Post your system.......

[weirdlookinguy]

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I've been obsessed with girls since I was in kinder (just ask my mother), that might have something to do with it.

I had a different crush every year in elementary since second grade...

Sometime before kindergarten= Julie
2nd Grade= April
3rd Grade= Caroline
4th Grade= Amanda
5th Grade= Sonia
6th Grade= Laura
7th Grade= Sarah/Rachel
8th Grade= Amber
9th Grade= Emily
10th Grade= Sandra
11th Grade= Desiree
12th Grade (today) = wouldn't you like to know...

[etnietering]

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Oh wow I forgot I was going to update this once I rebuilt my computer. Here's the new system:

Intel Core i7 920
ASUS P6T
3x 2GB Corsair XMS DDR3-1600
eVGA 8800GTS 640MB
HT Omega Striker 7.1
Same Thermaltake 520W something
Same Xigmatek cooler
320GB WD
640GB Seagate
750GB WD
120GB OCZ Vertex SSD
Same TJ-09 case

Here's some pics:

Before, from the outside:


Before, the inside:


After the upgrade, from the inside (the outside looks pretty much the same, and I don't seem to have a picture of it):


And here's the knoppix boot screen. 8 Penguins! silly 32 bit operating systems...that's why there's only 3G of RAM instead of 6:


Boy does this thing fly!

[washu]

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Just put the final touches on my main box, Tokimi:

- Quad Core 9550 @ 3.4 GHz with Scythe Kama Angle
- Asus P5Q-VM
- 8 GB PC6400 at 4-4-4-12, 1:1 FSB
- ATI 4670 1 GB
- ATI 4350 512 MB in cut PCIe x1
- 60 GB OCZ Summit
- 640 GB WD Caviar Black
- 320 GB Seagate 2.5"
- Old Pioneer IDE DVD writer
- Antec P183
- Seasonic SS-350ET
- Samsung 2443BW, 2343BWX and 2 X Dell E173FPb (recapped)
- 9 Fans, but all very quiet.

All my "fast" PCs are named after female characters from a particular show. (should be easy to guess). Everything "slow" is given a rude saying from Beavis and Butthead. The cutoff varies as I get new stuff and older boxes get retired. Strange, but it beats the serial # like scheme at work.

[EGuevarae]

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Odd.

I find it interesting that some people call their machinery (such as cars, planes, trains, boats, weapons, tools, computers) "She" or "Her" and also sometimes give them names.

I only named my computer so far. Used to, I mean. We spent so much time together that I guess I made the same as the guy alone on the island (Tom Hanks) to avoid insanity. I guess it didn't help a lot

[NxB]

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I never name my computers after girls. I never understood that. I don't like naming my stuff in general. My network names are server, reaper, hateway, deathbox... shit like that. My wireless network is named (_)=======D

[EGuevarae]

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My wireless network is named (_)=======D

[ratdude747]

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if i did that my mom would ax me to death...

[NxB]

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I live near a lot of neighbors who have their own wifi too.

[370forlife]

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Boy does this thing fly!

How am I supposed to sign there?

[etnietering]

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That was some sticker that came on something and I wanted to put it somewhere, so I stuck it there. Signing an LCD panel wouldn't work so well....

[EGuevarae]

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if i did that my mom would ax me to death...

Just imagine that wireless net and a neighbor with one named "(_!_)" ....

Just for reference http://www.jokes.com/funny/potty+humor/ass-icons

[i4004]

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live cd flies?
i don't buy that.
<wink>

[Junk Parts]

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Chihuahua #1 Dixie Girl #2 Boo Boo #3 Bandit #4 Abby
Bull-Mastiff, John Gotti
Cat #1 LiL Bit #2 Dotti #3 Phoenix
Snake, Buckwheat
Computer... Most of the time its "This POS" or "It." Other times its B***h and others workds like this.

[kc8adu]

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live cd flies?
i don't buy that.
<wink>

it will if you use the toram switch!

