Ok don’t get to exited Fen I’m not about to trump your new toy, this PC was bought and modified to use as a media centre for the family not as a gaming rig, I’ve not even put a gfx in yet the onboard is good enough for what I need at the moment.
Started with this
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/225760
I did look at Overclockers they had a couple of very good bear bones but this one had a better board with the chip I was after, and the 1000g hard drive is nice though I’d have preferred it to have been 7200rpm.
As soon as I’d checked it over and made sure it worked I got rid of crappy Norton & McAfee before they could do any installing (I use Avast it’s free and brilliant),Then ripped out the pathetic 250w psu for a Corsair 500w (Why do they put these cheap unprotected psu’s in these machines? if the psu goes it can take everything with it!), added a stick of 2gb Kingston ram to bring it up to 5gb total, and put in a duel tuner TV card, so now I can use the 360 as an extender via Windows 7 Media Centre and can watch and record digital TV on the xbox and it records to the PC hard drive - clever stuff! - and as it’d a duel tuner I can record two channels at the same time, it’s very easy to use and playback is perfect.
(Already have a digibox recorder but it’s full of neighbours and daytime tv! This ones for Me!)
Anyhow my old AMD Athlon 64 3700+ was nearly 6 years old and this chip knocks the socks off it, I’ve not tried any games yet but apparently it can do Starcraft2 and WoW with the onboard at resemble settings, lol I’ll believe that when I see it, I keep updating RoM just to see how it runs but haven’t got to the end of the patching yet, I’ll let you know.
Nice things that came with it apart from Window 7 which I like, is the MS Office10 trial it turns out that word & excel are free to use so long as you don’t mind adverts popping up on the bottom right corner, (good for the for the kids homework). Also the card reader is useful and 12 yes 12!! USB’s and also the HDMI out is handy, and the onboard sound is exhalent.
Now on a side note I’ve a beer matt copy of CS4 running, but it’s not fully compatible with Windows7 64bit but runs fine in 32bit, also trying to get PS5 running, the same disk worked on XP but again there seams to be a prob with W7!!
Do you use any Adobe graphics programs with Windows7, I know you’re into design?
Started with this
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/225760
I did look at Overclockers they had a couple of very good bear bones but this one had a better board with the chip I was after, and the 1000g hard drive is nice though I’d have preferred it to have been 7200rpm.
As soon as I’d checked it over and made sure it worked I got rid of crappy Norton & McAfee before they could do any installing (I use Avast it’s free and brilliant),Then ripped out the pathetic 250w psu for a Corsair 500w (Why do they put these cheap unprotected psu’s in these machines? if the psu goes it can take everything with it!), added a stick of 2gb Kingston ram to bring it up to 5gb total, and put in a duel tuner TV card, so now I can use the 360 as an extender via Windows 7 Media Centre and can watch and record digital TV on the xbox and it records to the PC hard drive - clever stuff! - and as it’d a duel tuner I can record two channels at the same time, it’s very easy to use and playback is perfect.
(Already have a digibox recorder but it’s full of neighbours and daytime tv! This ones for Me!)
Anyhow my old AMD Athlon 64 3700+ was nearly 6 years old and this chip knocks the socks off it, I’ve not tried any games yet but apparently it can do Starcraft2 and WoW with the onboard at resemble settings, lol I’ll believe that when I see it, I keep updating RoM just to see how it runs but haven’t got to the end of the patching yet, I’ll let you know.
Nice things that came with it apart from Window 7 which I like, is the MS Office10 trial it turns out that word & excel are free to use so long as you don’t mind adverts popping up on the bottom right corner, (good for the for the kids homework). Also the card reader is useful and 12 yes 12!! USB’s and also the HDMI out is handy, and the onboard sound is exhalent.
Now on a side note I’ve a beer matt copy of CS4 running, but it’s not fully compatible with Windows7 64bit but runs fine in 32bit, also trying to get PS5 running, the same disk worked on XP but again there seams to be a prob with W7!!
Do you use any Adobe graphics programs with Windows7, I know you’re into design?