MY New Super COMPUTER

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Just built a new machine for just under $800

This machine is a GREAT build for the money. It runs circles around pre-built $1500 machines

heres the specs:

-AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor 3.0GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM2 125W Dual-Core Processor
**Overclocked to 3.2GHz on stock cooling**

-4GB (2 Sticks of 4 available) DDR2 1066 RAM

-MSI NX8800GT 512M OC GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16

-GIGABYTE GA-MA790FX-DS5 AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX Ultra Durable II AMD Motherboard

-Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive

- Western Digital Raptor WD740ADFD 74GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 1.5Gb/s Hard Drive

-OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI 700W ATX12V Power Supply

-Sunbeam AC-9B-HUVB Blue Clear Acrylic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
 
Hi Sam. To be completely honest with you I'd have buyers remorse in like a year and a half. That's when all the 3's are supposed to be out. USB 3.0, SATA 3.0, and PCI express gen 3.

I have a question. Does your board fully support your 3Gb/s hdd?

My current machine is a 6000+ Windsor, 2 GBs ram, and a Radeon 2900 Pro. This machine is like 3 years old. I'm on XP. I guess you are on Windows 7 and it runs pretty smooth?

Your case sounds cool. I guess you didn't buy all of that off of Newegg. Your motherboard is a deactivated item. Sounds like a solid system though.

Sorry for sounding so critical :p
 
Sometimes you just need to get a replacement (for example, the current PC dies), regardless of the timing of technology. Especially when said technology can have teething issues or availability problems upon release.

That aside, I'm not so sure this is a great deal for USD 800. But maybe that's because I've never paid through the nose for pre-built systems, only the parts at the best prices I can find locally. At the very least, the video card seems a bit on the old side, I hope that didn't cost more than a few dozen USD.
 
Given that the guy posting it was a spammer, I would hazard a guess that this was actually a crypto-advertisement rather than a "great deal" of any kind.
 
Overclocked from 3.0 ghz to 3.2 ghz... bah... that's hardly an overclock (its like 6%), and yet it runs the risk of over-heat if not damage...

Now in my day, bout 4~6 years back, I had a 500 mhz board overclocked to 750 mhz (that's an amazing 50%)... and it required no extra juice and no extra cooling (was one of those rare high-end p2 boards that had lots and lots of extra settings for ram and fsb and such. Just had to find and install a 750 mhz cpu, change a few dip-switch settings, and wham, board could run anything from 500 to 800 mhz.

Actually the board was so well known for its overclocking ability that ASUS actually updated the bios to *remove* the support (mainly due to a lawsuit threat from intel, and to push ppl into newer p3 boards, or so the story goes.). Didn't stop me or others... there were hacked bios's so that the newest bios (which everyone needed to run the then-new 20 gb hard drives) was "patched" to have the older bios's "cpu identification".
 
@rapierdragon; That sounds like the ASUS P2B. I think that the intel lawsuit was just a rumour, what was a fact was that this board outperformed it's successor, the P3B, by about 8 to 9% when outfitted with thesame P3 CPU's.

(But time flies; Those boards were out in 1998/1999) ;)
 
This is a doubly poor "deal" since a quad core 2.8 gig athlon II will put you back less than a hundred dollars, for better performance across the board. that and the 8800gt is no better (and probably no cheaper new) than the GTS250.

Also i fail to see the point of the 74 gig raptor (since it's 5 year old spec) especially when paired with a 300 gig velociraptor (which itself isnt really worth the money over a terrabyte samsung f3 or a SSD for performance if running win7)
 
I saw he got banned, but it was pretty odd sounding stuff to be simply dismissed as spam.

Oh well, it's gone now, so no worries.
 
Wedge009 said:
I saw he got banned, but it was pretty odd sounding stuff to be simply dismissed as spam.

Oh well, it's gone now, so no worries.
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No it's not really odd. I've actually run into this same gimmick a few times on the boards in the last year. Somone makes an account and post a whole bunch of odd, sometime almost on topic posts - mostly in the off-topic forum - to see if their account will be blocked or not. Then, if no one does anything about it, they come back and edit spam links or porn photos or both into their signature at a later time or even day.
 
The OP wasn't why he was banned. He put a spam link in his sig yesterday (EST) morning, like AD noted. Banned accounts don't show sigs, but they're still stored in the account profile viewed through the admin interface.
 
I only meant it was odd in that, in my (admittedly limited) experience, spam is ideally supposed to advertise some sort of product or service. I just can't see what this is advertising - if anything.

Of course, I can accept that there are people who will post random junk just to be annoying. In that case they are wasting their own time as well as ours.
 
As Death explained, it's not this post that was the spam (as I'd previously thought) - instead it was the link that later showed up in the spammer's sig.
 
Yes, I saw.

I don't really want to talk about this any more, this twit is all messed up and undeserving of all the attention.
 
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