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Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: Seraphim Pride on February 27, 2001, 10:25:06 PM

I\'ve been gone for 3 months cuz my pc died a horrible death.  When I came home for lunch from computer school I nearly fainted upon seeing the Dell boxes piled on on top of another.  After rushing to CompuUsa to buy Black IceDefender and systemworks 2001.  I set up my Pentium 4 1.4 Ghz powerhouse.  I love the joys of broadband.  It\'s nice to be back online.  I just wanted to say hi and I can\'t wait for Oshima(Spelled right?) Since I finally got Untracked in SSX after 4 months.  Yeah I know I suck but It was worth it in my opinion.:D

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: Sublimesjg on February 27, 2001, 10:38:29 PM

hey cool

good to see you back - yea i am happy with my Gateway powerhouse PC or at least it use to be one

it is a 800 P3 all supped up - it works for me

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: THX on February 27, 2001, 10:47:21 PM

Uh oh, a P4.  Don\'t tell nO-One what you did. :)

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: EmperorRob on February 28, 2001, 06:57:15 AM

Soon now....I will build....the THUNDERBIRD

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: nO-One on February 28, 2001, 07:02:15 AM

Grrrrrr :mad:

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: Joker on February 28, 2001, 02:06:09 PM

*runs through the intel headquarters with no pants on yelling*
AMD RULES!!!!

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: nO-One on February 28, 2001, 03:46:57 PM

That\'s the spirit CYprEsS. (Been there,done that :D)
AMD FOREVER
congratz on the new system anyway KrillinX

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: Seraphim Pride on March 04, 2001, 12:36:00 PM

I\'ve been so busy web surfing and writing that i forgot to check on my post.  AMD\'s are cool too I have nothing against them but I love my new pc :D It\'s kewl.  I\'m just happy that my cable modem works now since it was proven that since my old computer was such a piece of crap that was why it didn\'t work.

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: Seraphim Pride on March 04, 2001, 12:37:44 PM

Hey what does nO-One have against P4\'s.  Did I say something offensive in my post?

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: nO-One on March 04, 2001, 12:38:53 PM

I understand how you feel.there is nothing like upgrading.
So what kind if monitor do you have?
ohh and I\'m just an AMD whore.

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: Seraphim Pride on March 04, 2001, 12:50:22 PM

Ok this is what I have
Dell Dimension 8100
Pentium 4 1.4Ghz processor
256 megs of ram
60GB HD
Turtle beach Santa Cruz sound card
32mb Nvidia GeForce 2 Gts
17 Triniton Monitor
and cheap ass speakers.  Well the next step up from the standard pc speakers.  Almost forgot Built in ethernet port for my cable modem.  woo hoo!!!!  AMD\'s are cool too but Dell only had Pentium\'s

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: Bossieman on March 04, 2001, 12:57:54 PM

I have a Pentium 166 mHz with 32 Megs of ram.
But Im going for the 1.5 GHz Athlon with a Geforce 3

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: nO-One on March 04, 2001, 01:11:15 PM

Dell only has Wintel systems.

I always build my own currently have

Tbird 800
Abit KT7-RAID
Ge-Force.2GTS
256 mb 133Mhz ram
IBM 7200 rpm 30gb
Sblive
Sony CPD-G400 19" (love it cost me an arm and a leg though)
AOpen HQ45 case

Soon replacing the Tbird with a 1,2 Ghz version.
GF.3 when it\'s released
Sblive is to be replaced with a Sblive Platinum or Philips Acoustic Edge.
Adding 256 mb of ram (You always need more ram right)
Another HD to set up some RAID action
Case to be replaced with an HQ08 full tower or maybe the Antec SX1030.

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: Seraphim Pride on March 04, 2001, 01:22:46 PM

That\'s a pretty cool set up man. I forgot to mention the 12 DVD drive and the Sony 12x8x32 CDRW drive.  I wish I knew more about cpu hardware so I could build my own without getting ripped off.  Check this out my friend\'s cousin wants to get a 1.2 Ghz MAc(even released yet?)j with a DVDR-rom and a Terabyte Hard Drive, 1Gig of ram.  Does he really need that no he also wants 2 firewire ports, 2 agp ports and 3 pci slots.  I don\'t know what kind of board supports that kind of configuration but he has serious power issues.  plus he wants that GeForce 3 but he won\'t stop there he wants to try to somehow link 2 of them together for double the power.  I think he\'s trying to meltdown the mother board if you ask me....some people just have issues.  

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: nO-One on March 04, 2001, 01:54:32 PM

This guy is an idiot

The 1,2Ghz mac from Xtreme is just vapourware.It\'s almost impossible to overclock the G4 to these speeds (mpc7400 version) because the transistors can\'t handle it,they would melt.(There is more of a chance they could OC the newer mpc7450 because they have a 7 stage pipeline)but there is a serius shortige of them.

He wouldn\'t double the power by having 2 GF.3\'s they aren\'t designed that way.The only manufacturer to have support for more than one cores was 3DFX with their SLI technoligy they sold that technoligy before they went under.There isn\'t a dual AGP motherboard in existance,AGP isn\'t designed that way.3 PCI slots is too little 5 is the minimum for me.

He wouldn\'t use all that ram,more ram on a mac is better if he\'s using MacOS 9,x or below since it has poor PMT(preemtive multitasking) and no protective memory.It\'l all be fixed in MacOS X when 128 will be enough.

