The (new) Official PC building thread!

abuzar1,

Just funnin with you my friend!

Dell is selling them for $619 at the moment and I saw one on line that was $879 for a Certified Refurbished, but they are out! LOL!!
http://www.pacificgeek.com/product.asp?c=232&s=1349&ID=17893&P=F
They are claiming that it discontinued and sold out, when Dell is still selling them! LOL!!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

the 24" Samsung i bought was 45.00 on sale. I think they 500.00 dollars regular price

 

lol But that model is discontinued!

Dell sells the E2408 now not the 2405.

PM me if you want one.

 

@theonejrs
Come on Russ...Everyone knows boozer gets all his stuff...Way before it ever gets loaded on a truck...

I'm going to the Faber vs Pulver...WEC Championship fight tomorrow night at ARCO Arena Sacramento...
Nothing like a good cage match...I can't wait...This is going to be a Great Fight...There will be Blood...}

@Cincy...
Try these Round Cables...if they are made by Vasser...e-mail him and see who made them...if they are the Vasser...they are the best round cables I have used...the picture is from Vasser...
http://cgi.ebay.com/New-24-Silver-Shielded-EMI-RFI-Round-IDE-Cable_W0QQitemZ6722958273QQcmdZViewItem

 

Hey there LP,

He does get some sweet deals. Cash money helps those kind of deals considerably! I once flew to London with a large chunk of $100s to buy a race car. They wanted $165k, we haggled a bit and I popped $125K cash on the desk! Got the car at my price! LOL!! They were completely "Gassed"! ROFLMAO!!

Today if you did that you'd get arrested ! LOL!! Before you even got out of your own country! Cash works though. It's the old "A Bird in the Hand" thing!

Not much into Wrestling! You have to remember that I grew up as a kid when wrestling was more honest. They didn't talk $hit in those days! They didn't do some of the stupid crap I see these days. Georgeous George, The original Haystacks Calhoon, Original Andre the Giant and Sailor Art Thomas. It was a different age, and for me a better time. Wrestling and Boxing! I saw some great Wrestling and some great fights growing up. I saw Joe Lewis last 4 fights! All on TV and all free! I was 3 the first time I saw Joe Lewis fight! Yup! I'm Old! LOL!!

Best Regards and welcome back,
Russ

 

ZoSoIV: WOW thats a 455.00 savings HEheheheeeee

 

Well, at the time I paid £777 for my 3007WFP, brand new full retail package (even though all that includes beyond the monitor and power cable is a sheet of basic instructions and a driver CD I've never used - why would you want drivers for a DVI monitor?)

That works out about $1500. Not too impressive, but now consider when I bought it the cheapest you could get them for was 1500 POUNDS. I like to think I did well out of that one!

 

50% off for that monitor is a pretty good deal.

 

Well it was back in December 06 when I bought it. Now, they cost about as much as I paid for it - not bad to have a good 18 month lead on a product's price though, I daresay. It's essentially like paying what 8800GTXes now cost at the time they were released, but bigger. Hmm, that's quite a nice thought actually - kind of makes up for all the times I've been screwed out of expensive upgrades, but then if the monitor really was £1500 I'd never have bought one in the first place.

 

well ive been running Prime95 now and all is well. going on the 3rd week without any problems. actually none since i got my HDD situation figured out. been running great. might try a little OC here shortly. nothin major 3.4ghz maybe leave it there for a bit. i know 3.4ghz is gonna under clock my mem but i dont wanna push it..lol i wont get my mem back to800mhz until i hit 3.6ghz on my CPU that lovely 400x9..lol

 

Good luck man, you deserve a break.

Anyway, so I bought that laptop. I might post some pics. I got it for 380. Intel Dual Core, 2GB Ram, 160GB HDD, DVD Burner, and good looks. lol

I'm thinking of painting the top black.

 

how long ya gonna keep it abuzar1? lol

heres a screen for ya all.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i196/Cincrob/34ghz.png

 

BTW guys, the Asus Striker Extreme is NOT a good motherboard to get, right?

EDIT: Oh I am keeping this Laptop. Atleast for the summer. I might sell it after that.

Also, Abuzar1? Dude, you know you can just put down abuzar. lol

 

It's my understanding that the ASUS Striker Extreme II is the board to avoid atm.... I have the Original Striker Extreme (680i) and all seems just fine to me... Q6600 installed but I need to test the 8800GTS on it to see how it works... I've used the ATi X1650XT on it already and no problems that I could tell. Of course I haven't messed with an OC yet... NO time lately for anything but posting....

