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Hardware / GPU's
« on: December 01, 2008, 09:14:52 PM »
I just bought an ASUS P5Q Pro Series motherboard for my new build:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813131299

It has 2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots.  My current card is an ATI Sapphire Raedon HD 4670 512MB because I wanted to stick to a budget build.  If I were to upgrade in a couple of months and get a Sapphire Raedon HD 4850 1GB, would it perform better if I kept both in, or does it just have 2 slots so people can run dual monitors?

Lolimanoob.

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Hardware / Got my new low end gaming build. Just need to make sure it works.
« on: October 26, 2008, 10:28:37 PM »
Yeahh.
Well I was actually looking at this GPU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814150247

I actually am gonna wait till Christmas and wait for some deals now.  But I picked out a new build.  Hoping the prices will go down in about a month.  

Lol I love how I keep changing my mind.
But yeah, Here it is:

Case:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16811144151

MoBo:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813138122

CPU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16819116072

GFX:???????
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814150247
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130362
?

RAM:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820231122

HDD:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822148138

Monitor:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16824005110

DVD Drive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16827136152

PSU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817339006


Yeah.  Turned out a little better I think..

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Hardware / Got my new low end gaming build. Just need to make sure it works.
« on: October 25, 2008, 10:35:15 PM »
I love how you still have the same sig.

And I've been thinking about it, I'm going to save up some more cash, and I'll buy it around Christmas.  I'm gonna wait till some good sales go up.  And yes, I'm a ricer.  Lol.  

AND I got a GFX Card...Its not THAT low end either.

But yeah, I'm just wondering, I already have a disk for 32bit XP, should I spend the extra money to get more RAM and 64bit Vista?  I really don't like Vista, but how much would an extra gig or two speed my computer up?  Plus Vista would be slower than XP...
I'm just trying to weigh out the pros and cons...

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Hardware / Got my new low end gaming build. Just need to make sure it works.
« on: October 22, 2008, 09:25:30 PM »
Okay.  So I made a post a few months ago about the same thing, and now I've decided and spent some time making a build.  Everything's all set, I just need to make sure that all the parts are compatible.  Can anyone double check my work?  I'm not too good at dealing with specs.  I get way too confused lol.

Oh yeah JB, don't complain about my video card.  I know you probably want me to get a 9600GT or something.  But yeah, I'm sticking with this one.
http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':P\' />

DVD Drive
LG Black 22X SATA DVD Burner:  $23
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...%2052X%20burner

GFX Card
SAPPHIRE 100255L Radeon HD 4670 512MB: $80
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814102792

Monitor
Acer X193W+BD Black 19" 5ms Widescreen 2000:1 LCD Monitor:  $150
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16824009127

HDD
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10:  $50
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822148261

Power Supply
Corsair CMPSU 400W ATX12V: $50 ($60-$10 Rebate)  
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...%20CMPSU%20400W

Case
Antec Three Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower:  $55
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16811129042

RAM
2GB Patriot Extreme Performance DDR2:  $45
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820220174

CPU
Intel Pentium E5200 Wolfdale 2.5GHz Dual Core Processor:  $84
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...tium%20wolfdale

MoBo
GIGABYTE GA-EP43-DS3L LGA 775 Intel Motherboard: $85
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813128347

SUBTOTAL:
$611
+ About $37 in shipping

TOTAL:
$648

Just one question:
Which case should I go with?
I want something with LED's but I don't want something that will be cheaper quality just because it looks pretty.
They're both about the same price, but I need to keep things cool.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16811129042

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16811146041

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Hardware / RAM
« on: September 10, 2008, 11:13:10 PM »
Okay...I have a friend who is telling me that he knows a guy that works for a computer company and gets a discount on everything, so I'm gonna see if I can get hooked up.

But yeah, thanks for the help.  If anyone else has any suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated.

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Hardware / RAM
« on: September 10, 2008, 09:17:41 PM »
What difference is it gonna make if I throw another 20 bucks at a different HDD?
I really dont want to break $1k, and I'm at $977 with the new GFX card.

Is there a 64bit version of XP?
I hate Vista.

(BTW, what happened to Vent?)

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Hardware / RAM
« on: September 10, 2008, 08:52:31 PM »
Ah.  I didnt even notice JB

Well I got a kinda sorta plan.

Only problem is I'm breaking my budget and I'm not even sure that it's all gonna work.  Here's the specs:

CPU:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16819115017


MoBo:
Intel BOXDG33BUC LGA 775 ATX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813121304


RAM:
Kingston 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR 800
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820134641


HDD:
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS 250 GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...0%20st3250410AS


GFX:
EVGA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130318


Disk Drive:
Sony NEC Optiarc Black 15x DVD Rom
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16827101131



Power:
HIPER Type M HPU-4M730-SS 730W ATX 12V
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817128008


Case:
COOLER MASTER Elite RC-330-KKR1 Black ATX Mid Tower
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16811119118


Monitor:
Hanns-G HW-191DPB Black 19"
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...s-G%20HW-191DPB

(just updated the GFX Card)

Is it decent?

