New Gaming Box

[IndianScout]

Well I started on another gaming box for my 9 year old

dunno if I went in the right direction but here are the specs..

P4 2.2 400
Intel 865GLC (a 9 year old doesnt need o/c options)
1G PC3200 2 x 512 Dual mode
ATI 9800 pro
2 30G IBM Deskstars

this should last him for awhile,, yes???

 

[betterlife18]

Yeah, good enough for games "up to" Battlefield Vietnam, Call of Duty, etc. Anything higher (Doom3, Half Life 2) will run a little choppy. You got an 865 chipset there, why not get a P4 with a 800MHz bus?

 

[IndianScout]

the P4 2.2 was a CPU I had lying around my bench,,, didnt think the preformance gain from 400/800 would be that noticable to a 9 year old lol

 

[betterlife18]

Hehe, yeah I guess your right.

 

[PornStar]

Im sure Id be happy with that if I was 9

 

[aNTiChRisT]

Aye, me too!

It can always be upgraded at a later date for HL2, Doom3 if its really needed

That said these are age restricted games ;-)

~t0m

 

[batboy]

Wow, nice rig for a 9 year old. Will ya adopt me? P-4, i865 chipset, 1 gig of dual channel RAM, and 9800 Pro... yeah that will handle any game available. Furture games like Doom3, Half Life 2 will be ok too, might not be able to use max resolutions and all the vid card eye candy... but it'll be fine.

 

[RubiX³]

You know what my dad got me on my 9th birthday? A carton of cigarettes. He grabbed me and said "Hey SMOKE UP JOHNNY."

 

[IndianScout]

smokin is bad mmmkayyyyyyyy..

HEY IT'S HIT HIT GIVE.. you fricking screwin up da rotation.....

 

[betterlife18]

The Breakfast Club is definately one of my all-time favorite movies.

 

[topslop1]

I built my own pc for my 13th birthday. My Dad was pretty chill about letting me have $700 to spend on it all.

 

[IndianScout]

My son is building this at 9 with my supervision, but he grew up in the back of a computer store playing with hardware, dang I'm raising a geek,, oh damn.....

 

[VisEtVirtus]

Nothing wrong with raising a geek, he will probably be raking in lots of cash at an early rage with the rate he is going at. I didn't build my first comp until I was 13 and now my interest in computers has landed me a pretty decent summer job making about 13/hour.

 

[tekOC]

Nothing wrong with raising a geek, he will probably be raking in lots of cash at an early rage with the rate he is going at. I didn't build my first comp until I was 13 and now my interest in computers has landed me a pretty decent summer job making about 13/hour.

Thats what I'm trying to do, put all my knowledge into a computer kind of job.... how do you do it man?

 

[chasingapple]

I would have got him an XBOX or Gamecube

 

[Buzzdog]

When I was 9 my computer was an original TI-99, the silver one, not the "improved" 4a beige one.

 

[IndianScout]

my first computer was a Sinclair and then a Commodore Vic20


ackk did I just give away my age???