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Upgrading CPU
fohfoh:
Mmmm... Looks nice. Can't wait to take a look at my budget to see if I have cash to build a desktop. A few unexpected problems came up which drained quite a bit of cash.
bork:
About that IDE problem, Google Sata IDE adapter
Mycanid:
Nice pics ant900 ... :)
ant900:
--- Quote from: bork on May 22, 2010, 02:47:56 AM ---About that IDE problem, Google Sata IDE adapter
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and invalidate my reasoning for buying a new harddrive? *keeps on pretending that adapters are imaginary*
--- Quote from: fohfoh on May 22, 2010, 02:35:40 AM ---Mmmm... Looks nice. Can't wait to take a look at my budget to see if I have cash to build a desktop. A few unexpected problems came up which drained quite a bit of cash.
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Funnily enough my free i7 ended up costing me around $600 (+300 for the os) since I had to buy a bunch of new stuff to accommodate it. Not exactly an amount I was happy about, but it was better than having the cpu laying around.
--- Quote from: Mycanid on May 22, 2010, 02:52:35 AM ---Nice pics ant900 ... :)
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Thanks! Here is another one of me playing around. It shows me smoothly running 4 instances of unreal (1 server and 3 connected clients), Firefox with a few tabs open, VS2008, and my beautiful task manager. Definitely couldn't have done this on my old build :)
fohfoh:
Free i7? Damn... that's nice. I got a free opteron chip once... ended up giving it away to our other company tech guy. I looked it up, a mobo for that proc alone cost upwards of 300 USD for the cheap ones. (It was that weird pinless one)
800 bucks sounds about right for a rig I was planning to build. I'm still thinking about it. I don't really game and SC2 just really isn't making me excited. Diablo 3 on the other hand might give me a bigger push. In general, I think I just want more along the lines of a dedicated computer for torrenting (leaving my laptop on for long periods of time sorta sucks) and for the extra power (Since mine even if it can handle it... heat issues)
Ofc, I can always consider using it as a media centre and then moving it elsewhere when I want to game..... only problem is, I need to figure out how to get the cable to the basement if I want internet. I really don't enjoy the wifi I'm getting. (Unless someone can find a way to really increase the wifi AND find a way to keep the damn thing from crashing when the load gets too high... Even though it's/was a 200 dollar draft N)
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