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[QUOTE=imadaman;26051098]After running BOINC (LHC, Milkyway, SETI, Enigma and FreeHAL) and Folding@Home over the night my temps are @ 57C, I installed the thermal paste last sunday and put the cooler on properly, it was liteally hanging on the CPU before and would have been at 80C :rolleyes:[/QUOTE] This reminds me i need to do this
[QUOTE=Mandrith;26046422]I got my money out of the safe, thanks to my awesome mum :) My dad is pissed at me still, and put a password on the WiFi as a punishment(He set it as pAsSwOrD....) My grandpa also offered to give me $300 towards my build (I have $900 now out of $1400, not counting the $300... But I have to cut my long hair short or he won't give me a penny, unfortunatley, but I've decided that I'd rather say goodbye to my hair And sorry for not posting any content[/QUOTE] OH FUCK NOT ANOTHER MANDRITH PO- Oh, this actually sounds pretty awesome. Seriously, if someone offered me 300 euros for getting my haircut, my reply would be 'hand me a pair of scissors or get me to the nearest barber'.
mandrith buy your own computer off eBay and use it unt you can buy your good rig. And when you get the good rig, kesignton lock it.
[QUOTE=Mandrith;26046422]put a password on the WiFi as a punishment(He set it as pAsSwOrD....)[/QUOTE] I should go to Mandrith's house with a laptop, go onto his Wi-Fi and download heaps of Steam games
yeah, lock everything. even the bios. use a different password for everything too. [editline]14th November 2010[/editline] Content! [img]http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/6696/contentb.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Mandrith;26046422]I got my money out of the safe, thanks to my awesome mum :) My dad is pissed at me still, and put a password on the WiFi as a punishment(He set it as pAsSwOrD....) My grandpa also offered to give me $300 towards my build (I have $900 now out of $1400, not counting the $300... But I have to cut my long hair short or he won't give me a penny, unfortunatley, but I've decided that I'd rather say goodbye to my hair And sorry for not posting any content[/QUOTE] Your grandpa knows that men shouldn't look like greasy girls. Good on him. [editline]14th November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=LinuX;26047321]Skol: hey are dells any good Linux | Grenade!: No why Skol: but my school has them and they say they play games fast so css should run faster Linux | Grenade!: What games are you talking about Skol: newgrounds games Linux | Grenade!: flash games Skol: [B]yeah the ram has to render all it [/B]and the one im looking at has 8gb of ram Linux | Grenade!: The RAM doesn't render it Skol: yes it does why else is it in there the cpu runs programs and stuff [img_thumb]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_I2uQkGxIykM/S5SK1p0LgJI/AAAAAAAAJb8/Jk2nNnzJl-s/s400/mega+fp+9gag.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] the ram routes all the graphic polling calls through the spooge driver which in turn increases rendering speed by overloading the tcp/ip buffer with RAID arrays basically the formula goes like this: amount of ram/cpu fan speed * amount of blue LEDs = graphics power (measured in arbitrary units) [editline]14th November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=Surma;26051089]I guess im lucky. My parents doesnt touch any of my stuff on the computer and trusts me when it comes to anything comp-related. I said upgrade from Norton to Avg, they did that. I really like my parents. Also: [img_thumb]http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/1944/speccy.png[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] lol pentium 4 lol x600
Hopping on the bandwagon here: [img]http://image.bayimg.com/jaaohaadi.jpg[/img]
[img]http://htux.tk/pics/sp.png[/img]
I'll join in. [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8165303/speccy.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Generic.Monk;26052196] [editline]14th November 2010[/editline] lol pentium 4 lol x600[/QUOTE] You dont say...
:bandwagon: [img]http://gyazo.com/328955739acbb078f52b217688d114de.png[/img]
[img]http://nikomo.eu/speccy.png[/img]
[IMG]http://i52.tinypic.com/fjojmh.png[/IMG] Pleasantly surprised, considering that the Hitatchi drive used to idle at 40/50c in my old PC, and my GPU (Radeon HD4670) used to idle around 50c. [IMG]http://i52.tinypic.com/25pkc53.png[/IMG] :ohdear: Don't die on me now HDD. I still need you. That really doesn't look good to me.
My temperature has been like this all day :saddowns: [img]http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/1944/speccy.png[/img] It doesn't have the confidence to feel hot.
This guy doesn't claim he knows things but it's still stupid. [url]http://community.mybb.com/thread-63764-post-597899.html#pid597899[/url] He put a fucking image in a doc.
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I see that this thread has turned into a showing off thread.. I'm in! [img]http://fedorafellows.com/screenshots/SS-2010-11-14_15.45.22.png[/img]
[img]http://i55.tinypic.com/2rrqo9x.png[/img]
Stop it.
Flatmate: "I never use Windows Update because it slows the computer down." -_-
Joining the bandwagon [img]http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/8927/speccy.jpg[/img] It´s my school laptop, but my stationary is worse
I might as well post mine... [img]https://dl.dropbox.com/s/0i0v6034vvq4g19/speccy.png[/img]
[QUOTE=gaboer;26046171]Was talking to a friend, his build went from $500 to >$10,000 i played along just for kicks so dont get mad about my choices [code][10:19:06 PM] Friend: idk well figure it out when im on machinima because i can just blow off that money cause ill have everyhting i nee already [10:19:25 PM] Gaboer: so higher budget? [10:19:33 PM] Gaboer: $700? [10:19:34 PM] Friend: possibly [10:19:42 PM] Friend: maybe $100 with two ways of income [10:19:45 PM] Friend: i mean $1000 [10:19:54 PM] Gaboer: $1000? [10:20:02 PM] Friend: yes maybe [10:20:55 PM] Gaboer: ok [10:21:05 PM] Gaboer: with that you should be able to get an i5 [10:21:13 PM] Friend: good? [10:21:13 PM] Gaboer: ok [10:21:16 PM] Gaboer: Yes good [10:21:19 PM] Friend: yay [10:21:59 PM] Gaboer: so graphics card [10:22:13 PM] Friend: of course i want a super computer now [10:22:26 PM] Gaboer: ? [10:22:35 PM] Friend: i want to make a super computer now [10:22:41 PM] Gaboer: Budget? [10:22:55 PM] Friend: as much as i can make in a year [10:23:01 PM] Gaboer: which is? [10:23:40 PM] Friend: idk yet im getting hired with euphorian films in january or february so beggining of year to december with the income of 3d modeling for rob so maybe $10000 or more [10:24:19 PM] Gaboer: So you want a $10000 computer? [10:24:28 PM] Friend: if not more [10:24:32 PM] Gaboer: Uh [10:24:44 PM] Gaboer: You might want to look into an SR-2 [10:24:48 PM] Gaboer: And dual Xeons [10:24:56 PM] Friend: is it the best computer possible [10:25:01 PM] Gaboer: Yes [10:25:05 PM] Gaboer: that can handle games [10:25:18 PM] Friend: if it couldnt handle games i would flip [10:25:21 PM] Gaboer: there are much better, but those are full on servers [10:25:43 PM] Friend: or i might get several pc's for different purposes [10:25:52 PM] Gaboer: what? [10:25:57 PM] Gaboer: why not just get one? [10:26:04 PM] Gaboer: No one needs 7 pcs [10:26:13 PM] Friend: well so it's easy to get everything and i want to make people jealous [10:26:26 PM] Gaboer: Uh [10:26:30 PM] Gaboer: Ok? [10:27:10 PM] Friend: mainly for one for machinima one for personal stuff and one for 3d modeling so i dont get stuff mixed up or lose space because of one thing [10:27:22 PM] Gaboer: you can have both one one [10:27:42 PM] Gaboer: With prices reaching >$10000 you can accomodate both [10:28:04 PM] Friend: right [10:28:13 PM] Gaboer: right [10:28:32 PM] Gaboer: so an SR-2 [10:28:37 PM] Gaboer: 700$ [10:28:46 PM] Gaboer: 2 six core Xeons [10:28:49 PM] Gaboer: $1000 each [10:28:56 PM] Gaboer: uh [10:29:03 PM] Friend: 2700 and some more money to trick out monitors and televisions [10:29:03 PM] Gaboer: hafx? 179$ [10:29:17 PM] Friend: lets go with sr-2 and xeons [10:29:33 PM] Gaboer: oh [10:29:34 PM] Gaboer: and this [10:29:35 PM] Gaboer: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231392 [10:29:46 PM] Gaboer: $3,4999 48Gb ram [10:30:02 PM] Gaboer: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121388&Tpk=asus%20ares [10:30:03 PM] Gaboer: 2 of these [10:30:05 PM] Gaboer: Asus Ares [10:30:28 PM] Friend: wow [10:31:08 PM] Gaboer: wow? [10:31:17 PM] Friend: i forgot i might also get a partnership on my lets play channel after i ge tpopularity [10:31:22 PM] Gaboer: so? [10:31:26 PM] Friend: so more income [10:32:03 PM] Gaboer: uh [10:32:05 PM] Gaboer: ok?[/code] Oh, and he's 14[/QUOTE] Sounds like a guy I know.
[img]http://s2.noelshack.com/old/up/sans_titre-b3a3410322.png[/img] [editline]14th November 2010[/editline] french :smug:
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9657727/speccy.png[/img]
[url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1026528-Help-With-1400-Gaming-Computer[/url] My grandpa agreed to pay for the rest of the build, but before I order it could you guys look over it to see if the parts will have any compatibility issues or if there are better similarly priced parts
[QUOTE=Mandrith;26054966][url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1026528-Help-With-1400-Gaming-Computer[/url] My grandpa agreed to pay for the rest of the build, but before I order it could you guys look over it to see if the parts will have any compatibility issues or if there are better similarly priced parts[/QUOTE] Now find where you want it in your room, and lag bolt the case to studs in the wall and use lock-tight. Put a lock on the case side panel. Use a 15 character BIOS password and a 10 character windows password. Problem solved.
[QUOTE=Surma;26051089]I guess im lucky. My parents doesnt touch any of my stuff on the computer and trusts me when it comes to anything comp-related. I said upgrade from Norton to Avg, they did that. I really like my parents. Also: [img_thumb]http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/1944/speccy.png[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] You should enable crossfire
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;26055788]Now find where you want it in your room, and lag bolt the case to studs in the wall and use lock-tight. Put a lock on the case side panel. Use a 15 character BIOS password and a 10 character windows password. Problem solved.[/QUOTE] Then his dad will probably smash the computer with a baseball bat because he will be jealous at mandriths pretty computer. I swear, mandirths father likes to be a fucking prick.
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;26055788]Now find where you want it in your room, and lag bolt the case to studs in the wall and use lock-tight. Put a lock on the case side panel. Use a 15 character BIOS password and a 10 character windows password. Problem solved.[/QUOTE] Just encrypt the drive (BitLocker for example), so he wont have access at al.
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