CHUD.com Community › Forums › DVD, HOME THEATER, & GADGETS › Chewer Tech › My New Computer
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

My New Computer

post #1 of 14
8/24/09 at 5:27pm
Thread Starter 
My Dell XPS Generation 3 lasted me quite awhile. It's been a good computer. Decently "high end" for its time. ATI X800XT graphics card. 3.4 Ghz processor with 2GB of RAM!!!

But all that changed when I purchased "Call of Duty World at War" last November and couldn't play it. I wasn't in a huge rush then to get a new one but now that COD: Modern Warfare 2 is coming... I NEED a new one. It's been ordered and should be here by the end of the week.

It's contents:

EVGA X58 SLI LE Socket LGA1366 Motherboard
Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz Retail Processor
12GB Corsair XMS DDR3-1333 Triple Channel Memory
Hitachi 1TB SATA Internal Hard Drive
Ultra LSP750 750-Watt Power Supply
BFG GeForce GTX 260 OC MAXCORE Video Card

It's gonna be heaven having something that runs fast. I might actually decide to do some video editing now. I figure I'll turn the old computer into a storage device or a make shift media center.
Reply
post #2 of 14
8/24/09 at 5:30pm
beefy setup

I assume you'll be running a 64bit os?
Reply
post #3 of 14
8/24/09 at 5:45pm
Thread Starter 
Yeah, probably either Vista or Windows 7. I'll update to Windows 7 when its fully released anyways so I'll probably just go with that.

Right now the computer doesn't have a CD/DVD drive in it. I'm just going to transfer over the existing DVD burner from the Dell. In time I'll add a Blu-Ray drive to it but that'll probably be early next year sometime.
Reply
post #4 of 14
8/25/09 at 10:22am
BluRay players for the PC are cheap cheap now. You can get one for under $80, if you look hard enough. BUT...make sure you have the software and codecs to play the discs. Windows Media Player/Center doesn't have the codecs (remember, they were backing HD-DVD). So you may have to buy an additional program (like PowerDVD, etc.) to play your Blu Ray discs. I learned this the hard way a few months ago. I eventually gave up on the whole thing because my processor wasn't fast enough to play discs without it skipping.
Reply
post #5 of 14
8/25/09 at 10:52am
What GPU did you have? I believe the newer one's can offload blu-ray decoding for you.
Reply
post #6 of 14
8/25/09 at 10:55am
Drop the 12 GB of RAM to 6, they will actually slow you down a bit. Use the money to go from a GTX 260 to a 275 or a 285.
Reply
post #7 of 14
8/25/09 at 10:55am
That was my other problem. My machine is an older one I built, and all it has is an AGP slot and PCI slots. I couldn't find a powerful enough card that would utilize AGP or PCI. So I ended up just returning the drive. It was also when my PS3 was getting repaired, so I was looking for a BluRay player backup. Now I can get a Magnavox player from Wally World for about $100, which is probably what I'll do next time.
Reply
post #8 of 14
8/25/09 at 9:58pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by stelios View Post
Drop the 12 GB of RAM to 6, they will actually slow you down a bit. Use the money to go from a GTX 260 to a 275 or a 285.
Upgrading to 12 didn't cost much at all. It was pretty cheap to do. The graphics card was a little more pricier to upgrade since the 260 was on sale. As for a Blu-Ray drive, we have some cheap ones at work but the computer was expensive enough. And I'm not in any rush for any kind of Blu-Ray player in it since I already have a BR player for my TV. And yes about using PowerDVD for BR playback. That's what a friend of mine does.
Reply
post #9 of 14
8/26/09 at 10:28pm
Don't forget to install a couple of these babies. Extra battery power helps always.

I do want to one day create my own computer, but I'm always on the go, so I gotta keep buying laptops for now.
Reply
post #10 of 14
8/31/09 at 7:12pm
Thread Starter 
Oh. My. God.

It's here. Fully operational. Tested out the gaming side with Call of Duty: World at War and no hick ups at all. Cranked everything in the options as high as it would allow. Movements were smooth and clear. I spun the mouse around really fast and no problems, it kept up.

I only ended up getting 9GB of RAM. I guess my buddy messed up the order form. Oh wells. I also ended up moving two 300GB hard drives from the old Dell over to this new computer (dubbed Brendobot 3.0) and I had them raided (if that's whats it's called) so they're working together as one drive. I'll just copy everything over from my 1TB external to the 1TB internal and just use the internal as a storage and use the external as a backup.

Bring on Modern Warfare 2!!!
Reply
post #11 of 14
8/31/09 at 7:14pm
stripe raided?
Reply
post #12 of 14
8/31/09 at 7:24pm
Thread Starter 
Ah, I got no clue. He just asked if I wanted to raid them. So it's two hard drives but it works as one and Windows only recognizes it as one BUT there's 600GB of space. I don't know if that's stripe raiding or if it's different.
Reply
post #13 of 14
8/31/09 at 7:28pm
yeah, sounds like stripe raiding

Theoretically it doubles read/write performance of the drives. Theoretically of course.
Reply
post #14 of 14
8/31/09 at 7:31pm
Thread Starter 
Yeah, that's what he said. I did it before, years ago. But I figured, for the moment, they wouldn't be being used since the Dell is on the sidelines at the moment. So I left one 300GB in the Dell and put two in the new one. I just need a monitor and either a long network cable or wireless card for the Dell and it's good to go. I currently use two monitors for my computer. The second monitor has been so handy... I can't go back to one!
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: Chewer Tech
CHUD.com Community › Forums › DVD, HOME THEATER, & GADGETS › Chewer Tech › My New Computer