The Computer Megathread

[Nymethus]

OK my laptop is the best in the world.
oh yeah and that amount of money should be halved.

[Ad Bot]

[Ethan]

Define "good"

Fast, efficient, speedy, quick, powerful.

Not sure about whether I should be worried but rather recently the screen started flickering (selective areas, sometimes a window would flicker over another in the wrong scale, etc). I tried to shut it down but it had to update first. I gave it 45 minutes, but it was still stuck in the first update with no HDD activity, so I forcibly shut it down. Then I took a look inside it, rearranged some cables and installed an extra 8GB of RAM. When I turned it on again Chrome had for whatever reason decided to forget my extensions and my theme. Should I be worried?

Sometimes happens. Have you restarted since then?

600W (max) PSU with 5 molex and 2 FDD connectors free.
AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000+ @ 3.2GHz
7" front, 16" side, 16.4" tall.

No 6-pin or 6+2-pin adapters available?
Also is there at least 10 inches length room for a GPU, and 2 expansion slots?

[Nymethus]

Fast, efficient, speedy, quick, powerful.

I suppose the first four are the same thing. it is fast. as for "powerful" it can do everything I'm using it for. seems good to me.

[Ethan]

I suppose the first four are the same thing. it is fast. as for "powerful" it can do everything I'm using it for. seems good to me.

It's specs are bad. It couldn't render a good fart.

[Trymos]

What was his specs again?

Not the display tab.

I'll compare it to my stuffty compaq which costed $200 from ebay brand new. It's now 2 years old but whatever.

My laptop is two years old now. Should i reformat it any time soon? My hard drive is filled with forget and i can't fix it because i can't get into windows.

[KoopaScooper]

No 6-pin or 6+2-pin adapters available?
Also is there at least 10 inches length room for a GPU, and 2 expansion slots?

Sadly, no. This power supply was from '08/'09.
If I remove an old HDD that I don't even use, yes.

[Ethan]

What was his specs again?

Not the display tab.

I'll compare it to my stuffty compaq which costed $200 from ebay brand new. It's now 2 years old but whatever.

My laptop is two years old now. Should i reformat it any time soon? My hard drive is filled with forget and i can't fix it because i can't get into windows.

It had an old i3 with like 4gb ram? and a Intel 3000 GPU.

[Ethan]

Sadly, no. This power supply was from '08/'09.
If I remove an old HDD that I don't even use, yes.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371016
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102908

Don't worry that it's only a $140 GPU. That's probably the best you're going to get without bottlenecking on your CPU.

[SPooK]

Ethan,

I might be build this rig over the summer (I have to get some of the money for it :3)

Case: Corsair Special Edition White Graphite Series 600T
Power Supply: COOLER MASTER Silent Pro 1000W
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition Thuban 3.3GHz : 3.7GHz
RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3 1600
GPU: SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 6950 Dirt3 Edition 2GB
Hard Drive: HITACHI Deskstar 7K1000.D 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache
Optical Drive: ASUS 24X DVD Burner

Total: $1085.92

I think it is quite good as it is, I just wanted to know if you had any advice as to what could be better.

[Ethan]

Ethan,

I might be build this rig over the summer (I have to get some of the money for it :3)

Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119197
PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341041
Mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157263
CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115072
HSink: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835106150
TGrease: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835100007
RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231428
HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185
GPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125372

Total: $1100 exactly.
When the HDD comes back in stock, it should come back down to $60 and not $80, then you can add a DVD burner, or add this instead:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127604

Also, if you didn't notice already, every single part in your system is red and black, so if you want to keep with that and only loose a tiny amount of performance:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121425
I probably would, lol.

[Squideey]

God dammit. Was buying a full tower worth it?

[Trymos]

Should i reformat my laptop and install fedora?

The laptops issues is:
It's getting slower every day, slowly though.
Hard drive is filled with lots of forget. (6GB left)
Windows is unbootable.
System recovery is forgeted. So no recovering windows unless that HP recovery CD works.
Ubuntu (The only OS left on the laptop) is slowly breaking. If my laptop doesn't get slow as forget first, ubuntu will break.

[SPooK]

Computer Stuff clip

That's a lot of changes 0_0 Would the system I configured still work well? Mainly because I want fast application tasking and very good graphic renders and framerates.

[HerpaDerp]

God dammit. Was buying a full tower worth it?

It's worth it as there's more space for ventilation and air flow, although a mid-tower would be a better bang for your buck, a full tower is really good, lots of space for any future upgrades, and adequate room for airflow and ventilation. Did you get the Phantom? 

[Fredulus]

and full towers just look badass