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Hardware / RAM
« on: September 09, 2008, 10:06:22 PM »
Hmm.  I didn't even think about that.  Well I found a site that offers 4GB for about $70.  That should work.

Okay.  I've been looking around and I think I found some stuff.  You can go ahead and close this if you see it Jason.

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Hardware / RAM
« on: September 09, 2008, 05:41:11 PM »
I wouldn't be so sure...I tried running it on my 2000 Desktop and I lagged horribly when I got into Ironforge..  Couldn't even move in there.

I've sorta dropped the idea of upgrading this old piece of [censored], and I think I'm just going to save up and get a pretty decent $800-$1200 laptop.  

Any suggestions on it?

If you can tell me how I could get more RAM on my desktop, I would still appreciate it.

Okay.  Scratch that.  I'm going to build a computer.  But since I'm doing a desktop, I only want to spend about $800 max.   I've already gotten a bit of a plan.

Processor and MoBo- $205
Video card- $175
Monitor- $140
Power Supply- $50
RAM- $50
Hard Drive- $35
Case- $40

I'm pretty much horrible at piecing hardware together, so if anyone can let me know what a good build would be for that price range, I would be amazingly grateful.

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Hardware / RAM
« on: September 09, 2008, 05:26:47 PM »
Well, I was thinking about getting a laptop.  I really think it would be pretty nice to have because I hate being stuck in my room...
Are there any good laptops that would be able to run at least WoW really well?

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Hardware / RAM
« on: September 08, 2008, 09:42:59 PM »
My computer is a 2000 stock Dell.
I'm not sure what model it is because:
a] I'm retarded
b] I'm retarded

Its soo freaking slow.
I don't feel like buying a whole new computer, so I was just thinking I could add some RAM and get a new video card.

This website (http://www.crucial.com) says I can't.

Apparently my computer is too old and NOBODY sells RAM that's compatible for it.
Plus I don't think I have enough slots to add any more..

Is there ANYTHING I can do?

I would really like to avoid buying a new motherboard and stripping the computer but i guess if it's cheaper than buying a new computer, I'll settle.

If there's nothing I can do, should I stick with building a new desktop, or should I move to a gaming laptop?

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Hardware / Video card problems
« on: December 19, 2007, 02:55:46 PM »
Okay, so i've been playing a bit of WoW lately, and it would lag when i got into big cities. Most likely its because i'm running it on 256MB of RAM, but it could also be my 7 year old video card. I told my friend and he told me he had a nice 4 year old card that was top of the line back then and he didnt need it anymore. He gave it to me and it has the right slots, and everything fits fine. I put it in last night and it ran WoW decently, definately better than before, but there was still a bit of lag. I thought i should install the driver for it and it would run things more cleanly because that would let the computer take more advantage of the card, so i went online and found the driver STRAIGHT from the manufacturer's website, so I KNOW it's not corrupted. Right after that, i tried running WoW again and I start it up and my monitor goes into standby mode and it wont kick back on, so i have to turn off the computer/monitor power and restart it....Any suggestions?

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For Sale / Wanted / Svulle's Official MMing Thread
« on: October 11, 2007, 05:17:19 PM »
YOU ARE A GOD.  I VOUCH YOU IN COWS BLOOD.

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For Sale / Wanted / Sellings sigs 100k each :D
« on: October 11, 2007, 04:48:02 PM »
Those DEFINITELY aren't worth 100k..

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For Sale / Wanted / MMing for free
« on: October 09, 2007, 01:32:27 PM »
Oh ma god bump.

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For Sale / Wanted / MMing for free
« on: October 09, 2007, 12:30:44 AM »
BUMP

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For Sale / Wanted / MMing for free
« on: October 08, 2007, 10:53:18 AM »
Bump

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For Sale / Wanted / MMing for free
« on: October 08, 2007, 10:15:38 AM »
Bump

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For Sale / Wanted / MMing for free
« on: October 08, 2007, 09:54:42 AM »
MMing everything for free again.
Just MSN me and i'll give you details.

[email protected]

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General Discussion / i would like to be elite
« on: September 27, 2007, 11:02:16 AM »
BLACKOUT WAS VOUCHED BY THE GARFACLEDINGLER ELITEDINGLER GUY
BLACKOUT SHOULD BE BANNED FOR BEING TOO AWESOME

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