PYTHY
01-27-2000, 09:54 AM
I seems like a whole millennium has passed since I built my last PC, a 233 with a Voodoo 2 and a massive 64 megs of ram, it was the dogs bollericks. Alas, I recently realised that getting 20 fps out of UT at 640x480 was a pile of pants, it was time to demote my trusty 233 from games machine to lowly web browser and start digging deep into my piggy bank again.
So here's the situation I've got 2000 squids to spend ( $3,200 ) and I want to build a new PC with a serious attitude problem, I want UT and Quake3 bashing my eye balls on a 21" monitor at 1024x768x32 @ 60+ fps with full on eye candy and enough decibels to wake up the whole neighbourhood.
I’m not afraid to over clock, in fact in true Tim Taylor style I’m thinking about building my own custom case, strapping on a few vacuum cleaner motors on the side and passing 20 meters of conductive hose through a fridge to cool the air down ( only kidding, but then having a fridge next to the PC would save me a frag or two when I needed another cold Stella, hmmmm... )
I have to admit to being a computer programmer so I'll need a biggish , speedy hard drive plus back up storage, I can then pretend to do the occasional bit of work ( and justify spending all this money )
I was thinking about a 550E FC over clocked to 733 on a 133 FSB with an NV10 DDR but I couldn’t decide on which mobo was the best, I also thought about an Athlon and the golden fingers, but then the mobos that will draw the true power out of the Athlon are still vapourware, any way…..
The challenge may you accept it:- spend my 2K and spec me a complete PC system that you think would rock.
So here's the situation I've got 2000 squids to spend ( $3,200 ) and I want to build a new PC with a serious attitude problem, I want UT and Quake3 bashing my eye balls on a 21" monitor at 1024x768x32 @ 60+ fps with full on eye candy and enough decibels to wake up the whole neighbourhood.
I’m not afraid to over clock, in fact in true Tim Taylor style I’m thinking about building my own custom case, strapping on a few vacuum cleaner motors on the side and passing 20 meters of conductive hose through a fridge to cool the air down ( only kidding, but then having a fridge next to the PC would save me a frag or two when I needed another cold Stella, hmmmm... )
I have to admit to being a computer programmer so I'll need a biggish , speedy hard drive plus back up storage, I can then pretend to do the occasional bit of work ( and justify spending all this money )
I was thinking about a 550E FC over clocked to 733 on a 133 FSB with an NV10 DDR but I couldn’t decide on which mobo was the best, I also thought about an Athlon and the golden fingers, but then the mobos that will draw the true power out of the Athlon are still vapourware, any way…..
The challenge may you accept it:- spend my 2K and spec me a complete PC system that you think would rock.