Thread: New Computer System!

Because putting it together makes you feel 1337...?

I don't really enjoy putting computers together anymore. I have been doing it since I was 15 years old. It is a hell of a lot easier now than it was 9 years ago. I use to have a cool looking case with the blue lights everywhere and the transparent side panel. Now my main desktop doesn't even have the same color peripherals. My burner is white, my case is black, my monitor is tan, and my mass storage drives are grey.

Originally Posted by KelJu

My burner is white, my case is black, my monitor is tan, and my mass storage drives are grey.

That makes me blue.

Originally Posted by KelJu

Now my main desktop doesn't even have the same color peripherals. My burner is white, my case is black, my monitor is tan, and my mass storage drives are grey.

Everything I own is always white.

Originally Posted by DOMS

Everything I own is always white.

LOL. I figured you would own black things. HAHA

Originally Posted by DOMS

Everything I own is always white.

Does it have Vista installed?

Originally Posted by DOMS

Everything I own is always white.

You must be color blind cause that certainly looks like a black shirt in your gallery.....and if you are color blind then everytime you've been saying you don't like black people you must've meant white.....

Holy shit, I didnt know he had pics!

Originally Posted by AKIRA

Holy shit, I didnt know he had pics!

Me either.
I thought DOMS would want to remain anonymous because he would be scared of all the black people's coming to find him

Wow DOMS...You do look younger than 34...More like Late 20's.

And I expected you to look meaner lol.

Originally Posted by IainDaniel

LOL. I figured you would own black things. HAHA

Shit you beat me to it. that was the first thing I thought of when I read it.

Originally Posted by AKIRA

Does it have Vista installed?

Nope. XP will be supported until 2014, when that day comes I'll go to Linux.

Tis a shame. You ruined a perfectly good computer with that AMD.

Originally Posted by TheGreatSatan

Nope. XP will be supported until 2014, when that day comes I'll go to Linux.

Vista will probably be pretty stable and decent by 2014... of course then there will be threads bashing the newest Microsoft operating system and people saying they will stay will good old Vista.

It happens everytime a new OS comes out. It's buggy and incompatible for the first couple years. People stayed with Win 95 and 98 instead of going to Win NT because of compatibility. Then people were slow to adopt Win 2000 and Win XP. Vista is nothing new and actually works pretty good on a brand new PC with all new hardware.... once all resonable hardware is newer than Vista (and its been through a bunch of patches), all the bitching will stop.

Originally Posted by Jodi

Tis a shame. You ruined a perfectly good computer with that AMD.

How so? That's the fastest AMD x2 right now.
And yes, it is a power hog for AMD. But it is still sizzling fast at 3.0 ghz a core.

It will run anything he'll throw at it.

Yea, money better spent on a 6600 conroe OC'd but oh well.

AMD has been the champ for the past 5 or so years...and they will rise and over take Intel again soon.

Originally Posted by Brachiisaurus

How so? That's the fastest AMD x2 right now.
And yes, it is a power hog for AMD. But it is still sizzling fast at 3.0 ghz a core.

It will run anything he'll throw at it.

Yea, money better spent on a 6600 conroe OC'd but oh well.

AMD has been the champ for the past 5 or so years...and they will rise and over take Intel again soon.

Core 2 duo is where it's at.

I'm actually purchasing a 6700 extreme edition for a friend today.

AMD will never get the market share back.....never! They were only ahead of Intel for 2-3 years, not 5 and that was only in the PC market share. They can no longer keep up with Intel. Intel is light years ahead of AMD in R&D. On top of it, AMD cut back on their R&D budget even more while Intel increased theirs. Their mistake last year was purchasing ATI. Have you seen their stock? Have you seen how fast it's dropped? Remember, AMD isn't alive in many of the markets that Intel is involved in and as they keep losing the market share things will keep sinking deeper.

Wow. A lot has changed since I built computers. I remember just getting "the higher number" and having an above average powered computer. In other words, Pentium 1.0GHz < Pentium 2.2GHz. Now its AMD+ or whatever the fuck.

Theres gotta be a simple way to put it...anyone want to chime in? Whats this "core" shit?

Originally Posted by maniclion

You must be color blind cause that certainly looks like a black shirt in your gallery.....and if you are color blind then everytime you've been saying you don't like black people you must've meant white.....

I was being facetious, but feel free to go fuck yourself anyway.

Originally Posted by AKIRA

Holy shit, I didnt know he had pics!

I posted my first pics on my last birthday.

Originally Posted by KelJu

Shit you beat me to it. that was the first thing I thought of when I read it.

You're getting slow in your old age, man.

Originally Posted by Brachiisaurus

Me either.
I thought DOMS would want to remain anonymous because he would be scared of all the black people's coming to find him

Wow DOMS...You do look younger than 34...More like Late 20's.

And I expected you to look meaner lol.

Hell no. I'm actually pretty easy going. I just wouldn't piss on a Mexican if he was on fire. In a suit maybe, but not when he's on fire.

Thanks for the compliment.

Originally Posted by Jodi

Core 2 duo is where it's at.

I'm actually purchasing a 6700 extreme edition for a friend today.

AMD will never get the market share back.....never! They were only ahead of Intel for 2-3 years, not 5 and that was only in the PC market share. They can no longer keep up with Intel. Intel is light years ahead of AMD in R&D. On top of it, AMD cut back on their R&D budget even more while Intel increased theirs. Their mistake last year was purchasing ATI. Have you seen their stock? Have you seen how fast it's dropped? Remember, AMD isn't alive in many of the markets that Intel is involved in and as they keep losing the market share things will keep sinking deeper.

Yea...I was very displeased when I heard they were buying out ATI.
What a joke.
/sigh

Originally Posted by DOMS

Hell no. I'm actually pretty easy going. I just wouldn't piss on a Mexican if he was on fire. In a suit maybe, but not when he's on fire.

Thanks for the compliment.

lol I thought you would look more like Charlie Sheen(sp?)

Originally Posted by AKIRA

Wow. A lot has changed since I built computers. I remember just getting "the higher number" and having an above average powered computer. In other words, Pentium 1.0GHz < Pentium 2.2GHz. Now its AMD+ or whatever the fuck.

Theres gotta be a simple way to put it...anyone want to chime in? Whats this "core" shit?

the 6000 on the AMD chip kind of stands for 6.0 GHz... but it is dual core which really means it is like having 2 - 3.0GHz chips. It was getting more and more difficult to push chips faster and faster so instead of doing that, they introduced dual cores... so now you have real multi-tasking instead of processes swapping for processor time from a single core chip. It's kind of like a 2 processor board except it is all done on the chip. We are seeing quad cores too and it is just a matter of time before they start doing more than that... and programming is going to become a lot more multi-threaded because of it.

Intel Marks 30 Years In Embedded Computing With Quad-Core Processor Launch

Originally Posted by NeilPearson

the 6000 on the AMD chip kind of stands for 6.0 GHz... but it is dual core which really means it is like having 2 - 3.0GHz chips. It was getting more and more difficult to push chips faster and faster so instead of doing that, they introduced dual cores... so now you have real multi-tasking instead of processes swapping for processor time from a single core chip. It's kind of like a 2 processor board except it is all done on the chip. We are seeing quad cores too and it is just a matter of time before they start doing more than that... and programming is going to become a lot more multi-threaded because of it.

Oooooh. Good explanation!

Originally Posted by Jodi

Intel Marks 30 Years In Embedded Computing With Quad-Core Processor Launch

I own an AMD chip, but...