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Refreshed

Posted on Tuesday, 30th December 2003 at 7:29pm



As you can see (if you refreshed) there’s a new layout up. It’s a simple looking layout, and the picture files and quite small, so maybe it will load faster. I also added various Wordpress hacks, and will be adding more at a later date. Tell me your thoughts.

I think I’ve finally made up my mind on what components I want to upgrade to. And before you go nuts and say “your a student, where’d you get the money for that?!”, I saved up for over a year for it. So here are the components I think I shall buy:

I I’d like to get my hands on a ATI Radeon 9600 XT video card, but will only get it if I can sell the old parts to my mother. Its suck up mode time.






















51 Responses to “Refreshed”

  1. Simon comments:

    2. December 30th, 2003 at 7:59pm

    First comment on the new layout!

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  2. Psi comments:

    3. December 30th, 2003 at 8:09pm

    Nice new layout, very impressive.

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  3. Kayhadrin comments:

    4. December 30th, 2003 at 8:45pm

    How much will it cost you ?

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  4. christian comments:

    5. December 30th, 2003 at 9:10pm

    top notch on the choice of new mobo. Those a7n8xdlx’s totally kickass .. though u should probably either buy 1 stick of 512 ram.. or .. 2 sticks of 512 :P cos 512’s quite cheap.. this all through netplus ?

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  5. Nick comments:

    6. December 30th, 2003 at 9:23pm

    Great new layout Kitta, Very summery!
    Awesome news on the computer.

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  6. balls comments:

    7. December 30th, 2003 at 9:30pm

    What are you a student of?

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  7. Kaustin comments:

    8. December 30th, 2003 at 11:00pm

    Looks good kitta :)

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  8. Kitta comments:

    9. December 30th, 2003 at 11:34pm
    Kayhadrin, it’ll cost about $400 for the main components, then $279 for the video card.

    Christian, I don’t have enough money for 2x sticks of 512, 2x 256 will do for now. Not through net plus, I’ll probably get it from austins, prices are cheaper.

    Balls, I was a student in multimedia last year (well it will be last year in a few days), but I might be doing something different this year.

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  9. nero comments:

    10. December 31st, 2003 at 12:15am

    get nVidia GeForce FX5200..its cheaper! :P

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  10. Bfury comments:

    11. December 31st, 2003 at 12:18am

    I’ve got that exact same layout at home right now, except for the RAM. You might want to get 2 PC2700 chips instead, because they are cheaper, and you won’t be able to run your PC3200 at full speed anyways (FSB of 333 MHz for any cpu lower than a Athlon 3200+, while the PC3200 can run up to 400MHz).

    Also, if you ever want to upgrade later, you might really want to get 512 megs chips, so you can keep the dual channel capabilities of your board later :)

    Anyway, just a thought, later :)

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  11. Bfury comments:

    12. December 31st, 2003 at 12:20am

    ewwww… No offence intended nero, but there is NO comparison between a FX5200 and a 9600 XT :P The FX5200 is one of the low-end NVidia cards on the market, while the 9600 XT is the best bang for the buck :)

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  12. shaan comments:

    13. December 31st, 2003 at 12:39am

    yay! update! i like new updates, thinking about doing on for january for my site, but im not sure … anyway, have u considered going p4? with hyperthreading? imo its a much better option. but lets not start an intel vs amd thread! have a nice day!

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  13. Kitta comments:

    14. December 31st, 2003 at 12:54am
    Bfury, thanks for the advice. I shall keep it in mind. Are you impressed with the A7N8X mainboard?

    Nero, I agree with Bfury. The FX5200 is a low end card, and that’s why it’s cheaper, haha. ;)

    Shaan, even though the hyperthreading sounds sweet, I’m a AMD kind of girl.

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  14. Psi comments:

    15. December 31st, 2003 at 1:15am

    AMD will give you better price / performance and the XP2500 can overclock to 400 MHz, with 11 multiplier = XP3200 at fraction of the cost.

    I’ve been an Nvidia fan until recently, the newer ATI cards will be a better bet for future games. You also get HL2 with it … which is nice.

    Good motherboard too with NVidia Soundstorm certification, which will give you realtime Dolby Surround encoding in games and music. how useful this is depends on your speaker setup/hardware.

