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The (new) Official PC building thread!

Discussion in 'Building a new PC' started by creaky, Nov 27, 2006.

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  1. herrick

    herrick Regular member

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    Man I got screwed...all i got was a rifle... A Marine- and it servered well
     
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    and so the battle between sammorris and shaffaaf ragged on for many many thread pages until the inevitable conclusion
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    any yes....the warranty on the ASUS was expired....


    (just feeding the fire)
    -tripplite
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    u served!
     
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    sammorris,
    The're both controlled by computers??? LOL!!

    The new "Retro Build" is running fine. I added some more software to it today (in between trips! Got the Flu!)LOL!! I would have loved to have owned something like this 4 years ago! I have a friend of mine who's kid has an old very slow 750MHz Celery, so I think it's going to wind up with him. About like comparing the Wright Brothers plane, with a fighter jet! LOL!!

    If the original P-4s were Bog slow, the old Celerys ran like they were Wading in Fudge! LOL!!

    Best Regards,
    Russ
     
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    *opens PS CS3 on an old P4 (1.8ghz).....DEAR LORD!
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    -tripplite

     
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    sammorris Senior member

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    Your computer catches fire if you get owned? Ouch, you ought to look into that!

    Just played Games of CounterStrike Source, and more importantly, Call of Duty 4, 2560x1600 Max detail, flawless frame rate. No Anti-Aliasing, but hey, can't win them all.
     
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    GM,
    According to Intel, there is no such thing. It's either a Celeron, or a P4! Lots of places used to write it like this, "P4 Celeron" when describing the capabilities of the MB socket. They "accidentally" leave out the coma between the two. There is a Celeron Dual Core, but it's still a Celeron! The old original celerons were real dogs with the ability to transfer only half the data of a P-III or P4. They also had a smaller on chip cache! The newer ones are somewhat better, but even the Celeron D, is still only a Celeron. Hope that clears that up! LOL!!

    Best Regards,
    Russ
     
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    Even when Intel chips were the best to have (as in, many many years ago) the Celerons were crap. I remember noting how much faster my P3 450 with 128MB of RAM was than the Celeron 500s with the same that my school had.
     
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    @ tripplite
    Ya, did my thing and moved on...80-83
     
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    sammorris Senior member

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    Nice, but how does it fare under load?
     
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    Geez what was I thinking. LOL. My OLD Dell is a P4 and the parents is a Celeron. ;P Just added them together that's all. :D

    fixed original link too!!

    ...gm
     
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    sammorris,
    They originally didn't have any on chip L2 cache! Once they added that, they became the darlings of the CPU world and were faster than the Pentium IIs, not to mention better overclockers. The reason is that they ran the Celeron's L2 cache at the processor speed, while the P-II's L2 ran at half the processor speed. The Celeron of that era became the best chip of the day and most bang for the buck until the advent of the P-III, which ran the L2 at the same speed as the processor. Also the P-III had a buss speed of 133MHz, the P-II ran at 100MHz and the Celeron, 66MHz!

    Best Regards,
    Russ
     
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    What are you temps like with the Freezer 7 with that overclock?
     
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    Hmmm..I would like to know also?
     
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    sam i cant be arsed to do another long assed rebuttle, as it is not in my nature to post too much.

    can we atleast admit that on brute strength nvidia have the corner, but on price for performance the crown is with ati?

     
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    Absolutely, that's all I was arguing for in the first place.
     
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    as was i.....

    LOOOOL

    some nice benches of the 9800GX2 (showing SLI 9600GTs)

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    with the GX2 being £410 here (cheapest non OEM i could find after 5 shops)
    http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=788434

    and the 9600GT being only £103 (cheapest non OEN i could find after 5 shops)
    http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=772608
    its a no brainer

    get a blooming 7300LE :p

    the 9600GT SLI are probably the best bang for buck at around £210 for them. a whole £200 cheaper (and unfortuantley they beat the the 3870x2 aswell :( xD )
     
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    sammorris Senior member

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    Um, I think there are some images missing from that post...
    Lol
    £400 for the 9800GX2 though, that's stupid. The pair of 9600s would be a much better idea. Better yet, how about a single 8800GTS? lol
     
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    So load temps at 3.6 right? This is the highest they got.

    15:05:11 03/18/08 3600.05 59 44 46 51
     
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