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Post Your Desktops (pg. 16)
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| DaveT |
I need a new desktop pic!
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| smuncky |
| ^^^^ wow man u got a sweet comp according to teh specs |
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| DaveT |
| quote: | Originally posted by smuncky
^^^^ wow man u got a sweet comp according to teh specs |
Heh, well...it's a work PC I built. They gave me a budget, I built it. Last April or May.
Here's some pics:
Picture Showing both my work PC and Mac -- not my main monitor
See my PC case lit up a bit
Another view of the setup- can see two more PCs on the floor that share the monitor in the corner
I have 3 PCs (two are crap :p), 1 Mac, and a kick ass P4 2.8Ghz Alienware laptop...but it will be replaced...with a better one since the HD and RAM count in this one is not high enough (person who ordered it messed up)....anyhow, all are work computers.
My home PC is a P4 1.4ghz peace of junk so I just use my work laptop at home at all times. :p
The Specs (Main work PC and Mac):
A PC - Built by me.
Pentium 4, 3.06ghz w/ 533mhz FSB (800mhz FSB was not out yet)
ASUS P4G8X Deluxe Mobo (Intel 7205 Graphite Chipset) w/ Dual Channel DDR
1GB (2x512) Corsair XMS series PC2700 DDR Ram
Internal HDs: 2 x 120GB Western Digital Special Series HDs w/ 8MB Cache
External HD 1: 160GB Maxtor 7200RPM Firewire/USB2.0 Drive
External HD2: 80GB Western Digital SS Firewire Drive
Sony 500AU DVD+-RW Drive
Sony 52X CD-Rom Drive
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Pinnacle Systems IEEE1394 Card (Firewire)
On-board 6.1 surround sound
Gigabit LAN
Black Chenming X-Pider Case w/ 5 Tri-LED Case Fans (plus one non-LED case fan post-installed)
Main use: Video Editing, Email, Graphic Work, Writing, everything else you can think of.
A MAC - Built by Apple
Dual 1.25GHZ G4 CPU
512MB PC2700 DDR Ram
80GB HD
SuperDrive
ATI Radeon 9000
Adaptec 29160 SCSI Card
Quantum DLT4000 Tape Drive
Some on board sound
some on board 100 LAN
Main use: DVD Authoring & QA |
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| smuncky |
man tahts nice, how much did it cost for u to build?
i wanna build a comp after this one gets a bit slow and old, so in like 2-3 years maybe, itll be much cheaper than going out and buying one with the same specs |
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| DaveT |
| quote: | Originally posted by smuncky
man tahts nice, how much did it cost for u to build?
i wanna build a comp after this one gets a bit slow and old, so in like 2-3 years maybe, itll be much cheaper than going out and buying one with the same specs |
My budget was $2000, not including the monitor (which I got later) and the external HDs. So everything with tax (I ended up ordering all the parts from places in CA) and shipping was right around $2000. Was stupid of me because they asked me initially, "What would it take to build yourself a badass computer with the specs you want for what you need, $4000?" ... and I responded with "Nah, $2000 tops" ... so they set me with that budget. Could have had like a Dual CPU Xeon setup and stuff w/ like 4gb of RAM if I wouldn't have said anything.
The CPU at the time was $600 alone, and it was a great deal for a 3.2ghz CPU at the time. I looked around very very hard for the biggest discounts. To give yo an idea of how well I worked everything down, the video card and CPU together would cost the typical consumer $1100-$1200 retail alone at the time. The Corsair RAM retail was like $325 at the time. But, as I said, I worked on getting some great deals. I bought all the parts over the course of a few weeks as I found the best deals.
It's just about knowing how to research prices and find bargains -- something I happen to be good at since I research and buy major electronics for our office (eg. Some recent major purchases include a 60" Sony Wega XBR, 40" Sony Wega XBR Hi-Fi, and a 42" NEC Plasma display, of which I probably got around 35-40% off everything combined compared to typical prices) -- working for a dot-com, I have this money saving thing planted in my head. I will get like a $12,000 budget for stuff and find everything we need and work the price down by looking around to say $7,000.
Best way to get deals -- sometimes ebay (some sellers sell brand new stuff on there cheap!), sometims look for places shutting down and just liquidating everything. I probably saved a good $1000 finding everything this way on the PC. Comparable PCs with say Dell (with cheaper parts) were like $3,400 at the time and Alienware was like $3,800.
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| Streakfury |
| quote: | Originally posted by chojin
love the desk streak, really simplistic and pretty :D |
I love your desktop too, it's got that nice 'electronic' look going on. I'm not much a fan of anime though, but it still looks cool. I might change my desktop soon, then again, maybe not. She looks too sweet, hehe. :p
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| aloep |
Believe it or not, this is XP running on the Explorer shell from Windows NT 4.0. Everything is MUCH quicker like this, IE, Explorer and every standard Windows application loads basically instantly. Even using the default shell with all the themes turned off in XP is very slow in comparision to this.
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| Dmatrox |
heres mine. I changed it from the original tiesto in concert wallpaper from the official site.
original TIC from tiesto.com
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| VenomCell |
Here is mine. I found that style xp slows my POS computer down so i stick to teh classic.
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| CynepMeH |
| see my sig...:rolleyes: |
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| CynepMeH |
Here's mine:
 :toothless |
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