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Old July 30, 2003, 21:39   #32
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jezebel's finishing her second year soon.

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p4/1.7ghz
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1 3com ethernet pci card
64mb nvidia geforce3 card
ati tv wonder ve tv tuner card
pinnacle studio 7 firewire card
4 integrated usb ports
microsoft intellimouse optical usb
17-inch crt monitor at 1280×1024×32b, 75hz refresh.

currently dualboots into windows xp sp1 and redhat linux 9

she's rock-steady, hasn't crashed on me in ages (both oses...since the last crash, it's been about 2 and half months, and this is with her turned on 24/7...)

she's also quiet too. she doesn't blow like a jet engine, for instance.
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Old July 30, 2003, 22:39   #34
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3.73 gb hard disk (without that pre-installed software)
would you believe that's almost identical to the original specs of the packard bell that i'm blowing out, upgrading, and linuxing now to serve as a third computer at home (internet connection sharing/word processing/internet terminal)?

the original specs were:
pII/266
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i've changed it now to be:
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My comp still needs an upgrade.. I never got around to upgrading it...

AMD XP 1600+ (1.4GHz)
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40GB Maxtor UATA/133 Hard-drive (7200RPM)
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New! ATI TV Wonder VE Tuner Card
Windows 2000 Professional and SuSE Linux 8.0

Actually the machine hasn't had any major crash in nearly a year. It has been pretty stable with a restart every few weeks.

Also it has eight 80MM fans so it sounds like a jet engine. Nice case aluminum case. The only thing I have done a major upgrade on. When AMD's prices come down further I will upgrade the CPU and MB.

I just bought a TV Tuner card... by the way...
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No brand name- though I do have a Sony VAIO case and a few other Sony things like my power supply and 1 of my CD-Roms- and my floppy drive.

I have a P3 700 processor. 256 megs of ram. I have a 13.4 gig hard drive and a 40 gig hard drive. I have a cd-rom and a cd-rw (burner).

my video card is a geoforce 2 400MX

my sound card is a cheapo though. It's Fortissimo gamesurround II


and I have a canon printer
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Old July 31, 2003, 02:50   #37
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All that and throw in a DSL connection to boot.
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The laptop I'm supposed to buy next week from Dell. Hopefully they check their prices down a little...

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Complete Care: 3 years

Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 processor - M 2.6 GHz
512 KB Pipeline Burst L2 cache
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Height: 38.6 mm
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Weight: From 2.7kg

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Old July 31, 2003, 05:26   #40
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IBM A30 (This is a beauty.)

Just a small point: I have recently reformated my WD drive to 32kb cluster NTFS from FAT32. I have noticed a huge burst in drive speed. For example, MS Word now loads and is ready in just one second.

In contrast, I use my Seagate drive as a bit bucket with everything on it compressed. It operates a lot slower as a result. (However, the Seagate drive is quiet. Very quiet.)

The processor is beginning to show its age because I have some FPS problems with games like Vietcong and Unreal II. But overall, a very good system able to handle virtually everything.
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Does anyone still have/use a floppy btw, seeing no-one mentiones them.

I still have one, but not in my PC (anything to reduce heat and a good airflow. Now if only could get rid of ****** IDE cable )
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Serial ATA fixes that.
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Does anyone still have/use a floppy btw, seeing no-one mentiones them.
Yep, I use mine, if theres a document I can't afford to lose, I save it to my HD,my Floppy and post it to my Yahoo mailbox

I don't lose many documents!
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I know, but its ANOTHER way to save data, it gives me another back up
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I'm still using a parallel port Zip 100 for backing up critical files. Am I a dinosaur or does anyone still use zip disks?

Oh, and upgraded from Win98 to XP home. Works fine, no crashes (yet - we need a crossed fingers smiley!)
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yay ntfs!

ned, to boost speed on your hd, if you have an intel chipset download the intel application accelerator.

i have mine set on max performance, so it's a trade off with the sound, but then again, none of them are really loud, so...
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Does anyone still have/use a floppy btw, seeing no-one mentiones them.
Of course I still have one, but only for boot floppy purposes.
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don't even brand new computers all got the floppys? i can't imagine a computer without it. what would fill up that space?

and what is this whole business about computer noise? there's differences in the loudness of the hum between computers?
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A lot of the new stuff need a lot of cooling to stop them overheating

So you may have a processor fan, two case fans and a graphics card fan it all adds up!
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don't even brand new computers all got the floppys? i can't imagine a computer without it. what would fill up that space?
Dell stopped shipping its PCs with a floppy drive. If you want one, you need to pay extra for it.

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Yea, the new computers need heavy cooling solutions. I try to keep my system's sound level below 20-25 dB.
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So you may have a processor fan, two case fans and a graphics card fan it all adds up!
The power supply usually comes with one big motherfarking fan as well.
Sometimes even two.
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Agreed. I have two hundred floppy disks, half of them don't work and I lost an important IB paper on one of them.
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Shape, have you got the Altec Lansing ADA885 speakers? The bass is awesome!

BTW you live anywhere near Dundas? I have relatives over there I've been there a couple of times
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Hi, reds4ever,

no, I have the ADA745 it appears.

Somewhat close to Dundas - though I am much closer to Ancaster.
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