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Unread postby Asheera » 05 Dec 2008, 21:42

I agree, it was fun at first but it got boring pretty fast... It was a nice idea nonetheless. :)
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Unread postby Ethric » 06 Dec 2008, 08:39

Kalah wrote:Ethric the anal retentive
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Unread postby Zamolxis » 06 Dec 2008, 12:20

darknessfood wrote:Busy day, and a painfull month. Birthdays, wedding, holliday, painfull for my cash funds...
Yes... tell me about it: my wife, my mother-in-law, 2 close cousins, 2 close friends, plus some nephews & stuff and of course Santa (who I really used to like as a kid, but now, I don't know... he's getting more financially demanding every year...) ;|
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Unread postby Asheera » 06 Dec 2008, 16:04

I finally installed and configured all my apps, and copied the important data from my old Hard Disk. :-D

Everything runs much better, even H5 runs smooth on my current specs (even when I zoom out a lot). :D
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Unread postby Pol » 06 Dec 2008, 16:31

@Asheera
Which are?
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Unread postby Asheera » 06 Dec 2008, 17:05

I think I said it somewhere before in this thread but here they are:

ASUS P5K Pro (motherboard)
Intel Core Duo 3 Ghz
2 GB Ram (Dual-Channel)
Nvidia Geforce 9600 GT 512 MB
A Seagate Hard Disk with SATA (I had IDE before)

compared with my former comp:
Don't know the motherboard, sorry (but it was old, didn't have any SATA slots)
Intel Pentium 4 Celeron 2.4 Ghz
1 GB Ram (Dual-Channel)
Nvidia Geforce 6200 128 MB
A Seagate Hard Disk with IDE


... the difference is immense :D
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Unread postby Pol » 06 Dec 2008, 17:53

I bet. Even your old one is stronger than my best. BTW this sounds good > http://www.silentpcreview.com/Anitec_SilenT3_PC

A shadow side of this is that you cannot equip it with different board, the motherboard in the barebone t3 terminator is non-standart mATX.
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Unread postby ThunderTitan » 06 Dec 2008, 17:57

Pol wrote:I bet. Even your old one is stronger than my best.
maybe you can convince her to mail it to you?!
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Unread postby Pol » 06 Dec 2008, 18:14

That's not so big difference to making it a worthy idea.
Mine is > P4 Northwood, 1.7GHz, 512MB DDR, 120GB WD hdd, ATI UT 16MB.

Also don't forget that I'm "sitting" on hardware as technician so I can equip myself if needed. And it doesn't appeared so yet. :P
(seriously I will get myself new comp in next year, really..)
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Unread postby Borsuc » 06 Dec 2008, 23:14

Those aren't enough details Ash, I mean full specs, apart from the video card none of them have any "naming" or ID so I can't figure out what you use.

Then again my comp is kinda similar to your "old" one, but I have a GeForce FX5200, so it's weaker and I'm satisfied with it. The only problem is if it breaks and doesn't want to work anymore, other than that, it's good.

Me not need greedy consumption :D
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Unread postby darknessfood » 07 Dec 2008, 00:40

Today I got some new stuff for my, euhm, upcomming house. A nice piece for my computer, it makes the corner pretty.I'll post it soon :)!
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Unread postby Kalah » 07 Dec 2008, 01:24

"new stuff", "nice piece", "makes pretty"... can't wait to see what you're talking about.
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Unread postby darknessfood » 07 Dec 2008, 01:36

Well basicly just a new desk. But I always wanted one of those, and now I do. Some other stuff as well, but the PC desk is AWESOME! Reallynice to put the games in front of you :P!
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Unread postby ThunderTitan » 07 Dec 2008, 12:27

Pol wrote: Also don't forget that I'm "sitting" on hardware as technician so I can equip myself if needed. And it doesn't appeared so yet. :P
(seriously I will get myself new comp in next year, really..)

pics or it didn't happen... :D
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Unread postby Asheera » 07 Dec 2008, 13:17

My room is pretty organized, I have a nice drawer (or how is it called in English?) where I keep most of my computer-related stuff (including disks, etc) :D
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Unread postby darknessfood » 07 Dec 2008, 13:30

Here's my new stuff...

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Finaly, i can stare at a few of my games :D!
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Unread postby Asheera » 07 Dec 2008, 14:04

Nice :tsup:

But I can't stand having the Mouse on a higher level than the keyboard :D
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Unread postby Kalah » 07 Dec 2008, 14:15

Oh, you meant a new desk...? Hey, I know what you want for Christmas: a new LCD screen.
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Unread postby darknessfood » 07 Dec 2008, 14:22

Yeah, that's something I need still. But this one works just great, after years still doing great!
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Unread postby Borsuc » 07 Dec 2008, 14:50

I bought a new CRT last year, I can't stand LCDs with their crappy quality (contrast) plus the one which was 'similar' to this one was twice as expensive. Not to mention that it looks like **** from different angles. :P

Only disadvantage is that it eats a bit more energy... but that's it.
Weight? Why would it be an issue? I use the monitor to watch at it, not to move it around the house :P
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