Author Topic: New pc specs...Comments? (Read 645 times)

Roscoroo · « **Reply #15 on:** April 04, 2007, 03:22:23 PM »

Sting , I hope you weren't buying "Open box" outta newegg ... Thats a no no .

they did that with a bunch of ecs boards several yrs ago and they were all bad.

38ruk · « **Reply #16 on:** April 05, 2007, 04:02:08 AM »

I burnt a couple Asus A7n8x deluxes when i had my barton setup, but it think it was a transistor cap leak issue from a supplier back then IIRC.

Roscoroo · « **Reply #17 on:** April 05, 2007, 04:56:51 AM »

i never had any problems with the A7n8x series boards ... i musta built 15 pc's based on those .. my -e deluxe is still going ...at this very min tee hee .

i think some of the rev 1's were faulty as for they dont seam to be coveted as much as the -e dlx 's or the rev 2.0 dlx's.

Sting138 · « **Reply #18 on:** April 05, 2007, 01:14:22 PM »

I bought the open box big water cooling kit from my local Fry's here in Austin. I have purchased several open box items from Newegg.com but they were cases and I couldn't pass up a 49.00 deal on a Lian Li and 39.00 Thermaltake Shark, both of which only had minor scratches both of which were easily touched up.

Gulp · « **Reply #19 on:** May 01, 2007, 02:15:50 AM »

UPDATE:

They missed my video card in the shipment but I'm already running 30-60 FPS with the onboard video. I can't believe how much better it looks and how much easier it is to hit with smooth video.

Specs stayed the same except for I went with a 500W PS, 2G Kingston memory, Enlight tower, extra case fan, & Seagate 160G HD.

7900GS card should be here Thursday.

Everything went together great and the installation of parts, OS, & motherboard drivers was a breeze.

Now I need to find some other excuse for getting killed all the time

38ruk · « **Reply #20 on:** May 01, 2007, 02:28:15 PM »

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Originally posted by Roscoroo
i never had any problems with the A7n8x series boards ... i musta built 15 pc's based on those .. my -e deluxe is still going ...at this very min tee hee .

i think some of the rev 1's were faulty as for they dont seam to be coveted as much as the -e dlx 's or the rev 2.0 dlx's.

You hit it on the head there RoO they were both revision 1 boards . I still wish i had kept my barton setup , but i gave to my brother in law 3 or so years ago , when ever the 64's came out . Its still running today at 2.4 ghz on a rev. 2 board . 8)

hubsonfire · « **Reply #21 on:** May 01, 2007, 08:34:49 PM »

The A7N8X-X is practically idiot proof. I haven't been able to screw mine up yet.

Don't suppose one of you has a faster chip than a 2400 lying around by chance?