I just ordered two of these babies
 

LG 52X CD-Writer 16X DVD Combo
Asus p4p800-se
Intel® Pentium® 4 3000 1024K 800FSB S478
GAINWARD Nvidia® GeForce™ FX6800GT 256MB DDR AGP 8X (2400/Ultra Golden Sample)
512MB DDR-400
Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache S-ATA
ThermalTake 360W PSU

I bought two, one for me and one for my GF :)

i am using a few things (like the monitor and harddrives) from our previous PCs in here as well.

In three months, I'll buy two new monitors, and another 512MB RAM.

This is an upgrade that is WAY overdue. My Pentium III was getting dusty.

Very nice setup. Were it me, Id probably jump on another 512MB, but thats already in the works I see :)

Not bad! Not too bad at all. I'd definitely hit that 6800 GT :thumbsup: Post some scores from these bitches when ya get 'em! Just use whatever suite you can; 3dMark2003, PCMark04, 3DMark2001 - all of these will hit ya up nice.

I would have gotten a bigger power supply but thats just me. Good score, how much total if you don't mind me asking...

Yeah, upgrade your power to Enermax 550W. With your graphics card you won't
have enough power to use the rest of your Hardware :)

The PSU is enough - I made VERY sure of that, and ThermalTake is a great brand.

Mroe RAM and new screens are in the pipeline.

Can I be your girlfriend too?

:)

Mr Mephisto

PS - Cost per unit?

US$1355 +-

I just converted from Rand. It was R8820.

And no you can't be my GF :p

I was gonna ask how much it cost but someone beat me to it

The two arrived last night, and I'd just like to say that the GF6800GT pwns everything.

Thank you. :D

pwns?


Good grief. :)


Mr Mephisto

I am in geek heaven at the moment :P

The friggin Gainward card is covered in red lights which means that my whole PC is pouring red light out of every little hole :D

i hate asus

Let's see some 3d Mark 2001 and 2003 scores!!!

-Lasereth

I'll get to those tonight.

I will say however that I was playing Doom 3 last night on High with 4xFSAA and 8xAnsitropic filtering, without a single slow down.

Would be interested to see how long it takes either/both units to get through some SETI@Home units. Nice purchase.

Heh - Now that is something else since these are HT P4s...

Exactly, let me know how you go.

NB - Use the SETI@Home version 3.03 if you can. The current version 3.04 is slower as there are some extra security features.

sweet...dude

Oh...I saw the title and just naturaly assumed that you had some kind of an in on geneticaly engineered children. Or, maybe that you were adopting some Chinese kids. :crazy:

3dMark03 scores, with 4xFSAA and 8xAF forced in the driver, 8906.

Yeah baby yeah! :P

What about with the default settings (no AA or AF)?

-Lasereth

Asus is very reliable but their major fallback is with overclocking. They are finally starting to get it right though.


I also agree on a bigger PSU but I'm and AMD fan myself especially when it comes to gaming.

I WANT ONE!
Can I have one?

I'll get back to you.

I'd put a crappy generic CD drive in those PC's as well. Those LG drives wear out in a year given you burn something once every other week and watch a dvd every week on it.

I had one wear out in 10 months, and my brother's wore out in 8 months. The replacement that I got under warrenty for mine is still running since I use the 50x drive for all non-burning/dvd tasks.