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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:20 am
by GORDON
Ha, funny. From email:
We thought you'd like to know that your recent purchase contains one or more items currently nominated for Newegg's Customer Choice Awards:
Newegg Sales Order Number: 8332471
Sales Order Date: 6/25/2008 11:33:56 AM
Nominated Item(s) Purchased:
MB EVGA 123-YW-E175-A1 775 750I SLI
CPU INTEL|C2Q Q6600 2.40G 775 8M R
MEM 2Gx2|CORS TWIN2X4096-8500C5DF R
HD 160G|WD 7K 8M SATA2 WD1600AAJS %
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:24 pm
by Malcolm
Maybe you got the batch one of the workers pissed on.
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:59 pm
by GORDON
One small thing I love....
Winamp in high-definition visualization mode... my god. It's art. It's like photorealistic surrealism (photosurrealism? Coined it) pulsing in time to the music. Even my 2-year-old loves watching it. He points out the patterns he sees in the chaos.
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:04 am
by GORDON
Last night I played TF2 on one monitor while I played a DivX rip of Unbreakable on the second monitor. Everything smooth as silk.
In case you wonder about the kinds of things I can do with this system.
Tonight I'm going to try the same experiment with an actual DVD playing in the drive. I hope my Orange Box DVD doesn't need to be in the drive while I play... actually, I think my SupCom DVD is in there right now, so no. It doesn't.
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:24 am
by Leisher
I'm moving my office to another part of the house soon and I'm going to start using the dual monitor setup.
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:51 am
by TheCatt
I ran an Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL, while developing in php, and running 2 simultaneous VMs and streaming media to my XBox 360.
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:55 am
by Troy
Going to be building a new one within the next month.
Newegg combos are pretty good, I've found. I've spent a few lunch hours building a system.
My last computer I built(4 years ago) is still running, and based on how well it runs the REAL(not demo) version of Supreme Commander I'll make the call this week to build it or push back a few months.
I just bought a new hard drive for the old one, and a new keyboard, and the monitor is still good. I was running the numbers, some of the combos with the top end AMD processors/video cards/ram and case all together would run me about 700, and it would be a SCREAMING gaming computer.
Heres a question... say a friend of mine got a new work computer from Dell, that included a copy of Vista loaded on to it, it came with the CD. Only this friend's work doesn't use Vista, they have a business copy of XP or something. Can this friend use the Vista CD that was assigned to the Dell?
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:01 pm
by GORDON
PROBABLY not. Dell gave him an OEM version for that system (probably), and that an OEM key is not transferable.
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:03 pm
by GORDON
And the parts in the above list still make a low-high end system, and probably for about $1k. Just need to figure in the cost of a really good video card.
Also, Intel pulled ahead of AMD in the price/performance charts, so don't feel like AMD is the way you should absolutely go.
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:03 pm
by Leisher
What Gordo said.
OEM versions stay with the hardware they were assigned to and cannot be transferred.
Is anyone amazed that more people don't complain about that?
And Gordo is right about the Intel/AMD war. Intel took the lead in performance a year or so back and is now comparable in price. On the AMD side, they are pretty close and no longer have those heating issues.
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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:14 pm
by Troy
Eeeks, back when I built my system four years ago, I thought I was being all smart for going the AMD route.
Guess I need to research all over again.
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:48 pm
by TheCatt
Troy wrote:Heres a question... say a friend of mine got a new work computer from Dell, that included a copy of Vista loaded on to it, it came with the CD. Only this friend's work doesn't use Vista, they have a business copy of XP or something. Can this friend use the Vista CD that was assigned to the Dell?
Legally, no, OEM stays with hardware. But physically, it should work on another Dell machine. It may work on non-Dells, but I think they're better at tying OEM software to hardware than they used to be.
Intel owns the performance space above $100.
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 1:56 pm
by GORDON
Troy wrote:Eeeks, back when I built my system four years ago, I thought I was being all smart for going the AMD route.
Guess I need to research all over again.
Four years ago, AMD was the correct choice. Intel caught up with the Core 2 Duo, and Quad.
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 3:06 pm
by TPRJones
...physically, it should work on another Dell machine...
Depends on the details, really. I've seen some OEM disks keyed to a specific set of hardware. Makes it useless if you try to do any piecemeal upgrades, of course, but then companies like Dell would prefer you didn't do that anyway.
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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:57 am
by GORDON
GORDON wrote:Tonight I'm going to try the same experiment with an actual DVD playing in the drive. I hope my Orange Box DVD doesn't need to be in the drive while I play... actually, I think my SupCom DVD is in there right now, so no. It doesn't.
Runs great. I'd forgotten the simple joy of watching a movie like Pitch Black while playing Team Fortress. After the move my DVD player and tv got reassigned to the guest bedroom (what Will calls "Vince's room").
Looking at newegg, the Q6600 Core 2 Quad is still a decent price point, for those of you building.... but it has been that way for several months now, so something faster should be coming along eventually.
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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:35 am
by Leisher
The Q6600 has been the best deal in terms of "bang for your buck" for quite some time.
I had a 1GB Corsair Dominator module go bad last night.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:35 am
by Troy
64bit vista or regular?
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:28 am
by TheCatt
i7 chips are just now coming out, so I'd wait to see what the price/performance on those is. They are supposed to rock Core 2 Duo's world.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:58 am
by GORDON
Troy wrote:64bit vista or regular?
Right this second I am running 32 bit. I am tempted to try 64 bit next time I need to reload.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:16 pm
by Troy
TRICOD 9003 Black / Silver SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 500W Power Supply
EVGA 512-P3-N871-RX GeForce 9800 GTX(G92) 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
BIOSTAR TForce TP45HP LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard
OCZ Fatal1ty Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ2F10664GK
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit English 1pk DSP OEI DVD for System Builders
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Yorkfield 2.5GHz LGA 775
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Yorkfield 2.5GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80580Q9300 - Retail
Thoughts?
About 800... I figure I can wait for some of them to go on sale, like the similar amd mb/cpu.