Gonna buy a computer in 1 hour. It's currently 10:30am.

[mike420]

Thanks for the props guys. I'm on my way to buy it!

Hello everybody. I have been dreaming for long enough. Today I buy a new computer.
Here's my parts and prices in Canadian $ (100 Canadian = $85.43 USD).
Go ahead and try to talk me out of it. I dare you! (bitches)

Motherboard = Asus P5B Deluxe $200 (R.O.T. Computers@310 College St. Toronto)

CPU = CORE 2 DUO E6600 $362 (R.O.T. Computers)

RAM = 2 gigs OCZ DDR2 PC6400 Platnum 2 xtc @ 800MHz $239 (Canada Computers)

I already have all the rest of the stuff I'll need. I'm replacing the guts from my current rig:
AMD4000+
DFI Lan Party Nforce4 Ultra-D
1 gig PC3200 @ 333.

Keeping my 3d-fusion 7600gt for now. Wait till you guys offload your 7950s and grab one later.

 

[yh125d]

I don't know if you live in some sort of alternate reality or something, but its 9:37 am

 

[KayKay]

Originally posted by: yh125td
I don't know if you live in some sort of alternate reality or something, but its 9:37 am

Different Time zone?

 

[mike420]

I live in toronto dude, east of u. where is it earlier. casue the sun comes up in the east....

Any ways. Look. Sorry i called u guys bitches. I'd really appreciate a little feed back on this gear. I am about to walk out the door and I really haven't done very much research on this....

 

[gsellis]

Buying online or in B&M? If B&M, that cough is getting pretty bad. You should go home early.

 

[mike420]

Ah, what's B&M? I'm gonna take the bus downtown and buy it cash...

That's a pretty good quote there gsellis. Funny

 

[Vogel515]

Brick and mortar... or a store

 

[mike420]

So he is saying the price is high?
(With the US-Canada exchange rate it comes to $680usd)

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: gsellis
Buying online or in B&M? If B&M, that cough is getting pretty bad. You should go home early.

You obviously don't know Canadian hardware pricing.

I like your picks, OP.

I would personally get better [Micron-based] RAM, but the prices you've mentioned are very good, & really, you only need DDR2-800 to get to 3.6 GHz, so better RAM isn't imperative by any means.

 

[mike420]

New Egg prices: US dollars (Candian equivalent in brackets)

Motherboard = Asus P5B Deluxe $ 128 us ($150 can)

CPU = CORE 2 DUO E6600 $281 us ($330 can)

RAM = 2 gigs OCZ DDR2 PC6400 Platnum 2 xtc @ 800MHz $200 us ($235 can)


So in total I am paying $801 (canadian) for what I could get for $715 on new egg but then shipping and the hassel of potential product defect/return... I think buying locally is still a reasonable option here.

Cheers N7

 

[KayKay]

your Picks look good, what PSU are you using? Stock cooling as well i assume?

 

[mike420]

For the moment, i have a 480watt thermaltake X, with stock AMD cooler (haven't dove into overclocking yet but plan to soon) You can see the rig in the linked pics below.

 

[lobbyone]

Originally posted by: yh125td
I don't know if you live in some sort of alternate reality or something, but its 9:37 am

your reality is flawed

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: n7

Originally posted by: gsellis
Buying online or in B&M? If B&M, that cough is getting pretty bad. You should go home early.

You obviously don't know Canadian hardware pricing.

I like your picks, OP.

I would personally get better [Micron-based] RAM, but the prices you've mentioned are very good, & really, you only need DDR2-800 to get to 3.6 GHz, so better RAM isn't imperative by any means.

Huh? You must of meant someone else's reply. Translation for the Canadians who don't speak English. "If you are buying it in a store (implying 'today'), you should call in sick so you can go home and play with it"

 

[yh125d]

Lol, the 9:37 thing was a joke. fr3aking n00bs.

