I\'d kill to be this person

I visit a forum called Hardware Pacers, where everyone talks about that kind of nonsense. Anyways, what makes that forum a little unique, is that the number of trolls present there isn\'t a lot, and they have all those cool engineering people who show off what they are capible of getting their hands on. Not only that, but their systems.

There happens to be this one guy who lives in Hong Kong, named Manoj M, who\'s a Assistant Sales Manager. Part of his uniqueness is his ability to get very rare pieces of hardware. And what I mean by that, is obtaining products before their inical release (and I mean by 1-2 weeks).

Anyways, he decided to show off his goods. Everyone *****es him about his system, how he gets his CPU that high of an overclock, this and that. BUT, this was extremly admirable, IMO. Take a look at this.

3DMark 2001 SE = 14004 3DMarks

http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=3057840

PCMark 2002:
CPU = 6973
Mem = 7293
HDD = 1234

http://service.madonion.com/compare?pcm=107471

Quake III (1.30 patch, demo four) at 1600 by 1200 32bit with max settings = 184 fps

Sandra 2002:


And here is his signature of what he owns.

Intel Northwood 2.2Ghz overclocked to 2.9Ghz (20 * 145mhz about 30 degrees C when idle!!!!!)
Asus P4T-E
Samsung 512 megs Rambus PC-800 (Currently running at 580 mhz bus)
Winfast Geforce 4 TI4600 (342mhz core and 770mhz memory with modded heatsink)
2 Western Digital 1200JB Drives(120GB Each, 8meg Cache) in Raid 0 mode
Promise Fastrack TX 2000 Raid Card
Aopen 56x CDROM
Plextor 40x 12x 40x CDRW
SB Audigy Platinum EX
Creative Inspire 5.1 Digital 5700
Samsung 22" SyncMaster 1200 NF (Flat Screen CRT Monitor)
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Benchmarks:
3DMark 2001 SE at 1024 by 768 32bit = 14004 3DMarks

http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=3057840

Quake III 1.30 patch demo four at 1600 by 1200 32bit with max settings all the way = 184 fps
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Ok, I\'m just a little jelious:o

[nO-One]

bah, lucky bastard.
But personally I\'d rather take the AMD Tbred 2800+ which they were showing at CeBit.

[CHIZZY]

yeah, I guess that\'s cool... :rolleyes:
but if you want a real system, check this out!

[videoholic]

I miss my TI.  I must cry now.


And would you really kill to be this person?  That may need to be persued a little further.

Damn.  I currently feel A LOT worse about my computer.  About the only thing I got that\'s the same as him is Windows ME

damn thats pretty fricking fast... what does he put on that processor? dry ice?!?!?  that thing must be on fire....

Chizzy... I HAVE that system! I was just playing Donkey Kong on it today. I LOVE my TI 99/4A! It\'s even got the cool cool voice synthesizer add-on installed. My TI talks to me! Eat THAT C64!!!

[Bobs_Hardware]

theres nothing wrong with C64!!!!!!!11

*was playing Spy vs. Spy C64 version earlier today*

[CHIZZY]

C64 owns joo, TI!

I had the voice synthesizer for the C64 too. Spy vs spy rox!

Also, Rambo was a choice title for that system..

Why would anyone need so much speed?  It almost like 5 ghz!

yea i have to say thats quite the nice setup

my benchs at like half of that speed

and the frames in quake at the screen size - damn that has to look very nice

Originally posted by ViVi
Why would anyone need so much speed?  It almost like 5 ghz!

Dude, you can never have \'too much speed\'. That\'s like quoting Bill Gates when he said "who would need more than 540kb memory"... it can always be used for something - games, 3D graphics, simulations. You name it.

[GmanJoe]

And in a year\'s time, that setup will be yesterday\'s news.

I remember drooling at the thought of owning a 350mHz Pentium II computer with 20 gigs of 7200 RPM hard drive space! Plus 256K RAM....and 16 megs of SDRAM video! WOOO! :eek:

That was in 1996. Unheard of specs published on some magazine. No one owned that type of hardware. By 1997, they were everywhere and the Pentium II 450 were already announced. I got to build a PII 400 by 1998, four years ago. Then the 500mHz were out. Then the 733, 900 and finally the 1 gHz within 18 months.

Then the processor wars levelled off coz consumers are tired of upgrading.

Now, I own a T-Bird 1.4 gHz and quite happy with it. I\'ll upgrade in four years time.

My first computer was aboslutely top of the line when it first came out. $4,500 dollars, which bought: 4 whole megs of Ram, a blazing fast 386 processor with DX math-coprocessor installed, a MASSIVE 250mb harddrive, super-delux dot-matrix printer capable of spitting out a 1 page every 5 minuites, a superspeed 2400baud modem, High capacity 5 1/4 & 3 1/2 disk drives, and a super high rez 600x800 14\' Moniter. No videocard, no audio hardware (though we could have gotten an Adlib card for an extra $500), no CDrom.. ugh.

It was awesome back in the day. Now, I plan on getting it upgraded.. I\'m using it now that it\'s a Pentium 200 with 64 meg Ram and 10 gig HDD, but when I\'m done I\'ll have that poor 386 running a AMD K6-III 800mhz, 564 meg Ram, 80 gig HDD, Nvidia GeForce 3 graphics card, DVD, 40x CDburner, and put in whatever audio card I can get which outputs a decent sound.

Not bad for a machine that\'s older than most of your cars eh? I\'ll have to get a new one to get any better preformance since that\'s just about the preformancelimit of AT style boards. Everything is ATX now.

I dont play pc games anymore so my p 3 667 is awesome for me

bah All I want is a 100mbs connection and a 200 gig HD