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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
 Posted - Aug 23 2009 : 7:06:04 PM
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I am glad to announce, i have built a super computer. I'm serious, 8gb DDR2 ram, AMD Phenom 9600 Quad Core,500gb SATA hard drive, Dual ATI Radeon 4670 DDR3 512mb Graphics cards, Asus M3N78-VM AM2+ Motherboard. It's so fast, if i was chatting on yahoo, i can see what you are typing before you type it.
http://www.rpcrepair.com/images/highout.JPG
http://www.rpcrepair.com/images/highin.JPG
The Aaron's Web Page got mad when i tried to upload my high resolution pictures. And yes, that is my front yard.
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If you don't have the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over? |
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codingplanet
Mad Scientist
United Kingdom
195 Posts |
Posted - Aug 23 2009 : 8:31:03 PM
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Ya, that's real super. You couldn't even beat my E5200 @ super pi :P
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
2261 Posts |
Posted - Aug 23 2009 : 10:34:38 PM
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| Nice machine, but my one looks more militarily sexy. |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
6718 Posts |
Posted - Aug 29 2009 : 10:31:17 AM
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It's no wonder the forum complained when you tried to upload those images. They are over 3MB, and the forum limit is 250KB.
Honestly bringing them down to 1024 x 768 and then using just a bit of compression would not compromise quality and make them far more viewable.
Nice machine though. What O/S are you running? |
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - Aug 29 2009 : 2:54:32 PM
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Originally posted by Aaron Cake
It's no wonder the forum complained when you tried to upload those images. They are over 3MB, and the forum limit is 250KB.
Honestly bringing them down to 1024 x 768 and then using just a bit of compression would not compromise quality and make them far more viewable.
Nice machine though. What O/S are you running?
Windows Vista. I get so much crap for it. Especially it only being 32-bit. I would use 64 but wouldn't play all my games. |
If you don't have the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over? |
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
2261 Posts |
Posted - Aug 29 2009 : 11:55:41 PM
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I do some memory intensive work such as video, sound and CAD drawing rendering, so the 6GB really comes to good use. I have no choice but to use a 64-bit OS.
Boogieman you can partition you drive like I have done and use a 64-bit and 32-bit OS mutually exclusively. I still use an old MIDI port joystick which Vista 64 will not accept.
What clock speed does your memory run at? You've got DDR2, why not DDR3? I've got DDR3 at 1600MHz. |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
6718 Posts |
Posted - Aug 30 2009 : 11:01:26 AM
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There seems to be such a marginal benefit over DDR2 for the price of DDR3, I don't know if it's worth it until the cost comes down.
Once Windows 7 is out, that Vista can be dumped for something that doesn't suck.  |
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
2261 Posts |
Posted - Aug 30 2009 : 1:07:46 PM
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| I'm drooling over these solid state drives. This mechanical beast I have now is too slow. In the future, mechanical storage mediums will be dead. |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
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codingplanet
Mad Scientist
United Kingdom
195 Posts |
Posted - Aug 30 2009 : 2:11:49 PM
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DDR3 doesn't make a great deal of difference for real world apps. However it really does help in benches of course. If your going for a new system you may as well choose DDR3. I recently moved from a P35 + DDR2 to X48 + DDR3 (Foxconn blackops to be exact, I did a review here). I can't tell the difference.
As for SSDs, this is what makes the real difference, even in real world apps. I'm keeping my eye on the new Intel X25-M G2, hoping the prices will become more reasonable soon. |
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cirvin
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
1542 Posts |
Posted - Aug 31 2009 : 6:56:43 PM
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| So what're you using this computer for? |
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My computer
