New computer for keefe!
 

So I finally decided to build a new computer.  If you already did not know, this is what I used to be running:

Asus P3b-F motherboard
Pentium III 450
256 Mb of PC 133 RAM
10 GB Maxtor 5400 RPM
24x CD-ROM
2x HP CD-RW
Sound Blaster MP3+5.1
15" Toshiba Black monitor

As you can see this was not doing me very well, so I decided to upgrade to this..

MSI KT3 Ultra-ARU W/ RAID
AMD Athlon XP 1800+
512 Kingmax PC2700 DDR RAM
80 GB 7200 RPM Western Digital SE Hd W/ 8 meg buffer
52x/12x CD/DVD Drive
40x12x48x Lite-On CD-Burner
Sound Blaster Audigy
19" Flat CRT ViewSonic Black Monitor

As you can see, this is a pretty sweet setup.  Its not the fastest on the market, but it was what I could afford and its 100 times better than my old system.

Re: New computer for keefe!
 

nice deal man...all i know is that it is a heck of alot better than my junker sittin next to me!  ;D  Now for the moddin...haha...well some day i think im gonna build my own computer and make it really purdy...then i dont think i will have anymore complaining!  anyway i wish u the best of luck on ur new rig and that it hopefully worx out to your advantage!

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Sweet sys it looks like it will be. What are you going to do with your old one? OC it?

Also, just one question about your new sys, are you going to use the RAID?

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I dont have enough hard drive right now, however I plan to buy some 80 giggers and do some striping.

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That'll be sweet! Then you'll have a rocket.

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I'm running a 2-point RAID 0 array with 40 GB ATA133 7200 RPM Maxtor HDDs right now on my primary system. If you've been paying attention in my thread about my FTP server, you'll know that I've run out of room.

My next paycheck I'm planning on getting two 80 GB ATA133 7200 RPM Maxtor HDDs and setting up a separate RAID 0 array, and then two paychecks later, getting two more, and setting up a 4-point RAID 0 array with the 4, 80 GB drives, for a massive 320 GB logical array...which I figure should hold me for a few more weeks ;).

same here with the raid 0... 80gb total... on my primary and i'm out of room... 80gb on my file server and thats out of room too. i have to go out and buy me a new 100gb :D . Keefe you should wait and see how AMD's opteron processors turn out. they should be out beginning of 2003. It woudl be nice to have a 64/32 bit processor. We need a drooling smiley! ;)

Maybe i'll upgrade when they come out...

sweet spec

/me can't wait till he can get a job

i got my new box in april but its quite plain, AMD1800, 256ddr, GF3 128mb, 17" CRT (not new)

64-bit
 

That leads to something I have wanted to do for the last year and a half, since the publicly stated their will be a 64-bit edition of MS Whistler (Windows XP which was at the time reffered to as Whistler). I have wanted to get a rack or something and join a few quad processor mobo's and use Windows XP 64-bit Edition. Then, with some other powerful components, I have the coolest system of anyone (for a day or so at least - till someone expands on the idea). I post this today, and tomorrow you'll see someone braggin about their system like it. Oh well.

Keefe , Congrats on building a new computer. That is also better than the one I currently have.
vee_ees that would be an awsome rig. The problem will be saving up all that money to do that setup.

Someday, when I build that system, I'll post the benchmark scores. I'll have my Denon and Klipsch stereo system hooked up to it, and then it'll truly be awesome with some of the best (by far the best in my personal preference) speakers and the best reciever rattling the floor as I rev up the engine in Need For Speed.

Yeah...It felt like you were actually there. The only problem was the sound card was horrible and so the clarity wasn't there. So if anyone has Sound Blaster Live! or Audigy, they have the optical outs which would sound as awesome as there stereo could sound.

These are the speakers we had used.

Yeah...It felt like you were actually there. The only problem was the sound card was horrible and so the clarity wasn't there. So if anyone has Sound Blaster Live! or Audigy, they have the optical outs which would sound as awesome as there stereo could sound.

These are similiar to the speakers we had used, except mine were the newer version, the Infinity RS8A's which had the subwoofer lower because of the added power.

i use a JBL ESC300 Surround set and it moves a lotta air 8)