GRcade

If our Mac brothers can have a thread then so can we

This thread is for all things PC whether it be news on the new windows operating system, technical help or just comparing your setups.

I just got a new PC built from scratch thanks to Drizzt. My old computer was a 5 year old, 200MHz AMD, Time machine with 512 Ram, so I felt it was time for a slight upgrade.

My new machine is a modest beast which does everything I need (web, music, photoshop) built for about £150. The specs are below with a specially added easter egg drizzt put in for me which I thought was cool



I've got another 2 gig of DDR2 memory coming this week and a second Seagate 250 gig hard drive to follow which will give me 500 GB of storage overall.

So what's everyone else running?

Assuming you have a decent video card you could play most games on that, for £150. If not, £50 and you're running Crysis on mid. Insane.

is it better, to buy a dell,etc.... pc, thats already made up? like a model?

or doesnt it matter if we go to a place and say put that and this in?

1cmanny1 wrote:is it better, to buy a dell,etc.... pc, thats already made up? like a model?

or doesnt it matter if we go to a place and say put that and this in?

wat. On Dell's site you can specify what you want in your PC.

A store bought PC has the advantage of being easier and having the whole PC guaranteed as a whole rather than the components.

A home built PC has the advantage of getting a lot more for your money. The downside is you have to deal with it if anything is wrong.

I'll post my rig tonight.

Windows 7 RC1 due May

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/26 ... idate_may/

I downloaded it last night

Brerlappins little hat wrote:

Steve wrote:Windows 7 RC1 due May

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/26 ... idate_may/

Downloaded it last week

RC1?

I already had a rapidshit account

Although one thing that grinds my gears is multi part rars within multi part rars Less so now I have a massive hard disk and a fast PC, but it still wastes seconds.

Is there much of a noticeable difference between RC1 and say Beta Version 7000? Just wondering if it was worth the effort to track down and update. Still valid to March 2010 then I take it?

Yeh PC thread , Just built a new PC on a very tight budget with some old bits as well so its not great but it will do;
AMD Athlon X2 7750 2.7GHZ Black Edition (going well cheap at work)
ASUS M3N78 PRO GeForce 8300 Socket AM2+
4GB Corsair DDR 2 800 Ram
Antec 300 Case
Coolmaster 550/600w (cant remember) Modular PSU
Geforce 8800GT
74GB Raptor HDD
320GB WD Caviar SATA II
Samsung DVD-RW DL
Plays everything I need it too, im currently running a small computer repair/manufacturing shop which has been thrown at me in work as the other guy is unreliable fun fun.

What are the raptor HDD's like?

bigcheez2k3 wrote:What are the raptor HDD's like?

Fast, very fast but well strawberry floating noisey, I may have to take it out eventually as my PC is in the living room and it drives the misses nuts when im on it.
Question for you guys, as I am doing the new price list for the computer shop what specs would be looking for a basic Home PC (No Graphics Card etc)/ Office Machine?

I'd say something with onboard graphics, a 2Ghz Dual Core, 500GB HDD, LiteScribe DVD Burner, 2GB RAM.

I'd say that's more than enough for most people.

I think I forgot something though.

akijones wrote:

bigcheez2k3 wrote:What are the raptor HDD's like?

Fast, very fast but well strawberry floating noisey, I may have to take it out eventually as my PC is in the living room and it drives the misses nuts when im on it.
Question for you guys, as I am doing the new price list for the computer shop what specs would be looking for a basic Home PC (No Graphics Card etc)/ Office Machine?

Can you hear the fans in your PC?

Mine is pretty noisy already so I don't know if a Raptor would really add to it.

Iv got a 140mm Fan and a 120mm Fan and I cant really hear them as they are quiet ones anyway, the noise doesnt bother me really as long as you have music or a game running then its fine, might be annoying if your doing coursework or something in silence.
Im not sure if the new Velociraptor HDDs will be quieter as I havent had any in work yet but they are way overpriced.
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smurphy wrote:Assuming you have a decent video card you could play most games on that, for £150. If not, £50 and you're running Crysis on mid. Insane.

I have a NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT (256 MB) which is actually the first graphics card I've ever owned (old system had virtual graphics ). Tried out the Bioshock demo and it ran pretty smoothly though I'm not sure if it's capable of Crysis. Now that I can run things, I might start getting a few more PC games.

Brerlappins little hat wrote:I havent noticed much of a difference to be honest, but its worth upgrading to for the fact that it doesnt expire til next march, whereas 7000 expires in september

wow sounds great had no idea that it expired next year. im guessing thats about the time the full version will be released

http://technet.microsoft.com/nb-no/eval ... 3205(en-us).aspx



Original windows 7 cd keys still available there so you don't have to use a crack or anything till later.

Also big difference between Windows 7 32bit 7000 versus Windows 7 64bit 7057 in terms of both performance and stability. That's from my personal experience.


Edit: Don't click the link, copy and paste it in your browser, the whole thing.

I'm sort of hoping it gets a release sooner rather than later since I'm intending to buy a new PC soonish and would rather it came with 7.

Extralife wrote:I'm sort of hoping it gets a release sooner rather than later since I'm intending to buy a new PC soonish and would rather it came with 7.

Same here. My folks have Vista on their PC and it is utter cack, to put it blunt.