New PC

[Sir Golitech]

My mom just bought my dad a new PC for his B-Day.It's a Dell P4 2.2GHz with 15" monitor.I have know idea about anything else.It's in 2 boxes sitting here at my house.I want to open it and poke around with it and see what it has.*wondering if it's anygood*

[Chris_F]

OEM *Shivers* ;)

Is it a 2.2a or 2.2b (400fsb/533fsb)?

If you or your dad plan on overclocking it, you'll have to do a pin mod.

You can pin mod a 2.2a to 2.92Ghz

or

You can pin mod a 2.2b to 3.3GHz

Hope it's a 2.2a because 2.2b @3.3GHz needs TEC or Phase Change cooling.

[Sir Golitech]

Alright I just talked to my mom and she asked me to hook up the new PC and install everything ahead of time.Woo wee, it's play time.Lets see what this baby can do.:eek:

[Sir Golitech]

Damn OEM's, it won't even let me into the BIOS.
Oh well it's not mine anyway, besides it's a hell of a step up from the 356 that my dad has.

[Sir Golitech]

UPDATE:

I just finished hooking up the new PC for my dad.So like any good OC member, I opened the old one to have a poke around.Keeping in mind it's an old system, I found an ATI PCI Rage card in it.I yet to hook it up again and see what it's really all about, but I was wonder just from knowing it's an ATI PCI Rage card...would it be better then what my old piece of sh*t is?

I'll have more details once I bring the old PC home tonight.

[TC]

Hard to say much about the rest of a computer based purely on the video card. You never know, maybe you'll luck out. I'm using the exact same video card with my FX 51 LOL.

[Sir Golitech]

Damn, I don't get it???
:confused:
I plugged in the ATI card into one of my PCI slots, but I can't get it to work.When I check it under Device Manager it tells me that "this device cannot start(Code 10).Does anybody have any clue as to what is going on?

Sorry for talking about it here.Mods, feel free to move this subject to the correct header.