On the bright side, you won't have to upgrade for a very long time.
Have fun mate, hope you get it.
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On the bright side, you won't have to upgrade for a very long time.
Have fun mate, hope you get it.
Re: My possible new computer
The 300GB is cheap for it's size(and it's a good brand too). It's a Seagate, and costs 150 euros. It's IDE though, I need to search for a SATA2 with about 10000rpms which will go for maximum power.
The 2 nVidias go over 30000 points with 3D Mark 2005!!!
Ja mata, TosaInu. You will forever be remembered.
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Been to:
Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
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I would either buy an AMD or wait for the new generation of Intel chips (coming pretty soon). The Pentium chips are pretty outgunned as far as gaming is concerned.
Nice rig though. You better do well in your exams now!
Eppur si muove
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New generation of Intel chips? Perfect!!!
When?
Yeah, of course. I want this.
First post edited. I found a killer HDD.
Ja mata, TosaInu. You will forever be remembered.
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Been to:
Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
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The Conroe is suppose to appear in the 2nd half of this year so anywhere from June-Dec.
For the psu, get a beefy pcpower&cooling unit.
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Those PC Power and Cooling power supplies are killer, but they're LOUD. I'm listening to one right now. It's one of their "silencer" models. It's making slightly less noise than a dust buster.
Look for one of the new power supplies with a 120mm fan. Something like this. Better chance of it not being such a blower.
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Why not dual HD's in a RAID array for speed?
That way your paging files will be twice as fast.
And/Or get i-RAM (from Gigabyte) you slot in RAM and you can use it as a HD ... either for loading the OS or favourite game into or having as your paging file.
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The Seagate Barracuda is a SATA HDD, which proves to be at a good price(almost 300 euros). Features:
-400GB space
-7200 rpms
-150MB/s
Basically, I think it's a good buy.
The cover has a huge cooling fan, a bit bigger than the one shown by Lemur, and a smaller one up top(normal cooling fan).
As for RAM's, I opted for a dual 1024MB DDRAM Corsair. The performances are good, but if there's room for improvement, I'm open to ideas.
Ja mata, TosaInu. You will forever be remembered.
Proud
Been to:
Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
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I agree on the multiple HD's, as a matter of fact, I would get (have) 3 @ 150GB ea.
1 for OS (c ~ 30GB; D for dl's, caches, etc.)
2 as raid for progs and data (multiple partitions)
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