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 PostPost subject: I made my first PC ........        Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:04 am 
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* 1 80 gig SSD + 1 500 gig HDD

The case is cheap. I installed the blue and white LEDs myself.

EDIT: I have upgraded my gt 440 with gtx 550 ti 3 gig

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 PostPost subject: Re: I made my first PC ........        Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:27 am 
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Looks like nice machine... :)

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 PostPost subject: Re: I made my first PC ........        Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:37 am 
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Looks like nice machine... :)


thanks :mrgreen:

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 PostPost subject: Re: I made my first PC ........        Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:10 am 
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2 monitors for one machine?


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 PostPost subject: Re: I made my first PC ........        Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:16 am 
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2 monitors for one machine?


yes. Dual monitors great for multi-tasking especially when browsing the web.or i can play a movie on one and work on the other. Advantages are endless :idea:

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 PostPost subject: Re: I made my first PC ........        Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:19 am 
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yes. Dual monitors great for multi-tasking especially when browsing the web.or i can play a movie on one and work on the other. Advantages are endless :idea:


With them cannot you make somthing like ATI Eyefinity Technology?


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 PostPost subject: Re: I made my first PC ........        Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:22 am 
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Andrew Tapferke wrote:
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yes. Dual monitors great for multi-tasking especially when browsing the web.or i can play a movie on one and work on the other. Advantages are endless :idea:


With them cannot you make somthing like ATI Eyefinity Technology?


No, because he has a Nvidia card. But there IS a similar technology Nvidia made.

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 PostPost subject: Re: I made my first PC ........        Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:25 am 
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No, because he has a Nvidia card. But there IS a similar technology Nvidia made.


How was the Nvidia tehnology called? TwinView Dual-Display Architecture IIRC


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 PostPost subject: Re: I made my first PC ........        Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:29 am 
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nice rig i like the dual screen system setup i take it you game ?

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 PostPost subject: Re: I made my first PC ........        Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:53 am 
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nice rig i like the dual screen system setup i take it you game ?


I cannot understand what you want to say.


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 PostPost subject: Re: I made my first PC ........        Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:37 am 
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Andrew Tapferke wrote:
annihilator wrote:
yes. Dual monitors great for multi-tasking especially when browsing the web.or i can play a movie on one and work on the other. Advantages are endless :idea:


With them cannot you make somthing like ATI Eyefinity Technology?


Running games or movies on multiple monitors at once requires a minimum of 3 monitors of the same size. I have 2 and one is 19 inch and the other is 16 inch.

BTW nVidia does support this

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 PostPost subject: Re: I made my first PC ........        Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 2:38 pm 
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Running games or movies on multiple monitors at once requires a minimum of 3 monitors of the same size. I have 2 and one is 19 inch and the other is 16 inch.


AMD Eyefinity works fine with two, but movies work best on one generally, because the aspect ratio is generally pretty well matched with one, and games work best with odd numbers so you can have a central screen - otherwise the crosshairs are split between the two (middle) screens on shooters, and so on.

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 PostPost subject: Re: I made my first PC ........        Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:56 pm 
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Looks like a good rig.
The only thing i don't like is the cheap graphic card, you won't get great performance with it in modern games.


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 PostPost subject: Re: I made my first PC ........        Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:16 pm 
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Eyefinity and similar is only decent with displays in odd numbers as hounsell suggested, otherwise you do end up with crosshairs (i.e. your aim being split down the middle). 3 monitors you can have surroundings on your first and last monitor while you aim on your middle monitor. Makes a good gaming experience, better than a single large screen that's for certain.

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 PostPost subject: Re: I made my first PC ........        Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:55 am 
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Not sure about the 5 GB of RAM, the 2400 is dual channel IIRC so you'll get better performance running matched DIMMs.

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 PostPost subject: Re: I made my first PC ........        Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:24 pm 
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Looks really good! certainly blows my first build out of the water
And i agree, 2 monitors are grate, i had a smiler setup for halo map editing a while ago, made life easier (not to mention easier to get distracted :) )

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 PostPost subject: Re: I made my first PC ........        Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:32 am 
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looking good man why is to dark? in room? :mrgreen:

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 PostPost subject: Re: I made my first PC ........        Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 7:07 am 
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 PostPost subject: Re: I made my first PC ........        Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 12:40 pm 
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looking good man why is to dark? in room? :mrgreen:


Command centers are always dark :cool:

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I'm building a PC with a hex-core Phenom II X6, 8GB DDR3 1600mhz RAM, 1.5TB SATA HDD (I'm using that now), ASRock N68c-S UCC motherboard and an ATI Radeon HD 6870 (Not the best card but the RAM and processor make up for it)
My budget is only £300 too, I'm already £60 over.

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Nice rig! I like the dual screen system setup. I take it you're a gamer?


I cannot understand what you want to say.

I had to read it a couple of times to understand. I fixed it.

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 PostPost subject: Re: I made my first PC ........        Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 7:34 pm 
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Those are nice specs. But that GeForce GTX 550 Ti (or whatever is called) will bottleneck a little bit, I think.

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