Upgrade Advice?

[Gnu]

Originally Posted by PhoenixKfz

I am thinking he means 22Mb down and 2.5Mb Up. 22MB is hard to believe.

Verizon sells 30mb down, 15mb up on its FTTP service, for $160/mo.

(That's am AMAZING deal, if you have a need for that kind of bandwidth - That's getting almost close to the speed of a T3!)

Originally Posted by Gnu

Verizon sells 30mb down, 15mb up on its FTTP service, for $160/mo.

(That's am AMAZING deal, if you have a need for that kind of bandwidth - That's getting almost close to the speed of a T3!)

Nice... thats actually a decent price.



Sidethough: I hate it when people don't use the right b's when they talk of bandwidth.

[Power666]

Originally Posted by OPETH

how do i find out what version my processor is, my pc is an emachines 770, i cant find a lot of info on it, I'm willing to upgrade my power supply has ive seen 400w power supply for about 50 pound.

Get a utility called CPU-Z. It produces tons of information on your system including CPU information, memory timings, and motherboard information.

As for upgrading your powersupply, be very careful. A lot of power supplies just are not that reliable, especially the cheaper generic ones. I'd actually pay more for a lower rated power suppply than a higher wattage one from a brand I've never heard of.

I'm guessing that the Northwood 2.4Ghz CPU as well, I have one. Got that baby overclocked to 3.0 on AIR!

Here is a good video card:

XFX GeForce 7950 GT (AGP 8x, 512MB, Graphics Card MINT on eBay, also Graphics Video Cards, Graphics, Video TV Cards, Desktop PC Components, Computing (end time 28-Dec-07 18:49:27 GMT)

I didn't even know they had the 7950s in AGP form, last time I read up on AGP bus, it was just the 7800GTX. (Don't keep up with Ati)

What the person above me said though, get a GOOD lower rated power supply (450/500W) instead of opting for a cheaper one. Before you buy your PSU, post it here.

[Power666]

Originally Posted by Skillz

I'm guessing that the Northwood 2.4Ghz CPU as well, I have one. Got that baby overclocked to 3.0 on AIR!

Hrm... actually there are four versions of the 2.4 Ghz Pentium 4. Three Northwood based cores with 400 Mhz, 533 Mhz and 800 Mhz FSB speeds and one Prescott core with a 533 Mhz FSB speed. The Prescott based core must have been an OEM specific one sold mainly outside of the US. I think the same 533 Mhz FSB Prescott chip in the US was sold under the Celeron name. Intel's marketing department should take some advice from their engineers and add some logic to naming things...

Originally Posted by Skillz

I didn't even know they had the 7950s in AGP form, last time I read up on AGP bus, it was just the 7800GTX. (Don't keep up with Ati)

The Geforce 7800GTX was PCI-E only. There was a Geforce7800GS that used an AGP slot. nVidia surprisingly has a naming convention worse than Intel...

I just took a chance with the Northwood, I figured I had better odds with it being a Northwood (3 out of 4) and I thought the 845 chipset was 400Mhz bus? Guess I should look things up, rather than guess.

I do stand corrected on the 7800GS though, I guess since I have a 7800GTX in my laptop, it confuzzled me.

Now that I think about it, I can't even remember which version of the Northwood I currently have. It's been rather good to me so far, got it as a freebe.