Ordered my new M570TU

Well today i ordered a new M570TU chassis from rjtech. I am going to be replacing my old Alienware m9750 with it. I also ordered a x9100 processor(ebay ftw) and 4gb of mushkin 1066 ddr3(newegg) for it. I have a WD scorpio 320gb black line drive to use in it. I did stick with the 1680x1050res screen for it. Man i cant wait for all the parts to get here. Hopefully I wont have to wait too long.

 

congratulations

 

nice... you got a good deal by having the parts and buying cheaper ones.

Tell us when you get it.

 

DIY Ftw!!!!!!

 

Yeah, i priced out a similar system ordered via sagernotbooks and it was a $2500 system. I am going to save roughly 700 bucks doing it myself and reusing a hard drive. i have built several towers over the years and done alot of my own work so this should be cake. The true iceing on the cake is once i get my m570tu running i have a buyer for my m9750. in the end the cost will be even less out of pocket.

 

nice deal after the sale of your M9750.

 

Well, I just got my m570tu. I got it put together easily. The only bad thing is I got a bad ramstick so right now i only have 2gb Windows is loaded so far I'm loving it and I can't wait to get a couple games loaded into it and see how it does.

 

at least you found out that the memory was bad early, some won't realize why their systems are so unstable until weeks or months later when they are fed up.

nice that you got it going though.

I have lived on 2GB of RAM for 3 years now....... XP Pro is perfect with that amount of memory.

 

Oh i found out it was bad fast alright, if that stick was in the laptop would fail to post..... tempted to downgrade to xp thats what was on my m9750, but i have a nice copy of vista home premx64 that needed a nice rig to run on. sadly im finding that vista isnt very gaming friendly with only 2gbs of ram present even with aero turned off.

 

so all in all the barebone + parts = $1800?

 

I game perfect on 2GB of RAM in Vista.

I had to use vLite to strip everything that is unneeded in Vista, small enough to even fit it on one CD-R.

Then after installation, it used as much as memory as a clean install of XP.

Of course all the eye candy and other stuff is gone, but a stripped Basic Theme Vista Ultimate is perfect for me.

 

Only if you already have a legit copy of windows and a hard drive sitting around spare.

 

Check out the 280M overclocking thread. When get you the RAM in, flash your vbios with an overvolted one you can find there, and OC that baby, I'm getting as high as 650/1650/1025 in benches. I'd like to know the difference your X9100 @3.5 would make

 

Give me a few days so I can get my thermal goop baked in, and then we will see what this monster can do. As for my performance issues my laptop was having i am not entirely sure the other stick wasnt bad too. So i went and hit the local mac store(apple started using ddr3 earlier than pc's and they were the only place that actually had some) and snagged 2 brand new sticks of memory so i could get my system up and running. So memory wise i should be set aside from the rma on the bad stuff.