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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Unknown Target on October 06, 2003, 03:52:19 pm
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Having finally reached the end of it's usefull upgrade life, I have put my compter in the farthest nether reaches of the house, stripping it of it's hard drives and various network cards.
It might be some time before I am able to get a new one, thus leaving me computer-less, except for my dad's PC. :(
GOOD BYE GOOD COMPUTER! YOU HAVE SERVED ME WELL FOR THE PAST 6 YEARS!
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And may God have mercy on its soul.
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Well, uuh...RIP?
6 years...tsk-tsk :p
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Why put it away?
If it still works, use it!
An old computer is better than no computer!
Look at me, I'm lumbering around with a 4 year old 500mhz Win98se Box with 256MB of PC-100 RAM and 12GB of HD space!
Granted 6 years is kind of a different story.
What were the specs?
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Originally posted by Unknown Target
Having finally reached the end of it's usefull upgrade life, I have put my compter in the farthest nether reaches of the house, stripping it of it's hard drives and various network cards.
It might be some time before I am able to get a new one, thus leaving me computer-less, except for my dad's PC. :(
GOOD BYE GOOD COMPUTER! YOU HAVE SERVED ME WELL FOR THE PAST 6 YEARS!
Bah, just get a whole lot of parts and overhaul the thing. My computer used to be a 166MHz Dell OptiPlex.
There might be not a single component, except maybe some of the cables, that was originally in that OptiPlex.
Speaking of upgrades, I think I'll need to do some myself. The UT 2003 demo really slowed my Athlon XP 1600+ and GF2 MX down.
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Install Linux on the old computer and use it as your pr0n server :nod:
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Originally posted by Liberator
...256MB of PC-100 RAM...
Ooh! Is that better than PC-66???!? ;)
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When I first got it, the specs were:
PII 400 MHz
Voodoo 2
256 MB of RAM
about 20 Gigs of HD space
over the years, I upgraded to new components, to:
PIII 800 MHz
Voodoo 2
256 MB of RAM
about 30 gigs of HD space
next, I went to:
PIII 800 MHz
Geforce 2
256 MB of RAM
about 40-50 gigs of HD space
before my vid card busted (more on that later):
PIII 800 MHz
Radeon 9000
256 MB of RAM
60 gigs of HD space (over 2 HDs)
My vid card: what prompted me to lay the machine to rest was when my Radeon 9000 got fried. When I tried to upgrade to a 9600, it no longer fit into my now-ancient mobo, so I just went "eh, screw it. the machine was never stable, and the parts are too old"
I saved the HDs, network cards, and sound card. The rest I just put into the case and am going to use for junk parts.
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I have 2 Pentium 1's a 486 and half a P1 in my room not including my P4 im usng now. Plus there is a celeron 300 in our comp room.
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if you don't want you'r old computer, I'd be more than happy to dispose of it for you, get my sister off my comuter, that I saved up for three years for, for a single god damned second, her and her cute little fuzy anime board :ick:
I'll probly take anything better than a 166mhz computer, though I'd much prefer something over the 3-400mhz range, I need two of them one for the acursed sister and another for mom, maybe a third for the younger brother,
then all I need to do is get a $50 router and we'll be all set
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I would ship all my P1's and 486 but it might cost a good amount... if you want them...
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i have an old P2 266 i bought for $69. plus my baby, the 1ghz athlon t-bird
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Originally posted by Bobboau
if you don't want you'r old computer, I'd be more than happy to dispose of it for you, get my sister off my comuter, that I saved up for three years for, for a single god damned second, her and her cute little fuzy anime board :ick:
I'll probly take anything better than a 166mhz computer, though I'd much prefer something over the 3-400mhz range, I need two of them one for the acursed sister
:lol: I feel your pain, man... my sister looks at those things too. Except she's five years older than me. :ick
Anyway, I will soon be able to empathise with you, UT - my computer's on her last legs too. Godspeed, may your good and faithful servant find the Big LAN In The Sky... that, or Bob's sister's room. :D
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Originally posted by Setekh
Anyway, I will soon be able to empathise with you, UT - my computer's on her last legs too.
yikes.. too much rendering steak?:p
*makes a note to stick more ram into his comp*
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Originally posted by Turnsky
yikes.. too much rendering steak?:p
*makes a note to stick more ram into his comp*
That's actually remarkably accurate... well, probably anyway. It was the overnight renders for over 6 months (ie. I didn't shut down for weeks at a time) that killed the old PSU - I've stuck a new one, but that's having trouble too, now.
