CandySkyer
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reading the notebook thread, gave me an idea. why not discuss deskstop and show off your stuff and talk..
heres the story. I had this tower that was built in 2005, after ditching a old dell 2002 system, it was pentium 4 3.0GHZ, 1GB ram, it was 80GB HD (finally upgraded to 200GB HD sata when 80GB HD went), radeon 500/600 series video card, intel GAG915 motherboard. (back then it was ideal for a graphic design basic work.... and for a college student, it was given to me with a budget of $500) It was faithful to me until last feb 2008.. It never started up right again and it was going bad on me, it was hopeless to keep it alive... It was sad story because I was broke and needed it bad for my college work... but lucky for me I had my trusty laptop with me to do some work while looking into a brand new deskstop system to build and to fiance since I had started a job, perfect oppunity for me to do so..
so into my research, and finally built a new computer system, heres the new specs,
Soprano DX mid tower,
-Blood Iron Motherboard,
-Core 2 Quad 6600 2.4 GHZ,
-2 GB crucical Technology ram (will soon add another 2GB for my graphic design purposes, will be 4GB Ram.)
Radeon 500/600 series video (using until i can upgrade this to Geforce 8600GT video card, ideal for graphics work.)
-20 inch Dell LCD Screen Monitor ( upgraded when in early feb 2008, my CRT (yes the same CRT i had used for 6 years, died on me this was before the whole tower died on me)
-Two Cd/Dvd Burners, one has lightscribe, other dont.
-OCZ Technology 600Watts Power Supply.
I had to replace my trusty 200GB hd, it even went bad while the old system dying.. it has been upgraded to 500GB Western Digital SE16.
and runs on VISTA ultimate, hence why I am going to add more 2GB ram for more speed for graphic design, and vista eats up 1 GB alone.
all under $800 for the tower itself!
It was great upgrade building system for me, and especially I had not upgraded anything since 2005, and especially I am now experienced Graphic designer, and do most of coding CSS and Html.
Most were ordered off newegg, a faithful member since 2001.
Discuss away your dream system or what you have!
heres the story. I had this tower that was built in 2005, after ditching a old dell 2002 system, it was pentium 4 3.0GHZ, 1GB ram, it was 80GB HD (finally upgraded to 200GB HD sata when 80GB HD went), radeon 500/600 series video card, intel GAG915 motherboard. (back then it was ideal for a graphic design basic work.... and for a college student, it was given to me with a budget of $500) It was faithful to me until last feb 2008.. It never started up right again and it was going bad on me, it was hopeless to keep it alive... It was sad story because I was broke and needed it bad for my college work... but lucky for me I had my trusty laptop with me to do some work while looking into a brand new deskstop system to build and to fiance since I had started a job, perfect oppunity for me to do so..
so into my research, and finally built a new computer system, heres the new specs,
Soprano DX mid tower,
-Blood Iron Motherboard,
-Core 2 Quad 6600 2.4 GHZ,
-2 GB crucical Technology ram (will soon add another 2GB for my graphic design purposes, will be 4GB Ram.)
Radeon 500/600 series video (using until i can upgrade this to Geforce 8600GT video card, ideal for graphics work.)
-20 inch Dell LCD Screen Monitor ( upgraded when in early feb 2008, my CRT (yes the same CRT i had used for 6 years, died on me this was before the whole tower died on me)
-Two Cd/Dvd Burners, one has lightscribe, other dont.
-OCZ Technology 600Watts Power Supply.
I had to replace my trusty 200GB hd, it even went bad while the old system dying.. it has been upgraded to 500GB Western Digital SE16.
and runs on VISTA ultimate, hence why I am going to add more 2GB ram for more speed for graphic design, and vista eats up 1 GB alone.
all under $800 for the tower itself!
It was great upgrade building system for me, and especially I had not upgraded anything since 2005, and especially I am now experienced Graphic designer, and do most of coding CSS and Html.Most were ordered off newegg, a faithful member since 2001.
Discuss away your dream system or what you have!
