How fast is your computer???

[KillorLive]

Originally Posted by RemanWarbird

What do you ever use the 4 Gigs For?
and 3 160 GB hardrives? What do you have the you need 480 GB for?
i'm just curious as to why you need that much?
$12,000? damn! that cost more than my car! I got my PC i posted for $1,500

He spent a lot of money on technology that will be obsolete in 2 years...pity him.

I have in the server, my Moms, mine, and laying around about 1.5 terabyte of HDD space. I put DVD rips into my server and watch them on the big screen in the living room.

[[+Glasius+]]

Originally Posted by Disconnecting

3.4 ghz p4 ee 1 gig ram geforce fx-5950 and only paid $18,000 for it.

Wow, so you got the Extreme Edition with 2mb lvl2(or3?) cache.
Would love to see your CPU under a stress-test program, want to compare to my P4 3ghz..


Someone claimed to have 2 x 250gb hdds here, but I doubt it. 200gb is the largest hdd available with IDE / ata interface. I just heard about some company releasing a new 260gb, but that wont be for a few months..


Anyways, I have 3 hdds in my machine now, 2x120 GB, and 1 200gb. I need all the space for videoediting, music, games & work.
Have about 10gb free as of now..

[[+Glasius+]]

Originally Posted by KillorLive

He spent a lot of money on technology that will be obsolete in 2 years...pity him.

Try buying any computer equipment that wont be obsolete in 2 years. 2 years in the computer business is like 10 years in the car industry.

[jakindle]

Model : AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2600+
Speed : 2.08GHz
Model Number : 2600 (estimated)
Performance Rating : PR3020 (estimated)
Type : Standard
L2 On-board Cache : 256kB ECC Synchronous Write-Back (16-way, 64 byte line size)

Mainboard
Bus(es) : AGP PCI IMB USB i2c/SMBus
MP Support : No
MP APIC : Yes
System BIOS : Award Software, Inc. ASUS A7V8X ACPI BIOS Revision 1012
System : System Manufacturer System Name
Mainboard : ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7V8X
Total Memory : 1024MB DDR-SDRAM

Chipset 1
Model : ASUSTeK Computer Inc VT8377 Apollo KT400/A/600 CPU to PCI Bridge
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 167MHz (334MHz data rate)
Total Memory : 1024MB DDR-SDRAM
Memory Bus Speed : 2x 167MHz (334MHz data rate)

Video System
Monitor/Panel : Plug and Play Monitor
Adapter : NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

Physical Storage Devices
Removable Drive : Floppy disk drive
Hard Disk : IBM-DAQA-33240
Hard Disk : WDC WD800JB-00CRA1
Hard Disk : Maxtor 5 T040H4 SCSI Disk Device
Hard Disk : Maxtor 9 4610U6 SCSI Disk Device
CD-ROM/DVD : AOpen 12X DVD-ROM/ASH
CD-ROM/DVD : LITE-ON LTR-48246S

Logical Storage Devices
1.44MB 3.5" (A : N/A
Hard Disk 35.2GB (27.5GB, 78% Free) (NTFS)
New volume 39.4GB (38.2GB, 97% Free) (NTFS)
New volume 38.2GB (38.1GB, 100% Free) (NTFS)
New volume 3.0GB (1.1GB, 36% Free) (NTFS)
Hard Disk (I : 42.9GB (27.1GB, 63% Free) (NTFS)

[jakindle]

just bought this card
http://www.pcclub.com/product_detai...itemno=A9653106




but what i really want is this
http://tomshardware.bizrate.com/buy...mid--37386.html

something to think about

All computer CRT monitors are now made non-interlaced (and have been for quite some time), meaning the entire frame is refreshed at the refresh rate or Hertz. The frame is scanned all at once, thus the refresh rate can equal the Frames Per Second, but the Frames Per Second isn't going to go past the Refresh Rate because it's not possible on the display. Just because a video card is pushing 200 Frames Per Second, your display may be at 100Hz meaning it's only refreshing 100 times per second.



in short what you see visually is limited in part by your monitor the rest in in your card btw when playing sof 2 with settings maxed 1024x768 i am getting above 125 fps in game and with my monitor set at 100hz what i get to see 100fps net

[KillorLive]

Originally Posted by [+Glasius+]

Try buying any computer equipment that wont be obsolete in 2 years. 2 years in the computer business is like 10 years in the car industry.

Not necessarily true. The 9700 Pro, GF2, etc. all went beyond two years, the 9700 Pro still competes well with new video cards.

However, for the most part you're right.

So...why spend 12 grand on a computer? That's a damn good down payment on a new car, especially since in 2 years it will hardly stay up with current technology.

[Gimpy]

O.m.g He Was Joking Killor!!!!....

[KillorLive]

Doesn't look like a joke to me.

[[+Glasius+]]

I was dead seriouse.
Even though some areas of computer development has reached Moores laws, development is still racing in a frantic paste.

Buying a "top of the line" computer is never smart when you look at the price drop further down the model lane. Performance for those "extra 400mhz" are usually not worth the extra bucks.

Using the term obsolete was wrong, but still somewhat applies when talking about the top-line products.

[livn4metal]

Originally Posted by [+Glasius+]

Try buying any computer equipment that wont be obsolete in 2 years. 2 years in the computer business is like 10 years in the car industry.

Athlon 64 FX-51
Gigabyte K8NNXP-940 motherboard
1024Mb Kingston HyperX Registered
Radeon 9800XT
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum Pro
2 Wester Digital 250Gb 7200rpm SATA (RAID 0)
TDK 40x DVD R+-/Rw+-
Lian-Li PC-75 Full Tower Server case