The Perpetual Upgrade Thread

[Exfoliate]

That's really good but I'd say the 7900GT's better, and around the same price I believe.

[harrack52]

Not where I live. I can't get the gs locally yet, and on ncix I can get it for $240 AR (factory oced) while the cheapest gt is just under $300 AR. Locally, the cheapest gt is $330. I also have to consider I'm being charged taxes for those MIR.

All in all I'm looking at a $30-$40 difference between the gt and gs, and the performance difference doesn't justify it. Also, those 4 disabled pipes could be unlockable, but we'll have to wait for that, although I'm not basing my possible purchase on that.

[Exfoliate]

You're right dude, there is a bit more of a difference than I thought existed in price. Performance is about 15% or so different but that's not bad. Unlocking the pipes and v-shader though makes the cards basically the same deal though, that's a great bonus. I've definately changed my opinion on the card now.

[harrack52]

I decided not to get it, for two reasons:

1) I can't really afford it

2) I could have had a brand new BFG 7900 GT OC 256mb for a little bit more as it was on sale at a local store @ $269.99.

[Exfoliate]

Fair enough, I suppose if you plan to keep the card for some time it's best to get the fastest you can.

[Matt555]

Got my new laptop through today - it's freakin' awesome

I was running various scans whilst also using Windows Live Messenger, Skype and Firefox earlier - it handled it with ease

I haven't tried gaming (It's got a ATI Mobility X1400) but might do that tomorrow.

I've only got basic apps installed at the minute, and very little music.

Laptop seems excellent (will be writing a review on it soon hopefully)

[Willz]

seems to be a right steal at was it 700 quid you payed for it?

[Matt555]

£800 it cost me - that was a special online price, in-store it would be £1,000.

[Willz]

: O a steal

[Matt555]

Yeah it is, hopefully this week I should be getting a wireless router so I don't have to have my network cable plugged into this thing when I'm sitting here in bed.

[Willz]

nice, wireless routers seem crap :\

[Big B]

Oh, let's see here.

I bought a CD-ROM and a laptop hard drive recently. I also traded my Radeon 9600XT for an Abit BP6 and 2 Celeron 466's. I can't believe I still have SDRAM laying around (well, in me and my dad's community PC parts box). And the BP6 box also is getting a few fans. I just need to drill some holes for the fan mounting on the top of the case for exhaust.

[megamaced]

Well I've been upgrading my eMachines computer (don't ask, I was a computer n00b when I bought it ) gradually over the last few months. I've swapped the Celeron 2.8Ghz CPU for a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz, I bought an nVidia Geforce FX 5200 PCI to replace the onboard Intel graphics, and now i've just bought a 512MB DDR333 stick of memory to increase my RAM to 1024MB. Pending on my wages for next month I plan to replace my 80GB hard drive with a Western Digital 250GB drive.

As much as i'd love to replace the eMachines computer altogether, money is too tight right now

I've also decided to upgrade my second computer too. I've bought a used P3 motherboard with a 133MHz bus, to replace my old 100MHz board. I've also bought two used 256MB PC133 sticks to go with the system.

Off Topic:

Shouldn't this thread be in the New Build forum?

[Anti-Trend]

So I grabbed some cycled out hardware from work today...


They were throwing it out and made the mistake of informing the network engineers about it. Before long, a crowd of UNIX geeks were huddled around the massive pile of hardware like so many Mensa vultures ready to pick flesh from bone. Needless to say, I walked away with the pick of the litter: a dual-P3 Coppermine ~800MHz with a SCSI-3 array, 2 Seagate Cheetahs, and 512MB PC133. I dropped it in as a hot replacement on my poor web server, which previously had a paltry 500MHz K6-2 w/256mb. Major speed increase!

About This Server - anti-trend.homelinux.org

[Big B]

I swapped out my Abit BP6 and the dual 466 Celerons for an Asus A8V-MX and paired it with the Athlon64 3700+ and the two PC2700 sticks of generic RAM (Samsung chips, though). I put Kubuntu 6.06 on it, and that really seems to work well so far. Now, I just need to finish the mesh cover on the cover (it's a desktop ATX casemod I've had in various stages of progress over the past 2-3 years).