wenospeak
09-04-2005, 09:48 PM
Hi guys,
I just wanted to say thanks to everyone here for helping me through a traumatic experience (building a computer from scratch for the first time).
You may remember the long affair we had in this post:
Upgrading Motherboard & CPU Questions
http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?t=38390
I thought you should know that my new system is doing just what I wanted it to do while much quieter and cooler than my old system.
The Antec P180 gets high marks for quietness even with additional fans installed and running them at full speed all the time. However, it’s a real pain in the neck to work with because of the compartment design (which is the price you pay for its quietness and coolness). My processor never exceeds 100 degrees and 125 to 130 was common on my old system.
Some other components also deserve comments. The ATI All-In-Wonder 600 Pro appears to be an excellent video card, however ALL the software that comes with it really disappointed me. I had a trouble ticket going with ATI for some time and finally had to uninstall everything from them except the hardware drivers. Basically, nothing worked!
The main excitement is from the dual core AMD chip. It’s doing exactly what I expected. I am in the middle of building a new website and putting my system under the following conditions:
There are approximately 40 processes running in the background at boot, including these Systray residents: MBM 5 Motherboard Monitor, Microsoft Anti-Spyware, Free-AV, and Fuji Exif Launcher.
Actively launched programs all running at the same time are: Photoshop, Dreamweaver, usually two or three open IE browsers, at least two instances of Notepad, Microsoft Media player (shuffling a library of over 1500 .flac files), Outlook 2003, Gaim 1.5, Font Expert 2005, Screenhunter 4.0, IrfanView 3.97, and Word 2003.
No crashes, no lockups, no music interruptions, just sweet performance!!!
Thanks for making an old man happy!!!
BTW – the site I’m building is www.jazzrockworld.com for the few fans out there.
Rick Calic
************EDIT*************
Building computers is like having sex. It's a long painstaking arduous task that seems to go on and on forever, and just when you think you're getting somewhere - nothing happens!
(Stolen and modified from Frank Drebin - scripted by Pat Proft)
I just wanted to say thanks to everyone here for helping me through a traumatic experience (building a computer from scratch for the first time).
You may remember the long affair we had in this post:
Upgrading Motherboard & CPU Questions
http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?t=38390
I thought you should know that my new system is doing just what I wanted it to do while much quieter and cooler than my old system.
The Antec P180 gets high marks for quietness even with additional fans installed and running them at full speed all the time. However, it’s a real pain in the neck to work with because of the compartment design (which is the price you pay for its quietness and coolness). My processor never exceeds 100 degrees and 125 to 130 was common on my old system.
Some other components also deserve comments. The ATI All-In-Wonder 600 Pro appears to be an excellent video card, however ALL the software that comes with it really disappointed me. I had a trouble ticket going with ATI for some time and finally had to uninstall everything from them except the hardware drivers. Basically, nothing worked!
The main excitement is from the dual core AMD chip. It’s doing exactly what I expected. I am in the middle of building a new website and putting my system under the following conditions:
There are approximately 40 processes running in the background at boot, including these Systray residents: MBM 5 Motherboard Monitor, Microsoft Anti-Spyware, Free-AV, and Fuji Exif Launcher.
Actively launched programs all running at the same time are: Photoshop, Dreamweaver, usually two or three open IE browsers, at least two instances of Notepad, Microsoft Media player (shuffling a library of over 1500 .flac files), Outlook 2003, Gaim 1.5, Font Expert 2005, Screenhunter 4.0, IrfanView 3.97, and Word 2003.
No crashes, no lockups, no music interruptions, just sweet performance!!!
Thanks for making an old man happy!!!
BTW – the site I’m building is www.jazzrockworld.com for the few fans out there.
Rick Calic
************EDIT*************
Building computers is like having sex. It's a long painstaking arduous task that seems to go on and on forever, and just when you think you're getting somewhere - nothing happens!
(Stolen and modified from Frank Drebin - scripted by Pat Proft)