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09-02-2007, 07:54 AM
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okay, so my dad went to a garage sale and bought an intel desktop board d865glc and it had a pentium 4 2.4ghz sl6sr and first, I was wondering if it was any good (hey it was only $2) and what kind of ram it uses
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09-02-2007, 08:32 AM
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Geeze... For two bucks I would of snatched it too ;P The board and processor are both fair. The motherboard uses DDR400/PC3200 RAM.
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09-02-2007, 08:42 AM
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awesome! thanks, hah, the guy had all sorts of crap that he had no idea what it was that he was selling for cheap (got a 500gb HDD for $3 and it works fine) and a mac (I hate them but whatever) gs3 for 5....anyways if I was gonna build a computer for some casual gaming (but good games) halo, half life 2....stuff like that, what would I need, I have an OS hard drives and a case...but I need a PSU, ram, and graphics and sound cards, I think that's it...thanks!
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09-02-2007, 10:29 AM
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Whoa! Why weren we all invited too this Garage Sale?
That is so cheap. Jealous.
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09-02-2007, 12:28 PM
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500GB!?!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820211086 RAM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817170012 PSU ... too lazy for researching the rest of the mobo specs but if that mobo doesnt have AGP your gonna have an hard time finding an good PCI video card... the mobo doesnt have onboard sound?
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09-02-2007, 05:18 PM
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well...it does...but I like really good sound...I'm a bit of a stickler like that. So I don't need to put two sticks of ram in at a time? I thought you had to do that with this board?
So this guy at the garage sale. His son had a ton of computer stuff and when he went of to college the dad sold it all, and had no idea what any of it was. there,there, that's the board Last edited by thermophilis; 09-02-2007 at 05:20 PM. |
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09-02-2007, 10:03 PM
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Dead link.
How much you willing to spend on the sound card? how much on the Video card? what games do you play?
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09-03-2007, 01:21 AM
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Hmmm...the link worked just fine for me...here's the URL at least
http://shopper.cnet.com/motherboards...-30473783.html Eh, I don't play anything to demanding, halo, age of mythology, half life 2, maybe fear? well, grudgingly I've decided that I don't need a soundcard...on a gpu and ram and a psu I'd say my max is around $150-$200 oh, and should I stick with the CPU that's on it (pentium 4 2.4ghz sl6sr)? thanks a bunch! |
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09-03-2007, 02:20 AM
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It has 6 channel audio... so an AGP card...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814161082 x1950 Its 179 after rebate..
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09-03-2007, 03:30 AM
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so, if I bought:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820211086 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817170012 and: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814161082 I'd be fine? edit: I just realized...that's a little much for me right now, is there any way I could go cheaper on the video card? Last edited by thermophilis; 09-03-2007 at 03:37 AM. |
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