Computer Jargon

[Damo_R34]

Its the best way to learn, its as simple as replacing batteries in your remote. In fact even easier, you can't put it in back to front!

Just google a tutorial, or some pictures of your motherboard (manual even?) you really can't go wrong.

Ive heard laptops are harder to do?

Steve - got an email from them, they dont stock the Opteron 170

[Damo_R34]

Opteron 170

Steve look!

[PREISS]

Been playni that GRID game.

Damn its the hardest game in the world. drifting is just plain f**kin annoying to start with. Finally started looping some corners. Then bang straight into walls etc.

graphics nice

gameplay shit to start with.

[Madaz]

cheers Damo had to fix your link but that's all good i bet i don't win it cause me thinks it may sky-rocket

[Damo_R34]

how much are they usually worth?

[Rolls]

Grid is unrealistic and shitty. If you want to drift download Live For Speed.

[Madaz]

GRID is ok i bought it for the drift

Damo - >>Search<< i also have one im looking at from the states and that $139 but has the make an offer button + $18 shipping so if he takes a offer of $100us then that would be reasonable oh its brand new too and i would get 2gb of G-skill ddr400 also for like $79 make and offer for like $69

[Madaz]

just found this also and he has opterons

>>2gb Samsung DDR400<<

i bought my 2gb SD card of this bloke very fast shipping

[Cubes]

just found this also and he has opterons

>>2gb Samsung DDR400<<

i bought my 2gb SD card of this bloke very fast shipping

Don't touch high density ram its shiet... huge incompatibility issues. :S

Its cheap for a reason.

[Madaz]

ah cheers Joel

[chops]

Hello lads, long time no see.

Just built myself a new machine, wife wasn't super happy.

Asus P5E-X38

Intel E8400

4GB Kingston Hyper-X DDR2 800

Corsair HX620 PSU

Antec P182 Case

Leadtek 9800GTX

Pioneer 212D SATA DVDRW (from previous box)

4 x WD 500GB SATA (grrr the 640s were out of stock and came in the next day)

Viewsonic 28" LCD VX2835wm (ok I had this for a few months)

Hopefully this will keep me entertained for a while, with only a CPU upgrade once applications actually start using multiple cores properly.

[NizmoNigga]

Hello lads, long time no see.

Just built myself a new machine, wife wasn't super happy.

Asus P5E-X38

Intel E8400

4GB Kingston Hyper-X DDR2 800

Corsair HX620 PSU

Antec P182 Case

Leadtek 9800GTX

Pioneer 212D SATA DVDRW (from previous box)

4 x WD 500GB SATA (grrr the 640s were out of stock and came in the next day)

Viewsonic 28" LCD VX2835wm (ok I had this for a few months)

Nice!!

with only a CPU upgrade once applications actually start using multiple cores properly.

Fair call

Edited July 2, 2008 by NizmoNigga

[r33_crusier]

ey guys had a thread on here but guess it got deleted for some reason

anyway just started up a business called systematic computers. So if any of you guys need any stuff cheap i hopefully can do some good deals for you guys. Pm me for any prices you need or post up on here.

Adam

Systematic Computers

[Nightcrawler]

^^^^ yeah mate I deleted your thread (you should have gotten an email explaining why) .... anyhow 1) you can't advertise businesses on SAU unless you are a sponsor, and 2) it is pretty bad form to join up and a week later start advertising your business. This is a car forum. Imagine if every man and his dog just made a new post advertising their business or services - it would become an advertising forum rather than Skyline forum.

I will let your post above stand, as the rules are a bit relaxed in this thread, and you are local. But you find that pretty much all of us do our own systems and buy parts ourselves online or from MSY.

[Hillzy]

Ok fellas it's tax time which means now comes the time for me to break away from my bros laptop and finally build myself a worthy gaming computer.

I have very little knowledge of brands/specs etc of hardware so I need a bit of a run down on what I should be looking at. I'm on a reasonable budget but I don't want anything amazing, just a computer that will run some nice games etc.

Any takers?

[Rolls]

Hello lads, long time no see.

Just built myself a new machine, wife wasn't super happy.

