I bought a new PC!

[Tsukai240]

this is ithttp://www.microcenter.com/sin...80583

i think its a good start.

this is my monitorhttp://www.microcenter.com/sin...82222

i'll want to throw in a 512 stick and a 250m video cardhttp://www.microcenter.com/sin...72839http://w ... in...65810

so what do yall think

[hannibal]

Not bad!

For that price, couldnt you get a name brand like Dell??

[[Zero-S]]

Not bad, and the graphic chipset, even though I utterly hate onboard graphics isn't bad.

I find it a shame that they gave you a motherboard with only one more ram slot, you're gonna have to ditch the stick of ram you have in your system right now when you upgrade your memory (if you're going dual channel).

Everything else seems good for a starter though.

And to IWannaS15--f*** brandnames.

[hannibal]

I'm a build it myself kinda guy. That way I know exactly whats in my PC. And I can go all-out on the parts I want and skimp on the parts I dont care about.

If I were gonna buy a PC, I would never buy one assembled by a shop or retailer.

[base9se]

that's a nice buy...you should look into pricewatch or newegg for memory or video cards

[w1ngzer0]

cool man, glade you got a machine. Just tell me how it runs on games if thats what your plan is

[[Zero-S]]

S3 Unichrome is very capable for the price. Deltachrome would have been a better choice, but that was up to the system integrators to choose.

[[Zero-S]]

Holy crap?! You're kidding me, Diamond is back in the graphics card business??

Nice.

[IvoryJ30t]

the only good thing about brand name computers is the price. they use the cheapest stuff available.

when it comes to performance, nothing beats building it yourself.

[base9se]

the only good thing about brand name computers is the price. they use the cheapest stuff available.

when it comes to performance, nothing beats building it yourself.

It's all about what you want out of your computer..expandable, memory, performance, etc.

[MinisterofDOOM]

Celeron...YECH! I'm sorry.

[themadscientist]

hey not everyone is a power user, I'm typing on a celeron. Next rig will be an AMD Athlon64 but that box is for greater things.Definately shop around for your RAM, that 512 stick is too damned expensive. So when do you hack a hole it the new case and start jamming it full of fruity lights and junk

[Tsukai240]

i'm happy with my new machine. it works great. my old games work on it just fine. (vampire~redemption, GP3, rollercoaster tycoon, ect)

Mad scientis: .NO i'm not going to RICE my computer. hehe

[themadscientist]

rice is nice! one problem with all these blacklights though, the right side of my face has a nice tan

[PoorManQ45]

That's hilarious! You took a picture with this thread on the screen. LOL.

BTW, nice looking case. I just have one thing to say, "Mine is bigger than yours! "

I don't really like blacklights in a PC case. They generate too much heat for the minimal light that they output. I prefer Blue Cold Cathodes.

Oh, guess where I got the Cold Cathodes from! I "scavenged" them from a car installation. It took a little "finnes" to get them in there, as they were 2in longer than the case, but I got them to work.

[[Zero-S]]

You are just the ghetto-rig master, aren't you?

[book-ends]

Isn't the new hotness bridged video cards.......the idea being that two video cards refresh in sync so you can play any game at max res with all the tricked out video options and still see absolutely no slowdown?

I saw it on Tech TV and I'm starting to think that since my current computer has been "acting up".........well, we'll see.

[[Zero-S]]

You're talking about SLI. Big effing deal. You'll pay less for the top of the line radeon x800 and still beat out nvidia's sli cards.

Remember 1 card is cheaper than two.

[BB Turbo]

Heres my comp i got a little over a year ago and I love it to death

http://powerspec.com/systems/a...phtml

with this as my monitor

http://microcenter.com/single_...74914

I got it all at microcenter as well. I had needed a new comp for a long time and shoopped around for a few weeks until I found Powerspec. With some other misc. things included with the comp the total price eneded up being around 1500$

[cnickk]

should i comment??? I did by my first Apple from Microcenter..

[cnickk]

why do you run such a low resolution???

[PoorManQ45]

It is always better for performance to run Explorer(The "desktop") at a "low" resolution. I usually run mine at 1280 x 1024, but when I am doing intense graphic editing, I turn the resolution down to 800 x 600. I have found that this saves about 5~15MB of Graphics memory.

Also, it is good to keep the desktop resolution low when playing games, even full screen games. The graphics processing unit (GPU) still Must render the desktop, eventhough it is not visible. This is just the way Microsoft made WinXP .

I saw it on Tech TV and I'm starting to think that since my current computer has been "acting up".........well, we'll see.

Get with the times man! There is no such thing as "Tecch TV" anymore. They were bought out by MAC themselves or some Mac related company. Sinse then, the quality of programming has went way down. I think the "buy-out happened like 10 months ago.

Anyway, in theory, two heads are always better then one. But, like most theories, the Twin Graphics Card theory falls short when compared to The new Radeon or Nvidia PCI Express cards. And if you have enough money to buy those cards, why not just upgrade your whole system, that would surely give you a much greater performance boost.

[cnickk]

ok

[yelnatsch517]

rice is nice! one problem with all these blacklights though, the right side of my face has a nice tan

Man...you need to get a better monitor.

hey not everyone is a power user, I'm typing on a celeron. Next rig will be an AMD Athlon64 but that box is for greater things.Definately shop around for your RAM, that 512 stick is too damned expensive. So when do you hack a hole it the new case and start jamming it full of fruity lights and junk

Yea, those prices are a bit high. Check out http://www.pricewatch.com for stuff. I would love to take a pic of my corsair ram with leds, but I don't have a digital camera . The funny thing about my computer is... is that the crappiest component in it is the vid card. I just can't seem to get myself to spend $400 on a vid card when I could be saving it to buy stuff for my car . O yea and a piece of advice, if you're lazy don't get watercooling for you computer. Something I had to learn myself.

[cnickk]

that post actually made sense almost entirly fact. unlike dudes earlier.....but hey i have shot the bull plenty of times myself on NICO, never about computers though they are my life

[themadscientist]

bow down to my memory!!!!

If only I had memory this good ,,, what was I talking about?