My New PC
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My New PC
After my PC finally gave up the ghost on the Friday before Bank Holiday (it had been on the cards for ages...had been living on borrowed time for ages!!)
I decided to spend some money on it seeing as its what my business is based around!!
Previous PC spec was about 4-5 years old - AMD XP 1.9Ghz lol, 1.5gb RAM etc etc - it did the job & lasted me but it was tired towards the end!!
So my new spec is...
AMD Phenom 2.4 9750 Quad Core (overclocked @ 2.64ghz for the moment although will try higher once I've changed the retail supplied AMD fan)
Crucial Ballistic 4Gb DDR2 800
ECS A770M-A Motherboard
4x 250Gb Hard Drive SATAII 300 = 500Gb (RAID 10 - i.e. 1+0)
NVidia GeForce 8600GTS 256Mb PCI-E
Samsung External DVDRW Writemaster
AOpen DVDRW Internal
68Pin Internal SCSI Card
HP 20/40Gb DAT Drive
500Watt PSU
2 Rear Fans, 1 front fan
Coolermaster Praetorian 730 Case
Microsoft XP Professional x64
AOC 17" TFT (also connected to plasma 42")
Very very impressed with it with regards to daily use, resizing images, loading programs - does everything virtually instantaneously - well compared to the old unit. Web browsing has become a joy again.
Couple of excuses.....due to timescales the ECS board was the only one I could get at short notice - I'd rather of gone for an ASUS or Gigabyte in all honesty.
Graphics card - compared to the rest of the spec isnt upto speed really - but I'll be honest & say that I NEVER play games on it, infact I havent played a PC computer game for probably 6-7 years - just dont have the time anymore inbetween my work, gym & cars! LOL! [Edited to add as I forgot before]My supplier included this card in a previous order by mistake so I needed to find a use for it - not bad for nothing!!
I ran a 3d Mark 06 & to be honest the mark I got doesnt really warrant me telling everyone - but I know it was low due to the graphics card.
Main thing is I'm happy with it & it should be more resistant to failure due to DAT drive & RAID drives.
A couple of pics....
I decided to spend some money on it seeing as its what my business is based around!!
Previous PC spec was about 4-5 years old - AMD XP 1.9Ghz lol, 1.5gb RAM etc etc - it did the job & lasted me but it was tired towards the end!!
So my new spec is...
AMD Phenom 2.4 9750 Quad Core (overclocked @ 2.64ghz for the moment although will try higher once I've changed the retail supplied AMD fan)
Crucial Ballistic 4Gb DDR2 800
ECS A770M-A Motherboard
4x 250Gb Hard Drive SATAII 300 = 500Gb (RAID 10 - i.e. 1+0)
NVidia GeForce 8600GTS 256Mb PCI-E
Samsung External DVDRW Writemaster
AOpen DVDRW Internal
68Pin Internal SCSI Card
HP 20/40Gb DAT Drive
500Watt PSU
2 Rear Fans, 1 front fan
Coolermaster Praetorian 730 Case
Microsoft XP Professional x64
AOC 17" TFT (also connected to plasma 42")
Very very impressed with it with regards to daily use, resizing images, loading programs - does everything virtually instantaneously - well compared to the old unit. Web browsing has become a joy again.
Couple of excuses.....due to timescales the ECS board was the only one I could get at short notice - I'd rather of gone for an ASUS or Gigabyte in all honesty.
Graphics card - compared to the rest of the spec isnt upto speed really - but I'll be honest & say that I NEVER play games on it, infact I havent played a PC computer game for probably 6-7 years - just dont have the time anymore inbetween my work, gym & cars! LOL! [Edited to add as I forgot before]My supplier included this card in a previous order by mistake so I needed to find a use for it - not bad for nothing!!
I ran a 3d Mark 06 & to be honest the mark I got doesnt really warrant me telling everyone - but I know it was low due to the graphics card.
Main thing is I'm happy with it & it should be more resistant to failure due to DAT drive & RAID drives.
A couple of pics....
Last edited by Lee_R21Turbo; Jun 1, 2008 at 09:07 AM.
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I wanted to be different....lol
No seriously though I'd just built an AMD Phenom system for a customer on request and was impressed with how it ran etc - I've always had AMD systems in the past and couldnt really fault them - so I stuck with it. Also I'd read a few reviews on how the newer Phenom processors were alot better than the older ones so just thought well I'll give it a try!!
Ideally though had I had the spare cash I admit I'd of gone for a processor in the Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad Core range.
No seriously though I'd just built an AMD Phenom system for a customer on request and was impressed with how it ran etc - I've always had AMD systems in the past and couldnt really fault them - so I stuck with it. Also I'd read a few reviews on how the newer Phenom processors were alot better than the older ones so just thought well I'll give it a try!!
Ideally though had I had the spare cash I admit I'd of gone for a processor in the Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad Core range.
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Nice one looks good 
If your not gaming its pretty irrelevant which processor you went for, any dual core processor would be fine for what you do, but its nice to have the extra power on tap if you should need it
You would have wasted your money going for an Extreme Quad job, for what you do on the pc
If your not gaming its pretty irrelevant which processor you went for, any dual core processor would be fine for what you do, but its nice to have the extra power on tap if you should need it
You would have wasted your money going for an Extreme Quad job, for what you do on the pc