A new cpu, and by suprise a new vidcard

crzyrbl · Post by **crzyrbl** » Sat 27 Aug, 2005 8:45 pm

wow, you guys know alot about this cards. the sad part is, i might not even be getting that powerbook. i might just wait til jan when the INTEL CPU'S COME TO APPLE!!! i've never owned an apple before, but man...they work so much better, and are actually pretty cheap now.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Sat 27 Aug, 2005 9:01 pm

crzyrbl wrote:wow, you guys know alot about this cards. the sad part is, i might not even be getting that powerbook. i might just wait til jan when the INTEL CPU'S COME TO APPLE!!! i've never owned an apple before, but man...they work so much better, and are actually pretty cheap now.

they arent as cheap as pcs are, but they are quiet nice and well you pay for the name basiclly.

Spengo · Post by **Spengo** » Sat 27 Aug, 2005 9:10 pm

A lot of stuff that runs on PCs doesn't run on Macs though.

I prefer PCs.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Sat 27 Aug, 2005 9:16 pm

Spengo wrote:A lot of stuff that runs on PCs doesn't run on Macs though. I prefer PCs.

yeah thats one of the major factors that make me stay with pcs, that and well i know more about pcs.

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Sat 27 Aug, 2005 9:20 pm

I got a pc only to program. Otherwise, I use Mac. Did you guys hear about that iBook incedent? Some school district had a surplus of them, so they sold them for 50 dollars apiece. An old man and a baby and maybe a few more got trampled in the 10,000 person crowd.

Post by **DarkAuron** » Sat 27 Aug, 2005 11:13 pm

So I got my 2800+ yesterday, and thought I needed thermal paste. Eventually I figured out that theres 'thermal material' on the bottom of the heatsink, so I went and put in the cpu and heatsink/fan, booted up just fine

Setup BIOS, got into windows, let it install drivers for an hour... then I couldn't boot into windows anymore -.-

I had to fight with windows for another two hours to solve driver conflicts, but I finally got things going, and it's quite nice now

Now for my 9600.. mm..

Won't get here until Tuesday

Andy_J · Post by **Andy_J** » Sun 28 Aug, 2005 1:20 am

DarkAuron wrote:I had to fight with windows for another two hours to solve driver conflicts, but I finally got things going, and it's quite nice now

Which wouldn't happen (as badly at least) if you were using XP.

coelurus · Post by **coelurus** » Sun 28 Aug, 2005 2:00 am

Haha, that's a good one... I had to fight my network-card drivers a few hours ago in XP.

Shadow Phoenix · Post by **Shadow Phoenix** » Sun 28 Aug, 2005 2:36 am

Well, I feel that AGP 8x is faster than AGP 4x. Just my personal expierence.

My GPU is 500 and memory is 1000 MHz

mnc2fan · Post by **mnc2fan** » Sun 28 Aug, 2005 3:43 am

Yes AGP 8x is faster than 4x, but even at that it is still only 66 Mhz, any faster and it starts to screw up. Trust me on this one I've tried overclocking it faster, not pretty.

Spengo · Post by **Spengo** » Sun 28 Aug, 2005 4:15 am

AndySoft wrote:
DarkAuron wrote:I had to fight with windows for another two hours to solve driver conflicts, but I finally got things going, and it's quite nice now
Which wouldn't happen (as badly at least) if you were using XP.

I dunno, it took me a good couple hours to get my XP up and running. Then again, I did build it from scratch. Much cheaper that way. Down with Dell!

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Mon 29 Aug, 2005 1:21 am

Spengo wrote:
AndySoft wrote:
DarkAuron wrote:I had to fight with windows for another two hours to solve driver conflicts, but I finally got things going, and it's quite nice now
Which wouldn't happen (as badly at least) if you were using XP.
I dunno, it took me a good couple hours to get my XP up and running. Then again, I did build it from scratch. Much cheaper that way. Down with Dell!

yeah i dont like dell, but for a uneducated user dell is cheap and decent. but i would build one or get someone i know build it if i didnt know how.....

mnc2fan · Post by **mnc2fan** » Tue 30 Aug, 2005 1:47 am

Speaking of buying a coputer, I'm in the process of buying a full computer for under $200, $199.78 with 256 Mb ram, it's olnly $220. Athlon XP 2600+ 20 gb hard drive.

Spengo · Post by **Spengo** » Tue 30 Aug, 2005 4:47 am

A full computer for under $200? You realize that it's going to be able to run your email and that's about it, right?

the_unknown_one · Post by **the_unknown_one** » Tue 30 Aug, 2005 11:37 am

Where do people in Europe here buy their computer hardware online? I need a good site...