Ok, shock, gasp, this thread is not aviation related, but I put together my new christmas present, and am very happy with it. I haven't upgraded my computer since college. Gatordev and Steve Wilkins can recall that back in the day, lol. Anyways, a 300mhz Intel chip and 8gig hard drive just weren't cutting it.
Well, I was going into different electronics stores yesterday trying to find a PSP (if you want to talk about that, we can start a new thread)... and I stumbled across a ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE motherboard. I have been waiting for these new NForce4 motherboards to come out on Newegg or on Pricewatch, but most of the places that list them, say not in stock, or they are gouging on the prices.
Here is the link, if you want to know what the hell I am talking about: http://usa.asus.com/powerup/main.htm
Anyways, bought the motherboard, an AMD64 3500 (dude, no way can I afford an FX or the 4000, maybe if I was single, lol), and I got an Leadtek Winfast 6600 GT video card to drive my wife's games of solitaire (joking, well, maybe not), and finally two sticks of 512mb CAS 2 DDR400 memory. Took me about an hour to put it all together last night, had to remove the old motherboard, clean the case out, put in the new power supply, new fans, etc. I haven't set up a RAID yet, I only have a 200 gig 7200rpm hard drive in right now. I set up and installed windows in less than 20 minutes though, was blazingly fast.
Still have some more upgrading to do, I want to purchase a couple of Western Digital Raptors (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-144-160&depa=0) (10,000 rpm), and get a DVD-RW drive.
Anyways, am happy to have a fast computer again. Everything is installed and running software wise now, and I imaged the drive to make a back up so I don't have to start from square one again, lol. Oh, who else has had to go through Microsoft's phone in registration? Since I changed all the components in my computer, it wouldn't let me register online, so I had to call them, from of all places Japan, that WAS interesting.
Now to install Doom3 and put it through its paces, muhahaha.
John
Well, I was going into different electronics stores yesterday trying to find a PSP (if you want to talk about that, we can start a new thread)... and I stumbled across a ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE motherboard. I have been waiting for these new NForce4 motherboards to come out on Newegg or on Pricewatch, but most of the places that list them, say not in stock, or they are gouging on the prices.
Here is the link, if you want to know what the hell I am talking about: http://usa.asus.com/powerup/main.htm
Anyways, bought the motherboard, an AMD64 3500 (dude, no way can I afford an FX or the 4000, maybe if I was single, lol), and I got an Leadtek Winfast 6600 GT video card to drive my wife's games of solitaire (joking, well, maybe not), and finally two sticks of 512mb CAS 2 DDR400 memory. Took me about an hour to put it all together last night, had to remove the old motherboard, clean the case out, put in the new power supply, new fans, etc. I haven't set up a RAID yet, I only have a 200 gig 7200rpm hard drive in right now. I set up and installed windows in less than 20 minutes though, was blazingly fast.
Still have some more upgrading to do, I want to purchase a couple of Western Digital Raptors (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-144-160&depa=0) (10,000 rpm), and get a DVD-RW drive.
Anyways, am happy to have a fast computer again. Everything is installed and running software wise now, and I imaged the drive to make a back up so I don't have to start from square one again, lol. Oh, who else has had to go through Microsoft's phone in registration? Since I changed all the components in my computer, it wouldn't let me register online, so I had to call them, from of all places Japan, that WAS interesting.
Now to install Doom3 and put it through its paces, muhahaha.
John
