ordered some new bits

Stryker · February 05, 2003, 12:35:10 PM

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.

Gandalf · February 05, 2003, 01:03:20 PM

Watch that XP2200+ According to TL it runs hotter than a hot thing on holiday to the sun.

sheepy · February 05, 2003, 01:04:11 PM

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

Stryker · February 05, 2003, 02:30:57 PM

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?

Gandalf · February 05, 2003, 06:27:33 PM

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.

TeaLeaf · February 05, 2003, 08:10:19 PM

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.

Stryker · February 11, 2003, 09:03:20 AM

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 Â£60.

Will post some picks later. Me case was about the cheapest premod case out there but it looks pretty sweet.

Gh0st Face Killah · February 11, 2003, 09:33:51 AM

[quote="Stryker
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!

Stryker · February 11, 2003, 11:58:38 AM

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.

sheepy · February 11, 2003, 02:37:41 PM

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]

TeaLeaf · February 11, 2003, 05:13:07 PM

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.

sheepy · February 11, 2003, 05:22:35 PM

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

DonkeyCheeseGrater · February 11, 2003, 05:55:15 PM

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.

smilodon · February 11, 2003, 07:36:12 PM

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:

sheepy · February 11, 2003, 07:43:42 PM

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