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Post by jon on Feb 18, 2004 22:07:09 GMT
doe's anyone spend a lot of time upgrading there pc ?
what spec is yours ?
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Post by ShadowAngel on Feb 18, 2004 23:23:18 GMT
Not really its funny how much money some people spend for their pc...more than for their girlfriend  So i don't see any sense in watercooling, casemodding (altough i have a modded case but that wasn't expensive) or the newest graphiccards (which most people overclock as soon as the thing is in the pc) To make it easy here is a link to my first pc: www.nethands.de/pys/show.php4?user=ShadowAngel - Its in german but i think you can figure it out ;D |
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Post by BobSega on Feb 19, 2004 10:04:09 GMT
lol. I spend next to nothing upgrading my PC. I bought one new piece of hardware since we first got the computer I think. A cheap microphone.
lol. I think of people telling me how lame and out of date my computer is.
Well it seems good enough for me.
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Post by segamon on Feb 20, 2004 5:42:06 GMT
I'm looking to have a great PC to composer music (sounds and midi combined) in high quality sound. Doing so requires a solid PC setup. My PC so far is...
M7VIZ Motherboard
AMD Athlon 2000+ (1.7GHz)
512MB DDR RAM
60GB & 20GB HDDs
128MB GeForce 4 video card
I'm going to get a MIDI PCI hub soon so that I can connect MIDI modules into my PC. Um, errm...
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Post by jon on Feb 21, 2004 1:02:39 GMT
cool ,what sound card you gonna buy ?
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Post by miricalworld on May 20, 2004 8:34:58 GMT
hey my cpu specs are 450 mhz p3 196 sdram 16 meg voodoo banshe soundblaster pci 64 20gb harddrive all old stuff but reliable  had it for 5 years! |
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Post by ApolloBoy on Jun 12, 2004 23:15:06 GMT
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2100+
RAM: 512 MB
Hard Drive: 80 GB
I have no idea what my video and sound cards are, my dad does work on the PC, not me.
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Post by Matias on Jun 27, 2004 21:11:17 GMT
AMD Duron 1.8 Ghz
256 Mb
30 Gb
64 Mb Video card
Soundblaster Awe 64 soundcard
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Post by Sinistral on Jun 27, 2004 21:36:13 GMT
Im obsessed with upgrading and building pcs
the main machine im using just now is:
amd xp3200 barton core
1024mb Geil pc 3200
Asus a7n8x delux motherboard
ATI radeon 9800XT graphics card
200gb wesern digital 7200rpm ata 133 harddisk
120gm samsung ata 133 hardisk
asus duel format dvd writer
liteon 52x cd writer
avermedia tv capture card
Soundblaster audigy 2 platinum
i also have a shuttle box i built as a entertainment centre. a domain controller and extra pc (for practicing business networking) there all upwards of 1.6ghz
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Post by onyx on Jun 28, 2004 2:06:45 GMT
hey there sinistral lol i started this thread ages ago and ive checked the last 10 threads and seen it on here
but hay it sounds like you have a beast there ,i just recently an asus a7n8x-s board and a zorro case but when id finished buying them i was prety upset as i wished id bought a shuttle barebones unit ,what was it like when you built your shuttle system ? and also do you rate them at all ? im thinking of getting one
at the moment though my pc consists of the following
zorro atx case
asus a7n8x mb
athlon thunderbird 1.333 cpu
512 pc 3200 ddr memory
60 gig pc133 hd
asus gforce fx5200 128 mb graphics
sounblaster live 5.1 sound card
52x cdrw
not a bad system for what i need it for (the web and playing ghost racon)
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Post by Sinistral on Jun 28, 2004 3:34:45 GMT
Heya Onyx, tbh i think youve made a smart move, imo barebones units still dont provide enough power and have too many heating problems. in my shuttle box i had an xp2600 (thoughbred core) but the damn thing kept getting too hot ( and that was with a real expensive thermalright heatsink) im sure it would be even worse on a thunderbird core. i had to resort to putting a duron 1800 into it to make it stable  which you probably know is very poor processor! also you have the problem that youve only got one PCI slot and one agp slot. so your system will be full by the time you get a decent gfx card and soundcard in there. I somtimes take my shuttlebox to Lan parties, its good for that and playing DVDs,divx's etc but not really that good as a gaming machine I also had problem initially getting it to run my radeon 9700pro i bought for it. psu just didnt provide enough juice had to resort to a less powerful 9600pro (which doesnt use extra power from psu) so all in all i guess you could say i dont rate them all that well. i wish i would have bought one of these new microatx cube cases instead. www.antec-inc.com/us/pro_details_enclosure.php?ProdID=15130 |
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Post by ranmafan1212 on Jul 6, 2004 3:04:06 GMT
Pentium 4 HT 3.06 Ghz
512 PC2700 DDR
120 Gig HD
DVD/CD Combo Burner
Intel Extreme Graphics 2 Intergrated
Upgrading the video card to a Radeon 9800 PRO 256 in a week
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had it for 5 years!
which you probably know is very poor processor!