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  15. Bfury comments:

    16. December 31st, 2003 at 2:06am

    I love the board, and it has been voted board of the year for AMD systems on many review sites. It’s stable as you would expect a top end board to be :) Beside, it’s not even that costy, considering the 5.1 setup you can have.

    Like Psi said, the XP2500 can be overclocked directly from the bios, which I did for a short while. That means your PC3200 would work fine. But then again, overclocking heats things up a bit and with the generic fan, it got a bit too hot for my taste :P

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  16. Pugsley comments:

    17. December 31st, 2003 at 3:25am

    I like cookies.

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  17. stu comments:

    18. December 31st, 2003 at 3:44am

    dont clock it, it will melt like mine did i got a athlon266 it works so fast its crazy, so whats a nice gurl like you messing about with a box and boards hu, it must screw your nails big time

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  18. TeKK comments:

    19. December 31st, 2003 at 4:55am

    I’ve got just a little slower CPU than that, the exact same motherboard and the 512 ram and even the radeon!! Although mines a Hercules 256Mb 9600 Radeon ^_^

    They’re excellent components and makes my system robust as hell, runs any game at full detail with antialiasing and running a server for others to connect.. basically it’s a small demi-god trapped in a flashy box ^_^ good choices in other words!

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  19. allan comments:

    20. December 31st, 2003 at 5:09am

    Nice mobo but geting somewhat dated, if you do get it make shure you get the onboard firewire/1394 model

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  20. Psi comments:

    21. December 31st, 2003 at 5:15am

    Just browsing Austin’s prices and it’ll cost $466 for the main components, then $279 for the graphics card.

    Same basket in UK would cost around £217 -> $516 for the main components then £119 -> $283 for the graphics card … so prices are more expensive in the UK :(

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  21. José (Brazil) comments:

    22. December 31st, 2003 at 7:31am

    Hi Kitta….

    Just to wish you a very good New Year… Keep up the marvellous blog… love to get here to pratice my English and also know about you…
    Sweet kisses to you…

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  22. Sally comments:

    23. December 31st, 2003 at 7:43am

    great layout! its adorable! i love the clouds. =D

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  23. Doug comments:

    24. December 31st, 2003 at 8:39am

    Wow this looks great Kitta! Good work. :) I might have a new layout myself in a few days. ;)

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  24. Melissa comments:

    25. December 31st, 2003 at 9:38am

    Nice new layout Kitta! I love it!

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  25. Melissa comments:

    26. December 31st, 2003 at 9:39am

    Oh yeah, and LOL at Doug’s comment. That was just…too funny. I couldn’t resist.

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  26. balls comments:

    27. December 31st, 2003 at 9:41am

    Are you a Multimedia student at TAFE, Uni, or private course?

    What do you think about doing next? Don’t feel like making websites the rest of your life? :) I know I don’t.

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  27. Douglas comments:

    28. December 31st, 2003 at 10:03am

    Love the new layout!! Enjoy that nice system if you get it.

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  28. guy comments:

    29. December 31st, 2003 at 10:46am

    dont get the FX 5200 it sux i have one and good choice on the Amd 2500+ Barton core i have one and it is great….

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  29. ggb comments:

    30. December 31st, 2003 at 12:10pm

    yup looks like a good overclock combo…get the AIW 9600 pro and try the bios upgrade to get the 4 pipes lol…nice layout…luv u too females who actually know or care what is in their computer …yippe for all female kind…you go gurl! =]

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  30. Kitta comments:

    31. December 31st, 2003 at 12:15pm
    Pugsley, so do it. ;)

    Stu, did you set up some type of cooling, like maybe a few fans? It’ll melt if you don’t cool it down, haha. And no, I don’t break nails doing upgrades. My nails are pretty strong.

    Psi, I’m amazed they’re not cheaper. I know austins have the video card on sale though, that’s why I want to get one quick. :)

    Balls, I was studying at a private college and I’m thinking of going to TAFE. And yeah, I don’t feel like making websites all my life. I might do programming like my brother.

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  31. Devin comments:

    32. December 31st, 2003 at 12:23pm

    This layout is so awesome :) I love the little monkey!

