Damned be the day I decided to join TE :S
I was a happy and content man ...I used to use a PIII 550 machine, loved watching my movies and munching my popcorn over a 14" Samtron
And then came TE and thus began my woes....
Anyway, to cut a long story short, several upgrade (steps, not cycles later), I realized that my Thorughbred 2400 on a Gigabyte 7VM-333RZ mobo (Via KM266/33 chipset) is proving to be serious bottleneck for my AGP 6800nu and the new Sony HS95 deserved a better rig....
What set the next chain of events rolling was the realization that getting a good AGP mobos is fast becoming as rare as finding a bottle of Chardonnay in a Chennai TASMAC shop (for the unitiated, a chennai govt. booze shop)
:ashamed:
The ever helpful :^ Sunny :bleh: promptly directed me to Switch's combo deal for a Asus A8V dlx wireless mobo and Winchester 3200+ combo sale which I promptly closed with him....
Oh, I just wish that was where the story ended.....
But no, the ugly head of the upgraditis devil rears itself again to tell me what I always suspected....
"Your PSU ain't gonna cut it"
"Your Memory (not the biological one of course) ain't gonna cut in no more"
Your PATA Barracudas ain't gonna hold out any longer"
Aaaarggghhhyyyy
So I half unwillingly succumb to temptation again :mad2:
1) Current PSU--> Generic 350 (??) W PSU (Planning to keep the Winnie chuggin at a (hopefully) stable 2.25 Ghz 24X7) ---> what next?
2) Current memory --> Hynix (3-3-2-7) 512X2 333mhz --> what next?
3) Current HDD --> 2X 7200.7 segate 80GB barracudas --> What next
what makes the story all the more worse is all this expense is in the anticipation (and not after receiving) the annual Bonus in Jan
I was a happy and content man ...I used to use a PIII 550 machine, loved watching my movies and munching my popcorn over a 14" Samtron
And then came TE and thus began my woes....
Anyway, to cut a long story short, several upgrade (steps, not cycles later), I realized that my Thorughbred 2400 on a Gigabyte 7VM-333RZ mobo (Via KM266/33 chipset) is proving to be serious bottleneck for my AGP 6800nu and the new Sony HS95 deserved a better rig....
What set the next chain of events rolling was the realization that getting a good AGP mobos is fast becoming as rare as finding a bottle of Chardonnay in a Chennai TASMAC shop (for the unitiated, a chennai govt. booze shop)
:ashamed:
The ever helpful :^ Sunny :bleh: promptly directed me to Switch's combo deal for a Asus A8V dlx wireless mobo and Winchester 3200+ combo sale which I promptly closed with him....
Oh, I just wish that was where the story ended.....
But no, the ugly head of the upgraditis devil rears itself again to tell me what I always suspected....
"Your PSU ain't gonna cut it"
"Your Memory (not the biological one of course) ain't gonna cut in no more"
Your PATA Barracudas ain't gonna hold out any longer"
Aaaarggghhhyyyy
So I half unwillingly succumb to temptation again :mad2:
1) Current PSU--> Generic 350 (??) W PSU (Planning to keep the Winnie chuggin at a (hopefully) stable 2.25 Ghz 24X7) ---> what next?
2) Current memory --> Hynix (3-3-2-7) 512X2 333mhz --> what next?
3) Current HDD --> 2X 7200.7 segate 80GB barracudas --> What next
what makes the story all the more worse is all this expense is in the anticipation (and not after receiving) the annual Bonus in Jan