Computer/OS Talk

Started by Kairi September 21st, 2003 3:59 PM
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Haruka

Pokémon Coordinator

Age 34
Kanto (Currently: Caldwell, NJ)
Seen July 24th, 2009
Posted April 7th, 2008
3,877 posts
19.7 Years
Dell Demension 2350
Intel Celeron Processor At 2000 Mhz
30 Gb Harddrive
Windows Xp Professional
Liteon Dvd 16x Max Drive
128 Mb Memory
6 Usb Ports
Dell Quiet Keyboard
Logitech Optical Mouse
FLOPPY DRIVE
56K MODEM
BOADCOM 100MPS/10MB INTERGRATED NETWORK CARD
32 MB INTEL INTERNAL EXTREME GRAPHICS.


Omigosh, it's the return of Ashley... =o
Friend Codes
Pokemon Battle Revolution: 4381 9024 5685 (Alyssa)
Pokemon Diamond: 1718 9721 5525 (Hikari) (2 win, 2 loss)
Florafield City Gym* is now open!
Gym Statistics: 3 win, 3 loss
*Requires a registration at TCoD and also with the League.

Kyosuke

.·Simple Complexity

Age 34
Pickering, On
Seen August 8th, 2018
Posted May 17th, 2014
2,485 posts
19.7 Years
I have a Dell Dimesion 8100 with....
-Pentuim 4 processor
-20 gb hard drive
-cd writer
-Windows ME

thats all I can think of at the moment.
"Life isn't perfect, but sometimes you have to make the best of it."

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Haruka

Pokémon Coordinator

Age 34
Kanto (Currently: Caldwell, NJ)
Seen July 24th, 2009
Posted April 7th, 2008
3,877 posts
19.7 Years
Heres my apple computer

100 MHZ ~ POWER PC PRE G3
128K Whatever it is called
Floppy Drive (I got the metal peice of the floppy stuck in there. :()
CD Drive (my only way to send infomation from my PC)
Intergrated modem (28.8 mps)
3 MB Video Card (that stinks... really)
1.2 GB Harddrive (big enough for me for now. :D)
32 MB Memory (self installed by me)


Omigosh, it's the return of Ashley... =o
Friend Codes
Pokemon Battle Revolution: 4381 9024 5685 (Alyssa)
Pokemon Diamond: 1718 9721 5525 (Hikari) (2 win, 2 loss)
Florafield City Gym* is now open!
Gym Statistics: 3 win, 3 loss
*Requires a registration at TCoD and also with the League.

Kyosuke

.·Simple Complexity

Age 34
Pickering, On
Seen August 8th, 2018
Posted May 17th, 2014
2,485 posts
19.7 Years
And here is one for my old pc that has my downloads and whatnot on it.

-Dell Demension XPS P200s
-12x cd rom drive (pitiful..)
-56k modem
-1.99 gb hard drive
-Windows 98se
"Life isn't perfect, but sometimes you have to make the best of it."

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Arcanine

There is no "-tina"

Age 34
In your fridge eating your food o.o
Seen November 9th, 2012
Posted October 31st, 2012
24,271 posts
19.7 Years
Well here is is my computer (the one that is not on the internet).

Computer: HP Pavilion 255c
Monitor: 15" Flat Panel Monitor (or the HP Pavilion vf51)
Windows: XP Home Edition
RAM: 448MB
Hard Drive: 70.4 GB
Memory: DDR SDRAM Memory 512 MB, NVIDIA GeForce4 MX graphics with 64 MB of DDR SDRAM
Processor: AMD Athlon XP Processor 2.1 GHz
DVD: DVD Video/Rom 16x Max Drive
CD: CD/CD-RW Combo Drive
Floppy: 3 1/2 Inch Floppy Disk Drive
Ports: 2 USB and 1 IEEE 1394

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USA
Seen March 5th, 2011
Posted February 7th, 2011
721 posts
19.7 Years
That's a very nice computer Shining Arcanine! You built it yourself eh? Was it the first one you built? How old is it? How much did it cost to make? What sort of case/cooling do you have in it?
Yes it was but I was trained in computer hardware four years ago so I could have done it eariler if I had the parts. It cost me about 50% ($1500) less than the dell equavilent ($3000). I built it 3 months ago. The cooling is a generic fan in the back of the case and a stock intel fan for the P4. I monitor the system temperatures and it seems to suffice. Not to mention it keeps me warm in the winter time. I am thinking of replacing them with large low rpm fans (I will get one for the front of the case too) to cool more efficently and lower the computer's noise.

