yeh ebay sucks for NZ. I have had a look on trademe but nothing. But did find couple of shops with full systems of the gx620
How incredibly freaky. I got one of these second hand for my parents a couple of years ago and was today looking for a RAM upgrade for it! I'm just going to buy the cheapest of the cheapy cheapo cheap stuff, like £8 a stick type stuff. Research indicated that PC-5300 was the maximum speed it supports, and as you've found out, upto 4gb ram as well. I'd suggest for you that you go with some low-ish timings PC-6400, but not too low that it gets stupidly expensive, then drop the speeds down and the timings even more, to get a nice zippy response. Out of the graphics cards specified I think a PCI Radeon HD2400 would be best.
Ok I have upgraded the ram from 512mb to 2gb. Brought 2x 1gb sticks (LOW PROFILE VERSIONS) Kingston KVR800D2N6/1g 1GB 800MHz DDR2 Non-ECC CL6 DIMM Standard 128M X 64 Non-ECC 800MHz 240-pin Unbuffered DIMM (DDR2, 1.8V, CL6) Warranty: Lifetime Installed. I also upgraded the WD 40gb hdd to a WD 750gb hdd. Looking at upgrading the cd-rw/dvd reader drive to a daul layer dvd burner.
Man laptop disc drives are hard to find in NZ. In the pc at moment is a matshita dvd/cdrw ujda770 IDE combo drive. Looking at upgrading it with aPanasonic UJ-875 Slimline 8x Super MULTI Slot Loading Black DVDRW OEM drive. http://www.panasonic.com/industrial/computer/storage/optical/models/UJ875B.asp
This mobo is not the 1 i need this board is out of the bigger version not the SFF version. SFF has only got 1 PCI-E and 1 PCI slot. I have emailed all the shops in NZ that mite have the part im after so i will no this week if i can get 1 with a PCI-E. also keeping eye on trademe
Looks like i mite be getting the HIS X1550 iFan Video Card, Radeon X1550, 256MB, DDR2, PCI, TV out, DVI, HDTV, Low profile card. Not from Ascent Technolegy. I found it cheaper at http://www.nzoczone.com. And thay have them in stock. Now to find a place thats got a slim laptop dvd writer drive.
You would ideally want a Radeon HD 2xxx series card or Geforce 9400GT as they have HDCP and will have HD hardware accelerated decoding, which will help decoding TV streams / Blu Ray / MKV etc.
Im not into Blu ray. dont see the point in it to be honest. DVD quality is good for me. Do a lot of DivX and AVI files. Have never done HD. Are them 2 cards PCI? and also are thay low profile?
Today I picked up a New DVD-RAM Matshita UJ870QJ ATA slim drive and installed it. Also brought 2x new 2m DVI-D (24+1) cables to upgrade my stock DVI cables. Hope to get the graphics card tomorrow.
Dvd writer is installed and running ood. burt round 6 disc's off now. cd and dvd's. Got my graphics card today. Looks nice. 1 thing I was like holly **** about is that you get a full height PCI bracket for it also. Photos of the box. Inside the box. The card. Full size PCI bracket. Where the card will go. Installed. Just downloading the latest drivers for it. Fan on it is silent. But mite look at after market coolers and sum Ram chip coolers.
Ok I got the card in and latest drivers installed and about 30mins of working out how to get the screens up I got it to go. Only 1 problem. My Desktop wallpaper. The desktop wallpaper is not going on the full screen on both screens You can see screen on the right the backgrounds the right size but its not right over to the right. When i right click on desktop and go properties and then the Desktop TAB. I have my background on stretch. Also tryed centre and tile but stays the same. I installed Displayfusion after that and still the same on the setting in the program. Have also tryed no wallpaper but it stays the same. Any ideas.
Yeh tryed that it didnt help. In the end i found out it was the drivers for the onboard graphics playing up with the screens so i disabled the onboard devices. All going sweet now running 2x 22" LCD's on DVI-D. Got a dual screen backround on it and looks sweet. Next thing to do is install so chip coolers and ram coolers.
We have those machines here at work (SFF Dell are standard kit for the NHS) and just make sure you have that thing well ventilated and you keep the vents clear of dust - they have a nasty habit of getting really hot really quickly, especially the hard drives. the newer ones have a small fan underneath the HDD which keeps it cooler (GX755 onwards).
yeh is on my desk side the screen lots off room around it. Mite have a look at the hdd holer next time in the case to see if there is any way to install a fan I no there is room under it.
http://www.binaryfortress.com/displayfusion/ DisplayFusion will help out with your multi-monitor desktop background needs. I use it myself and its really really handy
