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OMFG. The details.

Ishcabittle

Ishcabittle

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Asus Probe reports a steady 30 C at idle and 33 at load, load being Halo PC at 1280x1024, 30fps. I didn't see the framerate drop once, not even in heavy combat. It was wierd to see an old favorite at such high res... I guess I can start jumping up and down with glee now.

I'll see how F.E.A.R. and Doom 3 do in a couple days when I have a sec. DVD playback really suprised me, PowerDVD scales the resolutions wonderfully, DVDs look crystal clear with no artifacts onscreen, none whatsoever. I thought that blurring effect in animated stuff what just the nature of DVD, not my slow ass systems.

The Mac and the PC are talking well, for whatever reason XP sees the Mac much easier (once I joined by workgroup). OMG. OMFG. I'm jumping up and down in my mind right now.
 
I'll say... after the money I made selling on eBay I really only spent about $200.00US... super deal on a badass piece of machine.

Here's the Belarc Advisor readout:

Operating System System Model
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600) Asset Tag: 123456789000
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
1.80 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. A8N-E 2.XX
Serial Number: 123456789000
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS A8N-E ACPI BIOS Revision 1010 11/25/2005
Drives Memory Modules c,d
30.71 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
3.35 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

Generic DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive]
MAD DOG MD-52XCDR [CD-ROM drive]
TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-W162C [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

Maxtor 33073H3 M [Hard drive] (30.73 GB) -- drive 0, s/n L3HR1J3C, rev YAH815Y0, SMART Status: Healthy
ST313021A [Hard drive] (13.02 GB) -- drive 1, s/n 6CT0GAPC, rev 3.03, SMART Status: Healthy 1024 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'A0' has 512 MB
Slot 'A1' is Empty
Slot 'A2' has 512 MB
Slot 'A3' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes


c: (NTFS on drive 0) 30.71 GB 3.35 GB free
Network Drives
None detected
Users (mouse over user name for details) Printers
local user accounts last logon
Administrator 26/06/2006 10:01:59 (admin)
local system accounts
Guest never
HelpAssistant never
SUPPORT_388945a0 never

DISABLED Marks a disabled account; LOCKED OUT Marks a locked account

Lexmark Z12 Color Jetprinter on USB001
Microsoft Office Document Image Writer Driver on Microsoft Document Imaging Writer Port:
SnagIt 7 Printer on SNAGIT7
Controllers Display
Standard floppy disk controller
NVIDIA nForce4 Parallel ATA Controller
NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA Controller (2x) NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT [Display adapter]
Default Monitor (3x)
SAMSUNG [Monitor] (14.9"vis, s/n 3CHXB02606, November 2004)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
D346PRT SCSI Controller
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller Harman/Kardon SoundSticks
MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device
Realtek AC'97 Audio
Standard Game Port
Communications Other Devices

NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
primary Auto IP Address: 10.1.1.12 / 24
Gateway: 10.1.1.1
Dhcp Server: 10.1.1.1
Physical Address: 00:15:F2:43:19:49

Networking Dns Server: 10.1.1.1
HID-compliant consumer control device
USB Human Interface Device
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Microsoft USB IntelliMouse Explorer
NVIDIA Network Bus Enumerator
USB Composite Device
USB Root Hub (2x)
 
Very nice, very nice. Given the temps you're running at, you can probably easily overclock the shit out of that processor once it's burned in, even with the stock heatsink and fan. If you want to, that is. I'd imagine it's such an improvement over your previous machine you may not need to.

You'll probably want to update that hard drive eventually with a larger capacity SATA drive or two. That'll also speed things up considerably, although I'm sure you have a massive storage drive or two on your network somewhere.

200 bucks? Not bad at all. AMD makes great kickass processors these days for cheeeap. I've been pretty impressed with them for the last 3 years or so. Much better than Intel overall, I'd say.
 
Yeah, SATA drives are next on the purchase list. I'll probably do two 250GB in a nice RAID0 array, that'll be nice for me boot time.

Overclocking will go down after burn-in, although I bet you're right about not needing to for a while. We shall see.
 
SATA drive dramatically reduced boot times from about a minute twenty to fourty five seconds. Plus there's breathing room at 160GB (vs. 30).

Half-Life 2 @ 1600x1200 with full detail runs at around 40fps. Never in my life have I had such a machine.
 
It's great isn't it?

Something that looks even better, Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivian. Max that shit out and have fun. It looks so good it's disturbing.
 
I know, right? I was going to spend money on an Xbox 360... but it looks as though most of the good games for the 360 will be PC ports (either that or the best 360 games will be out on PC) so fuck that madness. I'm just going to go crazy with what I've got.
 
I might need your advice/counsel. I tried connecting my Mac and my Dell via my cable router using workgroups, but I was ultimately too Pakled to pull it off.
 
Isch: Let's have a full spec of your PC. Mine is in need of overhaul, and I am clueless about the guts, other than taking the odd chunk out and sticking a new one or extra one in.
 
Eggs Mayonnaise said:
.....but I was ultimately too Pakled to pull it off.
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Dude, I'm too pakled to understand ANY of that shit he said above.

I'm not above taking it to Best Buy and saying "It broke, fix it!!"
 
Gagh said:
Isch: Let's have a full spec of your PC. Mine is in need of overhaul, and I am clueless about the guts, other than taking the odd chunk out and sticking a new one or extra one in.
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You got it:

Operating System System Model
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600) Asset Tag: 123456789000
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
1.80 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. A8N-E 2.XX
Serial Number: 123456789000
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS A8N-E ACPI BIOS Revision 1013 04/07/2006
Drives Memory Modules c,d
640.10 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
489.37 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

Generic DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive]
MAD DOG MD-52XCDR [CD-ROM drive]
TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-W162C [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

NVIDIA STRIPE 298.10G [Hard drive] (320.08 GB) -- drive 1
SAMSUNG HD160JJ [Hard drive] (160.04 GB) -- drive 0, s/n S08HJ1UYC19048, rev WU100-33, SMART Status: Healthy
WDC WD16 00BB-00DWA0 USB Device [Hard drive] (160.02 GB) -- drive 2 2048 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'A0' has 512 MB
Slot 'A1' has 512 MB
Slot 'A2' has 512 MB
Slot 'A3' has 512 MB
Local Drive Volumes


c: (NTFS on drive 0) 160.03 GB 150.47 GB free
f: (NTFS on drive 1) 320.08 GB 208.86 GB free
h: (FAT32 on drive 2) 159.99 GB 130.05 GB free
Network Drives
None detected
Users (mouse over user name for details) Printers
local user accounts last logon
Administrator 10/20/2006 2:47:24 AM (admin)
local system accounts
__vmware_user__ 10/20/2006 2:47:21 AM
Guest never
HelpAssistant never
SUPPORT_388945a0 never

DISABLED Marks a disabled account; LOCKED OUT Marks a locked account

Adobe PDF Converter on My Documents\*.pdf
Microsoft Office Document Image Writer Driver on Microsoft Document Imaging Writer Port:
Controllers Display
Standard floppy disk controller
NVIDIA nForce4 Parallel ATA Controller NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT [Display adapter]
SAMSUNG [Monitor] (14.9"vis, s/n 3CHXB02606, November 2004)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
A347SCSI SCSI Controller
D346PRT SCSI Controller
NVIDIA nForce(tm) RAID Class Controller
NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA RAID Controller (2x)
SAMSUNG HD160JJ (2x)
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller Harman/Kardon SoundSticks
NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) MIDI UART
Realtek AC'97 Audio
Standard Game Port
Communications Other Devices

NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
primary Auto IP Address: 192.168.2.5 / 24
Gateway: 192.168.2.1
Dhcp Server: 192.168.2.1
Physical Address: 00:15:F2:43:19:49
VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet1
IP Address: 192.168.222.1 / 24
Physical Address: 00:50:56:C0:00:01
VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet8
IP Address: 192.168.186.1 / 24
Physical Address: 00:50:56:C0:00:08

Networking Dns Server: 192.168.2.1
HID-compliant consumer control device
USB Human Interface Device
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Microsoft USB IntelliMouse Explorer
NVIDIA Network Bus Enumerator
USB Composite Device
USB Mass Storage Device
USB Root Hub (2x)
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So I added two more 160GB drives in a RAID0 to run games off of, I tried raiding the boot volume but I had too many errors... apparently the NVidia raid drivers are kinda crap. That's cool, tho.
 
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