Come to Me, My Precious Precious New Computer
 

I officially ordered my new computer today...whoooooo.

64 bit processor, 2 gigs of ram, fairly new video card (I refuse to drop the 500 bucks on one of the uber brand new ones), the works.

I shall play FM at WARP SPEED!

...and now I shall have to pick up Battlefield 2, now that I'll have a machine that can run it.

What OS are you going to put on it?

*sighs*

XP.

I know. Was the most painful decision of my life.

This thread needs an OMG in the title.

And a WTFBBQ

Once again I find you amusing.

Geez, we don't even get the full specs of the thing....what a let down... ;)

I think the proper phrasing for this request is:

specs plz k thx

heh

Case: 100555 - PS 430W - Thermaltake VB1430BWS Soprano M
Power Supply: None
Case Fan: None
Motherboard: 110366 - BFG BFGRNVF4U NForce4 Ultra Audio/LAN/USB
Processor: 120205 - AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 512K 90nm Rev. E Veni
Thermal Grease: 800018 - Shin-Etsu G675 Thermal Grease (Cools CPU
Heat Sink Fan: 130129 - Thermaltake A1838 AMD Opteron/Athlon 64 H
Memory: 140291 - DDR (400) 3200 - 2 GB (2 pcs 1GB) Patriot
2nd Memory: None
Hard Drive: 150606 - SATA - Seagate (ST3160827AS) 160 GB/7200-
2nd Hard Drive: None
RAID Setup: None
RAID Controller: None
CD-ROM/DVD-ROM/CD-RW: None
CD-RW/DVD-RW: 160230 - DVD±RW - NEC ND-3520A-KIT-BG 16X Dual Lay
CD-RW Software: 210613 - Ahead Nero 6.3 Suite DVD+-RW Software (OE
DVD-ROM Software: None
Floppy Drive: 170101 - Mitsumi 1.44 MB 3.5" Floppy Drive
More Storage: None
Sound Card: 180212 - Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 7.1 24-
Video Card: 190474 - BFG GeForce 6600 GT OC 128MB GDDR3/PCI-E/

Nice system. Good bang for the buck and upgradeable.

Real men get a 5 1/4" floppy drive in their new systems.

He didn't say how much he paid.

I'm familiar with the components and their price compared higher and lower performing parts. I'm only assuming he didn't get ripped off paying someone to put it together.

Real men already have a dozen of them sitting around.

Actually he ordered it from Alienware and paid 3.700.

I only have one 5 1/4" floppy.

You found out my dirty little secret! Noooooooo!

Heh. No. Monarch computing all the way.

I got dibs on spare parts.

Bah. AMD.

Yeah, I ordered my new motherboard/processor combo from them as well as most of my other parts when I built my new pc a few weeks ago.

Yep faster, cooler, cheaper = bad.

Lucky bastard...and I've only got a 3 1/2" floppy.

FOF must look AMAZING on your new comp

Yeah but at least you have an excuse...its cold in Canada :D

new box is sounding jizzy there, coffee.

I wish to lordness I could get a new one. I so want to play battlefield. I play at a friend's house sometimes and we have to alternate. But it's fun to get wasted together and shoot people. ;)

Enjoy!

Dola.

I now get a 30% discount at dell, so I might look into getting something.

It all depends if I decide to get that engagement ring yet or not... stupid life choices...

Disclaimer: Drunk as a skunk. Bear with me.

But, heard good things from here, and they had exactly everything I wanted, so we'll see what happens.

Just finished installing the OS on my new system... This is the first time since ~96 that I spent more than $350 building a PC. Here is the important stuff:

Antec P180 case (amazon)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (newegg)
DFI Lanparty NForce4 Ultra-D (newegg)
ATI x800 PCIe (ati)
WD Raptor 10k 74GB x2 (RAID0) (dell)
Patriot 1GB DDR400 (2-3-2-6) x2 (outpost)
XP Pro 64-bit edition (licensed through work)

You should check fatwallet.com's forums. There are a bunch of Dell PC deals listed there right now starting from about $300 (although you'd need to upgrade the video card on the lower end ones to play BF2 I'm sure).

They are mostly good. Very good compared to most places. Sometimes they over extend themselves and your order might take a little while longer, but they have excellent support. If there is an issue you can call them up and talk with them and they are helpful.

Plus me being in California, you cant beat their prices since their is no sales tax.