Hello again everyone. Been a while. I'm going to do a slight look at Zac's PC that I built, and an upcomming build for the neighbors.
For starters, Zac's PC was built around the same time that my e8400 arrived. His PC was brand new, other than for my e4400 and 160Gb Western Digital that I used in the build. The specifications are as follows:
All this running Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit. He mainly uses it for gaming, and it seems to do the job fairly well. He's quite impressed with it, anyway.
The next build will be the neighbors PC, the Jessomes. I chose to make something budget gamer, so that Nick and Kirk could enjoy themselves, while still keeping the cost down. The build is as follows:
The build here will accelerate at not only gaming, but basic, everyday tasks, as well as media usage. This build will be running Windows XP Home 32 bit.
Along with the Jessomes build order, I purchased a Steelseries QcKPad mini for Nick, a DvD drive for Kristens PC, and a 1Tb Western Digital Caviar Green for myself, to replace my current 500Gb Seagate. The 1Tb will be dedicated to media, whereas the 500Gb will become my main drive for FRAPs footage, of Battlefield 2142.
On the topic of Battlefield 2142, I've been playing it A LOT lately, so much as to join an online community called Tactical Gamer. [This was probably just after my e8400 arrived] I quickly became involved with the community under my alias, Dictate. I started out looking around, and playing with all of the various In House Squads [Essentially a small contingent of TG that promotes tighter team play and a more clan-like experience between it's members.] Eventually I came across the 55th Infantry Division, and quickly went about finding out how to become a member, which Stark was so nice as to help me with. I joined |TG-55| early in November, and have been happy at TG ever since. Sadly though, not all is fun and games, and while my In House Squad is lots of fun, I want to game outside of the hours they do, so I decided to jump on my DakNaydor alias, and rip it up, run and gun style. [TG is more tactic than anything.] Nick and I play together, a lot, and he holds 3 soldiers with a KTD about 2.4, and one of those has a KTD above 3. My KTD on Dak has been increasing a fair ammount, from a lowly 1.07, all the way up to 1.34 [current]. Nick still gets way too mad at the game, and I really don't understand why. Anyway, the run and gun is extremely satisfying, and has made me aspire to become better at the game. I've played with a lot of the best players in the game [Such as those from the larger clans], and a lot of really big Euro players as well [German_fighter, JamesRyan08] I've shown marked improvement, and I'm overall happy with myself. I'll be posting videos and screenshots up eventually, which should be lots of fun.
Here's a teaser of what's to come.
For starters, Zac's PC was built around the same time that my e8400 arrived. His PC was brand new, other than for my e4400 and 160Gb Western Digital that I used in the build. The specifications are as follows:
- Intel Core2Duo e4400 @ 2.66Ghz
- Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
- 2Gb Patriot Signature Line DDR2-800
- DFI Blood Iron P35-T2RL [40mm Northbridge fan mod]
- 160Gb Western Digital Caviar
- XFX GeForce 9800GT
- Antec Sonata III w/ 2x Scythe Kaze Jyuni fans
- Antec EarthWatts 500w PSU
All this running Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit. He mainly uses it for gaming, and it seems to do the job fairly well. He's quite impressed with it, anyway.
The next build will be the neighbors PC, the Jessomes. I chose to make something budget gamer, so that Nick and Kirk could enjoy themselves, while still keeping the cost down. The build is as follows:
- Intel Pentium Dual Core e5200 @ 2.5Ghz
- 2Gb Kingston Valu-RAM
- Asus P5QL-Pro P43 based motherboard
- 250Gb Western Digital Caviar
- eVga 9600GT SC 512Mb edition
- Coolermaster Elite RC-330 [W/2x Coolermaster 120mm fans]
- Seasonic SS-ET400 400w PSU
The build here will accelerate at not only gaming, but basic, everyday tasks, as well as media usage. This build will be running Windows XP Home 32 bit.
Along with the Jessomes build order, I purchased a Steelseries QcKPad mini for Nick, a DvD drive for Kristens PC, and a 1Tb Western Digital Caviar Green for myself, to replace my current 500Gb Seagate. The 1Tb will be dedicated to media, whereas the 500Gb will become my main drive for FRAPs footage, of Battlefield 2142.
On the topic of Battlefield 2142, I've been playing it A LOT lately, so much as to join an online community called Tactical Gamer. [This was probably just after my e8400 arrived] I quickly became involved with the community under my alias, Dictate. I started out looking around, and playing with all of the various In House Squads [Essentially a small contingent of TG that promotes tighter team play and a more clan-like experience between it's members.] Eventually I came across the 55th Infantry Division, and quickly went about finding out how to become a member, which Stark was so nice as to help me with. I joined |TG-55| early in November, and have been happy at TG ever since. Sadly though, not all is fun and games, and while my In House Squad is lots of fun, I want to game outside of the hours they do, so I decided to jump on my DakNaydor alias, and rip it up, run and gun style. [TG is more tactic than anything.] Nick and I play together, a lot, and he holds 3 soldiers with a KTD about 2.4, and one of those has a KTD above 3. My KTD on Dak has been increasing a fair ammount, from a lowly 1.07, all the way up to 1.34 [current]. Nick still gets way too mad at the game, and I really don't understand why. Anyway, the run and gun is extremely satisfying, and has made me aspire to become better at the game. I've played with a lot of the best players in the game [Such as those from the larger clans], and a lot of really big Euro players as well [German_fighter, JamesRyan08] I've shown marked improvement, and I'm overall happy with myself. I'll be posting videos and screenshots up eventually, which should be lots of fun.
Here's a teaser of what's to come.