I did it!...I just configured and ordered a Athlon Dual Core from CyberPowerSystems

Wow...Thanks! This is the beginning of a nightmare, as I am not more experienced than Plug n' Play...

it's just that I didn't want their OEM version ....of XP

The Asian fellow that answers the phone at Cyberpower is about as helpful as a rock. This worries me....I need an expert to help me, but I will try on Monday and ask this most excellent question (s).

I am sort of a Savant and if I am left unattended this could turn into a looooong project, as I must understand everything completely, if I am to do it myself...in a savantish way...

This thread could turn into several hundred pages....leaving me talking to myself...I really need to save the time...or I will fall into this dreadful savantish loop with no escape for years to come...(sorta like learning how to trade)

Cyberpower will not support me if I do not take their OEM XP...so can I depend on the group here in ET to help me?

This is a fricken can of worms....

Michael B.

P.S. Also I betcha my Pentium III which I installed Xp pro on could run better.


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I noticed that your machine is being delivered with a formatted disk only. I assume you will be installing the XP operating system. This implies that you will not know whether the various components play well together. I'd ensure that you get the drivers required for the motherboard and all plug-in cards. You might talk to the vendor to determine whether they used the drivers they are delivering to test your machine or others that they may have downloaded from a web site, placed on your machine, and then erased when they formatted your drive for delivery. Might save you some trouble when you do the install.

Jack
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Just got a AMD dual-core 4200 machine.

I have a few trading programs on my machine. I didn't listen to others posted here who said dual-core wouldn't make a difference unless applications were written on different threads. When different programs I have click in all at once, the Task Manager for the CPU capacity spikes to 50% (sometimes 52) and stays there for an instant, as if I'm maximizing one of the CPU's. Then it occured to me, I've essentally got two AMD 2.2 CPU's in two different computer boxes - and never the 2 shall meet.

Am I doing something wrong? Once I saw the task manager go to 68% as if the full power of the machine could be summoned all at once (which is what I want all the time), but I've forgotton what I was doing at the time. Most of the time it's 50% - one chip at a time gets the work load.
 
I am real scared now....maybe I will cancel my order and go get a 700 buck Dell...I need an expert to help me and this is not free from anonymous ET posters...
 
Electric, if you're buying a complete unit, make sure you get a completely configured system, meaning all you have to do when you get it, is to flip the switch on. But if you're getting a half way assembled unit without O/S and proper drivers installed and configured properly for the components, then you're in for the house of pain.

It's okay if you're willing to take the time (have the time) and become familiar with the process of building a PC, but If you're going to take that route, then why order a system from Cyber when you could order piece by piece from NewEgg and learn to put together your own system in your own time.

The bottom line is this; if you're going to get a complete unit from Cyber or Dell or whatever, make sure to get a completely assembled and configured unit ready to rock with a flip of a switch. If you have to install your own, O/S, drivers and configure the system yourself, then might as well bite the bullet and learn how to put together a system from scratch and order the parts, one piece at a time from NewEgg or any other. It's not that hard these days and there are plenty of websites with step by step instructions. But in the end you'll know inside out about your PC and I think all online remote traders should have this knowledge.

Good luck with whatever route you choose to take and don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions :)
 
If there is anything else in my configuration that is troubling, please don't be bashful, speak up! as it is so much appreciated...

I invite all of you for Fat Tire at Appelbees...(Bring your own)

Park next to the 1990 plymouth...wood gra...and the Audi (Gnomey might bring the Wifey) and if your good I might bring my Wifey...

I could imagine that some of you might fly out to meet Wifey...

Michael B.
 
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If there is anything else in my configuration that is troubling, please don't be bashful, speak up! as it is so much appreciated...

I invite all of you for Fat Tire at Appelbees...(Bring your own)
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Michael,

I built my own Dual Core 4800 while at Fry's in CA. It is in a Biostar/IDEQ box. I have a 10K RPM 78 gb HD up front for the Windows XP 64 bit OS and a 500 gb storage HD. I have the Matrox QID 4 head PCI Video Card, 4 gig of matched memory and a Lite Scribe DVD/CD burner. This is all being run with a 350 TRUE watt Power Supply. The machince is wonderfully silent and about the size of a 4 slice toaster. I'm running Esignal, my Onyx trading Platform, wireless keyboard & mouse, avast Antivirus and MultiCharts constantly with 8 different Markets open at any given time of the 33 I watch daily. All without a smidgen of problems. The most I've been able to push the CPU to is 41%.

I run MS FrontPage 2003, Office 2003, Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Standard and IE 64 occasionally all without a bit of problems. Keep your chin up, there is light at the end of the tunnel.
 
I really like those shuttle type boxes...


Quote from Charlie Dow:

Michael,

I built my own Dual Core 4800 while at Fry's in CA. It is in a Biostar/IDEQ box. I have a 10K RPM 78 gb HD up front for the Windows XP 64 bit OS and a 500 gb storage HD. I have the Matrox QID 4 head PCI Video Card, 4 gig of matched memory and a Lite Scribe DVD/CD burner. This is all being run with a 350 TRUE watt Power Supply. The machince is wonderfully silent and about the size of a 4 slice toaster. I'm running Esignal, my Onyx trading Platform, wireless keyboard & mouse, avast Antivirus and MultiCharts constantly with 8 different Markets open at any given time of the 33 I watch daily. All without a smidgen of problems. The most I've been able to push the CPU to is 41%.

I run MS FrontPage 2003, Office 2003, Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Standard and IE 64 occasionally all without a bit of problems. Keep your chin up, there is light at the end of the tunnel.
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