The PC/Tech Thread

[TG Link]

Meh. I have basically the same PC just some diff parts

NZXT Tempest case
PC P&C 750w PSU
ATi Sapphire Radeon HD 5850
Dual Displays
Steelseries Siberia V2 headset
Vista x64
8GB RAM DDR2
Core 2 Quad Q6700 @ 2.66GHz

[aaaaaaasd]

Damn. Must save up more money so I can aquire MILITARY SUPER COMPUTAR.

[Ceiling Cat]

Would anyone recommend me a way to test my new crap, and see how bad the integrated graphics are?

[The Desert Fox]

Ceiling Cat Wrote:Would anyone recommend me a way to test my new crap, and see how bad the integrated graphics are?

1. Hold down ALT.
2. Hold down F4.
3. ?????
4. PROFIT!!!

[Ceiling Cat]

I'd lol if I was on Lunix nao.

[The Desert Fox]

Anyone know what a file integrity check is?

[Absnt]

checks the filesystem (harddrive) for errors.

In windows: chkdsk
In Linux: fsck

If that's what your talking about.

Sometimes computers will do that after being improperly shutdown or damaged.
I do it every once in a while just to make sure everything is running smoothly

[The Desert Fox]

Thanks, how do I access it?

[Absnt]

In windows:

start -> accessories -> Right click cmd or command prompt and click run as administrator.
In the black cmd or command prompt screen type -> chkdsk and hit enter.

It might ask you to schedule one. If you schedule a chkdsk it will do it upon restarting the computer.

In linux.

Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

[Wingless]

Building up a budget PC I might sell or use for overclocking.

Athlon II X250 3.0ghz
2GB DDR2 RAM
Gigabyte MA74GM mATX motherboard
8800GTS 640mb
500W APEX Power Supply
Windows 7 x64

With reused parts, it only cost me a little under $300

[LOON_ATTIC]

MY FUCKING EPIC LAPTOP FROM MY DADDY!!11!11

HPee dv6605us Pashitton

Athlon 64 X2 (decent enough...)

Less than 1 GB of ram (990mb) because of shitty memory sharing with shitty video card, BIOS doesn't allow me to get rid of all of it

Fucking shitty (better than most Intel CrapSets, though) nVidia GeForce GoLag 7150m

Only VGA monitor out, no DVI

Headphone/analog 1/8" out weak as fuck


Windows 7 x86, (who needs x64 with so little RAM, it's just less compat. in my experience) I've had OVER 9000! OS changes in mah system

About 140GB of HDD space, currently divided in three partitions (third being HP's restore shit which probably some OS raped, I dunno if it still works) first being main Winblows 7, second my old MicroXP thing which was good, I probably wanted EYE CANDY and some faggot feature and drivers to switch to 7 or maybe I got a virus (I don't remember exactly why)
Now I have the same problem with audio I once had on linux, but I DIDN'T have on XP, which is not being able to run an ASIO/ASIO4ALL or low latency application (basically my piano simulating shit) and something else (such as Firefox w/ youtube). Wheee.

Past operating systems:

First was Winblows Vista Home Premium?
It got all lagged and sucked

Linux Mint 6 Felicia with some shit without making it's own partition, running in an image but still by itself... aasf, then I just dumped Windows, then dualboot w/ XP, then moved to 7 Gloria - my first experiences with Linux

A bunch of Debian GNU/Lunix systems, I went to Testing, some annoying bug and slow and I left. I couldn't make my own packages so I moved to:

Slackware 64bit? Anyway, I left and moved to 32 bit. Got lots of experience, it was awesome to compile shit compared to past distros, KDE 4, blah blah.
I shat it trying to compile a realtime kernel for audio to reduce XRUNS which FAILED, it was a piece of shit and fucked up the mem. Even after switching back to normal kernel, I had forgotten to make modules_install on the piece of shit (which in Lesbian was a whole different procedure) and there was a problem with the X server and neither the keyboard nor the mouse worked on X, I restarted and restarted trying everything, until I recompiled the kernel and remembered about the make modules_install, booted and found mah WiFi didn't work. No idea why, I tried reinstalling everything (wicd) and modprobe the wireless driver, reinstalling the firmware, nothing worked. Had to ditch it.

Tried to install media distros, failed because of some faggot outdated fonts package (hail Debian and its shit package system)

I might have made shitloads of dualboots...

Shitty Windows XP thing with some shitty 7 themes which confused everyone, not very good

MicroXP, don't really remember why I left it

Windows 7 twice, first I got a virus and shitload of lag. Nothing could fix it

I might be missing some, but whatevur lol 0.o

[Ceiling Cat]

My monster is finally finished.

Athlon X2 5200+ (2.7 x2)
2GB Kingston DDR2
Nvidia 8800GT (at last)
XP SP3, uncut

[CrayolaColours]

Here's mine:
Y'know what, I'm not going to type it all out, here's the site

[arthasmenethil]

I got an outdated pile of junk. Saving up to build a new one.

[LOON_ATTIC]

Ceiling Cat Wrote:My monster is finally finished.

Athlon X2 5200+ (2.7 x2)
2GB Kingston DDR2
Nvidia 8800GT (at last)
XP SP3, uncut

I FUCKING ENVY YOU
How did you get the money for that?

[CrayolaColours]

Lunatic Wrote:

Ceiling Cat Wrote:My monster is finally finished.

Athlon X2 5200+ (2.7 x2)
2GB Kingston DDR2
Nvidia 8800GT (at last)
XP SP3, uncut

I FUCKING ENVY YOU
How did you get the money for that?

Quite.

I envy my dads Alienware computer.

