Pc Upgrade

[IonSant]

ok kids so is time to do a mobo(motherboard) and Cpu upgrade...

does anyone have any recomendations on a mobo?>

and does anyone here have a 200gig drive, how is the performance?

did you take Amd over Intel--who is the better performer?

[the bassarchist]

word on the street is amd came out with a processor with a 1600 megahertz fsb. supposedly thats 400 quad pumped... if thats that case then amd over intel in a heartbeat =) anyone heard about this?

[cpud]

Originally posted by IonSant
ok kids so is time to do a mobo(motherboard) and Cpu upgrade...

does anyone have any recomendations on a mobo?>

and does anyone here have a 200gig drive, how is the performance?

did you take Amd over Intel--who is the better performer?

Get a motherboard with NForce2 on it, and as far as proc, I guess its up to what you need. I know AMD's Athlon's are still affordable & just as fast as P4's, but they did just release a budget version of their 64bit chip.

Also, 200 gig drives kick ass, just make sure you get one with 8mb cache.

:domokun :ganja :alert :crackhead

[Mesh]

As far as brands are concerned, I personally like MSI the best, most techs reccomend them, had nothing but problems with soyo's. ASUS is suppodt to be decent as well. An athlon board and processor is going to be cheaper, but you will need a good fan.

[X-Gote]

Whats your budget? msg me at work.

[IonSant]

My budget is 500 bucks and I've hit you up at work sucka...

Mesh -- MAn those MsI's Look pretty damn sweet :)

what is the difference between an Via and Nforce2 chipset?

What advise ya' have on RAM--Kingston or Mushkin?
do I really need to spend serious money on ram...

anyways here's the MOBO (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-130-445&catalog=22&manufactory=BROWSE&depa=1)
I am considering...:) and the CPU (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-103-377&catalog=343&manufactory=BROWSE&depa=1)

thanks for the advise keep it comming :)

[cpud]

the cpu is proper, the motherboard is shitty.

check this mobo out: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-127-166&catalog=22&manufactory=BROWSE&depa=1

[IonSant]

thats too damn big and I dont see to many Spec differences.

when you say shitty please give me an example of why...

keep em comming and thanks :)

[cpud]

1. Via chipsets are garbage when compared to NForce2
2. Abit has in the past made very reliable motherboards
3. The Abit board can handle 3gigs of ram against the MSI's measly 2 gigs
4. The Abit board supports Firewire, the MSI board does not

[Mesh]

Yeah you could put 3 gigs of ram on a abit board, but the person wants to spend under 500 bucks, probly including the monitor... 512 ram is proper for most peeps, usually more than enough...

Kingston "ValueRam is really good stuff, and you should be able to get 512 for under 100 bucks.

Make sure you buy a good power supply, thats important, enermax is a good brand, 400 watts and over are good for just about anything.

[Mesh]

A little off the subject, but I heard KOOP on musicchoice on cox digital cable, good stuff, would like to hear more, where can i get a \n album?

[IonSant]

Originally posted by Mesh
A little off the subject, but I heard KOOP on musicchoice on cox digital cable, good stuff, would like to hear more, where can i get a \n album?


you can buy the album anywhere...I
highly recomend : Waltz for Koop or the Alternate Takes

now was the music choice thinggy a TV show?

[Dub-U-Eff]

i know this might confuse the subject and isn't the most cost effective RAM but through my semi-thorough research, I chose to buy corsair ram, it had very low latency (higher speed) and came highly recommended. I bought all my stuff off newegg.com (cpud provided a link)...They shipped quickly without charging an arm and a foot and their prices were very reasonable, plus they have a large selection...good luck homes

[IonSant]

ok I decided not to shop on line - I am going to Papitas(FRys) Electronics instead, this amount of responses gave me a good
idea of what I should look for. Thank you all :)

one more question - can ya tell me the SPECS of your systems, Cpu, Mobo, Ram... and what is your most common use for the system(music, movies, games, crap, goatporn, ect...). xiao

[Mesh]

Music choice is COX digital cables digital music channel. There are about 45 diffrent digital channels, all close to cd quality and of differing genres. Heard KOOP on the "electronica" channel channel 915 here in phoenix. The track was from "waltz for KOOP". Musichoice is used nationwide by cox.... Is there a wesite where i can purchase the album, mayby amazon.com or some shit? One more question, obviously you promote for koop, who are these guys, I want to get a idea of them.

