It has arrived!

Post by **Triton** » Sat May 27, 2006 3:41 pm

my other system pwns j00 a11! its a gateway connected touchpad hacked by moi

transmeta crusoe 3200 400mhz processor
64mb pc 100SODIMM ram plus 16MB built in ram
seagate caviar hdd 1.2gb!
NEC quadspeed cd rom drive!
built in 10.1" DSTN touchscreen LCD!

gonna upgrade the ram hdd and cd rom soon as i get some cash, right now its ghetto rigged the hdd and cd rom sit next to it stacked on a pilfered ATX powersupply from a packard bell which is also the donor of the cd rom

xelion · Post by **xelion** » Sat May 27, 2006 3:55 pm

Krepticor wrote:I'm looking to assemble my own computer later Can anyone point me in the direction of a very goo mobo that supports SLI, dual dual core processors, plently of PCI slots and works very well for an overclock...I'm just trying to get informed right now

oh yea AMD preferably

As far as I've seen there aren't many mobo's that support dual processors and SLI, though there are two on newegg last time I checked...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813151148

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813130523

There might be others, but those are the couple dual core socket 940 opteron mobo's with sli capibilities that I know of.

sammy · Post by **sammy** » Sat May 27, 2006 4:21 pm

Wow! You've all got great computers. Mine sucks though... It's a Toshiba laptop but it is really old.
450Mhz AMD K6-2 Mobile
32Mb ram (...)
etc (other crap)

My brother has this awesome IBM thinkpad worth over 2000$ (it can run hl 2 highest res etc...)
He got it from my mom for his studies (errm read games, mostly WoW), he quit his studies after like a month or so though...
Other than that I've got a pretty good pc upstairs running at about 1,5Ghz

Post by **Skyone** » Sat May 27, 2006 4:26 pm

xelion wrote:
Krepticor wrote:I'm looking to assemble my own computer later Can anyone point me in the direction of a very goo mobo that supports SLI, dual dual core processors, plently of PCI slots and works very well for an overclock...I'm just trying to get informed right now

oh yea AMD preferably
As far as I've seen there aren't many mobo's that support dual processors and SLI, though there are two on newegg last time I checked...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813151148

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813130523

There might be others, but those are the couple dual core socket 940 opteron mobo's with sli capibilities that I know of.

Those have to be the two craziest things I've ever seen.

blackbox_dev · Post by **blackbox_dev** » Sat May 27, 2006 4:31 pm

Even crazier then an N64 chip exploding right in front of you?

Post by **Skyone** » Sat May 27, 2006 4:33 pm

iam7805 wrote:Even crazier then an N64 chip exploding right in front of you?

That's how I roll.

sniper_spike · Post by **sniper_spike** » Sat May 27, 2006 6:42 pm

HomicidalBarber wrote:I dont care if I am bragging and I dont care if I am spamming but my computer came today and it runs like nobodies business! It is crazzzzy!! MAANNN! Seriously, the highlet of the year for me. The reason why? Okkkk.

-7900GT
-AMD X2 4800 dual core processor
-2 gigs of ram
-250 gig hard drive

those are just the sinificant parts. Once again. Spammy? Who knows? Bragging? Who Cares? IT FREAKIN ROCKS

Damn, beat me.

Amd 64 3700+ OC @ 2.5ghz (228x11) w/ Zalman CNPS9500 fan
Asus A8N-SLi Deluxe
Corsair TwinX1024-3200C2PT @ DDR456 2.5-3-3-8-T1
BFG 7800GTX OC @ 490/1360
Seagate Barracuda 160GB & 250GB
Xion 600W PSU 30A @ 12V
ThermalTake Tsunami Dream case

3dmark06:
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=301764

3dmark05:
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=2019180

xelion wrote:
Krepticor wrote:I'm looking to assemble my own computer later Can anyone point me in the direction of a very goo mobo that supports SLI, dual dual core processors, plently of PCI slots and works very well for an overclock...I'm just trying to get informed right now

oh yea AMD preferably
As far as I've seen there aren't many mobo's that support dual processors and SLI, though there are two on newegg last time I checked...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813151148

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813130523

There might be others, but those are the couple dual core socket 940 opteron mobo's with sli capibilities that I know of.

Umm... Socket 940 is mainly for servers (Opteron chips).
There are tons of SLI & Dual-Core capable 939 (A64's, X2's, FX' and 939 Opterons) motherboards.

Since you're planning on overclocking I'd strongly reccomend this board:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813136166

khaag · Post by **khaag** » Sat May 27, 2006 7:41 pm

My comp:

Processor: Pentium D VIIV 3 Ghz
Graphics: nVidia GeForce 6200 256 MB
Memory: 2 GB ram
HDD: 300 GB
Optical Drives: Dual Layer DVD/Any other disk burner w/lightscribe

Extras:
-9 USB ports
-3 firewire ports
-TV Tuner
-Windows XP media center edition
-tons of other stuff

Its pretty good... I can run two Doom 3's at the same time flawlessly on high settings. Its pretty awsome!

