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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Apr 23 16:37:19 2006, in response to Re: Your Current Computer Setup, posted by American Pig on Fri Apr 21 18:49:18 2006. The shipping and handling of the parts suck. If you get cheap stuff on teh internet, have to try to bundle to not get hammed w/shipping charges on single products.But you can find some really nice stuff to make the machine you want. So many cases out there. I keep saying you can reuse the parts on a new computer, Cd drive, ram, cables, but they keep coming out with something completely different or unsupported by the time it's time for me to upgrade. AGP is disappearing. :( |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Apr 23 16:45:02 2006, in response to Re: Your Current Computer Setup, posted by Subterranean Railway on Fri Apr 21 07:30:40 2006. Another person that knows how to buy things. Nothing like generic, old, wholesale, excess/overstock parts on the web. I give the fedex and ups guys a workout. |
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Posted by Subterranean Railway on Sun Apr 23 19:29:57 2006, in response to Re: Your Current Computer Setup, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Apr 23 16:45:02 2006. Heh, when you're 15 years old, you can't really afford not to shop like that. |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Apr 23 19:39:51 2006, in response to Re: Your Current Computer Setup, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Apr 23 16:34:00 2006. 570Gigs of HD space. I can't resist asking how much free space you have?About 440GB of that is free. But I plan to start doing some backups to at least fill the 160GB external drive. Additionally, I have several other 60GB and 80GB drives laying around. I'm building a file server out of a DELL SC420 that will hold all these other drives. You may have more processor speed than me, but I have more video card memory. :) My video card is perfectly adequate for my needs. I am not a "gamer." Before I bought this computer, I had a computer that I built myself with an Athlon XP 2100+ CPU (1.75GHz). I had it overclocked to over 2200GHz, making it the equivalent of an Athlon XP 2600+. That was sweet. |
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Posted by Tech-35th on Mon Apr 24 02:32:57 2006, in response to Re: Your Current Computer Setup, posted by Subterranean Railway on Sun Apr 23 12:57:16 2006. I can believe that...I may not be 15, but I am a college student that doesn't have much extra cash floating around. And I already looked under the couch cushions. ;)Wine is becoming quite capable, and, in fact, some things seem to run faster in Wine than in Windows. It can't do AutoCAD or the ESRI suite though (the installers won't work). Seems that installers give Wine a lot of fits...even though the application itself might work, you may not be able to get it installed in the normal and desired way. Matt |
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Posted by Tech-35th on Mon Apr 24 02:37:50 2006, in response to Re: My Current Computer Setup, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Apr 23 15:16:28 2006. What are the specs on your new nVidia card (manufacturer, price, etc.)? I've been looking at 6200 series cards but they seem to get mixed reviews...i.e. some run quite well and others are like molasses in January or have other issues.Matt |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Apr 24 21:32:17 2006, in response to Re: My Current Computer Setup, posted by Tech-35th on Mon Apr 24 02:37:50 2006. I've only used it for GTA:SA and BVE so far for graphics. It's working pretty nice on the GTA:SA compared to my old card, but not as huge of a jump as I thought. WIth that and ram, some german BVE routes I couldn't run before is running fine now.This is the card I got It says generic, but on my screen one of the options says Kingston, the SD card maker. The interface is good on the desktop, has an internal thermostat apparently. "Powered by nVidia GeForce 6200 GPU and 256 MB DDR RAM, this AGP video card delivers crisp, vibrant video to your PC without compromising performance! It features 400 MHz RAMDACs, 2048 x 1536 at 85 Hz resolutions and supports Full open GL 1.4 and DirectX 9.0. It is equipped with a 15-pin VGA, DVI, and TV-out connectors and connects easily to your PCs AGP slot. Buy yours today! # NVidia GeForce 6200 chipset # 256 MB DDR RAM # AGP 4 x/8 x interface # Advanced display pipeline with Full nView capabilities # Complete DirectX support, including DirectX 9.0 and lower # Full OpenGL 1.4 and lower # 400 MHz RAMDAC # NVIDIA CineFX 3.0 Engine # NVIDIA UltraShadow II Technology # NVIDIA Intellisample 3.0 Technology " I don't know how to test the thing except to play games on it and see if the games work. Got the feeling I need to swap the slots my ram chips are in too....should be faster for one gig I thought. $73 bucks, i'm cheap. There were so;me nice ones for about $115 too. 512MB seems too pricy for me at any place. Those always hit 200 bucks and over. But I was looking exclusively for AGP cards. |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Apr 24 21:41:41 2006, in response to Re: My Current Computer Setup, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Apr 24 21:32:17 2006. Actually, have you heard of a game called Syberia? It's an excellant Adventure/RPG game. I'll have to test the opening sequence with that card, that'll tell me if it was a good deal!Adventure company games It's a train journey from france to syberia pretty much. |
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Posted by Tech-35th on Tue Apr 25 04:58:48 2006, in response to Re: My Current Computer Setup, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Apr 24 21:41:41 2006. Haven't heard of that one, but I'm not much into games. The things they do with the graphics in games now are simply amazing though.Matt |
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Posted by Tech-35th on Tue Apr 25 05:00:45 2006, in response to Re: My Current Computer Setup, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Apr 24 21:32:17 2006. Cool. Thanks for the info. Looks pretty nice.Matt |
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Posted by The Queen on Tue Apr 25 19:19:01 2006, in response to Your Current Computer Setup, posted by Subterranean Railway on Thu Apr 20 21:03:25 2006. Ok, this time you can see what my system looks like |
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Posted by Subterranean Railway on Tue Oct 3 18:38:30 2006, in response to Re: Your Current Computer Setup, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Apr 22 16:34:42 2006. You must either have an 8086 or some sort of extraordinarily expensive setup desired by SubChat thieves. :-) |
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Posted by Subterranean Railway on Tue Oct 3 18:40:29 2006, in response to Re: Your Current Computer Setup, posted by Subterranean Railway on Tue Oct 3 18:38:30 2006. Sorry, I didn't mean to reply to this thread and extract it from the depths of SubChat. I just took a long-untouched computer out of hibernation, and accidentally hit "enter." The browser was focused on the "Post Message" button, and... |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Oct 3 19:06:42 2006, in response to Re: Your Current Computer Setup, posted by Subterranean Railway on Tue Oct 3 18:40:29 2006. Cool, I'm working on building a new one and upgrading the old one right now. Maybe I can repost by Friday. :) |
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