Built my 1st PC!
12-03-2006, 02:51 PM
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Built my 1st PC!
Well I've now successfully built my first ever PC. Suprising how simple it is. In the end, the whole setup cost me just under 700 bucks. Just a couple specs of what I built are:
AMD Athalon X2 Dual-Core
Abit motherboard
1000mhz FSB
LG DVD Burner
Sony DVD-ROM
80GB & 250GB Sata2 Hard Drives
1GB RAM
ATI 256mb/256bit video card
Wireless/USB 2.0, firewire...
Centurion Case
I got everything off newegg, but the case I got locally at microcenter. So far it's working pretty well, and I think I saved myself a ton of money by doing it myself! Here's a couple crappy pics.
AMD Athalon X2 Dual-Core
Abit motherboard
1000mhz FSB
LG DVD Burner
Sony DVD-ROM
80GB & 250GB Sata2 Hard Drives
1GB RAM
ATI 256mb/256bit video card
Wireless/USB 2.0, firewire...
Centurion Case
I got everything off newegg, but the case I got locally at microcenter. So far it's working pretty well, and I think I saved myself a ton of money by doing it myself! Here's a couple crappy pics.
12-03-2006, 06:50 PM
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Re: Built my 1st PC!
Not sure what dual channel means exactly. I'll look it up. But right now it's running way better then my old Intel Centron 2.0Ghz. I have it hooked up to my 42" LCD TV right now. Works pretty nice!
12-03-2006, 06:56 PM
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Re: Built my 1st PC!
Open up the motherboard manual, have a look see. If those sticks or ram are the same part number - same exact size, speed, latencies, etc, then sticking them in the correct sockets will allow you to run them in dual channel mode, meaning you have two seperate memory busses instead of one shared bus, and therefore twice the potential memory bandwidth.
I can tell by the two different color RAM sockets on your motherboard that it is dual channel capable. If the two sticks of memory are identical to each other, and the motherboard BIOS is dual-channel capable but might have to fiddle BIOS or flash BIOS to enable this.
I can tell by the two different color RAM sockets on your motherboard that it is dual channel capable. If the two sticks of memory are identical to each other, and the motherboard BIOS is dual-channel capable but might have to fiddle BIOS or flash BIOS to enable this.
12-03-2006, 06:58 PM
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Re: Built my 1st PC!
Originally Posted by ju-on
Not sure what dual channel means exactly. I'll look it up. But right now it's running way better then my old Intel Centron 2.0Ghz. I have it hooked up to my 42" LCD TV right now. Works pretty nice!
he's watching huge ****
