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Windows XP Professional SP1
Intel P4 Processor (3200Mhz, 800mhz fsb, 1Mb L2 Cache)
2048Mb RAM
360Gb HD (2 x 160Gb Maxtor 6Y160M0 HDs) -which where very problematic to partition.
RADEON 9200 SEC -again, had difficulty installing drivers
DVD-RW (x 40)
DVD-ROM (x48)
Multi Card Reader USB 2.0
Sound
Modem

And a partridge in a pear tree.

Yes, those are the specification of my new PC and no, I am not working for NASA. I think some of you at this point might be thinking 'so what?', but I just wanted to share this achievement with you all seen as it is the first PC I have ever build by myself. And no, I have no qualifications for PC maintenance or anything like that.

Ps. at what point can members have images in thier sigs?

EDIT: Disregard the above query.

This is more of a G&C topic.

Wha?
~Pablo

But VERY nice nontheless.

[edit]Wasn't this in OT? Or am I going senile 50 years early?

Holy shit, that's the most RAM I've ever heard of in a single personal computer.

2084 megs ram? impressive. i suppose that'd fill up all 4 ram slots with 512 meg sticks.

StormtrooperOfDeath wrote:This is more of a G&C topic.

But VERY nice nontheless.

Leave me alone, I'm new!

@ Darth_Zod: I was thinking of getting 4Gb RAM, but they are still about £200 a stick for the 500mhz type!

You're right - 4 x 512 sticks. I'll say one thing though - I need to find a quieter fan. Mine sounds like a Boeing 777 is landing.

Joy Division wrote:

StormtrooperOfDeath wrote:This is more of a G&C topic.

But VERY nice nontheless.

Leave me alone, I'm new!

@ Darth_Zod: I was thinking of getting 4Gb RAM, but they are still about £200 a stick for the 500mhz type!

You're right - 4 x 512 sticks. I'll say one thing though - I need to find a quieter fan. Mine sounds like a Boeing 777 is landing.

get a water coolant system if you really want the box to be quiet.

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Holy shit, that's the most RAM I've ever heard of in a single personal computer.

2GB is the most you've ever heard of? Hell, my personal machine has that much while my old Opteron workstation had 4GB for a short time till I canabalized it. With 1GB being the new standard for power users, 2GB isn't a stretch at all, especially considering you can pick up 4x 512MB sticks for around $225.

I hate you so much. I only have 256 megs...

BTW Joy Division? I really hope you aren't planning on playing any games on that machine. That Radeon 9200 is woefully underpowered compared to the rest of your system. If you do want to game, get yourself up to a 6600GT or greater.

Kernel post 1: Well, excuse me! Have I heard you talk about your 4GB of RAM before? Nope. Nor have I heard anyone else say it. HENCE MY STATEMENT. Geez, I myself have a full gig, but simply seeing the numbers down there for the first time was a bit of a 'wow' moment.

Kernel post 2: I concur. Get a top-notch card to go with the rest of the system.

The Kernel wrote:BTW Joy Division? I really hope you aren't planning on playing any games on that machine. That Radeon 9200 is woefully underpowered compared to the rest of your system. If you do want to game, get yourself up to a 6600GT or greater.

It's the only 256Mb graphics card I could find to suit my budget. I built the whole thing for £878.70, which is good considering a retailer whould have charged me around £3000 for the same machine.

I might be able to update the graphics in a year or so when I do an overall - get that 4Gb RAM too.

PowerMac G5's and I *think* some Opteron systems have tons of RAM slots. The G5 can handle 8 gigs. If you could find a board with enough slots, you could literally put terrabytes on an Athlon 64 or G5...

1. 2 gigs of RAM will be plenty for the next two years at least. Going for 4 gigs is just excessive and you could save that money for a better graphics card instead---your current one being the bottleneck in your system currently.

2. If you want a quiet fan without going through the whole trouble of water cooling (I assume you have some generic fan at the moment) try for a Zalman.

I have virtually the same model and it's reeeeaal quiet, but cools my system better than my old, noisy fan did.

