Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

Hey guys

browsed thru the section where everyone offers what they can help SAU members out with. Question is for you all

Who can you recommend / send me to so i can get a new box built for my old man

Current specs:

AMD Athlon XP2500+

1.84 GHz

512Mb RAM

120Gb hard drive.

Peripherals are all modern, and basically we just need a new box

Needs Firewire card (or can supply one from current computer)

Roughly 6x USB ports (yes we have a few things to plug in hehe)

Network card

DVD Player / Burner (already hav a DVD RW, but wouldnt mind a second one just in case)

At least 1GB RAM, if not more

500GB or so for a HDD, not really fussed if its more, but at least that much

And the biggie - is there any way that we can get it with a copy of Windows XP Professional...............i mean i could supply a copy and just ring up to re-activate it (been there done that before) but wanted to see if there was still a chance of a copy of XP Pro still to be laying around

Link to comment
https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/169531-anyone-do-computers/
Share on other sites

The Jellybean keyfinder prevents legs being blown off. :)

-------------

Video encoding? Big HD, Firewire?

Something along the lines of the below will do well..

$258 - CPU: Core 2 Duo E6420 (No point going slower unless you wish to overclock)

$169 - M/Board: Gigabyte 965P-DS3P (MSY have no DS3's in stock and are not sure when they will have stock)

$097 - RAM: 2gb (2x1gb) Kingston DDR2 667 (No need for 800mhz for general windows stuff, definitely not worth the extra unless you wish to overclock or game)

$195 - HD: Seagate 500gb (I've found Seagate to be more reliable than WD, never had one go belly up; had multiple WD's go belly up, all though I still have an old 20gb BB WD drive chuging along. )

$081 - VIDEO: ECS 7300GT (or spend another $100 for the 7900GS if you want to play the odd game)

$055 - DVD DRIVE: Anything.. I prefer LG but MSY don't have then.

$145 - CASE: Antec NSK6500

An even $1000.

That meets your >1gb of ram, 6usb, firewire & network requirements. :)

yeah, i could get you a box, that pritty much what i do for a living

XP Pro is no worries, got til Jan 2009 before you cant buy that any more (from us anyhows)

drop over one night, ask for luke (now if your still awake, i have some beers)... or drop by my work (link in sig)

i dont like MSY because a) they are cometition =P and b) they greay market.. but as if a bunch of skyline owners care about grey market computer bits =D

for price shopping, visit http://www.staticice.com.au/

and as mentioned above, MSY is now in Adel

http://msy.com.au/ dodgy website but their price is best

I can put the box together for FREE, if u cant find anyone to do it

  • 3 weeks later...

i know its re-hashing and old post, but on behalf of me my dad like to thank you all for your input. as we speak (i believe so anyway as he has dad's old box lol) luke (fishpaste) is building our newie :)

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • Like a Stagea, but not as cool! Hope you have enough garage space for this, or is something going to leave to make way for it?
    • The new project has arrived. I have wanted one of these for such a long time, well before that meathead Clarkson drove one in Africa. I really wanted an E34 but I have some medical issues that mean I *really* can't bump my head and the lack of airbags in the E34 made it just too big of a risk.  I don't know why I've always liked these older touring BMW's to be honest, but man I love this car. She's been pretty well maintained for her 243k's with what appears to be only a single oil leak at the oil filter housing gasket. It has a bunch of updates including later model bumper and headlights, 7 series billion-way adjustable seats and it came with a few spares and another set of wheels with legal tyres. I got a unregistered car permit from the RTA and drove it back from Canberra on Saturday.                   First cab off the rank is cleaning it up for blue slip. I dont know how picky they'll be but I figured I'd clean the headlights, fix the oil filter housing gasket, replace the speed sensors (throwing errors) and swap the OE wheels (the M Sport wheels have a big chunk out of one of the tyres.) I also need to replace all 6 gas struts - 2 for bonnet, 2 for hatch and 2 for hatch glass. The car tries to eat me whenever i open any of these. My plan for this car; Ultimately, this is a budget car. I can't afford to throw lots at it and its because I have another car that I got this, if something breaks its no big deal. I will just maintain and repair it really. But eventually I want to do a manual conversion. It actually looks pretty straight forward for E39's and the trickiest part will be sourcing the parts.  I do need to replace some suspension arms or bushes because wow, she's a floaty old girl. She's also fantastically slow. Like really, really slow. When pulling back out on to the freeway on Sat after a quick pull over I needed to wait until no cars were visible before going.  Oh, and the guy I bought it from had a gorgeous R31 GTS-X in the garage. 
    • Do you have a picture? I assume it is a breather for gearbox oil as it expands, it should have a vacuum line run nice and high in the engine bay (R32 GTR has it on a top bellhousing bolt)
    • Hi all, I am putting an r33 gtst gearbox into a VL and have noticed what looks like a vacuum barb on the box (on top in the middle). Suspecting that it's a vacuum line but I'd like to double check, if someone could confirm the function of that would be great. Cheers in advance.
    • I’d love to find some where that can recover the dashes to look brand new and original. Mine has a very slight bubble, nothing compared to some I’ve seen though 
×
×
  • Create New...