J-SMITH69

vista is badass i haven't had any problem s playing it.

ive been playin the orange box... portal is hillarious and really fun.

buk9tp

get bf2 and then download the project reality mod..
search youtube for bf2 pr or bf2 project reality

salesmonkey

ive been needing to do this, i built my computer with my buddy back in 2000/2001, i think i started in 2000, and then did some more upgrades down the road but i havent touched it for years, it works but nothing special hahah. geforce 440fx grafics card if you nogs remember that ----. its older then old. ive definitly lost track of whats good and whats not. ive researched a few times but they change way the ---- to much. so when i decide to build a new computer ill then find the time to research for deals on nice stuff but not brand *** raping price new. haha i cant believe the prices some people pay for the newest ---- that will become old news in a month.

blade8r

YOU THINK YOU WENT CHEAP!?!?

I just finished building my computer today... like seriously less then 3 hours ago..

Abit An52 Motherboard - 74.99
Nvidia GForce 8400gs - 84.99
Cool Master power sopply 500W - 49.99 (only 10 dollars after Rebate. saves me $30)
Cool Master CPU fan - 14.99
AMD Athalon A64 X2 4800+ - 95
DDR2 2 gb PC6400 800MHZ Ram - 42.99

Total spent = $363 + discount.. i really only spent like $335 not including my rebate. there are some nice kinks to have your Brother work at Fry's Electronics.

nothing like upgrading Duel core processor for literally 300 dollars.

J-SMITH69

your comp is less than half as fast as mine

Jorsher

Yeah, I was going to tell you that R-S' build is faster for only a little more. Buying online (newegg, tigerdirect) is most likely cheaper than the retail chains. When I built my last computer, AMD and ATI were whoopin' some ***, now it's Intel and nVidia on top. We have an nVidia building down the street, not sure what the hell they do there, maybe some R&D

At first I was confused why your 4gb of ram wasn't visible, since 32-bit can address 4gb of ram, then I did some googling and see why... Pretty lame. Do you still have all 4gb installed? It says you don't see 4gb because the OS/BIOS/etc reserves it for addressing purposes. If this is the case then you should get better performance since there's more space to work with (although you won't be able to use it).

blade8r

no your system is not half higher. it's only 1 tipy toe higher then what i have. 8400gs to your 8500Gt no brainer. the only thing you card has over my card is SLI capability. Both of our grafix cards are rated the same over all performance.
we are both running Duel core setup, mines is a Athalon processors clocked at 2.5GHZ X2, Over your 2.3GHZ X2. your setup is 1333MHZ FSB and my setup is 1000MHz FSB.

im running 2 gigs of ram. your at 4 gigs both at 800 MHZ.

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so you got this over me. PCI-e SLI capable mother board and SLI GFX, 2 Gigs of ram. 333MHZ FSB.

i have this over you, 200MHZ X2 more speed then you..

the only real world thing that makes your system better then mine is the 333FSB extra speed. the faster CPU won't make if any difference between our systems. aside that i hardly consider you Double what i am running.

if anything the only thing that you doubled was the price you paid.

blade8r

although i must admit.. you can just simply add another SLI rafix card and call it a day and take a spanking on my system from any kind of gaming needs.

J-SMITH69

and the fact that core 2 duos are much better than the amd 64x

amd has lost a lot of ground

whats the L1 and L2 cache on your cpu?

jinxy

An older, high end card like the 7950 is going to be better than the 8 series mid range chips. It's sad AMD has lost ground, but they'll pick up steam again.