New Toys! (Geek thread!)

**Lias** · 13th September 2006, 16:59

Originally Posted by bobsmith

hey, that's EXACTLY what I did except for that I got a 320gb HD... these AM2 dual core 3800 overclock nicely even with the stock fan... I have it running at 2.3ghz each on stock fan. Which mobo did you end up with? I got myself a M2N-E but I'm starting to wish I got a SLI mobo for future expenditures.....

I got an M2V nothing flash but will do me.. My theory is I wont be upgrading to SLI anytime soon, and when i can afford a couple of decent SLI'd cards i can afford the board to go with em lol.

**Zed** · 13th September 2006, 17:06

I went thru a stage or three of upgrading my pc time and time again, havn't done anything to it for about two years now (more $$ into bikes happy happy joy joy) but it still does everything i need and a little more, currently have: intel celeron 2ghz processor, 512mb ram, 40G hdd, 32" lcd screen. I will probably be buying Vista when it is released, so that may force me to upgrade my cpu, memory, and hdd capacity!?

**Drunken Monkey** · 13th September 2006, 17:34

Originally Posted by Zed

... I will probably be buying Vista when it is released, so that may force me to upgrade my cpu, memory, and hdd capacity!?

Why do it that way? How much will they screw you for Vista, AFAIK MS are dropping discounts for "upgrade", so you'll be looking at $400-500 at least, then whatever to upgrade a 2 y.o. PC.

Just buy a new computer with the OS OEM, you'll save heaps that way. Manufacturers slap on an OEM for around $100 a license, there's no way for consumers to legally buy a copy cheaper (unless there's an Academic OEM).

**kro** · 13th September 2006, 18:37

It's nice to see a 7600GT in there, they are the most under rated card ever made, they can shred any damn game, at under half the price of the "top end" stuff.
Nice rig. The whole introduction of the AM2 processors has really dragged the prices down in a large large way, you can now slam togther a cherry rig like yours, for a lot less money than you think.

I've gotta do this soon too, my old clunker needs a heart transplant.