DjfunkmasterG
06-Nov-2007, 11:07 PM
I love to build PC's every couple of months. I built my last new PC 6 months ago using an INTEL CORE 2 DUO Extreme, 2gb of Crucial Ballistix Ram, AUZENTECH Xplosion 7.1 DTS DD Live sound card, and 1TB of HDD space.
My boss at work recently bought a new PC: an AMD FX-60 Dual Core 939 with 2gb of Ram, Thermal Take copper Heatsink system, 200GB HDD and (2) GeForce 8800 GT Video cards.
Recently the PC was giving her trouble and she decided to build a brand new machine. Pretty much an exact replica of my Intel machine except she has the 2 8800GT's for video. In exchange for building her new PC She gave me the old AMD unit, Minus the HDD, DVD-writer and Video Cards. So I took it, hell, AMD FX-60 with an A8n32-Sli Deluxe ASUS Motherboard, 2gb of OCZ Gaming Ram... Thats $500 in free stuff, I would be nuts to turn it down.
Well this is the PC that went batty on her, so I decided to rebuild that puppy. So today I went to the PC store and dropped $400 to purchase some parts. I bought a new 750 Power Supply, an 8500GT Vid card with 512mb ram, a case for $39.00 (Antec server case with a small scratch on it) a 320gb HDD and a PCI Firewire card.
I installed the 750W power Supply into my INTEL unit and removed the ANTEC Neo HE 550 out of it. I had a 7900GT in my INTEL Set up. This 7900GT is still considered a top card even though it is 18 months old, but it has 24 pixel pipelines and is overclockable, but the 8500GT had more ummph behind it so I swapped the 7900 for the 8500.
I got the INTEL back up and running in 35 minutes and took the parts down stairs to rebuild the AMD unit. I set up the new case, inserted the motherboard, dropped the 2 OCZ ram chips in, bolted in the Power Supply, hooked up the new HDD, added the extra firewire card, add an AUZENTECH Xplosion 7.1 DTS Card just like my Intel has, and dropped the 7900GT into the machine. I was all set to fire it up and realized I forgot to purchase a frigging DVD Drive to run Windows XP on it. Feeling like a schmo I just put the cover back on and set it aside until tomorrow. I will drop by the PC store and grab a SATA DVD Writer and finish the job I started.
If this PC starts up and runs without flaws, she had issues with it, but everytime I fixed it for her it ran fine until she got it home.... so I think it was operator error... anyway, I will probably offer it up for sale. The AMD FX-60 is the top of the line 939 Dual Core Processor.
The Chip still sells on eBay used for $350 New is $500
The Motherboard sells new for $250.00
The HDD Drive cost me $65.00 (320gb)
The Ram sells new for $219.00
Sound card is about $120.00
SATA DVD drive is about $40.00
The case is new with a small scratch $40
So if you are looking for a new PC and have $700 you want to blow on a nice gaming rig (yes this is a great gamers set up. The Motherboard is copper tube oil cooled.) then this is the PC for you. The cost as is would run you about $1120.00, and you could save $420.00 and have an awesome PC. So stay tuned for when I update this thread on how it runs.
My boss at work recently bought a new PC: an AMD FX-60 Dual Core 939 with 2gb of Ram, Thermal Take copper Heatsink system, 200GB HDD and (2) GeForce 8800 GT Video cards.
Recently the PC was giving her trouble and she decided to build a brand new machine. Pretty much an exact replica of my Intel machine except she has the 2 8800GT's for video. In exchange for building her new PC She gave me the old AMD unit, Minus the HDD, DVD-writer and Video Cards. So I took it, hell, AMD FX-60 with an A8n32-Sli Deluxe ASUS Motherboard, 2gb of OCZ Gaming Ram... Thats $500 in free stuff, I would be nuts to turn it down.
Well this is the PC that went batty on her, so I decided to rebuild that puppy. So today I went to the PC store and dropped $400 to purchase some parts. I bought a new 750 Power Supply, an 8500GT Vid card with 512mb ram, a case for $39.00 (Antec server case with a small scratch on it) a 320gb HDD and a PCI Firewire card.
I installed the 750W power Supply into my INTEL unit and removed the ANTEC Neo HE 550 out of it. I had a 7900GT in my INTEL Set up. This 7900GT is still considered a top card even though it is 18 months old, but it has 24 pixel pipelines and is overclockable, but the 8500GT had more ummph behind it so I swapped the 7900 for the 8500.
I got the INTEL back up and running in 35 minutes and took the parts down stairs to rebuild the AMD unit. I set up the new case, inserted the motherboard, dropped the 2 OCZ ram chips in, bolted in the Power Supply, hooked up the new HDD, added the extra firewire card, add an AUZENTECH Xplosion 7.1 DTS Card just like my Intel has, and dropped the 7900GT into the machine. I was all set to fire it up and realized I forgot to purchase a frigging DVD Drive to run Windows XP on it. Feeling like a schmo I just put the cover back on and set it aside until tomorrow. I will drop by the PC store and grab a SATA DVD Writer and finish the job I started.
If this PC starts up and runs without flaws, she had issues with it, but everytime I fixed it for her it ran fine until she got it home.... so I think it was operator error... anyway, I will probably offer it up for sale. The AMD FX-60 is the top of the line 939 Dual Core Processor.
The Chip still sells on eBay used for $350 New is $500
The Motherboard sells new for $250.00
The HDD Drive cost me $65.00 (320gb)
The Ram sells new for $219.00
Sound card is about $120.00
SATA DVD drive is about $40.00
The case is new with a small scratch $40
So if you are looking for a new PC and have $700 you want to blow on a nice gaming rig (yes this is a great gamers set up. The Motherboard is copper tube oil cooled.) then this is the PC for you. The cost as is would run you about $1120.00, and you could save $420.00 and have an awesome PC. So stay tuned for when I update this thread on how it runs.