Renewed PC bragging

[Marcus Telcontar]

Under my desk I now have....

1) Athlon 2400XP (XP)
512mb (soon to be 1Gb)
GeForce MX440 128mb (Sucky, going to Radeon next month)
1 * 40Gb Seagate, 1 * 80Gb Seagate
Microsft Intellimouse, Compaq USB keyboard
DVD
Packard Bell 17" monitor

2) Athlon 2000XP+ (W2k Server, Exchange)
256mb (son to be 512mb)
All in one POS mb (well.... okay, it's not that bad - K7 Triton)
40Gb seagate
Dell 17" monitor

3) AMD 64 3000+ (XP 64 bit)
1Gb PC3200 Corsair memory
120Gb Seagate SATA
Radeon 9600 (The good one, forget exactly the code)
DVD Burner
Microsoft keyboard / Intellimouse
17" samsung TFT which is utterly brilliant :D

And to really annoy the hardware geeks, I just installed a Opteron 248, with 2Gb Corsair memory, 3 * 73 Gb 15,000 rpm SCSI's, DVD burner, Tyan motherboard with PCI-X, 160Gb Seagates in removable HDD trays, 2 * 1000 M/b LAN

While my lil 64 bit system is rocket quick, the Opteron left it for dead. What an awesome bit of weaponry the 248 is.

[(Alex) Jacen]

My monitor is 19" :p

[Marcus Telcontar]

19" TFT or CRT?

[Morgan Evanar]

Originally posted by Jacen Dantarno
My monitor is 19" :p So are mine.

http://panicked.org/misc/dualies1.jpg

[(Alex) Jacen]

Dang...mine's only CRT...so its about the same visible screen area. And ok, its not got as good a picture. But still, MINE'S BIGGER THAN YOURS!!!

Edit:

That came out wrong...

[Marcus Telcontar]

Heh. If I want a 19" CRT, I'll go grab my wife's 19" flat screen. Now that's one nice monitor. heavy bastard tho.

And on that note, ponder this - how can the wrong BIOS be put onto a motherboard and it still works - just?

[Xazor Elessar]

I'm content with my VAIO. :) I have a 17" flatscreen...not to shabby. I like it's picture quality a lot better than my old 19" CRT. :lol

Sounds like you have a nice system there, Mark. :)

[Ka' el Darcverse]

well I have a 160gb Harddrive with liquid bearings in my Xbox so nyah! lol

[Commander Zemil Vymes]

Actually, CRTs generally have better picture quality. That's why most people who do graphics work use them instead of flat monitors.

[Xazor Elessar]

I know that's how it generally is, but I've found that I really like this flatscreen picture a lot better. *Shrugs* Maybe it's just me. I do all of my graphic work on this thing and it's a lot easier for me to work with and I like the outcome of my work a lot better.

Guess it's personal preference, really. :)


Originally posted by Ka' el Darcverse
well I have a 160gb Harddrive with liquid bearings in my Xbox so nyah! lol

I have an XBox too! It's awesome! :D

[Darth Viscera]

*still using the ViewSonic A75f 17" flatscreen CRT he's had since 1999*

[imported_Firebird1]

Originally posted by Marcus Elessar
Heh. If I want a 19" CRT, I'll go grab my wife's 19" flat screen. Now that's one nice monitor. heavy bastard tho.

And on that note, ponder this - how can the wrong BIOS be put onto a motherboard and it still works - just?


Because someone flashed the BIOS chip wrong...

In the end different motherboards follow similar procedures and designs to host a line of chips (CPU, RAM, Chip Set) there for it is possible to get a motherboard to work for a short ammount of time with the wrong BIOS.

NOTICE I SAID SHORT!

[AmazonBabe]

I forgot what my monitor size is... 21" I think? And it's not a flatscreen. Nice clear crisp picture. :)

[Morgan Evanar]

Slightly OT: The main reason graphics designers use CRTs is not because they're crisper (they're not) its because of color accuracy. LCDs just don't have it down right.

[Master Yoghurt]

There is also the issue of contrast ratio, brightness, response time and view angle, although there have been vast improvements in these areas.

I still use a 98 model Daewo 17 incher CRT, and it works perfect for me, thus no reason to change it :)

The rest of the computer specs are:

Athlon XP 2000 (wish I had one of those 64 bits..)
Asus A7V333
512 MB RAM (the bare minimum for SWG :rolleyes)
GeForce Ti4200 (should work adequately until HL2 and Doom3)
1 x 120GB + 1 x 30GB harddisks (and I keep running out of space! :headache)
1 10x DVD ROM + 24/10/40 CD writer (good for solving the above problem)
Logitech Mx500 optical mouse + func surface 1030 :hat
Microsoft Internet Keyboard Pro USB
2 Mbit/640 kbit ADSL :thumbup

[Master Yoghurt]

And to really annoy the hardware geeks, I just installed a Opteron 248, with 2Gb Corsair memory, 3 * 73 Gb 15,000 rpm SCSI's, DVD burner, Tyan motherboard with PCI-X, 160Gb Seagates in removable HDD trays, 2 * 1000 M/b LAN

Let me guess, you use this one for spreadsheets? :D

[Marcus Telcontar]

Originally posted by Master Yoghurt
Let me guess, you use this one for spreadsheets? :D

Porn server, of course.

[Master Yoghurt]

Should have known :)

[Marcus Telcontar]

Actually, it holds 200Gb of rally videos.