 

[mike420]

Oh yea brother I fell a serious sick spell coming on!!! I JUST BOUGHT A NEW FCUKIN PUTER BABY! YEEEEEEHAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[taltamir]

not to burst your bubble, but you would get DRAMATICALLY better gaming performance (and I am assuming thats what you are going for from your rig) by buying a GeForce 8800... and it will cost less... Your current upgrade should NOT improve most game performance at any noticeable level... (maybe 5% or so is my guess)

To improve load times of games, windows, etc... buy a raptor, again cost less and dramatic improvement.
Again, current upgrade would barely do anything, since this is a limitation of the HDD speed much more so then the bus speed improvement you are getting... in fact I think you would need some serious raid to need faster bus...

However, if your old machine is 32bit, and your new one would be 64 bit, and you would use a 64bit os, then you would notice dramatic speedup for 64 bit applications only... A 64bit compatible application isn't a 64bit application, but a 32bit one that WORKS on 64bit windows... this would net you no improvements... the only true 64bit applications I know of at the time are vnc VIEWER (not server), IE7 64bit version (for which nothing works), and windows itself...

For video and audio ENCODING (on duel core supporting programs) as well math crunchers such as SETI@Home your new rig would be the ideal method of improvement though...

 

[secretanchitman]

Originally posted by: taltamir
not to burst your bubble, but you would get DRAMATICALLY better gaming performance (and I am assuming thats what you are going for from your rig) by buying a GeForce 8800... and it will cost less... Your current upgrade should NOT improve most game performance at any noticeable level... (maybe 5% or so is my guess)

To improve load times of games, windows, etc... buy a raptor, again cost less and dramatic improvement.
Again, current upgrade would barely do anything, since this is a limitation of the HDD speed much more so then the bus speed improvement you are getting... in fact I think you would need some serious raid to need faster bus...

However, if your old machine is 32bit, and your new one would be 64 bit, and you would use a 64bit os, then you would notice dramatic speedup for 64 bit applications only... A 64bit compatible application isn't a 64bit application, but a 32bit one that WORKS on 64bit windows... this would net you no improvements... the only true 64bit applications I know of at the time are vnc VIEWER (not server), IE7 64bit version (for which nothing works), and windows itself...

For video and audio ENCODING (on duel core supporting programs) as well math crunchers such as SETI@Home your new rig would be the ideal method of improvement though...

taltamir is actually right...you probably wont notice that much of an increase going to core 2 duo from a athlon64 4000+...but hey, more power to you if you upgraded. im still on my intel p4 2.4C @ 3.6Ghz, and that ain't no slouch either.

edit: spelling mistakes.

 

[taltamir]

Mmmm... well he said 4000+... but didnt mention it was a 64bit X2... maybe thats the only 4000+ available, i dont know... but I assumed it WASNT... if it was then I would infact have to say that the CPU is the same, with athlon performing 1% better on some things, and intel 1% better on others (so, no benefits for encoding and SETI)... but you WOULD have faster ram... but crap timings for the ram... another give and take...

Although, I didn't think they actually MADE 333fsb duel core cpus...

 

[mike420]

My old chip is an AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego single core. My Mobo was 939 with 1000fsb (I think) and it only supported upto 400MHz ram (DFI Ultra-D). Since I only 1 gig of 333MHz DDR1 ram I wanted to upgrade. But rather than waste money on more crappy ram I decided to upgrade motherboard AND ram, which lead me to my love affair with core2duo. Check out benchmark comparisons at toms hardware (4000+ San Diego vs e6600 -- I play fear and quake and the like...)

As for the graphics card. Oh hell yes I'm gonna get me some of that 8800 action. Just gonna wait for those market-manipulating s.o.b.'s at NVIDIA to drop the prices a bit. I might even grab a 7950 while I wait? (Once my bank account resuscitates from this weeks activities....)

 

[mike420]

 

[mike420]

Some fun pictures from the operation!
- my computer puked
- nice shot of the bare bones

P.S. Am I the only one here that thinks core2duos are the shiat?

 

[mike420]

ooops, didn't see that there was a second page... oops...

 

[edblor]

Having some C2D fun bro?

Me too Played some Carbon......lovin' it!