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MIne is pretty crap at the moment but i am get a 3.2ghz intel pure then i wood have a 3.2 ghz,640ddr ram,ati radeon 9200se,120gb hdd and other stuff what else shoud i get?
ps i have an asus 533 series motherboard

Notorious Biggles wrote:
> tigamilla wrote:
> *Envy
>
> An unlocked chip!!
>
> Yup. Sadly though, new AMD chips aren't unlocked anymore. Week 36 of
> 2003 was a bad week indeed...
>
> Adrian, if you chip is unlocked why not just drop the multiplier and
> up the FSB to 200 MHz and run the RAM in sync with the CPU? I think I
> remember you saying something about having overclocked it a bit in
> the past, hence unlocked multiplier.

Yeah I have done. But I have final year Uni work and dont want the thing going wrong in the last few weeks. As soon as Uni finishes I will probably do 2.2Ghz(200x11) which I believe is the same as a XP3200. If my CPU messes up then I can get a XP3200 and a new mobo if that gets fried or something, but at the moment I need the PC so dont want to risk it.

tigamilla wrote:
> *Envy
>
> An unlocked chip!!

Yup. Sadly though, new AMD chips aren't unlocked anymore. Week 36 of 2003 was a bad week indeed...

Adrian, if you chip is unlocked why not just drop the multiplier and up the FSB to 200 MHz and run the RAM in sync with the CPU? I think I remember you saying something about having overclocked it a bit in the past, hence unlocked multiplier.

Cant recall if i have posted before so here goes

PC 1
AMD64 3200+ @ 2200ghz
1024 DDR400 Memory
Radeon 9600XT (overclocked)
120gb Maxter SATA Drives
8 speed Dual DVDRW
16 speed DVD ROM
Lian Li PC65 case
All black drives

PC2
P4 2.8ghz @ 3.3ghz
512mb PC2100 DDR
100gb 8mb cache PATA drive
Geforce 4 Ti4200 128mb

PC3 (lappie)
Celeron 2.4
512mb DDR
40gb HDD
DVDRW combo

It changes all the time though.

Colin

tigamilla wrote:
> Planned upgrades:
>
> Radeon X800 Pro or XT

Get the XT quite a bit more performance. People will say go with the Pro so you can overclock it etc, but the number of pipelines are different so this may not be able to be changed with software.

Anyway my PC

XP2800 Barton
1Gb DDR333(is DDR400 but running insync with CPU)
Abit NF7-S
128mb 9800 Pro
2x 120Gb Maxtor 7200rpm ATA133 8Mb cache
4x DVD writer
16x DVD ROM
Thermaltake Xaser 3 Black case
Enermax 460w PSU
Samsung 19" SyncMaster 957MB

Will probably overclock the CPU to 2.2Ghz, but need PC to finish Uni work and cant have it dieing if things go bad.

Also as I will finish Uni this year I am thinking of upgrading again, so will get Dual layer DVD writer, X800XT-PE and then either go for a P4 or a Athlon 64, and then keep this machine as a 2nd one. Or may get a laptop and keep this pretty much the same apart from the Dual layer DVD writer. Or even get a MSI barebone AMD system and have it linked to the TV in my room and networked to this PC, and then use bits from this one such as the 9800 Pro, CPU, RAM and hard disk and get a XP3200, more RAM, X800XT-PE and a 250Gb hard disk to replace on of the 120Gbs. So many decisions.

*Envy

An unlocked chip!!

Barton 3000XP at anything between 200*12 and 230*11. Depends on whether the heating is on.
1024 Mb TwinMOS PC3200 RAM, 1:1 obviously.
256 Mb 9800XT at stock.
Abit NF7-S
160 Gb Maxtor S-ATA HDD
Soundstorm on board sound
19" Samsung flat CRT
Creative something or other speakers
Thermalright SLK900A
Silver case with window
Coolermaster Musketeer
MSI 8x +- DVD burner



AMD fan boy.

P4 2.8GHz on Abit Ai7 running at 254 FSB = 3.55 GHz (can go much higher)
1024MB DDR500 RAM (1:1)
Radeon 9600 at 423/450
80GB [something] 7200 rpm HDD
120GB Seagate 7200 rpm 8mb S-ATA HDD
Audigy 2 linked to Creative P580 5.1 speakers
[EDIT] My baby - PCI Digital TV card with recording etc (AWESOME)
17" TFT
Sunbeam Fan controller
Crap generic case

Planned upgrades:

Radeon X800 Pro or XT
Dual Layer DVD writer
Possibly sell TFT for massive flat CRT...


Intel Fan Boy

AMD 2400+
512 333 DDR
Radeon 9600 Pro 256 Mb
Asus Motherboard
4x/24x DVD/CD Rewriter
Creative Audigy 2
Creative Inspire 5.1 speakers

be§§ant™ wrote:
> you can't get a 640mb RAM can you?


Could have a 512 stick and a 128 meg stick.

you can't get a 640mb RAM can you?

it goes up in doubles:

64
128
256
512
1024
2048

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personally i think RAM is everthing,

my PC is =

CPU - AMD 2200XP+
RAM - 512MB (400MHZ / PC3200) with Cu heatsinks
HDD - 80GB 7200RPM MAXTOR
VID CARD/GRAPHICS - ATI RADEON 9200SE 128MB (400MHZ)
MOBO - asus (something like) = avax1x-x


CD & DVD standard speeds