i havn't been drunk for a while. at the end of my walking holiday i'm gonna see if i can pick up some cheap french wine or something to bring home :D i'm leaving tomorrow afternoon, for 10 days.
NP: Iron Maiden - Age of Innocence.

The B.P.C, am i right in thinking you're Joe?

Yes my friend, yes you are. I get my account back tommorow. I also get my new computer tommorow.

Speaking of new computers, i cant wait to get back to the states so i can build my new beastly machine. ;)

[QUOTE=Superpeer]NPC is cool if you know him.[/QUOTE]
123 he can be a bit in your face though. I have nothing against any of the mods :). Also, Ken is probably the most strict mods, I have lost count how many times he has banned me :p


Edit: Oh shi' this convo was a while ago :upset:

[QUOTE=X12ouncesofhateX]Speaking of new computers, i cant wait to get back to the states so i can build my new beastly machine. ;)[/QUOTE]

Whats the specs going to be, nubb?

Not totally sure yet, things that are for certain:

2 GB ram (minimum, depending on the price i can get on ram i may buy more)
AMD 64 of some sort
most likely MSI motherboard, as they have worked very well in the past for me
PCI express 16 GeForce 6800GT
unsure on soundcard, been using Creative cards in the past, might try for something new, but definitely 7.1 capabilities

Eventually I will dual processor it, once i get a job settled and what not, so it will be a beast and a half to say the least

I wouldn't go over 2 GB of RAM, it ends up nuking your system and mainly slows it down, and wastes money. No SLI graphics? What about one of the new Dual Core processers?

ah see while the dual core would be very nice, money is a factor and a half. While from newegg.com i can get an AMD 64 for a lot less than a dual core, and as long as i get a motherboard that is capable of dual processors, then it doesnt really matter.

As far as over the 2gb of ram thing, as long as you set anything over the 2gb as extra cache for quick reference, it will not nuke your system and slow it down, in fact it speeds it up, but that is not necessarily the easiest thing to do in the world.

However I did make my first purchase towards the machine, i was able to find a 19" LCD for $200, same one a friend of mine bought 2 months ago for 650, and its a fantastic monitor he claims, and wall mountable, so its win win really.

probably have a DVD burner sent home soon too, since they are so cheap now anyway, and i can throw it in my current machine until i have all the parts for the new one, seeing as i do not have a DVD burner at all yet.

Edit: i forgot to add, that depending on how much money i am getting whever i work during the semester, i may do something crazy like get a water cooling system as well, but ill have to see.

Cool. The computer im getting is dirt cheap, as im getting it from my local LAN games café thats shutting down. For £350 i get :

3000+ AMD
1 Gig Ram
One of those cool cases with the lights and stuff.
256mb GeForce FX5700 LE (Not very good, but with all the money im saving i expect to get one of the newer Radeon 512mb)
80Gig HD
Windows XP
Office 2004
17" CRT Monitor (selling straight away to some idiot, then just buying a nice TFT).

I think thats pretty good for 350.

[QUOTE=ThE_B.P.C]Cool. The computer im getting is dirt cheap, as im getting it from my local LAN games café thats shutting down. For £350 i get :

3000+ AMD
1 Gig Ram
One of those cool cases with the lights and stuff.
256mb GeForce FX5700 LE (Not very good, but with all the money im saving i expect to get one of the newer Radeon 512mb)
80Gig HD
Windows XP
Office 2004
17" CRT Monitor (selling straight away to some idiot, then just buying a nice TFT).

I think thats pretty good for 350.[/QUOTE]

Well considering i have no idea what the prices for computer parts are like in the UK, converted to dollars its still a pretty good deal. Breaking it down you look at it like this:

Starting: $700 (roughly)

3000+ AMD XP: $120
1gb RAM (Depending on speed though): $80
Case with window + lights: $80
GeForce card: $130 (although i wouldnt switch to ATI, they have major issues with certain types of graphic rendering, but thats just my opinion)
Hard Drive: $60
17" monitor: $50

Which is $520 without any software or anything, not including motherboard price, or anything like that, so yeah you are getting off with a pretty good deal. Hard drive is a bit low in size for my tastes, i mean back at home I had a 160 gb hard drive and filled it up in about 2 months time. Here i have a 60, and its rough keeping my crap limited., but not shabby at all.

