My latest monster!

[Panda Man]

Oh my. What a beast.

I'm assuming the 1st monitor's plugged into a computer, what's in that computer?

Specs in the first post

I think I just splooged all over the 8800GTS.

Probably.

Hey about time you get a decent rig Panda. Nice grad build. =D
You're gonna like cleaning the dust outta the tower though I tell ya. Keeps your HW cold but also makes them DUSTY. =(
Also stock Intel HSF? You're not cool enough to be part of HL.

Thanks, but you still suck

Why only 300GB?

Because that's what I had. Didn't buy a new HDD yet.

the only thing i have to put up with this monitor is a 30second warmup on the CRT but so long as you keep the brightness below 90% its crisp and clear picture. seriously people need to not limit themselfs just becasue they cant get it new. belive me i've been building computers on a budget of 0.00US$ for about 4 years and you can find some good stuff being thrown away by local scools and hospitals.

That's actually how I came across the Trinitron on the right.

also i have to ask, whats with all the colors on the mobo? i remember back when there werent even plastic guwar rails on the IDE controler port you had to line pin1 with pin1 to make it work. ALL the connectors back then were just black and i liked it black. now its all colorfull :\

To stop idiots from blowing the damn thing up and RMAing it saying it was DOA. The only thing that's actually useful is the RMA banks being colored so I know which channels are linked without having to look at the manual.

It's purdy, but um, if you're gonna build a new computer, why not purchase a good monitor to go with it? I'll sell ya my Sony Trinitron (17") HMD-A200 monitor, it has a cool lightning bolt effect right before it displays the sony logo.

That's pretty much the one on the right.

Not bad, but you need a new, bigger monitor

I have plans for a nice LCD in the future

[Kazekage Gaara]

Nice rig dude Ya seriously think you're gonna need more than 300 gb

So, how much did it cost you ??? Can you name the prices individually

And can you tell me what do these mean

ZyXel m-202 802.11g adapter
Antec Nine Hundred
Samsung Syncmaster 997mb

So which games are you playing on that beast

Edit: I just googled and DAMN!!! that case is really really COOL

Edit II: I just realized you had put images in the second post STUPID WEBBLOCKER Am at work

[Deach]

Have you started overclocking yet?

[Borman]

Buy a Dell LCD (I hate saying Buy and Dell without the words "Do not", but bleh). I seriously love my 24 inch LCD.



Yea, thats 24 inches lol

[Lesbian Robots]

the only LCD i have is the HD LCD in my laptop and its opnly 15.1" :\

[The Joker]

Buy a Dell LCD (I hate saying Buy and Dell without the words "Do not", but bleh). I seriously love my 24 inch LCD.



Yea, thats 24 inches lol

damn, how big is your tv?

[Borman]

lol thats a projector, the 24 inch LCD was just to show the size of it really.

[Panda Man]

Buy a Dell LCD (I hate saying Buy and Dell without the words "Do not", but bleh). I seriously love my 24 inch LCD.

Actually I prefer Viewsonic over Dell, and I have a 20" LCD on the way from newegg.

Have you started overclocking yet?

Why? What will overclocking get me that I don't already have at stock? I can play all my games at Max settings at 1600x1200 already.

Nice rig dude Ya seriously think you're gonna need more than 300 gb

So, how much did it cost you ??? Can you name the prices individually

And can you tell me what do these mean

ZyXel m-202 802.11g adapter - For wireless connection
Antec Nine Hundred - Case. Looks like you figured it out already :O
Samsung Syncmaster 997mb - Left monitor

So which games are you playing on that beast

Edit: I just googled and DAMN!!! that case is really really COOL

Edit II: I just realized you had put images in the second post STUPID WEBBLOCKER Am at work

Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Conroe 2.13GHz - $189
GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 (rev. 1.3) - $99
EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB - $299
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2-800 - $124
OCZ GameXStream 600W PSU - $129
Maxtor 300GB 7200RPM SATA150 16MB cache HDD - Probably $80 now. pulled from last build
Sony NEC Optiarc 18X DVD±R DVD - $32.99
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 - Again pulled from last build, it was $86.99
ZyXel m-202 802.11g adapter - Bought off woot.com for $25, originally $60
Antec Nine Hundred - $139.99
Creative 5.1 speaekers - Leftover from last build, cheap, about $75
Samsung Syncmaster 997mb - Leftover from last build, about $170
Old Dell Trinitron monitor - OLD ass monitor.

So all together about $1450

[polobunny]

Still suck? What for? You need experience son, i'll beat your fucken ass.

[Deach]

Why? What will overclocking get me that I don't already have at stock? I can play all my games at Max settings at 1600x1200 already.

From what I've seen, C2D are made for overlclocking with most reaching 3GHz with ease. Why wouldn't you want that extra performance at no extra cost?

[Panda Man]

From what I've seen, C2D are made for overlclocking with most reaching 3GHz with ease. Why wouldn't you want that extra performance at no extra cost?

Because that will shorten its life span

Still suck? What for? You need experience son, i'll beat your fucken ass.

You think you will. Let's go, Pokemon battle, right here, right now!

[Kazekage Gaara]

Thanx for the answers That cost is really good for what you got but is Gigabyte mobos any good ??? How about original Intel or Asus ?? Correct me if am wrong. Pools would probably know much about it

You didn't answer my one question...

So which games are you playing on that beast

[Panda Man]

gigabyte Motherboards are great bang:buck, very solid and pretty easy to work with. Had to set all the voltages, mem. timings manually and though. Thanks SPD!

As for games -



Ok seriously

call of Duty 2
Company of Heroes
BF2
Half-Life 2.... again
CS

That's all ATM, I'm going to get others installed later.

[Crash]

Question about dual core processors: I just recently got an upgrade like Panda Man's (but not as good ), and my cpu is 3.2GHz dual core. So I thought 2 cores would give me an advantage when emulating N64 and PSX games. But I have a question, Project 64 allows you to disable the fps limit, allowing it to emulate at your computer's best ability. So I tried that, then pulled up Task Manager (cheap way of measuring benchmarks, I know) and noticed that PJ64 was only using about 50% of my overall cpu. That seems just like 1 core to me, but I checked the performance tab and both cores had a data rate of about half on the chart.

I know some apps can "turn on" the use of both cores fully, but why can't I do that in the first place? Can I change a BIOS setting?

[Jetsetlemming]

Dude, the point of the FPS limit is for game timing. If you run the game at say, 120 FPS, the game will run at twice the normal speed. Most console games time themselves by the FPS.