Wesley

Hi, I'm Mike and welcome to the forums.

I have such a cool PC because it's 5 years old without any upgrades apart from a modem. FEAR IT. But it is quite able to run FireFox, Winamp and MSN all at once so I am happy. (That's a lie, I'm not happy because I can't use Cinema 4D, so I'm building a new PC.)

So after seeing how bad my PC really is I have decided to build a PC. I was looking at an old issue of PC Gamer (November 2004 when they reviewed Half-Life 2) and found they had a feature titled "Build a top PC for just £500". It was able tor un Half-Life 2, Doom3 and Rome: Total War. So I was about to order these parts and then I realised that this is newly a year old, even if I could find the components it would be pointless because you can get better ones for the same price. So, which PC know-it-all would like to base a system for me, including links and prices, based on this old system? The old system was: Motherboard: ABit KV-7 Processor: AMD Athlon 3000XP+ 400 MHz FSB, 512K L2 Cache Heatsink/Fan: Thermaltake Volano 11+ Memory: 1024MB PC3200 (400 MHz) DDR (two of these) Graphics card: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro HDD: Maxtor Diamond Max +9 80GB CD/DVD: Sony 16X DVD-ROM (Black) (Plus extra IDE cable) Case: Arianet Cybercase 420W and 8CM case fan So that's the system they put out, all costing £477. Now my problem comes when trying to find a motherboard that accepts a processor of 400MHz and also RAM of 400MHz. Also them porcessors aren't made anymore. So basically if anyone can update these components for me and make sure it all works with the chosen motherboard I would be eternally greatful. Thanks. P.S. If the motherboard you find has 6 channel sound that would be great, too. I don't fancy spending more money on a sound card.

Shit this is going to be fun. Processor Intel Pentium III 335MHz Display Card Intel® 82810E Memory 128MB Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Free Disk Space 1.69GB Display Card Memory 8MB Display Driver Version 6.13.1.3198 DirectX Version 9.0c Optical Drive CD/DVD Sound Card Intel® Integrated Audio 94% of the systems scanned by the Game Advisor rank higher in performance than your system.

Damn. That last post was me making a point. I just made it up completely to show the fact that the thread starter didn't post any sort of source and it came from his ass. Just like me saying: "what does everyone think about the whole Hitman series being remade for the Revolution?".

Looks like a pimp pigeon.

Zelda to be a RTS game. What does everyone think of this rumor?

And remember kids: Playing videogames around others isn't just harmful to your health, but theirs too. Passive videogaming, lets stop it.

I came up with the idea of PCs before anyone else.

Your post looks as though it's been raped many times by an angry man. Also wrong forum.

What'd you do? MESSAGE IS TOO SHORT ETC ETC ETC

Hahaha! That's pretty funny, "You've been infected with HIV! Have a nice day!". This is where some guy bursts in and says "you've been framed!" or some shit. Of course if it was real it wouldn't be funny at all.

the one about the pudding made me laugh the most. The vision of someone turning a pudding upside down and reading it is just great.

Yep I initialised it and partitioned it. Thanks guys for your great help!

Hahah that guy rules!

Ok so I just bought a ExcelStor J88 80gig hard disk, I did not however install this into my actual PC. I instead used a Fanner Group CF100-NEB GigaPod. Basically it's a case that hooks up to the PC by USB but makes your computer think you have a new hard disk drive in your PC. Now seeing as my PC has found this new hardware lets just forget that and look at it like I have just a regular new hard disk drive installed in my PC. The problem is, even though my PC has recognised it, says it will work, displays it on my device manager - telling me all about it, what it's called, its driver and even how much it holds - it does not appear on My Computer. I can't get to it. C: drive it has, all my disc drives it has, but no new hard disk drive. I tried typing in what it would be [G:] but it doesn't come up. What the heck's with that? Thanks in advance. P.S. I am suppost to format it before I use it, but how am I suppost to format it when it doesn't come up?

The boys must get sick an tired of you two.

Foamy is awesome. I don't have favourite episodes though.

Hitman 2. For the 26th time.

Rhian: Ex-girlfriend's sister who is now one of my best mates, it's so great because you know that nothing will happen, neither one of us will think, "well actually I kind of like him/her". Chris: Does too many drugs. Joe: Moans too much.

How the fuck am I suppost to read it?

Ah the NME crowd . . . make me smile they do. My friends have been telling me about this band, they all bum NME.

Analysts have been predicting the fall of Nintendo as far back as the SNES, nothing changes.

Yeah but everyone knows that one sucks.

That's a point, has anyone heard the French government doing anything? Also, you may be interested to know that despite me going on about not signing it, I am a vegetarian.