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Well, the northbridge on my Leadtek K7NCR18-D crapped out on me a couple of weeks ago. Since nobody sells nforce2 boards anymore, I decided that I might as well upgrade.

AMD Athlon 64 3500+
Asus A8N5X
1GB Corsair PC3200 (2x512) Dual Channel kit
eVGA Geforce 6800GS 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express
Fortron Source 450W ATX12V PSU

$680 after S/H and sales tax from newegg. Hopefully I'll have my parts by friday.

Hopefully next month when the Marketpro computer show comes back into town, I can nab an nforce2 board. That way I can drop in my old XP2800+ and the 512MB PC2700 RAM that I was previously using and upgrade her from that duron 800 and that POS Gigabyte mobo that she's stuck with. (Damn thing has a shotty third memory slot. Refuses to read memory correctly.)

edit: Pictures taken so far:






Just waiting on the RAM to show up, though given the weather conditions its likely that it won't show until Monday.

Everything but the memory showed up today. Should get that tomorrow afternoon. Nothing like that new PC smell. Will post pictures soon.

aye, especially the smell of fresh Artic Silver baking away for the first few days...ahhh...<reminisces>

Added pics (see first post)

Immortal Lobster wrote:aye, especially the smell of fresh Artic Silver baking away for the first few days...ahhh...<reminisces>

Think you must be doing something wrong there man. That stuff does not smell of anything in normal operation. What you doing with it? Slapping it all over the place? Remember, even on a heat-spreader style CPU core, you STILL only need a tiny, tiny, TINY amount of the stuff.

aye, about two beads do nicely, and if you get close enough, there is a nice smell as it bakes =)

I have never been able to smell arctic silver or any other thermal compound \"baking\" in my computer. Granted I have been using watercoolers for ages. I do not think you should be able to smell anything from your computer other then the \"new computer smell\". If you can smell arctic silver either you put on too much, or it is getting too hot. When I apply arctic silver to a flip chip CPU, I use a portion smaller then a single grain of rice, and every time I have removed the heatsink after that it always perfectly covered the core with only the slightest excess coming out of the sides. For a chip with a heat spreader I have to use a little more, but I spread it around so it barely covers the entire top of the chip.

aye, about 2 rice sized beads. and when doinf the AS5 baking process, a few hours on a fw hours off to harden it, you can smell it melt, once its set however, its set

hey MD, you planning on unlocking that 6800GS? use Riva and goto: Firing Squad's 6800GS Guide

too bad he didn't get an AGP card.

And no, I'm not unlocking anything. This rig is plenty fast as it is....as soon as my freakin' RAM gets here!

edit: Half an hour later and it finally arrived. Delivered by UPS.....but its in a FedEx box! Hmm, maybe thats why it took them so long.

SHE LIIIIIVES! Now to install my games.

1024x768 (happy now Krom? )

498.14 Descent3 v1.4
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-framecap 0 -nosound -nonetwork -nooutragelogo -pilot MD-2389 -nointro -timetest secret2.dem

Just for those that are curious...

Turning on 4x FSAA (can go up to 8x, but 4 is plenty IMO) and 8x ANI (can go upto 16x) only drops frames enough to tack on an extra second to the timetest. This card is freakin' awesome! I'll try and tweak it down a little further, but as long as I get a constant 60 I'm happy.

1024x768 is weak. WEAK! Crank it up higher.

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-framecap 0 -nosound -nonetwork -nooutragelogo -pilot MD-2389 -nointro -nosparkles -nomotionblur -timetest secret2.dem

I also found out that setting the texture quality to Performance rather than quality actually makes the timetest run LONGER. Go figure.

fliptw wrote:too bad he didn't get an AGP card.

Yeah...And an AMD Duron CPU to go with it..eh?

MD-2389 wrote:SHE LIIIIIVES! Now to install my games.

It's alive!

It's alive!

It is aaaaliiiiveee! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!