Endless Paradigm - So... my PC is reborn..

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Who knows what happened a couple of months back, but my PC effectively went kamikaze on me. The motherboard and CPU both (or at least the motherboard) died. Hven't been able tp figure out the reason, till now, though.

So, in short, I had no PC at home for better part of 2 months. Well... finally I did save up enough to get new parts:

Parts I really needed:
[list]CPU
Motherboard
Graphics card (replacing dying 8600GT)
RAM (4GB)

Well, given the limiting budget, this is what I got:
[Image: newrig.jpg?t=1257626042]

So, I'm still short on a decent Motherboard and good RAM, but I think this should last for sometime. Also given the fact that I got a 32" while my PC was dead, the possibilities are wide open :p

hey you have the same cpu as me! Madwin

nice work feinicks!

Looks decent enough to me.

trademark91 Wrote:hey you have the same cpu as me!

nice work feinicks!

PSPkiller Wrote:Looks decent enough to me.

Well, the motherboard really sucks. I am not a big fan of micro-ATX form-factor. The Graphics card has rendered the other PCI slots unusable. It has only one IDE port and sadly, both of my HDDs and the DVD-ROM are IDE. :/

Did you play any new game/s yet>?

nice rack!! i don't liek Ati!! ;p

You should've probably went for a Radeon 5770 instead of the 4870, just to be more ready for the future (DX11), they cost about the same.

As for the motherboard, as long as it works, who cares? I mean it doesn't effect your performance, unless you really needed some of the specific features of the better motherboards.

And the question that's going to be asked sooner or later... how much did it cost you?

feinicks Wrote:Well, the motherboard really sucks. I am not a big fan of micro-ATX form-factor. The Graphics card has rendered the other PCI slots unusable. It has only one IDE port and sadly, both of my HDDs and the DVD-ROM are IDE. :/

Hey, I'll take it off your hands if you don't want it! I've given the chocolatety components (Pentium 4 era) out my desktop to my dad. I've now got his even chocolatetier components just sitting idle in my case.

AMD Athlon XP 2200+ @ 1.79 GHz
Asus A7N266-VM
768MB of generic DDR RAM
Onboard graphics and sound
6GB Fujitsu IDE hard drive. Yes, 6GB.

Needless to say I don't actually use it but it's all I got desktop wise...

Vegetano1 Wrote:Did you play any new game/s yet>?

nice rack!! i don't liek Ati!! ;p

Tried Mass Effect with Max settings. Is running pretty well. Don't have any of the newer games, so can't try it out yet.

Assassinator Wrote:You should've probably went for a Radeon 5770 instead of the 4870, just to be more ready for the future (DX11), they cost about the same.

True. But they didn't have it at the shop and I wanted to pickup what was ready. Also the fact that its still some time before DX11 games actually become mainstream.

Assassinator Wrote:As for the motherboard, as long as it works, who cares? I mean it doesn't effect your performance, unless you really needed some of the specific features of the better motherboards.

And the question that's going to be asked sooner or later... how much did it cost you?

I'm ok for the performance. Especially since I'm not messing around with the clock speed (seems decent enough as it is). That is the only one reason I would say a good motherboard is needed.

My main kill-joy factor here is that I can't use 1HDD, my creative graphics card, extra LAN card etc as there is simply no space and slots.

Still, for equivalent of $50, this is as best as it can get.

feinicks Wrote:My main kill-joy factor here is that I can't use 1HDD, my creative graphics card, extra LAN card etc as there is simply no space and slots.

I think most motherboards these days only have 1 IDE slot, and it doesn't really have anything to do with your motherboard being cheap. Mine was a mid range ($129 AUD), and it still only had 1 IDE slot. You can stick 2 things on 1 slot though (you probably knew that already).

feinicks Wrote:
Assassinator Wrote:And the question that's going to be asked sooner or later... how much did it cost you?

Still, for equivalent of $50, this is as best as it can get.

No, I mean the whole machine.

Assassinator Wrote:
feinicks Wrote:My main kill-joy factor here is that I can't use 1HDD, my creative graphics card, extra LAN card etc as there is simply no space and slots.

I think most motherboards these days only have 1 IDE slot, and it doesn't really have anything to do with your motherboard being cheap. Mine was a mid range ($129 AUD), and it still only had 1 IDE slot. You can stick 2 things on 1 slot though (you probably knew that already).

Yes... that is where the problem (can hardly call that a problem, though) arises that my DVD R/RW is also IDE. SO unless I get a externel casing, IDE-to-SATA adapter or a new SATA DVD R/RW, I can't use both hard disks and the dvd drive simultaneously...

Assassinator Wrote:
feinicks Wrote:
Assassinator Wrote:And the question that's going to be asked sooner or later... how much did it cost you?

Still, for equivalent of $50, this is as best as it can get.

No, I mean the whole machine.

XFX Radeon HD 4870 1GB ~ $235
Intel C2D E7500 @ 2.9 GHz ~$124
Asus P5KPL ~ $51

So that's about $410.

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