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Originally posted by Highmay well, i was reffering to the computers and not the ipods, but people think that the more shit on an mp3 player, the better...ipods are simplistic and to the point...there are probably others out now that might have more shit on it, but who cares...ipods get the job done and reduce the fuckupility to very low chances...

But being so much into music as we all here in this forum are... we expect not just basic play/stop functions but, also being able to customize our sound...specially with trance...with so many layers/channels being used in one track...I often find myself playing with the EQ's to get the right sound. iRiver or Cowon for me. I can even give it an input and there...liveset!

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Originally posted by Sumit_A But being so much into music as we all here in this forum are... we expect not just basic play/stop functions but, also being able to customize our sound...specially with trance...with so many layers/channels being used in one track...I often find myself playing with the EQ's to get the right sound. iRiver or Cowon for me. I can even give it an input and there...liveset!

Well excuse me Mr. "I'm ultra anal about what goes into my ears because I'm a music whore", but I just happen to be happy with my ipod and im sure other music whores such as myself are too...and of course with an ipod you dont need to input jack shit...just press the button that says "podcast" on and there...LIVESET DONE SIMPLE!!! thank you...youre welcome...

Yes, I'm very selective about what goes in my ear and Yes, I do need to customize my music.

You'r comments are too harsh on a personal level, when you dont even personally know who you are talkin' to. But its awright, suite yourself. Have a good one.

You too...

haha Dude...you funny!

nah i dont need no specs - i'm not really for the whole buy a built computer idea, i'm biased cuz i think they skimp on necessary parts but then again your buying a gaming machine like alienware, still think they skimp on the branding. as for building a machine, you can as specific as you want - even with cabling. Now I'm not no open cased neon junkie, fear not my black tower reigns supreme to many machines

Zephyr Workstation
Silverstone Temjin Windtunnel FULL ATX
Thermaltake 450W Powersupply + P4 Power Extension (hard to find cable)
2 Seagate 80GIG SATA Drives (os drives)
1 Western Digital IDE 200GIG Scratch
OCZ Low Latency 1GIG (512x2) PC3500 Ram
Creative Labs Audigy 2Zs Platnium Pro
AIW 9800 PRO
ABIT AI7 800MB FSB Dual Channel Memory ICH5+R
Intel P4 3.0e Prescott Ready (dope ass chip)
Silverstone Edumon Temperature Display

Essential Fileserver
Coolermaster Mid ATX
Thermaltake 450W Powersupply
Western Digital IDE 300GIG
OCZ 1GIG (512x2) PC3200
Voodoo 3 Video Card
ASUS A8N 800MB FSB Dual Channel Memory ICH5+R
AMD Athalon XP 2800+


My Workstation and Fileserver are full networked over Cat5e

Building a media station "Shuttle" AMD box to handle shared media from my file server (networked cat5e)

I'm planning on running KRK RP8 or RP5 studio monitors off my workstation. And a 8.1 surround sound home theater system off my entertainment center. My entertainment center will comprise of

1 Sony STRDA1000ES receiver
2 Sony Satellite Speakers
2 AiWA Floor standing Speakers
1 AiWA Center Channel
2 Sony Mid Bookshelf
2 JBL Rear Speakers
PS2, XBOX, Digital Cable, and Shuttle Media Box
Monster Cable to the Floor Standing
14Gauge to Satellites and Mid/Rear speakers

My last piece to this puzzle is probably a sub, I haven't figured out what sub I want to get, but I'll research it.

Oh yea what's the spec on that a-ware, I'm interested to know, and also what do you use it for? Like all that shit I have up there I wouldn't just collect if i wasn't using that shit. lols i work in MIS so I'm on the computer 25x8x366 so i'm pretty much tied to some sort of communication device....

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The reason I went for Alienware was:

A> I needed a Extreme Machine (which is portable), Desktop Replacement.

