Woot! New Work PC

[GT98]

I'm currently working on a White box P3-700mhz with 256mb ram running Windows 2000. Heres the replacement I spec'ed out and suprizingly was approved for! I don't care for Dell PC's that much but I'm not paying for it so...


Dimension 8400 Series
Intel Pentium 4 Processor 540 (3.2GHz) w/HT Technology and 1MB cache (221-5705)
1GB DDR2 SDRAM at 400MHz
17 in (17 in viewable) E173FPB
256MB PCI Express x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeon X800 XT
80GB Serial ATA Hard Drive
Microsoft Windows XP Professional,Service Pack 2, English
Intel Pro 1000 Integrated PCI NIC Card
16X DVD-ROM and 16X DVD+/-RW

Hmm might need to sneak in some games to play during down time

[Wombat]

How did you get an x800 and not an x300?

[GT98]

Originally posted by Wombat
How did you get an x800 and not an x300?

I asked for it

[Dr Mordrid]

Now....gsneak some cheaper parts into it and do a transplant into your home system

Dr. Mordrid

[High_Jumbllama]

Why not go for the 533 mhz RAM? There's barely a price difference.

[Fat Tone]

Originally posted by Dr Mordrid
Now....gsneak some cheaper parts into it and do a transplant into your home system

Dr. Mordrid

As if any murcer would ever, ever do that

[GT98]

Originally posted by High_Jumbllama
Why not go for the 533 mhz RAM? There's barely a price difference.

Didnt even notice...and I doubt I'll see a huge impact with it when I'm running Firefox or outlook on it 99% of the time

[GT98]

Originally posted by Dr Mordrid
Now....gsneak some cheaper parts into it and do a transplant into your home system

Dr. Mordrid

Good idea but I'll wait till the summer when I'll get an Althon 64 System

[Kooldino]

Two things that bug me here....

-17 in (17 in viewable) E173FPB

17"? I'd take no less than 19".

-80GB Serial ATA Hard Drive
Only 80G? That's a bit small...

[Fluff]

Have a 19" monitor and there will be office politics.

Nice system though. Does it make much of a racket.

[Wombat]

I'm using about 25GB of my 60GB work drive, and I'm on a 17" CRT. He's doing fine.

[GT98]

Originally posted by Kooldino
Two things that bug me here....

-17 in (17 in viewable) E173FPB

17"? I'd take no less than 19".

-80GB Serial ATA Hard Drive
Only 80G? That's a bit small...

I have a 21inch monitor on my desk right now...overkill

I have a 8GB hard drive with 5-6GB on it that I've acculuated over 3 1/2 yr period

The 80 will be fine.

[Fluff]

GT98 if you are on your break try running this demo...

http://www.ati.com/gitg/promotions/crytek/index.html

it is for x800xt and it looks very cool.

Your sig will need and update soon.

[Mcollector]

80G should be way more than adequate, unless you are doing a huge amount of video/audio editing.

533 DIMMs over 400's, 800's if possible (or am I getting this confused and there is no 800 DDR2 yet?).

19" CRT monitor minimum. 17" LCD might be OK, but 19" better if both LCDs have the same native resolution. Just pick one with a model number that doesn't give the size away, say nothing, or tell nosey office-politiking pond scum that it is just newer technology, so just looks bigger.

[Mehen]

Is that, or can you get, a dual layer burner?