Buying a desktop, suggestions please

Team Black · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 3:55 am Post subject:

here's what cpuz tells me. Not exactly sure what any of this means

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DaFool · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Nov 2006

What the hell kind of computer is that von?

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Roaches · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 3:58 am Post subject:

DaFool wrote:

What the hell kind of computer is that von?

You Never heard of Cray-2?

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Sir Modsalot · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 5:10 am Post subject:

Team Black wrote:

here's what cpuz tells me. Not exactly sure what any of this means

Looks like a proprietary board typically used in HP's pre-built systems. What about the CPU stuff in the first tab?

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Team Black · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 2:39 pm Post subject:

here we go:

One more thing, could you find me a sexy speaker system for my computer?
I have orange, black, and grey headphone jack outputs, and what looks like an orange coaxle labeled "digital audio out". I'm not familiar with any of those, but I can only guess they allow for some juicy sound.
Not sure how much that'd go for, but I'd be willing to plunk $50~$75 for something like that.

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Sir Modsalot · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject:

CPU looks good, then.

Team Black wrote:

One more thing, could you find me a sexy speaker system for my computer?
I have orange, black, and grey headphone jack outputs, and what looks like an orange coaxle labeled "digital audio out". I'm not familiar with any of those, but I can only guess they allow for some juicy sound.
Not sure how much that'd go for, but I'd be willing to plunk $50~$75 for something like that.

The orange, black, and gray 3.5mm jacks are analog surround sound speaker connections. The orange coax labeled "digital audio out" is exactly that; a coaxial digital audio output. Normally used with higher-end speaker systems, or connecting to a surround sound receiver. Optical audio out, which is a box-like black connector, is also used this way.

As for finding a use for those connections in that price range, fat chance. You'll have to deal with a decent 2-speaker set until you have more to spend, at which point it wouldn't hurt to splurge on a Logitech Z-5500, or a Creative Gigaworks S750 if you can find one anymore.

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Team Black · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:21 pm Post subject:

ow, yeah $300 is a bit steep. I have some speakers I bought for my ipod that sound really good that I can plug my computer into.. those will do.

I'll definitely be looking into that graphics card though, $90 ain't half bad for something like that.

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