My Christmas present!
I'm giving myself an early Christmas present. My old Acer is doing some seriously weird stuff lately (had to add in a PCI NIC & a PCI IDE controller for the DVD drive), so I'm building a machine to replace it.
Here it is ... above average performance for less than $800 (at Tiger Direct):
BTW - the 1st HDD will be for Windows 7, and I'll add Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on the 2nd HDD.
Cool man...Have fun. I'm doing a DirectTV upgrade to high def per Santa.
'Bout 800.00 in goodies so far and another 20/month down the road.
Should be lulzy...can't wait to hose the install...
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"In the field of opportunity, it's plowing time again."
N.Young
Just one RAM chip? Do they not do the Dual Channel stuff anymore?
Coolio, Luke. Really waned to replace a toob TV with a flat-screen this year, but can't justify it.
Rotley- have HD. You'll be amazed, somehow. Trust me. The dimes are better spent on the audio part of that experience. Or so I tell myself.
Same question... more performance with 2 or 4 RAM boards/chipsOriginally Posted by W4GPL
Potential add-on, for drive swapping...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817990001
Naw, it's a 2 pack ... 2 @ 2048MB( I wanted a matched set):
The Kingston HyperX 4GB DDR3 1333MHz Memory is a kit of two 256M x 64-bit 2GB (2048MB) DDR3-1333MHz CL7 SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) memory modules, based on sixteen 128M x 8-bit DDR3 FBGA components per module. The Kingston HyperX 4GB DDR3 1333MHz Memory kit supports Intel® XMP (Extreme Memory Profiles). The total Kingston HyperX 4GB DDR3 1333MHz Memory kit capacity is 4GB. Each module pair has been tested to run at DDR3-1333MHz at a low latency timing of 7-7-7-20 at 1.65V. The SPDs are programmed to JEDEC standard latency DDR3-1333MHz timing of 9-9-9 at 1.5V. Each 240-pin DIMM uses gold contact fingers and requires +1.5V
SWEEEEET!
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I picked up a Gateway refurbished "open box" special that came to just under $600 with tax. It's supposed to go in the shack, but I have been having way to much fun with it as a media box. Movies rock on this thing, even when streaming MP3's at the same time. I've added another 2.5 TB of storage. Want another one, I'll wait for a return.
Gateway DX-4320-09
- AMD® Athlon™ II X4 635
- Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
- 4GB DDR3-1333 RAM
- 1TB Hard Drive
- 16x DVD±RW SuperMulti Drive
- Multi-in-One Digital Media Card Reader
- ATI Radeon™ HD 5570
- TV Tuner
- 10/100/1000 Network
MicroCenter is not quite as competitive as Tiger Direct or Amazon, but we have a brick and mortar store here in Denver.
http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0351070
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of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
Very Cool Luke! My son got my wife new furniture for the Family Room and got me a 50" Plasma TV for the living room. It came with surround sound but we put that on the grand kids 65" in the Family room. I wanted to get a new rig but, thanks to a gentleman last month hitting my Ford Focus which was stopped in Traffic on the expressway in the rear at 45 mph I got a new pickup insted. Oh well! Merry Christmas to all!!
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