....gm

 

The Striker 2 is the bad one, but I've seen the original striker, and it's not very good either. Avoid both and stick to the Intel chipset boards. Yes, the original board is fine at stock, but why would you pay that much for a board and leave it stock? A hint of overclocking and it fell over and died - with an E6850 for god's sake.

 

im just funning with ya thats all. gotta be proper now and then.

im runnin this new/cool burn in program loco sent my way. its pretty damn cool

Burnin test V5.3pro. it has about 2 mins left on this cycle i'll post some info from it when done

 

Sounds good...

 

well ive done some changes in the testing. this is pretty dang cool. alot of different goodies to play with in this program.
also can set it to run for a time length or a certain number of cycles. i got it set to run a hour right now. and is testing 10 different things from CPU to ODD to network.....

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i196/Cincrob/burnin1.jpg

ok after a hour of running the burnin test it all passed.

PassMark BurnInTest Log file - http://www.passmark.com
========================================================

BurnInTest V5.3 Pro 1020
Logging detail level: Normal

******************
SYSTEM INFORMATION
******************
Computer Name: BIGREDMACHINE

Date: 06/02/08 13:04:56
Operating system: Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 build 2600
Number of CPUs: 1 (2 Core(s)/CPU, 1 Logical(s)/Core)
CPU manufacturer: GenuineIntel
CPU type: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
CPU features: MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 DEP PAE
CPU1 speed: 3401.7 MHz
CPU L2 Cache: 6 MB
RAM: 2046 MB
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT (Resolution: 1440x900x32)
Disk drive: Model ST3250410AS (Size: 232.9GB)
Disk drive: Model ST310001 1A SCSI Disk Device (Size: 93.2GB)
Optical drive: TSSTcorp CDW/DVD TS-H492A SCSI CdRom Device
Optical drive: LITE-ON DVDRW LH-18A1P SCSI CdRom Device
Optical drive: LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1S


**************
RESULT SUMMARY
**************
Test Start time: Mon Jun 02 12:00:33 2008
Test Stop time: Mon Jun 02 13:00:34 2008
Test Duration: 001h 00m 01s

Test Name Cycles Operations Result Errors Last Error
CPU - Maths 1777 2.064 Trillion PASS 0 No errors
CPU - SIMD 594 519 Billion PASS 0 No errors
Memory (RAM) 13 20.642 Billion PASS 0 No errors
2D Graphics 33 33143 PASS 0 No errors
3D Graphics 114 228890 PASS 0 No errors
Disk (C: ) 1 3.127 Billion PASS 0 No errors
CD/DVD (E 1 763 Million PASS 0 No errors
CD/DVD (F 1 831 Million PASS 0 No errors
Sound 28 48.764 Million PASS 0 No errors
Network 1 59 472320 PASS 0 No errors
TEST RUN PASSED

******************
DETAILED EVENT LOG
******************
LOG NOTE: 2008-06-02 12:00:34, Status, Main Tests started
LOG NOTE: 2008-06-02 12:00:34, 3D Graphics, 3D test starting: Duty cycle = 50. Test on primary monitor (0). (x,y) = (310,0). WxH = 300x200.
LOG NOTE: 2008-06-02 13:00:38, Status, Test run stopped

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i196/Cincrob/Burnintest.png

 

@Russ

hey got a question for ya. we now have the same mobo V2.0
did you say yours came with the F9 bios? and you upgraded to F11?

i havent messed with the bios update with the new board. but i did just check it and i havethe F11 allready in it. i have afeeling gigabyte went ahead and put the F11 bios on it when they tested teh E8400 on the board before they sent it back to me. pretty cool if they did.

i got it running at 3.4ghz mem underclocked a bit 756mhz(378 a side)
running great as of now. ive ran orthos on it for a hour prime 95.havent run OCCT yet. did just do the burnin test on it. all passed.

gonna leave it here for a few weeks than to 3.6ghz to leave it alone for good.

i havent done anything to the mem volts other than the very first thing giveing it the +0.3 putting it at 2.1v(rated @2.2v) and i did take the CPU volts up to 1.150 up from the 1.131 it was at. not surre if i even needed to do that. but it is a small increase so all should be good.
slow and steady.....lol

 

It's because someone was selling a brand new one for 150, and I was wondering if it's a good deal.