Yes, and parts are more expensive over here. Sapphire Radeon x800 XT = £400.

yikes. I mean i guess it isnt so bad if you already have an income based in pounds and what not, but if you were in a country on the dollar or the euro for example and then moved to the UK, before you had a steady pound based income, you would be completely destroyed monitarily if you wanted computer stuff. I could not imagine paying $800 for the Sapphire Radeon, or any computer part for that matter.

Yeh, the new Dual Core processers are estimated at over £500! Thats insane! Do you know if any older (about a year old) motherboards would support 64bit AMD?

Generally, AMD 64 processors are a different socket size than the regular AMD XP processors, so usually no. However some motherboards that were released around the same time as the AMD64 may very well have been dual compatible. If you could give me a motherboard make and model number i could probably look it up easily enough.

Ok, i shall tell you tommorow. I intend to upgrade the Motherboard myself eventually, but at the minute 3000+ plus is fine, as i have a CPU ultra-coolant system (cost me 130 :/), which helps the overclocking process.

w00t new avatar...

****, are we ages back or what?! 1G RAM?!
This is what I'm thinking to get for 730euros

Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz/800 Prescott
MS Windows XP Home GR
512MB RAM
Sound On board 5.1 support
HD 80GB 7200 rpm SATA
VGA FX 5200 128MB DDR + TV-OUT
Modem 56K V.92
DVD-RW 8x24x40
FDD 1.44
Ethernet 10/100 On board
Microsoft Internet Keyboard
Microsoft Optical Mouse
Ports: 1xSerial, 1xParallel, 4xUSB 2.0

How does it look?

That sounds alright for that amount of money. I am upgrading my HD to a 10,000 rpm one though, even with the measly capacity.

But yeh, thats cool.

Well, I just want a reliable and stable (dont have to reset it twice a day, arggg!) machine that will allow me to enjoy my recently activated broadhand connection. Besides the internet, I really dont do a lot on my PC. What do you usually do?

I am such a geek, i mod my existing computer with coolant systems/fans/case acceseries etc. Its something i don't usually talk about, but i have a subscription to 'Gigahz' magazine. Its pretty new, and is basically all about super-high end computers and components.

I play alot of online games too, in amatuer leagues, so i need a relialbe and fast system.

[QUOTE=ThE_B.P.C]I am such a geek, i mod my existing computer with coolant systems/fans/case acceseries etc. Its something i don't usually talk about, but i have a subscription to 'Gigahz' magazine. Its pretty new, and is basically all about super-high end computers and components.

I play alot of online games too, in amatuer leagues, so i need a relialbe and fast system.[/QUOTE]

Heyyyy...

[url]http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2ZQHI1YLXVRC02MJIB18YZZ776[/url]

My PC is f[SIZE=2]u[/SIZE]cking awful. Only decent games it runs well are CS and DoD. :(

[QUOTE=Otherside]Heyyyy...

[url]http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2ZQHI1YLXVRC02MJIB18YZZ776[/url][/QUOTE]

Thanks dude. Its running nice and fast too, should only take 30 minutes. I will post the song once we have recorded it (probably poor recording on Thursday?).

[QUOTE=ThE_B.P.C]Thanks dude. Its running nice and fast too, should only take 30 minutes. I will post the song once we have recorded it (probably poor recording on Thursday?).[/QUOTE]

Awesome, looking forward too it.

[QUOTE=ThE_B.P.C]I am such a geek, i mod my existing computer with coolant systems/fans/case acceseries etc. Its something i don't usually talk about, but i have a subscription to 'Gigahz' magazine. Its pretty new, and is basically all about super-high end computers and components. [/QUOTE]

really? You're a pretty interesting person. Listen to a non mainstream form of music, play instruments, read crime literature, have interest in computer science...

