...much thanks to Alex and Noah form Holosound!!

AMD Athlon? 64 X2 4200+ (Boxed, OPGA, "Manchester")
MOBO Asus A8R-MVP (Gb-LAN, RAID, FireWire) RAM Kingston ValueRAM DIMM 1 GB (KVR400X64C3AK2/1G) CASE Arctic-Cooling Silentium T5 GRAPHICS Club3D GeForce 7600GS (TV-out, DVI) HDD Western Digital Caviar RE (WD1600YD) 160 Gig SATA 2X

FINALLY a render won't take me all night anymore...sigh

Already have a CD-ROM writer, DVD-ROM writer, 1 Gig of RAM (so i'll have 4x 512 in there) and a Terratec producer Phase 22. :D It'll go in Serial ATA mode, ram = dual channel. Gonna be a fast fucker I hope! I was budget bound, but all in all that was pretty damn generous, and since I had a number of peripherals myself I could spend a lot on cpu/mobo/mem. It will be both a graphics and music machine...for mixing though, possibly producing later on.

Now I gotta save up for cd-decks and a widescreen tft...

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^^^ is that already the new AMD chipset?

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I have no idea...it's the Dual core AMD, I think it is pretty new. Wanted an Opteron at first, but they're a bit harder to get here (although I do have the connections for it). But I guess this one will do just fine ;)

And it left me more budget to get a good vid card and such...

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Just asking cuz red1 told me a while ago that at the end of this year the new chip will become available... That's why I've postponed my buy. Maybe you should look into that.

Other than that, sexy config bro ;)

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thanks mate :D I wish Icould postpone it, but given the incredibly slow rig I have now and the work i need to do with it, waiting isn't really an option, unfortunately. Any prices available for the new chipset yet?

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Even if you would give me the rimjob of my life I couldn't tell ya

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alex and noah tonight at THE VAULT

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Not sure how much you download, if at all, but I would consider a larger hard drive.

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[quote=Yao]AMD Athlon? 64 X2 4200+ (Boxed, OPGA, "Manchester")
MOBO Asus A8R-MVP (Gb-LAN, RAID, FireWire)
RAM Kingston ValueRAM DIMM 1 GB (KVR400X64C3AK2/1G)
CASE Arctic-Cooling Silentium T5
GRAPHICS Club3D GeForce 7600GS (TV-out, DVI)
HDD Western Digital Caviar RE (WD1600YD) 160 Gig SATA 2X [/quote] great combo :)

consider upgrading to 2gb if you can.

the case is EXCELLENT

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Sweet setup, dude. From what I remember you telling me about your old rig, the difference should be night and day. Isn't spending loads of money on a new computer fun?? :lol:

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Most definitely! Oh an Arielus, I already have on gig of RAM on this one, which will be put into the new mobo - should be exactly the same, so I'll have 4x 512 in dual channel :D

One other possibility is that I'll be going to Africa for another 3 months as a minimum, in that case I'll continue what I'm doing now but will have to opt for a laptop, preferrably with an AMD Turion dual core...as long as you hit the major cities in Africa the internet connections are pretty doable.

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nice little setup...can't wait to start ordering and building mine in about a month or 2...gonna be a freakign beast when I'm done with it :CrackUp:

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hehheeh...YEAH BAYBEE

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AHAH...THEY'RE HERE!!!

Kinky...I'm changing my proposed setup dude, incredible shit :D

[url]http://www.alternate.nl/html/shop/productDetails.html?showTechData=true&artno=HEEA09&#tecData[/url]

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Fucking hell...I thought this stuff was going to be ludicrously expensive, but I can get it at about the same price. Look at the bloody busfrequency...2000!! Madness man :D

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heck with that, 8GB of RAM...hahahahahahaha; that's along my lines

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lol, IF you can afford it. Maybe later on when it has made me some money I can up it to 4 gigs, but I'll have to settle for 2 in the beginning. Nevertheless it should be fast as hell to begin with, and got my eye on a Dual core AMD 64 4000+ with 2 gigs of L2 cache...no more stalling ever!!! :D

wait, lemme post what I've been looking at right now - keep in mind that I have a 1300 dollar limit and need to keep some moving space because of the fluctuating exchange rates:

AMD Athlon? 64 X2 4000+ (Boxed, OPGA, "Windsor") MSI K9N Neo-F nF5 (Retail, Sound, Gb-LAN, RAID) G.E.I.L. DIMM 2 GB (GX22GB5300LDC - 533) Arctic-Cooling Silentium T5 Club3D GeForce 7600GS 2X 160 Gig Seagate Barracuda (ST3160812AS, S-ATA2, NCQ)

Total (SATA HDD/Arctic): 939 euro > 1205 dollar

I think I will opt for a little faster memory though, and I chose the vid card based on processor and mem speed (500mHz and 900mHz), has 12 pixel pipelines. The other peripherals are here already, so no need to buy those new ;)

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[quote=Yao]got my eye on a Dual core AMD 64 4000+ with [B]2 gigs of L2 cache[/B]...no more stalling ever!!! :D[/quote] Maybe in 10 years. :lol: It's 2 MEGS. ;)

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ehhhhhhhhhhh....oops, lol

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[quote=KinKyJ]Just asking cuz red1 told me a while ago that at the end of this year the new chip will become available... That's why I've postponed my buy. Maybe you should look into that.[/quote]Socket AM2 processors and motherboards have been out for three weeks now and the prices are quite cheap too. By the time you read this, it will be over three weeks. ;)

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So wait... this is for September? I think its pretty pointless trying to map everything out so many months in advance. New shit comes out every week and prices rise and drop every week. I'd wait till August and see where you stand. Or else you are going to be posting a new config every week.

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Another thing, this machine will cost at least $1400 less come September. At the very least.

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hahaha....I guess you're right Palmer, maybe it's just because I can't wait to have a new one. Beanz, this rig is 1200 right now, how would you think it's 200 more in 2 months?

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[quote=Yao]Beanz, this rig is 1200 right now, how would you think it's 200 more in 2 months?[/quote]First of all, I never said that any system would cost $1400. I stated that a system would cost $1400 LESS come September and I was referring to assfuck_admin's ( ;) ) system of choice. Not yours.

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Haha, i see it now Beanz, my bad. Misread it completely...

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It's all good. ;)