DOS Games Discussion

wardrich · Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 2:58 am Post subject:

My old AMD64 has been handed down to my brother... I built myself a new one back in December:



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 Motherboard: Asus M2N4-SLI
   Processor: AMD 64 4200+ (~2.2ghz)
         RAM: 2gigs of DDR2 (I think it's Kingston, I don't recall the speed)
   HDD Space: About 400gigs (800 with the external attached)
   Videocard: XFX GeForce 7300GT [256mb PCI-E]
   Soundcard: Soundblaster Audigy 2 platinum Pro [ripped out of the old computer]  *will be upgraded when I have money.
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franpa · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 5:17 am Post subject:

I'm angry now :Angry: :Angry: my mother board is revision 1.xx and only revision 2.00 or newer support the core 2 duo processors !

wardrich · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 5:31 am Post subject:

franpa · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 10:21 am Post subject:

oO it isnt intel i blame, its ASUS.

dayaccus007 · Expert Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 137

Anyway, to run at full capacity a core2duo need a motherboard with 965 chipset.

franpa · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:38 am Post subject:

oO it just needs a motherboard that supports it ^^

Thunderdog · Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 12:09 am Post subject:

Updated my specs on the first page.

Ro@m · Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 2:44 am Post subject:

Rockerest · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:32 pm Post subject:

MOBO: Asus P5B
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.13Ghz E6400 Conroe
RAM: 2 Gb PC6400 Kingston ValueRAM
GPU: nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB PCI-e
HDD: Western Digital 320 Gb
ODD: DVD ROM, CD RW
APU: Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 4

It has a floppy drive, too!
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And then there's my laptop.

Sony Vaio VGN-FZ140E, look it up.

-rock

dayaccus007 · Expert Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 137

Nice PC!!! it will last for a while.

dosraider · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:58 pm Post subject:

Indeed, a nice PC and a nice laptop too.

One question.
Why no DVD writer in the PC ? Usually they are faster and more reliable than those laptop inbuild ones.

franpa · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 7:46 pm Post subject:

heres a update to my computer, im getting the motherboard and CPU next week (which is really soon Happy

) and have already gotten the new DVD Burner. if my memory is incompatible then ill upgrade it to 6400 800mhz memory or if possible, get some DDR3 memory Happy

.

edit: adjusted the memory setting.
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INTEL Core 2 DUO E6750 2.66GHZ
ASUS P5KC motherboard
1024mb ddr2 ram 6400 (800mhz)
geforce 6600gt 128mb pcie
200gig sata2 hdd
ASUS DRW-1814BLT DVD RE WRITER
lg 52x cd rom
Sound Blaster X-FI Xtreme Music
direct x 9.0c
windows xp home sp2 on ntfs partition
latest updates for drivers, bios's, software

tinman47 · Lord of Gaming Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 231

Processor: AMD Turion64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-52 (I have 2 of them.)
RAM: 1982 MB
Hard Drive: 120 GB
Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150
System Type: 32-Bit

It was originally a Windows Vista,but when I made the smart decision to reformat,I put Windows XP Professional and my comp works like a charm. Blissful

Larry Laffer · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 1:26 am Post subject:

Eh, why don't you switch to 64-Bit? Confuzzled

franpa · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 2:18 am Post subject:

less backwards compatible Tbbbbbth!