What are you studying?

[QUOTE=ThE_B.C.P]I play alot of online games too, in amatuer leagues, so i need a relialbe and fast system.[/QUOTE]

Games make me dizzy. Am I the only one on earth?! :upset:

[QUOTE=MetalFan]really? You're a pretty interesting person. Listen to a non mainstream form of music, play instruments, read crime literature, have interest in computer science...

What are you studying?



Games make me dizzy. Am I the only one on earth?! :upset:[/QUOTE]

Im only 16, but im doing History, English Literature, Computer Physics and Physics at A Level. I have quite alot of career path options, but i am pretty sure it will either be one of these three :

Some kind of critic/review writer. As you probably know, i already review cd's/mangas.
A war historian. I have written several papers (non-related to school) about Nazi Germany and Stalins Russia.
A computer technician of some kind.

I don't mind any of them. For me, if i get into music, it happens.

[QUOTE=Taste_My_Scythe]Well, whatever he's doing, he was being an [SIZE=2]a[/SIZE]sshole on here earlier. Superpeer shut down the thread for a while because of his warmongering. :evil:[/QUOTE]
He wasn't the only one that played a part in it.

[QUOTE=MetalFan]really? You're a pretty interesting person. Listen to a non mainstream form of music, play instruments, read crime literature, have interest in computer science...

What are you studying?



Games make me dizzy. Am I the only one on earth?! :upset:[/QUOTE]

No, actually, i know somebody who can't play games for more than 5 minutes...or else he gets really sick.

My computer can't run sh[COLOR=White]i[/COLOR]t...1998 400 mhz G4 Power Mac. Slower than a tortise with asthma and 2 broken legs.

Only game it can run halfway decently is Medal Of Honor (the original) and Jedi Outcast (the best computer game...hell, the best GAME ever)

[QUOTE=Shattered_Future]No, actually, i know somebody who can't play games for more than 5 minutes...or else he gets really sick.

My computer can't run sh[COLOR=White]i[/COLOR]t...1998 400 mhz G4 Power Mac. Slower than a tortise with asthma and 2 broken legs.

Only game it can run halfway decently is Medal Of Honor (the original) and Jedi Outcast (the best computer game...hell, the best GAME ever)[/QUOTE]
I love Outcast. Cool story, I used to have it on Xbox. I wish I had it on PC for teh multiplayer.

[QUOTE=ThE_B.P.C]Im only 16, but im doing History, English Literature, Computer Physics and Physics at A Level. I have quite alot of career path options, but i am pretty sure it will either be one of these three :

Some kind of critic/review writer. As you probably know, i already review cd's/mangas.
A war historian. I have written several papers (non-related to school) about Nazi Germany and Stalins Russia.
A computer technician of some kind.

I don't mind any of them. For me, if i get into music, it happens.[/QUOTE]

I like your options. You have some time left to decide and who knows what happens until then. Good luck with your life :thumb:

[QUOTE=Shattered_Future]No, actually, i know somebody who can't play games for more than 5 minutes...or else he gets really sick.[/QUOTE]

heh, replace 5 minutes with 30 and this is me. But this only happens with newer technology action games, especially shooters or whatever they are called.

[QUOTE=Shattered_Future]My computer can't run ****...1998 400 mhz G4 Power Mac. Slower than a tortise with asthma and 2 broken legs.

Only game it can run halfway decently is Medal Of Honor (the original) and Jedi Outcast (the best computer game...hell, the best GAME ever)[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Vio-lence]My PC is ****ing awful. Only decent games it runs well are CS and DoD. [/QUOTE]

Totally understand. This f[i]u[/i]cking evil machine just drives me crazy :mad: It's been sucking since the first day :mad:

[QUOTE=Vio-lence]I love Outcast. Cool story, I used to have it on Xbox. I wish I had it on PC for teh multiplayer.[/QUOTE]

Multiplayer is teh secks. I swear, once you play multiplayer on that game, you will be hooked forever...its nuts.

i play Multiplayer on DoD at the moment, i haven't had it long so i'm not that good. i used to play Call of Duty online all the time, but uninstalled it to save space.
i need to get a laptop soon, in about 6 months i'm 18 and inherit a load of gas shares so i'll be able to sell them for about £800. i need a laptop for coursework and to last me through Uni, i won't be playing many games on it so it shouldn't cost too much.

my current pc (well, its the whole family's) has 512mb RAM, 1.1GHz processor, 60gb hard drive and 64mb nvidia geforce 2 (i think) graphics card - it's not the best, but it's coming up to being 2 years old.

