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After five and a half years, I'm finally escaping my old Pentium 3.
I'm a gamer, and my previous tower had enough with the GF4 Ti 4800 (OC'ed past the 5200; hey, I spent $300 at the time on it -- I was hott **** on the block) to keep me just running what I wanted to play.
Then it fried, and I got shoved back on my IBM Thinkpad R30 (P3 1.0 GHZ).
8MB graphics card. Try playing Unreal Tournament 2007 on that.
Well, shortly after, as previously mentioned in a thread or two ago, the fan broke. And I mean it still operated, but the axis of rotation somehow shifted to a diagonal tilt -- as good as you could imagine it.
So finally, after 5 1/2 years, I'm getting a new PC, one which I'm thanking God I can play games on once more.
New rig:
AMD x2 Dual-Core 4200+
1 GB DDR2 533mhz (up to 800mhz supported; 16GB max)
Integrated nVidia 6100 (will upgrade later on)
200 GB SATA-2 @ 3 gb/s
Two DVD-R/W drives
Media card reader
Throwing in from P3:
Soundblaster Live! 5.1
PCI WiFi card
5.1 Speakers
And for a very nice $520, too. Limited budget (17 year-old with a nice "good luck paying for that" from the parents), but incredibly nice motherboard and a overall good deal, at least to me.
What do you guys think?
P.S -- And no, I didn't want to go AMD; hardcore Intel fan. Just didn't have the money for the Duo 2.
I'm a gamer, and my previous tower had enough with the GF4 Ti 4800 (OC'ed past the 5200; hey, I spent $300 at the time on it -- I was hott **** on the block) to keep me just running what I wanted to play.
Then it fried, and I got shoved back on my IBM Thinkpad R30 (P3 1.0 GHZ).
8MB graphics card. Try playing Unreal Tournament 2007 on that.
Well, shortly after, as previously mentioned in a thread or two ago, the fan broke. And I mean it still operated, but the axis of rotation somehow shifted to a diagonal tilt -- as good as you could imagine it.
So finally, after 5 1/2 years, I'm getting a new PC, one which I'm thanking God I can play games on once more.
New rig:
AMD x2 Dual-Core 4200+
1 GB DDR2 533mhz (up to 800mhz supported; 16GB max)
Integrated nVidia 6100 (will upgrade later on)
200 GB SATA-2 @ 3 gb/s
Two DVD-R/W drives
Media card reader
Throwing in from P3:
Soundblaster Live! 5.1
PCI WiFi card
5.1 Speakers
And for a very nice $520, too. Limited budget (17 year-old with a nice "good luck paying for that" from the parents), but incredibly nice motherboard and a overall good deal, at least to me.
What do you guys think?
P.S -- And no, I didn't want to go AMD; hardcore Intel fan. Just didn't have the money for the Duo 2.