new computer!!! (im so spoiled)

[Illuminae]

granted i have one thats only a year old, but my dad wanted to buy one, so i'm selling him my old one, and i just bought a new one. and it came today!!!!!!!! weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

dell8300
60gig hd
512 m ram
pentium4 2.6
awesome video card (for my morrowind!)
ditto sound card
dvd-r
2cdr
and heres the BEST PART ------------------ 17" flatscreen!!! oh boy!!!!

i feel like when i was a kid and wanted a pony, and then, how i would feel if i actually GOT the pony

:beam: anyone wanna have a LAN party while i have a few extra puters in the house? (NJ)

[thediablo]

my boss buy me...

2600+ AMD athlon
512 DDR SDRAM
120gb
CD-RW
DVD-ROM
NVIDIA-GeForce 4MX 64MB DDR

:D

im happy

[SureShot]

Wow Red - that's great :) What a nice little present (little to not be taken literaly ;) )

I want your monitor!

how much was it? (the whole thing I mean)

[Illuminae]

Originally posted by thediablo
my boss buy me...



is your boss hiring??? ;) thats awesome congrats!

sureshot, i think total i paid like 16, i dont remmeber.
but like, we've bought so many computers from dell, and my sister was buying a laptop at the same time, so he hooked me up with a good deal...

doubled my RAM free,
gave me the DVDr for like 100$
gave me the flatscreen for 160$ (its sposed to be 500)
free shipping
and er, something else i think , but i cant remember what..lol :beam:

[nobody]

AWESOME!
I wish I got a new sexeh computer every year

[Illuminae]

you can too! just get a suga momma and look real cute!!!!

[senocular]

My boss needs to get on the stick with me! My little work box is only 600Mhz (intel).

[mdipi]

Happy Happy Joy Joy! hehe congrats! have some fun!

[fester8542]

Golgi, that system rocks...


My home desktop is a dog. Its a 733MHz its serves its purpose though.

My baby is a hookup from my work though. Its a 1.8Ghz dell laptop with WiFi broadband in my condo...

Its smooth.

[Illuminae]

niice :D

[reverendflash]

I'm still working on a 450 w/512 Mb RAM...

every slot is filled, it can hold no more...

hey, it works, it starts every day...

doesn't crash at all...

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[SureShot]

and that's what counts :)

[reverendflash]

I just stay away from 3dsmax...

it takes forever to render... I mean for ever...

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[telekinesis]

My mom is such a loser, I'm on a regular 15" monitor and my mom is computer illiterate and just got a 19" flat screen monitor and a custom built computer. What a *****! :P

[Millad]

I have a P4 2.8 with 512 ram and 80 GB.
Geforce 2 :(

[thoriphes]

Originally posted by senocular
My boss needs to get on the stick with me! My little work box is only 600Mhz (intel). Mine's pretty much the same, sen.

They have me working on a 700-800mhz (dunno what it is) machine with 256mb of ram and they expect me to write Java and run the web server to test it all on the same machine. I'm waiting on my 512mb upgrade for my ram so i can meet at least half the requirements for WebSphere (the server) :sure:

and redG >> i didn't know you were in NJ. i got a couple <strike>hoes</strike> cousins up in dat jonks so i go there from time to time. Where in NJ do you live?

[mdipi]

dan :trout: :P i got a 19" flat screen CRT it rocks

[telekinesis]

How much did you pay?

[Illuminae]

Originally posted by thoriphes

and redG >> i didn't know you were in NJ. i got a couple <strike>hoes</strike> cousins up in dat jonks so i go there from time to time. Where in NJ do you live?

lmao..
i'm in north jersey by vernon, that ski place. but i have a pad down in point pleasant too. but i really live in boston, im just here for the summer visitin my family.

[mdipi]

red, so you are gonnna pack it up and bring it to boston?
hehehe.

dan i donno. my mommy got it for me

[Illuminae]

yah i am mdipi! lol, i coudlnt leave it here...

[fester8542]

Ooooohhh

Let me know when you get that bad larry set up.