[Per Hansson]

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kc8adu; wow, thanks man, I've always been wondering if there is no switch like that, but not bothered to RTFM, just tried it on my CD and it works great!
I actually had a Windows BartPE XP boot ISO put on a USB stick that does exactly this, but it works not as good as knoppix, knoppix usually gets a working system running, with LAN and all (unlike windows)

[i4004]

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>it will if you use the toram switch!

for me the main issue is slowness of the copy-to-ram process (on booting) and this doesn't help that...
this helps it to be faster ONCE it's loaded...

btw. what's the time it takes knoppix to fully load on c2d system?
(obviously, i only use live cds only when i must...their slowness scares the shit out of me...hehe)

[c_hegge]

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My "Hovercraft" (People call it that because it has 10 fans in it!) is as follows:

Pentium D.C. E5300 2.6GHz (OC to 3GHz), Might upgrade to core 2 duo later
4GB Kingston ValueRAM DDR2 800
250GB Seagate HDD
Samsung writemaster DVD Burner
ATI/AMD Radeon HD3850 Video Card
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L Motherboard
CoolerMaster Xtreme power 550W PSU
Antec Twelve Hundred Case (Damaged - Top comes off when you try to lift it!)
Windows XP Pro

In spite of all the fans, it isn't too noisy.

Upgraded the CPU now to a Core 2 duo E8400 (3GHz). Next upgrade will either be the video card or a quieter PSU (The one I have now might as well be called the Coolermaster Xtreme Noise-maker!)

While I'm at it I might as well post the family PC:

Athlon XP 2500+ Barton core
Re-capped ASUS A7V600-X Motherboard
2GB Super Talent (2x 1GB) RAM
80GB WD Sata HDD
40GB WD Sata HDD
Sony DVD Burner
Inno3D nVidia GeForce 7600GS
Re-capped Antec SP-400 PSU
Generic black and silver case
Windows XP Pro

[Wizard]

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C hegge,

I'm interested in how your overall performance from E5300 to E8400 with heavy lifting stuff like MPEG2 decoding for live watching so on.

My difference in CPU is E5200 (2.5GHz) and I use ATi 550 Pro tuner and HD3650 512MB.

Also I have CPU Phenom II 550 and eventually grab mainboard with 785 chipset and HD5770 or higher for this task as well if I'm forced to build a SD tuner processor PC to drive a TV. But I have issue. AVIVO got real close, lot better than TV and HM-DT100U, the issues is only minor AA visible and faded colors, slightly unfocused look, bit low contrast. Is there more to improve upon this?

I have done envaluations on wide range models and makes of TV's own processor is sucky on SD via tuner. HM-DT100U got it last friday and still even worse for a former 1,000 D-VHS when new D-VHS VCR on SD!? Excessive Anti-Aliasing and areas of moving items not in sync, um like face turn or moving but the nose wobbling strangely, 6 or 8 bit crushed the shading of colors.

That HM-DT100U is going back in exchange for DMR-EZ28K if H & B will accept that.

Cheers, Wizard

[Shodan486]

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Da Retro Gaming Station :

Mobo: Abit VP6 (VIA KT133A)
CPU: 2x Pentium III E 1Ghz 133MHz FSB OC'd @ 1245MHz 166Mhz FSB
RAM: SDR TONICOM PC-166 @ 166MHz
VGA: AGP Gainward GeForce 7600GS 256MB GDDR3 (GPU/RAM: 400/1100 OC'd @ 533/1500 MHz)
HDD: WD 80GB PATA (WD800JB) + ext. USB 160GB 2.5'' Fujitsu
LAN: Realtek 10/100Mbit RTL8139D PCI
Audio: Classic CMI8738
USB/Firewire: VIA Vectro USB2.0/IEEE1394 PCI Add-on card
Optical DRV: LG DVD-RAM
PSU: Fortron BlueStrom II 500W
Case: SilverStone Kublai black + few blowers

Book - Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo Mobile U9200

Skynet - Agilent Advisor J2300E

[c_hegge]

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Wizard, I hardly use this machine for things like that. I usually use it for games (Flight Simulator X), browsing the internet (posting from it now) and as a word processor. The frame rates on Flight Sim seem a bit higher, but for audio and video decoding/encoding, I don't really know as I don't do it very often.