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bunkerrattmk2

CNW the left hand road.
AMD fx4170 cpu/zalman cnps9700 cpu cooler
ASUS m5a97 motherboard
8 GB crucial ballistix tactical tracer ddr3 1600
HIS radeon 6790 iceq x turbo
WD veliciraptor 74 gb trainz only
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recycled parts creative x fi extreme gamer sound card
coolermaster 850 watt psu
asus dvdr rw
2 x 100 gb hdd's windows 7 64 bit\raid 0
thermaltake full amour all steel case/250mm side intake/1 120 mm front intake /1 120mm rear exhaust/180mm rear exhaust fan's
razer death adder usb mouse
saitek eclipse keyboard
logitech 5.1 speakers
acer x213h 22inch wide lcd


all bought from "THE EGG" newegg.com
 
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There's nothing wrong with recycling parts from a previous computer. I do that all the time. A new case will last 5 or 6 builds where you figure that's about 10 - 12 years, or until the parts wear out and fall off.

I thought your keyboard and mouse looked familiar. I have those two items myself. I love my keyboard especially the way it lights up because i can run a driver session in the dark.

Isn't "The Egg" great?

Good luck with your build.

John
 
The problem with recycling parts for me is everytime I make a new build, my son wants my old one! It gets expensive!
Good luck with the new rig!
 
it's not a super system but it's not a slouch either,it's replacing a core 2 duo first gen on an asus p5q.this is the first AMD based system ,i got lucky as newegg had sales/discount's ,so it was time to spend my "EGG" money.
 
bunkerrattmk2 said:
it's not a super system but it's not a slouch either,it's replacing a core 2 duo first gen on an asus p5q.this is the first AMD based system ,i got lucky as newegg had sales/discount's ,so it was time to spend my "EGG" money.
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This is still a fairly decent system that you'll get a few more years, at least, out of. Many times it's worth waiting a bit anyway to let the manufacturers work out the hardware bugs. Yes hardware does have design flaws as well. Way back in my manufacturing technician days, we used tor repair and install ECN (Engineering Change Notice) updates to the mainboards of the equipment we worked on. These bugs ranged from a simple chip replacement, like going from a standard TTL to a low voltage version, all the way to running numerous wires, adding capacitors to the back of the boards, and then cutting etches at specific points.

A year or so ago, EVGA had trouble for example, with their X58 chipset motherboards. This was caused by an issue with the CPU sockets which would cause memory not to work. The i7 handles the memory controller within the chip die. This is a great idea, in theory, because things run faster on the memory buss to CPU. The problem is all there needs to be is a poor connection, or noise on the socket, and the memory won't work. With EGVA the amount reported was inconsistent, and not all DIMM sockets would work.

Now that the bugs are out of these boards, they're not bad, but now they're obsolete since they've moved on to other things now.

John
 
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