posted
Hey gang---just wanted to write in and FLAUNT my brand new comp in youse faces...
It is only a TWO GIGAHERTZ......PENTIUM FOUR.....FIVE HUNDRED TWELVE MEGS OF DDR RAM.....24X CD BURNER(650 MEGS IN 3 MIN)....DVD ROM....EIGHTY GIG Hard DRIVE......
sigh....
I was top of the food chain there, for like FIVE minutes.....reading now about a 2.2 with a GIG of RAM....
posted
well hey ........ brag on. good for you! I have had it with my computer. I am getting my sons he built. finally.
It is an Athlon T-Bird 1.4 CPU ASUS a7M266 motherboard 640 MB PC133 memory sound blaster live retail sound card DVD player TNT2 32 mb video card 350 altec power supply 30 GIGABYTE hard drive Sony 1.4 31/2 floppy windows mill. dragon ORB CPU 3.5 fan 10/100 network card
Posts: 3729 | From: Seattle | Registered: Sep 1999
| IP: Logged |
It feels good to get a new toy once in a while EH?
I know what you mean about the moment at the top of the food chain...I was there a couple of years ago...but ONLY for a moment...Just like you.
Maybe if things go well this year (better than last year anyway) I' wil be able to get to the top for another couple of minutes!!!!!!!!! LOL
-------------------- Dave Grundy retired in Chelem,Yucatan,Mexico/Hensall,Ontario,Canada 1-519-262-3651 Canada 011-52-1-999-102-2923 Mexico cell 1-226-785-8957 Canada/Mexico home
-------------------- Brian the Brush brian the brush uk Yorkshire, UK www.brianthebrushuk.com Posts: 123 | From: United Kingdom | Registered: Sep 2001
| IP: Logged |
Good for you.... cept I got pretty much the same machine but with 768 megs of ram. It is a nice machine, I'm sure you will enjoy it... i sure do.
Enjoy being at the top while it lasts!
-dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!! Posts: 8756 | From: Yarrow, B.C. Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
| IP: Logged |
posted
one gig of ram since last year but on a pentium 3 450 mhz. just got a 60 gig hard drive and windows xp and what a difference. I saw the other night motherbroads that can take 4 gigs of memory and two pIII 1200 mhz clips. When will it stop heheheehehehe
-------------------- paul taylor pictougraph images new glasgow, nova scotia paultaylor42@hotmail.com Posts: 80 | From: nova scotia | Registered: Feb 2002
| IP: Logged |
posted
Thats a smoker Barry, I have built all of my own machines and just added a third station, its an AMD Athalon (faster than pentium by benchmark stanards)1.8 Mghz with a Gig of Ram and burner blah, blah. But the best part of this new machine is that I installed two 120 Gig hard drives with Raid Control. Thats a lot of drive but it works like this... Windows 2000 sees only one drive and every time I save a file it goes to both drives at the same time with out any time loss, instant backup. I then back up to a networked machine in my house (100 ft away from the shop) once a week. It feels pretty good knowing I will not likely loose any info. Enjoy your new toy!
-------------------- Brian Stoddard Northwest Signs
How did you configure the Raid array?. Where'd you get it ?? Is it a scsi raid?? What software is it using ?? I've been looking to put a 4 drive Riad on my file server but all of the solutions I've looked at are (sofar) not within my budget(~$1K cdn).
Thanks,
Mike
-------------------- Mike O'Neill
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. - Arthur C. Clarke
posted
OK OK OK!!!!! Enough of this bragging stuff!!!!
Ya should all be ashamed of making other folks feel like they are "disabled"!!!!!!!!!!
Personally, I would like to put a more positive spin on the topic.
How the heck do people keep their keyboards clean?
I know a keyboard only costs about $15 (that would be about 50cents US) BUT how do ya keep it clean???
I know from my many evenings of beer/rum influensed typing that I am a fairly proficient typist (Yeah right!!!!) but why does my keboard always look "dirty"? (don't answer that Joe and Si and Steve and anyone else that is a perv!!!!!!!!!!! )
Do you "clean/pristine" keyboard jockies never actually use a keyboard? Or do ya wear latex gloves??
I am being serious here...this is a question that I am sure, has crossed the minds of other keyboard users!!!!!! LOL LOL LOL
-------------------- Dave Grundy retired in Chelem,Yucatan,Mexico/Hensall,Ontario,Canada 1-519-262-3651 Canada 011-52-1-999-102-2923 Mexico cell 1-226-785-8957 Canada/Mexico home
Western Digital 120 GB 8 MB Cache - 7200 RPM Ultra ATA/100
I get all of the parts from multiwave direct the motherboard came with the promise ide raid controller which was pretty easy to setup.
Do you have any idea how long it takes to format 240 Gigs of hard drive? I dont either, I went to bed. It made it to 2% after about 15 mintues though...
[ March 02, 2002, 10:59 AM: Message edited by: Brian ]
-------------------- Brian Stoddard Northwest Signs
![[Smile]](smile.gif)
![[Wink]](wink.gif)
![[Confused]](confused.gif)
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
Printer-friendly view of this topic