Sold my computer, got new build.

[joxley1990]

Hey, well just sold my computer! Well yesterday night..

I got £500 for it. I decided I didn't game enough for the power I had, and I had only filled 75GB worth of space, on the 430GB space I had.

So I got the £500, went out straight after school, and bought a load more parts. I already had the processor, Pentium 4 S478, had it lying around for agers, so I didn't have to buy the processor.

So my specs now are..

Pentium 4 @ 2.00Ghz - (I do plan to overclock)

512MB Dual Channel RAM at 166Mhz (Again, overclocking soon)

80 GB HDD (Maybe, I might get another one if I need it in the future. I spread the 75GB worth of files I had over the network, and put them all on external hard drives with act as NAS - kinda cool)

Got another FX 5500 - Which I will come onto in a minute..

Again, got another Asrock P4 Dual 880 PRO - I loved this board, and they didn't really have anything else in stock.

DVD +/- Burner + Secondary CD Drive


I know you will all be like, well thats just stupid, downgrading your computer, but this is good enough, I dont really game, I only play the odd one, which I can play on max. settings.



GPU: The 5500 I bought is not amazing..128MB memory..so as soon as I had the option, I overclocked it.

Stock, it comes as..

Core Clock Frequency: 250Mhz
Memory Clock Frequency: 332 Mhz

I overclocked this to:

Core Clock Frequency: 315Mhz
Memory Clock Frequency: 450Mhz

Im rather happy with that, what do you guys think? Again, ill prob. go and overclock more, but is that an OK overclock?





I haven't been on here alot lately I am sorry to say...I've been working on opening my forum, which is going to be good once we get more members. Im back as I used to be now, ready and keen to post

 

[Nik00117]

Heh 430 GIGS thats what I will have pretty soon and I forseen myself using that pretty fast as well.

 

[joxley1990]

Unless your computer is a proper server, there is no need really. Mine was a server, but all the other computers have like 80GB space already, so people just kept their stuff on their computer.

 

[Nik00117]

I deal with a lot of files I don't enjoy putting them on DVD.

 

[David Lindon]

Thats quite a good overclock on the graphics card, what are the temps like?

 

[joxley1990]

I dont have the option to view that for some reason..uumm..

Ive got a fan blowing onto it though...

Speedfan wont show me either.

 

[renegadeandy]

That card doesnt have on board temperature sensors, its not overheating or you would know about it. Nice setup if its fit for its purpose.

 

[MikeReiner]

No sensor. Thats why. I think it wasn't until the later FX series cards that nVidia even bothered with them. (like FX5600 and beyond.)

Well, since you don't game, I guess it's an ok system. s478 p4 2.0ghz northy is a pretty nice workstation CPU. Wouldn't mind having one of those for a workstation.

 

[Feircepc]

nice setup forgot wat ur old setup was but i guess doesnt really matter now anyways. sold my gamin rig too and making a semi decent rig when i get all the money.

 

[joxley1990]

That card doesnt have on board temperature sensors, its not overheating or you would know about it. Nice setup if its fit for its purpose.

Well I had the option a while back, when I first got the card, and I downloaded the latest drivers and its not there.

The heatsink doesnt get hot though..

And the CPU isant that bad for non-extreme gaming, its pretty good.