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| Topic Started: March 23 2011, 06:16 PM (1,251 Views) | |
| Gandalf | March 23 2011, 06:16 PM Post #1 |
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AMD Phenom II X4 3.5GHz(Unlock able to AMD Phenom II X6), 8GBs of Kingston Hyper X Blue DDR3 1600, MSI 870A-G55 (Expandable to 16GB of Ram) SATA III and USB 3.0 support, Nvidia PNY GTS 450 1GB, 500W PSU, Thermaltake V4 Black Edition Gaming Chassis...![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| mallet5 | March 23 2011, 06:29 PM Post #2 |
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Nascar News Reporter, Weatherman, And Baseball Fannatic
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Nice
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| prr1361 | March 23 2011, 07:52 PM Post #3 |
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AKA srr89, TCR Content Creator
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Whatever Mike's just being a show off.
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| malikrthr | March 23 2011, 07:53 PM Post #4 |
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Creator of Kawasaki M8 and Major Tri State Area Project
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Beautiful. Is that an ATX motherboard? |
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| blacknred81 | March 23 2011, 08:13 PM Post #5 |
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Wow. Nice Computer. |
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| Deleted User | March 23 2011, 08:43 PM Post #6 |
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And here I am on a 2006 model. Still with 2006 tech,
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| Gandalf | March 23 2011, 09:00 PM Post #7 |
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Yes sir it is....2 PCIe 2.0 x16, 1 PCIe x1 and 3 PCI slots lol my early tech has all burnt up on me so I had to move on..
Edited by Gandalf, March 23 2011, 09:01 PM.
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| trainzguy2011 | March 23 2011, 10:46 PM Post #8 |
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I like the computer. I'm hoping to get a new HP real soon. I saw one at a Best Buy for 900 dollars and it was a beauty. Has intel core i7 processor Has 8GB RAM Has a 1.5 terrabyte hard drive, or 1,500GB It has a multi reader disk drive Oh and it runs Windows 7 Home Premium That is lots of power for a low price. |
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| Gandalf | March 23 2011, 11:03 PM Post #9 |
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HP/Compaq is a good company, I would check to see if that hard drive is full speed at 7200RPM and not something slower, and if it has a decent graphics card. Other then that it isn't much more then what I paid for parts for my computer here. |
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| RZTaylorJr | March 23 2011, 11:11 PM Post #10 |
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Agreed Mike. My computer total cost around 800 bucks and got a sweet setup. Dont think there isn't a game I can't play. |
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| Deleted User | March 24 2011, 08:08 AM Post #11 |
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Well if it is a HP laptop...STAY AWAY! my motherboard fried after 2 years. I have heard good things about their desktop models though. |
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| RZTaylorJr | March 24 2011, 08:09 AM Post #12 |
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The best thing for someone to do is to build their own computer. Its easy and it will drop ur costs in almost half for a computer. |
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| Gandalf | March 24 2011, 08:48 AM Post #13 |
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Not to mention much more upgradability so it can stay around long and keep up with the times. ****** happens K4..HP and Compaq both use motherboards from ASUS which is one of the best if not the best companies that make motherboards, because yours died so soon is a fluke. You can have a hard drive die on you 2 weeks after you buy it, or your RAM die 1 year later, or have something come that you ordered and it won't work from the get go. Just overclocked the CPU to 3.9GHz successfully. Edited by Gandalf, March 24 2011, 09:36 AM.
