Self Built Computer Club

Well my build is in my sig as well as my computer specs, i have to update the pictures on my website

WOA michale why in the word do you need 6 moniters!!! what in the world do you do with that!!

I don't have a heater in my office, so I have to make do with computer parts.
Actually, I work in a process control environment. Having several monitors allows us to view more of what is happening in our system so nothing goes overlooked and no sewage gets dumped into our rivers and streets. We're actually planning on adding two more monitors and getting a couple atdec quad monitor stands in a few weeks for more monitoring.

Wait, what city do you work for? I'll make a mental note to avoid it.. I mean, yeah, good work on keeping the streets sewage free!

Wait, what city do you work for? I'll make a mental note to avoid it.. I mean, yeah, good work on keeping the streets sewage free!

What???     His department is managing the situation -- it sounds like they're on top of it.

Actually, the reason you'd want to avoid my city is to avoid the wonderful smelling paper factory.

Actually, the reason you'd want to avoid my city is to avoid the wonderful smelling paper factory.

do you mean Pulp Mill?

Or maybe he means... Pulp Fortress?

woa what was that

What was what?

Here's my game rig It's a Pentium 4 Socket 478, Intel SE7210TP1-E Sever Board, DDR RAM 1 GB, SATA Drives 160 GB 320 GB, HDA Digital X Mystique 7.1 Gold, Radeon X1300  This had a major problem that was posted around here.  Thought about upgradeing it a little.

Squall, personally, I think your rig needs to be retired if you game. Pentium 4's have outlived there usefulness as far as gaming goes. Although, I doubt many remember what a Pentium 4 originally was, the socket 478 P4 Willamette. Horrible processor that even at 1.73GHz couldn't out perform a 1.3GHz socket 370 Celeron, but that was also before Celeron's gained the D for Dyslexic.

DR, not everyone has the money to constantly upgrade systems.
Not a bad rig IMHO although the graphics are very weak, I do like the motherboard.

I'm flat broke, my desktop is cobbled together from leftover parts from my last desktop, and new parts that I almost never came up with money to get. I've got roughly $500 in this desktop, probably less, and the CPU, RAM, heatsink, RAM, and HDD are spare parts, but I counted the CPU, RAM, and HDD into the price because I still paid for them back in early 07. Didn't pay for the DVD burner, its left over from my last rig, paid $5 for the heatsink, bought it from my bro 'cause it wouldn't fit his rig. Its a true budget box, the 8800GS is a budget $85 GPU, its not that great, but it does the job. I'm not saying everyone should cough up for a Monolith of a computer, just that if you game you should find the money to at least invest in a bottom line system like i did. Only reason I cobbled this thing together is because my laptop's 8600M GT is a bit weak. Only took roughly $210 to rebuild this thing, give or take five or six bucks 'cause I can't remember the exact price of the hardware.

I think I need to reiterate the condition my desktop is in seeing as you seem to think I'm running some uber rig. So I'll put the two images below. Counting the game controller and mouse, thats another $58 roughly, so I got about $270 in this rig currently. I consider the other parts paid off because I got about a years use out of them before the motherboard cannibalized its self.





Desktop specs:

Intel Pentium D 805 2.66GHz/2MB L2/533MHz FSB
1GB DDR2 667 SuperTalent RAM
320GB IDE WD3200 series HDD
nVidia 8800GS 384MB/192 bit GPU
Socket 775 Foxconn M7VMX nVidia 7010+610i motherboard
Rosewill 550W PSU
Lite-ON DVD-RW

Eight or nine fans, lemme think... 92MM exhaust, 92MM CPU fan, 50MM chipset fan, 50MM GPU fan, two 80MM intake fans, one 80MM top exhaust fan, one 120MM PSU fan.. So thats.. Yeah, eight total. This thing sounds like the Hair Dryer from Satan's torture chest, but it works.

Another note, I currently have to use the aforementioned PC because I dropped my laptop and killed the audio port 'cause the jack on my headphones snapped it loose and shoved it back inside my laptop. Good thing the warranty is good 'til 2010

Its fine for my games except one its not like I run any of the new stuff on it.  I will swap it out of the case in near time an get something modern, but working on other machine an school an tring to get funds to do that stuff.  I just recently got a wii, which took a good bit out of my funds.  Aside from other work I need to attend too.  I dont think that you can aid in that.  At the time I did have a more powerful rig set up to get but I couldnt find the parts at places I shopped.  I dont like going out of those in case you get scammed or something. 

Is this a self built rig squall? If so I'll add an icon for ya.