Did Santy leave any good buidling/modding goodies?

hopeful · 26-12-2006 12:13AM #1

Just wondering what building/upgrading goodies Santy left under the tree for all you happy people?

Personally he left me shag all...but then I had spent a good few hundred on my new rig in December so I guess I was my own Santy this year

Now I will have to see what the "New Year Fairies" bring me

TerrorFirmer · 26-12-2006 12:18AM

Well as well as getting my main c2d gaming machine, 'santa' also gave me an older P4 2.4Ghz and 15" LCD to 'mess around with' - pretty damn decent not to mention totally unexpected

hopeful · 26-12-2006 12:20AM

Now that's a damn good stocking filler :eek:

TerrorFirmer · 26-12-2006 12:28AM

I wonder are PC World open tomorrow...I plan on picking up one of their 49.99 6200s and a cheap stick of 512mb pc-2700 ram to make the old p4 into a budget gaming machine....

It's one of the cheap HP business model P4s so it only has 256mb Ram and a basic cd-rom drive but surprisingly enough it actually has a 4x agp slot so as far as I'm concerned the worlds my oyster

edit: I spent more time sticking parts in and out of it today and generally messing about with it then I did using my new E6400 machine....I should be ashamed of myself.

CarefulNow · 26-12-2006 01:07AM

They are open at 12noon tomorrow.

L31mr0d · 26-12-2006 12:13PM

HavoK wrote:

edit: I spent more time sticking parts in and out of it today and generally messing about with it then I did using my new E6400 machine....I should be ashamed of myself.

lol, this seems to be my life now, my machine is never at a point where i'm confident to game on it. I'm always tweaking, changing, selling something from it. It's gotten to the point now where I enjoy building the computer more than I like using it. I'm going to have to severly curb this hobbie in the new year though, going snowboarding in Sweden in April then off on a roadtrip across Canada in the summer.

Don't know about Santy, but the missus bought me the XFI Fatal1ty in my sig. Utterly unexpected, and greatly appreciated. A decent soundcard was always the one thing missing from my rig, I could never bring myself to buy one as there was always something else (i.e. more RAM, better CPU, newer GFX card) that took priority. Funny thing is it will probably be the one thing in my rig I won't change for the longest time.

I'll be getting 4xSflex 12cm fans next week, to replace the noisy antec TriCool ones in my P180 rig. That will be my xmas present

a quiet rig for christmas

TerrorFirmer · 26-12-2006 12:35PM

I'm using the onboard on my neo-f, and before that I used the onboard in my last machine as well....a dedicated sound card also is something I must get but to me, it was always one of those...meh, couldn't be bothered things....

TonyM. · 26-12-2006 01:25PM

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=324783&utm_source=komplett&utm_medium=email

Komplett have a good deal on a 20" lcd €289.00

Anti · 26-12-2006 02:37PM

I got nothign new for xmas hardware wise.

I spent all my money before xmas

B00MSTICK · 26-12-2006 03:05PM

I finally got the Xfi and a headset from a LAN we won last september, just in time for xmas.

ricka05 · 26-12-2006 03:22PM

Im waiting for thermaltake armor,shoud be delivered tomorrow.....

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-046-TT

Anti · 26-12-2006 03:41PM

Dont hold your breath. Im still waiting on stuff from there which i ordered in 2 weeks ago.

ricka05 · 26-12-2006 03:45PM

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

awhir · 26-12-2006 04:19PM

ricka05 wrote:

Im waiting for thermaltake armor,shoud be delivered tomorrow.....

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-046-TT

bah*ya should of got a Akasa Mirage 62 Aluminium so cool *:rolleyes:

hopeful · 26-12-2006 04:53PM

awhir wrote:

bah*ya should of got a Akasa Mirage 62 Aluminium so cool *:rolleyes:

You ever think of therapy for your Akasa Miragitis problem?

awhir · 26-12-2006 05:23PM

nope

Did Santy leave any good buidling/modding goodies?

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