Asus P5E-X38

Intel E8400

4GB Kingston Hyper-X DDR2 800

Personally I'd get a cheaper brand in 1066mhz DDR2 ram., that way you can easily reap the benefits from overclocking the E8400, can get a lot more power out of them then stock. For example my E6600 I've overclocked from 2.4ghz to 3.2ghz on stock volts and cooling, stable running 24/7.

edit: What Dohmar said about latency is true, however a bigger overclock is better then either.

Edited July 8, 2008 by Rolls

[Dohmar]

Ok fellas it's tax time which means now comes the time for me to break away from my bros laptop and finally build myself a worthy gaming computer.

I have very little knowledge of brands/specs etc of hardware so I need a bit of a run down on what I should be looking at. I'm on a reasonable budget but I don't want anything amazing, just a computer that will run some nice games etc.

Any takers?

Yeah I got a bit of an idea.... decent graphics card, dont worry about SLI or X-fire cause thats shit. the 8800 GT is one of the sweet gfx cards atm, and I think it plays most games at the moment rather well. Get a reputable motherboard, anything over $200 will be decent but if you spend the extra $100 it'll be well worth it. An Intel Core2Quad or a Core2Duo will be the best bet, I think the Q6600 is still a nice price. Dont skimp on ram, something with low latency and a decent brand (like corsair or OCZ) will handle the system nicely. Low latency is more important than ram with a faster front side bus ratio... as for hard drives, I'd recommend getting either 2 SATA-II Hdd's in a Raid 1 Mirror Array OR A WD Raptor 10k rpm drive as your c: And get the two SATA-II 7200 rpm drives as data storage, again in a Raid 1 Mirror. This way if one of the data drives fails you at least have a live backup of your data and can simply replace the dodgy hdd in the series. Theres a lot of cash you can spend on HDD's, it really all depends on how diligent you are when it comes to backing up data. Dont bother with an aftermarket soundcard, the sound chips you get on $300 motherboards usually have 7.1 Dolby audio... get a nice keyboard and mouse, nothing cheap otherwise you'll end up with RSI and carpal tunnel. Get a decent monitor, something with a nice contrast ratio and refresh rate are much more important than size or widescreen... you can get a blue-ray dvd burner if you have loads of money to burn but for now I'd just settle on a dual layer dvd burner cause theres not a huge amount of blue ray stuff out at the moment. If you can reuse stuff from your current PC, bonus. Other thing I would recommend is investing in some extra cooling in the way of silent case fans and perhaps a big aftermarket heatsink and fan. I dont overclock but I've found that having a big HSF combo keeps the system performing silently in the hottest weather. Logitech make nice 5.1 speakers if you're going to invest in some nice audio...

Could go on and on for ages ;P It all depends on what u wanna do and what ur budget is. I don't sell hardware anymore but I've been in the IT game for 15 years now so if you have any questions, shoot me a pm...

-D

[Dohmar]

Personally I'd get a cheaper brand in 1066mhz DDR2 ram., that way you can easily reap the benefits from overclocking the E8400, can't get a lot more power out of them then stock. For example my E6600 I've overclocked from 2.4ghz to 3.2ghz on stock volts and cooling, stable running 24/7.

I would never recommend anyone get cheaper ram. Especially when you're overclocking. The ram is rated upon the FSB ratio which is bandwidth. Bandwidth is useless if you have high latency. And if you get high latency ram, its generally stress tested at higher FSB ratios while keeping the recommended latency settings...

-D

[Rolls]

Disagreed, going to 1066 ram meant I could get an extra 400mhz out of my cpu. This made a huge difference in performance. Trust me there really isn't that much difference to the extra latency, I can dig up some comparisons and graphs if you want.

[Dohmar]

Disagreed, going to 1066 ram meant I could get an extra 400mhz out of my cpu. This made a huge difference in performance. Trust me there really isn't that much difference to the extra latency, I can dig up some comparisons and graphs if you want.

Overclocking is not the answer, not when you're a lay-person. Not only would he have to tune with a lot of trial and error, but he'd be running most of his hardware past its recommended frequencies, not to mention the cooling issues you have... for me and you, sure, overclocking can be worth it with the right hardware but considering he's not a guru, I'd never advise overclocks. It'll cost him $$ for technicians in the long run.

-D