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 Post Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 5:08 pm 
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2 many to mention ( got 16 puters :) )

games machine @ home p4 2.4 1GB 9800pro
games machine @ work xp1700 512mb 5600XT

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 Post Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 5:36 pm 
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Cpu: p 2600 mhz @ 2611
Ram: 1GB
Hard Drive: 2* 120 gig
MB: dont know it
Video: GF4 xt 5900 fx ( i think 256 mb
Moniter: proview 19 inch
Connection: telenet ( broadband )

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Cpu: AMD XP 1800
Ram: 265
Hard Drive: 1 * 250 gig
MB: dohnt know it
Video: GF2 128Mb ( intregated )
Moniter: 15 inch flat
Connection: telenet ( broadband )

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 Post Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 11:35 pm 
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Location: Alone on the battlefield
CPU: AMD 1700Xp Athlon (poss get upgrade from santa :D )
GFX: GeForce Ti 4400 128Mb
Mobo: Asus A7V333
Ram: 768Mb
HD: 40Gb(2Mb) master + 80Gb(8Mb) slave - (both 7200 rpm)
JS: Saitek Cyborg (second one I've owned, they are 8) )
Monitor: 17" Evesham
Connection: 56k :( (BB soon :wink: )

Advice needed:
I want to swop hard drives round & have 80Gb(8Mb) as master
not quite sure how 2 go about it, any guidance would be greatly appreciated.


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 Post Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 12:13 am 
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Alex Quim wrote:

Advice needed:
I want to swop hard drives round & have 80Gb(8Mb) as master
not quite sure how 2 go about it, any guidance would be greatly appreciated.


Easy enough to do mate, you just copy the data off the 'new' master disc, switch the jumpers around on the drives and format the new master then install windows. You could get away with not formatting the drive, but I wouldn't advise it tbh :?

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 Post subject: mine
 Post Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 12:28 am 
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Location: Team Killer....NOT !
Cpu: AMD2600+ xp
Ram: 2x512 DDR 400 Paired
Hard Drive: 1 x 80gb MAXTOR(games) 1 x 40gbBARRUCUDA (windows )
CD/DVD: usual cd writer/dvd player etc.
Case: old bucket from old comp
MB: its quite new and cost £ 85.00 !!!
Video: Radeon 9800Pro 128MB , tweaked to xp speed ( not 256 !! )
Sound: Audigy 1 soundcard
Speakers: Creative 5.1 system
Monitor: 19 " CRT , cheap but quite good
Cooling: whats that ?
Connection: 512 ADSL BT
Antivirus: hmmm, whats that
3DMARK TEST 4533

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Location: East Anglia - land of no DSL!!
XP 2600
512 samsung DDR 400 (2 x256 dual channel mode)
Asus A7N8X delux n-force 2 chipset
GF4 4800 ti
40gig 'C drive' Seagate 7200 with 8mb cache
60 Storage, Maxtor diamond with above speed
52 x liteon CDRW
8 x NEC DVDRW
XP pro, norton anti virus 2003
AND THE BEST BIT: Intel V92 56k dial up modem!!!

3d 2001 se : 12022
3d 2003: DONT HAVE - if anyone has one...........

Looking to uprade to XP 3200, 1 gb Corsair (or similar 3500) and ATI

9800 pro.

ADSL don't come until January :cry: , Thats about the best upgrade i
want at the mo, as it does not matter (within reason) what i have on me machine

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 Post Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 9:55 am 
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amd xp 2400+
mb: a7n8x-x
1Go RAM ( 2x512 samsung pc 3200)
60 Go + 120 Go
ATI 9600 256Mo
cd burner
dvd burner
modem 1024 now wooohooo :lol:

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 Post Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 12:19 am 
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Athlon 64 3400 @ 2.7
Antec Truepower 550w
MSi k8N Neo platinum
1.5gig DDR 400 ram
western digital 60 gig
Creative soundblaster audigy 2 zs 7.1
Creative Inspire 6700 6.1 speakers
BFG 6800 Ultra OC edition
17" Sharp LCD, 18ms response
512k dsl over wireless router

3Dmark03: 12,900@ gpu stock speed(425/1110)
13,885 @ 471/1200


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 Post Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 12:30 pm 
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Meloe wrote:
wanna upgrade hard drive and power supply, wot are the diff types of HD and are they all compatible, also can anyone recommend a stable and quiet PSU, need about 450w, my gc uses loads of power, n1 meloe


Started a new post for you here mate :wink:

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 Post Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 7:12 pm 
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Location: over here somewhere..
AMD Athlon XP2600+ Thoroughbred

768mb DDR 333

2x80GB Western Dig's (main drive 8mb cache) (2x160 ready to install when i can be bothered :D )

Sony 52x CDRW, Sony DVD/CDRW COMBI
(pioneer dvd sat here waiting to go in)

Visuals generated by 128mb Radeon 9800 Pro running a 17" Iiyama 435S TFT Monitor (10ms update)

Sound generated by Nvidia Nforce2 Soundstorm coupled to Logitech 4.1 and Altec Lansing Headphones

INPUT DEVICES Microsoft Force Feedback 2 Joystick/ Logitech MX900 Bluetooth Mouse/ Microsoft Optical Intellimouse Explorer (when batteries is recharging) Microsoft Media Pro keyboard

best input device - 2 x Omnitronic Direct Drive Turntables / Numark DM1002X into line in for mixing online...