Btw, it uses the Intel 875P (Canterwood) motherboard and Corsair memory modules.
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USA
Seen March 5th, 2011
Posted February 7th, 2011
721 posts
19.7 Years
It's software and speed overwhelmed me when I first used it. Now I think it's slow. lol

Actually, I am thinking of replacing my 200GB WD Special Edition Caviar HD with a RAID 0 setup of 72GB WD Raptor HDs. That should take care of the speed issues (all due to the sluggish 20Mbps transfer from the HD). Then using the 200GB drive for weekly backups to negogiate the increased risk of data loss caused by RAID 0. Of course it would take me a while to procure the funds required to do so.
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Haruka

Pokémon Coordinator

Age 34
Kanto (Currently: Caldwell, NJ)
Seen July 24th, 2009
Posted April 7th, 2008
3,877 posts
19.7 Years
I buy cheap computers. as long as it works, thats fine with me. :P

I wish i had a P4 though, not a crappy celeron processor.


Omigosh, it's the return of Ashley... =o
Friend Codes
Pokemon Battle Revolution: 4381 9024 5685 (Alyssa)
Pokemon Diamond: 1718 9721 5525 (Hikari) (2 win, 2 loss)
Florafield City Gym* is now open!
Gym Statistics: 3 win, 3 loss
*Requires a registration at TCoD and also with the League.
Age 35
Male
Minnesota
Seen February 16th, 2017
Posted April 26th, 2015
2,203 posts
19.7 Years
Mine:
Macintosh PowerBook G3
with Mac OS X Version 10.2.6
Memory: 320 MB
Processor: 292 MHz PowerPC G3

I have Nec speakers, and an Epson Stylus C82 printer with DURABrite ink.

I wished I had a better computer...
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Pokémon Black 2 Friend Code: 1979 7985 3252
Age 36
Cerulean City
Seen April 4th, 2009
Posted January 31st, 2004
276 posts
19.7 Years
Well, here's my computer's specs, while not the greatest in the world, it gets things done.

OS: Windows XP Professional SP1
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 1.7 Ghz
Video Card: NVidia GeForce3 64Mb DDR VRAM
HD: 52GB (2 disks - 12 GB and 40 GB, partitioned into 20 GB partitions)
Memory (RAM): 512 MB DDR
Sound: Gineric onboard sound, I typically use headphones now

~~My Wishlist~~

Fastest AMD AthlonXP (but not a 64-bit)
ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 9600 (so I can also record from a TV signal!)

I have returned!
From a rather long hiatus, might I add... *looks around*

Kairi

The Original $staff_title

Female
Seen February 3rd, 2021
Posted February 1st, 2016
10,285 posts
19.7 Years
Lol, the service pack one merely means you passed Microsoft's authenticity test. Most people would shrug it off and say "Well, if I don't download SP1 they can't catch me". The thing is, programs now "look" for SP1 on an XP machine, and if they don't see it they won't install. You probably knew this already though. ^_^;

Haruka

Pokémon Coordinator

Age 34
Kanto (Currently: Caldwell, NJ)
Seen July 24th, 2009
Posted April 7th, 2008
3,877 posts
19.7 Years
Service Pack 1 screwed up my computer. Orginally it's preinstalled with Windows XP Home Edition SP1. I installed XP Professional which isn't SP 1 and then it screwed up AOL 7.0.

Chain Recaction eh?. :P

It screwed up the laptop too... My mom yelled at me so we had to start the OS over again. :P


Omigosh, it's the return of Ashley... =o
Friend Codes
Pokemon Battle Revolution: 4381 9024 5685 (Alyssa)
Pokemon Diamond: 1718 9721 5525 (Hikari) (2 win, 2 loss)
Florafield City Gym* is now open!
Gym Statistics: 3 win, 3 loss
*Requires a registration at TCoD and also with the League.
USA
Seen March 5th, 2011
Posted February 7th, 2011
721 posts
19.7 Years
Well, here's my computer's specs, while not the greatest in the world, it gets things done.

