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Upgrading CPU
ant900:
--- Quote from: fohfoh on May 22, 2010, 05:01:52 AM ---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)
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Won it at GDC. The Intel booth was scanning these tickets that they were giving out over the weekend and you could win anything from a pen to an i7-975. While I was in line a guy in front of me won one so I figured I wouldn't get it, so I was really surprised (well... more than I normally would have been :P) when I got one too. Oddly enough someone got one a few minutes after me too. Makes me wonder how many they were giving out.
My Mobo was around $300, though that was on the higher end rather than the lower. I don't really want to know what the cost would have been for a high end motherboard for your chip >.<
--- Quote ---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)
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My old build was able to run just about anything with decent to high graphics, and that is probably less than $800 now. So I wouldn't worry too much about what you can run with that much money.
--- Quote ---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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My router tends to crash too when the load nears its limit. IDK why, maybe because it is some sort of limiter. That is the reason why I cap my up/down (that and to prevent it from taking up all of my bandwidth).
sdedalus83:
I just about had a fucking heart attack. ant - please, please treat your electronic components with more respect. Every time static kills a circuit board, god kills a kitten.
ant900:
--- Quote from: sdedalus83 on May 23, 2010, 05:07:24 PM ---I just about had a fucking heart attack. ant - please, please treat your electronic components with more respect. Every time static kills a circuit board, god kills a kitten.
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lol, the mobo was only there temporarily. It is now safely sitting in the box (and bag) that my current one was in :)
Though I must admit, I am not a fan of cats >.>
kyanwan:
--- Quote from: sdedalus83 on May 23, 2010, 05:07:24 PM ---I just about had a fucking heart attack. ant - please, please treat your electronic components with more respect. Every time static kills a circuit board, god kills a kitten.
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You should have seen me when someone put an unauthorized wifi router on my network. ( Bout 3 days ago. )
I unplugged it ...
placed it on the floor ...
and slammed a #3 philips screwdriver directly through the center of it.
Security problem solved.
sdedalus83:
--- Quote from: kyanwan on May 27, 2010, 06:07:36 PM ---I unplugged it ...
placed it on the floor ...
and slammed a #3 philips screwdriver directly through the center of it.
Security problem solved.
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Goddamn those vampire routers.
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