Rate the Computer!!!!

[mark thorpe]

very nice specs, for a laptop

thanks i like it
and thanks to starr as well

 

[Starr]

Ok, how about this.


AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Winchester Integrated into Chip FSB 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103494
$263

K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI - Socket 939 AMD Athlon 64 Mainboard - nVidia nForce4 SLI Chipset - Serial ATA RAID - Firewire - DUAL PCI-E - DUAL Gigabit LAN http://www.pcdirect.com//product.asp?Sku=MBMSK8NNEO4-PLSLI
$173

MSI Geforce 6600GT 128MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI-Express x16 Video Card
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Prod...N82E16814127147

$188

Patriot 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) System Memory http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820220006

$130

Raidmax Aluminum Silver Front Astro-268 Case with Power Supply http://www.edazz.com/raalplascawp.html
$72

Western Digital 120GB Internal Hard Drive http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/West.../sem/rpsm/oid/71459/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do
$50

Samsung / 52x32x52x CD-RW / 16x DVD-ROM / Beige OEM Combo Drive with Software http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1216713&CatId=0
$40


Total: $916

 

[DarkBlade1]

DO NOT GET A WESTERN DIGITAL DRIVE!!! GET A MAXTOR!! PLEASE!! WD has noise problems and drive "hiccups". I highly DON'T Recommend them!

 

[mighty_chick]

lol mine is running fine. and I've had mine since last september. what do you mean by "hiccups"?

 

[DarkBlade1]

The drive will pause in reading for a minute for no reason whatsoever to seek its cache, which is dumb and a flaw in the design!

 

[mighty_chick]

ouchy. and what did u mean by "u better get another 6600gt soon or your going to start seeing problems"?

 

[DarkBlade1]

ouchy. and what did u mean by "u better get another 6600gt soon or your going to start seeing problems"?

As in... if they update the BIOS, then you will have to search and search for your VGA BIOS to flash over when you get the new card MoneyMan, and if you get the same BIOS, you better hope they didn't change the pixel engine instructions or ANYTHING, otherwise SLi won't work.

 

[mighty_chick]

how will it update? i could just go to msi and download the bios flash for the 6600gt couldnt i?

 

[DarkBlade1]

Yeah, I suppose, but if they change the pixel or texture engines, you are SCREWED.

 

[mighty_chick]

how can i prevent that from happening. thats not right how can they screw people over like that? there'd have to be a way to do it. oh you mean if they change somehting on the video card themselves!!!!!. i thought you were talking about mobo drivers and such