Topic: lil help? (Read 5851 times)

Elvis · « **Reply #20 on:** August 18, 2005, 09:39:36 pm »

Corsair is a good brand of ram. They've got forums on their website with official response and its pretty easy to get an RMA on their lifetime warranty if you have any problems.

Mr_Tricorder · « **Reply #21 on:** August 18, 2005, 10:22:29 pm »

If you don't mind paying a few extra bucks, I recommend getting an actual sound card instead of using the motherboard sound. The sound on my first motherboard (before the capacitors went bad) was OK, but definitely fell short of spectacular. The only complaint I have about my ASUS motherboard is that its on-board sound SUCKS! I have an Altec Lansing 2.1 speaker set and when it was plugged into the motherboard's sound, I only got sound out of the left speaker and NOTHING out of the sub-woofer. I bought a Soundblaster Audigy2 card on ebay for $50 last year, and it works great.

SkyFlyer · « **Reply #22 on:** August 19, 2005, 02:59:53 am »

If you love Corsair so much, then buy a 1gb stick of corsair ram.

mc_cloud · « **Reply #23 on:** August 19, 2005, 06:27:57 am »

hahah ok ok guys, ill get the 1 gig, but only for you guys

and yeah i was thinking about throwing a sound card inthere, i figured though i was just going to see how it sounded, and if i thought i needed one, i would go out to a local shop and grab one.

you guys have been great with the advice guys, I REALLY appreciate it.

Bonk · « **Reply #24 on:** August 19, 2005, 10:58:18 am »

Hey, no prob, we love this stuff!

Quote from: Mr_Tricorder on August 18, 2005, 10:22:29 pm

If you don't mind paying a few extra bucks, I recommend getting an actual sound card instead of using the motherboard sound. The sound on my first motherboard (before the capacitors went bad) was OK, but definitely fell short of spectacular. The only complaint I have about my ASUS motherboard is that its on-board sound SUCKS! I have an Altec Lansing 2.1 speaker set and when it was plugged into the motherboard's sound, I only got sound out of the left speaker and NOTHING out of the sub-woofer. I bought a Soundblaster Audigy2 card on ebay for $50 last year, and it works great.

I'm with Mr_Tricorder. I reccomend a mainboard with as few integrated components as possible. Preferably without sound, without video, without network... a mainboard should be exactly that, just a mainboard. e.g.: Matrox makes video cards, Creativelabs makes sound cards, 3Com makes network cards and they all do their jobs well. One company cannot do it all.

Darth Sidious · « **Reply #25 on:** August 19, 2005, 11:09:01 am »

I agree on the 'get it off the mainboard bit'.

If you're building a budget PC - by all means get an all-onboard Mobo. Fully expect something to go wrong, or not work 100% on it.

Example:

My all-in-one mobo for my 800mhz duron will randomly lose the soundcard - even if it was in use. Bugs the heck outa me.
Updated drivers - the manufacturer didnt have any. Went to the integrated soundboard maker - they advised NOT using their drivers. Used them anyway, helped a bit.

needless to say i'm very tempted to nab an old soundblaster card and throw it in. win2k SP4 should have a default driver for it.

For a real quality PC - go with addon cards, not on the mobo

Elvis · « **Reply #26 on:** August 19, 2005, 08:31:35 pm »

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hahah ok ok guys, ill get the 1 gig, but only for you guys Wink

Not be a pisser but here goes, to take advantage of the dual channel capability of your board you'll need 2 sticks of memory of the same size.

mc_cloud · « **Reply #27 on:** August 20, 2005, 03:40:41 am »

lol thats why i was going to get 2, 512mb sticks

SkyFlyer · « **Reply #28 on:** August 20, 2005, 06:43:31 am »

Then I would get 2 1gb sticks... It doesn't seem prudent to me to have to throw away two 512 sticks when you want to upgrade to 4gb.

mc_cloud · « **Reply #29 on:** August 20, 2005, 07:14:34 pm »

well by the time i actually NEED 4gb ofmemory to play a game or wahtever......i doubt these sticks will be fast enough anyways..

anyways, any of you guys got some good links to some quality psu, that arent too insanly expensive..........around 60us $?

i would love some help on this, cause im still a bit lost............................

antec or wahtever? makingsure of the right voltages on the 12v line.....all that.....sigh

SkyFlyer · « **Reply #30 on:** August 20, 2005, 10:14:29 pm »

well by the time i actually NEED 4gb ofmemory to play a game or wahtever......i doubt these sticks will be fast enough anyways..

Well currently you only "need" 512mb of ram to run most new games.

1 GB helps a lot... and 2 gb even more.

What happens when the requirement is 2gb? Ram hasn't changed much... I run most games on my PC100 and I can't really tell any difference with faster types of RAM.

mc_cloud · « **Reply #31 on:** August 20, 2005, 10:26:21 pm »

yeah you have a point, i dunno, ill figure it out when i go to order the ram, im more worreid about finding a GOOD psu that will power my rig, that isnt crazy expensive?

Tus-XC · « **Reply #32 on:** August 21, 2005, 01:56:04 am »

PSU's, i personally use antec. but i think someone listed the goog brands earlier. I would suggest you go for somthing w/ 500 watts as most systems today are a bit power hungry, especially if you are using a 6600 gt or a 6800 gt .

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103937

SkyFlyer · « **Reply #33 on:** August 21, 2005, 05:09:14 am »

I agree... I run a 350 (although according to most calculators I only need 200)... But I run a P3 chip and most of my stuff gets power from other sources. You want at least a 450-500.

Bonk · « **Reply #34 on:** August 21, 2005, 06:27:49 am »

I reccomend In Win cases. Good quality, good prices.

mc_cloud · « **Reply #35 on:** August 21, 2005, 07:09:31 pm »

Quote from: Tus on August 21, 2005, 01:56:04 am

PSU's, i personally use antec. but i think someone listed the goog brands earlier. I would suggest you go for somthing w/ 500 watts as most systems today are a bit power hungry, especially if you are using a 6600 gt or a 6800 gt .

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103937

everybody keeps telling me i need like +30A on the 12v rail

12V1@17A, +12V2@19A

is what that has?

will i be fine with that....?

Elvis · « **Reply #36 on:** August 23, 2005, 04:22:36 pm »

Better late than never but you will bw finw with that PSU. I run my Athlon 64 3200(socket 754, 1 MB cache), 6800GT, 2 hard drives and a 2 optical drives with a PSU rated at 425 and its 12V rails are less.

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