Final upgrade list

[Moonwraith]

I haven't cleaned in ages. Haven't needed to this time. Last time was driver failure big time, it must be.. well over 6 months since last i wiped, I don't like doing it - All that driver hunting

 

[Moonwraith]

WTF?!? Am i going mad or is the BFG 6800gt OC not listed on the pcw cc?! :dead:
.... it better magically appear again otherwise i'll be... pissed off the say the least

 

[tommy]

Not sure whats happening mate didn't receive mine today as was planned. Have emailed them but have had no reply, Order status says ready for delivery but i have my doubts

BFG GeForce 6800 GT OC 256MB AGP £202.59 1 Ready to deliver

 

[Moonwraith]

BFG GeForce 6800 GT OC 256MB AGP is now unavailable for purchase


Oh wtf :cries:
Great! just bloody great, for the price of the other GTs i may as well just ****ing wait till i can afford an ultra.

Hope yours comes through mate

 

[Moonwraith]

Well I've decided saving for the Ultra will be the best option. Thought the car's MOT was febuary, it's actually in two days :suprised: Great stuff

Probably order the PC after my MOT so, late next week (depending on how much it sets me back)

 

[ming]

lol... too cheap to be sold to you guys so they withdrew the product?

 

[Moonwraith]

lol... too cheap to be sold to you guys so they withdrew the product?

Quite.

I don't know, that was 200 excl vat, the xfx gt is 251excl vat. Might as well push 300 excl vat and get the BFG ultra, when i can.

 

[Sazar]

I'm gonna splurge and get me an ultra I think this weekend or next perhaps

we'll see...

still in two minds over whether I should... or instead get a cpu/pci-e mobo and go SLi..

 

[Moonwraith]

I'm gonna splurge and get me an ultra I think this weekend or next perhaps

we'll see...

still in two minds over whether I should... or instead get a cpu/pci-e mobo and go SLi..

Hmmmm it's the problem I had (but diff money matter with me probably)

The choice was: PCI-E and GT
or AGP and Ultra.

That's a difficult choice, because I could by rights save up for another gt, but Uni and stuff in summer (I can't afford it :cry: )

SLi's a great thing, but by the time I could afford a 2nd card; they'd both be crap heh. Seemed pointless for the amount of money i've got

 

[Moonwraith]

Right well, ordered my stuff tonight - Change of plan, now a morerounded system (after much debate ) but it now looks as follows:

Processor: 3500+ Winchester
Motherboard: MSI Neo2 Platinum
Memory: 2x512mb Corsair XMS3200Pro 2-2-2-5
Graphics: BFG 6800 Ultra OC
HDD: 80gb Maxtor 7200rpm
Opticals: 16xDVD-Rom and 32x12x40x CD-RW
Floppy
PSU: Antec Truepower 480w
Soundcard: Creative Audigy
CPU Cooler: Zalman 7000b-CU
Case: Antec Plusview 1000
Cooling: 3x Antec 80mm LED Fans.
Operating System: Windows XP home
Keyboard and Mouse: USB Keyboard and MX1000 Laser Mouse.

The parts should be arriving tuesday

 

[ming]

:devious:

 

[ming]

You buying a flippy flopp drive?
audigy or audigy 2?

 

[Moonwraith]

:devious:

What's the growl about? Feel the love man

You buying a flippy flopp drive?
audigy or audigy 2?

Half way through debating using onboard sound on new mobo and keepingmy audigiy 1 in this one (because this one has no onboard sound). Dunno what to do with this other system in all honesty

 

[ming]

not growling... just an evil grin. i'm sure you get the message.

 

[sean.ferguson]

i didnt think people used floppies anymore... i havent for at least 3 years

 

[ming]

i didnt think people used floppies anymore... i havent for at least 3 years

Well, I'll always have one in my machine so that there's one available whenever its service is required. e.g. boot to DOS/Ghost.
I could boot from CDs of course, but I wouldn't want to waste a CD just to boot into a DOS/DOS-based program.

 

[Tuffgong4]

you can boot to dos using a flash drive...that's what I do at least

 

[Moonwraith]

I've got a floppy on this one i was gonna steal over to the next system but i may just not bother,

Evil grin, Ming?

 

[ming]

you can boot to dos using a flash drive...that's what I do at least

I'll probably do that when I get my new system. But it all depends on whether I'll be able to use flash drives for back up on other machines, say in uni. etc.

 

[ming]

I've got a floppy on this one i was gonna steal over to the next system but i may just not bother,

Evil grin, Ming?

Can I mock your updated specs again? :laugh: