well guys I finally have my pc finished, it is an extreme gamer pc IMO.
amd 64 3400+
2048Mb PC3200 Ram
200Gb SATA/150 HDD
160 ATA/133 HDD (stores my random stuff)
6800GT BFG OCed (comes oced)
520watt Aspire Turbo P/S
DFI LANPARTY Nforce 3 250Gb mobo.
Lite-On 8x dvd burner
Lite-On 16x dvd burner
wudda think?
I give it a 10/10
how about you?
I give it a 10/10
how about you?
man dats sweet. yeh the rating is up dere
9.5/10 (nothing perfect)
9.5! all you need is 4gb of Ram (its possible), SLI 6600GT's OC'ed, a seperate HDD dedicated to windows pagefile and RAID 1 on 2 other HDD's (15k ones :D )! dw bout that man, urs is fully sick :D i wish mine was like that (its still good :D ) have fun in ur games :D
yeah problem with upgrading is I just bought the mobo and cpu in november, and I paided $300 for them and I just can't get myself to spend another $400 on new stuff in less then a months time, not to mention I dont need them, I get 175FPS locked on CS:S on good servers, my FPS rarely falls under 90fps
also my mobo only has 3 DIMM slots, meaning the max I can install is 3060MB
AND once u go over 2GB the ram only operates at PC2700 not PC3200.
I got away with installing just over 2GB and still running at PC3200.
also if you heard what I piad for everything you would give it 10/10
excluding the 160GB HDD and 8x dvd burner which I already had, my total on this pc came out to just under $900
its called smart shopping :cheesy:
I got away with installing just over 2GB and still running at PC3200.
2048Mb = 2Gb. 1024 bytes to the kilobyte, 1024 kilobytes to the megabyte, etc.
Where did you do your shopping? No way you can get that from newegg at less than $900. Did you go ebay?
3 DIMM slots
thats a bummer, as RAM needs to be in Dual Sync (or something liek that term). I mean like if you have 2x512mb and then a single 256mb for 1.5gig the .5 of a gig will be wasted! i really want a nforce mobo, they are soo cool!
my 2x 512MB sticks are dual channel but they are not running in dual channel.
I found my amd 64 for $200 and my mobo for $95 a few days before christmas
thats not bad $295 for a AMD 64 3400+ and a DFI LANPARTy nforce 3 250Gb mobo
thats a bummer, as RAM needs to be in Dual Sync (or something liek that term). I mean like if you have 2x512mb and then a single 256mb for 1.5gig the .5 of a gig will be wasted! i really want a nforce mobo, they are soo cool!
Socket 754 CPUs do not support dual channel mode.
Socket 754 CPUs do not support dual channel mode.
ahh it appears you are right :D learn something everyday :D
there is a nforce 4 motherboard that in the specs says supports dual channel and its socke 754,nots not out yet tho. maybe end of january early feb
well nforce 4's are the best by far so i believe it! damn i want one :D
there is a nforce 4 motherboard that in the specs says supports dual channel and its socke 754,nots not out yet tho. maybe end of january early feb
A64 motherboards do not host the memory controller - it is located on the CPU itself. Thus, any dual channel support is mostly dependant on the CPU model itself.
nice pc! im building a budget one for £800 (about $1500) which uses that same DFI mb and ath64 3400!!!! (newcastle core @ 2.4 GHz) and SATA barracudas :) Apparently the motherboard is good for a 280 FSB, which is nice. I might aim for a 250 FSB to get the 64 to 3GHz (with a watercool kit of course!) and i was thinking about a 6800 GT...... ;)
nice pc! im building a budget one for £800 (about $1500) which uses that same DFI mb and ath64 3400!!!! (newcastle core @ 2.4 GHz) and SATA barracudas :) Apparently the motherboard is good for a 280 FSB, which is nice. I might aim for a 250 FSB to get the 64 to 3GHz (with a watercool kit of course!) and i was thinking about a 6800 GT...... ;)
6800gt = best card eva made
A 6800GT, 2 gigs of DDR400 ram, 16x dvd burner, 520w PSU, and a SATA HD for under $600? Where did you do your shopping?
it was actually $924, read my first post I said just a little over,
and i forgot to mention i also had the PS, i have a thread on this forum somewhere about the PS.
and I just shopped around like on pricewatch and checked the prices and everything.
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