OS: Windows XP Professional SP1
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 1.7 Ghz
Video Card: NVidia GeForce3 64Mb DDR VRAM
HD: 52GB (2 disks - 12 GB and 40 GB, partitioned into 20 GB partitions)
Memory (RAM): 512 MB DDR
Sound: Gineric onboard sound, I typically use headphones now

~~My Wishlist~~

Fastest AMD AthlonXP (but not a 64-bit)
ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 9600 (so I can also record from a TV signal!)
Want to hear my Wishlist?

3.4GHz P4 Extreme Edition processor
Another GB of TWINX Corsair RAM
Dual 72GB WD Raptor HDs
New case and processor fans.
Namebrand 300Watt Power Supply
External IDE HD Bay

That should just about cover it. lol Anyway, I suggest going for the soon to be released P4 Extreme Edition. It is faster than AMD's chips (current 3.2GHz P4 also is faster) and is pretty much a repackaged Xeon MP processor.
Try out Sabayon Linux today.
USA
Seen March 5th, 2011
Posted February 7th, 2011
721 posts
19.7 Years
What is faster though? Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 or AMD's latest processor?

And btw the G5 chip IS a combination of the P4 chip (one of them as far as I know).
Intel's latest processor as of last check. I am looking into AMD's and Intel's newly released processors now.

Btw, no it isn't because the latest G5 is one of the slowest (both performance per clock and wise GHz wise) processors on the market today.

Edit: I just finshed reading the review. The Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz Extreme Edition (aka. Xeon MP in P4 camaflague) exceeds the Athlon 64 FX-51 at streaming data processing (e.g. video games), multimedia files encoding (e.g. video editing), and mutithreading (e.g. Photoshop). The AMD Athlon 64 FX-51 exceeds the Pentium 4 3.2GHz Extreme Edition at scientific (99.9% of all computer users don't use this) and bussiness (do you really need hundreds of fps in MS Word? it doesn't make your more productive).

As You can see, I am slightly biased since Intel because their processors are optimized for the growing needs of the vast majority of the people who use them. Not to mention they are highly scalable (Highest Northwood P4 core will go at is 4.2GHz while the highest the Althon Barton core will go at is 2.4GHz last check).
Try out Sabayon Linux today.

Haruka

Pokémon Coordinator

Age 34
Kanto (Currently: Caldwell, NJ)
Seen July 24th, 2009
Posted April 7th, 2008
3,877 posts
19.7 Years
Hmmmmm. I want to get my hands on P4 Techology..

This is my dream computer:

Dell Laptop
15 inch screen
30 GB Harddrive
1.8? gHZ P4 Processor
128 MB Memory

Hmmm. Who knows, I might get a laptop of my own someday. :P


Omigosh, it's the return of Ashley... =o
Friend Codes
Pokemon Battle Revolution: 4381 9024 5685 (Alyssa)
Pokemon Diamond: 1718 9721 5525 (Hikari) (2 win, 2 loss)
Florafield City Gym* is now open!
Gym Statistics: 3 win, 3 loss
*Requires a registration at TCoD and also with the League.
USA
Seen March 5th, 2011
Posted February 7th, 2011
721 posts
19.7 Years
My dream PC is:

10.20 GHz Processor (with HT) based on Nehalem core
64GB of RAM running at 12.8GHz based on NRAM
10 Terabyte Solid State Drive based on NRAM
ATI AIW Graphics card based on the R420 core
Running Windows Blackcomb workstation

If anyone is wondering, none of this stuff is out yet or close to being ready for production. The 10.20GHz processor is set for 2005 as of early 2003. The ATI AIW R420 based Graphics card is probably set for sometime next year. Windows Blackcomb is set for 2008. And only God knows when they will discover a way to address NRAM so it would be usable.
Try out Sabayon Linux today.

Haruka

Pokémon Coordinator

Age 34
Kanto (Currently: Caldwell, NJ)
Seen July 24th, 2009
Posted April 7th, 2008
3,877 posts
19.7 Years
I thought there was a new operating system called "longhorn"?


Omigosh, it's the return of Ashley... =o
Friend Codes
Pokemon Battle Revolution: 4381 9024 5685 (Alyssa)
Pokemon Diamond: 1718 9721 5525 (Hikari) (2 win, 2 loss)
Florafield City Gym* is now open!
Gym Statistics: 3 win, 3 loss
*Requires a registration at TCoD and also with the League.