A terabyte hard drive is VERY hard to get and VERY expensive.The only ones I\'ve heard of were made by Maxtor.

And a DVD-R drive costs about 3000$.He would be better of getting a REAL prebuilt Mac with the drive built in and thus getting the drive very cheap.

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: Solid Snake 88 on March 04, 2001, 03:45:47 PM

I have:
500mhz AMD K-6 2 3D processor

196mb of 100mhz RAM

Ok video card

Sound Blaster 16 sound card

Trusty cable modem

Creative speakers

Decent PC100 motherboard w/1 AGP slot, 3-4(don\'t remember) PCI slots, 4 of the other kind of slot(forgot what its called, real old)

10mb\\sec NIC

12x Mitsumi CD-ROM Drive

8x 8x 24x Yahama CD-R Drive

4gb hard drive

Pretty big monitor(don\'t have the energy to measure it)

A bunch of other not very important stuff I can\'t bother to name.



BTW how much is a Terabyte exactly?

As you can see, I desperatly need a new HDD. For what kind of prices could I find a HDD in the 15-20gb range?

Thanks.

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: Solid Snake 88 on March 04, 2001, 03:48:05 PM

Oh yeah and welcome back :D

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: Mr. Kennedy on March 04, 2001, 04:32:33 PM

My computer is from 1997 but we upgraded it a little...

233 Pentium II processor
15 GB 7200 RPM(upgraded from 6 GB 2400 RPM)
12xDVD 52xCD(upgraded from 32x CDROM)
196MB Ram(upgraded from 64 MB Ram)
100 mhz system bus

well that\'s all I know

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: Seraphim Pride on March 04, 2001, 06:15:45 PM

I agree nO-One there is definately something wrong with him.  First off he works at the Wiz on comission so he has money to burn.  I\'ve told him many times that his computer is a defiately imposibility but he\'s too stubborn to listen.:(  It\'s so sad...

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: unknown on March 04, 2001, 06:27:24 PM

thats cool, my pc is ok but i really dont care mch about all the trimmings as long as i have a pc that works period. im getting broadband as soon as its stable in my area, right now it keeps dieing and worked on, ill wiat till they get the bugs out and the hd comes out for the ps2 :)

40GB aint 60GB but its pretty damn good!

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: nO-One on March 05, 2001, 10:03:37 AM

I want to know where he got his info on stuff like dual Fe-Force and stuff cuz that doesn\'t exist it must just be in his head.

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: Solid Snake 88 on March 05, 2001, 10:59:33 AM

I repeat, how much is a Terabyte?

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: nO-One on March 05, 2001, 11:03:31 AM

1000gb

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: Samwise on March 05, 2001, 11:06:42 AM

Quote

Originally posted by Solid Snake 88
I repeat, how much is a Terabyte?

Said popularly it\'s a thousand gigabytes.

EDIT: I just saw nO-One\'s reply. Well, there you have it. :)

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: nO-One on March 05, 2001, 11:16:39 AM

Hah hah beat you to it woohoo :D

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: Solid Snake 88 on March 05, 2001, 12:00:11 PM

holy crap. that must cost a fortune.

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: Metal_Gear_Ray on March 05, 2001, 04:56:26 PM

mine

p3, 667 mhz

128 pc700 RD Ram

16 Gig harddrive

Gefoce pro 32 mb DDR

17 inch monitor

8 x DVD rom drive

Soundblaster live platinum!

cambridge soundworks

56k modem

cable modem

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: Solid Snake 88 on March 05, 2001, 06:59:26 PM

There is no such thing as PC700.

PC133 is the fastest so far.

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: Darth Joyda on March 06, 2001, 03:53:54 AM

God. I just came from holy land today, and this is the biggest and greatest golden statue of my God ever witnessed before my very eyes!

KrillinX, might I say you\'ve reserved your place in heaven, as we worms are still fighting for survival.

If there\'s a god of technology, it must be your Computer.

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: nO-One on March 06, 2001, 05:07:56 AM

Quote

Originally posted by Metal_Gear_Ray

128 pc700 RD Ram

What kind of mobo do you have?

Solid Snake the fastest you can get is Rdram pc800.The same as in the PS.2.
But PC\'s really don\'t use all the bandwith.

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: Metal_Gear_Ray on March 08, 2001, 02:24:41 AM

Quote

Originally posted by Solid Snake 88
There is no such thing as PC700.

PC133 is the fastest so far.

its called dr ram pc 700 DIRECT RAMBUS RAM it ranges from speeds from pc 600 to pc 800

you pc133 is th old type of ram

The new RAM is RD ram, or even better DDR ram which speeds range up to pc 1200

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: Seraphim Pride on March 08, 2001, 07:04:41 PM

:smokin:I really do love my computer man but it\'s not all that powerful.  In all honesty all I done on my computer is write stories in Word 2000 and use Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 which barely taps into the potential of my unecessarily powersful pc.  Then again I do surf the web a lot more now with Optimum Online.  Me and Napster are very good friends:D  It\'s still an honor to have a place in the holy land.

Title: I\'m back and I finally have a new pc
Post by: nO-One on March 09, 2001, 04:07:23 AM

Dude computers are never to powerfull.
Look at me,I am about to upgrade my Tbird 800 to 1,2Ghz,about to add a stick of 256mb ram (that would make it 512),about to add another 30gb hd.
And after that\'s all done I\'ll be broke but I\'ll be dreaming of even more expensive things.It\'s a never ending circle.