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Hey If you don't know I am getting a laptop (already bought and so I dont need help on that) this week and I was wondering If I should still build a custom pc

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  • 05.09.2005 6:18 PM PDT
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desktops usually are cheaper gaming machines, but I guess it depends on what you want to do with your computers and what your laptop's specs are as well as whether or not you're able to use it for gaming (if you'd like) - If it's a strictly business machine, and you want to play games, then by all means, build a custom pc.

Building a custom PC is a fun, learning, informative experience, which you'll enjoy until your case slices your hand and you bleed on the video card, but even then - you get the peace of mind through knowing that you built it yourself from parts that you personally checked out, and nobody else (hardly) will have the same configuration as you.

  • 05.09.2005 6:41 PM PDT
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My laptop is okay at gaming but the pc I designed is an ultra performance gaming system
Laptop specs
Mobility radeon 9700
1.6 ghz processor
Integrated audio
512Mb ram
$1,800

Pc specs
Radeon x800 xt
3.0 ghz pentium 4 ee
Audigy 4
1 gb ram
$1,500

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  • 05.09.2005 7:53 PM PDT
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Extreme Edition p4's are quite expensive.

Really, anyone wanting to build another pc should wait for dual core processors, especially the X2 by AMD. They'll be here by fall, and they won't be much more expensive than normal AMD cpu's, despite having two physical cores.

  • 05.09.2005 8:12 PM PDT
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This isn't expensive actually Its like $200
It had an E near the end so I supposed

  • 05.10.2005 4:23 PM PDT
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Hmm. Well, I do know that the P4 EE equivalent of an AMD Athlon 3200 is about $400 - $500, so I'm just going off of that.

  • 05.10.2005 4:57 PM PDT
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Whats the rest of the machine. $1500 seems alittle low for a full machine with that processor and GPU.

  • 05.10.2005 5:23 PM PDT
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I got a book that helped me build it It was called Building a perfect pc and I Picked parts very similar to their Lan party pc and upgraded the gpu to a x800 xt

  • 05.10.2005 9:17 PM PDT
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Mine was about that price, too:

A64 3200
2x256MB PQI Turbo Ultra-low 2-2-2-5
X850XT
Abit Fatal1ty nForce 4
WD Raptor 74GB
DVD/Floppy
Ultra X-Connect 500 watt psu
Nice case, some extras

you can get a lot now for cheaper than you used to. I remember when it cost a crapload to get a pentium 4 machine back when they were just starting to surpass 2GHz. Manufacturing just keeps getting cheaper, I guess.

  • 05.10.2005 9:40 PM PDT
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Wouldn't it be nice if we had a time machine? We could go to the future and get all these expensive parts dirt cheap! It would be nice to have teleporters too.

  • 05.11.2005 9:08 AM PDT
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I have a smart friend that said you should never buy the most expensive parts

thats why I'm going with a radeon 9700 mobility

  • 05.17.2005 10:27 AM PDT
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never mind that

  • 05.20.2005 9:28 AM PDT
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Maybe not an X850XT PE, which by now is about $450. huge price drop...

But maybe an X800XL. That's a good deal. You can buy into the next generation for relatively cheap.

  • 05.20.2005 11:40 AM PDT
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did you guys get the 1.07 multiplayer update

I did but I keep getting the an error ocurred while trying to connect to the gamespy network

  • 05.23.2005 10:05 PM PDT
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I fixed

  • 05.25.2005 12:50 AM PDT
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the only motherboards with two pci-e slots are the sli motherboards. to be able to use the mvp cards from ati do you have to use the sli motherboards



O yah my laptop is coming TOMMORROW

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  • 05.25.2005 4:12 PM PDT
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No, you need an MVP motherboard. Since you don't use a SLI connector, the MVP is a different architecture.

  • 05.25.2005 4:45 PM PDT
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is an AMD athlon XP 2700+ A good upgrade from a 1700+ for a soket 462 motherboard. my budget is around $100

  • 05.25.2005 5:37 PM PDT
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Get a Sempron. Much better.

  • 05.25.2005 6:05 PM PDT
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will that sempron be able to run games like half life2 and doom3

  • 05.26.2005 5:27 AM PDT
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I got My laptop yesterday


I would of told you yesterdday but the forums were down

  • 05.27.2005 6:22 PM PDT
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Would I really need a sound card if I had the Asus A8N SLI board? It plays music fine, but on games it gets real scratchy...I'm not sure if that is the built in sound device on the board or if it's the speakers...I have the Logitech X530 Speakers

  • 05.27.2005 9:16 PM PDT
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1. Chewie, not great, not as good as a socket 754 or 939 A64, but it will run decent. It's for socket A, right?

2. It's the soundcard. I'll tell you why. Onboard sound is absolute crap if the CPU or system is under heavy load. I won't go into specifics, but...the movement of a LOT of data over your mobo, through those little embedded wires and transistors and 8+ layers of PCB board with 8+ layers of wiring...causes static-ish interefence for devices, especially those that deal with sound. The onboard ends up receiving this and the sound becomes scratchy. So, for instance, the Fatal1ty board I have, instead of coming with onboard sound, came with a sound card instead - solve the crunchy noise problem.

So, since the sound card is off the board surface and a fair distance away, it is nearly isolated. In addition, sound gets muddied by being calculated by the CPU as it travels the path from CPU to chipset to card and back again - so you want a sound card with its own audio processor on it. Your solution?

Audigy 2 ZS. That's the one for you. Onboard sound processing eliminates nearly all static caused by sound signals and audio going through the motherboard's circuitry.

Loved that explanation, eh?

Oh yeah, nice speakers ;)

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  • 05.27.2005 9:23 PM PDT
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lol thanks. That audigy 2 ZS is a good deal too, it comes with like 6 games that are normally like 30$ a piece.

  • 05.28.2005 12:05 PM PDT
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I changed my avatar SLD.

  • 05.28.2005 12:54 PM PDT

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