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viche12345
Joined: 01 Apr 2005
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Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:53 am Post subject: My New Budget AND semi-gaming System |
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I am building a new, budget, gaming computer (the name already sounds like an oxymoron, lol). Unfortunately, I do not have enough money to build a super, smokin' rig.
Rosewill Steel ATX computer case with 400W power supply
ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA LGA775 mobo
Pentium D 915 (will soon OC this to the max!!!!!!!!!!!)
XFX Nvidia 6800GT with Zalman (will also OC!!)
1 GB DDR266 memory (I will upgrade this later)
I'm not going to list everything, since these components predict computer performance pretty well. Tell me what you think.
EDIT: The total price? ....$310 |
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sonicboom2885
Joined: 05 Mar 2007
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Location: Debrecen, Hungary - Hometown Chicago, IL
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:21 am Post subject: |
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| put in another $200 and upgrade it now =) |
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121a
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
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Location: Chicago,IL (KMDW-Midway)
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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well you left out only one last major item, the hard drive. Use sata 3gb/s.
Anyway good computer for now FS9. |
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viche12345
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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sonicboom2885 wrote: put in another $200 and upgrade it now =)
I would, except I'm out of funds. I need work....:D
121a wrote: well you left out only one last major item, the hard drive. Use sata 3gb/s.
Anyway good computer for now FS9.
Yeah, I'm using old parts from my Dell, parallel ATA. I cannot afford to get SATA 3gb/s now. But I'm considering it. |
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viche12345
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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Crap...
My computer won't start up. Once I press the power button, I only see the fans move slightly, then stop. What's going on? |
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121a
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Location: Chicago,IL (KMDW-Midway)
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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| what is your PSU wattage and you should have got an 8600 instead, yes the whole series 8 is now released. |
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groundsquirrel
Joined: 10 Mar 2004
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Location: Navarre,Florida-USA (KVPS,KHRT,KPNS)
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:27 am Post subject: the last time mine... |
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| The last time mine did that just before the most recent build in late '05, it was the motherboard roasted due to inadequate power supply and cooling. |
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viche12345
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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Well, now I can rule out the fact that I have a bad CPU or motherboard. I took the whole motherboard and PSU out of the case and powered on from there. I only connected the power supply, the video card, the RAM, and the case speaker (to listen to any beeps). Everything went well; the boot process halted at a message saying something like "No boot media found. Please insert and press any key."
However, the whole system shut off after I decided for it to run for a while. I repeated the process and the same thing happens. The whole system shuts off after 30 seconds from power on.
Is this a power issue now? |
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heeshung
Joined: 07 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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| I thought it was a power issue fromt the beginning. However, I think 400W can satisfy that system. So, it's not an issue of having not enough power, it's an issue of a potentially faulty PSU. |
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groundsquirrel
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Location: Navarre,Florida-USA (KVPS,KHRT,KPNS)
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 3:13 am Post subject: I didnt |
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| I didnt notice the part where you said you hooked up the hard drive..... |
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viche12345
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 5:04 am Post subject: |
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Well, I was expecting that message, because that syndicates a working CPU and motherboard (all core components are working). Can't this be a heating issue as well? It was so hard to secure all 4 pins into the mobo, that I just gave up and secured 2 of them. I recently realized the heatsink was off-balance. This may have caused overheating.
Giving the heatsink another installation attempt. |
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viche12345
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, it took me a while to realize that it takes a lot of force to push all the pins down. I finally got them all secured in the motherboard. Now all that is left is plug in the computer and run it. Will be back. |
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viche12345
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:07 am Post subject: |
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Installed XP on a sturdy system.
YAHOO
Successful. Time for some overclocking |
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