People: What's on your "Computer Upgrades Parts Wish-Li

#1 Admiral LSD

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Posted 27 August 2002 - 11:20 PM

Pretty much a whole new PC here.

In the following order:

[list][*] 17" ADI F720 monitor
[*] Cheap 300W ATX midtower case
[*] 80Gb HDD (hopefully by the time I'm ready to buy the 8Mb cache WDs would have come down in price. I wouldn't mind one of the 120Gb versions...)
[*] CD burner
[*] DVD-ROM
[*] EpoX 8K5A2+ motherboard (has onboard LAN and USB2.0 and is only 20 bucks dearer than the 8K3A+)
[*] 512Mb PC2700 DDR-SDRAM
[*] AMD Athlon XP 2200+
[*] Cooling fan for the above (not quite sure about this yet, I'm considering the Thermaltake Volcano 7+ but nothings concrete yet.)
[*] Video card, possibly a GeForce4 Ti4200[/list:u]

#2 Jerry Atrik

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Posted 28 August 2002 - 12:16 AM

i would like a kicktail dvd-ram and a top line video capture

#3 CrazyKillerMan

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Posted 28 August 2002 - 01:00 AM

New HUGE HDD!!!

Also, DVD burner for storage (farscape epz and what not)

#4 Brian Frank

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Posted 28 August 2002 - 04:43 AM

2 words: Dual Xeon

#5 CrazyKillerMan

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Posted 28 August 2002 - 04:46 AM

Quote:

2 words: Dual Xeon

I'm down

#6 clutch

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Posted 28 August 2002 - 06:28 AM

I want my work PC at home:

Dual 2.2GHz Xeons
1GB RDRAM
Plextor 40x24x40 burner
16x DVD-ROM
Dual 36GB U320 15K RPM SCSI drives in RAID0
1 120GB WD Ultra-ATA 100 HD w/ 8MB Buffer

Oh, and dual flatscreen monitors and a good video capture solution for it would be nice too.

#7 jwl812

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Posted 28 August 2002 - 07:03 AM

Radeon 9700!!!

#8 sapiens74

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Posted 28 August 2002 - 08:31 AM

I just want my computer. It's still on a boat somehwere.

After that tho , I want a cable modem, which I just ordered and Maybe a 3.0 GHZ CPU.

And 1 GB PC1066 RDRAM.

And someway to hook that up to my new HDTV

#9 Jerry Atrik

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Posted 28 August 2002 - 04:59 PM

i got a dual 2.2 xeon thingy just recently. it rocks
tried to multi task it to death but it's hard to keep up with.

i wanna try some vid capture on it.... and some dvd encoding

#10 Four and Twenty

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Posted 28 August 2002 - 07:38 PM

more hard drives and a dualhead gForce 4 to power my 2 21 inch monitors. I would love to have a solid state ram card like that tho that is so fukin badass

#11 sapiens74

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Posted 29 August 2002 - 11:46 AM

Actually what I want Doesnt Exist.

I want External Devices to be able to boot. like a USB 2.0 drive boot into Windows. So I can run Mulitple OS by switching the plus around

#12 Four and Twenty

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Posted 29 August 2002 - 02:09 PM

you can boot off a firewire card and usb sucks anyway

#13 Four and Twenty

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Posted 29 August 2002 - 02:12 PM

well alec I really don't think the NV30 is in my price range. I am running my own small biz so essentials are what I need. I don't really game that much at all so this is what i had in mind http://www.msicomputer.com/product/vga/vga_detail.asp?model=G4MX460-VTP
I know it is an MX and it is crippled (no pixel shaders and whatnot) but like I said I don't really have a chance to play that much anymore. Besides that is more than enough card for my aging p3s.

#14 Mr.Guvernment

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Posted 02 September 2002 - 04:42 AM

#15 Mr.Guvernment

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Posted 02 September 2002 - 08:29 AM

i would definetly wait till next year for a video card

Since the 9700 PRO already has in it's specs a 256mb version!

so next year should be interesting!

i mean my video card already (g4 4600) aready has more memory then most people computers on this island...lol

One day i will build the ULTIMATE system, but u know, a few month later it will be a giant paper weight..lol so almost pointless