Computer VS Bike

carey8

Shall i upgrade my computer or buy a frame and build up a bike?
Bearing in mind i want to start DH and have limited to no access to DH around here with out a car.
Or not to my knowledge. (live in Guildford)

What i was thinking was to -
Upgrade my computer for the moment,
Then save for a car,
Then build up a bike.

Because then i can get to Decent Dh tracks.

YAY or NAY?


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mr kirk

bike, car, computer. in that order

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blacksun

Car, bike, computer.

Car - You'll need it to get around.
Bike - You want to try DH.
Computer - Does your computer _really_ need upgrading?

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carey8

I want a bike the most.
But wether i'll be able to build one up, i have to find money first.
I've got about œ300, and will obviously need more.

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blacksun

You're better off saving seeing as œ300 won't get you a bike or a car and only limited PC upgrades.

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lacuna

you would have to be a g33kz0r of the highest order to upgrade your computer at the start of the summer. Besides that, Crysis and HL2 ep.2 aren't out yet so theres no need to be upgrading anyway.

Sort your bike first.

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carey8

It will get me a New CPU and some Decent Ram.



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mmm_pie

Upgrades to computers are never really worth it unless they're <œ10.

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doug

computers are lame

cars and bikes are mint

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RobA

I thought that you had only just built a good spec one?

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you would have to be a g33kz0r of the highest order to upgrade your computer at the start of the summer. Besides that, Crysis and HL2 ep.2 aren't out yet so theres no need to be upgrading anyway.

Sort your bike first.

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crysis comes out in july iirc.

unless they pushed the dates back.

Why not check sdh for a cheap dh rig? then car, then pc [:)]

The odds of winning some pretty good money would be fairly high with œ300 worth of lottery tickets though. [;)]

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Something round here tastes bad. Could be plain old bad taste.
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carey8

It is out in July i think.
I think i will build the bike up, although, i'm still not sure.


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MentalRaver

Look at it this way......

....I use a hand me down from my beloved (much respected) Nan.

It is a 1.2ghz Sony VAIO.

I run my 360 live through it, video edit, do everything I want on the net, play DVD's and can do pic uploading and it syncs with my palm top (which is worth more than the PC).

Do you need an upgrade or do you need to sit down one day and clear your hardrive of stagnant stuff, keep your desktop clean, do some speed mods to your config.sys and startup?

I would go for----

SERVICE car, new bike, forget the new PC.

You need a car to keep job to earn money to get bike and work will always have a better PC so give up.

Thats my nugget of gold.

Anonymous

Config.sys? holy crap are you still running windows 95 or 98? That is a hand-me down!
You speak the truth though, unless you want to play games, then pretty much any computer will do.

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HappyZZZCamper

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by carey8</i>

It will get me a New CPU and some Decent Ram.



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œ300 will get you a decent cpu, mobo, memory and graphics card. For œ265 I got:

Althon X2 3800+
2 gigs of kingston cheapo DDR2 ram (fast enough tho in a dual channel config)
Gefore 7600 (again fairly nippy, might add another before the summer's out)
An SLI mobo of some description.

That can comfortably cope with fear with everything switched on at 1024 x 768 with 4xAA and 8x AF

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carey8

Well at the minute, my comp specs are:
e6300 - 2.9Ghz
7900GTO 705/750
GEiL RAM 1gb pc2 - 6400 running at ~845 - 4-4-4-12
DS3 Rev 3.3.
So its not bad at all, but i'd be looking for going Quad core, and with some pc2-8500 2gb ram, Then later on a new PSU and some sort of DX10 graphics card.

Other tahn that, i'd build up a big hit. [:)]


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HappyZZZCamper

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by carey8</i>

Well at the minute, my comp specs are:
e6300 - 2.9Ghz
7900GTO 705/750
GEiL RAM 1gb pc2 - 6400 running at ~845 - 4-4-4-12
DS3 Rev 3.3.
So its not bad at all, but i'd be looking for going Quad core, and with some pc2-8500 2gb ram, Then later on a new PSU and some sort of DX10 graphics card.

