Hooray home made computer and Cable internet!

[GTSLOW]

Well I finnally said screw the recenter computers and built my own. Its a grey case with a color changing fan infront, AMD 2800+ Processor w/ 333mhz fsb, Nividia Geforce 4 5700 Conquest 256mb video card, 80gb hard drive, DVD/CD-RW combo drive, 512mb 400DDR ram, a 400 watt power supply, a 19" flat screen monitor, and a Gigabyte technology K7 Triton Series motherboard w/ 6channel audio.

Its pretty dang fast. It has 2.08 ghz but is equal to a 2.8ghz P4 processor and better for gaming. I dont have any games yet to test out the video card but I'm sure its gonna be sick. With next pay check I'm probably going to up the memory to 2048mb. :)

Total cost including screen and accesories 1,000! Somthing like this from gateway 1,700+.

And I got cable internet. I'm sooo happy.

[SSmike1]

sounds like an awesome computer!

and you did it all by yourself?

wow

i am impressed! :goof

[Cryptic]

my system is a couple months old now but here goes.

P4 2.6 Ghz (800 FSB hyper threading)
1 GB PC3500 RAM,
ATI 9600 Pro 256 MB (dual video out)
470watt ps (with LED's inside of it)
2 -160 GB SATA hard drive 8mb cache

10/100/1000 ethernet
optical audio in/out
firewire, USB2, RAID, Sata Raid blah blah blah

2 19 inch CRT's
Pioneer 4x DVD burner
48X Lite-on CD Burner/DVD reader


sad part is I never have time to game on it.

[animal]

My vid card cooling fan dies this past weekend and fried my nvidia geforce 4 ti4600 :( So I went and picked up the Gefroce FX 5700LE 256MB at best buy to replace it. Not the top end card out but even better than the ti.


Otherwise my system:

P4 2.6 ghz
128MB ram (yes I know it's the weak part)
130GB of disk
256MB vid card above
cdrw & dvd
sb live
Dual monitors
And of course high speed internet.

Not much but it plays all my old school games pretty well :)

[Max 93]

well, this post comfirms it, I know nothing about computers. :goof

[Ricky Bobby]

u got cable internet do u mean RoadRunner by chance

[SSmike1]

Hey GunmetalZ28,

No, he means exactly what he said.

It is Cable Internet!!!!!!!

he is stationed in Korea, right by the DMZ, and has a ISP that just provides a place to connect a cable to.
he even has to buy or rent his own Cable Modem.

I do not know who the ISP is there, about 25 miles North of Souel Korea. ;)

[rsscoty]

Sounds cool. I was wondering by his post if he was still incountry or if he was back stateside.

Scoty

[Ricky Bobby]

ah i see my bad LOL

[GTSLOW]

I'm still here in South Korea. I'm thinking of upgrade hte mother board and processor. I havent decided on the motherboard yet but the AMD 3400+ sure looks nice.

Also animal, you gotta get the memory up lol!

[SSmike1]

Nan,

hey 96S10

who is your ISP?

could you let us know?

super bike mike
:goof

[GTSLOW]

https://www.i-mnet.com/ssrtweb/main.jsp ?

[SSmike1]

Cool, wow

what do they charge you a month?

do you have 756KB a sec. connection or what speed is it?

uncke mike mike motorbike :cool:

[JR HAWK 9]

I just built one a month ago for a guy that does A/V editing....here are the specs:

AMD Athlon 64 3200+
MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R Mobo
1 gig DDR400 Corsair XMS
2 - 160 gig Serial ATA Maxtor HDD's in RAID0
Pioneer DVR-A07 8x DVD burner
Lite-on 16x DVD Reader
500W power supply
nVidia GeForce FX 5700, 256meg DDR


goes pretty good :)

Paul

[Cryptic]

Originally posted by JR HAWK 9
....
goes pretty good :)

Paul

yeah I'd hope so :thumbsup

[SlowStee]

my computers a compaq......nuff said :rolleyes: