Mr. Ambrya and I spent his day off on Monday doing a major upgrade to my computer. The new mainboard is nice, the new processor is REALLY nice (Athlon XP 64 3500) but the thing that's thrilling me most, right now?
The case.
The puppy is whisper quiet. The only time I can hear it is when the house is completely silent. Compared to the fan in my last case which, while functional, spent the first hour and a half after I powered up each morning sounding like a saw-mill before settling down into something closer to a normal noise level, this is a huge improvement.
Now for a new video card...I'm having fun with EQ2, but it's LAGGY...
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what case did ypu get?
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
what case did ypu get?
All I know is it's a brand called "Antek" (IIRC) and it's black and silver, has a much larger diameter fan in back than I normally see, has the power supply boxed off in its own little enclosed area, and has some strange funnel-like thing on the side where another fan can go if one so chooses.
I'm not big on the technical details. All I know now is that my husband doesn't have to yell when speaking to me from the next room when the computer is on and it doesn't sound like a malfunctioning prop plane for the first hour after I turn it on anymore. Both of which are very "of the good" in my book.
Nvidia 512 with 1 gig RAM stuff inside. It even runs Oblivion smoothly.
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Motherboard MSI MS-7207
CPU AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (Socket 939) 2.2 GHZ
Memory 1024MB (2x512MB)
DDR PC3200 (400MHz) DIMM Optical 1
[DVD-R/RW] Generic 16x DVD+/-RW Dual-Layer Burner (Various)
Hard Drive (Various) 200 GB 7200 RPM
Video nVidia GeForce 6100
17" CRT Monitor
480 Bucks, I didn't like the onboard graphics but it has a PCI Express 16x.
CPU AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (Socket 939) 2.2 GHZ
Memory 1024MB (2x512MB)
DDR PC3200 (400MHz) DIMM Optical 1
[DVD-R/RW] Generic 16x DVD+/-RW Dual-Layer Burner (Various)
Hard Drive (Various) 200 GB 7200 RPM
Video nVidia GeForce 6100
17" CRT Monitor
480 Bucks, I didn't like the onboard graphics but it has a PCI Express 16x.
I have a large cardboard box with the front cut out and a bunch of midgets that act out everything they see on the 13.5 inch monitor behind the box. It's like being THERE.
Do you type in 69 much?
Sweet! Midgets?!? What do you feed them and what do they do for SAP captions? Cue cards en espanol?
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Do you type in 69 much?
You know, even with the name change, you still suck ***. Just thought you'd like to know.
Totem wrote:
Sweet! Midgets?!? What do you feed them and what do they do for SAP captions? Cue cards en espanol?
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I feed them vegetables. When they suck, I start throwing them at the screen and they eat when I turn off the system. As for SAP, unfortunately it is not supported, however I do have the option of turning on the little sign-langage dude in the bottom right corner. I think I'll get SAP with my next model.
Elderon the Wise wrote:
You know, even with the name change, you still suck ***. Just thought you'd like to know.
But in Roleplay form now!
With their stumpy little fingers is it hard to make out what it is that they are signing or do you read his lips as well?
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Totem wrote:
With their stumpy little fingers is it hard to make out what it is that they are signing or do you read his lips as well?
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I upgraded my crappy Dell laptop last month, and I managed to install and play America's Army on it! 
Inspiron 2650 comes with 1.6Ghz Pentium4 Mobile CPU, 256mb RAM and 8mb GeForce2 Go video. I doubled the RAM and replaced the video with a 16mb version. Still not a monster machine, but I can play my games!
Inspiron 2650 comes with 1.6Ghz Pentium4 Mobile CPU, 256mb RAM and 8mb GeForce2 Go video. I doubled the RAM and replaced the video with a 16mb version. Still not a monster machine, but I can play my games!
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
Speaking of watching creatures that make spastic movements with their little digits, for those of you with cats try taking scotch tape and fold it over so the sticky side is on the outside and makes a circle. Then stick it to the cat's paw.
Fun ensues as the cat tries to dislodge the tape from everything it touches. Works on poodles too.
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Fun ensues as the cat tries to dislodge the tape from everything it touches. Works on poodles too.
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
what case did ypu get?
All I know is it's a brand called "Antek" (IIRC) and it's black and silver, has a much larger diameter fan in back than I normally see, has the power supply boxed off in its own little enclosed area, and has some strange funnel-like thing on the side where another fan can go if one so chooses.
One of these babies?
http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=81800
If that's the one you got, then congratulations, that's a nice case. We just built three super high end modeling computers at work using those cases for Vissim and Visum. They have a layer of noise supression foam sandwiched in between the layers of the side panels. Very quiet case, good airflow. The only downside is that it is quite heavy compared to others i've dealt with, but how often do you move computers anyways eh?
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
One of these babies?
http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=81800
If that's the one you got, then congratulations, that's a nice case. We just built three super high end modeling computers at work using those cases for Vissim and Visum. They have a layer of noise supression foam sandwiched in between the layers of the side panels. Very quiet case, good airflow. The only downside is that it is quite heavy compared to others i've dealt with, but how often do you move computers anyways eh?
I think mine's a little lower-end than that one, but a lot of the features are the same, like the silicon gromets for mounting the hard drives, etc. Not quite a sleek looking, but in the ballpark. And since mine probably won't be moving from under my desk until we change houses, weight is very much not a problem.
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