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Well seeing as i've just finished building my "dream-machine" (took over 2 hours) I thought i'd ask you lot on what power your computer holds.

So.....list your spec.

AMD AthlonXP 2400+
MSI KT6 Delta FISR Motherboard
Coolermaster Aero 7 Lite
Seagate Barracuda 80GB Hard drive (7200rpm)
Connect3D Radeon 9600PRO
256mb of crucial Ram (PC2700) - Will be upgrading to more soon
"Zorro" silver case with 3 case fans
Phillips CDRW - Can't remember speed

I'll post a pic later. I'm just running it through Windows 98 setup - its formatting the drive at the mo.

tigamilla wrote:
> AMD_MAN wrote:
> My Main Rig is..
>
> P4 2.8ghz @ 3.6ghz
> Water cooled
> 1024 PC2700 Crucial DDR
> Abit IS7 M motherboard
> >
>
> I want that MoBo my Via based motherboard cant run my 2.8 Ghz at
> anything higher than 2.9 without the most horrendous crashes ALL the
> time.
>
> That RAM is letting the side down a bit - no?? why not get PC3200
> RAM?

Depends on the FSB of the processor. I have an XP2800 an as its running at 166mhzFSB the RAM is synced to 333mhzFSB even though its PC3200 which runs at 400mhz. From tests i've done and things i've read the best performance for a system is to keep the RAM at twice the FSB of the processor. Now with my machine there is a degrade in benchmarking when running the RAM at 400mhz while the CPU is at 333mhz. People have said this is wrong etc, but from what i've read and with my experience I have to say running RAM in sync is the best for performance. If I am wrong please tell me with some in depth knowledge or a article, so I can read and learn more about the subject area.

it is kind of ironic, when i first usedthe name i had an athlon rig but found it ubstable and as i do a lot of divx'ing and mp3 converting i really needed the sse2 instuction which the athlons did not have, i may get an athlon rig soon though (athlon fx 64bit)

Colin

AMD_MAN - The man who owns 3 Pentium systems with no AMD chip in sight. Kind of ironic? :P

Woo - Getting more ram soon.

The touchscreen has all software and cabling and can be fully used as a touchscreen which is pretty cool.

Colin

I've not got any higher rated ram yet as i will buy some when i get an 800mhz P4 chip, hopefully that won't be a long time away it all depends on the wife :(

Colin

*Is jealous of AMD_MANs main rig

AMD_MAN wrote:
> My Main Rig is..
>
> P4 2.8ghz @ 3.6ghz
> Water cooled
> 1024 PC2700 Crucial DDR
> Abit IS7 M motherboard
>

I want that MoBo my Via based motherboard cant run my 2.8 Ghz at anything higher than 2.9 without the most horrendous crashes ALL the time.

That RAM is letting the side down a bit - no?? why not get PC3200 RAM?

So can you use touch screen features on it ? Or is it basically a expensive 19" monitor.

Cheers matey

The 19" monitor is one that I "got" from helping out IBM, they were making booths for kodak, it had been made especially for that and i got it for free luckily enough as they are £600 new, and it was never used.

Colin

Nice rigs AMD_MAN. IBM touchscreen monitor, never seen one of them before.