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AMD Duo Core, 4600+, 2GIG RAM DDR2 667, 500G Hard Drive, Fatal1ty sound card, ATI X1950Pro

19" LCD monitor, Logitech z5300 speakers. 

Ha!  In yer face, dudes!  I'm KING of the woooooooooooooorrrrrrrrld!

 

--TT 

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Daily Thought: SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE SLINKIES. NOT REALLY GOOD FOR ANYTHING BUT THEY BRING A SMILE TO YOUR FACE WHEN PUSHED DOWN THE STAIRS.

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That would probably have worked had I bought Windows Vista...

--TT 

TheTransla:

AMD Duo Core, 4600+, 2GIG RAM DDR2 667, 500G Hard Drive, Fatal1ty sound card, ATI X1950Pro

19" LCD monitor, Logitech z5300 speakers. 

Ha!  In yer face, dudes!  I'm KING of the woooooooooooooorrrrrrrrld!

 

--TT 

Didn't you just buy a new computer a couple of months ago?

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glowineyez:

 

OH NOES!!!!!!

You broke my computer!!

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Sweet. We're busy computer shopping right now. Hopefully we can convince one of our more knowledgeable friends to come along with us so we don't get ripped off ...

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Sci-Fi-Guy:

glowineyez:

 

OH NOES!!!!!!

You broke my computer!!

Now I know what happened and who to look for.  If you wait long enough, they always start bragging.

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The owls are not what they seem.

Very nice TT... sweet indeed . Happy for you man . ... I'll be thinking of you while we watch our new (got it this week) 42" Samsung Plasma Flatscreen hooked up to 800watts of surround sound.  cheers to ya ...D

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...in essence we are the universe
trying to understand itself.

Didn't you just buy a new computer a couple of months ago?

I don't buy a new computer, I build one.

It's more fun, Tom.  Everything works when you build it yourself.

Sweet. We're busy computer shopping right now. Hopefully we can convince one of our more knowledgeable friends to come along with us so we don't get ripped off ...

One of the first rules is to find someone to build it for you.

Choose retail parts: Microsoft, Logitech (Their keyboards/mice are built way better than what a computer package throws together), Western Digital...  Get a case that's solid and well built, and a good named power supply like Antec.

Store bought computers are plain pathetic.

You can't get ripped off if you buy the parts yourself.  Just pay somebody to assemble them and you're off and running.

Now I know what happened and who to look for.  If you wait long enough, they always start bragging.

Who, moi?

--TT 

Very nice TT... sweet indeed . Happy for you man . ...

I'm happy for me too, Dave.  

I'll be thinking of you while we watch our new (got it this week) 42" Samsung Plasma Flatscreen hooked up to 800watts of surround sound.   cheers to ya ...D

<<Yawn>>  I got a 52" big screen.  Plasma's good, but the life expectancy is short.

My PC speakers are  560 watts peak power-- but my big screen TV's 5.1 polk audio surround sound is 800W too.    I got a huge subwoofer.

Cheers, dude.

--TT 

 

TT, what is your address and when are you going away?

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TT, what is your address and when are you going away?

I'm not to going to tell you, and half past never.

--TT 

Apple MacPro 

Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon (That's 4 processors people, 4 processors!)

2GB (4 x 512MB)

2 x 250GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s - Setup as Mirrored RAID 1 setup

1 ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB (2 x dual-link DVI)

Running Parallels desktop for Mac with Windows XP running and Boot Camp with Windows XP

Running 3dsMax on Parallels

On order, cause it's cheaper than Apple's

1 UltraSharp 3007WFP 30-inch Wide-Screen Flat from Dell - 1 week to go - $1699.00 CDN

Top that dude! 

Planned additions -next month

4GB (2GBx2) PC5300 DDR2 ECC 667MHz 240 Pin FB-DIMMs from OWC - $739.00 US

1 ReadyNAS NV+ Network Attached Storage enclosure RAID 5 from Infrant Technologies adding 3 x 750GB drives -

 
and also, our group bought a MacPro 2.66 with 4x750GB drives or 3.0 Terabytes that acts as a Server over our VPN network

 

And bootup time - 15 seconds

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TheTransla:

Sweet. We're busy computer shopping right now. Hopefully we can convince one of our more knowledgeable friends to come along with us so we don't get ripped off ...

One of the first rules is to find someone to build it for you.

Choose retail parts: Microsoft, Logitech (Their keyboards/mice are built way better than what a computer package throws together), Western Digital...  Get a case that's solid and well built, and a good named power supply like Antec.

Store bought computers are plain pathetic.

You can't get ripped off if you buy the parts yourself.  Just pay somebody to assemble them and you're off and running.

Oh, we can still get ripped off if we don't know how much the parts are supposed to cost, or even what parts we need if we want the thing to work for more than six months. We got a quote from a place that will sell us the parts and put them together, and our techie friends say the guy who runs it can be trusted, but I'd still like to take along someone who can actually talk intelligently to him and get us what we need.

Hell, five years ago I could have done this myself. But technology has kept moving and I haven't kept up. :-/

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