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[bofh]

Ooo, new computer posts eh (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Antec 900 ATX Ultimate Gamer Case, Corsair 750W PSU, Gigabyte P45 MoBo, Intel E8500 Dual Core 3.16 GHz CPU, Zalman CPU cooler, 8 Gigs of OCZ Fatal1ty DDR2 800MHz RAM, Diamond Radeon 4870 w/512MB RAM, Diamond Radeon 9250 w/256MB RAM, 2.25TB of disk (3 750GB Seagate Drives), Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer, Sony DVD burner, Logitech X-540 5.1 Speakers, and Microsoft XP Pro SP3.

I reinstalled Starcraft/BroodWar, Half-Life 2, Diablo II, Doom 3 and C&C 3. I also bought Dead Space. So far it's not bad. Not as scary as folks are saying though in my opinion.

I've heard both good and bad about Fallout 3 so I might have to check it out.

Computer build site:

http://www.schelin.org/20081004

Carl

[Wounded Ronin]

Wow, Hyzmarca wins this thread.

Hyzmarca, should I install the Windows XP service pack 3?

[hyzmarca]

Wow, Hyzmarca wins this thread.

Hyzmarca, should I install the Windows XP service pack 3?

SP3 has some nice features, if you're a network administrator. If not, then there is little point to it. As long as you've kept SP2 up to date and have installed all of the security updates, you should be fine without it.

[Wounded Ronin]

SP3 has some nice features, if you're a network administrator. If not, then there is little point to it. As long as you've kept SP2 up to date and have installed all of the security updates, you should be fine without it.

I'm not a network admin, and I have been scrupulous about keeping SP2 up to date. So I won't bother to "upgrade". Thanks very much for your advice. It is much appreciated.

[hyzmarca]

I'm not a network admin, and I have been scrupulous about keeping SP2 up to date. So I won't bother to "upgrade". Thanks very much for your advice. It is much appreciated.

It is an upgrade, it just isn't a retail-consumer-oriented upgrade. The entire point of SP3 is to increase the life of XP in enterprise settings by adding networking features that are present in Vista, because big corporations are substantially more reluctant to upgrade to Vista than Microsoft had anticipated (When upgrading consists of spending hundreds of thousands on software and changing or replacing thousands of machines, and what you've got still works perfectly, and you're in the middle of a recession, upgrading doesn't seem like a good idea at all) .

And you're very welcome.


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Back to the system idea

Branch 2) i7

Core i7 920 - $350, Intel DX58SO Motherboard $300, two sticks of 2GB DDR3 at 1600MHz $180 Total = 830

830+650 = 1470

Redeon 4870X2 $520

= $1990

Ultra Products ULT-33186 ChillTec Thermo Electric CPU Cooler $120

= 2110

A bit overpriced and no fancy RAID 0 Dirives, but this is a great overclocker. All you have to do is match the RAM's native speed by increasing the base clock to 200 and you've got a 4Ghz system. all you have to worry about is CPU voltages.