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Topic: Slurry's Bitchin' New Box!
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Slurrydevil
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posted November 02, 2003 05:15
Im getting a new PC on wednesday and im so excited I have to tell people who appreciate these things. I have been trying to use a 486 on windows 95 at my dads house and its finally gotten so slow that my ultra frugal father has agreed to go halves with me to get a new one. Its costing us $1350 oz dollars (remember $1 equals about 69-70 american cents)and I think that we got a really good deal.Intel Celeron 2.4 gic CPU (yeah I know celeron pffft but the mainboard goes up to P4 3.something gig)
512meg DDR RAM
80gig 7200 HD, and the mb has serial ATA so itll load like a dream. *drools*
Onboard Soundblaster live 6 channel soundcard
GeForce 4 128 graphics card (and an 8X AGP slot so itll go higher later)
a 17 inch flat screen phillips monitor
Cordless mouse and keyboard
And an Altec Lansing Speaker system with a sub and two tweeters. i've heard them and they are really good quality.
O yeah and a 48 speed write/rewrite burner combo DVD drive. The Mainboard and case quite upgradable too with 5 PCI slots, 4 RAM slots (thats DIMM slots right?) which hold up to 512 DDR RAM each. The case is a nice silver full tower number with heaps of spare room and extra drive and HD gaps.
And its got Windows XP and im borrowing the 2k office suite and lots of other software off my uncle who is a systems admin. Ok sorry for subjecting you to that ranting but you have to understand how pleased i am after 5 years of only owning a 300mhz AMD K6-2 and a 486....it is going to make heaps of stuff possible for me that i couldnt even consider before!! [ November 03, 2003: Message edited by: Slurrydevil ] -------------------- What is new is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again. - Nietzsche
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Ratty
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posted November 02, 2003 14:38
Not a bad comp, Slurry. Celeron is not a good choice for gaming, though. Athlon is not bad for gamers, though us l33t hardcore computer fr33ks run from it like hell, because Pentium is like 20°degrees colder than Athlon, more stable, more durable, has more L2 cache, faster FSB and is generally technologically more advanced (well, Thoroughbred and Barton have kinda caught up with Northwood, so they are an excellent choice).What kind of GeForce 4 does it have? If it's MX4x0 (where x is 2, 4 or 6), it'll be as slow as GeForce 2. If it's Ti4x00, it's great. Don't forget that your hard drive must support serial ATA as well. You can tell the difference between IDE and SATA easily - the latter has a very thin and elegant cable... And you don't want to have that serial ATA port on your motherboard for nothing... What speed is your DDR? Ideally it should be 400, 333 is great too, while 266 is pretty outdated. And CaliberOnzo, what are you on about? Flatscreen can't display true color? Where have you heard that?  -------------------- Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors.
But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
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Slurrydevil
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posted November 03, 2003 04:25
Ok basically the CPU thing was more a matter of cost. Its ok because I made damn sure that the mainboard takes a Pentium 4, so if i get sick of the Celeron ill probably get a new one.
And I know its a serial ATA HD because i knew the standards needed to match when i was looking so i checked. And as for DDR im not sure, i suspect its 333.
The graphics card is a Geforce 4 Ti4200 i think, and the good thing is that it doesnt even take up the AGP slot so i can still add onto it later, its basically a really adaptable computer.
Im inclined to agree about AMD processors, but once again it was mainly a matter of what sort of mb i wanted vs what sort of cpu it took. The most suitable one was an intel board so thats what we got.
The monitor is actually really good, i saw it in action in the shop so I know what it looked like. We were gonna get an LCD monitor but we decided we didnt need all that dead pixels/lower life span/ more expensive crap. It actually plays DVD's better looking than my TV  -------------------- What is new is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again. - Nietzsche
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posted November 02, 2003 06:33
And about the Celeron you must have a mighty good reason to take a Celeron 
And with the memory you're putting in it you would only need a 0.8 ghz but I think that would outdate rather fast. So I'd say just take a intel pentium 2.0 ghz or a AMD Athlon 2400+ it's the same as the pentium but less expensive 
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