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11-26-2003, 11:15 PM
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| Newb Techie Join Date: Nov 2003
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|  how's this setup? i'm new =P what's goin on peoples...i'm new to this building stuff but a friend of mine built a computer for me....i'm gonna use this for a lot of music editing and play some games here and there along with photoshop and what not...please give me your thoughts and comments..thanks! Intel P4 2.6GHz w/800MHz Frontside Bus w/built in LAN-ethernet Asus motherboard w/support up to 3.2GB of DDR RAM Crucial 512MB (2 -total of 1GB) DDR RAM Lite-On DVDRW/CDRW black Western Digital 120GB 7200RPM harddrive SoundBlaster Live! soundcard GeForce4 MX440 8X AGP video card 56k v.92 modem (dial up modem) Foxcomm black supercase w/400W powersupply SmartFan II w/coolmod (for the case) I'm still thinking of adding another CDRW drive and another harddrive to go along with it....maybe upgrade a little more on some stuff, not really sure yet... =P |
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11-28-2003, 02:52 PM
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| Contributor Join Date: Sep 2002
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  |  Not bad, but the video card & sound card are a bit weak. GeForce MX series of cards have very bad performance (Ti series is better) and the SoundBlaster Live isn't that great of a card. (I went from SB Live 5.1-->Turtle Beach Santa Cruz-->Audigy 2 Platnum) Other than that, the system looks cool  |
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11-28-2003, 04:59 PM
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| Newb Techie Join Date: Nov 2003
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| cool...thanks, and yes i do plan on changing the video and sound card, it also seemed a bit weak for me...i was planning on getting these video card - BFG Technologies Asylum GeForce FX 5900 128MB DDR AGP Graphics Card sound card - almost like yours, creative audigy 2 i'm also going to add another drive, 52X CDRW...so yeah anybody have feedback on any of those items? thanks for everything! |
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12-06-2003, 06:53 PM
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| Junior Techie Join Date: Dec 2003
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| Since u are gonna do music, perhaps the audigy 2 nx and gpu has gotta be a radeon 9600/800 pro. Other than that it would be interesting to know what the board model is, altho it is an asus so thats all good. and also how much u coughed up, but id imagine it was just parts and free labour right? if so u got ur self a fairly potent pc without any of the crap that comes with OEM's **** i HATE OEM's they are teh suck.
__________________ My \'Rig\' (how ghey does that sound? AMD Athlon 2500+ Mobile@ 2400Mhz 1024 Mb Corsair XMS 3200 DDR RAM(the stufff with the activity LEDs) ABIT Radeon 9550(water cooling accident) Jeantech Butterfly V2 Easy maintainence case Abit AN7 \"guru\" Motherboard 2x 160Gb Samsung SP160N HDD DVD-RW DVD-ROM Netgear 802.11g Wireless Network/Gigabit Ethernet. Mail me on Borgmeister(at)Gmail(dot).com for invites if you want! |
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12-06-2003, 06:54 PM
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| Junior Techie Join Date: Dec 2003
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| Also i think gpu with fx in there sucks, im sorry but nvidia lost a customer for life there>.<
__________________ My \'Rig\' (how ghey does that sound? AMD Athlon 2500+ Mobile@ 2400Mhz 1024 Mb Corsair XMS 3200 DDR RAM(the stufff with the activity LEDs) ABIT Radeon 9550(water cooling accident) Jeantech Butterfly V2 Easy maintainence case Abit AN7 \"guru\" Motherboard 2x 160Gb Samsung SP160N HDD DVD-RW DVD-ROM Netgear 802.11g Wireless Network/Gigabit Ethernet. Mail me on Borgmeister(at)Gmail(dot).com for invites if you want! |
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12-06-2003, 07:43 PM
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| Ultra Techie Join Date: Oct 2003
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| FX The Geforce FX 5900 is a high end video card IMO but it can not compete with ATI in the department of gamming or overall visual quality. When you turn up the AF and FSAA the nvidia cards do not hold nearly as well as ATI. If you are looking at high end video cards I would recommend going with the Radeon 9800 Pro, its only around 50 dollars more and its a much superior card that will give you very strong visual performance for any type of application. |
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