New rig is up and running

[John Reynolds]

The nice Fedex man brought me a ASUS P4T533-C mobo, a P4 2.4B processor, and 512MB of PC1066 RDRAM in the mail today. Still waiting on the GF4 Ti4400 I ordered, though.

Honestly, I'm not sure I'll ever upgrade again. I've spent the last 7 hours installing the hardware, wiping the drive, formatting, installing windows (2k), and then going through freakin' countless reboots due to the need to install service packs, fixes, updates, patches, etc. And not to mention all the wonderful stuff Windows doesn't come with, such as Winzip, Adobe Acrobat, and various tweak programs you can't live without. Not fun, not at all.

And, no, I haven't done any benchmarking yet, though I will say Morrowind has doubled its frame rates in-town compared to my P3 1Ghz. Should get even better with a GF4 since I am running with 2x AA enabled.

[Ailuros]

Honestly, I'm not sure I'll ever upgrade again.

*takes notes for future reference*

[Babel-17]

Congratulations John. Have you made a backup image yet? I'm addicted to that software now. It's saved me from installing from scratch a dozen times by now.

[Dolemite]

Very simular to what I just ordered today; I just ordered a 2.26 P4, P4533T-C, 512MB 1066 RDRAM. I already have my GF4 4400 :)

I have to wait until Friday for mine though....

[msan_msw]

That looks nice.... I'm jealous!

You may not need to upgrade for long while depending on how DoomIII runs and how many games use that engine if Morrowind is running fine. Why else to upgrade? OS are running fine nowdays, etc.

[scottg26]

norton ghost is our friend :D


damn nice system BTW! :)

[Blighter]

Originally posted by Ailuros


*takes notes for future reference*

LMAO

[Randell]

woo nice system John. It is ridiculous though that morrowind needs a system like that to run well when you look at the specs they claim will run it ok on...

So Ghost, can you just re-image the system files over your existing windows set-up and not lose all your other apps, or do you take an image of your whole drive? And how far does it compress? How big will say 13 meg compressd down into?

It probably takes me two weeks or more to get my system back to how it was before a re-format.

[John Reynolds]

Word of advice with Win2K: don't set the protected storage service to manual unless you like waiting 2-3 minutes for OE to load. grrrrrrr