£70 to spend on something for my pc?

Andromeda1983 · 10 Sep 2006 at 14:41

Ive £70 spare this week and i want to spend it on my PC. My current spec is

AMD64 SCK939 4000+ CPU WITH ZALMAN AM2 COOLER
GIGABYTE K8NSC-939 NForce3 250Gb MOTHERBOARD
2GB PC3200 DDR RAM
INNO3D 6800GT 256MB GDDR3 GRAPHICS CARD WITH ARTIC COOLER ACCELERO X1

SOUNDBLASTER AUDIGY 2 ZS SOUND CARD
NEC 3520AW DVD-R/RW DRIVE
VIEWSONIC VX922 19INCH TFT MONITOR
2 X 160GB MAXTOR SATA HARD DRIVES
WINDOWS XP PRO INSTALLED - PCLINUXOS INSTALLED
WINDOWS MULTIMEDIA KEYBOARD AND OPTICAL MOUSE

Any suggestions?

naro · 10 Sep 2006 at 14:56

hmm.. speakers???

Andromeda1983 · 10 Sep 2006 at 15:01

oh yeah lol

CREATIVE LABS T7700 7.1 SPEAKERS

naro · 10 Sep 2006 at 15:05

Andromeda1983 said:
oh yeah lol

CREATIVE LABS T7700 7.1 SPEAKERS

hmm.. u sure u need 7.1 speakers???

i'm using a 5.1 setup, and the wires are a mess.. haha

Andromeda1983 · 10 Sep 2006 at 15:08

well i have the 7.1 speakers but ive only room for 5.1 at the moment and they arent even placed right lol. I am intested somewhat in the x-fi and headset deal, i suppose i could stretch to £90 for them. I did buy a x-fi extreme music before and it killed my mobo lol, so the mobo now is only a crappy nforce3 250gb since i cannot afford to upgrade to the pci-express version just yet

gurusan · 10 Sep 2006 at 15:16

How did a sound card kill your mobo?

Andromeda1983 · 10 Sep 2006 at 15:19

i bought a oem version from a rival company.... and for some reason it just killed my mobo

naro · 10 Sep 2006 at 15:32

Andromeda1983 said:
well i have the 7.1 speakers but ive only room for 5.1 at the moment and they arent even placed right lol. I am intested somewhat in the x-fi and headset deal, i suppose i could stretch to £90 for them. I did buy a x-fi extreme music before and it killed my mobo lol, so the mobo now is only a crappy nforce3 250gb since i cannot afford to upgrade to the pci-express version just yet

confused how a soundcard can killl mobo...

the ZS should be sufficient...

UKTopGun · 10 Sep 2006 at 15:47

Yeh don't understand that about soundcard killing it. I suspect you killed it yourself somehow (i.e. didn't ground etc.)

Andromeda1983 · 10 Sep 2006 at 16:37

lol ive been building pc's for years. Im no fool when it comes to installing things and making sure i dont blow components.

Gommsta · 10 Sep 2006 at 17:49

i'd be saving the money to next week and getting a better mobo

Trusty · 10 Sep 2006 at 17:57

sell your gpu and get a 1800xt!!

Massive Attack · 10 Sep 2006 at 18:03

upgrade your mobo and do some overclocking maybe and A8N sli premium

UKTopGun · 10 Sep 2006 at 19:14

Andromeda1983 said:
lol ive been building pc's for years. Im no fool when it comes to installing things and making sure i dont blow components.

Then you should know soundcards don't ruin your PC. Only time they do is when the power supply fries them and that shouldn't kill mobo.

Andromeda1983 · 10 Sep 2006 at 20:42

if the soundcard was faulty its possible it could have damaged the mobo. Anyway i think for now ill go with the x-fi extreme music and upgrade my gc and mobo christmas time

naro · 12 Sep 2006 at 01:49

Andromeda1983 said:
if the soundcard was faulty its possible it could have damaged the mobo. Anyway i think for now ill go with the x-fi extreme music and upgrade my gc and mobo christmas time

i think its better for u to change to AM2 during x'mas. Change the platform and get the AMD X2...

Defiled · 12 Sep 2006 at 08:38

naro said:
confused how a soundcard can killl mobo...

And so you should be, but still, an Xfi also killed by mates mobo too! It just locked up when playing BF2 with this really dark, evil noise coming out of the speakers - the mobo was never the same since - random crashes, unstable SLI etc...

z0mbi3 · 12 Sep 2006 at 08:43

Defiled said:
It just locked up when playing BF2

There's your answer.

Defiled · 12 Sep 2006 at 08:44

z0mbi3 said:
There's your answer.

Rofl - good point!