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Deploymentking

Deploymentking

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I have a 2-3 year old HP DV8000 with a 17" screen notebook. It worked good and WAS top of the line. Its a POS now. I cant fly or drive or ride without it locking up. Im looking to either get a new one (desktop or notebook) or just gut this one and make it like new again. Any suggestions.

Specs:

Windows XP Media Center
Intel Centrino Duo T2300 @1.66GHz
1Gb of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 256 MB

Thanks
 
i think the CPU is a problem as well as ram as well as vid card lol

I think soulzz is the cure wait till he gets this. He can help you out.
 
do NOT buy a laptop unless for some crazy reason youre either rich or are on the road so much that you simply wouldnt have time to use a desktop. You end up spending probably twice as much for the same level of tech.
 
He'll be getting it within 2-3 weeks :).
 
Did you send him a newegg parts list?

That's what I'd do...

;-D

Anyway... as for the poll - I've heard of some pretty crappy comps running 2142... or trying to anyway :-D

I remember something about an Athlon XP... the socket A ones... with an AGP FX 5200...

I'm sure it runs fine on low settings/low res.
 
Yup. Confirmed all the parts with him and emailed him the parts I chose. He'll be one happy camper in about 2 weeks :D.
 
Hell, Evil's comp, my old one, is P4. 2.6 dual core with AGP geforce 7800...and it sux ass, its like 5 years old, if not more...it still runs 2142 on low/med settings...I am on it right now(Killa), but it's got my old 20,1" monitor...Woot, looks so small though... LOL 001
 
7800 isn't bad... depends on which edition though.

<5/6/7>200 is bad... very bad.

I personally don't think I'll ever be able to go back to anything less than 24'' for gaming... I'm way spoiled now.
 
Ok well the here's what were gonna roll with.


RAZER DeathAdder RZ01-00150100-R3M1 Black 5 Buttons 1 x Wheel USB Optical High Precision Gaming Mouse

LITE-ON 22X DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA Model iHAS222-06

GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard

Saitek PZ30AU Black USB Wired Standard Eclipse Keyboard

Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 Wolfdale 2.8GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80571E740

Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

ZALMAN CNPS9700 LED 110mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler

Acer X203H bd Black 20" 16:9 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor w/ Swivel Adjust

G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ

OCZ StealthXStream OCZ600SXS 600W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready Active PFC Power Supply

EVGA 512-P3-N973-TR GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200AAKS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit




What do yall think, I dont really care but it might make yall feel better if you think I do.
 
I tried to fit his budget of 1500. He wanted this system to be able to play ARMA2 on decent settings. He doesn't want a state-of-the-art machine, just something that will play current games with ease :).
 
I have a Intel X6800 I will part with if you want a bad ass Core 2; I don't know about the 64bit Vista heard some problems getting drivers for things
 
I've been on 64-bit Vista for a good year, only had one issue with it, and that was with a program I never used. :).
 
No net yet. The angels haven't descended down from heaven with a great treasure of ArmA2 yet.
 
It should be out in the next month or so.
 
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