Recent content by chronotrigger456

So I've updated by BIOS and have decided to go with the following parts for upgrade: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Brisbane (2.6 GHz) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103211 WINTEC AMPX 2GB (2 x 1GB) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820161063 SAPPHIRE...

caamsa: Ooooh! Nice find! Yes, I've flashed motherboards before. From what I've been reading, some of the OC issues in this MB have been fixed with the new BIOS. That's great! I had my CPU OC'd to 2.2ghz before, but it just wasn't stable enough (also at ANY speed that would've given a...

Well, apparently my motherboard (Biostar Tforce 550 v. 1.0) won't support anything higher than a Sempron 3000+!!!!!!! I guess I'm only left with the choice of building a new system altogether. I think I'll wait until mid-2009 and build myself a REALLY NICE i7 system. Thanks for all the...

Well, if I were to upgrade, I would only spend $200 MAX. And as for the budget for a new build $600 would be my limit not including monitor, Windows, and an optical drive.

So I'm runnning on these specs right now: AMD Sempron 2800+ (1.6 GHz, AM2, Manila core) 1.0 GB PC6400 DDR2 RAM (2x 512 MB) 160 GB HDD 256 MB ATI RADEON X550 PCIe Win XP Pro SP3 I normally just surf the web, code, torrent, do light-medium gaming, and video edit on this PC. However, I'm finding...

Yeah, I can barely browse these forums. I'm 16... So its really hard for me to save up any cash. :-| I can't wait for summer! I'll be building my new system then!

Here's mine... Its from 1999 but its all I have as of now... I'm still saving up a bit more cash so I can build an awesome system. AMD K6-2 3DNow! CPU @ 533MHz VIA Apollo MVP4 Chipset 384MB PC133 SD-RAM (128+256) Maxtor 30gb HDD 24x CD-ROM 52x24x52x CD-RW 3.5" 1.44mb Floppy Drive 250mb ZIP...

I recently gave my A64 2800+/512 DDR/80gb to my little sister... So I need to build a new PC soon. I have about $1000 saved up right now and am now wondering what should the new components for my NEW PC be... :lol: I'm going to do light gaming, but a lot of video editing on this machine. AMD...