Finally i'm going to have something to occupy my time besides this place!!!
WE'RE GETTING A NEW COMPUTER. but not just an ordinary computer.... here are the specs

--Homebuilt--
Abit AX8 Third Eye Motherboard (not out yet but soon)
AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 Socket 939
Asus X800 XT Platnium Extreme 256 PCI x16 [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]
1024 Corsair XMS Series Xtra Low Lat Memory
600W Power Supply
2x Maxtor 250Mb 7200RPM hard drives
NEX DVD-R--RW Dual Layer DVD Burner
Creative Labs 7.1 Sound Card (soon, after we get it built)
Havn't decided on the cases yet, but he promises its going to out glow the moon [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

I'm so happy I can finally play the games bought years ago! I'll try to get pics once its all built in a few weeks or so. Not if you guys care...

 

You had better settle down or your going to have a wet spot in your chair.

Congratulations on your future purchase.

 

Well all we need it the motherboard/case/soundcard. All the rest it sitting on the floor begging to be used... Its going to be a huge step up from the lappy or the 555mhz clunker under our desk

 

go up to 2048mb of RAM and put those hd's in raid 1 and thats a kick@ss machine! not that it isnt already or anything. very nice [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

We are planning to do raid 1... and we'll proabably upgrade to 2048 eventually (couple months) ...So happy!

 

yay lol im happy for you

i was plannin on buildin a 64 bit 3400+ for xmas but then i decided its better to save my money to get me a racin four wheeler.

nice job on pickin those parts

 

I'd recommend the Seagate SATA drives over the Maxtor. Seagate makes the most reliable SATA drives and they are great peformers.

That should be one smokin' PC. Congrats!

 

what do you do with it

 

We've run Maxtor in all our previous computers and have not had a problem with them. So i'm going brand loyal on the drives... Hope to get Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM eventually expensive though.

What am i going to do with it? Well my dad is going to do high-performance word processing (j/k) lol. And i'm going into Flash Animation, Video Editing, Photoshop, and hardcore gaming [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

Go with what you like. I have a trashed maxtor drive laying on my desk. Never been very impressed with those drives. But if you like Maxtor then I can understand you wanting to stick with them! Go for it!