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Offline NAzu

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« Reply #60 on: January 24, 2007, 03:39:20 PM »
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NAzu... i envy your processor's speed.... hehehehe

No need to envy. It's a crappy cpu nowdays compared to A64's and C2D's.

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« Reply #61 on: January 25, 2007, 05:58:20 AM »
"embarrassed"

P4 2.66Ghz Cpu Socket LGA775
eSys P4M800/775 Motherboard
512mb ram
Maxtor 80gb(primary) + 40gb(secondary) + 250gb SATA (backup storage)
9250 ATI Radeon graphic card
PCTEL Platinum V.90 Modem
VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter
TV Tuner TV Card
Realtek AC97 sound card
SAMSUNG CD-R/RW_SW-252B
LG DVD Rom
17" SyncMaster 793DF Samsung Monitor
EACAN 2.1 Speaker

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« Reply #62 on: January 26, 2007, 02:58:59 PM »
I suppose I'll partake...:) let's see...

CPU: AMD X2 3800 (oc'd @ 2.5ghz, 1ghz FSB) /w Zalman heatsink
MOBO: A8N SLI Premium
RAM: 2x1GB Patriot DDR3200 (@208mhz due to oc)
GFX: e-Geforce 7900gt (stock)
HDD: 1x160GB Samsung sata 1x250GB Western Digital sata
19" Samsung CRT Monitor
Some logitech 5.1 speakers
Thermaltake Lanfire case /w 400W psu

Okay so for a long while now I've been wanting to buy some more hdd's, but I'm just lazy and I keep burning stuff etc but eventually I'll get around to getting more space.  I'm not an audiophile, so I'm using the onboard audio which sounds perfectly fine to me, the speakers ain't half bad either.  I do a lot of gaming and encoding and video watching, my pc is my center of entertainment.  All my parts are at least 1 year old; everything but my cpu, ram, video card and mobo are 4 years old.  Shit still works perfect :D  I'm either going to upgrade my monitor to a bigger widescreen lcd, or just wait and get an hdtv and use that for my video-viewing, probably the latter.  I got the x2 3800 cuz it was the cheapest back when i got it (like 300 bucks back then-seems like a rip now eh?) cuz I read it overclocks like a beast, and I heard right.  Except I didn't actually overclock it until just a couple months ago, huge performance gain though, and hardly any extra heat whatsoever.  I'm not sure how much the heatsink is helping, it's one of those like airplane turbine engine things, I actually had to remove my side fan and put it on the outside of the case cuz the heatsink was too big lol.  Never runs higher than 40C at full load, idles around 30C (@1.38v).  

I'll wait to upgrade my cpu again until the quad cores come down a bit XD And I figured I'd get an SLI board and just buy a good video card, then get another one later if i needed more power.  Problem is, I didn't take into account the fact that I might not be able to find my same video 1-2 years later (I couldn't find it last time i checked newegg X_X).  No biggie though, I've got another 8 months now before Age of Conan comes out :D
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« Reply #63 on: January 27, 2007, 06:08:11 PM »
Here is mine that I just ordered, getting soon

Mobo = ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard

Opt Drive = LITE-ON 16X DVD±R DVD Burner W/ LightScribe and 5X DVD-RAM Write Black ATAPI/E-IDE Model SHM-165H6S

HDD = Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

RAM = CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model Twinx2048-3200c2pt

Monitor = BenQ FP93GX Black 19" 2ms LCD Monitor

PSU = Rosewill RP550 ATX 550W Power Supply

CPU = AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester 2000MHz HT Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model ADA3800BVBOX

Graphics Card = eVGA 256-P2-N564 Geforce 7900GT KO 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card

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« Reply #64 on: January 27, 2007, 08:06:38 PM »
I'm so techno illiterate.  Have an HP Pavilion a1600n

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« Reply #65 on: January 28, 2007, 08:54:40 AM »
Cpu: Pentium 4
Ram: 1GB
HD's: 2 x seagate 80G + seagate 320G
Dvd-rw: LG
Monitor, keyboard: Samsung

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« Reply #66 on: January 30, 2007, 06:04:35 PM »
Ok so I have decided to sell my computer and buy a laptop or actually I'm going to ship the parts like cpu, ram and videocard to people who bought them tomorrow. The laptop I'm buying is an IBM Thinkpad T41 (specs: P-M 1.6GHz, 1GB, R9000, 40GB, 14.1" 1400x1050, dvd/cd-rw, Wlan) It's second hand unit so I got it at a fair price imo (600e inc shipping) and it includes a spare battery, ultrabay battery, IBM port replicator and a Targus laptop bag.

