Big Time PC Upgrade

[Xander]

Right i have decided to upgrade my comp heres the stuff im getting

New Case

Lazer Beam's

Feet Lights

4GB DDR 400 Ram

Extra Cooling Fan

Intel P4 Processor

Processor Cooling Fan

 

[urbanfox]

The processor sucks, and that hsf sucks even more.
4x1GB is rather damn expensive, and what would you even use that much for...


A64+msi/dfi 939 board tbh

 

[Xander]

its not 4x1GB they are 2x 2GB so i still have two more slots for more if i need it ill look at some more proccessors

 

[wtf-this-time]

Get a 64 bit processor.

 

[Xander]

oh and i also getting a new power supply dual tri colour fans red/green/blue so by the time im done my comp will be an xmas tree

 

[anto]

What Graphics Card do you have atm?

 

[Xander]

right he is my new power supply 600W

and my gfx card is Galaxy Glacier GeForce 6 6800GT AGP8x DDR3 DVI TVO

cost my a lovely £260

 

[Far]

you seem to have gone for looks more than the actual spec. what would you do with 4gb ram for a start? neons and cable glows are old now.

 

[Richens]

Get an AMD64 4000+ or if they do higher now get the higher :P

AMD For the win!

 

[Far]

i always liked AMD's. but since i got my duel 3.2 p4 proccessors iv really started to like pentium.

@kane - there would be no point in getting a 64-bit because no software supports it yet. if you get it now, by the time software uses 64-bit the proccessor will be slow.

 

[Richens]

Some games make use of it ^__^

 

[JohnBarny]

yeh neons are old you should get one of those electronical cases which tell u ram heat n processor heat n fan speeds n time n stuff
they are mint

 

[urbanfox]

its not 4x1GB they are 2x 2GB so i still have two more slots for more if i need it ill look at some more proccessors

Well, first of all, a 2GB PC3200 stick will cost more money than the best GFX card available.

Second, you can't add more. With the motherboards now they support a max of 4GB, not to mention unless you get a P4 6XX cpu, your cpu wouldn't even support more than 4GB, let alone if the board would.

oh and i also getting a new power supply dual tri colour fans red/green/blue so by the time im done my comp will be an xmas tree

Quality over looks any day, not to say that all performance PSU's are dull and grey, but definitely don't buy for looks, you will regret it. Make sure they're enough amps on the 12V line etc.

i always liked AMD's. but since i got my duel 3.2 p4 proccessors iv really started to like pentium.

@kane - there would be no point in getting a 64-bit because no software supports it yet. if you get it now, by the time software uses 64-bit the proccessor will be slow.

You mean dual xeon's, P4 isn't a dual processor.

Actually, 64bit future proof means nothing with my purchases, it's the fact that in 32bit mode, the AMD64 is still one helluva CPU, and demolishes the P4 in all games, by a rather large margin.

yeh neons are old you should get one of those electronical cases which tell u ram heat n processor heat n fan speeds n time n stuff
they are mint

Those just have thermal sensors that you have to manually attach. You can buy a readout bezel with sensors for any case.

 

[Far]

i dont have xeons. i have two, 3.2 pentium 4 processors on my mb.

 

[urbanfox]

i dont have xeons. i have two, 3.2 pentium 4 processors on my mb.

ermmmm... no.

There is no motherboard that supports dual P4's, not to mention the P4 is not a dual CPU.


PROOF.

http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpu-z-127.zip

 

[Far]

dont make me invite you round to my house so i can show you my startup screen showing i have 2 proccessors which are pentium 4's and not xeons. i could post a screen of my dxdiag i suppose? although it doesnt say it aswell.

 

[urbanfox]

dont make me invite you round to my house so i can show you my startup screen showing i have 2 proccessors which are pentium 4's and not xeons. i could post a screen of my dxdiag i suppose? although it doesnt say it aswell.

How about you post what I told you to post and prove me right.

 

[Far]

does it not say 2 cpu's?

 

[urbanfox]

does it not say 2 cpu's?

Do I seem stupid to you farril? Do you really think in all my time doing comp stuff I havn't learned a damn thing? Wow, what a coincidince, I can show that exact same pic when I go to work today, yet I only have 1 cpu..


Hmm.... oh yeah.. IT'S CALLED HTT HYPER THREADING TECHNOLOGY.

You do not have 2 physical CPU's on your motherboard, you have 1, with an HTT compatible motherboard (gasp!) and HTT enabled (another gasp!).

That second CPU is like it says... LOGICAL.

Sorry, no throwing the sheep's wool over the fox today.

 

[Far]

and for once i hoped i cld prove you wrong! bah.