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| Deleted User | March 24 2011, 10:49 AM Post #14 |
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Well at least I still have the C drive turned into a decent flash drive...lol |
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| Gandalf | March 24 2011, 11:51 AM Post #15 |
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lmao yup that is always good. |
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| malikrthr | March 24 2011, 05:33 PM Post #16 |
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Creator of Kawasaki M8 and Major Tri State Area Project
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This is great. I just noticed, I have dual processors on my laptop. 2 Intel Pentium Inside T3400 processors working together to get a total speed of 4.2 GHz. I'd like to build a gaming computer one day with Intel Core i7 extreme, Windows 7 ultimate or home premium, x64 based system, Nvidia video card with direct x 11, 1TB hard drive, 6GB of ram. That would be my dream computer. Mabe in a couple of years I can make it happen since I will be learning about networking next year. This is great. I just noticed, I have dual processors on my laptop. 2 Intel Pentium Inside T3400 processors working together to get a total speed of 4.2 GHz. I'd like to build a gaming computer one day with Intel Core i7 extreme, Windows 7 ultimate or home premium, x64 based system, Nvidia video card with direct x 11, 1TB hard drive, 6GB of ram. That would be my dream computer. Mabe in a couple of years I can make it happen since I will be learning about networking next year. OOps, double post. My bad. Edited by malikrthr, March 24 2011, 05:35 PM.
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| Gandalf | March 24 2011, 06:14 PM Post #17 |
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If ya feel like blowing all that money on an I7 feel free! ![]() ![]() ![]()
Edited by Gandalf, March 24 2011, 08:12 PM.
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| malikrthr | March 25 2011, 02:44 PM Post #18 |
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Creator of Kawasaki M8 and Major Tri State Area Project
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Naah. Mabe in a couple of years. Mabe even a core 2 duo. or a quad core processors. Imagine how fast a computer must be with the i7, 7 processors in 1. |
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| Gandalf | March 25 2011, 04:11 PM Post #19 |
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It really would be 1 processor with 7 cores. Servers are known to have several processors with multiple cores, but home computers have yet to venture into that. The fact that the Sandy bridge was recalled because of a stupid error is a major turn off from intel. How can you not notice a decrease in speed between the hard drive and the motherboard SATA II connections? After all your the company creating the chip set..... And just because you have more cores on 1 processor doesn't mean it will run faster per say. As of now programs struggle to accommodate the use of 4 cores, let alone 6 or more. The hardware is at the moment is moving way to fast for programmers to keep up with. I would rather have a high speed quad core then a slow speed 6 core or high speed 6 core at the moment because of that. But being able to unlock the unused 2 cores, like on my processor, defiantly lengths the amount of life time the machine can be around as programs evolve to support it. Which is why currently I haven't even bothered with unlocking the 2 other cores on my CPU. |
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| ChunkPowers | March 25 2011, 07:32 PM Post #20 |
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i am jealous G can't wait to get mine Done |
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| thallium | March 25 2011, 09:01 PM Post #21 |
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ROCK AND ROLLBOT !!!
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SA-------Weeeeeeeeet. Thats sweet for all you that didnt get that
Edited by thallium, March 25 2011, 09:03 PM.
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| mr.burrito | March 26 2011, 01:41 AM Post #22 |
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Very cool. |
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| Gandalf | April 1 2011, 08:58 PM Post #23 |
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Added a new case fan and did some wire management as well as swap out my old DVD writer to a slightly newer and smaller one so I can add the fan to the top of the case when it gets here....![]() Only draw back to the case fan is that it is loud as **** http://s961.photobucket.com/albums/ae97/tcrstaff1/?action=view¤t=100_2277.mp4 And it is most defiantly the case fan or the vibrations from it...you unplug it becomes silent....guess 21db is LOUD. Added in the final 2 case fans as well as put silicone vibration absorbers on all of them to keep it semi quiet...Still louder then it was but you have to balance the noise with keep your hardware working and in safe conditions. ![]() ![]() The front to cool the hard drives by sucking in cool air(dropped the hard drives by 10 degrees already) the one on the top to suck all the hot air out and spit it out the top, along with the one on the back next to the I/O panel. The one on the bottom also sucks in cool air... Got it all balanced finally. 2 120mm intake fans and 2 120mm outtake fans. New upgrade!
Edited by Gandalf, August 12 2011, 05:25 PM.
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