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April 16th, 2007
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| This is why I'm hot
 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Forest of doom :P, UK
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|  Ok all the parts have arrived for my dads upgrade except the PSU. We also have a new router after months of connection sharing and modem swapping its finally here! It's a Belkin wireless G and works great I've backed up most of my dad's important data now. Im just waiting for him to print off a few emails and for the PSU to arrive and then I can start the build. Before that here are some screenshots of the CPU-Z program running on his computer. CPU  Cache  Mainboard  Memory  SPD     Last edited by Death_blooms; April 23rd, 2007 at 08:53. Reason: consecutive posts merged | ||||||||||||||
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April 21st, 2007
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| Resident Brownie
 Join Date: May 2006 Location: KS
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| Re: Dad's Upgrade Hey, 1GHz is better than the crappy 450MHz PIII I upgraded from (to the computer in my sig, of course). What's the upgrade plan? - 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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April 22nd, 2007
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| This is why I'm hot
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| Re: Dad's Upgrade Here are some pictures of the computer currently:   Quote:
AMD Athlon 64bit socket 939 3200+  NVIDIA GeForce 7100 GS 512/128MB Turbo Cache DDR2 PCI-E  MSI K8N Neo4-F Socket 939 nForce 4 PCI-E ATX  Crucial 512MB 184Pin DIMM PC2700 DDR RAM Non-Parity CL2.5  480W PSU Gold 12cm SATA PFC  Last edited by Death_blooms; April 26th, 2007 at 08:49. | |||||||||||||||
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April 23rd, 2007
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| This is why I'm hot
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| Re: Dad's Upgrade Just thought I would refresh this thread as I have edited the above post. Also just realised 128MB of ram. no wonder it grindes when running XP  Also a quick question. Dose 3200+ mean 3.2Ghz? Last edited by Death_blooms; April 23rd, 2007 at 09:49. | ||||||||||||||
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April 23rd, 2007
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| With a pinch of insane!
 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: England, 127.0.0.1
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| Re: Dad's Upgrade wow, it the exact same comp I had till just recently, same specs everything. spooky   | ||||||||||||||
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April 23rd, 2007
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April 23rd, 2007
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April 25th, 2007
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| socket 939 junkie
 | Re: Dad's Upgrade an athlon 64 3200 is comparable to a 3.2ghz pentium 4. hence the 3200 speed rating. that will be a nice little upgrade there! :) E8400 @ 4ghz (500x8 @ 1.35v) Gigabyte X38-DQ6 2x2GB G-Skill DDR2 1000 @ DDR2 1000 5-5-5-15 2.1v 2 Sapphire ATi Radeon HD3870 in Crossfire Seagate 7200.11 500GB 32MB Cache HDD Audigy 2 ZS Gamer Silverstone DA750 Samsung Dual Layer DVD Burner Lian Li G70WB Thermochill PA120.3|Swiftech Storm Rev.2|Swiftech MCP 655 | ||||||||||||||
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April 25th, 2007
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| Meow means woof in cat.
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| Re: Dad's Upgrade I'd trash that stick of memory and throw in a 512MB PC3200 DIMM, they're like what, $20 nowadays? Also, very nice upgrade, but you gotta mod that case!!! Custom blowhole, front panel LEDs, side window, the works!!! j/k :P Happy building! Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Conroe @ 2.80GHz Cooler Master GeminII - Thanks Rich and HL! GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 (rev. 1.3) EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB @ 726/962 CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (4 x 1GB) DDR2-800 OCZ GameXStream 600W PSU Maxtor 300GB 7200RPM SATA150 16MB cache HDD Seagate 500GB 7200ROM SATA300 16mb cache HDD Sony NEC Optiarc 18X DVD±R DVD Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 ZyXel m-202 802.11g adapter Antec Nine Hundred Creative 5.1 speakers Viewsonic Optiquest q20wb 20" LCD | ||||||||||||||
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