[Ceiling Cat]

Translating the cost to USD, it wasn't much more than $220*. I shit you not.
The parts are used but from good sources(the CPU is OEM however as I wanted it new)
Keep in mind that I really wanted to keep it cheap so I hunted parts for half a year exactly. I still am $50 left in debt, but what matters is that I finally have a machine to create next-gen graphics(and hopefully jump into the game industry at last).

*I did NOT count the 80GB HDD in as I had it long before.

[CrayolaColours]

Ceiling Cat Wrote:Translating the cost to USD, it wasn't much more than $220*. I shit you not.

Holee shit.

[Ceiling Cat]

Now some fun facts.

- The CPU cooling is a P4 one strapped with steel wire to the board
- The motherboard is a crappy ASRock N68-S
- I have a CRT monitor which can display at best 1280x800@75 (there is a higher 60 mode, but my eyes wouldn't forgive me)
- I use a ball mouse with no scroll wheel. On top of that, I lost the bottom cap somewhere.
- I never planned to buy the vidcard that takes about 40% of the computer's price.
- This thing isn't that powerful, do your computers really fail that much? This isn't even a triple core, just mere 2.7 x2.
- The nice black case I got for free long ago
- No DVD drive unless I borrow my bro's

[nostaw]

Ceiling Cat Wrote:- The CPU cooling is a P4 one strapped with steel wire to the board

Well I did a similar thing, but it was an old Athlon cooler on a AMD X2 chip. I still got that chip up to 3.0GHz from it's stock 2.1GHz though.

Lunatic Wrote:I FUCKING ENVY YOU
How did you get the money for that?

If that's not sarcasm, I'd hate to see how much you envy my Intel Core 2 Quad @ 3.4GHz, 4GB of ram, and my GeForce GTX260. Plus two 1TB HDDs.

I'm still in debt for this.

[Ceiling Cat]

I still beat everything in quality/price equation.

Lucky me knowing a few people that upgrade their computers constantly and won't hesitate to cut a deal on their older parts. (I believe that the card was a rip-off, but not like I had a choice)

[CrayolaColours]

nostaw Wrote:

Ceiling Cat Wrote:- The CPU cooling is a P4 one strapped with steel wire to the board

Well I did a similar thing, but it was an old Athlon cooler on a AMD X2 chip. I still got that chip up to 3.0GHz from it's stock 2.1GHz though.

Lunatic Wrote:I FUCKING ENVY YOU
How did you get the money for that?

If that's not sarcasm, I'd hate to see how much you envy my Intel Core 2 Quad @ 3.4GHz, 4GB of ram, and my GeForce GTX260. Plus two 1TB HDDs.

I'm still in debt for this.

1TB?

Oh my gawd... DO WHANT. But, I think I'll keep my 7 Gigs of RAM, thankies. I'm getting a GTX210 installed soon.

[returnal]

woo hoo spiffy image

[యూజర్ పేరు]

CrayolaColours Wrote:Athlon X2 5200+ (2.7 x2)
2GB Kingston DDR2
Nvidia 8800GT (at last)
XP SP3, uncut

To be honest, that would only be considered a good computer in 2007 at the latest.

[LOON_ATTIC]

BobManPerson Wrote:

CrayolaColours Wrote:Athlon X2 5200+ (2.7 x2)
2GB Kingston DDR2
Nvidia 8800GT (at last)
XP SP3, uncut

To be honest, that would only be considered a good computer in 2007 at the latest.

But it's at least a thousand times better than mine... I need to get to work and stop being a lazy faggot

[CrayolaColours]

BobManPerson Wrote:

CrayolaColours Wrote:Athlon X2 5200+ (2.7 x2)
2GB Kingston DDR2
Nvidia 8800GT (at last)
XP SP3, uncut

To be honest, that would only be considered a good computer in 2007 at the latest.

A billion times better than my old one. Not sure about my current one, actually.

[aaaaaaasd]

BobManPerson Wrote:

CrayolaColours Wrote:Athlon X2 5200+ (2.7 x2)
2GB Kingston DDR2
Nvidia 8800GT (at last)
XP SP3, uncut

To be honest, that would only be considered a good computer in 2007 at the latest.

Bob, you live in a house made from solid gold and your current build is fucking scary. For many people (me), this is actually better than what they currrently have.

[యూజర్ పేరు]

XplodingNoggin Wrote:Bob, you live in a house made from solid gold and your current build is fucking scary. For many people (me), this is actually better than what they currrently have.

Honestly, my house really isn't a mansion made of gold and silver. Despite what I say, my parents aren't billionaires. We aren't high-class; at the most, we're low-mid upper-middle.

I'm just saying that a wiser move would've been to get a more recent graphics card and at least one more gig of RAM (or at least have two gigs of DDR3).

[Ceiling Cat]

It's the most cheap AM2+ board I could get my hands on, so fuck you. I have two slots only.
Besides, it's not like that with UnrealEd, 3dsMax and Photoshoop open I'm even close to running out of memory. And that's the most I do.

[Wingless]

My current system:

Core i7 920 OC'd@ 3.0ghz with Intel's standard cooler
7GB (3x 2GB, 1X 1GB) Corsair DDR3 1333mhz
Gigabite X58A-UD3R Motherboard.
1X 500GB WD 7200RPM HD, 1X 320GB WD 7200RPM HD (Total: 820GB Storage)
ATI XFX HD4850 1GB DDR5 Overclocked: 680Mhz GPU Core/1075mhz Memory (XFX's cooler seems to do a good job of keeping it under 70C at full load)

In comparison, my grandparents' computer:

Phenom X3 8650 @ 2.5ghz, standard AM3 cooler.
4GB Patriot DDR2 1066mhz
Gigabite MA785GT AM2+, AM3 Motherboard
1x500GB WD 7200RPM HD
ATI Sapphire HD4830