Krazy Chicken

ok, well i found out that my current mother board will support 4 gb of ram, so what will happen if i put 4 1gb cards of ram in their?

Nik.

It will show up as 3....

Nathan9492

You will have 4GB of ram.
Just that a 32Bit Operating system will not pickup on all the 4GB. Now with 4GB of ram a 32Bit OS will assign some of that to other hardware perihperals, and whatever is left, is there for RAM use. 3.25GB is probably what you will see.

Krazy Chicken

sorry for all the questions, i have a few more though.

is [link=http://cgi.ebay.com/MICROSOFT-WINDOWS-VISTA-ULTIMATE-64-bit-FULL-w-SP1_W0QQitemZ370064052602QQihZ024QQcategoryZ41882Q QssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohost ing]this[/link] the 64 bit virsion of vista, and is my prossesor a 64 bit prossesor?

Nathan9492

YEp thats 64Bit, and what kind of processor have you got?
Goto, Start, Control panel, System, then there will be something that says computer: on that page, it will tell you what processor u have.

Krazy Chicken

its a amd athlon 64 prossesor 3800+ is this good?

also what would be a better mother board

Rob6

Like someone said before me your prolly better off buying another one. It seems that you know next to nothing about computers (no offense) so it will be that much harder to build it for you. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...6563&CatId=114

Krazy Chicken

i dont want to buy a new pc, i just want to upgrade my current on, also i have took my computer all the way apaart, and put it back togeather, just because i dont know what every thing is called, doesn't mean i cant build a computer.

Nik.

that Mac reasoning- if it doesn't work by another one.

Rob6

Yeah to bad that never happens...
And thats why this forum is littered with people trying to fix there corrupted machines.... Ill stick with a stable OS. 

Nik.

Last time I checked, mac-pro.com had power supplies for $250 plus $15 for an instruction manual.

a 1 GB PC-3200 memory stick for a PowerMac G5 is $127. Want to buy the oem dvd drive? $117. Wanna upgrade you graphics to ATI 9650 256mb? $227.

But Macs are supposed to never break right? yeah.

I can get a bfg nvidia 9600gt 512mb pci-e for 150 bucks.

Rob6

WHen was the last time you checked? 1984? http://stores.channeladvisor.com/Arc...itemid=1888622 50$ 1GB. BTW that was 05ish. Yep 117$ drive right here http://love4macs.com/products/mac-su...rner-p-42.html . On the graphics card ill give you that but we dont need it because we dont game. Also what PRODUCTIVE things are you going to do? GAME? Yeah greatttt

EDIT: On the power supply Apple care will cover it.

RCKen

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Ok guys, let's keep the personal insults and the platform wars out of the thread please.

Thank you

Ken

Krazy Chicken

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DarkFire989

Yeah its an ok Processor. And it really depends how much you want to spend on a new mobo and processor. Just save yourself all the hassel and buy a new pc. Just rip out the disk drives and hard drives out of your cureent one and put it in a new one.

Nathan9492

ITs a bit Old now, but its OK/
YEs it can handle a 64Bit Operating System.


But no offense, it sounds like your not that computer savvy, so you may have a tough time getting ,installing and making the drivers "work" with a 64Bit Operating system.

paintstikker

I can't really see in the picture, but the plug that is blue and has all the pins next to the ribbon cable looks like an IDE interface. I'd guess that the one IDE that is taken up is connected to your optical drive and the SATA (small plug that has that L-shaped contact pad) is connected to your hard drive. The blue one with all the pins may be a floppy, but I can't tell - there will be printing on the motherboard to tell you what is what.

And as for different colored SATA or even IDE interfaces, in today's world they aren't really color-coded they are just colored to look cool...

Be careful with that - don't just get a motherboard that has four slots, many of them only let you use two at a time because they are on a separate bus or are a different chipset.

And if you have an AGP slot for graphics make sure you get one with the correct voltage...and if you have a PCI-E graphics card then make sure the slot on the motherboard is x16.

pythonfan

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Time to bring a thread back from the dead.

i got win xp 32 bit pro, i'm going to be getting a new pc soon and i wanted so bad to go i7 but i just can't and fell back onto a killer amd system, anyways i do alot of multi tasking so i went with quad core, now the thing is i know for quad core you need 64 bit os, but the cpu says it supports both 32-64bit os, so would my os i have work and see the quad core or am i stuck picking up vista 64bit?


My options are, xp 32, unbuntu 64, vista 64. Now i like ubuntu but i hate having to go threw 3rd party programs to play my games, vista is just a cost that i really can't afford, i could go with the open beta win 7 64 bit, and there vista driver pack, but i had sound issues with them with my card, but i'm using a usb headset so there would be no issues, but its not suppose to be a perma os.

feo

Lets get some more pictures coming!!

AMD Athlon x2 64 3800+
2gb DDR
PNY Verto 9600gt
Raidmax 530w Modular PSU
250gb Master hdd
500gb Slave hdd
CoolerMaster cm690
Diamondback 3G

Cant see the led intake fan in the afternoon sun, ah well

snowbl!nd

You don't have to use 64bit with a quad core, 32 will work just fine - but you'll suffer from the limitations of a 32bit OS. Limited to around 3.5GB of RAM for a start...

crowdie

More pics

pythonfan

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Thought i would bump the thread with a few updates, didn't think it fit in my build thread so here it is. I have been running this setup since xmas, just found the pics on my hdd thought i would share before i switch to win7.

I upgraded to the haf-932, and a noctua nh-d14. This was before my new video card, the cooler makes everything look tiny.





[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHXEGcwFOOM[/youtube]

dar123

ohh ohh ohh! first time i getta show off my system!

AMD Phenom ii x4 945 (3.0Ghz quad)
Gskill 6gb ddr3 1600mhz
Western Digital 1tb
Asus m4a78t-e
750 watt psu
onboard graphics
Windows 7 professional 64bit

I'll have pics up tomorrow!