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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:17 am
by Turbanator
i have an exam at 2... avoiding revision... i could log into msn... but then I won't get ANY revision done (least here i'm having to wait for replies and end up reading some notes).
I'm gonna go intel and use a dothan chip I think, the damn thing is so powerful. Probably gonna buy this board:
http://www.asus.com/products/mb/socket4 ... erview.htm
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:20 am
by Don Carlos
hmmmmmm
I'm still a huge fan of the AMD chips
Just got a 660 GT (ordered today) to replace my 4600 as its on its way out
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:21 am
by Turbanator
i also need a good athlon xp (socket a) board with a good array of ide and sata ports and gigabit ethernet on the southbrige (ie: nforce2 ultra 400 with gigabit mcp).
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:30 am
by Don Carlos
I always find MSI are awesome boards
Never had a problem with one
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:31 am
by Don Carlos
Also, if u got any spare hardware u want 2 sell, im lookin 2 make a cheap file server??
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 1:58 pm
by Billy Bellend
Turbanator wrote:one thing apple need to work on is their hard drives, the memory and cpu architecture is fast and powerful with plenty of bandwidth, but is bottlenecked by the hard drives and other data input sources. They don't even need to do something flashy like RAID, just use some high end 10,000rpm hds or some high density maxline 3's.
its always been that way tho
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 1:59 pm
by Billy Bellend
intel stocks rockin pretty heavey latly
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:37 pm
by rep
Maybe it's because they don't have a credit in Star Wars Episode III, but AMD does? BLAHAHA!
Totally nerdy, I know. When in Rome.
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:44 pm
by Billy Bellend
no thats not it
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:55 pm
by 4g3nt_Smith
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:58 pm
by Billy Bellend
i seen a mini move where th windows is not drive based but kinda on a rom/ram but not
and loaded with all kinda drm type stuff
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:02 pm
by rep
Yeah, totally. If Longhorn goes the way I think it's going, and since Microsoft is making it where you
have to be on the current version of whatever to get critical updates (thus making it totally profitable for antivirus companies who will love the oncoming swarm of worms, trojans, ransom-ware, and viruses because of people not up to date who don't want to buy Windows XP2 or Windows 6 or whatever they're going to call it.) and they force this DRM bullshit on us so hard that I can't even download a funny soundclip of George from Seinfeld's answering machine without having to pay NBC to hear it every time, then even I might switch to Lin__-- I mean Mac OSXI.
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:03 pm
by shadd_.
i think gigabyte is coming out with a ram drive pci card.
yeah, fuck intel and their digital protection bullshit.
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:05 pm
by Billy Bellend
with perma windows on it?
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:06 pm
by rep
Did you see in my original post the snip at the end about iWill's 16-core 8-way Opteron system with 128GB of RAM? It has more RAM than hard drive space.
What was that company making noise in 2001 or 2002 about RAM that eh... memorized similarly to ROM, but operated the same as RAM? They were saying they'd have only RAM in computers in a few years and no need for hard drives...
Also, what happened to that Israeli company that said they had a 25GHz CPU? Did the prototype get blown up on a bus?
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:06 pm
by Billy Bellend
rep wrote:
Yeah, totally. If Longhorn goes the way I think it's going, and since Microsoft is making it where you
have to be on the current version of whatever to get critical updates.
apple did that years ago
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:07 pm
by shadd_.
Billy Bellend wrote:with perma windows on it?
no, straight windows with a touch of highlights.
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:08 pm
by Billy Bellend
:lol:
now thats good for sommy shadd :spank:
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:12 pm
by shadd_.
serious note, i think the gigabyte drive is just using pc2700(iirc).
it has a battery pack that lasts for 16 hours or so, then will recharge when your comp is running.
so you could load windows on it i guess. maybe they will come out with a better power solution that will last longer.
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 12:16 am
by Psyche911
shadd_. wrote:serious note, i think the gigabyte drive is just using pc2700(iirc).
it has a battery pack that lasts for 16 hours or so, then will recharge when your comp is running.
so you could load windows on it i guess. maybe they will come out with a better power solution that will last longer.
It's 200MHz DDR. Not sure what speed that is...it's not PC1600, is it?
And on another note:
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120913,00.asp
PC World suggests waiting 'till Longhorn to use a 64-bit version of Windows, not XP 64-bit. You can't argue with that source, Rep. You quoted them to start this thread.
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:37 am
by shaft
belive it or not, george isnt at home....
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:16 am
by Duhard
rep owned this thread...thanks for coming.
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:18 am
by Psyche911
Like you would know, when was the last time you "owned" anything.
Why don't you accept somebody's challenge? Oh you don't have it installed. Like that doesn't take 5 minutes to do.
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:22 am
by Duhard
Psyche911 wrote:Like you would know, when was the last time you "owned" anything.
Why don't you accept somebody's challenge? Oh you don't have it installed. Like that doesn't take 5 minutes to do.
What the hell are you talking about you complete moron?
I have q3 installed, the morons who are challenging me don't have it installed...understand yet?
If you have a problem with that we could just load the game and I promise you you'll shut the fuck up for the rest of your miserable life.
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:26 am
by Psyche911
lol
I thought it was you saying that. Nevermind. :icon19: