computers

[openfire]

Very interesting video. I guess nothing shorts out since it's mineral oil, not water. Very cool.

 

[balapickerel]

Hahahaha... it's so funny...
you guys are all NERDS!!!
i'm not a computer guy. I bought my package from Dell a couple years ago. This 22 inch widescreen LCD monitor I currently have was huge and expensive back then!!!!

i may not understand some of the stuff they are writing but i wouldn't call them nerds, i asked them a question and they answered it.

 

[Bigfisherman]

lol nice. They were selling a Tandy 186 for $3,000 Nice find MikeyMikey!

(Bill Gates is still as geeky now as he was then.)

My first computer was a Commodore 64. I was a little kid at the time and was the only kid on my street with a computer. I remember all the kids coming over to my house and ringing the doorbell on the weekends to play games on the C64. lol

My first PC was a 286 with a 20 megabyte hard drive and 12 MHz CPU. My parents bought it at the Brick. I had a 2400 baud modem and was into BBS's before the internet came into the mainstream. I remember downloading gifs taking an hour depending on the size and resolution. Not many people at that time even knew what a "modem" was. lol

The first computer I built was a Pentium 1. Since then I've built so many computer systems for myself, friends, family etc...

As far as saving $ goes, you used to be able to save a lot more than you can now building your own computer, but it really depends on a lot of factors.

LOL, I had them all vic 20, C64(remember this LOAD "$"),Atari 800xl, 1040st(modded) etc, my first modem was a 300 baud. Then came the 286s, 386s, 486s I had a AMD dx80 overclocked to 133mhz, then P50s overclocked to 75mhz, etc..... At one point my BBS had 2 isdn lines can't remember how many mbs of bandwidth was used per day. I started at age 11.

 

[YAWN]

The good old days of over clocking CPU's now there is a memory hahahaha.

 

[openfire]

lol nice. They were selling a Tandy 186 for $3,000 Nice find MikeyMikey!

(Bill Gates is still as geeky now as he was then.)

My first computer was a Commodore 64. I was a little kid at the time and was the only kid on my street with a computer. I remember all the kids coming over to my house and ringing the doorbell on the weekends to play games on the C64. lol

My first PC was a 286 with a 20 megabyte hard drive and 12 MHz CPU. My parents bought it at the Brick. I had a 2400 baud modem and was into BBS's before the internet came into the mainstream. I remember downloading gifs taking an hour depending on the size and resolution. Not many people at that time even knew what a "modem" was. lol

The first computer I built was a Pentium 1. Since then I've built so many computer systems for myself, friends, family etc...

As far as saving $ goes, you used to be able to save a lot more than you can now building your own computer, but it really depends on a lot of factors.

LOL, I had them all vic 20, C64(remember this LOAD "$"),Atari 800xl, 1040st(modded) etc, my first modem was a 300 baud. Then came the 286s, 386s, 486s I had a AMD dx80 overclocked to 133mhz, then P50s overclocked to 75mhz, etc..... At one point my BBS had 2 isdn lines can't remember how many mbs of bandwidth was used per day. I started at age 11.

LOL ya I remember that... LOAD "whatever",8,1

comma 8 comma 1. what was up with that? lol

 

[MikeyMikey]

My current computer is few years old but it's good enough for now.

It's AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+(2.0GHz) Socket 939 overclocked to 2.8GHz.
Before this I had AMD AthlonXP 1700+(1.46GHz) overclocked to whopping 2.5GHz!!! (Air cooled too)

I upgrade every few years or so as I WANT a new PC.

Time to move over to Intel platform again and aim for 4000MHz!

e-Penis!

 

[YAWN]

And lets talk practical now . Your using a 2.7 and u over clock to 3.0.

You will notice absolutely no diff except a shorter life span perhaps. Absolutely nothing maybe even run into more probs with over heating but an extra fan thrown in solves that. But still no benefit at the modern CPU speeds and prices.

Set up your IRQ's correctly and then you'll get a real benefit you will actually notice.

Back in the day over clocking a 200 to like a 266 or something yeah u saw a diff but not nowadays people. now when your playing with 2.7 common be reasonable.

 

[Bigfisherman]

My current computer is few years old but it's good enough for now.

It's AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+(2.0GHz) Socket 939 overclocked to 2.8GHz.
Before this I had AMD AthlonXP 1700+(1.46GHz) overclocked to whopping 2.5GHz!!! (Air cooled too)

I upgrade every few years or so as I WANT a new PC.

Time to move over to Intel platform again and aim for 4000MHz!

e-Penis!

Ah I ran an AthlonXP Barton 2800 to 2.9ghz liquid cooled, I ran it for 2+ years. Socket A, Amd is at AM2+ now?

 

[YAWN]

liquid cooled, seen that set up once looked sweet like a mini radiator the copper tubing hahaha. prob is get a single leak and your board is kaput not that its a common prob but can happen go with a dual fan set up, and if I'm remembering correctly we had to turn off the CPU alarm for some config prob with the liquid cool set up.

64 bit is the future, should have been here already on the client side has been on the server side for a while?

 

[Bigfisherman]

liquid cooled, seen that set up once looked sweet like a mini radiator the copper tubing hahaha. prob is get a single leak and your board is kaput not that its a common prob but can happen go with a dual fan set up, and if I'm remembering correctly we had to turn off the CPU alarm for some config prob with the liquid cool set up.

64 bit is the future, should have been here already on the client side has been on the server side for a while?

64bit, virtualization + SSD drives will be the norm in less then 5 years for sure.