[f3/\r teh Phorced Access]

Everyone needs Cox Digital Cable - If you need any Cox Services I got 25$ off and free installation cards - hit me up anyone!!!

Originally posted by Mesh
A little off the subject, but I heard KOOP on musicchoice on cox digital cable, good stuff, would like to hear more, where can i get a \n album?

[omgBruce]

yeah dont buy those via chipsets i had a major problem with them before with doing audio stuff.. it would pop and click like crazies

i bet they fixed that problem now but i dunno bout em :o

so now im using a prebuilt sony computer and an echo gina sound card and that cured my problems.... shrug i think its just easier to get a prebuilt computer cos im no computer tech dood.

cos then i dont have to worry about building my computer properly , computer noises (my amd sounds like a lawn mower) , i dont have to worry about any werid conflicts, and you get a neat little case that says Sony VaiO... oh and you also get a legit version of windows xp if you wanna be legit ...

[cpud]

my hog:

Pentium3 450mhz
256mb of regular old pc100 ram
geforce2 w/ 32 massive mb of video memory
300 gigs of music

i dont really use it for anything productive... it just sits here and keeps my room warm.

[Mesh]

Athlon XP 2000+ Palimino core Processor
512 megs Kingston Value Ram
MSI board (forgot the model)
80 gig western digital hd
Gainward Geforce FX 5200 card, 128 megs onboard memory (nutin special)

Uses:
Recording audio from my minidisc (live dj sets mostly) Use a usb audio input, bypasses soundcard, eliminated analog interference, pops and clicks and hiss.

Grphk design, photoshop, illustrator, imagesready.

Animation, Maya 5, 3dsmax 5

Video editing, Adobe Premier, aftereffects

Web- Dreamweaver mx, notepad

[Mesh]

Hey guys , need help getting a graphic to show up for my signature, here is the image http://www.flow-az.com/images/flowdsgn.jpg

[Mesh]

never mind, now it works, peace

[Dub-U-Eff]

pentium 4-2G
120 gig western digital hd w/ 8 mb cache
stock video & sound card (has fiber optic ins and outs so I'm happy)
cdrecorder 512 mb corsair ram

I could use some suggestions on a video card that has s-video out for my tv, and that has above average specs...I dun do much gaming on my comp but would like something semi-nice.

[IonSant]

thanks guys, this feels like a fresh breath of air :)
http://photos.friendster.com/photos/54/76/3436745/1678774351046l.jpg

[Mesh]

hloy shiot:holy shit Dem are some big A$$ jugs:beer

[IonSant]

can some one tell me why windows reads my 250gig drive
as a 127gigs?

I did the normal partition with fdisk but I used my windows 98
boot disk :confused ...Ok HELP ME NOW SO I CAN BUMP SOME TUUUNeS!

[f3/\r teh Phorced Access]

repartion and make sure to turn on lba if that dosent work use a xp boot disk

[IonSant]

MAN THAT SUCKED ASS, I wasted my whole day....
I believe my BIOS do not support this big ass drive :(

i've tryed everything, Now I was thinking or returning
the drive==but FUCK 38 dollars restocking fee==fuck that!


anyone here have big ass drives?

[Consumer]

I'll give it a shot if you bring it over here. I've wrestled with large drives and flashing bios before.

[IonSant]

thanks a bunch, how does tomorrow morning sound/?

[Mesh]

Technically since the mobo is new, you shouldent need and additional controller card.(for some older mobo you needed them) to control the big ass drives. Freind of mine at work bought two 250 gig just drives just last week, if you give me till saturday night I can give you instructions on what to do.

P.s. What brand?

[IonSant]

well the mobo is around 5 years old -
the HDD brand is Western Digital-

[Consumer]

it sounded good, but I just now read this - how about tommorow as in saturday?

[IonSant]

ok

[Consumer]

just read about the 5 year old mobo... you'll probably need a newer one to support the large drives.

[IonSant]

ok

[Mesh]

yeah, if the mobo is 5 years old, it may not support a bigass drive like that..... Ill still talk to that dude at my work, because his mobo is like 4 years old and he has 2 new 250 gig drive as well as a 80 gig drive...