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What the fuck is wrong with my computer.
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Yeah, I'm starting entirely from scratch. And Joel, that's good to hear. I don't need top of the line, myself. If you're running Deus Ex, you're more or less doing everything I want to be able to do with it.
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Totally.
I would check out newegg. This showed up on a cursory search:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883229254 -
What's currently in your computer? You could salvage some things like the power supply to keep the price down.
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IDE hard drives, an AGP graphics card, a PCI Sound Blaster card, some DVD-RW drives, and a halfway decent power supply with a dual pass-through fan setup for helping cool the case. Probably 450 watt. I'd have to double check.
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You definitely have to start from scratch and unless that power supply is newer than the rest of those parts I wouldn't keep it either. Power supplies and hard drives are just waiting to die. They only last for so many operating hours. I mean it will work but I'm nervous about things like that. As long as you stay within it's wattage it'll keep you going but new graphics cards draw a lot of power and it's usually safe to give yourself some head room.
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Hard drives are way more expensive now due to the flooding in Thailand. I mean like 200% more expensive.
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I have a 2TB external, and my IDEs can be converted into about 1.5 TB of external space. The PSU is actually brand new; I bought it to fix my old desktop, but whatever killed its old PSU also fried the mobo, so I never got to use it.
Edit: This is my current external backup drive, which, since the death of my desktop, needs a mirrored external backup. It hasn't gotten much more expensive, but now I guess I'll wait to see how well I can do buying a 2TB internal for a new desktop. -
Here's what I'm thinking so far. It comes to $486.
Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811352010
Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130309
CPU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103727
GPU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150561
Memory
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145315 -
I have no problem keeping old hard drives. I use them as external backups or archives. I just make sure the newest drive is the one that runs my OS and sees the most wear and tear.
If that psu is new then you're golden. -
Thanks! That looks great to me. Price is eminently reasonable.
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You can usually go to newegg for the reviews and then go elsewhere for the prices. Usually newegg is the best price too but amazon sometimes has a sale that you want to look at.
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You might need a SATA drive to use that motherboard. Also, maybe a SATA optical drive? I'm not as familiar with hardware as some other denizens of these forums.
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sata is the standard now, there is a pata port on it but pata is not the same as ide which is what the old standard was. So yes you would still need a hd and some kind of optical drive
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I think I just paid $70 to be told the power cables weren't fully plugged in. Which I don't really understand since all the fans (cpu, case, gpu) were running and the lights were on.
Getter said:The problem with prebuilt computers is you say you want a $1000 computer and they waste $200 of that getting some stupid case filled with flashing lights.
Only if you buy it from Alien I think. Everywhere else is the cheapest parts possible and like $350 worth of labor. -
Windows 7 is pretty cool. Will probably see what's up with battlefield later. -
My netbook came with Win7 on it, and I immediately found and downloaded this:
http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/
I don't understand my aversion to change. -
So I put my Windows 7 pc to sleep every night and sometimes, maybe once or twice a week, at about 7 or 9 (sometimes I sleep in super late and have no sense of time) it will boot up for about 10-20 minutes and then turn off. I once got up when it did this and nothing seemed wrong and it made me feel really weird. Its probably just my AV software or something because it tends to be days that I don't do shit on.
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Could be updates. As with everything, check your logs.
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Incidentally, Win XP discs that don't have Service Pack 3 do not have the proper drivers for SATA hard drives. However, the install program will happily format the drive before telling you that it can't install Windows. Guess how I found this out? *sigh*
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Aw man, there go my plans for running 2k on my next machine.
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Nothing supports that anymore as far as I know.
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I'd say 2k and XP are my favorite iterations of Windows. I hate being slowly forced to abandon them. In fairness, though, whenever I went to Black Viper my netbook's Win7 install, there were only like four services I had to disable. Everything else was already in its preferred position. That's certainly an improvement.
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it's apparently possible, assuming you have a working computer and a winxp install disk,, to create an iso with the drivers in it. I didn't have a working computer at the time (my wife's laptop had some fuckery with AVG that was stopping it downloading files. By the time we got that sorted the old hard drive was formatted, so I just said fuckit and got win 7.)
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What's Black Viper? I held out with XP until my hard drive died about 6 months ago. I ended up being really happy with Win7.
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Oh, so it is that site. When I did a search for it I only skimmed it and left when I saw dirt track racing.
