is anyones computer as crap as mine?
polycounter lvl 17
just wandering if anyone struggles with a computer as good 
as mine.
heres the specs
amd athlon 1700xp
512mb ram
nvidia geforcefx 5800
i know its a beast,
has done me well though, ive have had it 4 years and nothing has broken even with me poking around its guts alot. it will be a shame when im forced to throw it out of the window (quite soon), maybe ill bury it in the back garden
as mine.heres the specs
amd athlon 1700xp
512mb ram
nvidia geforcefx 5800
i know its a beast,
has done me well though, ive have had it 4 years and nothing has broken even with me poking around its guts alot. it will be a shame when im forced to throw it out of the window (quite soon), maybe ill bury it in the back garden
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cheapalert will beat you. don't even try.
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wrong. I'm running an A64 3200 now.
1gb ram
Geforce 4 Ti 4200
40gb hard drive
KDR yes i have its gone about as far as it can befor having to change motherboard and all compnents that wouldnt be compatible with new one, so im thinking new computer
Well but a new computer means you rebuy things like the harddrive, peripherials, any separate soundcards you may have and the OS. The only things I change during an upgrade are Mobo, RAM, CPU and graphics card (actually I upgrade the graphics card and the rest in alternating cycles...), the rest can stay where it is.
Took one boot disk to load up the OS and had another bay to actually save to.
There's still an in-use win3.1/dos 6 combo, 486 back at my parents place. I think it was able to play Myst, although it needed a bootdisk for that. My folks don't want to trash it because it's got a big database of workstuff on it and they don't know how to get it off...the "mass storage backup tape drive" died out a decade ago....
My folks don't want to trash it because it's got a big database of workstuff on it and they don't know how to get it off...
Plug HDD into the IDE bus of another system?
Just looked at the image name, and it is indeed a Kaypro. How rad.
p4 1.8ghz
512mb ram
geforce fx5200
and the almighty sound card: creative vibra 128
So, I'm hopefully completing my new computer next week.
512mb ddr ram
60gb harddrive
geforce 4 ti4200
15in monitor
the psu has died in it 3 times. a 400w, 450w and i think now it's running on a 200w o.o
i let my ex have it when she left since i had bought this one around september/october.
current:
celeron 2.93ghz
768ddr ram
geforce fx 5500
70gb harddrive
17in flat screen monitor
AMD 1Ghz. And I think that the bootup screen actually mentions 999Hz.
768megs of ram.
60gigs + 40gigs HDDs.
GF4 Ti 4200.
Cd burner is 6-4-24. Don't know about the dvd drive.
Still alive and kicking nextgen crap!
I desperately need to get a new one tho
Hail to the king, baby!
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The spectrum was the prince, this is the King!
I think it's still in my mums attic.
call home and check immediately! I got back from uni one time and my megadrive and massive collection of games was GIVEN AWAY TO OXFAM. Devastated.
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Too true. I've already had it worse. I came home from London to my mums in Devon once and my entire massive collection of Star Wars figures and ships was GIVEN AWAY TO MY SPOTTY OIK COUSIN MATT!
crazy foreign talk...
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uni (COLLEGE)
noun {C} AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH AND UK INFORMAL FOR
university:
- Which uni was she at?
megadrive=Sega Genesis
OXFAM
LONDON
DEVON
OIK
noun {C} UK SLANG
a rude and unpleasant man from a low social class.
comprende?
the two sweeties never got shipped with it tho...
my brother programmed on them, i made pictures (not on the first ever pc) and broke them :-( i was about 7 :-(
this baby had like the first ever role playing game that i saw that had pretty pictures (castle or sommit)
we had a spectrum, as well at some point
some things never change eh?
would love to get a dvorak keyboard one day. However the Japanese keyboard is really Coding/internet friendly. no shift for @ / ; : - but finding the ' key and backslash (¥ on a japanese one) key were a night mare, considering that ' is one of the regular english keys.
the "laptop" needed reinforced knees
the red joystick beside the schneider cpc - is that the grip-shaped one? quickshot or whatever? my hand suddenly started to hurt ... again
im tempted by this
AMD Athlon 64 X2-3800+ Dual Core
with HyperTransport Technology
Genuine Windows® XP Home
ASUS A8N-SLI Mainboard
1024MB DDR400 Memory
160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive
512MB GeForce 7300GS SLI Ready
Sony 16x DVD ROM Drive
7.1 Channel Surround Sound Audio
Classic Warranty-3Years free parts & lab.
£499
would save alot of hassle :-)
amiga. in it's time a winner indeed but i thought it was only a hit in continental europe and you brits were using those acorn archimedes things instead? is that your setup, hawken? seems fairly recent - sony trinitron and some plextor cd-drive. the cables all over the place give it a nerdy flair.
the red joystick beside the schneider cpc - is that the grip-shaped one? quickshot or whatever? my hand suddenly started to hurt ... again
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nah amiga was the dogs bollox when I was a kid. They were practically the number one computer any self respecting geek / artist / gamer / accountant / family could own.
not my set up but had one similar. OS on the HDD etc.
back on subject, and thinking about upgrading, is replacing motherboard cpu etc hard, ive only ever done stuff like graphics cards, dvd writters and harddrives.
im tempted by this
AMD Athlon 64 X2-3800+ Dual Core
with HyperTransport Technology
Genuine Windows® XP Home
ASUS A8N-SLI Mainboard
1024MB DDR400 Memory
160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive
512MB GeForce 7300GS SLI Ready
Sony 16x DVD ROM Drive
7.1 Channel Surround Sound Audio
Classic Warranty-3Years free parts & lab.
£499
would save alot of hassle :-)
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go for raid... if you value your work in the long run.
As for that comp setup, the lower number (ending in 200 or 300) Geforce cards always suck badly and the GS suffix isn't helping. Those low end cards suck compared to Ati's low end offerings but ideally I'd buy a mid to upper range card.
<500 (£)($800) sorry feeling lazy, and i dont fancy ravaging mine incase i cant get it to work again:-(
base unit only, doesnt need dvd writter, screen, keyboard etc
bought my last from mesh its good
They are in Austin, great tech support, and they got Lian-li to make them a custom alluminum small form factor case called the Hornet (that's what my last desktop was). Their prices are pretty competitive, and they do assembly and a burn in test for cheap.
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Hail to the king, baby!
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The spectrum was the prince, this is the King!
I think it's still in my mums attic.
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LOL. Nice one.