Built my first rig in over a year
Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 3:02 am
I've been out of it. The last machine I built was for my brother, a 533@800 C2 on a BX6R2.
Finally my friend wanted to upgrade his machine that I built for him 2-3 years ago, it was a C366 on an Asus P2B, 8GB hd, 16mb TNT, ESS Sound....
So I upgraded his Chip, motherboard, ram, hard drive and Video card, This is what I did with $400.
P4 1.6@2.13 @ 1.65V, retail
Epox 4SDA w/ onboard AC'97
Alpha PAL 8942 w/ quiet Sunon fan.
256mb Micron PC2100
Visiontek Xtasy 5632 (GTS-V, 32mb, oc'd to 200/333)
20GB Maxtor 7200/ata100
Antec 300W P4 approved PSU
Reused his ATX case, 56k modem, 10/100 NIC, 40GB IBM ata100/5400, 40x Acer CDrom (suprised its still alive), 4x4x24 Creative CDRW (I bought off Jayesin way back in the day).
I'm trying to score him an SB Live Value, nice 16x burner/ and DVDrom drive for under $100, but no rush on those. maybe another 256mb PC2100 since prices are dropping.
I'm just happy I got everything is up and running. Dual Booting win98se/win2k.
He's been dying to get games set up (i'm gonna flunk him outta college, hehe) so I put:
MOH:AA
Halflife/CS
Wolfenstein
Q3A
UT
Diablo 2
High Heat Baseball 2K3
NHL 2K2
Jedi Knight 2
I installed my 3dMark2000, default vid card, i got 6564, oc'd to 200/333, i got 7173.
I'm pretty happy with the performance. I'm delivering it tomorrow.
Finally my friend wanted to upgrade his machine that I built for him 2-3 years ago, it was a C366 on an Asus P2B, 8GB hd, 16mb TNT, ESS Sound....
So I upgraded his Chip, motherboard, ram, hard drive and Video card, This is what I did with $400.
P4 1.6@2.13 @ 1.65V, retail
Epox 4SDA w/ onboard AC'97
Alpha PAL 8942 w/ quiet Sunon fan.
256mb Micron PC2100
Visiontek Xtasy 5632 (GTS-V, 32mb, oc'd to 200/333)
20GB Maxtor 7200/ata100
Antec 300W P4 approved PSU
Reused his ATX case, 56k modem, 10/100 NIC, 40GB IBM ata100/5400, 40x Acer CDrom (suprised its still alive), 4x4x24 Creative CDRW (I bought off Jayesin way back in the day).
I'm trying to score him an SB Live Value, nice 16x burner/ and DVDrom drive for under $100, but no rush on those. maybe another 256mb PC2100 since prices are dropping.
I'm just happy I got everything is up and running. Dual Booting win98se/win2k.
He's been dying to get games set up (i'm gonna flunk him outta college, hehe) so I put:
MOH:AA
Halflife/CS
Wolfenstein
Q3A
UT
Diablo 2
High Heat Baseball 2K3
NHL 2K2
Jedi Knight 2
I installed my 3dMark2000, default vid card, i got 6564, oc'd to 200/333, i got 7173.
I'm pretty happy with the performance. I'm delivering it tomorrow.