- Dec 18, 2001
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In my current tower, I have:
- replaced 3 power supplies
- replaced 2 hard drives
- replaced 1 motherboard
- replaced several fans
- replaced the cdrw
Right now its got a nice 380W Earthwatts PS, MSI NForce II Delta, 512mb mushkin DDR2 running in dual channel mode, AMD XP 1700+, 120GB sata drive, Radeon 9600.
To be honest this thing still has great performance and until more components die, I don't really need a new computer, but...
I'd like to try out some of the new online games that are graphic intensive. Also, I'm having intermittent problems with my USB ports - I think they might be going bad. I just wiped them out in safemode and let the drivers reinstall hoping this is just a software glitch, but we'll see...
So, while I catch up on whats been going on in the computer industry, give me some pointers:
- Who is leading right now, Radeon or Nvidia?
- What is the latest and greatest AMD processor?
- How fast is RAM these days?
- Any breakthroughs in hard drives lately, or same old design?
- Which is winning, bluray or hddvd?
- What is the leading heatsink?
And to go along with this lovely new system, I think I'll get a nice widescreen lcd. Who is selling a quality but affordable model right now?
- replaced 3 power supplies
- replaced 2 hard drives
- replaced 1 motherboard
- replaced several fans
- replaced the cdrw
Right now its got a nice 380W Earthwatts PS, MSI NForce II Delta, 512mb mushkin DDR2 running in dual channel mode, AMD XP 1700+, 120GB sata drive, Radeon 9600.
To be honest this thing still has great performance and until more components die, I don't really need a new computer, but...
I'd like to try out some of the new online games that are graphic intensive. Also, I'm having intermittent problems with my USB ports - I think they might be going bad. I just wiped them out in safemode and let the drivers reinstall hoping this is just a software glitch, but we'll see...
So, while I catch up on whats been going on in the computer industry, give me some pointers:
- Who is leading right now, Radeon or Nvidia?
- What is the latest and greatest AMD processor?
- How fast is RAM these days?
- Any breakthroughs in hard drives lately, or same old design?
- Which is winning, bluray or hddvd?
- What is the leading heatsink?
And to go along with this lovely new system, I think I'll get a nice widescreen lcd. Who is selling a quality but affordable model right now?