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tayl5645

tayl5645

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So yesterday i finally decided to purchase a new video card so I can finally play Stracraft II on my computer with quality graphics. The only problem with that is jus tlike with cars when you start... Well you cant stop.

So as of now my list is up to New Video card (ordered and on the way), Processor and Mother board... Man luckly i can keep my RAM PS and HDDs lol. Anyone else love toying with their computer like me
 


Sure, I've done lots of stuff with my computer at home. We have five of them. My latest one is a dual processor Opteron, but I built it for disk I/O, not gaming. :)
 
Ahh very nice. The MoBo im looking at is the first one with the avalability in the Bios for OCing. So it looks like im going to learn alot here soon about it so I can get even better performance :). I looked at the new 6-core from AMD but still just too dang expensive
 
I have a Phenom Quad-core with 8 GB ram, it works great. Can't see dropping the extra coin on the hex-core right now.
 
THat is my upgrade is to a quad core (finally) and i only run 4BG of Ram but i cant justify more i barely use what I have
 
I put all that in because I had it lying around. Having that much RAM is pretty pointless unless you are using it (which I'm not).
 


im about 10 minutes away from turning my alienware laptop into a giant music station considering the second i unplug it from the wall it bricks out on me. power supplies suck balls, i need a new one and dont want to pay for it.

i need to setup some sort of music station for my basement anyway, im done hooking my phone up to the speakers to get internet radio.
 
Bad battery? What kind of battery is it?

Get a cheap ass old machine, add a good sound card, and you will be good to go.
 
i agree on that one, id rather have a smaller tower to shove in my closet anyway.

however, i already changed the battery on my laptop and it still does the same thing. i am guessing its the power brick not charging the battery. i dont want to buy a new one cause its a monster.
 
Bio248 said:
i agree on that one, id rather have a smaller tower to shove in my closet anyway.

however, i already changed the battery on my laptop and it still does the same thing. i am guessing its the power brick not charging the battery. i dont want to buy a new one cause its a monster.
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Check ebay man
 
I have a phenom X4 9950, 1066mhz ddr2 ram, 9800gtx+ card, ECS MOBO gf8200a chipset, soundblaster card and soundblaster 7.1 speakers connected to a 32" LCD TV. I use it to watch HD movies and to play. I put this setup together like a year ago. It runs starcraft II at top quality easily although I'm not that much into real time strategy I think it's done nicely.

I've pre ordered final fantasy xiv and it's scoring like mid numbers in the ffxiv benchmark, I might upgrade to a gtx280 if it doesn't perform well when I install it.

I do spend some time and money into the PC and don't play that much anymore lol, but it's one of those things that you just keep doing. Also it consumes a lot of energy, the whole setup eats between 300 - 500 watts depending on the usage.

You probably can keep the RAM and HDD, but it will be a bottle neck in your system. I still run a SATAI HDD and makes the whole system slow I also only have 2 GB of RAM and would be better to have atleast 4GB, but all my cash right now is going into GTP mods haha.
 


bio: Have you tried to turn it on while unplugged? You should be able to see if the battery is charged. you can see this in the battery settings in BIOS (enter setup/BIOS before windows starts... usually F2 or DEL) or by checking it through the windows power settings in control panel. If it's not charging/charged, then it's possible that you have a bad battery. The other possibility is that you need a motherboard replacement. Your brick is more-than-likely fine.
 
Juan I dont think i will e bottle necked by my Ram and PS. My PS is i believe a 600W PS. Plus with running 4Gb of DDR2 memory it will easily run most games on the market as of now unless you are running a ton of background noise while running programs (such as music and what not while playing games)
 
Hmm... I'm running a... like a 6 year old setup.

AMD 3800+
DFI LANParty SLI-DR
1Gb OCZ Platinum DDR (2-2-2-5)
NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT? I dunno, it was like $15 special years after running my 6500GT
2 hard drives... a 300 gig Maxtor Diamondmax and a 400 gig Seagate something. 16mb cache, back when that was hip and fresh.
SilenX fans and psu, Zalman 7700CU cpu hs, some zalman northboard chip fan, mini-server case... runs quiet and cold.

My hard drives are full, (like... 10 gigs "free" out of 700), with a completely borked and corrupt Windows XP install running... limping along. Never gave me any trouble, until I tried running Prototype in this state... had to turn down the graphics a tad.

I'll be ordering a new hard drive or two to rectify the issue, though. and I guess that would be a good time to overclock.

...I bet I might still beat any of you kids in a shooter, running as-is. Well, maybe not the new Team Fortress. I watched someone play that and I just don't get it.:th_laugh-lol2:
 
SlowNA06 said:
bio: Have you tried to turn it on while unplugged? You should be able to see if the battery is charged. you can see this in the battery settings in BIOS (enter setup/BIOS before windows starts... usually F2 or DEL) or by checking it through the windows power settings in control panel. If it's not charging/charged, then it's possible that you have a bad battery. The other possibility is that you need a motherboard replacement. Your brick is more-than-likely fine.
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the battery only worked when i initially installed it and then it went dead forevers. its my power brick thats not charging the battery.

if its a motherboard problem that would suck mucho ass since its an expensive laptop to begin with.
 
SlowNA06 said:
Hmm... I'm running a... like a 6 year old setup.

AMD 3800+
DFI LANParty SLI-DR
1Gb OCZ Platinum DDR (2-2-2-5)
NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT? I dunno, it was like $15 special years after running my 6500GT
2 hard drives... a 300 gig Maxtor Diamondmax and a 400 gig Seagate something. 16mb cache, back when that was hip and fresh.
SilenX fans and psu, Zalman 7700CU cpu hs, some zalman northboard chip fan, mini-server case... runs quiet and cold.

My hard drives are full, (like... 10 gigs "free" out of 700), with a completely borked and corrupt Windows XP install running... limping along. Never gave me any trouble, until I tried running Prototype in this state... had to turn down the graphics a tad.

I'll be ordering a new hard drive or two to rectify the issue, though. and I guess that would be a good time to overclock.

...I bet I might still beat any of you kids in a shooter, running as-is. Well, maybe not the new Team Fortress. I watched someone play that and I just don't get it.:th_laugh-lol2:
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Are the HDD just full of your files or corrupt files you cant delete? If the later is the case jst nuke the hard drive and start over with it clean. 700 Gb should be plenty! Well unless you have a ton of movies ect on there. I currently do have 2TB thrown in my machine though so i cant talk too much lol
 


i7s look nice... But price is just stupid!! I've always use AMD for the price you just cant beat it. Not to mention I have never had a problem with the performance from one either
 
tayl5645 said:
Are the HDD just full of your files or corrupt files you cant delete? If the later is the case jst nuke the hard drive and start over with it clean. 700 Gb should be plenty! Well unless you have a ton of movies ect on there. I currently do have 2TB thrown in my machine though so i cant talk too much lol
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Eh, movies, music, games. I can delete any file. Ever. I'm a DoD erase kinda guy. But yeah, totally full. The solution will be to install a 2 TB HDD, install an OS or two on it, transfer over anything I like/use, and nuke the other two discs, afterwards using them purely to store my crap, since they'll be slower than a new drive.
 
Very nice! Fortunatly i dont gather too much stuff. My few games and all my msic (30+Gig) barely scratches the surface of what I have :)
 
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