cwhitby107 Posted June 23, 2004 Posted June 23, 2004 Hi, New to this forum so be nice. I just built this system for my son what do you guys think,spent $1725. Home Built - 3200+ AMD64 processor,MSI "K8T Neo-FIS2R" K8T800 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket 754 CPU,1Gig 400Mhz NON-ECC Ram DDR,MSI 16X DVD CD-RW drive 48X write and 48X read,Floppy Drive,80GB/ATA100/7200 WD Harddrive,36GB SATA150 10K 8MB WD RAPTOR Harddrive,480W TRUBLUE ATX Power SUpply,9800XT 256MB RADEON ATI VIDEO Card,Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer Sound Card,ALUMINUM MIDTOWER ATX STARTECH Case,10/100 PCI Fast Ethernet NIC,Windows XP Home Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony Posted June 23, 2004 Posted June 23, 2004 sounds good Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverfox Posted June 23, 2004 Posted June 23, 2004 Hey, welcome to OCC! And that's some system - wish my dad would build me one that spec.... What use is it going to be for? Overclocking a forseeable venture? Or just games etc? For games, that's gotta kick .! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwhitby107 Posted June 23, 2004 Posted June 23, 2004 Mostly used to play CS and hopefully to be used for his College studies when he goes back this fall. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony Posted June 23, 2004 Posted June 23, 2004 and put folding on it :D Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverfox Posted June 23, 2004 Posted June 23, 2004 Whoa, more than ample! As a spare media PC, i was considering one of these: Cilck me It's an incentive to make me study rather than play Check out the physical dimensions of the Mini ITX mobo's, lol Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwhitby107 Posted June 23, 2004 Posted June 23, 2004 Maybe i am getting old, but what does "and put folding on it" mean. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taranis Posted June 23, 2004 Posted June 23, 2004 *drool* Will you adopt me? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardnrg Posted June 23, 2004 Posted June 23, 2004 nah, i only found out recently... it's a project from stanford uni that distributes processing to pc's all over the world to discover properties of proteins folding and how it relates to diseases such as cancer... using people's "normal" puters around the world produces more processing power than all the supercomputers in the world combined... pretty impressive... and a nice cause too... the world's health if you think that sounds like a good idea (it is ) then just click one of the folding banners like the one under this message... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverfox Posted June 23, 2004 Posted June 23, 2004 (off the point a bit, but...) I got my lil DNA strand for finishing my first work units! Yay! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwhitby107 Posted June 23, 2004 Posted June 23, 2004 SilverFox said "As a spare media PC, i was considering one of these:". I still like having the VIDEO card and sound card seprate from the MotherBoard,you tend to get getting performance. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardnrg Posted June 23, 2004 Posted June 23, 2004 that probably means you can get the banner now fox... by the way Whitby, nice system! i hope your son is as excited about it as most everyone on here would be! make sure he uses it (study AND leisure) else i will be sad... and possibly shed a tear... yer right about the separate video and sound definitely... there are a few exceptions (if you aren't an audio/video-phile) - the NVidia soundstorm onboard audio seems to be highly praised, and i like some of the onboard offerings from nVidia and ATi - as long as it's just for video playback or whatever... not games... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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