B> I wanted to be able to customize it from scratch

So here's my Config:

>Pentium 4 670 Desktop Processor w/ HT Technology 3.8GHz 800MHz FSB 2MB Cache
>17" WideSXGA+ 1680 x 1050 LCD Clearview Display with Built-in Camera
>2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 533MHz - 2 x 1024MB
>NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra with 256MB of DDR3 memory
>100GB 5400 RPM Serial ATA x 2 RAID 0 (I Disabled the RAID, so now I got 2x100GB)
>2X 8X Dual Layer DVD+/-RW / 24X CD-RW Combo w/Software (Yes 2 DVD Burners)
>Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS PCMCIA (7.1 Optical)
>Integrated 10/1000Mb Gigabit Ethernet & 56K V.92 Modem
>Internal Wireless 802.11b/g miniPCI Card
>Belkin® Bluetooth PCMCIA Type II Adapter
>10 in 1 Card reader Built-in and firewire etc etc.

This Damn thing is in a Lap-top form factor and weighs around 12-14 pounds.

External-250Gig USB HDD.

Coming soon:

2xStudio Monitors (yet to re-search and decide)
2xCDJ-1000'S MK2's(Replacing my DN-2600's)
2xTech MK5G's (Replacing my Gemini PT-2000's, very old)
1xDJM 600 (Replacing my Gemini 676 Pro II)

Pro Keyboards (yet to decide) Korg/yamaha

Surprisingly I'm not a gamer. Its just an extreme machine that I bought coz soon I'll be getting into production and needed a all-in one box....Music being the key application. Editing/Production etc etc.

You said you are into MIS?? Information Security??

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Originally posted by limin_li Okay, I'll try to make this as clear as possible. A few days ago, I updated my computer with the latest window xp critical update. After that, I notice something isn't right. My computer seem to running a little slower, especially, when I loaded up winamp and when I tried to load up Adobe Audition at the sametime, my music thats playing on the winamp will skip. Not only that, sometimes when I am copying and pasting files to another folder, my computer would freeze. Now, I tried defragment my harddrive, I ran Microsoft Anti-Spyware program. I ran AVG virus scan. I pretty did alot of trial and error. Here is my PC specs Athlon 2600 2.08 GHZ 512 3500 DDR Ram Asus A7V8X-X Motherboard. ATI Radeon 9600 Pro Graphic Card IBM EIDE 120 Gigs HD please help! Thanks alot.

what happen is after you install SP2 , microsoft closed alot of the ports in this update, its possible that made it slower , I will send you the link or filename once i get home. your speed decreased when you are doing multiple task online ?

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Originally posted by FLYBOY what happen is after you install SP2 , microsoft closed alot of the ports in this update, its possible that made it slower , I will send you the link or filename once i get home. your speed decreased when you are doing multiple task online ?

Closing ports dont make any PC slower!!!! If anything closing ports will result in better security and faster performance as less services will be listenin on active ports. BAAAHHH!

Yes they have included tons of security patches that may have affected the performance, but to me the symptoms are more like corrupted files/Corrupted registry.

Clean install....Case closed.

here is the link you can try this patch

click here for the link

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Originally posted by Sumit_A Closing ports dont make any PC slower!!!! If anything closing ports will result in better security and faster performance as less services will be listenin on active ports. BAAAHHH! Yes they have included tons of security patches that may have affected the performance, but to me the symptoms are more like corrupted files/Corrupted registry. Clean install....Case closed.

clean install is always the best case.

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Originally posted by FLYBOY what happen is after you install SP2 , microsoft closed alot of the ports in this update, its possible that made it slower , I will send you the link or filename once i get home. your speed decreased when you are doing multiple task online ?

actually, I am just trying to open up some programs offline, and it does the samething. Okay, 24 hours later, Now there is a new update icon, I believe its critical update icon. I am going to install this update, and we'll go from there.

As for Norton Ghost, I just brought a 120gigs eide HD. Can Ghost copy everything from my c:\ including my settings into a image and paste to this new hd of mine, and then I format my C:\, install XP Professional edition, and then I put the image back to C:\. Can this work?

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