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« Reply #67 on: February 08, 2007, 05:17:05 AM »
CPU: Core2Duo E6600 @ 2.4ghz
MB: Asus P5W DH Deluxe
RAM: 2x1GB OCZ Gold 800mhz DDR2
VGA: evga 7900GS
HDD: Samsung 250gb sata
DVD-rw: LG 16x dvd-rw drive
PSU: Antec True Power 550W
Audio: Realtek ALC882M High Definition Audio 8-channel
Network: ASUS Wi-Fi AP Solo 802.11g wireless pci card
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 17" CRT
Keyboard & mouse: Microsoft keyboard + mouse
MP3 Player: 4GB PSP
This post is made of 50% WIN, 50% LOL and 50% LEGEND.

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« Reply #68 on: February 12, 2007, 05:38:34 AM »
intel core 2 e6600
nvdia geforce 7900gt oc
320gb seagate
1gb ocz platinum edition

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« Reply #69 on: February 12, 2007, 06:08:15 AM »
Intel P4 D 2.8Ghz Cpu Socket LGA775
ASUS Motherboard
512mb ddr2 ram
Seagate 160GB SATA
VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter
Realtek AC97 sound card
ASUS DVD RW/RAM
17" ASUS LCD monitor
Philips 2.1 Speakers

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« Reply #70 on: February 23, 2007, 10:18:59 AM »
everyone pc so techie updated..

here's my outdated 'TT_939' <--came from (thermaltake on socket 939)..
A64 3000+
MSI K8N Sli
a gig of corsair vs400 -> Dual channel
36Gig of WD Raptor (10k rpm) --> windows and gamingzone (c: & d:)
250Gig of WD cavier (sataII) --> data, songs, videos, anime & drama (e:,f:,g:,h:)
160Gig of WD cavier (sataII) --> H!P paradize (i:)  <--  huggumwuggum hdd's will be mine later (buying off him)
17" Samsung 710N LCD <-- oldskool, wish i have widescreen 20"..
MSI 7300GT 256MB ddrII (modded w fan -> O.C)
Samsund DVD & DVD burner
Logitech x230 (32W RMS)
Logitech peripheral
ThermalTake Tsunami case(silver)
ThermalTake Butterfly 480W psu (black)

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« Reply #71 on: February 23, 2007, 12:02:18 PM »
Nice system's guys :)

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« Reply #72 on: February 23, 2007, 12:15:12 PM »
my L: drive crashed recently, along with 180gb of music and movies. once i get back to the states, i'll see what i can do to recover it, but as a result, im going to build myself a new system with RAID. bolded items are linked, for great technolust.

Core 2 Quad Q6600
ASUS P5W64
Areca ARC-1260 16-port RAID
Western Digital WD5000YS, 5x for now

plus i plan on building a mini-itx system to handle light network applications:

Phylon 7F2W3-1G3
+ 3x 1Gb LAN module

all standard components for the rest of the parts...

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« Reply #73 on: February 23, 2007, 01:00:48 PM »
Why such an expensive mobo? Also I've heard that Asus's quality has dropped a bit these days (problems with integrated sound, incompatible with new Creative soundcards etc..). I would choose a Gigabyte P965 mobo like GA-965P-DS4 or DS6. More than enough features (6xsata, 2x1GB lan etc). Otherwise that system looks great :)

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« Reply #74 on: February 23, 2007, 01:44:07 PM »
need a good workstation/server mobo. i actually seldom play games anymore--although i'm planning on buying an 8800 (once they drop in price), just for sheer dx10 support, for me to do CAD renderings.

