Sherman Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Well, after I messed up the HDD in my AMD K6-2 (500mhz) we got this Intell Pent. II (333mhz) and this is slow. So today my dad randomly says "lets buy a new computer." So we go on ebay and start looking around and came across this: AMD Athlon 64 X2 DUAL CORE 4200+ (4.4Ghz, 2000mhz FSB) 2GB of DDR-2 RAM 64MB On-board graphics (Could've gone to GeForce 7300GS.... but I wasn't sure, and that money went to another gig of RAM) 160GB HDD And some other little stuff. Everything for pretty much $450.... already put together, just need to get an OS. Good buy? Link on ebay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7.62mm Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Aha! Very nice man! I love my computer. The screen in huge,, its a plasma too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbanoutlaw Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 now I'm jealous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherman Posted June 11, 2007 Author Share Posted June 11, 2007 Haha, thanks. It should be here pretty soon.. it's only up in Ohio. Hopefully I'll be able to get a nice graphics card and be able to play some games for once. Just a few questions though.. 1. What should I do for system security? I don't want Norton or Mcafee, or anything that's going to slow me down... even though I think that's the least of my worries. 2. Is partioning hard? After the last HDD incident, I think it'd be nice to be able to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbanoutlaw Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 (edited) No, not so bad. New hard drives should come w/ software & used ones have it at the makers' website. Would recomend 2 things to save alot of trouble. 1 - Wipe & reload, best way to get rid of any nasties left over from the previous owner. The last used box I got turned out to be the house usage box for lan parties & unprotected surfing. A bit of code buried in the OS kept sending it to really bad porn sites (REALLY bad). It's like if you dated a hooker (but I know you wouldn't because you have standards but if you did), you tell her " your cute & all but we're going to the car wash first. 2 - Get a 40 -80 gig drive & install it as a boot drive (C:), w/ your operating system. Use the 160 gig as the data (D:) to install your backups, games & MP3s/video files etc.. Enjoy, I'll catch up one of these days. EDIT : Right now I'm running XP Pro w/ service pack 2 (appears to finally be fixed) & AVG Free, from AVG site. Edited June 11, 2007 by Urbanoutlaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Pie Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 No, not so bad. New hard drives should come w/ software & used ones have it at the makers' website. Would recomend2 things to save alot of trouble. 1 - Wipe & reload, best way to get rid of any nasties left over from the previous owner. The last used box I got turned out to be the house usage box for lan parties & unprotected surfing. A bit of code buried in the OS kept sending it to really bad porn sites (REALLY bad). It's like if you dated a hooker (but I know you wouldn't because you have standards but if you did), you tell her " your cute & all but we're going to the car wash first. 2 - Get a 40 -80 gig drive & install it as a boot drive (C:), w/ your operating system. Use the 160 gig as the data (D:) to install your backups, games & MP3s/video files etc.. Enjoy, I'll catch up one of these days. EDIT : Right now I'm running XP Pro w/ service pack 2 (appears to finally be fixed) & AVG Free, from AVG site. Or maybe Kaspersky Internet Security and HijackThis; Kaspersky's not really for free but it's a bit more decent, while HijackThis can be useful especially if you're not a noob when it comes to fixing stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherman Posted June 11, 2007 Author Share Posted June 11, 2007 What's "hijackthis"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Pie Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 What's "hijackthis"? For all of you noobs out there, here's the Wikipedia article about HijackThis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HijackThis Basically, it makes a log of all the running processes in your system. You submit the log to a tech support forum, who will tell you if a certain process (exe, dll, tracking cookie, whatever) is rouge or not. You can download it here or in Trend Micro's HijackThis page (Trend Micro bought the app recently). If you use it, upload the log here and we'll see... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 AMD Athlon 64 X2 DUAL CORE 4200+ (4.4Ghz, 2000mhz FSB)2GB of DDR-2 RAM 64MB On-board graphics 160GB HDD Processor: Nice, although the clock speed is 2.2Ghz.... or are you adding both cores up? Yes you probably are RAM: Nice GFX: lol! HDD: Not bad Good buy I say. Enjoy it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaz The Great Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Get AVG Free. It works rather decently. I have 2GBs of RAM, also. My PC still lags for some reason. Pisses me off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherman Posted June 11, 2007 Author Share Posted June 11, 2007 Processor: Nice, although the clock speed is 2.2Ghz.... or are you adding both cores up? Yes you probably are 2.2Ghz X2 = 4.4Ghz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Righty Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Good buy man. Wish I had the money for something like that. Is this going to be yours or are you going to share it with the parental units? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherman Posted June 11, 2007 Author Share Posted June 11, 2007 For the most part, mine. But they'll still use it a bit, sadly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Righty Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 Use XP Pro or 2000 Pro and have your own user account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherman Posted June 12, 2007 Author Share Posted June 12, 2007 We WERE gonna have MCE, but my dad went off and bought home D: Is that bad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Righty Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 Pro > MCE > Home Home should work for whatever you want though. Just make sure to use the NTFS filesystem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alistair Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 Sounds nice, but dude, seriously, splash out on a REAL graphics card, late NVIDIA 7 series or 8 series at the least, onboard is just....ugh, unimaginable, that's what my laptop has poor thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherman Posted June 14, 2007 Author Share Posted June 14, 2007 Alright guys, it's here and i'm on it now, w00t. So quick. (: I've got AVG antivirus... what else should I get? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Righty Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 Spybot and ad-aware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherman Posted June 14, 2007 Author Share Posted June 14, 2007 You wanna go into detail what those are? They sound kind of... general. Maybe they arn't, I'm not familiar with any of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrLlamaLlama Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 Spybot is Spybot s&d, which means search and destroy, which lives up to its name, imo. And ad - awre, its not that great, but use it by all means if you've nothing better.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Righty Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 They are both spyware/adware removal programs. One picks up what the other doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#1 canuck fan Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Good 4 u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris82 Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Kaspersky and Ad-Aware are ALL you need. And for partitioning try PartitionMagic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherman Posted June 16, 2007 Author Share Posted June 16, 2007 Yeah, I think I'm gonna grab Ad-Aware in a bit. Why not the Spybot thing? As for Kaspersky.... that costs? I'm broke.. like, completly broke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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