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Old 06-22-2007, 01:59 PM   #1
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:p Computers are my Fav Hobbie... I love building & upgrading the hardware this little beast is @ the heart of my household Specs & pics below;

Specs;

Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 System Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.0GHz
Memory: 1534MB RAM
GFXCard: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 (With Gold RGB Cables for TV Sending)
Sound: SB Live! Wave Device 5.1 Speakers
Advent Wireless Mouse & keyboard
19" ValueVision Monitor
Linksys wireless Router (Wireless-G ADSL Home Gateway WAG354G)
MagicBox II TVcard & Capture Card
USB >> PS2 Pad Convertor for games
1 X Maxtor 300 GB USB2 HDD
1 X HP 250 GB USB2 HDD
1 X 150 GB ATA HDD
1 X 160 GB ATA HDD Windows Drive
HP Printer/Scanner/CAMERA Hub

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Old 06-23-2007, 03:48 AM   #2
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Old 06-23-2007, 04:02 AM   #3
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Old 06-23-2007, 10:49 PM   #4
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I think you know a lot about it

Going to buy a new computer this week. Can't wait till I get it.

I think my specs will be something like this:
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Old 06-23-2007, 11:06 PM   #5
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Heres the one im goona build next B

http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/...395&CatId=2441
Gigabyte GA M61P-S3 AM2 motherboard
(£47.99 inc VAT)

Ram - 1 Gig £30.60 inc VAT http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/63631
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- 2 Gig £84.99 inc VAT http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/63623

- AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ 2.4GHz/1MB Cache/2000MHz £77.98 inc VAT
http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/...246285&CatId=0

Psu - Tagan 530W EasyCon TG530-U15 £67.45 inc. vat
http://www.yoyotech.co.uk/product_in...1b06dc02371e17

no need for optical drivers,sound card or case cos im upgrading what i have

looks lke i might b going for the AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 4800+
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Old 06-24-2007, 01:10 PM   #6
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Butterfly looking at your keyboard is it an advent and brushed aluminium if yes thats the one i got i got the wired one and i thought my wires looked bad
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Old 06-24-2007, 07:23 PM   #7
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i love building computers i had a totally seethrough one ast one point i cant find any pictures but it looked something like:



well basically exactly like that lol

with this keyboard:

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Old 06-24-2007, 10:41 PM   #8
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Well my PC is called Aurora.
I love it

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
3Gb DDR2 887 Mhz RAM
Hiper Type-R Modular PSU
RAID0 Setup of 2x 160Gb WDC 7200 RPM
nVidia 8600 GTS OC (By BFG)


Well that is my setup

Oh yeh.. I also have 2 Samsung Sync Master 19inch screens (although one is in for repair)
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nVidia 8600 GTS OC luvly,3Gb DDR2 887 Mhz RAM yeah man hehe

U see my spec i wanna build im getting very itchy now took a while getting that spec together heres wot im thinking ill do upgrade the games comp then use the current spec in the games comp for THE BOSS pc.but is that the right mobo for a games comp i have 1 optical and hdd both ide's and one sata hdd thing is with that mobo im gonna have to get one of those adapters that go on the ide drive and convert it to sata connetion and im going with the AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 4800+ at the moment
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Old 06-25-2007, 12:18 PM   #10
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Im constantly moaning i need to upgrade to my m8's dunno why as my current setup does all that i ask of it,i just luv to tinker with the hardware all the time.....my setup is as follows:-

Thermaltake Shark Case Silver
Thermaltake Pure Power 520w station
Thermaltake Media Lab Remote Control
Asus M2N32-Sli Deluxe Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 3ghz
OCZ 1 GB DDR2-800 X 4
Nvidia 7900 GS X 2 BFG
Maxtor 320gig Sata X 3
Samsung 400 gig network drive
Pioneer DVD-RW X 2
Philips 19" Widescreen Monitor soon to be 21"
Logitech Razor mouse (best one i have ever had)
and lots of smaller bits and bobs attached
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