My machine is too much of a dog to play CS on. and Im not going to put it on my work travel machine

he he

[Illuminae]

hehehe... your gonna have to bring a cooler fes, my fridge isnt big enough to accomodate the beer we would go through.. hehehhehe ;)

[fester8542]

ha ha!

Dont threaten me with a good time!

No wine for me thanx.

I had my bout with wine a couple of years ago. I always thought I hated it untill my sister dragged me to one of her friends weddings.

(the deal was if I went the drinks were on her all night...unfortunatly that was not the case and I almost missed ray bourque win the stanley cup with the avalanche (big thing for boston bruins fans) )

Long story short they had bottles of red wine on every table. I drank ours and loved it, then I drank another tables, then more and more and more.

I was dancing (bad bad bad thing to see) I was just a mess.

I ended the night by urinating on my sisters car.

No wine for fester :)

[Illuminae]

rotfl,
who mentioned wine????

[fester8542]

:trout: ===>Self

HA HA!

I dont know!

I could have sworn you said "all the beer and wine we would go through"

After back tracking a bit I realize that I am having halucinations and I am illiterate :thumb:

[reverendflash]

Originally posted by redGolgi
rotfl,
who mentioned wine????

I wondered the same thing...

and Fester... stay away from "boxed wine."

:beam:

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[fester8542]

Originally posted by reverendflash
I wondered the same thing...

and Fester... stay away from "boxed wine."

:beam:

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I was at a party back in the day and they had a 5 liter box of white ziff in the fridge. We were taking turns doing wine box stands. uck...

[Illuminae]

omg, that wine inna box is horrendous...

mainly cuz its cheap, fun, and easy to drink straight form the shelf in the fridge..

which means headaches...

and fester, its ok.. you made me laugh witch is hard to do lately! keep on bein weird!

[grimdeath]

Originally posted by senocular
My boss needs to get on the stick with me! My little work box is only 600Mhz (intel).

you can actually work with that?? OMG either he gets you a new pc or get a new job lol

[DigitalPimp]

Senocular, where do you work? I have always wondered how you can be sooo active in FlashKit, Kirupa and like everywhere else on the web with 2,000+ post counts and such wordy tutorials.

He needs to get you a new machine though.


I've got a bunch of machines, I shall now list them:

Home machine no. 1 (Main Computer)
Alienware
-P4 1.8
-512 RDRAM
-GeForce 3 64meg DDR
-(2) 30 Gig's on RAID 0
-48x24x52 CD-RW
-2x1x48 DVD-RW (firewire)
-16x DVD
-17in. Samsung FP

Home machine no. 2 (Backup/Gaming Rig)
-XP1900+
-512 PC2700
-Ti4200
-60 Gig
-8x4x32 CD-RW
-16x DVD
-19in. Dell Trinitron (ubber flat)

Home machine no. 3 (FileServer)
-XP1700+
-256 PC2700
-GeForce 3
-(2) 80 Gigs on RAID 0
-(2) 120 Gigs
-POS tiny 13in. monitor

Home machine no. 4 (Nothing/Server?)
-P2 450MHZ
-384 PC133
-TNT 2 Ultra
-30 Gig
-2x1x24 CD-RW
-No Monitor

Work Machine
Dual 900 P3 Xeons
768 RDRAM
(2) 20 Gig's
Ti4200 8x AGP
Dual 17in. Dell FPs


These are my babies.

[mdipi]

tahts a crap load of comps! i got four but can only use two :( ones my dads and one is a win 95

[Domo]

p4 1.5 ghz
512 mb sd ram
120 Gb hard drive

It works :)

[mdipi]

why does everyone have p4s? from what i heard they arent much better than the p3 (quality wise) and if you just ran dual p3s or AMD you cut the coast in half and get the same speed or better.