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Originally posted by Setekh
That's actually remarkably accurate... well, probably anyway. It was the overnight renders for over 6 months (ie. I didn't shut down for weeks at a time) that killed the old PSU - I've stuck a new one, but that's having trouble too, now.
somehow, i don't think my photoshop comp could handle all the rendering that you'd be able to do..;)
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Originally posted by Bobboau
if you don't want you'r old computer, I'd be more than happy to dispose of it for you, get my sister off my comuter, that I saved up for three years for, for a single god damned second, her and her cute little fuzy anime board :ick:
I'll probly take anything better than a 166mhz computer, though I'd much prefer something over the 3-400mhz range, I need two of them one for the acursed sister and another for mom, maybe a third for the younger brother,
then all I need to do is get a $50 router and we'll be all set
[color=66ff00]Pity you're not over here Bob, I could have given you a nice little 300k6 that needs a new home. Since getting my new system I don't have the room for it and it's just gathering dust.
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i'd do the same, except my parents won't allow a new one... :(
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Same, Hippo, lol. If I could get all A's and B's in my first semester, yes, but we all knwo that's not gonna happen :D
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Originally posted by Hippo
i'd do the same, except my parents won't allow a new one... :(
heheheh! just wait till you get a job and haved to do 10 hour shifts (in my case, in an office) just to get an extra £20 (or so) to scrape together enough cash to buy the bits you need !:lol:
hang on, why am I laughing ? :sigh:
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Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]Pity you're not over here Bob, I could have given you a nice little 300k6 that needs a new home. Since getting my new system I don't have the room for it and it's just gathering dust.
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hmm, a 300mhz k6 based PC, I think that could be worth paying the shipping charges for, that procesor could probly be cheaply upgraded too, I think.
if you realy mean it, I'll discuss this with the famely, maybe get my sister to pay the shipping costs if it's not too much.
I also have some frends in the shipping industry, I may be able to get that cheaper than normal
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I think I might actually pull the thing out of the grave and use it as a personal server for files and pics and such.
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Originally posted by Unknown Target
I think I might actually pull the thing out of the grave and use it as a personal server for files and pics and such.
yeah.. why not?.. all you need on it is a barebones OS (prolly Linux) and you're set..:nod:
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My dad is working on some huge bungalow park in Turky that brings in lots O money;7 Maby i can ask him for some financial support to get a beast of a machine. I hope:)
Current:
AMD Athlon 1.2ghz
384SDRam PC-133
Geforce2MX 32mb 100/200
Creative Blaster PCI (i realy hate this hunk a junk)
56speed Aopen CD-rom Drive
48/24/48a Plextor burner
40GB Maxtor 5400RMP ATA-100 Drive
80GB Maxtor SCSI Drive
A7V133 Mainbord, 5 PCI Slots 1 AGP
3Com EtherLink XL 10/100 PCI
300watt PSU
17"inch Ultra VGA.
And a Vigor 2200E router.
If i get a new comp this one wil become a server.
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I wish I had that processor...
I'm gonna buy a new one one day. Not sure when though...
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Originally posted by magatsu1
heheheh! just wait till you get a job and haved to do 10 hour shifts (in my case, in an office) just to get an extra £20 (or so) to scrape together enough cash to buy the bits you need !:lol:
hang on, why am I laughing ? :sigh:
:shaking: *plans to milk parents for all they are worth at college*
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[q]*plans to milk parents for all they are worth at college*[/q]
It doesn't work for very long.
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Originally posted by vyper
[q]*plans to milk parents for all they are worth at college*[/q]
It doesn't work for very long.
if at all.
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Originally posted by Woolie Wool
Dell OptiPlex
Christ... thats exactly what I use at work.. its a piece of ****...
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I wish I had a faster hard drive in my mix of OEM and after-market parts. A 7200RPM 20GB Deskstar just doesn't cut it anymore. I really wish I had this one right here: http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/products/scsi/atlas_15k/atlas_15k/index.htm
If only they made a SATA version of that.....
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Christ... thats exactly what I use at work.. its a piece of ****...
When I helped out at my old high school repairing their PC's, the Optiplex's never gave me problems (except for one, fan wires kept getting into the fan).