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Uhh alright. This is certainly a "what the fuck is wrong with my computer" question but I don't know how much you guys can help. Trying to set up Flash Media Encoder (3.2) on the new computer but when I'm streaming it's always terrible framerate. I've tried adjusting the resolution down (below HD to start with btw) and lowering the bitrate to 500 but it hasn't made any difference. For what's it worth I ran a speedtest too for shits and giggles and it seems fine:
I'm on 64-bit win7 Core i5 2500K /w 8gb of ram. -
Dave said:
I use SCFH with the same results. You just need an intermediary program.
amg why didn't I just do this. I guess vhscrncap just hates win7 or something. Alright I think I can finally put my old comp in storage. -
New rig: built. Thanks for the suggestions, folks. I just have to go get my monitors and DVI-VGA converters out of storage so I can use it. Excited to not be bound to a netbook any longer.
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Yay.
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But will it blend?
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In a manner of speaking. The case doubles as a food processor, judging by the 120mm fan on top of it. Shit's changed since 2004.
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When I transitioned from my previous computer to my current one, it was like my ears were unclogged. 120mm fans are so much quieter than 80mm ones.
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Man, tell me about it. I used a friend's monitor to at least get Ubuntu set up on it/test all the hardware last night, and it may as well have not been turned on as far as my ears were concerned. I had five 80mm fans in my last case, and one of them sounded like a lawn mower.
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I'm amazed you didn't just stick your head in a microwave.
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It gets worse: the old system was on 24/7 and was located right next to my bed. It also had SpeedFan adjusting the speed up and down constantly all night long. I just looked at it like a white noise machine.
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I'm assuming you did something to spite this computer?
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Fans go after time - they are dirt cheap and usually easy to replace.
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I don't think I did much of anything to the benefit of that machine. My old Radeon9800 Pro melted mid-battleground in WoW. It took two hours to die, and I kept chatting with people about how hilarious the giant artifact spikes were. I ran out of IDE controllers, so instead of installing an expansion card, I just unplugged all my optical drives to add more HDDs. None of this is quite as bad as my friend keeping his dying, overheating PSU from crapping out by removing it from the case and placing an ice pack on it.
Still, the old beast booted reliably for like seven years. I've got no complaints. -
My new comp has 4 case fans and it's still quieter. It can make you feel like a quarian.
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Any of you win7 guys have to deal with the sound not being loud enough? I mean it's decent but I remember xp being louder.
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No?
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Y'know, I've never thought about it. Didn't even think that there might be volume differences between OSes, even though I've got no reason to presume uniformity. I just use equalizers to up levels appropriately whenever necessary.
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Why such a low price for this Hard drive?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145532 -
The low price along with the lack of reviews makes that a scary proposition.
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The fact that it is an OEM drive is part of the reason. It being a sub-terabyte drive is another part. $70 still seems kind of low given the current circumstances though (Thailand flooding). They may just be looking to clear out inventory. On a less likely note, it may have something to do with Western Digital buying Hitachi's HDD business as well.
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Oh yeah, the volume went back to normal when I told it I was using headphones.
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First time building a rig and i'm anxious to see all the wonderful problems i'm going to encounter. I assume its pretty easy to assemble, a friend said i'd be stupid if i couldn't do it.
"its like lego... (he is a dick btw)."
Here's my new setup, hoping it will be relevant for the next 6-8 years.
CPU - Intel I7-2700k [$120]
BOARD - Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3H-B3 (for SLI/CF) [XMAS]
RAM - DDR3 Corsair Vengeance (2x4gb) 8gb 1333 Cerulean Blue [$50]
Case - Corsair Obsidian 650D [BIRTHDAY]
PSU - Zalman 600w-ST [$40]
OS -Windows 7 Home 64b [$100]
HHD - SSD 64gb Crucial m4 ($130)
HHD2 - WD Cavier 500gb (already from my old comp)
VIDEO - ASUS 5770 (already from my old comp)
OD - SAMSUNG DVD+RW (already from my old comp)
With tax and shipping it comes to around 550ish CND, so its less than half the cost of what a store bought would be. -
My hard drive died right in the middle of watching some TV, no symptoms. Just restarted computer and it just doesn't show up anywhere, tried new cabling and different connections no change. I really need to replace this POS.
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Test Disk and Photorec are your friends if you need to recover anything, Feddy.
