and sorry Dedguy et al, it's not a mac. I didn't even really buy a new computer, I bought a new motherboard (Gigabyte socket AM2, 16 GB of RAM supported :D ) a new processor, an AMD dual core Windsor running at 2.66 Ghz, and an Nvidia PCI x16 7600GS graphics card, I'm going to run two in SLI... I can't wait... I am a little nervous, because I bought a Gigabyte motherboard, and a Chaintech GPU, so has anyone ever bought from them before? Good? Bad?
The processor's also a 64 bit, so do you guys think I should stick with my 32 bit XP, or buy the 64 bit? I'm going to buy Vista once it gets mostly debugged (aero aero aero!), but I'm trying to gauge how long that's going to be...
edit: Just remembered, my current computer is a socket 478, 2.4 Ghz, with 2GB of supported RAM, and an ATI X800GTO, but I sold it, so I'm currently using a ATI Radeon powercolor 9250.
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Just dropped the hammer on a new computer...
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That sounds sweet!!!!!!!
I can't personally speak about chaintech's video cards, however I do own one of their mobo's and it is ROCK solid!!!!!!!
mmmmmmmmmmm dual SLI...
mmmmmmmmmmm PCI express
I am now jealous! thank you very much :rolleyes:
I can't personally speak about chaintech's video cards, however I do own one of their mobo's and it is ROCK solid!!!!!!!
mmmmmmmmmmm dual SLI...
mmmmmmmmmmm PCI express
I am now jealous! thank you very much :rolleyes:
gigabyte does make very nice mobo's so you shouldn't have a problem with that, as for the video cards I have no experience with that company so I couldn't tell you.
I'm getting ready to build a new core 2 duo E6400 system with 2 ATI 9150's in Crossfire mode with 2GB ram, although I might upgrade to 4GB later when I get more money
I'm getting ready to build a new core 2 duo E6400 system with 2 ATI 9150's in Crossfire mode with 2GB ram, although I might upgrade to 4GB later when I get more money
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Congratulations on your new computer. Both Gigabyte and Chaintech make good components, I think you'll have no problems with any of those.
For my part, I became obsessed with noise rather than raw performance, that's why I'm a sucker for passive cooling systems :o
For my part, I became obsessed with noise rather than raw performance, that's why I'm a sucker for passive cooling systems :o
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If you really want to make that puppy sing, dump winblows all together and go linux... or at the very least have a small winblows boot section (like a 10gb, for xp pro and those few progs the linux won't run or have equivalents for) and everything else linux. :p
BTW, I want that computer :p
Waiting till I have 1K laying around for my next one. Found an asus board with pentium D socket, 4gb ram supported, 800fsb. Toss in a dual 2.66ghz and 2gb 800fsb ram, comes out at $750-800 without even having anything else. Have a spare 16x dual layer dvd burner, 160gb HD, usb 2.0 cards, 10/100 cards, ati 9600 vid card, and a 650W PSU in a box, waiting for my next tower.
BTW, I want that computer :p
Waiting till I have 1K laying around for my next one. Found an asus board with pentium D socket, 4gb ram supported, 800fsb. Toss in a dual 2.66ghz and 2gb 800fsb ram, comes out at $750-800 without even having anything else. Have a spare 16x dual layer dvd burner, 160gb HD, usb 2.0 cards, 10/100 cards, ati 9600 vid card, and a 650W PSU in a box, waiting for my next tower.
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Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
Vampyre, I actually thought about Linux, but honestly I know about it. I've never directly hear whether it's GUI or command line, so is it a GUI like XP, or command line like MS-DOS? I also never switched because XP hasn't crashed in 6 years on me, Never gotten a BSOD, and I have Spyware and antivirus programs out the wazoo. Norton, AVG, Spybot, Ad-Aware, all the good stuff.
I'm also curious, has anyone heard anything about PC10000 RAM?
I'm also curious, has anyone heard anything about PC10000 RAM?
