My New PC

[legacy-Psycho Dad]

OMG, I've got e-***** envy!

[legacy-3mi0]

its gonna be about 3 months before i can scrape together the cast for that rig and yes the WC will extend to the cards (i may opt not to get water cooling to save 500$) but my current 3dmark05 score is 4689 on a
GeForce 6800gt 128MB
AMD Athlon 3200+
512 kingston HyperX pc3700
Soltek Sl75FRN-2

[Folk]

Originally posted by 3mi0
its gonna be about 3 months before i can scrape together the cast for that rig and yes the WC will extend to the cards (i may opt not to get water cooling to save 500$) but my current 3dmark05 score is 4689 on a
GeForce 6800gt 128MB
AMD Athlon 3200+
512 kingston HyperX pc3700
Soltek Sl75FRN-2

My overclocked score (core=409, memory=1113) is 5157. My non-overclocked score is 4522. That's with a P4 2.8 running at 3.0 on a aging single-channel 845 Epox board. I'm hoping to see big improvements with my new 3500+ dual channel rig. How much I can O/C this thing remains to be seen...

[legacy-pbze]

is SATA 2 available now? like all 300gb/s of it? have i been living in a cave recently?

[legacy-3mi0]

SATA 2 is verry close on the horizon VERY
ph34r!!

[legacy-pbze]

Originally posted by 3mi0
SATA 2 is verry close on the horizon VERY
ph34r!!

but how close??

[legacy-3mi0]

so close... you cant even tell its there...:downcast:
actually give it a month or so and the new cabling and clips and stuff will have hit shelves

[legacy-Kaboomenstein]

Originally posted by SwellFello
If I could have found a system like this:

Athlon 4000 or FX
2MB Ram
2 GeForce Ultras in SLI config

for $2,380...I'd have bought it

Went with the P4 system based on FiringSquad's positive review of the P4 660 CPU and the great deal from Dell

PROPS to DELL:
I ordered the system last Thursday, and it included free 2nd day shipping...they estimated at the time that it would arrive on Friday of this week, I thought that's great I'll get it in a week. IT ARRIVES TODAY, TUESDAY. How's that for service???

Could be faster just look at newegg

[legacy-napsterlover237]

go with Nvidia

The specs for your computer seem good, except for the video card. I would go with the BFG Tech Geforce 6800 Ultra OC AGP or PCIe, depending on your motherboard. I have used both and I have found Nvidia GPU's perform better. You'll pay more for BFG Tech cards but they are worth every penny. Good build quality and true life time warranty.

[Bjossi]

Isn´t this thread rather old...?

Btw, my advice, never buy a popular logo like Dell or Alienware. (especially Alienware)

They take away every cent from your wallet. Just put together your own system. Mine costed $800, a system less powerful that had a logo, costed well over $1200.