Building/Upgrading a PC for TS2
BlueSoup:
Are Alienware laptop motherboards proprietary? My brother in law is giving me his old laptop if I want it (which is not going to be a gaming machine, so I'm not so worried about the specs), but he believes the motherboard is shot.
dizzy:
Laptop mobos suck. It's cheaper just to buy a new computer than to fix the mobo in a laptop.
KatEnigma:
Well, not precisely proprietary, since all the companies pretty much use the same source for mobos, but it's very hard to find the motherboard, in the first place. Your best bet would be Ebay- try to see if you can pick up the same model cheap that has something like a broken screen or dead drives or something. I once made over $400 from a dead laptop, parceling out the parts on Ebay. That is, if you're up to all the fiddly work of soldering and stuff it's going to take to get it to work. :-\ If it were me, I'd say thanks, but no thanks.
Or take it, sell the parts yourself, and use the money to buy a cheap new laptop. ;)
Hegelian:
I would like to suggest unpinning this thread, as I am not inclined to keep it current. If someone else wants to take over, that's fine with me. Otherwise I think it should be left to sink down the list like any other thread.
Of course, if you wish to keep it as a catch-all repository for hardware discussion, that's fine too. I will change the subject heading to remove the date.
FlareStorm:
Just to brag...
I just got my new system put together. A cheaper dual-core, mid-range motherboard, nice video card (GeForce 8800), and 4 gb of ram.
I run seamlessly at max settings. With almost 1.5 gb of custom content, my initial load screen is 35 seconds,to the 'hood is about 5 seconds (its sparse), to a lot is about 5-15 seconds depending on the size. And running in a window I can task out to other stuff beautifully.
I'm pretty sure its all the extra RAM (which is cheap as hell now), but whatever the case it was worth it. No load times. About $900, shopping carefully and splurging a little on the case and keyboard/mouse and silly stuff.
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