# putting a new pc together
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/putting-a-new-pc-together/186342
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**Created:** [November 20, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/putting-a-new-pc-together/186342 "2006-11-20T17:23:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@fshowcars](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fshowcars)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2006, 8:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/putting-a-new-pc-together/186342/21 "2006-11-21T08:36:15Z")
it’s not mine! i just make sure it works… it is big time though… just for running a DB cluster :bowrofl: 512gb of mirrored ram is huge $ … over a million for sure. it’s basically a mainframe in a windows box…
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### Author:  [@JackdUp](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JackdUp)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2006, 9:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/putting-a-new-pc-together/186342/22 "2006-11-21T09:00:31Z")
…it’s yours when it’s on “test cycles” 😃
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### Author:  [@fshowcars](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fshowcars)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2006, 9:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/putting-a-new-pc-together/186342/23 "2006-11-21T09:51:25Z")
i’d need a dolly to carry the shit out… it’s hardware merged because IBM hardware is limited to 4 physicals on a board :kekegay: so it’s one main physical server with 3 merged MXE boxes… but yes… it would fit nicely into a rack at my house.
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### Author:  [@4doors5gears](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/4doors5gears)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2006, 10:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/putting-a-new-pc-together/186342/24 "2006-11-21T10:12:00Z")
> [@FS:2001 MERCEDES BENZ ML320](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-2001-mercedes-benz-ml320/25976/4):
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> rebates fucking blow. I won’t buy it if it has a rebate. i’ll find it somewhere else.
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> from reading up on the new processors, the core2 seems to beat the amd stuff by a very wide margin, and it’s not much more expensive.
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> I looked at the processor and it does have 3 strips of the goop already on there.
It took forever to get my rebates in, but by then it’s bought and paid for so that’s almost like extra money.
As far as the processors go, I haven’t looked much into the Core2 stuff and I’m using the Athlon64 because it came bunched with the deal I got, but I wanna look into upgrading to the FX-55 Processor in the near future as it looks like prices have dropped a bit.
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### Author:  [@77rednecktruck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/77rednecktruck)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2006, 10:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/putting-a-new-pc-together/186342/25 "2006-11-21T10:17:19Z")
> [@should i buy this?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-i-buy-this/25974/28):
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> It took forever to get my rebates in, but by then it’s bought and paid for so that’s almost like extra money.
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> As far as the processors go, I haven’t looked much into the Core2 stuff and I’m using the Athlon64 because it came bunched with the deal I got, but I wanna look into upgrading to the FX-55 Processor in the near future as it looks like prices have dropped a bit.
you can’t beat a new core2 for a desktop pc. AMD isn’t even close, even with the price difference. And I never liked amd stuff anyway. 😃
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### Author:  [@fshowcars](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fshowcars)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2006, 10:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/putting-a-new-pc-together/186342/26 "2006-11-21T10:22:33Z")
^ x2 the only thing AMD i have is a free t-shirt.
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### Author:  [@Tony8470](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Tony8470)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2006, 12:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/putting-a-new-pc-together/186342/27 "2006-11-22T00:14:24Z")
Yeah i did the head gaskets on my sc, it wasnt as bad as I thought.
But, if the compound (which most likely it is) is applied to the heatsink already then it will be a cake walk building your computer. I’ve only done 2 so far but the only hard parts are applying the compound and updating BIOS. BIOS is something, that if not done right will permanently fuck up your motherboard. Luckily mine can be done through windows but if you follow directions to the T then you should be fine.
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### Author:  [@77rednecktruck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/77rednecktruck)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2006, 5:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/putting-a-new-pc-together/186342/28 "2006-11-28T05:42:11Z")
I finally received my motherboard yesterday. It was put together in about 25 minutes and booted up first try. It loaded xp in about half the time my old 2.4ghz pc did it. It runs very good. I use picasa for my pictures and it used to take 13 minutes to import all of my pictures into it on my old 2.4ghz with 1gb of ram and it took 3 minutes with my new setup.
Now, all I need is some speakers. any recomendations on a good 2.1 system? I don’t need surround or any of that BS.
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### Author:  [@JackdUp](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JackdUp)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2006, 5:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/putting-a-new-pc-together/186342/29 "2006-11-28T05:55:24Z")
Creative speakers systems are the best for the money, IMO.
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### Author:  [@77rednecktruck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/77rednecktruck)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2006, 5:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/putting-a-new-pc-together/186342/30 "2006-11-28T05:57:32Z")
🆒
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### Author:  [@fshowcars](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fshowcars)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2006, 7:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/putting-a-new-pc-together/186342/31 "2006-11-28T07:00:24Z")
sound cards are for pussies 🙂
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### Author:  [@77rednecktruck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/77rednecktruck)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2006, 8:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/putting-a-new-pc-together/186342/32 "2006-11-28T08:02:57Z")
> [@Newman's 1986 BMW 326rb build thread.](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/newmans-1986-bmw-326rb-build-thread/22123/834):
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> sound cards are for pussies 🙂
they sent a free copy of Tom Clancy’s ghost recon and I had to make up my own sound effects while playing it last night, it ruled. 😃
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