finally spent my birthday money

[WildTangent]

I HAVE UPGRADED MY COMPUTER :D w00t!

so ya, i spent all my money on computer parts, and gave my computer a well needed upgrade

heres the specs:

AMD Athlon 64 3000 socket 939 (1.8ghz, might overclock it to 2 ghz, eqivilent of the Athlon 64 3200)
MSI RS480M2-IL motherboard (built in Radeon Xpress 200, 100 mbit ethernet, 8 USB, 6 channel audio, firewire, SATA RAID controller)
Infineon 512MB PC3200 DDR RAM (planning on adding another)
Western Digital 160GB SATA hard drive
LG 52x CD-RW
420 watt power supply


the next thing im getting is an Nvidia GeForce 6600, 256MB graphics card. i need more money first.

-Wild

[poofyhairguy]

I HAVE UPGRADED MY COMPUTER :D w00t!

so ya, i spent all my money on computer parts, and gave my computer a well needed upgrade

heres the specs:

AMD Athlon 64 3000 socket 939 (1.8ghz, might overclock it to 2 ghz, eqivilent of the Athlon 64 3200)
MSI RS480M2-IL motherboard (built in Radeon Xpress 200, 100 mbit ethernet, 8 USB, 6 channel audio, firewire, SATA RAID controller)
Infineon 512MB PC3200 DDR RAM (planning on adding another)
Western Digital 160GB SATA hard drive
LG 52x CD-RW
420 watt power supply





Sounds tasty now, except for the ATI card.

[WildTangent]

Sounds tasty now, except for the ATI card.
its not too bad, the GPU is 400 mhz, and doesnt do a bad job on halo. unfortunately, it takes up 64 MB of my system memory :-x that will be fixed soon i hope

-Wild

[KingBahamut]

bout how much did you toss down on that?

[sapo]

Sounds tasty now, except for the ATI card.

I was going to say exactly the same thing :-#

[KingBahamut]

I think you can get a Dualy Opty from Penguin Computing for about 1800$ thats why I asked.

[WildTangent]

I think you can get a Dualy Opty from Penguin Computing for about 1800$ thats why I asked.
mmm....nice....but i dont have that much money. total money spent on this was ~$450 CAD

-Wild

[matthew]

Congrats!

[poofyhairguy]

unfortunately, it takes up 64 MB of my system memory

*shudder* shared memory is the devil.

[WildTangent]

*shudder* shared memory is the devil.
yes it is...im hoping it gives it back when i install a new card...

-Wild

[matthew]

yes it is...im hoping it gives it back when i install a new card...

-Wild
Every time I've upgraded in a similar situation the shared memory reverts to normal use, so you should get it back.

[benplaut]

nice system for the $$$...

do you think it's worth getting 64bit, even though there are less packages, etc?

[gil-galad]

I just got a similiar system myself. You can always use the 32bit ubuntu if you have to, athlon 64s are the best you can buy either way.

[WildTangent]

for now, its running windows xp. as soon as i can secure myself a copy of the 64 bit version, ill upgrade to it. when i add another hard drive, ill dual boot Ubuntu on it. ill definately give the 64 bit version a try, but i wont be expecting much, as ive heard its rather buggy. but as has been said, i can always go back to the 32 bit version

-Wild