[QUOTE=MetalFan]****, are we ages back or what?! 1G RAM?!
This is what I'm thinking to get for 730euros

Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz/800 Prescott
MS Windows XP Home GR
512MB RAM
Sound On board 5.1 support
HD 80GB 7200 rpm SATA
VGA FX 5200 128MB DDR + TV-OUT
Modem 56K V.92
DVD-RW 8x24x40
FDD 1.44
Ethernet 10/100 On board
Microsoft Internet Keyboard
Microsoft Optical Mouse
Ports: 1xSerial, 1xParallel, 4xUSB 2.0

How does it look?[/QUOTE]

Not bad, the only thing thats shady is onboard sound, which can cause system strain when you for example try to play a game and listen to mp3s. However if you dont plan on any gaming, then it should be fine

[QUOTE=ThE_B.P.C]I am such a geek, i mod my existing computer with coolant systems/fans/case acceseries etc. Its something i don't usually talk about, but i have a subscription to 'Gigahz' magazine. Its pretty new, and is basically all about super-high end computers and components.

I play alot of online games too, in amatuer leagues, so i need a relialbe and fast system.[/QUOTE]

sounds like me, now i gotta get back to playing world of warcraft :p

[QUOTE=MetalFan]really? You're a pretty interesting person. Listen to a non mainstream form of music, play instruments, read crime literature, have interest in computer science...

What are you studying?



Games make me dizzy. Am I the only one on earth?! :upset:[/QUOTE]

Even though not directed at me, ill just comment that I am studying computer science. So all your computer issues can be fixed by me

I think I have a bunch of viruses on my computer. Can one of you uber intelligent computer dudes reccomend me a good virus killer/blocker? I have McAffee and Spyware Doctor already, so, perhaps that should help you..

For anti-virus: AVG Free from [url]http://www.grisoft.com/[/url]

For adware: Ad-Aware 6.0 or SE

For spyware: Spybot: Search and Destroy

You can find all three from download.com, I'd imagine.

///

EDIT: refl @ new name, kudos to Superpeer for coming up with it, and Jim for allowing it.

I have a microphone cable for my amp- and a new mic for my comp to enable brutal and dark screams to be heard throughout the world!

Hey kewl Jom. :lol: Congrats on finally getting your name change. (my name is still cooler)

[QUOTE=Lord Abortion]I have a microphone cable for my amp- and a new mic for my comp to enable brutal and dark screams to be heard throughout the world![/QUOTE]

By the sounds of it; you don't need a cable, just a jack to phono adapter... :thumb:

[url]http://tinypic.com/70b19j.jpg[/url]

Nice name/avatar change, Jommy boy. I'm going to miss the dog though :(

[QUOTE=X12oncesofhate]However if you dont plan on any gaming, then it should be fine[/QUOTE]

sounds encouraging :)

[QUOTE=X12ouncesofhateX]Even though not directed at me, ill just comment that I am studying computer science. So all your computer issues can be fixed by me[/QUOTE]

I already know this Sir! Your friends must be lucky. I've spent a hell of a lot money on worthless technicians.

[QUOTE=Dr. Jake Destructo]I think I have a bunch of viruses on my computer.[/QUOTE]

Same here. EZ antivirus keeps popping up virus alert windows and says to reboot in order to get rid of them but no matter how many times I did so they're still here. When I still had my 56k connection I even got infected with a dialer. I dread to think about the next phone bill :upset: