Wizard Posted June 1, 2004 Posted June 1, 2004 50 to 60 MHz higher then it's normal stock is theoritically still good on stock cooling. BTW Celerons aren't overclockable anymore since 1998.
Cominus Posted June 1, 2004 Posted June 1, 2004 Well, it's long-past due, but I'm upgrading my PC. Here's what I'm thinking of buying: Western Digital 80GB 7200rpm ATA100 8MB WD800JB Apacer 512MB 400MHz PC3200 CAS 3.0 DDR DIMM Intel Celeron 2.8GHz (400MHz FSB) Retail Box & Fan ASUS P4R800-VM Sock478 ATI9200IGP Dual DDR400/AUDIO/VGA/LAN Any comments? By the way, here are my current specs: Intel Pentium 3 733MHz256MB SDRAM15GB HDD This upgrade will be an improvement, no?Give me your hdd so I can stick it in my xbox.
ilike2l33ch Posted June 2, 2004 Posted June 2, 2004 if your getting a dvd-r/+r get one from pioneer or LG
Wizard Posted June 2, 2004 Posted June 2, 2004 Actually Lite-On DVD-/+R drives are practically the best you can get. Affordable and it works all the time.
random guy Posted June 2, 2004 Author Posted June 2, 2004 Actually Lite-On DVD-/+R drives are practically the best you can get. Affordable and it works all the time.Hey, I like it, it works fine for me...I was just saying that it's not a Pioneer or a LG but a lite-on.
gino Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 50 to 60 MHz higher then it's normal stock is theoritically still good on stock cooling. BTW Celerons aren't overclockable anymore since 1998.My Celeron 700 mhz is overclocked to 1 ghz using the stock cooling fan and Asus mobo (it was designed to overclock through the bios) and I'm pretty sure its like 2 years old at most. A lot of reviews out there claim that the LG DVD burner is the best so far but its only of what i read... ---- to random guy As for the specs, everything looks good, but I would consider you invest in the SATA HDDs they have out now, faster and the tech is newer and the price is very minimal. soon the ATA are going to be out dated or already are. Sidenote: I bought an 80G WD and it makes this funny *clunk* sound everytime i shut it down completely and it powers back up and I tend to try out a Maxtor for my next HDD. My friends have told me that Maxtor is the top HDD brand out there and since WD was bought out or WD has maxtor parts... something on the lines of that... Gino
Wizard Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 If you want good SATA drives, I suggest Seagate. Their drives are top of the line. @ Gino: Like I said, guine intel products are locked. The only way you can recivied it unlocked is if you get a speificly designed mobo, you flashed the bios or the chip isn't a guine intel. You must have an older 80G WD, I my self have have a 120G WD and have used 80G WD in the past and did not experience any of your problems.
Gryph Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 My friends have told me that Maxtor is the top HDD brand out there and since WD was bought out or WD has maxtor parts... something on the lines of that...Two of my Matrox drives have clunked out before the warranty period ended. And my friend's 120 gb WD broke...twice. So both those companies suck.
alexis Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 if i were you i would buy an athlon barton xp 2500+ or a faster one if oyu can, try to avoid low range micros sonce mhz isn´t all that matters, you have to take into account cache and bus and other stuff it is preferable to buy an athlon or p4 at lower speeds than a celeron or duron, if you choose to do so you would also have to change your motherboard, asus and msi are good ones, there are some motherboards that have and radeon 9100 integrated i dunno if they are good or not, but considering you are buying a mobo you can find out and maybe take advantage of it if you have an old gfx.Anway i guess that all the hardware available nowadays is cool so whatever is your choice you will have more than enough power for most of the tasks
random guy Posted June 4, 2004 Author Posted June 4, 2004 Alright! I bought everything (except the hard-drive) - I ended up buying a motherboard without an on-board video-card and a radeon 9200SE (128 megs) because it worked out to only $35 more and an external card is better than an on-board card apparently because it won't take up any of the mother-board's clock-speed or something. Plus I think the on-board 9200 would have only been 64 megs and this one is 128 so that's a definite bonus! Now I have to wait for my friend who's good at computers to come home, so I can arrange for him to install the stuff for me!
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