Vinyl 45 arrives





It’s here.

DFI Lan­Party UT NForce4 SLI-DR VENUS, AMD 64bit 3200+ (939) @ 2.4GHz, 2GB (2 x 1GB DIMMS) OCZ Plat­inum DDR PC4000, 256MB GeForce 7600GS PCIe, 250GB Sata2 Sea­gate, Pio­neer DVD Combi drive, OCZ Pow­er­stream 520 Watts… and XP Pro still sucks. Nec­es­sary evils, I sup­pose. 2221 3DMark ’06, don’t remem­ber ’05 score.

All this fire­power and I’m sit­ting here play­ing seven-year-old RTS games any­way. Sigh :P Next stop, another hard drive (just so I don’t have system/data on same disk… I’d com­plain about the page­file — wow it’s weird call­ing a swap par­ti­tion that — but some­how with 2GBs of tasty mem­ory — mmm brains — that shouldn’t be too much of a con­cern just yet ;-)).

Also, I’m rather sold on the dual core myth so if any­one has an X2 939 they’re try­ing to get rid of… PWTB. Not that I need it right now so it’ll wait a while. I’m plan­ning on sav­ing again and get­ting some decent video hard­ware to go with my new Sony PVM-411CE :-)

I’ve got some case mods planned but am think­ing they’re going to have to wait until sum­mer break for rea­sons of time and money. And it’s now 1.30 in the morn­ing and I’ve got to be up in five and a half hours. Doh… com­put­ers suck.

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posted on Thursday, October 5th, 2006 at 1:27 am by Josh, filed under AV, Geek.

4 Responses to “Vinyl 45 arrives”

  1. Black Yoshi says:
    Friday, 6th October, 2006 at 2:37 am

    I first read “Sea­gate” as “Star­gate” and was all excited.

  2. An old acquaintance says:
    Wednesday, 11th October, 2006 at 3:21 pm

    This might be abit ran­dom con­sid­er­ing I havnt read or replied to this web­site in .…… more than 6 – 7 months … prob­a­bly havnt spo­ken to you in that time frame either. Which promts the obvi­ouse ques­tion how are you? and hope things are well…

    As for my com­ment: WTF YOU GOT A VENUS! where from and how much did that cost?!?!!

    Yeah def go dual core if pos­si­ble. fluidtek/msy have them for like $200 now… (or atleast they did). hav­ing said that you prob­a­bly know that already.…

    Per­son­ally im hop­ing to acquire a basic Core 2 Duo machine some time b4 christ­mas. Got bug­ger all chance of it actu­ally hap­pen­ing, but it would be VERY nice to finaly replace my 5 year old P4. For now im happy with my new benq 91V+.….

  3. Josh says:
    Wednesday, 11th October, 2006 at 7:55 pm

    Hey Johnny :) Things are mod­er­ately good, yah. You should blog more tho :P

    It cost me… lots less than it should have :) Above sys­tem was $950 total I think. Only full price com­po­nent was the 7600GS ($150) coz I couldn’t be both­ered find­ing a sec­ond hand graph­ics card cheaper — I would have spent like $250 on a graph­ics card if I did, and was already get­ting broke enough over this thing. It’s now up to ~$1200 with a bit of soft­ware thrown in and what­ever else, and then I’m hope­fully going to spend another grand or so on video edit­ing crap in a month or three, so it’s suf­fi­ciently finan­cially draining.

    Nah dual core isn’t that cheap for 939. It’s $275 for slow­est (4200+, if that’s slow :P) A64 939 from MSY. You’re prob­a­bly think­ing of AM2 stuff… you can get slower AM2 chips for cheaper than $200 but it’s def­i­nitely not worth the has­sle of me chang­ing moth­er­boards for. Plus I’m get­ting a mediocre but strangely worth­while 400MHz over­clock out of the 3200 I’ve got at the minute, and that’s before I start pump­ing up the volt­age much. The sys­tem is capa­ble of much more but I don’t really know enough about mod­ern tech to acheive greater per­for­mance gains… espe­cially RAM tim­ings, that’s just throw­ing me out completely.

    It’s pulling in 3dMark06 scores of 2235 which is pretty solid con­sid­er­ing the el crapo graph­ics card. I’m espe­cially enjoy­ing hav­ing 2GB of mem­ory to play with :)

  4. JSW says:
    Wednesday, 18th October, 2006 at 7:57 pm

    Haha my blog? yeah i deleted all my old posts as they were.… well… point­less? largly con­cern­ing the half fin­ished ones from NZ which got some very uncom­pli­men­tary remarks from ran­dom peo­ple with too much time on there hands. (mean while im miss­ing a maths lec­ture writ­ing this ahem, you can see im very dedicated)

    Ahhm yes RAM tim­ings. Iv got NFI :D. All i know is that to get seri­ouse power ~2gb of ddr800 is like… more than i would get by sell­ing my entire bed­room lol.

    Iv been keep­ing rel­a­tivly upto speed on lat­est tech. Iv been try­ing to update my pc since last christ­mas (hence my lack of chance of get­ting one b4 next chris­tams seem­ing as its been 9 months :P). Part of that was dis­sat­is­fac­tion of the prices lol. So i was pretty happy when AMD had 939 3800 x2 for i think… 190. The idea was to just get the MB and the CPU.….. But then they went and upped the price again. Since Core 2 apears to be killing AMD atm and theres noth­ing i can really do for my cur­rent box any­more (the whole thing is seri­ously dying — my 2 cd dri­ves open/close ran­domly with­out instruc­tion, and with­out a restart my pc screen flashes uncon­tro­lably) i may as well get a whole new sha­bang. Flu­idtek appears to be offer­ing bet­ter prices than MSY atm, but if I can find alit­tle asian guy who has a mem­ber­ship @ MSY to buy the stuff for me then i could prob get an extra ~10% off.. or so a friend tells me any­way :D.

    I bench­marked my pc hehhehe. With 3dmark05.….…. some­thing like 425 hahahahhahah.

    I would LOVE more power. I tend to use with lots of pro­grams to mod games with, play with graph­ics + web etc, main ones being adobe CS2 + macro­me­dia suite, maya, some bathy­met­ric vec­tor map­ping soft­ware for UNI (long story). But the point is run­ning more than 2 of any combo from that lot makes my pc hemo­urage. Which is very sad.

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