New Computer
 

Well I splurged and got a new PC this pasted week and let me tell tell you it I am glad I bought the parts and put it together!

My Motherboard is an ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe, I added 1 gig of Ram, 2 160 gig HDs, and Dual Gigabyte Geforce4 6600 GT video cards'


Talk about SWEET!, Now I can get back to some serious gaming.


Jim

sweet!

i was picking up a burner for my buddy at ncix and i bumped into my other buddy from work...

he was getting a new rig and he's a big gamer too...

off the top of my head... he was gettin a p4 3.4G and a xt800 platinum edition vid card!

makes me feel kinda crummy playin games on my current pc...

mind you, i feel kinda crummy doing anything on my pc. :lol:

I was trying out a game that came with my videocards (got 2 copes ofg Joint Operation and Thief) JO the water looks so freaking real its scarey, And when your under the water looking out it took looks real.

I am glad I made the new purchase


Check out the mobo link.. Its a Hot Mobo


Jim
http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/sock...d/overview.htm

that video card is two generations old. you cant be that serious a gamer :razz:

I did not want to send a grand on video cards, I always stay 1 gen behind :) besides the benchmarking that was done with this mobo was done with thge 6600GT cards, and the 6800 GT cards. there isnt many that do SLI yet

Besides the video cards i wanted were almost $500 each (wholesale costs) I just could not swing it :) so I settle for the $231 6600 GTs (each)

Jim

im pretty damn pleased with my 9800 pro. im gettimg some bitchin framerates with hl2, far cry, battlefield... it cost me around 300 bucks back in june last year.

hahaha, that 9800 pro is pretty damned old ;)

(I have one in my workstation)

the dual 6600's is pretty nice. They have problems running the 6800's together I heard. I still haven't played with it though :(

I have been building a lot of nice server systems lately. 4tb in storage, dual xeon, dual opteron... 300gb sata drives with 16mb cache... 6gb ram... some nice stuff ;)

Looking at an 8U server case with 40! drive bays - sata hotswap, multi lane backplane... drool factor man!

Hip Hip Hooray!!!

Finally got a new monitor today. 17" LCD. Love it. & awesome price too. Costco had it on special a couple weeks ago & my friend put one on hold for me. Lucky me :biggrin: $279+tax. Finally got rid of my old 14" SVGA. :biggrin:

Anthony

Next - time to upgrade this computer. It's only a 6 yrs old P-II - 350mhz. On its last legs.

I tried running Far Cry with everything CRANKED up to the max. it ran flawlessly with this Combination.. Awesome.. I am extremely happy with the whole setup

Besides with the way the Computer industry is going, when a product comes out, its already OLD, as a couple months something better is out


Jim