Hey, all. I just wanted to tell you that Santa's been real good to me this year. I got everything I needed to build my own gaming rig. Here are the components:

-Chieftec silver server chassis w/ Turbolink 420W P.S.U.
-AMD Athlon XP 2100+ w/ stock cooling
-Soyo KT333 Dragon Lite
-Corsair 512MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM
-MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 AGP8X
-Western Digital 100GB w/ 8MB cache
-U.S. Robotics Performance Pro modem
-Windows XP

I even got a game to go along with my hardware: UT2003! Okay, now I know you're all thinking "Whoop-Dee-Doo" and all that. I should say that this is my FIRST gaming rig, built it all by myself, and I'm really proud of what I done. After all, weren't you proud when you built you're first true gaming rig? Well anyway, I know it's kind of late to be talking about Christmas, but as you can see, I had my Christmas present to keep me occupied! Does anyone have any comments and/or opinions about my rig? Did I make good choices? Bad choices? Well, Peace out, everbody.

thats pretty nice, very similar to what i did a couple months ago,

My computer:
Antec 1080b with True power 430w
40x writer
16x DVD
sound blaster audigy platnium
soyo kt333 ultra platnium
XP 2200+
512 mg PC2700, yeah i know its not corsair xms, i screwed up
Gainward Ti4600
1 20 gig maxtor 7200rpm
1 80 gig seagate 7200rpm
and now i have a iceberg 1 water cooler, which basically makes it quiter than my dell dimension 4100

Nice. I forgot to mention a couple of stuff, like my video card is 128MB, and I'm using integrated sound at the moment. I also have a TDK 52x24x48x as well.

some decent kit there m8

Very nice, you made good choices. I kinda got the same for my Christmas Present, but just a bit lower on the scale. I got this for christmas:

MSI KT3 Ultra2 RAID Motherboard with Onboard 5.1 Sound + USB 2.0
AMD Athlon XP1800+ T-Bred A with a Volcano 9 HSF
512MB Kingston PC2700 (DDR333) /w ThermalTake Copper Ram-Sinks


All my specs are below this post, I'm too lazy to write whatelse I have. What do you guys think of my system? I only get 5500-6000 3DMarks for some reason, probably my videocard, but can anyone tell me why I get such low scores? Thanks.

Your RAM is too slow.

will stock fan be enuff to cool that XP???

stock fan will cool it, but it won't cool it very well

hey chiquita ur name is almost liek my AIM Screen name

The stock fan seems to be doing okay. I really have no plans on overclocking my cpu, though. Just as long as I don't overclock, my cpu will do just fine with stock cooling. I'll probably overclock my videocard, seeming as how there is an overclocking utility included. I wanted to get PC2700 ram, but unfortunely I didn't specify how fast I wanted my ram, so I ended up getting PC2100 instead. Oh well, my rig is still good enough to play UT2003 without any hiccups, and that's all that matters to me. I think I'll download 3dMark 2001, just for kicks, and see what I get.

what type of temps are you getting??

Santa wasn't that good to me so I decided to pick up the slack and bought myself a bunch of toys as I posted in an earlier thread. Hear is a pic of the end result.

P.S. my Crystalfontz LCD died but they sent me a new one.

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Quote: Originally posted by chiquita I only get 5500-6000 3DMarks for some reason, probably my videocard, but can anyone tell me why I get such low scores? Thanks.

chiquita, I'd say you're right, it's probably the card. Check out this chart at Tom's Hardware; even on a 3GHz machine, the Radeon 7500 scores 6452 (for comparison, a Ti4200 on the same system is around 12000). On the bright side, at least it's only the one component holding you back; I'm gradually upgrading about half the machine on my gaming system to bump up the performance (6892 in 3D Mark).

Chris, congratulations! Great feeling building your own machine, huh? So great that even when it's done, it's not done -- so we gotta mod to get another fix.

thats a nice rig FUBAR. Are your hard drives liquid cooled?

Quote: Originally posted by jhoop2002 thats a nice rig FUBAR. Are your hard drives liquid cooled?

Nah... just my CPU, GPU and North Bridge. I have my drives in Vantec Hard Drive Coolers with Dual 40x40x20mm fans. They work just fine.

Okay thanks guys. BA were you talking to me when you said "Your RAM is too slow"? Yeah I'll get a new Graphics Card soon. What should I go for thats cheap and has good performance?

No, I was talking to Chris. His ram is too slow for his motherboard.

If I were to buy a graphics card today, I would look long and hard at the 9500 Pro.

I looked long and hard at it... then bought it. Just waiting for newegg to quit f*cking around and ship it already.... the waiting is going to kill me.

Oh, okay thanks.

thread pointless me go play nfs hs