My new Black Beauty

[farcry7]

So here's the specs of my new baby.. should be getting it soon:

Wondering what you guys think of the x6.. havnt actually read when the next processor build is coming out.. or bench marketed it with the sandy bridge yet. Its just so much cheeper than intel..

AMD Phenon II x6 2.5GHz
8GB 1333 RAM
Saphire 128bit, 1GB card.. prob wont get the card i really want just yet (saphire 256bit..)

and then i already have Seagate 7200rpm 1 TB, Samsung 22" 2ms, 60w Divoom 2.1.. and awesome gaming mouse and keyboard

and replacing im replacing my old second screen 17" crt ( i know, i know.. ) with a 18.5" LED wide.. its just nice to have a second screen when u hav lots of windows.

[Rebellious]

Nice, what board?

[shujinko the nut]

nice build.was looking to upgrade a bit myself.will see how it goes

[EvanTate]

Get a smaller drive to use as a C drive like a 160GB or something. When the TB starts getting full your performance will be down the drain. So install all the programs on the C drive, and have everything else on the TB eg Music, movies, pics etc

[shujinko the nut]

Get a smaller drive to use as a C drive like a 160GB or something. When the TB starts getting full your performance will be down the drain. So install all the programs on the C drive, and have everything else on the TB eg Music, movies, pics etc

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[Pantera]

Even Beter get yourself a solid state drive and put your OS on that aswell as the games you play the most

[DevinC]

Only thing is you pay your chops off for a SSD drive, 64gb SSD is around R1200 to R1600.

[farcry7]

Only thing is you pay your chops off for a SSD drive, 64gb SSD is around R1200 to R1600.

SSD is the stuff tho! Most oaks dont realise, harddrives and RAM maketh a PC fast.

1200 would cheep for that.. everything doubled a few months back. Paid 600 for my TB, now its 1200. Rectron tells me in a few months they will run out of hdd stock and Western Digital who also supply parts to Seagate are still under water, wont be in pushing out stock untill mid year.. they hope!

THink i should auction my HDD to the highest bidder

Anyway I since decided to save a little so i can beaf it up when i do replace it. In the mean time getting more RAM.. Looking for some 2GB DDR2 sticks.. anyone?

[DevinC]

True man, the SSD really increases power, prices are just tight.
My laptops hard drive crashed last week, I ended up paying R1000 for a 320gb 2.5" SATA.

And in regards to Ram, Ironically I just upgraded my ram from 2Gb DDR2 to 4Gb, also got 2x1Gb DDR2 sticks laying here now, still in perfect working order..

[farcry7]

True man, the SSD really increases power, prices are just tight.
My laptops hard drive crashed last week, I ended up paying R1000 for a 320gb 2.5" SATA.

And in regards to Ram, Ironically I just upgraded my ram from 2Gb DDR2 to 4Gb, also got 2x1Gb DDR2 sticks laying here now, still in perfect working order..

swak on the lappie.. I got a contact for almost new lappies.. We payed 4600 for a Del studio 17.. shhhh dont tell anyone!

Cool, ironic. Ye I wish I could find some 2GB 800 sticks.. dont feel like buying it new. pshh, 1333 RAM is sooo cheep now.

Hows this, found a reciept of my dads from 2000. Take a stab at what he paid for 256MB of RAM, that would be 2x128MB ???

[DevinC]

It all depends, sometimes they sell a pack (2 sticks) as 256mb Ram when in truth it was 2x 128mb Sticks.

[EvanTate]

True man, the SSD really increases power, prices are just tight.
My laptops hard drive crashed last week, I ended up paying R1000 for a 320gb 2.5" SATA.

And in regards to Ram, Ironically I just upgraded my ram from 2Gb DDR2 to 4Gb, also got 2x1Gb DDR2 sticks laying here now, still in perfect working order..

swak on the lappie.. I got a contact for almost new lappies.. We payed 4600 for a Del studio 17.. shhhh dont tell anyone!

Cool, ironic. Ye I wish I could find some 2GB 800 sticks.. dont feel like buying it new. pshh, 1333 RAM is sooo cheep now.

Hows this, found a reciept of my dads from 2000. Take a stab at what he paid for 256MB of RAM, that would be 2x128MB ???

if it was SDRam it was probably around R500. DDR wouldve been around 700 - 900 i think..

[Funnelman]

Only thing is you pay your chops off for a SSD drive, 64gb SSD is around R1200 to R1600.

SSD is the stuff tho! Most oaks dont realise, harddrives and RAM maketh a PC fast.

1200 would cheep for that.. everything doubled a few months back. Paid 600 for my TB, now its 1200. Rectron tells me in a few months they will run out of hdd stock and Western Digital who also supply parts to Seagate are still under water, wont be in pushing out stock untill mid year.. they hope!

THink i should auction my HDD to the highest bidder

Anyway I since decided to save a little so i can beaf it up when i do replace it. In the mean time getting more RAM.. Looking for some 2GB DDR2 sticks.. anyone?

How much you looking for them...
It would be 2x2gb DDR2 modules..???

[DevinC]

Yea, the current going price for 2x2 DDR2 800 modules is roughly R400 per DIMM, So +-R800 to R900 for 4Gb ram.

[Funnelman]

Yea, the current going price for 2x2 DDR2 800 modules is roughly R400 per DIMM, So +-R800 to R900 for 4Gb ram.

That is very,very pricy...

[farcry7]

Yea, the current going price for 2x2 DDR2 800 modules is roughly R400 per DIMM, So +-R800 to R900 for 4Gb ram.

That is very,very pricy...

Yep.. thats insane! 250 per module i can get.. without using special favours.

So no more crazy RAM prices, my head cant take any more face palming!)

anyway moving on.. Windows 8.. anyone tried?.. Ill start a new thread. (

[Dan]

Get a smaller drive to use as a C drive like a 160GB or something. When the TB starts getting full your performance will be down the drain. So install all the programs on the C drive, and have everything else on the TB eg Music, movies, pics etc

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This is actually a bad idea. The performance of hard drives generally increase with their size. Mechanical hard drive performance is the major bottleneck on modern PCs. The 1TB drive will also be newer and therefore more reliable. If you worried about it slowing down when it gets full then partition it so that you have separate partitions for your OS and storage.

[farcry7]

Get a smaller drive to use as a C drive like a 160GB or something. When the TB starts getting full your performance will be down the drain. So install all the programs on the C drive, and have everything else on the TB eg Music, movies, pics etc

x 10000000000

This is actually a bad idea. The performance of hard drives generally increase with their size. Mechanical hard drive performance is the major bottleneck on modern PCs. The 1TB drive will also be newer and therefore more reliable. If you worried about it slowing down when it gets full then partition it so that you have separate partitions for your OS and storage.

Dan - I have done that.. and I am not sure that its better.
I have tried a 160GB and 250GB both 7200 RPM SATA, up to 3Gb/s

and I have tried a 1TB 7200 RPM SATA partitioned into a 60GB for windows.. and my experiance is the the smaller drives run quicker.


Oh and in other news, finally sold my 8600GT and bought a GTX 465... frigin hot card!
to my amaizment systems is flying even with 2GB ram and 2.2 Core 2 duo.. true test will be with the new games tho.. anyway I'm in heaven so long.