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| View Poll Results: Is this a good upgrade? | |||
| Yes, it is worth the $$$ spent. |     | 2 | 25.00% |
| No, it is not worth the $$$ spent. |    | 6 | 75.00% |
| Voters: 8. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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January 16th, 2007
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| Edging towards disaster Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Third rock from the sun.
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|  Re: Would these be good upgrades for my Media Center PC? I just built my own HTPC. Wanted to use the new 750 gig hd until I saw the price. I then opted for two 400 gig hd's. A tad more capacity for less than the price of one 750.  Intel E8400 @ 4.05GHZ - EP35-DS3P Zalman 9700NT - 4 Gig Mushkin DDR2-1066 Two Sapphire HD 4870 512mb in CrossFire PC P & C 750 watt - Samsung 216BW LCD Samsung DVD-RW - Logitec Z-640 speakers Linksys WRT54GL Router - CM 690 Case Seagate 250gig - Vista Home Premium 64bit |
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January 17th, 2007
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 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Higher than you!
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| Re: Would these be good upgrades for my Media Center PC? Then yesterday the price of the Maxtor Pro series 500GB drive dropped to about $150. ____________________________ _= AMD 2700+ OC'd to 3200 =_ -=1GB RAM, ATI 9600XT 512MB=- -------------------------------- |
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January 17th, 2007
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 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC
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| Re: Would these be good upgrades for my Media Center PC? x1900xt would be the best buy for a media center pc. (Avivo) I'd skip the 2gb of ram and go straight for the C2D, just like everyone else has said. E2140 @ 375 x 8 = 3.0ghz 2x1 ocz system 1337s pc2-6400 5-5-5-15 @ 450mhz gigabyte P35 S3L eVGA 7600GT Stock 120 gig seagate ULTRA X-Finity 600w Sonata 2 w/ top fan G5 Lazer Mouse |
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January 17th, 2007
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| Gamer at large!  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Alberta, Canada
Posts: 967
| I don't think my motherboard supports C2D... It's a ASUS Emery board...  Sounds like I could get 2 500 GB drives for the price of a single 750 GB...cool beans! The chipset is Intel i945P, and the southbridge is the 82801GB (ICH7). Does this chipset support C2D?  Last edited by gvblake22; January 17th, 2007 at 12:27. Reason: consecutive posts merged |
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January 17th, 2007
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| Modder-ator  | Re: Would these be good upgrades for my Media Center PC? Yes, according to Intel, the 945P chipset should support Core 2 Duo processors... Intel 945P Chipset Link  |
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January 17th, 2007
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| Resident Brownie  Join Date: May 2006 Location: KS
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| Re: Would these be good upgrades for my Media Center PC? - Core 2 Quad Q6600 - DFI Infinity 975X - 4GB Corsair XMS2 w/ DHX DDR2-800 - 250GB Seagate 7200.10RPM + 160GB Hitachi 5400.4RPM - ATi Radeon X1900XT 256MB - Cooler Master Centurion 5 + OCZ StealthXStream 600W - Acer 19" P191W Monitor - Logitech Z-5500 Digital + Logitech MX Revolution - Vista Ultimate x64 |
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January 17th, 2007
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| Modder-ator | Re: Would these be good upgrades for my Media Center PC? Quote:
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January 17th, 2007
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| Gamer at large! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Alberta, Canada
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| woot! Then I'm gonna go look in my BIOS and see what the maximum FSB rate is...hopefully I can get a good proc...it's a Pheonix 3.15 BIOS for your info. Apparently the FSB is automatically controlled. I wonder which C2D proc would be the best bang for the buck? I'm in favor of the E6400 myself. I'll have to go with a PATA Harddrive...looks like there is no SATA ports . Looks like in the BIOS I can switch between PCI and PCI-E...whatever that means? Help with that feature please. Last edited by gvblake22; January 17th, 2007 at 13:07. Reason: consecutive posts merged |
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January 17th, 2007
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| Resident Brownie Join Date: May 2006 Location: KS
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| Re: Would these be good upgrades for my Media Center PC? Quote:
As for not having SATA ports, you have to have SATA ports. I know for a fact all i945 chipsets have SATA. I have the same chipset myself. - Core 2 Quad Q6600 - DFI Infinity 975X - 4GB Corsair XMS2 w/ DHX DDR2-800 - 250GB Seagate 7200.10RPM + 160GB Hitachi 5400.4RPM - ATi Radeon X1900XT 256MB - Cooler Master Centurion 5 + OCZ StealthXStream 600W - Acer 19" P191W Monitor - Logitech Z-5500 Digital + Logitech MX Revolution - Vista Ultimate x64 | |
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January 17th, 2007
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| Gamer at large! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Alberta, Canada
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| Re: Would these be good upgrades for my Media Center PC? It lists all the ports, and there was no SATA ports, just PATA because that's all I saw, Primary and Secondary...I remember that's only for PATA. |
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