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[Templar]

Im guessing your 120mm fan exhaust has a UV sensitive fan blades that glows orange.

No, standard black/orange Thermaltake fan. Non UV sensitive.

 

[SashatheMan]

yeah looks pretty nice

specs please!

my graphics card has these orange neons on it already, and my fans have these blue neons, but i hardly ever see it cause my case has no window

still an empty case because i have to buy a video card. but it will be

pentium 3.0 Ghz processor
Radeon x800GTO 256mbs video card with 16 pipelines
Gigabyte 915PL motherboard
1 gig of some shitty old DDR memory
120 gig SATA HDD

 

[SashatheMan]

i rckon white neons would loook good. i dont want blue , because everyone has them

 

[seremify007]

U gonna go Dual Core? I wish I had 2gig of ram in my pc... i dun care about cpu- just multitasking.

 

[sunny]

I wish I had 2gig of ram in my pc...

I settled with 2GB of RAM with a cheaper graphics card, and its well worth it

 

[SashatheMan]

U gonna go Dual Core? I wish I had 2gig of ram in my pc... i dun care about cpu- just multitasking.

nah not duel core. too expensive.

the 3.0 gig cpu i bought was only $264 . good value in my opinion.

 

[seremify007]

Yeh it makes Windows run smoooth as with 2gig

 

[SashatheMan]

i recently installed photoshop because i wanna learn the basics of it. and when i listen to music , have 5 webpages open and Photoshop open , plus a few other programs, the 1 gig of memory really doesnt seem much.

 

[AsyLum]

i recently installed photoshop because i wanna learn the basics of it. and when i listen to music , have 5 webpages open and Photoshop open , plus a few other programs, the 1 gig of memory really doesnt seem much.

You should see it struggle trying to do photoshop, 3dsm, bryce and reason/cubase

 

[seremify007]

Not that you guys are the Dell-type-of-guys, but you can spec your machines with 4gigs of DDR2 ram now... that's crazy! My first PC has half a meg of ram >__>

 

[Templar]

but you can spec your machines with 4gigs of DDR2 ram now...

On a 915 chipset? What a waste of money.

 

[seremify007]

Nah the 945.

I'm not too familiar with chipsets/motherboards/processors/etc so I was wondering if you could explain why it'd be a waste on a 915? I thought that more RAM is always going to be beneficial (for multitasking) as long as your PC can manage it effectively?

 

[SashatheMan]

4 gigs of ram are useless still, for a single home computer

 

[AntiHyper]

not quite, you can actually set up a RAM Disk so most commonly used files (such as temporary internet files or cache) to be available for processing as fast as your ram.

It's much faster than any current hard disk but the contents of it are volatile, meaning you'll lose the data when the system is turned off.

this simple guide utilises window's own ramdisk driver (most compatible and free)

 

[vizman]

the more ram the better

 

[seremify007]

I used to have a RAMdisk program set to B drive... for some reason, despite setting it up to cache my Firefox into memory and so on, I ended up not using it much and it just became a waste of 40mb of RAM. Of course if you have 4gigs, then... it isn't much!

Btw as for 4gigs being a bit of a waste... I still remember when I thought having 128mb of ram was a waste (I still can't believe I opted to get a 400mhz processor instead of upping the ram from 64 to 128). Maybe Windows Vista will make use of 4gigs?

 

[Templar]

I'm not too familiar with chipsets/motherboards/processors/etc so I was wondering if you could explain why it'd be a waste on a 915?

The 915 can only allocate around 3GB of RAM to Windows. The rest is allocated for hardware ie almost no improvement in performance, and of no use to the end user.

 

[seremify007]

How about with the 945?

I'd imagine the 915 is probably used in the cheaper Dells without the option of 4gig?

 

[Templar]

Not sure, but since it can take a max of 4GB, I doubt all of it is allocated to Windows.

Dell would probably use the 915 on anything that it can support. It might work out to be only a few bucks cheaper, but for Dell it would probably use the cheapest option.

In the end, regardless of whether it can all be allocated, 4GB is a bit of a waste in any PC for now.