PC Building!

clive smiles politely and gets up to make coffee

lol. I forgot to add that its 64 bit architecture as well. basically its just really fast, with a lot of space to work with. Bigger than what I've had before this one.

low point? Windows 7. (sigh) looks like I'm forcefully moving away from XP against my will. Will miss it for sure.

you've just fused Clive's brain....

it's wickedly fast. Made a mistake though, the CPU is a single core (cries). but with the DDR3, and the 64 bit architecture, its still faster than what my dual core was when I still had the phoenix. Feels good to have a desktop again.

Used to love building PC's, trying to squeeze as much power out of them by overclocking and constantly upgrading bits and bobs.

Wouldn't know where to start these days, but tend to go down the laptop route as it serves as business machine and I can use it at home. Hated Vista on my old lappie, and even with 4GB of RAM, it was slow and mem hungry

It soldiered on for 4 years in heavy daily use, but had massive overheating issues, so have recently replaced it with a HP Pavilion dv7. When I think back to my old 486, or early Pentiums it makes me laugh.

This lappie has 8 cores, 8GB RAM, 64 bit, and for as much as my cynicsm with windoze 7, I'm actually really impressed with it, it is miles better than Vista, and I'd say it performs as well as XP (once I've gone for classic settings and made it look like win95)

How they keep the heat down is beyond me, and fingers crossed this Pavillion doesn't go the same way as my old one!

My new one is built into the case I got for phoenix originally, so its in a larger case with about 4 fans creating a pretty decent cooling system in the case. Just need to sort one for the graphics card though. I want to play sacred later today after work, but I'm worried that the GPU might overheat (might not happen with all the fans, but I am overly cautious after what happened to phoenix). Dang thing has nothing but a heat sink to take the hot air away.

It seems strange to me somehow, looking inside the case and not seeing a single IDE cable. Everything runs off SATA2. meh, like I said, its not a high end machine, but it has board is an ASRock, so with the intel chipset, I can add anything from a Core i5 to a core i7, and add that to the DDR3, and I will have a monster. Just wont be able to SLI though, it only has one PCIE.

I had friends that had quad cores (mainly the AMD Phenom), and the reckon the best way to keep the system anywhere near 36 degrees is water cooling. For laptops though, you get cooling stands that the laptop rests on and helps it stay cool. haven't seen them here though.

I love putting PC's together. Before I got my certification, I had a few IT guys stumped. They said that I would never get XP running on a P1, let alone get it to play videos, and I did. I'm still trying to find a P3 chip though. Out of all the pentiums, the P3 was the best. Would love to have one up and running in my lab.

Here's my board - with everything it came with in the line of utilities. ASRock H61M-HVS

Im in the dark ages - this internet fad will never take off you know!

Im happy with my quill & parchment

methinks the lad doth protest too much

no i am that bad