I’m in the process of setting up my new computer (with the help of my brother who knows a lot more about them than I do).
The new comp is still modest by pro standards but it came in under buget
and it’s a respectable upgrade from my old one. To keep the cost low I got a bare bones package which included a Raidmax ATX case, 350 W.
power supply, Elitegroup mini mainboard, 256 megs of ram, and an Intel 1.8 GHz Celeron proccessor. I also found an 80 GIG harddrive for $89 after rebate bringing the total cost so far to about $300. The next thing I want to get is a CDRW. Right now I’m using an old cdrom to load software. I already have all the other periferals.
This thing blows my old comp away in every way you can name!
I have Windows XP Professional installed on it. It’s strange. I’m use to '98.
ooOOoo very nice. i need to upgrade <already!> i only have a duron 1.3 ghz processor, but ill need a new mother board. and a vid card. and a monitor. and mouse. ARGUH! ah well, it’ll all come in the end.mplus mine only cost me $500 NZ <about 250 US?>
Yeah, I’ll have SETI running again soon. I have the old comp networked to my new one so I can transfer files I want to keep to the new hard drive. Right now I have two partitions on the new HD, 60 gigs for programs, and 20 for datafiles. The hope is that I won’t need to defrag the whole thing every time I do maintainance. Just the part with the datafiles.
One thing bugs me though.
I can’t figure out where the power indicator LED on the case plugs into the motherboard!
I’ve got that feeling too - one comp’s almost six years old, the other one’s eight year’s old (it was fun getting slackware linux on it - I barely had room to make a one-gig root partition Not only that, it took 14 minutes to download Yafray 'cuz it had to copy the whole file from swap).
Congrats rwv! That sounds like a nice box. Just curious, what graphics card do you have (and is it mobo/AGP/PCI)?
I got it and everthing above at a computer show and sale.
I also got a floppy drive there.
Right now I’m using the onboard graphics chipset. (Savag4 with 32 mb shared memory).
But it can use an AGP or PCI graphics card. I have a PCI GeForce II card but I think I’ll end up getting an AGP card. (What’s a good one?)
Also It can use SD or DDRRAM. Is DDR worth the price or should I wait and just stick my other ram card in it and have 512 mb of SDRAM?
Not only that, it took 14 minutes to download Yafray 'cuz it had to copy the whole file from swap).