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Shaym
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 Posted: 12/04/04 - 15:49 Post subject: Tech question
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Let me preface this with a question for the admins... can we please have a comp tech questions section, pleease ? 
My question is about upgrading my dinosaur.
(No poking fun at my outdated system, please)
My system is a 750 athalon (the basic equivalent to a pentium 2), with the old motherboard, a voodoo3 card (way too old to support games), cable modem, 2 hd which boast a sad 13 gig between them. The memory sticks are outdated, obviously, so I will be replacing that ram too.
What I plan on doing:
I bought a Radeon 9600xt, thx Best Buy rebate, a 17 in flat screen monitor already installed, am going to buy a athalon 64 and the new motherboard to fit it ( a socket 754 I believe), the ram to plug into it.. prob start with 2 sticks of 512 ddr, and a new hard drive (120 or 160 gig).
My question is, is there anything else I am going to have to replace I haven't noticed yet, or any problems or conflicts I should watch for? Any way I should do this that would be better? (So far Tiger direct is the best I have found)
Thanks in advance 
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r00typooh
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Location: Miami, FL
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Posted: 12/04/04 - 15:52 Post subject:
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i woulden't recomend tiger... they sell lots and lots of refurbished items... they're usually pretty cheap, but i don't think its worth the trouble you MIGHT have down the road. go with a store that sells only new products- like newegg.com or something
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Manuva
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Posted: 12/04/04 - 15:59 Post subject:
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Don't bother with the Athlon64
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Kilzalot
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Posted: 12/04/04 - 16:00 Post subject:
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Yea newegg was great... got all my shit from them. If your gonna do all that might as well just build a whole new system from the ground up, case and all. It won't cost you that much more money and your most likely gonna need a newer power supply(that puts out more power) anyway. And it would be best to get one that has several fans in it b/c all that new shit runs quite a bit hotter.
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Xion
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Posted: 12/04/04 - 16:20 Post subject:
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newegg.com
if you want to find a different store, make sure you check up on them at resellerratings.com before you buy.
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sinrakin
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Posted: 12/04/04 - 16:26 Post subject: Re: Tech question
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| Shaym wrote: | | My question is, is there anything else I am going to have to replace I haven't noticed yet, or any problems or conflicts I should watch for? |
Well, you'll probably have to get a bigger power supply. You can probably keep the floppy drive, keyboard, mouse, and CDRom. Is anything left? Oh, the case is probably fine too.
Last edited by sinrakin on 12/04/04 - 16:27; edited 1 time in total
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Shaym
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Posted: 12/04/04 - 16:27 Post subject:
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Ok forgot about the power supply thing.. another 40.. and I have fans, but if I need a couple more, another 20.
The reason I am upgrading and not building new is, as far as I can see, upgrading will be ~800 including the fans, power supply, and everything else listed so far. Building new with the equivalent (actually a lil lower grade was what I saw) would be ~1200...
and I'm worried that if I have somebody build the system from scratch, I won't get it how I want.
And what is wrong w/ the Athalon64? Is it not better than the pentium that is out?
thx for the help so far 
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Kilzalot
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Posted: 12/04/04 - 16:38 Post subject:
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Built my system for about $900. Intel board, case w/3 fans and power supply, intel p4 3.2, 1gig cosair ram, ATI 9800 Pr0 card, cd drive, 80 gig HD. OK I used my old sound card  From the things you have listed there you are basically building a new system outside mouse, keyboard, etc ;p
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Nictathan
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Posted: 12/04/04 - 16:42 Post subject:
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Athlon 64 is fine
really stay away from Tiger though, go with Newegg. Good prices, decent shipping rates, and IMO great service.
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sinrakin
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Posted: 12/04/04 - 16:47 Post subject:
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I used Tiger once and it was fine. They're big on rebates though, which are about ten times as much of a hassle as you think they'll be. If you're not going to pay to send everything certified mail don't even bother.
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Ishmobbin
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Location: Texas
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Posted: 12/04/04 - 17:29 Post subject:
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newegg.com or mwave.com for me. i have used tiger b4, newegg is the best by far.
Ill put up a poll for the tech forum.
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