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UnderLord
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2004 06:44
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Computer convention type thingy this friday with a friend and his dad and maybe his dad's friend but anyhow its one of those resale type places where you can get parts for cheap...i was wondering what you guys suggest i get IE motherboard's?

Asus with Duel channel DDR with a nice AMD chip that supports hyper threading ect ect...?

Just wondering running out of things to think of to buy...so i must drool like homer simpson....

The search continues.

Current project - A space game
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Pincho Paxton
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Maybe a monitor? I say, if you are going to save money on second hand stuff, get an expensive piece of kit. A monitor is expensive, and you can see it working.

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BatVink
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Take a shed load of price lists with you, so you don't get duped. Some of the sellers will be preying on impulse buyers.

BatVink (formerly StevieVee)
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Emperor Baal
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2004 19:37 Edited at: 2nd Mar 2004 19:43
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Asus with Duel channel DDR with a nice AMD chip that supports hyper threading ect ect...?

Lol, AMD processors dont support Hyper Threading. Its a technique Intel designed that should give you an extra speedboost by executing 2 processor instructions at the same time (Thus emulating 2 processors with 1)
Forget about HT, because the boost isnt worth its price.

Get a juicy Asus A7N8X-X (cheap and FAST!) with a AMD athlon 2500+ <BARTON 512kb l2 cache>(cheap and can be overclocked to the max, 3200+ speeds)
Mobo should be around $70 and the cpu around $80 in the stores

About memory, the AMD Athlon 2500+ runs at 166mhz (FSB) so, when you buy it, get PC2700 memory. PC2700 runs at 166mhz too, slower memory will bring down the performance and faster memory is just wasting money

Any more questions?

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David T
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2004 20:24
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Apparently, Asus nad Gigabyte motherboards are more prone to crashing.

And apparently IBM hard disks can be dodgy.

Apparently.

"They misunderestimated us" - George Bush
"The box said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed LINUX. "
Formerly David89.
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Gery
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the best is the Abit main-boards! ...with nForce chipsets. But the MSI is too very good, and stable.

...and then the evil hungarian terrorist killed the peacefull shootin' soviet soldiers...
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Pricey
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I just got a new amd 1.8 ghZ duron processer and socket a mainboard from dabs for £68!


Dig a pit and poo in it
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Gery
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i planning to buy a new computer on summer.

3.2 AMD
ABIT maion board
256 DDR (400)
2 X Voodoo2 SLI + GeForce something
TFT monitor - whi the now slowly luchs my eyez out
and a brutal CodeGen House :EVIL :EVIL :EVIL

...and then the evil hungarian terrorist killed the peacefull shootin' soviet soldiers...
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