Just built this...
I just built these few webpages around my rig.
Blew Me Away
Take a look and give it the cold, hard critique, will ya?
It's roughed, needs some polish, but I'm about fried with it and I have to go fix a laptop.
Let me know what you guys think about the machine and the webpages, k?
Thanks!!!
Blew Me Away
Take a look and give it the cold, hard critique, will ya?
It's roughed, needs some polish, but I'm about fried with it and I have to go fix a laptop.
Let me know what you guys think about the machine and the webpages, k?
Thanks!!!
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Athlon 64 3200+: Good chip. You paid too much for the performance. A 90nm s939 Winchester 3000+ costs less, and will give you far more for the dollar in the overclocking department.
Asus K8VSE Deluxe Motherboard: Poor motherboard, poorer chipset. A better choice would've been the EPoX EP-9NDA3+.
2X512MB Corsair VS PC3200 RAM: High-latency, not much overclockability. Not "Poor" but not as good as it could be.
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO: Excellent choice!
Dual Maxtor 160GB: Good drives. Maxtor is a reliable company, and these are quick drives too.
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350: You bought the best. Hauppauge is one of the finest TV capture companies around.
Sony DRU510A DVD Burner: Poor choice. Sony's compatability record with set-top DVD players is less than wonderous. A better choice would've been the Pioneer DVR-108.
Sony CDRW CRX225E: Lite-On makes better CD burners.
Coolermaster Cooldrive 4 Fan controller/HD cooler: No comment.
Stylistically, not much was done to it, but it's aesthetically pleasing nonetheless. I wouldn't be ashamed to own that case.
The chip...
I just looked at the Winchester. You're right (not that I questioned your word). I'll definately spend some time in the specs for these processors.
On the board...
I bought it for the colors, plain and simple. It was like I designed the board myself to go with the machine (it was an upgrade from an asus A7V8X/XP2400+ combo that was already in the rig).
The memory...
Being that the board was a crap oc'er, didn't make much sense to spring for top dollar oc'ing ram. It's good solid stuff for the money.
On the sony's...
The dru510 burner sucks. It's sucked since day one. It was top of the heap cutting edge stuff when I bought it. It's unbelievably media incompatible.
It does read dvd's well, and burns nicely, but it's slower than cold molasses. The crx is a workhorse, does a good job, and it's quiet and quick. I like it. My love affair is over with Sony. I won't be using anything Sony in the future, except I plan to upgrade my dsc-f707 camera when the next generation of the dsc-f828 comes out.
This has been my very first shot at building a modded out cae. I had more fun than chasing the old lady around the clothesline pole.
I've got a lot of ideas for the next machine, and a lot of things I'll be doing differently. The first thing that comes to mind is "starting with a plan". This whole thing has been a "found it now I gotta have it" affair.
Thanks again, I hope a few other folks will post their thoughts, it'd be a big help!!!
Scott
Roughed in, you said??? Pretty decent, just a couple "roughs" I noticed:
On page bluefour.html , bottom nav bar, the link to bluefive.html is not there or is inactive, and bottom nav bar, the link to blusefour.html is not working. TOP NAvbar is perfect on that page, although one can get the server to serve page bluefour.html from itself from the top navbar on page blusefour.html because the FOUR link IS active and works.
On the front page, the pics in left column, pair about middle of page, they sit on some of the text, and some of the text overlaps also.
Mozilla 1.7.3 looked at this site, if it works in IE, well some things (as noted) look rough in Mozilla 1.7.3 in Linux. My sites are not perfect either, and they are NOT graphical even. I had a fellow who offered a free DOM-BOT run on my sites, found out the server my sites are hosting on was case sensitive. Things now work there.
No site is perfect for first month unless you get folks to check your code or have one HECK of a lot of time to go over everything 10X. THEN, it gets better, you start knowing where you yourself are most likely to goof up-- we all do, so pays to learn where we each most commonly DO and look at that. In fact, was navbar issues I had most fun with also, though mine are plain code. In my case, forgot to fix the TEMPLATES, fixed pages, so next time I had to fix pages, fixed templates also. Templates help you dev faster for content when they themselves are perfectly fixed.
Otherwise, WELL DONE site, and a decent looking computer. I'd like to see some benchmarks if you post any, to know what a non-OC'd box with decent components (not greatest, but quite a decent set with good given reasons for choosing them) works at.
Thank-You!!! You're a huge help
I fixed the nav bar. I'm surprised I missed that. I changed nav bars from a button rollover to the text with lens flare effect that's there now. The progression is at http://bluemeaway.homestead.com/template.html
I always work from a template. I concept it, and then make adjustments as the web pages unfold. I like to see what I'm working towards, that way I can scrap crap ideas as I go.
Great idea on the benchmarks. I posted some info at page two on the top right graphic, but a page with screenshots of SiSandra and 3dMark 05 would be a very nice touch.
A "stock vs. oc'd" thing would be great.
On the mozilla...
Try view/text zoom/100%(original size) in Mozilla. I checked with default settings and didn't see a problem. I adjusted the text size up to 120% and there was exactly the problem you mentioned.
I use a java based editor for building the pages. I can knock them out in no time, because I've been using it since it's release.
Optimizing for browsers gets better and better as the editor evolves, but it's still got some glitches. You just found one
I'm gonna crunch up page four and five.
I'll build the benchmark page at page five over a white backdrop.
Thanks for the help AND the inspiration
Scott