 have 2x1MB.
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24. July 2006 @ 10:37 |
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sorry.. .i guess i was mistaken. i thought that all hte processors from 4400+ on had 1mb cache. my mistake
Intel C2D E8400|Asus P5Q Pro|Diamond Radeon HD 4850|WD 640GB SATA 2| Pioner DVR-215BK|2GB Corsair PC 6400| Corsair HX-520|Antec Three Hundred
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24. July 2006 @ 11:09 |
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nope.
As far as I was aware
3800, 4200, 4600, 5000: 2x512K (1MB)
4000, 4400, 4800, FX-60, FX-62: 2x1MB (2MB)
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24. July 2006 @ 12:37 |
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@aabbccdd
good to hear you got ur temps down :) now let's start OC'in hehehe
anyways, yeah, i wasn't referring to the opterons, i was speaking only on the X2 series and the L2 caches~ sammorris got it down with his chart in the post right above mine (this post) here... :)
have a good one
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24. July 2006 @ 13:13 |
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Yeah, and now I have another chart to memorise with Conroe, fun fun fun!
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PvtJoker
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27. July 2006 @ 18:17 |
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I need a little guidance.
I am trying to build a new machine. (I currently have AMD Athelon 1800).
So far I have decided on:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Windsor 2000MHz HT 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Dual Core Processor
ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM Unbuffered DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit System Memory
Right move so far???
Questions:
1) What power supply do I need?
2) What video card do I go with? I play some games on my PC, but the majority of the time the PC is not used for games. My old PC had an ATI All-In-Wonder Card and I got used to having a TV on my PC so I would like that feature as well.
3) Will I be able to internally hook up 4 HD's, 1 CD burner and 1 DVD burner to this PC?
4) I want to run the new Vista O/S next year. Should I be covered with the current specs of this machine?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe, AMD 4200 X2, ATI All-In Wonder X1900, Corsair 2GB PC6400, Seagate 80 gig SATA, Maxtor 200 gig SATA, WD 200 gig PATA.
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27. July 2006 @ 20:39 |
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I was going to go all dvd drives in till I ran into [granted the drives I have now are low end]a CD [FarCry] that would not pay on my sony single layer burner or my sony dual layer burner... is there any suggestions on why I need a CD reader/burner... could I not use all DVD burners, granted that they are good one, which Ill soon have/
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27. July 2006 @ 23:45 |
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PvtJoker: Yeah, XMS2 RAM, an Asus board and an X2 is pretty much the choice for power PCs at the moment,until we see some availability from Intel's Conroe.
1. Depending what video you have, but I'd recommend http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817128002
These things are fantastic.
2.Depends what those "some games" are, if they happen to be strenous games (FEAR, Eleder Scrolls Oblivion, Age of Empires 3, Black& White 2), then you'd need a good graphics card, but if you only casually play older/simpler titles, then you won't need much. If you want good TV features, All-In-Wonder is THE way to go, so I'd recommend an X1800 All-In-Wonder for theheavy-games scenario and an X800 All-In-Wonder for the lighter scenario.
X1900: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102685R
X800 (2006): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102661
herrick: no CDs should not play on a DVD drive, it's a bad CD or you just don't have good luck with your drives, I don't use Sonydrives anyway because they are just slower Lite-on clones.
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28. July 2006 @ 01:19 |
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I was going to use Sony Drives in my new build. What drives would you reccomend then?
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28. July 2006 @ 01:30 |
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LG, NEC, Plextor and Samsung are all very good. Of late people have raved about very high burn quality benchmark results of BenQ/Acer drives, but after having two that both failed within a month they're no longer a company I use!
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