RIP PC (2 Viewers)

[pete]

so i totally fucked up my PC at home

UPGRADE TIME!

intel Q6600 or AMD 9850?

 

[pete]

oh and this means i'm going to be even slower than ever doing stuff.

 

[Froog]

AMD's suck balls, way slower than intel, huge price difference tho. like an AMD will knock 300 off the same spec PC.

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

iMac.

 

[pete]

iMac.

arf

i want a computer, not a lifestyle choice

 

[pete]

AMD's suck balls, way slower than intel, huge price difference tho. like an AMD will knock 300 off the same spec PC.

q6600 and 9850 are similar price & performance-wise. both nicely overclockable...

 

[Wayne]

Stay away from the AMD quad core cpus. The intel rivals are much better performance wise. I got a new pc from overclockers a while back and ordered an AMD dual core at 3.4ghz. The arseholes put a phenom in running at 2.4 because they were out of stock. The performace isn't great from it.
And stay away from the Macs unless you want to start wearing women's jeans and sitting in coffee shops all day.

 

[the strange guy]

I'm running a Q6600 and am very pleased with it.
Nicely overclockable and runs surprisingly cool.
I usually go AMD but as Wayne said, they have truly fucked up their Quad core design.
You need to be running a 64 bit OS to get the real juice out of it, but I'm sure ya know that already!

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

Man I love new PC time.

 

[pete]

managed to get it back up and running

ish

now, along with the regular crashes, as it goes down in flames it takes out the bios too. so that has to be re-flashed before it'll reboot - every fucking time. (and no, it's not a dud CMOS battery)

so i'm going to try limping on with this shit for another two weeks, since i'm going on holidays anyway then. I'll pick up some shiny new stuff in singapore on the way home.

oh yes. Funan IT Mall here i come.

 

[the strange guy]

I nearly got done by Irish customs coming back from Hong Kong a few years back with suitcases full of OEM graphics cards, CPUs and DIMMs.
Made it through by the skin of my teeth after I jammily pulled out a receipt for around €300 that simply said 'Goods'.
I told your one that I had bought everything in a sale and that I had got quite a bargain.
That could have worked out quite badly.

 

[pete]

I nearly got done by Irish customs coming back from Hong Kong a few years back with suitcases full of OEM graphics cards, CPUs and DIMMs.
Made it through by the skin of my teeth after I jammily pulled out a receipt for around €300 that simply said 'Goods'.
I told your one that I had bought everything in a sale and that I had got quite a bargain.
That could have worked out quite badly.

well at most i'll be nabbing a CPU, motherboard & ram. maybe a couple of 1TB drives. and a new video card. maybe.

 

[the strange guy]

YOU SAY THAT NOW

 

[Lili Marlene]

so what exactly did you do to your PC to reach this point?

 

[Gambra]

Stop talking about new PC's. I *really* need but there's no way I can afford it for a few months yet

 

[pete]

so what exactly did you do to your PC to reach this point?

no idea.

might be related to the shitty 35quid psu i have pushing an AMD X2 4200, two dvd writers, 2 x 200gb drives, a 320gb drive, a 500gb drive and an 8800gt video card.

 

[Wicker]

arf

i want a computer, not a lifestyle choice

best response to mac spam I've heard in a while

 

[pete]

so anyways i stuck my 8800gt & cpu into my shuttle pc case so i'm almost back up and running again now... apart from the fact that i only have 2 sata connectors for my 5 sata devices.

 

[flashback]

http://cgi.ebay.com/4-CHANNEL-PCI-S...ryZ90718QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[pete]

http://cgi.ebay.com/4-CHANNEL-PCI-S...ryZ90718QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

yeah, I have one of them, but the shuttle only has 2 pci slots. video card in one, tv tuner in the other.

i suppose i could survive without the tv tuner...