Custom built my new PC and

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  1. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    It is working fine! It is a ASUS A8V MOBO, FX53 AMD processor, 2 GIGs of DDRM and a whisper quiet Cool Max 400 watt power supply that automaticaly keeps the power regulated as to where it is needed and when, I highly recommend this to you if you build your own. This PC is much more quiet that my old Compaq Peserio but I'll keep that one as a back up in case.This new PC seems to run somewhat faster than my old one but not as much as I thought it would. My games graphics look a hell of allot better now with much better resolution than ever before! That was one area that was inmproved. One sweet machine that I built myself and am happy that I did.
     
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    Game graphics resolution is definitely improved with Larger/Faster RAM. It's because the graphics themselves are constructed within the RAM in a back buffer before being displayed in most cases, depending on the size of the chunks decides how defined the graphics are, especially since most graphics cards tend to use systemwide RAM. (unless you've got a specialist one with memory slots on the card).
     
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    most cards these days have memory on board, in fact, *a lot* of memory - the AGP bus is not fast enough to have the graphics shifting to and from system memory on a constant basis. Only the new PCI Express cards have enough bandwidth to not require a heft of on-card memory.

    However, it looks like the ASUS A8V is an Nforce2 motherboard, with on-board video.

    Cosmic, are you using the on-board video? A seperate video card w/ at least 64 MB of RAM would have a fair performance effect in games, IME.
    An uber-high-end FX53 combined with on-board video would be like Shelby Cobra, and only driving down to your mailbox with it. That's a powerful system you have there!!
     
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  7. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    river-wind. Thanks!

    I have a Nvidia 4400 TI FX geforce with 128 MEGs for my video card which works allot better now with the 1200 mhz front side bus.
     
  8. river-wind Valued Senior Member

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    wowzers, yep, that'll help

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    any chance you have iTunes installed? If so, run visualisations and hit 'f' (I think). the frame rate should appear. tell me what the number is?

    So, how did you come to decide to build a kick-ass machine? gaming? video? geek staus?

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    I'll trade you the Athelon XP 2100 I just built last week - it has 512Megs of ram, and a Radeon 7000 graphics card

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    *shrug*
     
  9. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    No thank you for your PC and I don't have Itunes installed as yet.

    I had a 5 year old PC that was getting rather worn out at 1 GIG processor and 5 years of many hours on that MOBO which was way past its time for retirement. I wanted more resolution and speed and with what I have put together I have exactly what I need for the time being. I will be also updating my video card to the new 6800 Nvidia when it hits the street in 2 months or so and that will complete my rebuilding for at least the next 3 to 5 years.
     
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    howcome everyone needs realy fast pc's? im running an 800mhz with 256RAM and its fine!
     
  11. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    Maybe they are playing the latest games. I don't like new games.

    I mostly play medieval total war. It plays fine on my laptop. Recently I went back to civ3. Also plays fine. I seem to like those games that don't need much computer power.
     
  12. river-wind Valued Senior Member

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    Photoshop is a CPU hog

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  13. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    But Photoshop does some very interesting things to my images and other imported things.
     
  14. Kunax Sciforums:Reality not required Registered Senior Member

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    those games mensioned by spuriousmonkey can be pretty demanding on the CPU, it all depends on how you play them.

    Why would you buy low end stuff, that will "force" you to buy new stuff much sooner that if you bougth highend stuff
     
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    I have Pentium 233, 64mb ram. (I play games on my x-box) The only complain I have is it takes 7 full minutes for it to fully boot Windows 2000. I do my word processing, excel spreadsheets, internet browsing, VB programming, and even the occasional (oldie) game. Every time I get the urge to buy a new computer (which is almost every day) I ask myself 1 question: Do I really NEED it? I haven't answered yes to that question in past 7 years.
     
  16. river-wind Valued Senior Member

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    dsdsds - and that question is becoming even more of a pertinant one these days. modern machines are *much* more powerful than most people will ever need. I built an AMD-based machine two weeks ago for a friend of mine. He will use it for IM, web surfing, and Word.
    The machine I got for him is a considerably low-end machine, and I doubt he will ever stretch half of it's reasources.

    although I think I'd kill a machine running at 233mhz if I used it for more than a day.

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