Computer ordered
Nov. 15th, 2007 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterThe order is away!
I ended up making a few minor changes to the wish list. For $22 more I upgraded to a 4600 Dual Core instead of a 4500; a little faster plus double the L1 cache size. Got a slightly different case, too, and ended up with a 400 watt power supply instead of a 350—not out of concern that it wouldn't be big enough, as after checking the numbers myself I was satisfied that my chosen card + the CPU would together pull only about half of that, but because the 350 didn't have a PCI Express connector and the 400 did.
The card I ended up going with was an ATi Radeon X600XT 128MB PCI Express, for $30 + $15 3-day shipping from Geeks.com. Given that the card is going for $80-90 on eBay, that's not such a bad deal at all.
I hope everything will arrive before Thanksgiving.
I ended up making a few minor changes to the wish list. For $22 more I upgraded to a 4600 Dual Core instead of a 4500; a little faster plus double the L1 cache size. Got a slightly different case, too, and ended up with a 400 watt power supply instead of a 350—not out of concern that it wouldn't be big enough, as after checking the numbers myself I was satisfied that my chosen card + the CPU would together pull only about half of that, but because the 350 didn't have a PCI Express connector and the 400 did.
The card I ended up going with was an ATi Radeon X600XT 128MB PCI Express, for $30 + $15 3-day shipping from Geeks.com. Given that the card is going for $80-90 on eBay, that's not such a bad deal at all.
I hope everything will arrive before Thanksgiving.
