Built my own system!

[Steve Machol]

I just finished building my own PC for the first time. Here's the basic system:

Motherboard: Asus P4C800 Deluxe
CPU: P4 2.8Ghz w/Hyper-threading and 800Mhz system bus
Ram: 2Gb
Drives: 2 Western Digital 160Gb SATA
Graphics: ATI Radeon 9600 XT
DVD: Pioneer 8x8 DVD +-R/RW with 24x CD-R and CD-RW
DVD: Memorex 16x DVD and 48x CD readers
OS: Windows XP Professional

I'm actually quite amazed that everything seems to be working right the first time. I usually have to redo at least a few things.

Here's the pic:

[Steve Machol]

There is one little thing that bothers me though. The boot screen would seem to indicate I didn't install the correct version of Windows XP.

[Joann Raytar]

What, no cup holder? :p

[edKENdance]

Update to SP1?

[Steve Machol]

Update to SP1?

Actually next time I probably shouldn't purchase the Operating Sytem at a Swap Meet. ;)

[optispares]

There is one little thing that bothers me though. The boot screen would seem to indicate I didn't install the correct version of Windows XP.

mine is different too. oops wrong image added logon instead of boot screen

[Sean]

Here's my current one. Btw love the new sig Jack.:cheers:

[Sean]

MOTHERBOARD:Super Micro ATX MBD DP3 S370 VID U160 SWORKS HESL DUAL ETH.
CPU's Dual Pentium 4 560 Processors w/HT (3.60Ghz,1MB L2 Cache,800 MHz FSB)
RAM 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM
HARD DRIVE 500GB SATA RAID 0
GRAPHICS ATI 9600 XT
DVD (2) Sony DVD/CD +R -R +RW -RW
USB 3 Front 4 Back
i LINK S400 1 Front
CF CARD READER 1 Front
SM CARD READER 1 Front
MEM STICK 1 Front

[Steve Machol]

Geez - what the heck you gonna do with that thing? Send someone to the Moon?

[mrba]

What OS do you run?

[Sean]

Geez - what the heck you gonna do with that thing? Send someone to the Moon?

I've always wanted to do something along the line of dual cpu's. For the most part there is no noticable speed increase per say when doing regular tasks. But it does become apparent when running multiple apps such as while burning CDs or doing a disk operation, the small freezes and glitches that can happen while running multiple apps are gone, overall better resource handling and no discernable slowdowns when many background services and programs are running, or burn a DVD while rendering an audio file and surfing the net without fear of having a meltdown.

[Sean]

What OS do you run?

For now.........NT. Or maybe i should say for good.......as my Xp pro license still resides on the other system and i plan on keeping that. This is something of a debate for me ......XP Pro does support dual P4 HT thats why i went with them and i've become acustom to the interface of XP to that of NT. I have given thought of dual booting but the problems and chance of system instability tend to make me shy away from that. I really want to stay with just one O.S. Any help/comments or thoughts between the the two would be appreciated.

[hcjilson]

Why not try Panther OSX.3 ? heh,heh heh!

[Sean]

Why not try Panther OSX.3 ? heh,heh heh!

You may have a point there.:hammer: Is it true........correct me if im wrong, has Apple turned to the "all dual" strategy for all of the Mac G4 and 5 line ?

[hcjilson]

Allright, you got me..........whats an all dual system??

[Sean]

Allright, you got me..........whats an all dual system??

Two cpu's instead of one...................;)

[hcjilson]

We apple folks don't have too much trouble with one.....why would we need 2? :):)

[Sean]

We apple folks don't have too much trouble with one.....why would we need 2? :):)

I thought that Apple was going with a dual strategy on all of their new power notebooks/desktops. Since i dont keep up much on their doings i just wanted to know if what i heard had become reality.:)

[Sean]

Steve,
I dont know if you received this info yet but thought i would pass it along.

ATI has realeased a new XP driver for the Radeon family ...........here is the place to go.......;)

ATI DRIVER

[Steve Machol]

Thanks Sean!