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Originally posted by El~ZaPo and hire a butler to prepare us food. Then we would never have to get up!

Why not get one of them robots they are making and have one of them instead, 24/7 drink and food service!!!!!!

Jon

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ive been savng up and heres what im ordering (www.pricewatch.com) in general.. brands not specified.. im findin deals.

Athlon XP 2ghz (ok fine, one brand)
~700mb 266mhz DDR ram
3 or 4 80g HDD 7200RPM (depends on $$$$$$)
24X burner
DVD-Rom or Ram (also dependant on $$$, but something DVD)
GeForce something card.. whatever is best when I decide to purchase
some good sound card.. another "when I buy it" thing
+ all the basic shit like monitor, keyboard, mouse, network card, I/O, USB, whatever.. but its gonna be so great, i cant wait much longer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Marc

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Originally posted by SmellsExcellent ive been savng up and heres what im ordering (www.pricewatch.com) in general.. brands not specified.. im findin deals. Athlon XP 2ghz (ok fine, one brand) ~700mb 266mhz DDR ram 3 or 4 80g HDD 7200RPM (depends on $$$$$$) 24X burner DVD-Rom or Ram (also dependant on $$$, but something DVD) GeForce something card.. whatever is best when I decide to purchase some good sound card.. another "when I buy it" thing + all the basic shit like monitor, keyboard, mouse, network card, I/O, USB, whatever.. but its gonna be so great, i cant wait much longer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -Marc

Sounds nice mate! Dontcha just love the smell of new silicon in the morning (LOL). Yeah i'm building a new system at the moment too so should be sweet

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I just build my dream computer three months ago. Now I feel outdated.

Athlon XP 1700+
Asus A7V266 266MHz Bus
Corsair 512 MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM Non ECC
Plexwriter PL-241040 IDE 4MB 24/10/40
IBM 40.0 GB Ultra DMA/100 2MB 7200 (C: OS/Games)
100.0 GB Ultra DMA/100 2MB 7200 (D: Music Storage)
Bay-Cool III from pcpowerandcooling.com
3COM 3C980B-TX 10/100
Sound Blaster 5.1 Platnium
64MB Asus GeForce 3
Windows XP Pro
786/128kbps ADSL Interent Connection (I have Linux on my old P2-350 that serves as my ADSL gateway for my LAN)

I need to clean the dust off the Bay-Cool


Here she is in all her glory! A 300 Watt Server tower with 3 fans blowing air out. Right now my CPU is at 58C/126F and my motherboard is at 26C/78F (I am burning a cd and downloading at 80k/s). The floppy drive isn't connected. The floppy connector on the MB is at the bottom and the floppy cable isn't long enough to reach. I haven't had to use a floppy... yet.


Would you people like some pics of the guts?

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Originally posted by Blake613 I just build my dream computer three months ago. Now I feel outdated. Athlon XP 1700+ Asus A7V266 266MHz Bus Corsair 512 MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM Non ECC Plexwriter PL-241040 IDE 4MB 24/10/40 IBM 40.0 GB Ultra DMA/100 2MB 7200 (C: OS/Games) 100.0 GB Ultra DMA/100 2MB 7200 (D: Music Storage) Bay-Cool III from pcpowerandcooling.com 3COM 3C980B-TX 10/100 Sound Blaster 5.1 Platnium 64MB Asus GeForce 3 Windows XP Pro 786/128kbps ADSL Interent Connection (I have Linux on my old P2-350 that serves as my ADSL gateway for my LAN) I need to clean the dust off the Bay-Cool Here she is in all her glory! A 300 Watt Server tower with 3 fans blowing air out. Right now my CPU is at 58C/126F and my motherboard is at 26C/78F (I am burning a cd and downloading at 80k/s). The floppy drive isn't connected. The floppy connector on the MB is at the bottom and the floppy cable isn't long enough to reach. I haven't had to use a floppy... yet. Would you people like some pics of the guts?

I want one!!!!

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Originally posted by Laun19 well if you guys what the ultimate internet connection then i would have to say that you should go with the OC-48 that little bastard gets 2.5 Gigabites a sec transfer rate, but the price tag on it is also quite high, it is only $472,000 a month, US. but you sill get 2.5 gig a sec. Johnny

hehe I remember about 6 months ago there was an article on an OC -12 connection of 622MBPS. NOw its quadrupled!!

BTW UI'm sure that the OC-48 connection is 2.5 gigaBITS per second, not gigaBYTES. But still 2.5 Gigabits is 312500000 bytes per sec = 312500 Kilobytes per second = 312.5 Megs per second. But no harddrive can write that fast (I think), so even if u had a oc-48 connnection and were downloading off an oc48 server, u would only get the rate at which your hard drive can write at so, only 100MB per sec!

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OC-48 (2488 Mbps)does 311MB/sec (311 Megabytes/sec). Your hard drive can't access that fast. That's why OC (Optical Connection) is a backbone technology.

that huge tower is awesome!!! put up some pix of the insides for sure!!!
Another thing... it would be better to have those new nitrogen collant systems rather than old/outdated fans.... u should look into it.
As for writing faster than 100MB/s.... it should be possible on a server machine....i think.. with SCSI drives, at something over 7200 rpm, i think you can also buy a type of RAM PCI card that acts as a buffer for data being written to a HD faster than capable.

For anyone who's dreaming... check out ..uh... www.alienware.com

They'll let you get the USD$ price of any custom config!!! my best was about $12000 for a machine....but that was last year!! LOL

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It's a mess inside! Furure plans include rounded IDE cables, a window to the case, and a interior neon light. Yeah, I am going to college to be a computer engineer.



The from top to bottom:
64MB Asus GeForce 3
Sound Blaster 5.1 Platnium
NIC
Two extra USB connections (Standard on all Asus MBs)

hold on. if you had helium for cpu cooling, wouldn't you be able to overclock those to like... 3ghz?

btw, one of my friends is gonna get a liquid cooling system and he plans on overclocking his 900mhz (i think) chip, dunno which brand it is though. we'll see how that goes.

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uh, just wondering, what kind of computers do the military use?

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