Krepticor · Post by **Krepticor** » Sat May 27, 2006 8:20 pm

what is the main comparitive power differences between having an overclocked 64-FX and possibly overclocking two OPTETRONs...

I mean I thought that having theentire power of a small scale server would be incredibly kick-arse if it was focused for one user

Of course I really do not plan to assemble my futire machine of ultimate destruction until I have the ability to get broadband...yes I have been doing all this on a 56 I don't have XBOX liveor PS2 online...my life sucks

Oh well thanks (I hope broadband will come here within the next year)

dman762000 · Post by **dman762000** » Sat May 27, 2006 8:47 pm

Krepticor wrote:
Of course I really do not plan to assemble my futire machine of ultimate destruction until I have the ability to get broadband...yes I have been doing all this on a 56 I don't have XBOX liveor PS2 online...my life sucks

Oh well thanks (I hope broadband will come here within the next year)

WoW you must really live in the stix

sniper_spike · Post by **sniper_spike** » Sat May 27, 2006 9:21 pm

Krepticor wrote:what is the main comparitive power differences between having an overclocked 64-FX and possibly overclocking two OPTETRONs...

I mean I thought that having theentire power of a small scale server would be incredibly kick-arse if it was focused for one user

Of course I really do not plan to assemble my futire machine of ultimate destruction until I have the ability to get broadband...yes I have been doing all this on a 56 I don't have XBOX liveor PS2 online...my life sucks

Oh well thanks (I hope broadband will come here within the next year)

I'd say opt for the opterons, they're really mad overclockers. Don't go thinking they're mircale chips though, they're still just regular desktop processors (the 939's atleast, dunno about the 940 opterons, would think the same).

Check out these threads for the steppings\revisions you want for the best OC's:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=179240 (dual core optys)
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=160552 (single core optys)

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Sat May 27, 2006 9:31 pm

bicostp wrote:
If I find one really cheap I may buy a cheapo Wal-Mart PC just to mess around with. (my current tinker PC is pretty slow, P2 300. )

do you have a Fry's electronics near you, because if you do I have got the most perfect tinkering PC on the earth.
http://shop2.outpost.com/product/471402 ... IN_RSLT_PG
$150 can't be beat. I love cheap computer stuff.

EDIT: my PC is pretty good
P4 2.4ghz OCed to 2.8ghz
1gb pc3200 ram
80gb samsung hdd+ 40gb secondary internal maxtor hdd
geforce 6200 256mb
win xp home sp1
cd burner and dvd rom drives.
4.1 surround sound card+ speakers.
17" monitor
THIS PC WAS MY FIRST BUILD!!!

HomicidalBarber · Post by **HomicidalBarber** » Sun May 28, 2006 2:02 am

Oh ya, price: $2200 including 19 inch gaming LCD and $100 printer.

Those guys at www.ibuypower.com are dumb though. When I got it the hard drive cables were unplugged, and the power supply to the disc drive.

Krepticor · Post by **Krepticor** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:17 am

dman762000 wrote:
Krepticor wrote:
Of course I really do not plan to assemble my futire machine of ultimate destruction until I have the ability to get broadband...yes I have been doing all this on a 56 I don't have XBOX liveor PS2 online...my life sucks

Oh well thanks (I hope broadband will come here within the next year)

WoW you must really live in the stix

Yea i live in a town that was created due to the construction of a government facility It has a population of about 250 mabye 300 Most are retired and about to rollover and die..I know it sounds harsh but that is the god-honest truth I figure the property value will go up after that because there might be a resurgance of jobs...if not the place will become even more of a ghost town

I could get satelitte internet but it is still in the embryonic of its development I mean I have satellite TV cuz cable can't come out here and I have well water...It is a miracle we can get the co-op for our electricity

But I honestly would like to move out west (I live in SC) but i can only dream until I graduate college and get empoyed (out west)

But whatever

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Sun May 28, 2006 1:58 pm

I have:

Sempron 64 3100+
2x 160GB Sata in Raid 0
1GB PC4400 DDR
Radeon X1800XT 256MB
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Combo Drive
Tforce6100 micro-ATX motherboard, with the works

All running on a dinky 270 watt power supply. I hate having a PC that makes noise, so I need to come up with a way quite down that X1800XT, which is the loudest thing in my case by far...

Anyway, Athlon64's are geared towards consumer use and gaming. Opterons are geared towards server applications. Some google searches indicated that the gaming cpu performed better during gaming than the non-gaming cpu (go figure). So, I guess you'd need to make a choice based on that.

I had a 3800+ X2, but it was noisy, and it just didn't offer the level of multitasking performance everyone was screaming about. I'm happy with my Sempron.

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