Get yourself the SP2 patch, as well, you'll thank yourself in the future. And yeah, video, major hamstring, shoulda dropped to 1GB and gotten better video.

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Holy shit, that's the most RAM I've ever heard of in a single personal computer.

I had 2GB a year ago or something but found out win98 can't start with it, so I pulled it out and use only 1GB now which works fine, and used the other GB to get another PC together.

Joy Division wrote:

The Kernel wrote:BTW Joy Division? I really hope you aren't planning on playing any games on that machine. That Radeon 9200 is woefully underpowered compared to the rest of your system. If you do want to game, get yourself up to a 6600GT or greater.

It's the only 256Mb graphics card I could find to suit my budget. I built the whole thing for £878.70, which is good considering a retailer whould have charged me around £3000 for the same machine.

I might be able to update the graphics in a year or so when I do an overall - get that 4Gb RAM too.

Why did you get a 256MB video card in the first place?

Nice computer

Altough that Radeon 9200 is quite a bottleneck for games

You were ripped off on the 9200, it dosn't have the power to use 128MB, let alone 256MB of vRAM.

I don't know what you paid for the 9200, but its basicly holding everything you have back, even a 9500 would be better.

Wow impressive computer. I dont think I can beat you when I build my new PC next month...

The Shadow wrote:Wow impressive computer. I dont think I can beat you when I build my new PC next month...

If you keep your RAM to a gig, keep with your pirating and stay with a small 74GB Raptor HD, and get an AMD 64-bit and concertrate on a good graphics card, you can.

Oh, and by skipping the DVD-rw

If you keep your RAM to a gig

My current box has 256 MB. I think I will go for 512 MB in the new machine.

keep with your pirating and stay with a small 74GB Raptor HD

Fortunately I have already aquired a 120 GB Seagate HDD.

get an AMD 64-bit

Not sure if I will go 64 bit yet.

concertrate on a good graphics car

Definately something better then this ancient RivaTNT2.

The Shadow wrote:My current box has 256 MB. I think I will go for 512 MB in the new machine.

1024 will let you run anything in the next few years, and RAM is cheap/

The Shadow wrote:Fortunately I have already aquired a 120 GB Seagate HDD.

Then your set there.

The Shadow wrote:Not sure if I will go 64 bit yet.

Why not? your just killing yourself early on, by 2006 we will be seeing native 64-bit applications, same with longhorn

The Shadow wrote:Definately something better then this ancient RivaTNT2.

A 9600$ goes for around 100$, a 9800Pro for 200$, get a last gen GPU and your set.

Sokartawi wrote:

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Holy shit, that's the most RAM I've ever heard of in a single personal computer.

I had 2GB a year ago or something but found out win98 can't start with it, so I pulled it out and use only 1GB now which works fine, and used the other GB to get another PC together.

Quick note, 98 will /run/ with a gig, but it'll only ever make use of 512MB, so that extra half-gig is being completely wasted.

White Haven wrote:

Sokartawi wrote:

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Holy shit, that's the most RAM I've ever heard of in a single personal computer.

I had 2GB a year ago or something but found out win98 can't start with it, so I pulled it out and use only 1GB now which works fine, and used the other GB to get another PC together.

Quick note, 98 will /run/ with a gig, but it'll only ever make use of 512MB, so that extra half-gig is being completely wasted.

Odd. I read in MSDN that 32 bit OSes support upto 4 gig RAM.

White Haven wrote:

Sokartawi wrote:

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Holy shit, that's the most RAM I've ever heard of in a single personal computer.

I had 2GB a year ago or something but found out win98 can't start with it, so I pulled it out and use only 1GB now which works fine, and used the other GB to get another PC together.

Quick note, 98 will /run/ with a gig, but it'll only ever make use of 512MB, so that extra half-gig is being completely wasted.

Actually 98 dosen't know how to work with more then 512MB's of ram properly. If you were running with a gig then i would shut off the page file and the swap file and just let 98 use the ram but you would need to patch it so 98 could use the full gig properly