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Command line is quicker once you know what you're doing. I have Ubuntu 6.10 in my laptop, and simply for music, 'net and chat when I get home from work I use the GUI menus. I'm still getting the hang of using the terminal (aka command line).
Another thing to consider is that because the distro's are free, you can try a dozen O/S's for the cost of the CD/DVD its burned on. If you don't like hw one works, don't give up on linux till you either give a couple others a shot or spend any real time working on it. I've been working about 3 weeks with mine, spent my first week or so swearing at the command line (but had found another way to install progs at least). Had to get my mind out of dos.
Ubuntu is my 4th, and I'll most likely try something else when I get rid of the winblows boot. Might even have a couple linux distro's in here.
Another thing to consider is that because the distro's are free, you can try a dozen O/S's for the cost of the CD/DVD its burned on. If you don't like hw one works, don't give up on linux till you either give a couple others a shot or spend any real time working on it. I've been working about 3 weeks with mine, spent my first week or so swearing at the command line (but had found another way to install progs at least). Had to get my mind out of dos.
Ubuntu is my 4th, and I'll most likely try something else when I get rid of the winblows boot. Might even have a couple linux distro's in here.
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Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
A friend of mine is looking into getting a used IBM Thinkpad off ebay for cheap (maybe a few hundred) to just run Linux on and carry everywhere as the things are built like tanks. Sort of a "beater" laptop which unlike my beloved Powerbook won't explode if you drop it. I'm thinking of doing the same.
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@ KSDbass - That is a nice system. I will only use Gigabyte boards (after having 2 Asus boards crap out) and Chaintech make nice cards as well. As for an operating system, it's simple. If you are a gamer, go with XP Pro. As for Linux, it is an excellent OS, but it does have a learning curve. I dual boot XP Pro and Kanotix, however Ubuntu and Mepis are probably the most user friendly Linux for beginners.
I would suggest that you stay with a 32 Bit operating system. The driver support for 64 Bit leaves much to be desired - spotty at best.
I would suggest that you stay with a 32 Bit operating system. The driver support for 64 Bit leaves much to be desired - spotty at best.
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As far as the dual boot, ubuntu comes with a prog to reassign disk space. Just shove the XP space back so you have 10-15gb for linux(and format as linux), make another small one for a linux swap (2x the size of your ram... 512mb ram, 1024mb swap). Install ubuntu on that linux partition, restart comp, boot to ubuntu (mine automatically fires in ubuntu unless I physically key down to winblows).
All told, including the partition and format, I spent about an hour on here getting it all installed and running.
Not only is Ubuntu fairly intuitive once you figure out where everything is, but with Fuse, Capture and another set of drivers (ntfs 3g I think, have to check the book again), you can open files off your winblows side of things with linux progs. Haven't figured out if it's possible to grab files from linux when booted in winblows, but I've only been in winblows a couple times since I put ubuntu on here.
All told, including the partition and format, I spent about an hour on here getting it all installed and running.
Not only is Ubuntu fairly intuitive once you figure out where everything is, but with Fuse, Capture and another set of drivers (ntfs 3g I think, have to check the book again), you can open files off your winblows side of things with linux progs. Haven't figured out if it's possible to grab files from linux when booted in winblows, but I've only been in winblows a couple times since I put ubuntu on here.
Coffee before Conciousness
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
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Always happy to guide another person away from winblows. I shouldn't be the only one having fun with a new OS 
It's fairly straight forward to install linux, it's getting your head wrapped around the fact that dos commands don't work that takes a while.
I'll most likely still keep a 10gb partition of winblows xp and a few progs in here, but everything else will be linux boots (40gb hard drive, 10gb winblows, leaves 3x 9.5gb linux and a swap file :D )
It's fairly straight forward to install linux, it's getting your head wrapped around the fact that dos commands don't work that takes a while.I'll most likely still keep a 10gb partition of winblows xp and a few progs in here, but everything else will be linux boots (40gb hard drive, 10gb winblows, leaves 3x 9.5gb linux and a swap file :D )
Coffee before Conciousness
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
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