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Post by **Beowulf** » 2005-04-02 10:44pm

Typing this on my brand new computer(built from parts):

Athlon 64 3500 (90nm)
300GB Seagate Barracuda
1 GB RAM
ATi AIW x800xt
Shuttle SN95G5 case
NEC 3520 DVD burner
Viewsonic G90fb
Logitech MX510 mouse
Saitek Gamers Keyboard

Linksys WRT54G router (supports wireless laptop).

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2005-04-02 11:18pm

Wow. You bastard. I hate thee.

*spins with envy*

Post by **Beowulf** » 2005-04-02 11:45pm

Shinova wrote:Wow. You bastard. I hate thee.

*spins with envy*

It too, can be yours for the low low price of $2000.

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2005-04-03 01:48am

Bah, you can get nearly as good for half that. What are you going to use that expensive, marginal improvement on processing power for?

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2005-04-03 03:00am

I stab at thee from the pits of hell.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-04-03 06:27am

Beo, very nice, very near my future specs, what RAM brand?

Alan, how the hell is a 3500 a marginal improvement from a 3200? Are you half blind?

And that Graphics card is not 'minor improvement'.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2005-04-03 05:50pm

Ace Pace wrote:Beo, very nice, very near my future specs, what RAM brand?

Alan, how the hell is a 3500 a marginal improvement from a 3200? Are you half blind?

And that Graphics card is not 'minor improvement'.

Mushkin. It's 2.5CL

Lancer · Post by **Lancer** » 2005-04-03 07:26pm

did you get the 128 mb or the 256 mb x800 card?

also, what motherboard are you using?

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2005-04-03 10:23pm

Ace Pace wrote:Alan, how the hell is a 3500 a marginal improvement from a 3200? Are you half blind?

I personally don't think the high price premium is worth the performance difference... unless, of course, you can provide benchmarks showing a significant increase from the 3200+ to the 3500+.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2005-04-03 10:30pm

Matt Huang wrote:did you get the 128 mb or the 256 mb x800 card?

also, what motherboard are you using?

There's only one AIW x800. No options available. I'm using a Shuttle FN95. Of course, that's a kinda stupid question considering it's a SFF system, the case of which comes with the motherboard.

General Brock · Post by **General Brock** » 2005-04-04 12:12am

ONE gig ram <grumble grumbler>

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-04-04 12:38am

Beowulf wrote:
Mushkin. It's 2.5CL

Nice, got myself some corsair 2.5CL.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/sh ... i=2330&p=2

For me, that kind of differance is worth shelling out an extra 50$ which was the differance at the time I put in my order.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2005-04-04 02:05am

Well, if ~4-6 frames per second over the 3200+ is worth $50 to you, it's worth $50 to you... not so sure I'd call it a significant advantage, though.

But then it probably is significant if the CAS latency's that notable to you.

Personally, if I were so hellbent on squeezing that much performance out of my system, I'd probably just OC the 3200+ up to 3500+ speeds.

Different strokes, I guess.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-04-04 07:36am

Uraniun235 wrote:Well, if ~4-6 frames per second over the 3200+ is worth $50 to you, it's worth $50 to you... not so sure I'd call it a significant advantage, though. But then it probably is significant if the CAS latency's that notable to you.

Personally, if I were so hellbent on squeezing that much performance out of my system, I'd probably just OC the 3200+ up to 3500+ speeds.

Different strokes, I guess.

Not to mention I wanted the new Winchester core(it gets HOT here, I wanted as cold as I could get) and there was no 3200+ Winchester in stock.