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keeping some old buying some new, etc. etc. I was able to build a core2 duo for 580.00 before tax

I purchased the chip, mobo, ram, HDD, case, psu


400 w psu


e6300 core2duo


dual vsta mobo w/1066 fsb, support sata and ide controllers


2 gig kit pc5400


320 gig sata hdd


128mb vid card agp






250 gig external drive


dvd rw


cd rw



new purchases = chip, mobo, ram, Hdd, case and psu, 580 Canadian before tax.

reused, vid card, monitor, cd, dvd, speakers, external drive.

smokin' budget pc!!!!! and my first custom build ( I'll never buy another pre built system again )

Wasn't difficult, scariest part is putting the chip in the socket and never knowing if it was done right until after the whole thing was built.

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Sweet! Yeah it's always more fun to build. To me the scariest part is putting the heat sink, since you need so much force and those motherboard cracking sounds are not very appealing to the ear.

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hahahaha that acctually is pretty nice i have a dell with a core centrino but slow as hell internet i got alot of ram though hahaha

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Red Squirrel wrote: Sweet!  Yeah it's always more fun to build.  To me the scariest part is putting the heat sink, since you need so much force and those motherboard cracking sounds are not very appealing to the ear.

right, the direction on placing in the heat sink were a little misleading, all you need to do is push until you hear a 'snap' ---- right, snap? more like a crunch, and I was never really satisfied with it.

I will say on start up the 'stock' fan and heatsink are quite noisey. not nesesarily all the time, however it is frequent. shut down and restart it is quiet agian. (my old p.c. does this now as well) I don't know what the reason is, it works and it can work quietly, just sometimes it is noisey.

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Is Intel Core Duo really worth it? My sister has a friend who loves computers and he wasn't all that amazed with Core Duo, said that he'd rather keep his Pentium 4 and wait for something better to come along.

I don't know if it's really much better or not.

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Shinizo wrote: Is Intel Core Duo really worth it? My sister has a friend who loves computers and he wasn't all that amazed with Core Duo, said that he'd rather keep his Pentium 4 and wait for something better to come along.

I don't know if it's really much better or not.

The answer to wether it is worth it is to suit your needs, I was running AMD 2.02ghz @32 bit.

even with the 32bit I was able to do alot of multitasking with much stability (after you know how and what to do)

based on my old configuration, I did not need a new computer, I was able to do alot already, however my girlfriend was using a Pentium 2 at .533 mhz - she likes to play online games and it is getting closer where minimum system requirements are 1.0 ghz cpu.

for around 400.00 I could purchase an older system much like the one I was using, OR she could have my old one, and with some money 180.00 I could get a core2duo. so It was worth it for both of us. If i had purchased another chip I would have spent too much, the closest chip was 160-180, core2duo was 220.

If you are running a decent cpu already, you definatley do not need to upgrade - but dollar for dollar core2duo is the best value. Personaly I would have waited until quad cores came out.

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scherzo wrote:

Red Squirrel wrote: Sweet!  Yeah it's always more fun to build.  To me the scariest part is putting the heat sink, since you need so much force and those motherboard cracking sounds are not very appealing to the ear.

right, the direction on placing in the heat sink were a little misleading, all you need to do is push until you hear a 'snap' ---- right, snap? more like a crunch, and I was never really satisfied with it.

I will say on start up the 'stock' fan and heatsink are quite noisey. not nesesarily all the time, however it is frequent. shut down and restart it is quiet agian. (my old p.c. does this now as well) I don't know what the reason is, it works and it can work quietly, just sometimes it is noisey.

Yeah some stocks can be quite noisy. I remember my first built PC was an AMD 2000+ (now my server) and the stock fan was one of those blue 60mm thin fans, like 8k rpm. That thing sounded like an industrial vacuum cleaner. I had replaced it with a bought fan, much better.

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yah my uncle built his own coputer and its got like a really nice sound board and Its just really super nice hes got to comps for the same monitor and yah it runs really fast

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I ain't noticed this one fast yet, I have been working on the old drive, backing up data, instaling apps, and creating a backup image. It is taking longer than I expected. In some cases I would say I notice a speed difference, other not much of a difference at all, however I made a switch from AMD to intel, I will definatley notice performance increase in specifc areas.

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tiger direct had a sweet deal on pent. d's --- 155$

most of the savings was in the case and psu = 26$

I picked it up (just the case and psu) put my old amd in it, has 4 drive bays, filled em with a couple mobile racks, dvd, and cd burner




with 450 psu, - nice

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scherzo wrote:

Red Squirrel wrote: Sweet!  Yeah it's always more fun to build.  To me the scariest part is putting the heat sink, since you need so much force and those motherboard cracking sounds are not very appealing to the ear.

right, the direction on placing in the heat sink were a little misleading, all you need to do is push until you hear a 'snap' ---- right, snap? more like a crunch, and I was never really satisfied with it.

I will say on start up the 'stock' fan and heatsink are quite noisey. not nesesarily all the time, however it is frequent. shut down and restart it is quiet agian. (my old p.c. does this now as well) I don't know what the reason is, it works and it can work quietly, just sometimes it is noisey.

maybe they arent screwed in tight enough so they vibrate

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you know just in case you didnt already think of that.

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LOL - thanks


- I don't have the noise issues anymore. And on second thought I believe it was the fan on my video card that was causing the noise, which explains why it sounded the exact same as my other pc ( took out the vid card from the other pc )

the vid fan and cpu fan are relativly close so it easy to mistake wherer the noise was generated from.


- also the other pc's I believe were noisey, not because of the psu, or cpu fans, I seriously think it was the hard drive that was noisey, ( tin echo ) - the hard drive is older only 10 gig in size from my pentium 2. reason i suspect the hard drive is after installing 2 mobile racks in one pc, one rack had the 80 gig hdd, the other rack had 10gig hdd, I noticed even in a different case, psu, and cpu the machine was still noisey and only thing different was the 10 gig hdd

my set up is fairly sweet, my machine is the pentium core2 duo ( which have gone up in price ) 2 gig ddr2667 mhz dual channel ram, -128mb vid card, 320gig hdd

the other pc, with the new case and psu has an AMD 2600+ with 512mb ram (girlfriend uses this one)
I seperated the hard drives using 2 mobile racks, 1 rack 80 gig is for her o.s. and games etc, net browsing, and all the fun stuff
the second rack is a 'secure rack' only used for banking, and online purchase. IT can be physically turned off with a key



picutre isn't mine, but you can see what a mobile rack looks like, I have 2 and use the key to turn one on, and the other off. It is exactly like having 2 seperate computers ( but only can use one at a time )

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scherzo wrote: .....


new purchases = chip, mobo, ram, Hdd, case and psu, 580 Canadian before tax.

........

so you spent $25 american?


nice looking system

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