I finally got one whole system home. I've been working for the last 2 months to build these two systems for the kids this X-mas. They cost $1200 each canadian.(after taxes.) I figure I've saved about $400-500 on each as opposed to buying a system outright. Instead I bought the parts and put them together myself. The kik ass parts of the systems IMO are the Radeon 9600 xt parts and the integrated soundstorm bolstered by the Logitech 640's surround sound.(heh, Dolby 5.1 rocks.) The integrated soundstorm helped to give me a reduced pricing. I'm disapointed the the nForce 4 won't have soundstorm. This spring I plan on building my own sytem,, more powerful then the kids systems of course. I got atholon XP 2600 and ASUS A7N8X-E DELUXE NFORCE2 ULTRA400 in both as well. Both have 512megs of system ram, 80 gig HD's with 8 meg buffers and 17 inch crt monitors. Operating system is XP on both. Prolly upgrade memory to one gig after christmas. In terms of performance they are more then twice as powerful as my own configuration.
Right now this system is at my neighbors who lives directly beneath us. Soon both will be there. He has agreed to let me pile my X-mas stuff up at his place for the next month.. He has an awfully small apartment and I don't think he understands my excessive materialism at X-mas. .. I've already got a shit load of other items I want to get for X-mas in the queue.. I hope he sticks with the agreement.
http://img31.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img31&image=Im000285.jpg
Here we can see the other vid card for the other system that I've not fully paid for yet. The fellow who helped me buy these parts is a system builder who can match online prices without the shipping/RMA fees and the like. It really helped me a lot in terms of cost. Great guy.
http://img31.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img31&image=Im000284.jpg
A pic from downstairs.
http://img31.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img31&image=Im000283.jpg
new kitty replacing my old one.(rip)
http://img31.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img31&image=Im000278.jpg
the dog..
http://img31.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img31&image=Im000282.jpg
The lucky recipients of these two new systems unbenouced to them..
http://img31.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img31&image=Im000274.jpg
Man, I can barely wait for christmas. The kids are going to freak out.
EDIT:game suggestions are welcome.. I've already decided I will buy Codename: PANZERS Phase One and Rome total war. I've already purchased Half life 2 and rolercoaster tycoon.
Right now this system is at my neighbors who lives directly beneath us. Soon both will be there. He has agreed to let me pile my X-mas stuff up at his place for the next month.. He has an awfully small apartment and I don't think he understands my excessive materialism at X-mas. .. I've already got a shit load of other items I want to get for X-mas in the queue.. I hope he sticks with the agreement.
http://img31.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img31&image=Im000285.jpg
Here we can see the other vid card for the other system that I've not fully paid for yet. The fellow who helped me buy these parts is a system builder who can match online prices without the shipping/RMA fees and the like. It really helped me a lot in terms of cost. Great guy.
http://img31.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img31&image=Im000284.jpg
A pic from downstairs.
http://img31.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img31&image=Im000283.jpg
new kitty replacing my old one.(rip)
http://img31.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img31&image=Im000278.jpg
the dog..
http://img31.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img31&image=Im000282.jpg
The lucky recipients of these two new systems unbenouced to them..
http://img31.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img31&image=Im000274.jpg
Man, I can barely wait for christmas. The kids are going to freak out.
EDIT:game suggestions are welcome.. I've already decided I will buy Codename: PANZERS Phase One and Rome total war. I've already purchased Half life 2 and rolercoaster tycoon.