Ordered my new PC parts

[spikey_richie]

GIGABYTE GA-M59SLI-S5 590SLI AM2 - Retail

VGA XFX GF7950GT PVT71JYHE9 R - Retail

PSU COOLMAX|CUG-700B 700W RT - Retail

CPU AMD|A64 X2 6000 3.0G AM2 2x1M R - Retail

MEM 1Gx2|G.SKILL F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ - Retail

HD 400G|WD 7K 16M SATA2 WD4000AAKS - OEM

COMBO LITE-ON|LH-52C1P-185 BK % - OEM

PCI ADPT D-LINK|DWL-G510 54M R - Retail

$1129 - should be crunching by Tuesday

The favorable US > UK exchange rate has saved me ~£300 ($600)

[PcManiac]

That is awesome dude!
I plan on upgrading soon too!

Same CPU, probably the same Video Card.

Here is the motherboard I plan on using: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813127003

[drezha]

Nice.

I got my shuttle today and it didn't work
Trying to resurect it, otherwise I'm off to the PC store on Saturday to grab replacement parts.

Though I'm on a 754 socket motherboard this time I seem to be going back in time!
Mainly because I've got the CPU that came with the Shuttle (I think still works) and I'd bought some DDR RAM, IDE HD etc and all the AM2 boards seem to be DDR2 and SATA

[Opteron]

Nice !!! Don't forget to come bye D20L and see how many WU's it can turn out in 24-HRs... :-)

[spikey_richie]

PCManiac - I like the idea of the Debug LED

Drezha - That sucks dude, is it Asus?

Opteron - Will do, although its first job will be to break the 1million mark for me on WCG (35k to go)

[Lagu]

Yes, D20L is a good project for testing. If you can finich 200 or more WU`s I can only congrats you.

[spikey_richie]

Yes, D20L is a good project for testing. If you can finich 200 or more WU`s I can only congrats you.

Ok it's on - I like a challenge. I've not crunched D2OL before - is it BOINC or no?

[drezha]

[QUOTE=spikey_richie;46138]
Drezha - That sucks dude, is it Asus?
[QUOTE]

The shuttle was a shuttle system Which looks great. But I do have some plans for the case ;)

I see no point in chucking away brand new and perfectly working pieces of hardware, so I'm sticking the parts into a Socket 754 Mobo. Which will be either an Asus or MSI one.
Not sure which one yet.
Think probably the cheaper of the two.

[Frederic Brillouet]

[quote=drezha;46173][quote=spikey_richie;46138]
Drezha - That sucks dude, is it Asus?

The shuttle was a shuttle system Which looks great. But I do have some plans for the case ;)

I see no point in chucking away brand new and perfectly working pieces of hardware, so I'm sticking the parts into a Socket 754 Mobo. Which will be either an Asus or MSI one.
Not sure which one yet.
Think probably the cheaper of the two.

get the nVidia 250, nVidia 250 Gb or the Via K8T800 Pro chipsets (unless you're going integrated graphics or pci-express). Otherwise there's no AGP-lock and that sucks. It keeps my Athlon64 from going beyond 2.2 GHz. I'm too lazy to buy another mobo, mind you.

[drezha]

get the nVidia 250, nVidia 250 Gb or the Via K8T800 Pro chipsets (unless you're going integrated graphics or pci-express). Otherwise there's no AGP-lock and that sucks. It keeps my Athlon64 from going beyond 2.2 GHz. I'm too lazy to buy another mobo, mind you.

Went for the MSI one.

Considering I'm not overclocking, I didn't need AGP lock.

Besides the Asus one was PCI-e and that would have meant buying a new PCI-e card rather than stick with my current aging nVidia 5200FX. Besides, it's a Skt754..you don't have much choice