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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. http://dsmstyle.com/forums/attachmen...4&d=1165098911 http://dsmstyle.com/forums/attachmen...5&d=1165098911 http://dsmstyle.com/forums/attachmen...6&d=1165099057 |
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let me double check...
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You should set it up to run in dual channel mode, nig nog. You'll notice a nice bump in speed.
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Originally Posted by FooK
let me double check...
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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!
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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. :) |
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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!
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Dam, if you can do it, I sure as hell should be able to. :P
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Im still rocking my 1995 Compaq Presario 466mhz :6
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Dude get a better computer. the 1995 is old as ----. I have a 2.5 ghz for $325 with a $70 video card and and $50 wirerless card and its pretty fast for how cheap it is.
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