What are your computer stats?
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I've got a Dell. It's slow...about 15 feet per minute. :mrgreen: I don't have a clue on the rest but it has a sticker that says "Pentium Inside". My wife is the computer guru, I'm just an undertrained operator that barely gets by. 
Gary
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My computer's are all home-built, I do custom computers as one of my hobbies.
Currently, mine's a socket 754 board with an Athlon 64 in it, I honestly can't even remember how fast it is. Has 2GB of RAM, two hard drives (an 80G and a 160G) and has a Quadro FX 1000 card in it, and an older Sound Blaster sound card. I use it for audio/video production, and it runs Ubuntu Studio Linux.
Before:
And after:
Currently, mine's a socket 754 board with an Athlon 64 in it, I honestly can't even remember how fast it is. Has 2GB of RAM, two hard drives (an 80G and a 160G) and has a Quadro FX 1000 card in it, and an older Sound Blaster sound card. I use it for audio/video production, and it runs Ubuntu Studio Linux.
Before:
And after:
Not to hijack the thread.... but since we got all the computer geeks in one place
My old desktop took a dump. wouldnt power up so I came to the conclusion that the power supply went out... probably after I found one of the large capacitors rolling around loose in there.. lol So I went out and bought a new one, well even with the new power supply it wouldnt do anything. Was told the motherboard might have gotten damaged when the power supply went south?
At any rate, I abandoned the thing and bought a new desktop, my question is I have a bunch of pics and music I want to save off my old HD, but I dont think I can just pop the old HD into the new desktop since I think its not the same bitwise.
New Desktop is a HP a6530f running 64 bit Vista
Old Desktop is a emachines T2542 running XP (32 bit?)
I think the only other option would be to take it to a repair shop and have them extract my junk to disk?
Ive got a couple of laptops, but I would have to buy some sort of adapter to make it all work.
any ideas?
My old desktop took a dump. wouldnt power up so I came to the conclusion that the power supply went out... probably after I found one of the large capacitors rolling around loose in there.. lol So I went out and bought a new one, well even with the new power supply it wouldnt do anything. Was told the motherboard might have gotten damaged when the power supply went south?
At any rate, I abandoned the thing and bought a new desktop, my question is I have a bunch of pics and music I want to save off my old HD, but I dont think I can just pop the old HD into the new desktop since I think its not the same bitwise.
New Desktop is a HP a6530f running 64 bit Vista
Old Desktop is a emachines T2542 running XP (32 bit?)
I think the only other option would be to take it to a repair shop and have them extract my junk to disk?
Ive got a couple of laptops, but I would have to buy some sort of adapter to make it all work.
any ideas?
My roomate built this for me from spares and leftovers, I have only a vague idea of what goes, but...
AMD Athlon XP1700+
1.08 GHz 1.00 GB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce Ti 4200 RAMDAC 128 MB
17"Kogi monitor
IBM keyboard(it's pretty old but it's supposed to be the cat's pj's)
Oh, I have the side cover on to keep K9 noses out. :mrgreen:
AMD Athlon XP1700+
1.08 GHz 1.00 GB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce Ti 4200 RAMDAC 128 MB
17"Kogi monitor
IBM keyboard(it's pretty old but it's supposed to be the cat's pj's)
Oh, I have the side cover on to keep K9 noses out. :mrgreen:
I say there are plenty of cheepo doorstop P2's for 10-20 bucks off a boss or a buddy, Slap that hard drive into it and get it backed up., then just use the crappy machine for storage. It's still useful for some things...
Oh and... "I have the side cover on to keep K9 noses out." :mrgreen:
They don't like a fan in the face, heheh 8)
Oh and... "I have the side cover on to keep K9 noses out." :mrgreen:
They don't like a fan in the face, heheh 8)
I used to be into computers and built a few for myself. I'm out of touch any more as to what the latest is. Our most recent computers are off the shelf.
The wife and I each have a Dell desktop. Mine an Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz and 3 GB ram running Vista.
One of my old home builts is downstairs at the bar and was what the grandkids used when they were here.
A HP laptop for when we travel.
My work laptop is a Panasonic Toughbook.
I back up to a My Book.
The wife and I each have a Dell desktop. Mine an Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz and 3 GB ram running Vista.
One of my old home builts is downstairs at the bar and was what the grandkids used when they were here.
A HP laptop for when we travel.
My work laptop is a Panasonic Toughbook.
I back up to a My Book.
I was waiting for a PC thread
Intel Core 2 duo E8400 3.0Ghz CPU
OCZ 550watt power supply
500 GB Western Digital HD
Arctic Cooler 7 Pro CPU Cooler
BFG 9800 GT OC 1GB Vid-Card
4 GB of Stock ram (For now)
22" LCD widescreen monitor
Play a few games. Call of Duty 4, Call of Duty World at War, Battlefield 2, IL-2 Sturmovik, Flatout, etc.
Intel Core 2 duo E8400 3.0Ghz CPU
OCZ 550watt power supply
500 GB Western Digital HD
Arctic Cooler 7 Pro CPU Cooler
BFG 9800 GT OC 1GB Vid-Card
4 GB of Stock ram (For now)
22" LCD widescreen monitor
Play a few games. Call of Duty 4, Call of Duty World at War, Battlefield 2, IL-2 Sturmovik, Flatout, etc.
This doesn't seem like the kind of forum where this will start some ridiculous flame war so here goes . . . I've got a year-old 17" MacBook Pro. Used to be a PC builder and tinkerer but had to use Mac to run Final Cut Pro at work. I was reluctant at first but I can't say I'm hatin' it. At first I installed Windows and Linux on the Mac - thinking I couldn't live without - but I ended up never using either so I deleted them to make space. After a few weeks, OSX just felt right to me.
