Buying a new pc

Re: Buying a new pc Posted by Orpheus on Fri Mar 4th 2005 at 12:05am

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we all almost think of ourselves as expectant fathers.. so satch, what are the stats of this babe you are arousing?

Re: Buying a new pc Posted by satchmo on Fri Mar 4th 2005 at 12:18am

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Athlon XP 3200+

1 GB PC3200

Radeon 9800 Pro

200 GB SATA HDD

I only got the OS installed so far, so I can't provide any frame rates
for games yet. I have to work tonight, so I might have to finish
the software setup tomorrow.

Re: Buying a new pc Posted by Myrk- on Fri Mar 4th 2005 at 12:22am

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The only hard part of building a PC is applying a good layer of paste to the processor and the heatsink. Most people are fewlish monkeys when they do it and do a crap job. Takes about 10 minutes to do it properly.

If your using a sata drive as your primary be warned, its a complete bitch to do. Alot of loading drivers and s**t to make it work and alot of bios fiddling.

As for that screen Korn, its not a greatly known make of screen, so chances are it may have a fair few dead pixels...

Re: Buying a new pc Posted by Orpheus on Fri Mar 4th 2005 at 12:34am

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now i heard you want a very thin even coat of paste between the heat sink and the processor.

i would make certain on this point as its the most heat generating thing in there..

good luck, and I'd be highly interested in seeing the madonion bench scores :smile:

for the record, mine were:

05 score- 2083
03 score- 4397
01 score- 16,169

my machine:

3500+ 64bit 939 pin
asus a8v-deluxe
512-pc3200
256 meg Radeon 9800 pro running at 409.5 and 310.5 MHz

Re: Buying a new pc Posted by satchmo on Fri Mar 4th 2005 at 12:58am

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Alot of loading drivers and s**t to make it work and alot of bios fiddling.

You can say that again. It took me three days to get the SATA driver issue sorted out.

I wasn't sure about how much thermal paste to apply, so I squeeze a
small amount and hoped for the best. It's definitely enough to
interface between the processer and the heat sink. Almost
everywhere I read, an excess amount of paste should not be harmful
anyways (souce: AMD site).