Faffy's Old Rig

[Faffy]

DFI Lanparty UT NF4 SLI-DR Expert NVIDIA Socket 939 ATX Motherboard
Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 2.2Ghz 2MB Cache
OCZ Dual Channel Gold GX 2048MB PC4000 DDR 500MHz Memory (2 x 1024MB)
2X BFG GeForce 7900 GT OC / 256MB GDDR3
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
2X WD Raptor 74GB - Raid 0
Ultra Blue Aluminus ATX Mid-Tower
Ultra X2 550-Watt
ViewSonic VG2021m

My IT buddy at work helped me put this together last summer for EQII & it already feels outdated. Next time I'll be doing it on my own. I learned a lot & made some mistakes on some of the components because I took the "expert" advice instead of doing extensive research. The 7950 was still over $500, so I got the best video cards ($299 a piece) I could afford at the time. I wish I would have bought a better PSU, this one works & I've tested it, but I don't trust it for OCing. I also bought 4 sticks of RAM, but found I could only use 2 untill I upgrade to Vista.

I'll probable upgrade my PSU & VCs this fall so I can OC & install Vista if the game supports it by then. Hopefully 24" monitors get reasonable by then as well.

[Nil]

Originally Posted by Faffy

DFI Lanparty UT NF4 SLI-DR Expert NVIDIA Socket 939 ATX Motherboard
Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 2.2Ghz 2MB Cache
OCZ Dual Channel Gold GX 2048MB PC4000 DDR 500MHz Memory (2 x 1024MB)
2X BFG GeForce 7900 GT OC / 256MB GDDR3
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
2X WD Raptor 74GB - Raid 0
Ultra Blue Aluminus ATX Mid-Tower
Ultra X2 550-Watt
ViewSonic VG2021m

My IT buddy at work helped me put this together last summer for EQII & it already feels outdated. Next time I'll be doing it on my own. I learned a lot & made some mistakes on some of the components because I took the "expert" advice instead of doing extensive research. The 7950 was still over $500, so I got the best video cards ($299 a piece) I could afford at the time. I wish I would have bought a better PSU, this one works & I've tested it, but I don't trust it for OCing. I also bought 4 sticks of RAM, but found I could only use 2 untill I upgrade to Vista.

I'll probable upgrade my PSU & VCs this fall so I can OC & install Vista if the game supports it by then. Hopefully 24" monitors get reasonable by then as well.

That's a darn fine rig, Faffy.

It is fun taking that first step out on your own and putting it together. When it works, anyway.