Other tahn that, i'd build up a big hit. [:)]


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Sounds like a good sys. Wouldn't waste time on current quad core chips at the moment. They're not a lot quicker than the dual core jobbies and are really really power hungry. The intel quad core dealy has a TDP of 130w. That's going back to the bad old days of the P4.


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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by carey8</i>

Well at the minute, my comp specs are:
e6300 - 2.9Ghz
7900GTO 705/750
GEiL RAM 1gb pc2 - 6400 running at ~845 - 4-4-4-12
DS3 Rev 3.3.
So its not bad at all, but i'd be looking for going Quad core, and with some pc2-8500 2gb ram, Then later on a new PSU and some sort of DX10 graphics card.

Other tahn that, i'd build up a big hit. [:)]


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and you want to upgrade that? tbh you're best off sticking with that. mabye upgrade the ram and gfx card. nvidia 8800 and corsair xms2

Happy camper - For œ200 i got
5200+
3gb ram
DFI lanparty UT mobo

Then i went and spent nearly œ300 on an nvidia 7950gx2. Now i can't help but think i shouldn't have wasted my money. what with the 8800 out.


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Something round here tastes bad. Could be plain old bad taste.
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carey8

If i could have waited another 3 Months, which would have been the sensible idea, i coukd have gone DX10 straight away.
But there we go.

RSU - You went AMD? why?

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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by carey8</i>

Well at the minute, my comp specs are:
e6300 - 2.9Ghz
7900GTO 705/750
GEiL RAM 1gb pc2 - 6400 running at ~845 - 4-4-4-12
DS3 Rev 3.3.
So its not bad at all, but i'd be looking for going Quad core, and with some pc2-8500 2gb ram, Then later on a new PSU and some sort of DX10 graphics card.

Other tahn that, i'd build up a big hit. [:)]


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and you want to upgrade that? tbh you're best off sticking with that. mabye upgrade the ram and gfx card. nvidia 8800 and corsair xms2

Happy camper - For œ200 i got
5200+
3gb ram
DFI lanparty UT mobo

Then i went and spent nearly œ300 on an nvidia 7950gx2. Now i can't help but think i shouldn't have wasted my money. what with the 8800 out.


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Something round here tastes bad. Could be plain old bad taste.
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Heh. Life's a biaaaaaaatch! I guess. I find that being a generation behind the latest stuff anyway is a lot easier on the mind. That way, when the latest stuff comes out you just end up being 2 generatoins rather 1 behind.

@carey8

AMD offer better performance/price at the mo. Just.

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xc-andy

carey ... why would you want to build a bike up ? its the most expensive way in the world to own a bike .!
if you want to start out at something , get secondhand and work up ...

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carey8

I can get a Bighit Frame for œ250, thats why it hink it would work out cheaper. Probably wrong in EVERY SENSE, but there we go.

@HzzzC: So my Overclocked e6300, will not prefor as well as RSUs AMD?

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HappyZZZCamper

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by carey8</i>

I can get a Bighit Frame for œ250, thats why it hink it would work out cheaper. Probably wrong in EVERY SENSE, but there we go.

@HzzzC: So my Overclocked e6300, will not prefor as well as RSUs AMD?

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Depends how far you OC it. The E6300 is roughly similar in performance to the 4400+ when not overclocked. If you get a good E6300, you can easily overclock it to E6600 levels and beyond with some serious cooling.

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carey8

I've got a TT120, I've hit a FSB wall on my CPU. It sucks tbh.
T'is part of the reason i went Intel in the beginning, overclocknig on them is far superiour to AMD.




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bike, pc and find some riding mates with cars

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Car, bike, PC.

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carey8

I'm only 15 at the minute btw.
I think i might save some more and get a bike. Shall keep me occupied over the summer.

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Hippies are bad

Forget the computer,build up the bike then buy a car

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Hippies are bad

Forget the computer, build the bike then buy a car

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carey8

I want a bike, but i have no where to ride it around here.
Unless, any of you on here are willing to offer me lifts to decent DH places?

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jamiejim

no thanks