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Geek Culture / Motherboard died on me last week. New parts, miracle 2 day shipping :p

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Xenocythe
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Well my motherboard died on me out of nowhere, I'm guessing it was one of the big connectors because it was wobbling a bit when we opened my computer up

So I ordered a new FoxCon WinFast NF4K8AB motherboard w/ chipset nVidia nforce 4 ($30) and GeForce 6200 128mb ($0??, upgrade from 6100 ), and not to mention my new 256mb stick of memory ($15, added on to my current 512mb). Beautiful stuff right there.

Everything works real fast and great. I can run at 1280x1024 now. 3DS Max loads 3 times quicker. An FPS Engine I'm working on in DBPro jumped 30 Frames Per Second. I can run Half Life 2 at all highest settings, and it's barely any lag!

Not to mention, I've learned a great deal about computers now. Before, I could only point out the haddrives and power supply. Now I actually know my stuff.

Well, I LOVE newegg now. Unbelievably, I ordered on Sunday night, and it came on Tuesday afternoon with UPS ground. Now In two days I had my computer set up again.


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Agent Dink
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Posted: 7th Feb 2008 21:38
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Woot!

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Xenocythe
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Thank you Adam. Very kind, encouraging words.


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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Quote: "GeForce 6200 128mb"


You run Half Life II on full settings on the same graphics card as me? I'd love to know what your framerate is.

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Woot!


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Xenocythe
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Framerate for what, HL2? I think I have the setting to not show the FPS, but I'll check it out later today.

Thank you Rami. So many kind, encouraging people on these forums


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Samoz83
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whats your processor?

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Xenocythe
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I didn't get a new processor, but it's an AMD Sempron 3100+.


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Phaelax
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Posted: 7th Feb 2008 23:48
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Quote: "my new 256mb stick of memory ($15, added on to my current 512mb"


And you run XP on that thing? I didn't even know they made sticks as low as 256mb anymore.

And something about a $30 motherboard frightens me.


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David R
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Posted: 7th Feb 2008 23:57
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You run Half Life II on full settings on the same graphics card as me? I'd love to know what your framerate is."


I could run HL2 at full settings on a 5600FX at a pretty decent FPS prior to getting my current GPU


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After just finishing building my new pc, I installed HL2 on it and am playing it through whole game again (this will be my 3rd time).

Looks so much nice with a 22" screen and a 8800GT card with a Quad Core Q6600 and 4GB RAM (even though windows is a bit anal and sees only 3.25 of it - silly 32bit limit stuff). Runs really well at 1680 * 1050 !

Boo!
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Xenocythe
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@Phealex,
Hey, my memory isn't as bad as you put it out to be. It's a quarter short of 1 gig. You might be forgetting the additional 512 I have.

@David R, spooky,
Half Life has to be one of the best video game series, you must agree?


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Keo C
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Quote: "Hey, my memory isn't as bad as you put it out to be. It's a quarter short of 1 gig. You might be forgetting the additional 512 I have."

I got 2GB on sale the other day. Now I have 3GB.


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Xenocythe
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Yeahhh welll I'm not made of money

How much was that 2gb?


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Keo C
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$60. As I said on sale so I snapped it up.


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O YA? I HAV 4 GIGZ. LOLOLOL.

*waits for someone to come along and say they have 8 or 16*

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Samoz83
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Posted: 8th Feb 2008 22:12
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Quote: "waits for someone to come along and say they have 8"

thats me

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Xenocythe
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Hahaha. Seriously, you have not seen a great computer until you've seen my dads friend's. He's an airplane engineer or something along those lines. Filthy rich. He's got a processor more than 6 GHZ to support the engineer modeling programs he uses. Just imagine how crazy good his other parts are


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Posted: 9th Feb 2008 05:44 Edited at: 9th Feb 2008 05:45
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Quote: "$60. As I said on sale so I snapped it up."


Wait, you just got 2GB of ram for $60. I just spent $100 dollars on 2GB.

Quote: "I didn't even know they made sticks as low as 256mb anymore."


I still have a 64MB one, lol.


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Preston C
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Posted: 9th Feb 2008 05:57 Edited at: 9th Feb 2008 05:58
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Quote: "Wait, you just got 2GB of ram for $60. I just spent $100 dollars on 2GB."


I think it depends on the type of RAM you have. For example, DDR-400, though slower and more power consuming than DDR2-800, costs much, much more than DDR2-800. For example, here are the two cheapest sets I can find at Newegg of each type:

Cheapest 2GB (1GB x 2) DDR-400 at Newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231039 - $89.99

Cheapest 2GB (1GB x2) DDR2-800 at Newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211165 - $38.99

Though DDR2-800 RAM can get more expensive than that, even most of the higher quality stuff will not reach the price of the cheapest DDR-400.



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ddr2-667 is very affordable right now. If you're running at 1333mhz that's the way to go to save on money. Of course, it won't beat out the same ram clocked at full 1333, it's also a third the price.

the general idea is to get ram clocked at half your fsb speed if you're low on funds, unless it's just barely more expensive to get it at a 1:1 speed. When you buy ram at a fractional speed like 1:1.5 (for example, an 800fsb processor with 667fsb ram), the speed difference is negligible. But you can also get the higher clocked ram for future proofing.


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Quote: "Though DDR2-800 RAM can get more expensive than that, even most of the higher quality stuff will not reach the price of the cheapest DDR-400.

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Yes, why is that? I always thought that was weird.

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ddr-400 is not in high production or demand.


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