New PC : HareXP64

[jackrabbit]

Fellow Martians,

I decided to join the present and upgrade my old-ass AMD 2200+ with a AMD 64 3700+. I'll finally be able to make a gryphon flight and see the trip as it was meant instead of 2 screenshots of the journey wich amount to a 2 scene loading screen.

The specs for HareXP64
Thermaltake VB1000BWS Soprano ATX case
Abit AX8 K8T890 (PCIE)
480w Silent powersupply
2g Dual Channel DDR400 RAM
Athlon 64 3700+ (San Diego w/ 1mb on-die cache)
74 gig 10,000rpm, 8mb cache SATA HDD
ATI Radeon X850 XT 256 (the cherry on top)

the optical drives and a larger HD will be cannibalized from (old) HareXP.

The new machine should arrive between 9-14 days. When it does and I've taken the opticals out of HareXP, I'll be selling the old one for $500. If you are interested in it for parts (the vid card alone is worth $300), as an upgrade for your secondary, or as a extra PC, prfererence will be given to Martians before I offer it on the bulletin board at work.

The Specs for HareXP (I'll probably zero the drive and keep my licensed copy of XP Pro, so... no OS)
Radeon 9800 Pro 256
465w powersupply
AMD 2200+ (1.76ghz)
80gb Western Digital 1mb cache HD (bought in 2003)
SB Audigy
Sony CD-RW
AOpen DVD-ROM (not included)
TDK DVD-RW± (not included)
768meg DDR333 RAM
(these specs are off the top of my head. Will certify once I'm home)

[Dg3Nr8]

that sounds hot

[Kermit]

Socket A or 768? Is the motherboard available?

[Tai]

That new system will play BF2 really really well :thumbup:

[BoX]

We should make a trip to Ogrimmar and test that pig out.

[jackrabbit]

Kermit, the mobo is an Asus A7V333 (KT333, DDR333) Socket A. I'd rather not sell just the mobo as it leaves me with parts that I can't use, can't sell, and less that I was hoping to get for the whole system. :(

I would; however, sell my wife's PC for $300 and give her my old one. Hers has almost the same specs (1.76ghz, 512mb DDR333 RAM, same Mobo, 80gb HD, GeForce4). Hers is more of a parts PC as the case I bought as a joke (it's a lighted, windowed, neon lit eyesore). That would also allow me to simply reformat and keep my copy of XP on my old PC.

In fact, I may do that instead, allowing me to keep my system and 9800 Pro for when I have friends over.

[FoeKilla]

going with onboard sound in the new rig?

[Tai]

Since you asked :)

some case I had lying around
MSI NVIDIA nForce3 Ultra (K8N Neo2 Platinum)
450w powersupply
2g Dual Channel DDR400 RAM
Athlon 64 3500+
200 gig 10,000rpm, 8mb cache SATA HDD
nVidia 6800 GT 256 MB
Toshiba (i think?) DVD drive

I haven't found anything I can't run at max effects and resolution (1680x1050 for my widescreen LCD) with antialiasing on.

you are going to love your new baby :)