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[wyrd_fish]

Probabally what i'll get:
120GB SATA Drive - £70
Athlon XP 2800+ - £80
Asus Radeon 9600XT (+HL2) - £130

Uber:
200GB SATA Drive - £110
Athlon XP 3200+ - £150
Asus Radeon 9800XT (+HL2) - £324


well, thats my shopping list...

good thing its soon my birthday

I also need a new case and some other minor stuff...

PS i found out today that my computer was almost identical to the AMD testing one...

Asus A7N8X Deluxe (V2), with the nForce 2 (Ultra 400)
Corsair RAM


whats on your wish list?

[jimeh]

I get people to steal my parts from college.

(Used bits)

[leeroy]

your uber looks good but i prefer an intel p4 to the athalons

[wyrd_fish]

indeed, they are better, but AMDs are a whole load cheeper

[leeroy]

Originally posted by wyrd_fish
indeed, they are better, but AMDs are a whole load cheeper

fair play, what other stuff you planning on getting?

[wyrd_fish]

i've got teh rest, apart form a new case...

Asus A7N8X Deluxe V2
512mb Corsair XMS
drives etc
duron (temp)
gfx card (temp)
8gb HDD (temp)

[Guy']

you should get 2x100MB SATA hard drives and put em in a RAID 0 Swipe configuration (if your motherboard supports that) or even better!! 2x250!!!!ooohh 500GB!

[leeroy]

Originally posted by Guy'
you should get 2x100MB SATA hard drives and put em in a RAID 0 Swipe configuration (if your motherboard supports that) or even better!! 2x250!!!!ooohh 500GB!

why would he need to do that? and im sure 200 gig is adequate even for an extensive porn collection

[Guy']

Originally posted by leeroy
why would he need to do that? and im sure 200 gig is adequate even for an extensive porn collection

Yeah true, but it would sure be something to boast about!

[eleanor]

TBH if one of my mates had a 200gig hard drive and didn't do enough with his/her computer to warrant it, I'd just think "wasted money!" :p

[Guy']

Yea, fair enough. Ive got a 160 Gig tho and ive already filled up a quarter of it in bout a month or two

[terrorbite]

My current spec is:

Athlon XP 2500+ (333MHz FSB) CPU
1024Mb (2x256) DDR400 (dual chan config) RAM
120Gb Western Digital IDE 7200rpm 8Mb cache HDD
Sapphire 128Mb Radeon 9600 Pro GFX card
Abit NF7-S v2.0 Mobo

which I got last June/July.

I am planning on keeping the motherboard for at least 2 years, and up until then, the only thing I might buy is a

Athlon XP 3200+ (400MHz FSB) CPU

I am waiting til the price of it drops below £80, which I'm hoping it might do by the end of August.
I've seen it £115 OEM and £155 Retail atm.

[wyrd_fish]

hummm, just checked your mobo.

and it doesn't say it has an nForce2 (Ultra 400)


but still claims to go all the way to 400mhz...

the non ultra 400s where only 333mhz FSB

i'm puzzled

[terrorbite]

hummm, just checked your mobo.

and it doesn't say it has an nForce2 (Ultra 400)


but still claims to go all the way to 400mhz...

the non ultra 400s where only 333mhz FSB

i'm puzzled

I have v2 of the board.

[Mystical Parrot]

i need to get a cd rw a better psu and another hard drive, no ideas yet but thats my wishlist

[leeroy]

lite on cd writers are the shit

[wyrd_fish]

i've newver had a troubles with tehm...

please explain

i'm on a knackered ricoh atm, a disc explodedn in it (not my fault) and its never been the same since

(it was a camp man disc that was cracked, not mine, i dn't like football)

[terrorbite]

Originally posted by wyrd_fish
i've newver had a troubles with tehm...

please explain

i'm on a knackered ricoh atm, a disc explodedn in it (not my fault) and its never been the same since

(it was a camp man disc that was cracked, not mine, i dn't like football)

I think "they are the shit" means they are good, but I dunno.

[leeroy]

Originally posted by terr0rbite
I think "they are the shit" means they are good, but I dunno.

yes indeed they are good, i've got a pair of lite on dvd writers great product never had a problem, i had a samsung cd writer but that really fucked up.

[eleanor]

Originally posted by Guy'
Yea, fair enough. Ive got a 160 Gig tho and ive already filled up a quarter of it in bout a month or two
so... *quick maths* that's 40 gig filled? blimey :eek: i've got 40 gig altogether!

[Dødens Knekt]

try 18.6 :(
I sorely need space

and 6 gb are music

[Mystical Parrot]

:o hdd are cheap now buy one!

i have an 80 gig hdd i will probably get another 80, only 40 quid

[wyrd_fish]

Originally posted by leeroy
yes indeed they are good, i've got a pair of lite on dvd writers great product never had a problem, i had a samsung cd writer but that really fucked up.

eh... sorry i miss read "are the shit" as "are shit"

[Cainam]

Something to look at is the new 64 bit AMD chips. Not too much more, but they do need a motherboard that will support.

As for Intel being better than AMD, it just depends what you are doing. A friend went from a AMD 2600+ with 512 megs of memory to a DUAL Xenon 2.8 ghz with 2 gig of memory for use in 3D animation. The Intel is faster if the program supports multiple processors, but for single processor programs, the AMD is actually faster.

[hyperboy]

Originally posted by Dødens Knekt
try 18.6 :(
I sorely need space

and 6 gb are music

Try 4 GB

[Guy']

Originally posted by Cainam
Something to look at is the new 64 bit AMD chips. Not too much more, but they do need a motherboard that will support.

As for Intel being better than AMD, it just depends what you are doing. A friend went from a AMD 2600+ with 512 megs of memory to a DUAL Xenon 2.8 ghz with 2 gig of memory for use in 3D animation. The Intel is faster if the program supports multiple processors, but for single processor programs, the AMD is actually faster.

Ive got an amd64! But if you really wanna go for the best option imo, you dont want to bother with xeons, but go for a dual opteron 246 rig. They have an on-die memory controller, interprocessor hypertransport tunnels, 512Kb L1 cache and 1Mb of L2 cache. It may just be my personal opinion, but ive always favoured amd chips over the intel variants. They get more done per operation and theyre better for heavy graphical activities