Author Topic: I bought it...its coming soon (Read 907 times)

-ammo- · « **on:** October 22, 2001, 09:28:00 PM »

Heehee, just ordered the machine..will post specs and stuff when it arrives and I got it running. I gotta piece it together.

I am kind of excited

Wobble · « **Reply #1 on:** October 22, 2001, 09:41:00 PM »

hehe, its the best feeling in the world when the delivery truck pulls up.. untill then.. its hell.

-ammo- · « **Reply #2 on:** October 23, 2001, 07:13:00 AM »

heres what i ordered and waiting on--

all in all this ought improve my AH performance...I hope.

THX for all the help! Notably Skurj, sancho, bloom, ghosth, ozark...too many to thank for all the advice.

mrsid2 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 23, 2001, 09:51:00 AM »

Man I'm so jealous to you..

I wanted the epox kha2 but I had to go with amd760 instead cause the buggers are not shipping to finland untill next month!!

You seem to have a nice setup there, except 20gig hd????? What for? You would have got another 20 gig for an extra $20 lol.

Also that 300W psu might or might not cause probs, good luck with that one.

Kieran · « **Reply #4 on:** October 23, 2001, 11:23:00 AM »

Just jumped in with the same MB, CPU, and 256MB RAM. It should be good.

LePaul · « **Reply #5 on:** October 23, 2001, 11:33:00 AM »

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Originally posted by -ammo-:
heres what i ordered and waiting on--
Athlon XP1600
Epox 8HKA+ MB
512Mb DDR RAM
WD 20Gb HD
CL 52X CDROM
SBlive 5.1
Enlight 7237 case 300watt
volcano5 CPU fan

all in all this ought improve my AH performance...I hope.

THX for all the help! Notably Skurj, sancho, bloom, ghosth, ozark...too many to thank for all the advice.

Cost? Who'd you order from? Its time to upgrade here

Swager · « **Reply #6 on:** October 23, 2001, 11:39:00 AM »

I have had the components for my new machine for 2 months now. Still not running!

Ah! Such is life!

Good luck Ammo!

-ammo- · « **Reply #7 on:** October 23, 2001, 11:49:00 AM »

Fellas, I got the components (except the memory) at United Micro for $500. You need to mention that the promo price is $255 at pricewatch for the MB/CPU/CPUfan combo. You most likely can do better on the case, I payed $53 for it. I looked around and found it cheaper but when you pay twice the S&H it will negate any savings. Directron.com is also very competitive. The memory cost me $71 from crucial. I still need to get some case fans

and I am sure ( never done this before) that I will find I still need things... I am guessing that I will have the wiring for the drives included in the case...I hope. The case only has 1 fan, need more. As far as the 20 Gb HD, well I looked at it this way, why do I need anything more than 20 gig? I could have bought more for sure. I really wanted an IBM HD but it was $30 more... I was trying hard to keep the cost down.

Edit-- You will notice there is no vid card included in this list

I will use my Geforce 2MX 32Mb until I have the money to buy an upgrade.

[ 10-23-2001: Message edited by: -ammo- ]

Kieran · « **Reply #8 on:** October 23, 2001, 02:33:00 PM »

I too went as low in $$ as I could. I have components lying around, so I really didn't need everything anyway. I too will likely have to pick up the odd thing here or there, but I will worry when the time comes.

Mine came from American Computech, and paid $305.67, shipping included.

-ammo- · « **Reply #9 on:** October 25, 2001, 07:27:00 PM »

Arghhh, EP-8KHA+ om backorder.

Animal · « **Reply #10 on:** October 25, 2001, 08:41:00 PM »

EXCELLENT choices ammo boy.
There are few people that take the time to do the research you did and make some good sound choices, way to go.

You have a KILLER system there, you will enjoy it very, very much.

I'm proud kiddo

bloom25 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 26, 2001, 02:11:00 PM »

Don't expect much frame rate increase without switching out the video card.

-ammo- · « **Reply #12 on:** October 26, 2001, 02:28:00 PM »

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Originally posted by bloom25:
Don't expect much frame rate increase without switching out the video card.

yea, I know bloom. Money well dried up. But I got my old stuff taken care of, I do expect a little increase and next on the list is a new vid card, leaning toward a Geforce3 TI200.

Aminal-- thx for everything, sarcasm included