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  32. Pugsley comments:

    33. December 31st, 2003 at 1:12pm

    Hey Kitta you should contact me about the Buffy episodes, I have them all including an Un-aired pilot episode in which Willow is played by some big chick.

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  33. Chris comments:

    34. December 31st, 2003 at 1:35pm

    Quite like the simplicity of the design! Pretty dang sweet!

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  34. Esther comments:

    35. December 31st, 2003 at 3:22pm

    It looks good :]

    I’d design sites all my life, just that my mum won’t pay for my education if I pick graphic design :/

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  35. Sorge comments:

    36. December 31st, 2003 at 4:27pm

    The old design was better.

    I like pink.

    I also like buying compy parts @ Wholesale :P

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  36. Emerald comments:

    37. December 31st, 2003 at 7:10pm

    Hey! Great site. The Monkey is cute!! Anyway have a great 2004 and keep it going! xoxo

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  37. Dina comments:

    38. January 1st, 2004 at 1:30am

    Love the layout. Very cute

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  38. Pugsley comments:

    39. January 1st, 2004 at 1:37am

    HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

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  39. thepyro comments:

    40. January 1st, 2004 at 7:11am

    nice layout ! i also think you can get 512mb 400mhz ddr ram for like 10 $ more than two 256 mb 400mhz ddr ram heres a store that i found these priceshttp://www.memorysuppliers.com/pc40ddrsdram.html“>http://www.memorysuppliers.com/pc40ddrsdram.html

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  40. thepyro comments:

    41. January 1st, 2004 at 7:13am

    http://www.memorysuppliers.com/pc40ddrsdram.html guess u cant use the < a > tag

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  41. Tony comments:

    42. January 1st, 2004 at 4:25pm

    Good choice on the Processor. My dad’s comp is running a P4 2.5ghz (hyperthreading) and I havnt seen any difference between that and my 1.8ghz Athlon. (Obviously Media editing would be better).

    Good choice on the ram too. Its better (speedwise) to have 2 sticks of 256 than 1 stick of 512. You get more I/O channels with more sticks.

    Definatly stick with the PC3200.

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  42. Tony comments:

    43. January 1st, 2004 at 4:26pm

    Oh, and I really like the layout. but I think the header (the sky with the ground and the monkey) is too big.

    Just my opinion though =P

    Coming from a guy who’s whole webpage is one word =P

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  43. Mark comments:

    44. January 1st, 2004 at 5:05pm

    Sorry Kitta, had to delete your laughing thing because that player plugin thing is listed as spyware.

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  44. stu comments:

    45. January 1st, 2004 at 10:30pm

    kitta, yeah i got a 2 great big fan in my case for cooling, like wow when i start renderring and editing video it get like red hot and so far has not melted, but i have got the bios temp saftey setting on max, bit risky but other wise it keeps shutting off, and thats with the 2 biggest fans i can get in the case. anyways,,, your gran looks cute and cuddley HAPPY NEW YEAR MATEY

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  45. stu comments:

    46. January 1st, 2004 at 10:33pm

    O THATS COOL THE MOTHER BOARDS GOT FIREWIRE, I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANTIT I WITIWANT ITS ITITITITIT

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  46. shaan comments:

    47. January 1st, 2004 at 10:55pm

    happy new years

    usb2 ownz over firewire ;)

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  47. Keddy comments:

    48. January 2nd, 2004 at 1:18am

    Happy 2004 kitta hope the switch went without a hitch!

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  48. Cara comments:

    49. January 2nd, 2004 at 2:50am

    Awwww love the new layout, very cute :) Happy New Year too x

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  49. Kery comments:

    50. January 2nd, 2004 at 8:55am

    Wow, great layout, Kitta! Simple and clean, great! :D I just wondered, where do you chat?

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  50. Kitta comments:

    51. January 2nd, 2004 at 12:53pm
    I don’t chat much, sometimes I chat in the cam-mafia.com IRC room.
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  51. Sorge comments:

    52. January 2nd, 2004 at 8:39pm

    Strewth, I’d crack the shits if there were that many typos on my blog (people’s comments).

    But that’s just because I’m an anally retentive virgo.

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