[DigitalPimp]

P4's with hyper-threading are pimp. Otherwise, check out this TomsHardware (http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030217/cpu_charts-32.html#comparison_table) . This guy is the man when it comes to hardware and such. I have 4 computers because.... I guess I like to spend money. Oh yea, I left out my laptop but its just a Celeron 700 or something. ;)

[teet]

why does everyone have p4s? from what i heard they arent much better than the p3 (quality wise) and if you just ran dual p3s or AMD you cut the coast in half and get the same speed or better.

i THINK the big difference between P4's and P3/celeron is the frontside bus speed and cache memory size (or something like that)...they still make celeron chips that go up to like 2.0 ghz and are a socket 478 chip (so they fit into P4 boards) but they only have like a 100 mhz frontside bus (compared to the 800 mhz fsb that some of the new P4 chips are gonna have) and 128 mb cache (compared to 512 on the P4).

i don't believe there is that much difference between the P4 and AMD though...i would rather pay the extra $25 bucks and go with intel...but that's just me.

i have no idea about the dual P3's...sounds expensive to me.

-teet

[kirupa]

Yeah dual P3's - why pay more for older architecture? As DigitalPimp mentioned, P4's with HT, the faster bus, and the faster RAM (DDR or 1066Mhz Rambus) leave many comparable AMD systems in the dust :thumb:

[mdipi]

thats just what i was told :-\ he said he saved a bunch of money doing it that way, i dont know though. i would rather go with AMD, thats just personal though.

[stftk]

mdipi,

In response to your post advising to get dual p3's or amd MP's. That is a horrible idea.

The P4 architecture is built to perform the best in multimedia. and gaming. AMD MP old now and the architecture is built for a server, the same with P3's.

Not to mention most P3's run on a 100MHZ FSB while P4's run on 533-800MHZ FSB.

Also if you understand dual processors, they are good in certain situations. If you are running a heavy database server or are doing heavy multimedia (ie, rendering), then a dual XEON would be best.

If you are using the computer for gaming or anything else, then definately go with a P4.

Have you ever wondered why a lot of gamers say AMD processors are the best? That is simply because AMD XP processors are DESIGNED for gaming, while pentium processors are DESIGNED for multimedia.

If you check, you will find that AMD might run 5FPS faster than a P4 processor in a game. However you will find in rendering videos that P4 can do it in half the time of a AMD.

Depending on what your doing, here is some advice:

heavy load server (ie, database) - dual xeons
standard web server - dual P3 or athlon MP
gaming - P4 or AMD XP
multimedia - P4


Whats the point of using old technology?

[DigitalPimp]

If you guys want to see some cool stuff then go check out http://www.tomshardware.com. This guy does amazing write ups and knows what he's talking about.

[stftk]

use www.motherboards.org or www.hardocp.com or www.anandtech.com

[reverendflash]

Originally posted by stftk
tomshardware sucks, use www.motherboards.org or www.hardocp.com or www.anandtech.com

that is kinda harsh isn't it?

how would you feel about someone saying your business sucks without explaining why, or how someone knows...

sounds kinda like sour grapes of some kind.

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[stftk]

reverendflash,

tomshardware is not a business and its not that guys site.

Anyways, the site is hard to navigate. The Reviews are not really easy to find, every thing feels clotted. For example, if you do a search, it returns results that are not very related to what you search for.

[DigitalPimp]

Originally posted by stftk
reverendflash,

tomshardware is not a business and its not that guys site.

Anyways, the site is hard to navigate. The Reviews are not really easy to find, every thing feels clotted. For example, if you do a search, it returns results that are not very related to what you search for.

&lt;sarcasm&gt;Maybe it is because he uses big words and speaks in whole sentences?&nbsp;&lt;/sarcasm&gt;

Why does it seem like you put down and knock on every post I make? Obvisiouly, TomsHardware CAN'T suck too bad, since he receives products from all the top manufactors to review prior to them being released.

If you have an opinion then fine but don't attack me or anything I post.

[reverendflash]

fine, but you were very short, and rude.

Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it sucks. Believe it or not, you don't know everything there is.

tomshardware.com is a business... why do you say it is not?

they may be hard to navigate, but does that mean that they suck?

Try to be a little more forgiving in your opinions...

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[DigitalPimp]

thanks for keepin a look out Rev you are a scholar and a gentleman. I don't care what Kit says about you.


hehe jk