[FS] Custom PC Building

[Jess Stingray]

Yep. I'm not going to sell servers though, not for a while.

 

[Jess Stingray]

The site has now been cleaned out. I'm in the process of banning the spammers.

@ HookeyStreet: The reason there's only two up ATM is because I'm waiting for the Phenom chips.

 

[Jess Stingray]

The forums are now in a clean state, and I made HookeyStreet a moderator.

Also, in September, I'm chucking some Phenom systems out, and I'm currently building (out of my own money) an experimental uber-budget rig, which will hopefully weigh in at £250, due to it being single-core and DDR1, AGP...

Thanks,

Ben


P.S. If anyone has any spare time, and would like to create a site that actually looks good, please e-mail benclarke@ukfolders.mpog.co.uk

Thanks.

 

[Jess Stingray]

Systems are going to be almost AMD exclusive from now on, as AMD performs better, and faster in all the benchmarks I've seen.

 

[Jess Stingray]

OK, in an hour or so, I'm starting to redisign the site, and hopefully get it to a better appearance. The advertisiment currently there will stay, as I don't have that game at the minute to make a new one.

Also, some more systems will be added.

 

[Jess Stingray]

I've put a glossary up in the forum, I would appreciate it if someone could go over it for me, make sure it is all correct. Thankyou.

 

[Jess Stingray]

Main site now down for redesign. If you are lucky, itt'll be back up later.

 

[3991vhtes]

Systems are going to be almost AMD exclusive from now on, as AMD performs better, and faster in all the benchmarks I've seen.

intel benchmarks higher than AMD. period.

edit - but AMD is cheaper though...

 

[cdawall]

intel benchmarks higher than AMD. period.

edit - but AMD is cheaper though...

not entirly true AMD benches dollar for dollar pretty even with intel, but intel comes into its own when they are oc'd

 

[3991vhtes]

OC'd or unOC'd intel benches higher.

 

[cdawall]

no if you look at what they are designed to run with they bench the same 6000/6400 trade punches with the top end intels and single core a64s bench with the conroe based cellys

 

[kwchang007]

no if you look at what they are designed to run with they bench the same 6000/6400 trade punches with the top end intels and single core a64s bench with the conroe based cellys

Yeah, but thing is you could just buy a 1066 mhz conroe overclock it to 1333mhz (266 to 333) which is basically a guaranteed overclock (with a better than stock hsf cooler of course). Especially if you run a p35 based board. Then if you buy a 1333 mhz conroe you can overclock that to 1600 mhz pretty safely (333-400 mhz).

 

[Jess Stingray]

Opinions plz:

Intel Q6600
Asus P5N32-E SLI
2048MB RAM
Antec P182 Case
Thermaltake Toughpower 750W
XFX Geforce 8800GTS 320MB (500/1600MHz)
Seagate Barracuda 500GB 16MB Cache
Vista Home Premium
DVD±RW/RAM DL
Cretaive SB Audigy SE 7.1 Sound

£1100

 

[Fusion]

Opinions plz:

Intel Q6600
Asus P5N32-E SLI
2048MB RAM
Antec P182 Case
Thermaltake Toughpower 750W
XFX Geforce 8800GTS 320MB (500/1600MHz)
Seagate Barracuda 500GB 16MB Cache
Vista Home Premium
DVD±RW/RAM DL
Cretaive SB Audigy SE 7.1 Sound

£1100

Loose the sound card, and either put an X-Fi in, or use onboard, the rest looks good, although I would prefer to be able to select my own OS over Vista *hint hint*

 

[Jess Stingray]

Yeah, but XP seems more expensive now than Vista Premium :/

And yeah, was thinking about onboard sound, but then so many people complained about it last time

 

[Fusion]

Yeah, but XP seems more expensive now than Vista Premium :/

And yeah, was thinking about onboard sound, but then so many people complained about it last time

have a look at my system specs, thats my current build, you will see that I have an auidgy 2, but I think a lot of people would prefer onboard sound at todays standard, than a 3 or 4 year old cut down auidgy SE.

Edit: BTW when's the site back up, the forums are full of spam AGAIN. have a look on PHPBB, see about getting some anti-spam plugins.

 

[Jess Stingray]

Hmm... OK, I'll consider that... Nothings set in stone yet, because I'm still fixing up the site from when I took it down 2 weeks ago... foums need cleaning up though... what the hell has Hookey been doing while I've been gone

 

[Fusion]

i'm supprised that you don't get more customers, especially with all the porn

 

[Jess Stingray]

Aye, but cPanel does report a lot of visits from the sites they link to... :/

 

[Kursah]

I dunno, even modern on-board sound isn't as good as it should be. Even with an SE you have a sound processor to help relieve some CPU load and process your sound via hardware, where-as onboard still depends on codecs. And I happen to have a P5B with a half-crap sound chip in it, and an Abit AS8-v that sounds good, but nothing like an add-on sound card. Add-ons are generally just better than on-board from my experiences. Sure on-board has come a ways, but it seems more bent on features like 7.1 surround and spdiff and what-not more than Sound Quality, which is what really matters to those who enjoy and have enjoyed good sound quality before.

I will be getting a sound card in the future, dunno what to get yet, I don't plan on going back to Vista any time soon. Haven't looked into too far yet, but my 5.1 headset is in need of a better sound adapter!


Glad to see you're still at it Ben!

 

[Fusion]

Aye, but cPanel does report a lot of visits from the sites they link to... :/

:shadedshu I should hope not!

That's my bandwith, it's not a bloody PORN server :shadedshu

Thats what places like google are for

 

[Fusion]

thing is though, people that 'notice' a diffrence between onboard and PCI/PCI-E sound, are probably going to want a slightly higer end card, than an SE. I would if I was paying over £700 for my rig.

I dunno, even modern on-board sound isn't as good as it should be. Even with an SE you have a sound processor to help relieve some CPU load and process your sound via hardware, where-as onboard still depends on codecs. And I happen to have a P5B with a half-crap sound chip in it, and an Abit AS8-v that sounds good, but nothing like an add-on sound card. Add-ons are generally just better than on-board from my experiences. Sure on-board has come a ways, but it seems more bent on features like 7.1 surround and spdiff and what-not more than Sound Quality, which is what really matters to those who enjoy and have enjoyed good sound quality before.

I will be getting a sound card in the future, dunno what to get yet, I don't plan on going back to Vista any time soon. Haven't looked into too far yet, but my 5.1 headset is in need of a better sound adapter!


Glad to see you're still at it Ben!

 

[Jess Stingray]

Meh, I'm gonna IP ban those sites... and anyway, site work is really gonna speed up, due to a website contest at school. I plan to enter this, and hopefully win something.

EDIT: Also, does anyone know how Google works with it's listings? Is it like most views per month first or something?

 

[Fusion]

ill talk about google on msn

 

[Jess Stingray]

OK, forums been cleaned of the porn now, now I'm trying to figure out the spammers. And hoping that the image verification will stop them registering.