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if you dont want to have to worry about learning what to look for in components and stuff, and just want something for doing some media stuff and web browsing, a dell or hp will do you fine. I'd recommend hp.

^I'll second that. bought my system there and I am very happy with it.

i do some media stuff in that area too, and i know it can take some power to do it smoothly (or smoothER rather). progs like 3dsmax, adobe after effects, photoshop cs2, etc. benefet alot from the amount/quality of the ram. like said before, 2gb of RAM would be good to have. a nice gfx card is...

here's my current desktop, sorry if it's a bit big... i happen to like cameras.

for desktops, probably dell. for laptops, hp. I have no idea why, that's just what I would pick :) what are you going to be using the PC for?

User Name: thebeginning CPU: AMD dual core opteron 170 Code Name: Denmark Core Clock(Stock): 2.00 Core Clock (Oc'ed): 2.62 Voltage: 1.5x Multiplier: x10 FSB: 262 Idle Temp: ºc 32 Load Temp: unkown how do you guys measure temps without a case readout? need to figure that out...

changed my divider to 3/4 and set it at 260mhz HTT (10x multi) and it's running fine. I ran prime95 a little and it went perfectly smooth, tested superPI at 8m and it ran fine too (6m,12s). I might try to push it a tad more so that my memory is running closer to 200mhz (now it's at like 185)...

for single cores the fx-57 is one of the fastest (if not the fastest) out there. here is a comparison of intel's and amd's dual core processors (not including opterons or fx-60): http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10442_7-6389077-1.html

thanks!

well I tried what yall said and was able to do it. Got it up to 2.5Ghz easily, so i'm pretty happy about that. It started to slow down after that (at 2.55 the OS was quite slow), not sure If I need to bump my voltages or latency timings (???) or if that would help. found out that the 'normal...

thanks for the input. I'll try lowering the HTT multiplier down to 3x or so and pulling the mem clock to 166mhz. I can change both the speed (200mhz->166mhz and so on) and that weird 'memory speed' thing from fast to fastest or normal or whatever. I'll try it on normal. I'll push the core...

my temps were around 34C or so, and that's after a fair amount of usage. how do you do a memory divider? sorry, still a noober at this stuff... how do you set your RAM higher? I found where I can set my FSB to 200mhz and lower, but I can't seem to find anything higher. I'll set it to 166...

no, havent tried that, it's still on auto (i tried manual at 200mhz, which I believe worked...never tried lower.)

no, should I? edit: tried it, and pushed to core to 220. it just loaded the system info (before booting the OS) over and over without getting past that. I ended up pulling it back down to 210. There's got to be something strange going on...

3dmark06 is 4135 for me, 05 is somewhere around 7600.

oh i know, I never pushed it higher than 10 at a time...it wouldnt even boot the OS at 2.15, just 2.1

thanks chef, i'll check that. before when I raised it (just the clock) It simply wouldnt boot the OS.

I'd like to try a little overclocking on my new pc (in my sig), but so far I've run into some problems. I tried OCing just a little (changed the multiplier from auto to 10x, bumped the core speed to 210Mhz) and it worked fine, but I can't go any higher than 2.1Ghz. I know that can't possibly...

man, that's alot of audio if you plan on filling a 320Gb HD with it :shock: i did alot of research before deciding on an opteron chip. I do alot of photoshop and some video editing and 3d stuff, and the x2's seemed to be the best for that. when I found out that the opterons had more...

there are great alternatives to building a pc yourself, but alienware is not one of them. Like bigsaucybob said, everything there is way overpriced. You may want to check out places like monarchcomputer.com or cyberpowersystems.com. If you don't care about system warranties and really want to...