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 Post Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 6:29 am 
main:

mobo - asus p4p800se
cpu - p4 2400 prescott
mem - single 512 chip, pc3200
video - fx5200 (128 agp)
sound - sound blaster audigy
psu - 480w
cooling - 2 case fans, jet4 on the cpu
drives - 80g hd, cd burner

backup:

mobo - fic am35
cpu - athlonxp 1600
mem - 1g (512x2) pc2100
video - mx440 (64, pci)
sound - via (on-board)
psu - 300w
cooling - basic heatsink/fan on cpu, no case fans
drives - 40g hd, cd burner

far from superior but they get the job done !


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 Post Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 12:07 pm 
As requested i will only post my Game PC.

Cpu: Amd64-3500 socket 939
Ram: 2x512 DDR 400 Dual Channel Cl2.0
Hard Drive: maxtor 40 GB SATA raid-0
CD/DVD: Asus DVD-rom
MB: MSI K8T NEO2-FIR, K8T800PRO
Video: Sapphire Radeon 9600Pro 128MB Overclocked
Sound: 5.1 Soundblaster OEM
Screen: 17" Philips need a new one
Connection: 8192 ADSL shared with 8 Neighbours but only 512Kbit p/user
Antivirus: TrendMicro Officescan NT client. (server is also present)
OS: XP SP1

Upcomming upgrades: Liquid cooling

it was all bought in seperate parts and different years so i realy dont know what this thing kosts


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 Post Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:49 pm 
mine looks like this:


Screen: Hercules Prophetview 720 LCD

-> CPU : Athlon Xp 2600+ @ 2900+
-> Ram: 512 DDR (400mhz)
-> Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-7VAXp ( 8xAGP - Raid... )
-> Video: Gforce 4 Ti 4200 (128 mb)
-> Hard disk: Maxtor 80 Gb ( 8mb cache - 7200 rpm )
-> Hard disk: Maxtor 120 Gb ( 8mb cache - 7200 rmp )
-> Mouse: Logitech optical mouse
-> Connection: Cable (6mbit)
-> Sound: Creative Audigy LS 5.1 card (22bit)
-> Sound: AC97 onboard 5.1 card
-> Sound: Hercules 5.1 Classic
-> Sound: Trust Headset with vibration


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 Post Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 4:01 pm 
CPU-AMD-XP2400+ (2ghz)

RAM-512 PC 133 spectec ram (2 poor to afford DDR but i have a chip but without a 2nd on the comp goes wonky)

Video- ATI Radeon 8500 64 meg

Motherboard-ECS K7S5A Pro

Sound-Yamaha DS1 3D sound

Lan-Onboard 10/100 SIS 900 (im on cable)

CDROM-Liteon LTN4835 48x max

CDRW- Atapi 32/10 (Norcent)

Floppy Drive-Fujitsu 3 1/2

Hardrive-WDC -WD800JB-80gig

Keyboard-Logitech INternet Keyboard

Mouse - USB Logitech Optical wheel mouse

Monitor-Acer 15" AcerVeiw54e (goodfind works great found it on the side of the road in a rain storm brought it home set it up after a week and poof it has been working ever since this was a year ago)

Modem-Lucent Winmodem

USB- 2 front 4 rear

Speakers- Cyber Acoustics with mid woofer

Not the full top of the line system but its mine and i have scrapped and saved every bit of change to build it .compared to the one i used to have


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 Post Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:50 am 
Cpu: fx 53
MB: ASUS SK8V
Mem: 1 x PC 3200 1 Gig Registered
GPU: ATI X800 XT 256
Sound: Audigy 2 ZS Platinum, Creative Inspire Digital 5500
HD: 400 gig (2 x Maxtor SATA 200 gig RAID 0)
VDU: Samsung Syncmaster 323t 32" LCD
Net: BT ADSL 512 through Linksys ADSL Gateway
MSI - CD Drive, CD Writer, DVD ROM, DVD Writer
Cooler master Aerogate 2
DiNivo Desktop

3D Mark 03 - 12,984.


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