I didn't know dork about computers until I wanted to play better games. I went and bought a video card, installed it, played for months, and then wanted something faster! Let's see what yous gots. I'll start, even though it's cutting edge 2003 ancient shizzle:

AMD 2500+ Barton on an Asus A7N8X-E. Nvidia 6600GT (Hey, DirectX8 looks great) from EVGA and 1 Gig of RAM. My case is a piano-black finish HTPC style Antec which lays on its side like a DVD player. I do have a wireless mouse and keyboard (told you, cutting edge, lol) and I'll play thru headphones usually. The monitor is a 20" NEC FE2111 CRT in black (thanks Maximum PC) with Logitech peripherals.

If you've never built a PC before, it's easy. All you need is a phillips head screwdriver and some patience. There's a wide degree of speed available, and what's slow to some, may seem fast to others. It's seriously no harder than Legos. Plus when you first turn it on, you're like "It's alive!"

 

This may come as a real big shock to most of you some of you already know it I really like to build computers. It relaxes me it is just one of those instant gratification things I have built about 10 systems over the last two years. We have no less than 3 desktop PCs running now, and one laptop, and there's only two of us here . So here is , what's under the hood of the one I'm using right now, with a picture of the Cabinet would get one with the digital camera, but it's dead right now. So the stock photo have to do. And here it is, and all of the components






Motherboard
EVGA nForce 680i SLI Motherboard - NVIDIA, Socket 775, ATX, (New T1 Version), Audio, PCI Express, SLI, Dual Gigabit LAN, S/PDIF, USB 2.0 & Firewire, Serial ATA, RAID
Processor
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Processor - 3.0GHz, 4MB Cache, 1333MHz FSB, Conroe, Dual-Core,
Hard Drive
Seagate Barracuda ES 750GB SATA-300
Video Card
HIS Radeon HD 2400 Pro Supporting 1GB with Hypermemory PCIe
Memory
Corsair Dual Channel TWINX 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory
Bay Drivers
LiteOn LH20A1H Super-Multi 20x Lightscribe DVD Burner

HP AH048AT Lightscribe DVD Burner SATA 48x32x CD-R/RW

Power Supply
OCZ 1010W GameXStream SLI Power Supply

 

I, uh, fogot to mention that my hard drive is an, um, 80 gig Seagate, yeah *sigh*[&o]

 

That video card is insane lol. sweet tho. Heres all mine. Changes from the pic are the Mac is a dual 500Mhz G4 now, and the hp 15" monitor is another 19" Widescreen. I also have a acer laptop.

 

My computer is 7 years old, recently replaced the motherboard cos it got zeroed after flood caused an electrical short in June. Used to upgrade my computer all the time, only to find that your always, always, having to do it. So just said "Stuff this for a joke matey" and stuck with wot I had, and seriously have not had any problems (apart from the usual Microsoft ones). You can get caught up to much wiith computers & end up like this guy.

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AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ (+ COOLER MASTER GeminII)
PNY GeForce 8800GTS 640MB
CORSAIR XMS2 4GB DDR2 800
ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI
SCEPTRE Black 20" DVI Widescreen LCD
SILVERSTONE FM123 120mm Case Fan X2
SILVERSTONE 560W Power Supply
Logitech G5 USB Wired Laser 2000 dpi Mouse
Logitech X-230 32 watts 2.1 Black Speaker System
Saitek PZ30AU Black USB Eclipse Keyboard
XTRAC Ripper Optical Mouse pad
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
King Win Case
1,250 in hard drive space.
lite-on dvd burner




nvm tjhe pig its my moms.

 

Meh, you guys suck, I was even looking at my next system components last night, but I still don't have enough flow to build another system yet. I currently am running an Athlon 64 2.0GHz with 1GB Crucial DDR, 2x160GB Seagate Barracuda (only model of drive I will buy), 256MB ATI Radeon X850XT Pro, and in my custom modded case. Only have a 17" Samsung Syncmaster, but I really like those monitors, hoping to upgrade to dual 19"s like I have at work.

Also, when I upgrade I'm moving to at least an Athlon X2 2.0GHz, 4GB DDR2, and I'm going to put it in the Antec Nine Hundred. I'm not sure what video card I will use since my current ATI is AGP and the new board I get will more than likely only run PCIe. Anyone have any suggestions for a graph card? I have been to hell and back with both Nvidia and ATI.

Here is the new case I am getting:

 

i can get that case at less than half working at where i work.....its a sweet caseill post up after work.

 

EE6400
Radeon 1950XT
XMS2 Dominator 2GB 800
Asus nForce 590
160GB Western Digi







New Monitor - 20inch Wide Screen


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