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Motherboard
Processor
Hard drive
RAM
Graphics card
Sound card
Disk drive
CD/DVD drive
Cooling fan
Operating system software
Modem
(All appropriate drivers)
Case
Monitor
Printer
Speakers
Keyboard
Mouse
Book explaining how to put it all together.
Does this sound like a complete description of what you'd need to make yourself a pc?
Worth having a go at (finance permitting, or course)?
Anyone done it here? Problems?
Processor
Hard drive
RAM
Graphics card
Sound card
Disk drive
CD/DVD drive
Cooling fan
Operating system software
Modem
(All appropriate drivers)
Case
Monitor
Printer
Speakers
Keyboard
Mouse
Book explaining how to put it all together.
Does this sound like a complete description of what you'd need to make yourself a pc?
Worth having a go at (finance permitting, or course)?
Anyone done it here? Problems?
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Wow! They actually featured that!
(PS. I was the one in charge of suggesting which PCs to show)
(PS. I was the one in charge of suggesting which PCs to show)
I'll have to see them first :) was it a good laugh? I saw a little clip of it on RI:SE the programs poo but it was cool to see lots of people there.
PC in a plastic box was pretty cool :)
PC in a plastic box was pretty cool :)
Sam's downloading 187 pictures from me to host until Io goes up again, will that do? ;-)
bah, write your review on i12, I can't get onto messenger which means I can't annoy Reaper about it *sigh* I wanted to go, silly PC stealing my money from my wallet *shakes fist* i'll be there next time! thought i'd warn you in advance.
Fog wrote:
> PCs are very cheap if you can build your own, although you had a
> monitor already and they can be quite expensive unless you get a 2nd
> hand one.
> I found, especially with CPUs, if you get an XP go for the lower ones,
> e.g. 1.4Gz, if your on a budget, as they do everything you'll want but
> cost less than half that the 1800XP+ cost, you'll also be able to pick
> up a better motherboard for your money's worth.
> I'm just trying out an IBM 40Gb hdd too, hopefully when it gets
> running i'll write a review on how great it is :D i'm sure everyone
> will agree.
If you're planning to use an IBM HDD you'll be lucky for it to be running long enough to write a review - if it ever installs an OS in the first place.
> PCs are very cheap if you can build your own, although you had a
> monitor already and they can be quite expensive unless you get a 2nd
> hand one.
> I found, especially with CPUs, if you get an XP go for the lower ones,
> e.g. 1.4Gz, if your on a budget, as they do everything you'll want but
> cost less than half that the 1800XP+ cost, you'll also be able to pick
> up a better motherboard for your money's worth.
> I'm just trying out an IBM 40Gb hdd too, hopefully when it gets
> running i'll write a review on how great it is :D i'm sure everyone
> will agree.
If you're planning to use an IBM HDD you'll be lucky for it to be running long enough to write a review - if it ever installs an OS in the first place.
Fog wrote:
> Thanks Turbonutter, lucky I keep a fire extinguisher close by at all
> times.
> No I don't mean the quality, when messing around with Audio it's in
> .wav format, they're not small files by any means, this needs a fast
> cpu, P4 has some kind of super thingy that makes buffering? the audio
> faster...etc I actually have no idea what it does, I just heard that
> P4 had some floaty thingy in it that makes it much better for audio
> than the AMD cpus. :)
That? No, the XPs just do it faster.
> Thanks Turbonutter, lucky I keep a fire extinguisher close by at all
> times.
> No I don't mean the quality, when messing around with Audio it's in
> .wav format, they're not small files by any means, this needs a fast
> cpu, P4 has some kind of super thingy that makes buffering? the audio
> faster...etc I actually have no idea what it does, I just heard that
> P4 had some floaty thingy in it that makes it much better for audio
> than the AMD cpus. :)
That? No, the XPs just do it faster.
PCs are very cheap if you can build your own, although you had a monitor already and they can be quite expensive unless you get a 2nd hand one.
I found, especially with CPUs, if you get an XP go for the lower ones, e.g. 1.4Gz, if your on a budget, as they do everything you'll want but cost less than half that the 1800XP+ cost, you'll also be able to pick up a better motherboard for your money's worth.
I'm just trying out an IBM 40Gb hdd too, hopefully when it gets running i'll write a review on how great it is :D i'm sure everyone will agree.
I found, especially with CPUs, if you get an XP go for the lower ones, e.g. 1.4Gz, if your on a budget, as they do everything you'll want but cost less than half that the 1800XP+ cost, you'll also be able to pick up a better motherboard for your money's worth.
I'm just trying out an IBM 40Gb hdd too, hopefully when it gets running i'll write a review on how great it is :D i'm sure everyone will agree.
Thanks Turbonutter, lucky I keep a fire extinguisher close by at all times.
No I don't mean the quality, when messing around with Audio it's in .wav format, they're not small files by any means, this needs a fast cpu, P4 has some kind of super thingy that makes buffering? the audio faster...etc I actually have no idea what it does, I just heard that P4 had some floaty thingy in it that makes it much better for audio than the AMD cpus. :)
No I don't mean the quality, when messing around with Audio it's in .wav format, they're not small files by any means, this needs a fast cpu, P4 has some kind of super thingy that makes buffering? the audio faster...etc I actually have no idea what it does, I just heard that P4 had some floaty thingy in it that makes it much better for audio than the AMD cpus. :)
Dr Duck wrote:
> Ahhh... must buy cathode thingy :^)
>
> Would a celeron motherboard and processor be a good invetment?
Only if you're never going to actually want to use it, eg. to use as an Internet gateway/firewall or something. I want a 133mhz Celeron.
> Ahhh... must buy cathode thingy :^)
>
> Would a celeron motherboard and processor be a good invetment?
Only if you're never going to actually want to use it, eg. to use as an Internet gateway/firewall or something. I want a 133mhz Celeron.
Fog wrote:
> P4's are better for audio apparently
You are referring to the audio circuits, like AMD's 3DNow audio circuits (although that knowledge comes from my K6-2, they may have something better now), but in reality your audio quality is deciced by the quality of the sound card, the rarely has any say in the matter.
> floaty thingy or something,
Floating Point Operations. My XP2000 performs 2376 MFLOPS (Whetstone), whereas a P4 2.66ghz performs 2143 MFLOPS (Whetstone).
> *shrugs and strokes his AMD*
*watches fog's hand get fused to the die then set alight*
;-)
> P4's are better for audio apparently
You are referring to the audio circuits, like AMD's 3DNow audio circuits (although that knowledge comes from my K6-2, they may have something better now), but in reality your audio quality is deciced by the quality of the sound card, the rarely has any say in the matter.
> floaty thingy or something,
Floating Point Operations. My XP2000 performs 2376 MFLOPS (Whetstone), whereas a P4 2.66ghz performs 2143 MFLOPS (Whetstone).
> *shrugs and strokes his AMD*
*watches fog's hand get fused to the die then set alight*
;-)
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