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A buddy of mine and I are currently refurbishing old omputers and making them into newer upgraded computers. If you need some advice doing this drop me a line, or if you want it done maybe we can come to a price agreement for refurbishing your old computer. Anyways I had a dell PC didnt like the way it ran or anything about it really. So we tore it apart, stripped it right down to bare bones nothing, kept nothing other than the 2 hard drives (more on that later) and thats an interesting problem in itself.
What we installed to refurbish an old computer.
AMD AM2 CPU HT2000 and Dual DDR2 800 Motherboard
The CPU processor is an AMD athlon 64x 2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ at 2.0 ghz
We then dropped a GB of ram on the board and then the video card
Im actually pretty stoked about this little card, heres some specs on the card. And to boot its an HDMI card. Always a good thing to have now a days.
nVIDIA® unified architecture
Microsoft® DirectX® 10 Shader Model 4 Support
Geometry Instancing 2.0
Displacement Mapping
nVIDIA® Lumenex™ Visual Quality Technology
OpenGL® 2.1 Optimizations and Support
PCI Express 2.0
Dual-Link DVI Support
Flexible Memory Interface
Memory interface power management
Adaptive PCI Express Interface
High efficiency integrated programmable third generation Video Processor (VP2)
nVIDIA® PureVideo HD Technology
Hardware acceleration for industry standard video codecs
Digital Displays
High quality 10-bit display pipeline
nVIDIA® nView Multi-Display Technology
Integrated HDMI Support
Digital Content Protection
128 Bit Studio-Precision Computation
Integrated DisplayPort Support
Integrated HDTV Encoder
Dual 400 Mhz RAMDACs
Support for audio input via SPDIF and HD-Audio
Support for stereo as well as multi-channel LPCM audio streams (multi-channel is only supported via HD-Audio)
Support for Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus*, DTS, WMAPro, MPEG*, audio formats.
The GPU supports these formats, but requires OS support to output audio in these formats.
We also installed 2 fans , a CPU fan. so theres plenty of cooling going on.
The Refurbished pc now runs ALOT better, faster smoother
Now for the hard drives conundrum and hopefully someone of you out there will have a little help for me/us with this problem. When we turned on the PC we got to a screen which basically told us we were screwed, you know the screen the blue screen of death. It wasnt letting us boot from C drive which is where all my life and apps are launched from.
I have 2 HD’s installed one of which (the master) is partitioned, the other is a whole seperate drive. Now what we did was installed windows XP pro on the d drive (partition) so now it boots from D. But we cannot figure out to get it to boot from C.
While Im waiting on the bank to get their act togethor so I can get my money to build my own computer I thought I might look at alternatives and building a gaming computer on budget. It seems pricey prebuilt behemoth speed machines rule the PC gaming world, but with ever-falling component costs (and color-coded cables), why not build your own gaming computer? If your desktop shipped this century, chances are the case, drives, and peripherals are still up to snuff. You can get everything else at wholesale prices from online retailers like Mwave,Newegg, or ZipZoomfly. Here’s what you need to create a Crysis-capable or Call Of Duty powerhouse gaming machine for less than a grand. So lets price some components.
Gigabyte MA790XT-UD4P Mobo w/ 4GB PC12800 DDR3Get in on the AM3 revolution with this high-powered Gigabyte AMD Socket AM3 ATX motherboard. Built for AMD Socket AM3 Phenom II, the Gigabyte is an ideal platform for extreme PCs capable of spectacular gaming and multimedia performance.
Based on the AMD 790X/SB750 chipset, the Gigabyte is compatible with processors with up to 5200 MT/s FSB.
PCIe X16/x1, PCI, SATA 3Gb/s with RAID 0, 1, 5 and 0+1, Gigabit LAN
high-definition 7.1-channel audio
USB 2.0. And the Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P Motherboard offers numerous overclocking features , to provide unprecedented performance for a motherboard in this affordable price range.
This mobo is loaded with CrossFireX support, and 8 rear panel USB ports!
If you’re ready to build a powerhouse AM3 system, Gigabyte has the perfect motherboard to anchor your new PC – the AMD 790X Socket AM3 motherboard.
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU
($230) Nobody does parallel processors better than Intel (for now). After you socket the CPU and affix the heat sink, don’t forget to plug in the fan.
Finally after about two months of eager anticipation I finally recieved my Bluesfest volunteer schedule. I was lucky enough to get in with the stage crew, not bad for a first timer huh Woohoo !!! Im hoping that I’ll be doing stage up or being a gear monkey bitch for some bands. Either way though it’ll be very freaking cool. And yes I willbe bringing my camera and taking loads of pictures, and hopefully getting loads of auto graphs. We’re going to be given a t shirt so Im thinking I’ll have to get that auto graphed,depending on how many auto graphs and whose I get I may sell that shirt on ebay (LOL j/k) Im including which bands are playing the nights im working volunteer shifts at bluesfest, becasue well I just dont know where I’m going to be posted.
