My first Computer that I built

[J_Frog]

I have just completed my first computer that I have been building for the past 6-8 months now. here isa list of what I have in it right now.

a NEC Fe700+BK (moniter).
a geforce fx 5200 128 mb.
a 1800+ AMD CPU.
a matasonic motherboard.
512 DDR400.
a 52X cd-rom drive.
a 52X24X52 CD-RW drive.
a floppy drive.
400 watt power supply.
a ATX black case with window.
a modem.

I am planning to change all of the guts of my computer sometime this summer. A list of what i plan on getting.

a Gigabyte 7VAX motherboard.
a 2600+ to a 2800+ AMD Barton core CPU.
more memory so i have about 1536mb ram to 2048 mb ram.
I think that is going to be all that I am going to add this summer.:grin:

[zeal311]

Sweet Comp and welcome to Zelaron.

[J_Frog]

thanks I hope that it is going to be. i just need to get some money, games, and get XP actvated. (I hate microsoft but it works.) does anyone know where to get cheap OS's?

[Satoshi]

Not a bad comp. Welcome!! :D

[Medieval Bob]

Are those new geforces any good compared to ATI Radeon'z?

[Mr.Lee]

Nah ATI is better.

[Medieval Bob]

I didn't ask which is better. I asked if they could compare. I have a friend not willing to pay the extra 200 sum odd bucks to get an ATI, but I've not seen any of the new GeForces in action...

[Eddie_Perez]

Uh, the new geforce fx's are like .093831351% better than the new radeon 9800, except for the fact that the geforce takes up your agp slot the nearby pci slot, and its hella loud. Not worth it.

[Mantralord]

Sux, shouldve gotten an nForce2 mobo...

[Eddie_Perez]

I would build my own puter if I wasnt such a pussy, I'm too scared to fuck something up... especially something that costs 200$+. But anyways, I pretty much know how to set up everything except for some of the powersupply to motherboard hookups and some shit... Pretty much all the connections :(

[Medieval Bob]

Motherboard comes with a manual that'll tell ya if you don't know.

[Eddie_Perez]

Hmmm... that would make things easier... and I imagine there are tons of books that are "Build your own PC for dummies."

[J_Frog]

I really do not know how the ATI or the FX's are going to compare to one another justbecause I have not had a ATI Video card yet so there in lies a problem. Plus Nvidia I would say is cheaper then what most of what ATI's stuff is. Plus I got the V-Card for only 130-140 dollars so it was cheap. also I really have not got to go on it really because of microsoft's gay XP actviation cr^p.

[Eddie_Perez]

http://www.alienware.com/Configurator_Pages/Details_Pages/Details_Page.aspx?ItemId=11579&ItemIdList=11493,11317,11334,11368,11590

[badboy]

Is my NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400 128 mb graphics card any good nowadays ?

[uncapped]

That's what I use, BB. It's fine for me on the gamez i play.

[J_Frog]

not a bad card there badboy I thinkthat it should glide in and out of games really well. Mabey you should have saved a little more and got the Geforce 4 Ti 4600?

[Mr.Lee]

Are those new geforces any good compared to ATI Radeon'z?

I've just read on big swedish computer magazine, they compared the newest ATI card and Geforce card. Geforce got only 4 of 10 while ATI got 9 of 10.

Uh, the new geforce fx's are like .093831351% better than the new radeon 9800, except for the fact that the geforce takes up your agp slot the nearby pci slot, and its hella loud. Not worth it.

No your wrong. Geforce is defintly not better than ATI.

[Eddie_Perez]

They are in some things...

[Mr.Lee]

Yeah... some things. Generaly ATI is better.

[Eddie_Perez]

Only because of the fact that geforce is louder/takes up space...

[badboy]

My card is not loud, I don't know what you are talking about.

[J_Frog]

I think that each card has its own plus's and minus's in each of the catogories that they rank cards as. I do not know if that is just me.

[Hades-Knight]

omg fucking ingrates........complaining about geforce 4.......just be happy that you have to stick with a TNT2 =(

man i'd kill somebody just for even a Geforce 4 MX

[Mr.Lee]

I dont have a TNT2 any longer, since im a extreme gamer i need a good grafic card. :p

[J_Frog]

that sucks that you only have a TNT2 sorry that you can not be as lucky as what some of us are.

[Xenn]

I'm building a comp right now, got my case, drives and power supply assembled right now ^_^.

Welcome to Zelaron.


Oh, and cheap OS? I bought XP home for 100 bucks under retail, you can get it cheap if you buy the upgrade version then install 98 or ME and upgrade it to XP.

[Wiccan][V][asta]

Sweet computer, enjoy the stay at Zelaron.

One question: Good gfx card, slow processor? WtF? I try to balance them out slightly.... :p

I have an AMD XP barton 2500 (oc'd to 2.23Ghz), and an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro.

[badboy]

But in a few months that won't be good sadly.

[J_Frog]

thanks wiccan i do belive that I will have a great stay at Zelaron. I also do plan on getting a new processor, motherboard, more memory, and a sound card.

[zagggon]

looks decent to me

[J_iceman]

first computer we had was a 700 mgz computer, now we have a 3.0 ghz with 800 front size bus a, tell him bro ....

[uncapped]

I'm building a comp right now, got my case, drives and power supply assembled right now ^_^.

Welcome to Zelaron.


Oh, and cheap OS? I bought XP home for 100 bucks under retail, you can get it cheap if you buy the upgrade version then install 98 or ME and upgrade it to XP.

I'm building mine too. I'd race you, but I'm afraid It's gonna take me probably til christmas to finish mine.

[ask_rabber]

He's finished, and has been for like 2 weeks.

[uncapped]

I lose, game over!

[Eddie_Perez]

:cry: bumb :cry:

[mightychicken]

what was the cost of the machine?

[J_iceman]

who's computer are you talking about??

[J_Frog]

if you are talking about mine I would say about 1000 to 1100 mabey around there or it might be less I would have to see what i spent on it

[Xenn]

I spent 1400 bucks for the comp (radeon 9800pro.. ouch) but the monitor was pretty expensive... a little too expensive to post here o_O.

[mightychicken]

but the monitor was pretty expensive... a little too expensive to post here o_O.

i like your logic.