[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!

[vyper]

And may God have mercy on its soul.

[Ulundel]

Well, uuh...RIP?

6 years...tsk-tsk

[Liberator]

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?

[Woolie Wool]

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.

[diamondgeezer]

Install Linux on the old computer and use it as your pr0n server

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Liberator
...256MB of PC-100 RAM...

Ooh! Is that better than PC-66???!?

[Unknown Target]

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.

[Krackers87]

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.

[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

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

[Krackers87]

I would ship all my P1's and 486 but it might cost a good amount... if you want them...

[Thor]

i have an old P2 266 i bought for $69.  plus my baby, the 1ghz athlon t-bird

[Setekh]

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

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

I feel your pain, man... my sister looks at those things too. Except she's five years older than me.

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.

[Turnsky]

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?

*makes a note to stick more ram into his comp*

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Turnsky
yikes.. too much rendering steak?

*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.

[Turnsky]

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..

[Martinus]

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

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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[Hippo]

i'd do the same, except my parents won't allow a new one...

[Unknown Target]

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

[magatsu1]

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 ?