Yeah I know certain 'components' may not be great but it were governed by budget and what was available.... ebuyer.com has some great prices if you look around their site a bit.
Athlon 2200+
MSI KT4 Ultra SKT A DDR400 8x AGP USB 2.0 up to Athlon XP 2700+
Radeon Saphire Atlantis 9000, 400Mhz, 128MB
Samsung 512 PC2700
60GB HD UDMA 133
770 Modding case, blue tinge.
Rounded cables, LED case fan
yada,yada
Might just get to enjoy a reasonable game at dMw LAN III :-)
Already planning my future upgrade which will be a better graphics card.... geez planning upgrades and the bits aint even been delivered yet.
Watch that XP2200+ According to TL it runs hotter than a hot thing on holiday to the sun.
thats not just a few bits thats and entire new system.
thats the sort of systemi wish to upgrade to but i have NO cash till i get a job and work 4 a couple of months
QuoteWatch that XP2200+ According to TL it runs hotter than a hot thing on holiday to the sun.
Thanks for the warning... damn I'd forgotten his comments on that. Still, clear side will help, I can take a look to make sure the fans still turning :-)
Y'know those system monitors... heat etc. does win XP auto support them? For sirens on over heat etc?
or do I have to install drivers?
depends on the mobo. My mobo came with a nice hardware monitor that screams at you if there is a problem. The bios will also shut the system down if there is a problem.
QuoteWatch that XP2200+ According to TL it runs hotter than a hot thing on holiday to the sun.
It does when you overclock it. For some reason the temperature ramps up much more quickly than on other XP models.
TL. 8)
ok, I got me bits yesterday.
When will I ever learn? I built the system till it was literally ready to have the side panel put on, powered it up and.... NOTHING. The motherboard has 4 diag LEDs on the scsi backplate and they were indicating dead CPU. After much butt twitching and stripping the system down, removed the heatsink, removed the CPU, nothing appeared wrong.... gave the processor pins a good blow (ooh err, you'll be amazed the hassle a single hair can cause) then put it all back together and voila, it worked... phew.
Took about two hours to get XP on the machine. Even after a full install it took 20 mins of fecking and then 10 mins of giving up and going for a coffee before XP finally detected I had a USB bus and a USB mouse, new record eh microsoft? :-)
Ok got HL CS on it... yeah looks nice. Only got a crap monitor so I'm stuck with 72 FPS... but hell yeah, its GLUED to 72FPS no matter whats happening on the screen.... I though it pretty funky that I'd accidentally left winamp playing me fav music while playing CS and it all worked fine together... got my music blended with CS over the speakers :-)
Must say, I've not got the best graphics card in the range but the radion saphire 9000 rocks.... esp as it was only about £60.
Will post some picks later. Me case was about the cheapest premod case out there but it looks pretty sweet.
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Y'know those system monitors... heat etc. does win XP auto support them? For sirens on over heat etc?
or do I have to install drivers?[/quote]
Look on the mbd manufacturers site they quite often have the one that they recommend available for download. It should load eveything it needs as part of its install so you shouldn't have to install any extra drivers. If you have a cpu health section or similar in your bios thats were it grabbs its temp and fan speed info from.
Look forward to seeing it at the Lan!
Yeah, when I installed the drivers with the motherboad it took the liberty of installing their windows system monitor package..... pretty good does what it says on the package.
Also has a neat feature called something like "cool mode". Just a quick button click to overide the speed control on the fans and leave em all going full pelt.
strker anything above 72 wont make the slightest bit of diffrence coz the eys can only pick up about 70 fps [ i think thats the correct figure]
Quotestrker anything above 72 wont make the slightest bit of diffrence coz the eys can only pick up about 70 fps [ i think thats the correct figure]
It was actually 172 fps not 72 fps, but as your monitor only does 45 fps you must have missed the first digit :wink:
TL. 8)
lol, i was shure that it was around 70. ahh well. it was my old monitor which stuck at 50fps, the new one is limited to 60fps coz i havnt used that crack to unlimit the frame rate of xp
Quotestrker anything above 72 wont make the slightest bit of diffrence coz the eys can only pick up about 70 fps [ i think thats the correct figure]
Might not be far off Sheepy depending on your state of inebriation. :D
I heard that you can not really detect variations much above 30 fps.
So 40 fps and 50 fps register the same to the human brain. If that's so then most of my upgrading has been a complete bloody waste of time :cry:
thats it, there is no way that u would b able to tell the diffrence between 50 and 70 fps, i havnt noticed ne difrence in frame diffrece sice i got my new monitor but it is a lot bigger so i did notice that
I think its a personal thing. some of my mates run their pc's at 60Hz and then look at mine (100Hz atm :D) and see no difference. Heck, I used to run my old 15" at 60Hz, but now everything has to be 85+ or my eyes detect it and start to complain. High fps helps reduce eyestrain I think.
My monitor could apparently go somewhere like 200Hz @ 1280x1024 8O but 100Hz does me fine and will hopefully keep it running longer. Plus my ancient gf2ultra can just about cope with 1024x768@100fps. dropping to 50 is barely noticeable, but too much smoke and stuff and it drops to 30 and 20 and then you really do notice it. To think I used to play at 6-8fps on my first pc (2-4 at heavy times - software mode) :roll:
Sorry to bore you all but I'm doing this for anyone else like whos last big play (time taken to mess around) with a motherboard was when the P90 was the dogs bollox :-)
CoolerXP does more. Its pretty cool, its activley monitors the cpu idle time and throttle back the cpu. so if your machine was 80% idle, with coolerxp it throttles back so the proccessor is only 10% idle, hence running much slower and COOLER.
Got another feature I didnt know boards could support... its auto over-clocking. Like coolerxp this monitors the proccessors utilisation and when the cpu is satuated it ups the FSB!! Cool you can overclock your proccessor and still enjoy a relativley long life from it !!! I've not dared run this as there is no need. It starts off (first time ever run) by upping your FSB one 1Mhz at a time till your pc resets/crashes so it knows the upper limit..... yeah right like I really want some microshite software controlling my CPUs FSB :-)
saves u doing it manually tho