Russian Assasian 0 Posted May 24, 2003 Share Posted May 24, 2003 About a month ago I said I was going to get a computer, Well about a month later (today) I did it!!!! My dad let me go all out on what I bought, up to 2500 Dollars , because he got a new job at BMW. Sooo my specs are. Itec SOHO case with 430 watt power supply Nforce2 LedTek AMD Athlon Barton 2800 Sound Blaster Audgy gamer Nvidia Geforce FX 5600 Ultra 256MB 8XAGP 21 inch IBM screen (It was free with my dads old job, one hell of screen ) 2 WD 200 GB Hard Drive, a total of 400 GB! 1024MB of Ram. So what do you think? RVS my most system demanding game ran at 40 50 FPS no lower then 40. All these people at school are getting these "great" new dells, sure they got 3.06 GHZ but with an Intergrated intel card and worse, the system sucks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
magnumkp 0 Posted May 24, 2003 Share Posted May 24, 2003 400gb?! I thought my 120gb was too big. 21inch monitors are sweet, although I don't notice much different between my work one (21") and my home one (19"). You better post some benchmarks very soon. I got 3972 on '03 version of that benchmarking thing which name currently I forget with no tweaking. I am sure you'res will blow it out the water. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ruin 17 Posted May 24, 2003 Share Posted May 24, 2003 Building one yourself is so gratifying. Enjoy your new machine! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dark Ranger 0 Posted May 24, 2003 Share Posted May 24, 2003 Congrats RA. Your system should last about 6 months to a year before needing to be upgraded! 400GB should last you a little while. I've got an 80 in my gaming rig, and I haven't even hit 20GB used space yet with games and music. Have fun! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RooK 0 Posted May 24, 2003 Share Posted May 24, 2003 Congrats on the new rig. I'd like to see some benches of that GFFX DR, I've had this computer a year with a 40gb hdd and I'm only using 21gb. I think my next upgrade will be into Athlon64 land. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Russian Assasian 0 Posted May 24, 2003 Author Share Posted May 24, 2003 (edited) This may seem like a dumb question, but could you tell me what you mean by benchmarks? I know what the word means but I dont know how to do that Edited May 24, 2003 by Russian Assasian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NYR_32 6 Posted May 24, 2003 Share Posted May 24, 2003 Damn nice rig, my new one cost more than half the price of yours and its awesome, that thing must be a beast. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firefly2442 0 Posted May 24, 2003 Share Posted May 24, 2003 Benchmarks are a way of comparing your computer and how fast it can process and display things compared to other computers. For example, www.madonion.com has a program called 3DMark 2003 that runs and gives you a number when it's finished. Then you can compare that number to other peoples. HTH. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dark Ranger 0 Posted May 24, 2003 Share Posted May 24, 2003 DR, I've had this computer a year with a 40gb hdd and I'm only using 21gb. I think my next upgrade will be into Athlon64 land. Yes, I hear ya. My rig was built in January '03, and I'm just now hitting 16GB. Most of that is games and MODS. I've got a couple gigs of music(my own CDs, not that Kazaa crap. Don't get me started on that one.), 300MB of pictures, OS service packs, and some benchmarking apps. That's it. No frilly utilities and no AOL junk. I would assume you keep a clean HDD as well. And other than upgrading my video card this year, the next major upgrade will probably be "Athlon64 Land", as you put it. @RA, Benchmarks are nice, and high scores at the end of a test are great, but it really comes down to in-game/desktop-application performance. There are some people that will go all out, even stripping down an OS to its skeleton, for 100 extra points. But as long as it performs good in a game, or whatever you are going to do with it, it doesn't really matter what score you got. JMO on the matter. Still, it'd be nice to see what a synthetic test gives you for results. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ReconSnake 0 Posted May 24, 2003 Share Posted May 24, 2003 My 40GB drive is bursting at the seems. I'lm thinking about upgrading to at least 120 GB hd in the near future. RS Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crimson 0 Posted May 25, 2003 Share Posted May 25, 2003 400 gigs... amazing... I thought my 80 was way to big when I got this computer a hear and a half ago. Still have 53+ gigs of space left. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RooK 0 Posted May 25, 2003 Share Posted May 25, 2003 DR, I do keep a tidy drive. Though my personal folder is starting to become a labyrinth of subfolder and miscellaneous pics (those of guns and cars as much as females ). But anyway, the only reason I'd go bigger than 80gb would be because I couldn't get a 8mb cache version in that size. Otherwise it's a waste with the extra time it takes to search/defrag it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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