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Upgraded PC

Submitted by computerulz on Sun, 29/03/2009 - 09:03.

After over 5 years of the same PC, I have finally upgraded, at less than 1/3 the cost of the original PC. (See Best box here thread)

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 940 BE
RAM: 8GB Kingston DDR2 @800MHz
GPU: Galaxy GTX260P
DVD: LG Bluray/HD-DVD reader, DVD/CD burner
PSU: added a Thermaltake Power Express 450W VGA PSU to supplement my relatively small PSU of 430W
HDD: 1TB + one or two from the old PC

Also just wanted to see if anyone still vists this forum:p

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my gaming machine is now

Submitted by administrator on Thu, 09/04/2009 - 12:45.

my gaming machine is now running
CPU: core i7 extreme cpu
MB: X58
RAM: 6GB DDR3 - triple channel
HDD: Cheetah 10,000 RPM system, 3 x 500GB Storage etc
CASE: Antec 300
PSU: Tagan 1100W
GPU: 2 8800GTX OC 768MB cards in SLI

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I bet that didn't cost 1/3

Submitted by computerulz on Fri, 17/04/2009 - 18:02.

I bet that didn't cost 1/3 of your last pc, considering your CPU cost more than my entire new pc:p
Originally I considered a better GPU, but in the end, I couldn't be bothered paying an extra 50% for 10% gain, and it had to be under $1500 which ruled out the gtx295 unfortunately. Surprised you haven't got that yet, the GTX200 series is FAR better than the 8000 series.

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yeah - it was actually an

Submitted by administrator on Wed, 22/04/2009 - 08:14.

yeah - it was actually an insurance claim - and the video cards were items i already had

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your machine looks pretty

Submitted by administrator on Wed, 22/04/2009 - 08:16.

your machine looks pretty awesome though - how do you find the AMD chip?

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Pretty good actually, had no

Submitted by computerulz on Thu, 23/04/2009 - 21:21.

Pretty good actually, had no problems so far, and its no warmer than my last chip. Done some minor video encoding, and it managed to finish in a far more reasonable timeframe than the 3200+ ever could... Considering it has 6 times the number of clocks/sec available, its not that surprising though.
Did have a few issues with the PC, cause it was lagging during action in far cry 2, and even bf1942... But I have now decided to put it down to extreme lack of GOOD driver support for XP x64... Might install xp32 again just for oldschool stuff, and use windows 7 for everything else. Windows 7 is great, in case you haven't tried it yet. Ran on my old PC much better than Vista

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