Thanks mate. I love the crappy old HD that you click on for downloads :nod: Very nice but you'd better watch out for screen burn-in if it's a plasma. I remember readfing that they get burnt very easily. Yakumo
After the burn in period (warm up that is), Plasmas really arent that susceptible to burn-in, not nearly as bad as it was anyway. Thats a trait that has lived on in peoples minds even though its not nearly as true as it was 5 years ago.
Here's my setup after some cleaning up (yes i know there are smudges on the screen i need to get some display cleaner for the crystalbright coating)
A damp lint free cloth will work wonders you know :nod: that's what I useto clean my CRT and TFT. Not smudges or streaks left like you sometimes get with cleaning fluid. Yakumo
Yes indeed :thumbsup: I love logitech stuff, i have The G15 keyboard, G1 mouse and Z10 speaker setup.
I have a MX1000 mouse - is best mouse I've ever had. Also got an extreme 3D pro - which is also excellent. Got the those and the G15 for £40 too, good value.
Glossy screen? my laptop has the same, and heres my advice: dont use those products, just get a really soft tissue and soak it in water, then clean the screen and use another tissue (this time dry) to remove any water thats left. It works perfectly for me, not even one scratch:nod:
Hate to bump, but The Optiplex got upgraded massively, only to suffer HDD failure. I ended up using this for a while because of that. I managed to overclock it to 400MHZ and threw in 256MBs of RAM bringing the total to 384MBs. Which meant it was still as slow as fuck, but... Things soon changed. :nod: Delicious quad core processor! As I can't leave things alone, a new 600W PSU went in along with an 8800GT. :icon_bigg
I just built a new one a few days ago! It's glowy green. Core 2 Duo e8400 45nm 3.0ghz 4GB DDR2 9800 GTX KO soon And 64 bit Vista. Sweetness! Now if only some good computer games were coming out. I just keep telling myself Duke Nukem will be here someday.
Love it! BTW, the E8400 is easily OC'd to 4Ghz (and up) stable on air, so if your comfortable with doing that kind of thing, I suggest you go for it.
Maybe I should try it. I haven't messed with OCing much before, but I've never had OCable CPU's. So far it's been plenty fast at stock speed. Right now I'm still using my 7900GS and I can run everything but Crysis at full settings. It really is an awesome CPU. Full Specs DFI Lanparty DK P35 500w Antec Something Power Soundblaster X-Fi XtremeMusic WD Caviar 250GB SATA and 36GB Raptor SATA LiteOn Cheap Ass DVDRW Card Reader/Floppy
OCing the E8400 is well worth the effort, though you may want to get a fan other than your original stock unit. An OC'd E8400 can outperform a Q6600 in almost every way, which is pretty awesome if you ask me. I'm actually in the process of building a new rig for myself and I'm going to be using the E8400 as well. After doing quite a bit of research, it seems that the 4GHz mark is quite stable and easy to reach for this chip, which is amazing. Just make sure your MOBO has the FSB to handle it. Here, this site will give you some pretty good info on OCing your chip: http://techgage.com/article/intel_core_2_duo_e8400_30ghz_-_wolfdale_arrives/11 That page is dedicated to OCing only, though you make want to read the entire review for kicks. This is the fan heatsink combo I recently bought (just got it in yesterday actually): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835101017 There are probably better fans out there, but this one was relatively cheap and got fairly good reviews. You might not want to get this exact one, as the blue LED in the fan would probably clash with the green LED in your case, but something on that level would be suitable for OCing your chip without having to worry about it melting. One thing I forgot to mention, most fan heatsinks on that level are huge, so make sure you have enough room before you go buying one.
Have heard the E8400 is great at OC'ing and is good cpu, just wish i could get one or a q6600 but i'm what you call a Cheap A$$ Gamer so they are outta the question. Am currently upgrading my set-up at the moment bit by bit every now and then when i got spare cash. so far got a new Gigabyte mobo and AC7 Pro Fan for my CPU, since i'm on a limited budget some of these will be to give me a decent system for a little while and some of the parts like the PSU, Case, Mem and HDD will be for the longer term 1. a E2180, you can get it upto 3.6Ghz even an 3.8Ghz Overclock ( http://www.overclock.net/intel-cpus/235716-e2180-thread-budget-build.html ). 2. Looking at a 2600xt for the Graphics cards maybe even a 3850 if i can afford to go upto the price of those 3. a 600watt or higher psu. 4.Maybe another 1gb stick of ram to take the total to 2ghz (already have a 1ghz stick) 5. A new case and a 200gb or bigger Sata HDD
That looks like a good PSU although i'm from the UK so don't think i could get that one here but can get a good 600watt one cheap enough, that would be the minimum size watt psu i'd want to get. I've already got a 450 maybe even 500watt psu at the moment but its slightly old now so as soon as i get my E2180 i'll upgrade the psu at the same time.
Yeah, I read a lot of stuff saying the OCing rocks. I think that even at stock it outperforms Q6600. It's one badass CPU. The stock fan was a pain in the ass to get on! I'm use to the AMD things with the clips, this had the push pin things. Took me forever. The stock fan isn't that terrible, I was pretty surprised. It's quiet and my temperature goes from 35C to 42C. My old Athlon 64 was 39C to 52C. I'll have to mess with OCing it or something sometime. Too busy playing with it now, I just want it to be next week so I can get the 9800GTX! The prices rock so hard on those because of the + model. My plan is to get the 9800GTX KO by eVGA, which is clocked the same as the +, then use there step up program to get the + for like 30 bucks. Or just keep the KO. I dunno. I guess Nvidia gets AEGIA hardware physics in the next driver update too, that'll be pretty awesome for UT3. That is an awesome looking cooler! I don't know about my motherboard though. It was tough getting the stock one on because there's heatsinks allover the sides of the CPU socket, and capacitors. It's weird.
