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Feb 03
Sun

New Computer

Finished buying components for a new computer. Specs: P4 2.4GHz, Asus P4PE (Firewire/Gigabit LAN), 512MB Corsair XMS3200 (2-2-2-6 latency), 120GB Seagate Barracuda V HDD (S-ATA), 120GB Western Digital (8MB cache, P-ATA) HDD, 40GB Seagate HDD(transferred from older computer), Lian Li PC-71 case, Antec 480W TruPower PSU, Leadtek Winfast 2000 XP TV/FM tuner card, SB Audigy Ex, LiteOn 52/52/24 CD-RW, LiteOn 16x DVD, GeForce 2 GTS.

I am waiting until the GeForce FX comes out, and will snap up a GeForce 4 when the subsequent price drop eventuates. Should easily last me through the rest of uni. I’m refusing to pump this system full of fans like my old one, no more overclocking for me. Serial HDDs are a pleasure to connect. All in all, it cost me in the mid $2000s, not a huge amount, and a miracle compared to the $5000 486-33DX system (4MB EDO RAM, 100MB HDD, SoundBlaster Pro, no CD-ROM) dad bought in 1991.

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1.  Fuzzy   Feb 17 2003 • 4:50 pm

You could cure cancer with that box. I’m also tossing up building a completely new system, mainly so I can move my current rig (AMD XP 1600+, 512 ram, GF4, some 250 gig of HDD) into the lounge to keep the chipped xbox company.

My new box would focus on being whisper quiet. I’m also sick of massive fans which make my room sound like a hovercraft garage.
2.  teldak   Feb 18 2003 • 6:16 pm

New boxes are cheap and awesome now. Something like 7 or 8 years ago, we payed over $1500 for a Pentium 100MHz Packard Bell, upgraded it for probably a good $1000 or so.

This December, we finally got a new box, a nice Dell. 2.4GHz, 256MB DDR SDRAM, 40GB HDD, and a GeForce4 Ti4200 with a 17″ CRT. Cost: $1500. With three years phone and in house tech support. (Just used tech support and I have to W00T out to Dell for the three-minute fix on a 24 stumper.) The box is a third as loud, a nice black with color-matched periphereals, and boots within about 10-20 seconds (props to MS for getting XP boot time so low!).

Makes me think about buying a dell for college, instead of building. Building costs more now, it seems to me, annoyingly enough, on top of not having 3 year tech support (I am not a computer wizard).
3.  burgatron   Feb 24 2003 • 2:33 am

dam

I’ll be putting together a new a system soon, did u go to computer markets or get pieces from stores stu?

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