those gigabyte mobos don't appear to have dual PCI-e slots (or at least a second one clocked in at x8, which i need to run my RAID card). plus, iirc, some P965 mobos with dual-PCI-e slots are configured for GPU-only PCI-e cards (ie: SLi or CF). i'm not sure if this is mobo-specific or chipset-specific, but at least with the P5W64 i'm clear of those problems on the 975X.

anyway, 975X for C2Q support (setting core affinity across background and foreground processes). i already have an m-audio delta 1010LT studio sound card, so i won't need to worry about integrated/creative sound. plus i'd rather buy 4x PCI-express slots (especially if they're all x16 electrical), rather than an odd combination of x1 PCI-e + PCI slots:
1) for speed, for devices in the future (the areca is already one of them)
2) for ease in physical expansion: ie, 8800 gpu occupies two slots, so with 4 i can at least keep a fair number of options open.

yeah it's expensive... but $295 is really a bargain when it comes to comparatively-similar server motherboards (which range from $350 for LGA775+SAS, up to $800 for dual xeon with PCI-e, PCI-x, SAS, SCSI, etc)... not to mention the cost of the xeon core2/5300-series...

i must say, the 12-phase voltage regulator on the DQ6 looks nice... but 8-phase on the P5W64 will be good enough for me~
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« Reply #75 on: February 23, 2007, 02:33:52 PM »
Ok then seems like your set :)

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« Reply #76 on: February 23, 2007, 02:39:03 PM »
haha yeah

except for finding the money to pay for it all...

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« Reply #77 on: February 23, 2007, 10:30:41 PM »
:lol: thousand dollar RAID. You're crazy man.

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« Reply #78 on: February 23, 2007, 11:54:37 PM »
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Western Digital WD5000YS

Areca ARC-1260 16-port RAID


I've had 3 WD 250GB HDDs fail over the past 3 months.  Sure, they were much cheaper than the 500GB RAID-class drives you're looking at, but consider me a WD-hater for life.

You could call my preferred method for mass storage these days a "poor man's RAID."  I get two 250GB drives from different manufacturers (I go for Maxtor and Seagate these days) bought from different retailers, OEM'ing for about $75-$90 each.  I make one of them is my primary drive, the other one a secondary drive.  At the end of every day, I sync the primary drive to the secondary drive.  The secondary drive is spinning for less than an hour a day.  In about 20 days (the amount of time it takes for me to use up 250GB), I seal the secondary drive in an anti-static bag, put it in one of those fluffy egg-carton type boxes, and store it in a closet at a cousin's house.  I catalog the contents of the primary using Whereisit, and keep it close by and handy, but not powered up.

This immunizes me against manufacturer's errors (since I use drives from two different manufacturers), mobo/raid errors (since I sync things up old-school on a daily basis), random wear-and-tear (since the primary drive is powered on for about 1/1,000 of its MTBF, and the secondary much much less than that), and local fire or disaster (since my cousin lives some distance away).  Granted, this works best for data that you wont be needing on a daily basis (movies, tv episodes, PVs, mediocre porn, etc.).

p.s., what case do you intend on using that can fit 16 HDDs?  Thermaltake's Armor case can fit 24 HDDs, but I have no idea how to route that much power into it.

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« Reply #79 on: February 24, 2007, 07:45:22 AM »
i won't have 16 drives. at least not at first...

Lian-Li PC-A16
Icy Dock MB455SPF

with that, i'll be able to drop in up to 15 drives. my current 430W psu handles 7 drives internally without a hitch (as well as a handful of internal upgrades), so i'll probably buy a 600W psu for now...

..and then scrap the whole thing for a proper 3U rackmount + double/triple redundant psu if i ever need to add-on more drives.

now that i think about it, i may be better off buying a lesser RAID card (like 8-ports) and buying larger hdds, namely the 750gb, or wait until the 1tb drives come out in quantity. but since i have no money for this project either way, there's no rush...

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oh yes, and i dont have any particular loyalty to any brand, but WD has never really given me any problems. i had a maxtor 40gb years ago and it burned out in an instant. WDs tend to run cooler for me, too. plus WD has a great drive-exchange program under its warranty.

but like i just said, i may switch to seagate just for the 750gb...
« Last Edit: February 24, 2007, 07:49:02 AM by thatguy »

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