Spill it Ross...

[D-Bone]

Ok Ghosty, I hear you got a new computer. I assume you went all out and got the highest end everything. This brings up 2 points.

1. You suck. I was getting a new PC and I was hoping I could have the best system even if it was for a short while. You just love crushing my dreams don't you? ;)

2. You need to tell us what you got. Full system specs, what you got and why etc. Any problems with any of the components? This may help decide on some of the stuff I pick.

:)

[Malice]

I do know this, he's using crappy onboard sound that is causing him all kinds of problems with WoW and Teamspeak so you better use a real sound card like an Audigy 2 or something.

[Ghost]

Ok.

1. It's always nice to be appreciated. :D You really shouldn't have posted anything on the forums. That's what got me thinking it was time to check if PCI Express was ready on the Athlon platform.

2. System Specs:

Athlon 64 3500+ 90nm
2 Gb DDR 400
120 Gb Seagate Barracuda SATA Drive
Double Layer 8x DVD+-RW Drive
LeadTek GeForce 6800 GT PCI-Express 16 256 Mb
MX1000 Cordless Laser Mouse (It looked too cool Malice :))
Hornet Small Form Factor Case from Monarch Computer
nForce4 Chipset Micro-ATX Motherboard - Built in Realtek 6 Channel Audio

The Case is pretty cool, but being micro-ATX it only has 2 PCI slots, the 1 PCI Express 16 and a PCI Express 1x slot. My video card is double sized and covers up one of the PCI slots, but I'm not using it anyway. The Barracuda drive is pretty damn fast, although I've noticed it shakes the whole drive on access. It causes a slight rattling noise when disk activity is going on. The onboard sound is pretty good. I've always had a very low level background hum on system activity with onboard sound, and this is no exception. As long as something else is playing though it gets easily covered up. I also had an eight channel onboard on my old system. That allowed me to have the mic hooked up while having the center and sub channels still hooked up. The new board is only six channels, so I have to use the center/sub connection for the mic to use teamspeak. Also the new board doesn't have the RAID chip, so single drive for now. I looked around and couldn't find a micro-atx board with either SATA RAID or eight channel sound. Maybe if someone comes out with one later on I'll upgrade. Other than that, it's a pretty sweet setup. I don't expect to need to replace it for a while.

Oh, and the Teamspeak problem seems to be something common to the nForce sound drivers. I looked on my old system and I had it set to use the Wave driver as well. I vaguely remember having problems a while back and finding that setting. It seems to be working fine with this one as well.

[D-Bone]

Well, you may not have crushed my dreams with that build, we may have to call it a tie when I'm done. ;) 2 questions. Any reason for not going with the 130nm winchester core? Also, 2GB of ram. Which brand and why 2GB?

[D-Bone]

Doh, just realized the 90nm IS the winchester, my bad, scratch that question. Replace with, where did you order from?

[Ghost]

I ordered the System Board, Case, Proc and memory from Monarch Computer. Basically I wanted to use the SFF case and their barebones computer setup could be ordered with everything I needed. As for memory, I did 2 Gb just because. 1 Gb was getting to be a bit restrictive :). The memory was the Corsair TWINX2048-3200PT. It was signifigantly more expensive to get the slightly higher speed memory.