Kwaad said:
Nice buy. Bet your CPU limited. :p Nah, it takes between 1-2 hours to set everything up. When you come up with a problem like... There is no pinout info to hookup the USB on the front of the case... you spend about 3 hours doing research to get that right. :D Also, when your XP disc has a nasty scratch on the boot sector, you have to go back, install win98, start the XP install and remove win98, and pray to god it works the first time, and if it dont. Add about 2-3 hours. It takes me about 4-5 hours to get the OS installed. And then it takes me about 1 hour to get all my drivers slapped together. After that, I make sure everything is running right, OC the crap out of everything, watch the temps for about a hour. After makeing sure I will have no heat problems, set clock to stock speeds, and start playing games. If there are any heat problems, add about 1 hour per problem. I have lost 1 computer I built. The motherboards ability to use IDE failed... That and I almost smoked my old P4 becuase of a faulty 5900. I didnt do my checks. Started playing a game, I smelled something. shut the game off, pulled up my temps, and the GPU was at about 110c, and the CPU was at 80c, while the ambient temp was at around 65c. Since then I make sure I dont have problems. |
LOL yep CPU limited like a bitch... sucks, gonna have to spend more money upping that soon :P
Ah yeah I getcha, but you should really just burn another XP cd or something if you've got the key. Screw that long arse method yr using :P
ANYWAY, off topic.
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