I would like to thank everyone for their advice on my new computer
I have gained a lot of computer knowledge through-out the years of reading SF (hardware, software, trouble-shoot,OS, etc). Many people have helped me indirectlly or directlly with their ideas, comments and suggestions. Not many agreed with some purchases I made, but they work great!
This past Saturday I finally got my new computer from newegg.
Enough blah, blah, on with the good stuff :D
Old computer (I will this at my parent's office)
generic case with generic 250W psu
Pentium 3 750
Kingston 512pc133
Asus TUSL2-C
Ati Radeon 8500LE
30GB & 40GB Maxtor hdd
Viewsonic 19" PF790
Creative SB Live!
New computer
Antec PLUS1080AMG with 430W psu
Athlon XP 2500+ (my first AMD chip)
Kingston HyperX 2700 512x2
Epox 8RDA3+ rev2.0 (nobody seems to like this board :eek: )
Tyan 9600 Pro (same clock speed as retail)
Western Digital 120GB 8MB 7,200rpm
Thermaltake Smartfan II
Thermalright SLK-800A
LOGITECH Z-640 speakers
Pioneer DVD+/-RW (cost me $30 :D )
bought 2 antec 80mm case fans
The only sad thing about this is, I can't use my 19" becuase it won't fit in my computer desk. :(
So far I have tested 3dmark 2001/03, UT2k3 and used Hotcpu for benchmark/stress applications.
3dmark 2001 = 11,400~ (tested for the fun of it)
3dmark 03 = 3300
UT2k3 = I don't know how to run the benchmarks so I played a while.
1024*768 with max details, AAx8 and AF x16 (or was it the other way around..) I got on average 50fps. UT looks GREAT!!!!
now for OC results. My 2500+ (1.83Ghz) as of yesterday presented no problems at 3200+ (2.2Ghz) speeds with no problem. The ram on ther other hand didn't like the jump from 166 to 200, haven't tried anything in the middle though. The computer won't even post, I had to remove the battery to boot with default settings.
I'm so happy with this purchase :)
