After 5 years I finally threw together a new system.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 7:26 am

Krom filled me in on all the questions I had, thanks again bud. I need to keep up with tech news more.

For 900 bucks I got the following:

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego
1 GB Corsair Memory
MSI Neo4 NF4 Ultra Mobo
eVga GF 6800 256MB PCI-e Video Card
250GB Maxtor SATA (NCQ Babeh)
Fortron Source 400watt supply

I can't wait to put this beast together. It should put my humble AMD 2200+ Geforce 3 system in its place (the other room for listening to MP3s

).

I'll post some pics when I get the system together.

Pun · Post by **Pun** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:32 am

sounds pretty sweet.

Gammaray · Post by **Gammaray** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 4:35 pm

I can agree on everything you got except the vid card... somethin about past experiences with eVga just turns me away from that brand.

Hope your box rocks man.

De Rigueur · Post by **De Rigueur** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 4:58 pm

looks like you're all set for another 5.

Edward · Post by **Edward** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 5:01 pm

I would have gotten two hard drives and set them up in raid. or a 10000 rpm HD

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:08 pm

All Nvidia video cards are more or less identical except for the sticker, virtually all of them use reference boards made by nvidia, and evga uses reference heatsinks even.

Also, RAID isn't for everyone, when planning for a RAID you need to spend more attention on a case with enough HDD cooling since for pratical purposes RAID0 requires 3 hard drives not 2. Two for the RAID, and one to boot off of because RAID0 arrays have horrible access times.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:17 pm

Ze parts have arrived!

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:24 pm

Shweet

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:46 pm

New system is up and running! I'm writing this on it now. No problems except this probem with the windows bootup logo to stay black before fading in for about 4 minutes. Hoping a video driver install will fix that. COuld be a SATA thing tho. Any ideas?

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:13 pm

Mmmm... New hardware smell...

Matrix · Post by **Matrix** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:31 pm

JMEaT wrote:New system is up and running! I'm writing this on it now. No problems except this probem with the windows bootup logo to stay black before fading in for about 4 minutes. Hoping a video driver install will fix that. COuld be a SATA thing tho. Any ideas?

What SATA drivers did u use?
Mine did this on my MSI Neo2 until I found a version it liked. It didn't like the ones from the nvidia site.
And sometimes it wouldn't even load windows at all.

Ned · Post by **Ned** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:36 pm

I'm jealous

Im trying to talk 2 people into building at the moment.

Win98 with many viruses

Win98 with 175 RAM (or some weird number)

both are Hurtin

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 12:06 am

Everything is running awesome. I got 8900 3dmarks in 3dmark03. Can't wait to start tweakin this rig.

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 12:17 pm

Jmeat: What kind of Corsair memory are you using? Value or high-end?

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 2:26 pm

Top Wop wrote:Jmeat: What kind of Corsair memory are you using? Value or high-end?

It's Value (as shown in the picture

)

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 3:22 pm

oooooooo

im ganna wait till vista is out befor i go to 64bit