DEm

Since my Mazda 3 its pretty much stock, i decided to bragg about something else...
Mine is BiG its 19'' long and 8'' wide, yup you got it right, its damn big.
I also has 1 gb of RAM an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual core processor 4200+ 2.21Ghz
on top of that i do have installed the BFG 7800 gtx oc with 512mb of video memory and 500gb of hard drive. all inside the black Tsunami Dream case from Thermaltake
I had this baby for a year now, give or take a month
recently I Replaced the 19 crt monitor i had for a 24'' DELL monitor.
pretty sweet if you ask me.

kargoboy

Dunno if it's all that big but it's fast, that's for sure.

DEm

hahaha

Lozz

nice.
I'm on a X6800 @ 4.5ghz conroe (water cooled)
2GB Corsair XMS2 ram
SLI Geforce 7900GT graphics cards (.inf hacked drivers)
RAID 0 150GB Raptor hard disks
ASUS P5WDH
19" Sony LCD monitor.


which dell monitor? the 2405FPW? or the 2407?

PS:
did you hear about the ATI and AMD merger?

meGrimlock

holy crap you stole my computer and monitor!! but you seem to have lost my extra 1GB of RAM, my wacom tablet, and gave it a new case.

KrayzieFox

Mine's kinda old school but here goes:
Sony VAIO 3.2GHz P4 HT
2.0 GB of RAM
200GB HD + 80GB HD for Surveillance Recording
128 MB ATI Radeon 9200 w/ TV Tuner and 2 RCA inputs
17" Flat Panel Sony XBrite Monitor

Not the fastest thing ever, but it gets the job done

Bartizek

amd64 3200+
2gb pc 3200
120gb seagate sata 3.0
256mb ATI x850XT pci-e
19" samsung 930B syncmaster

Lozz

you bought a VAIO? you poor soul

probaly got out of $600-800 you could have spent on a computer with a better warranty/parts.. like a Dell or even a HP. Just don't ever get another VAIO and I'll forgive you just this once. sony makes good .......ummm.....play stations.. but their comptuers are very much overpriced.

btw, I had that LCD monitor, and it's probaly one of the overpriced sony LCD's that's defentaly worth the money..

KrayzieFox

I don't think I got raped. Paid $1200 for it with the monitor about 3 years ago. Monitor alone is about $400 and 3 years ago that was a FAST computer. Pretty sure I got a good deal... and it hasn't given me a lick of trouble. Purrs like it did the day I bought it

I did buy 2 HP laptops since then, so am I forgiven?

Lozz

well then you got a good deal because usualy something like that would cost a good $2k from sony.


and no you're not forgiven D: because HP laptops are made very cheaply. Their desktops are ok, but laptops..., well I had four fall apart on me in 6months from the day I bought the first one. one even acutaly exploded (the li-ion battery leaked)
I'd check Hp.com to see if your laptop has had any battery recalls, alot of li-ions have been recalled these past years.


generaly speaking.. dell is king for retail computers.

but their laptops(dell's) are the best, second only to IBM Thinkpads (which are no longer made.., since Lenovo bought IBM's PC division.)

for desktops it would go something like:
dell,HP,compaq,sony,gateway,emachines

for bestprice/quality ratio.

KrayzieFox

Well everyone has their own opinion but I refuse to buy Dell. My experience with Dells has not been pleasant, and out of the 2 HPs I bought they haven't given me any problems either ... I guess I have good luck with computers .

I just needed to have a power cord replaced on one of them cuz my brother's dog decided it tasted good, and a battery replaced on the other (after 2 years of every day use). Dell does have good deals and I know a lot of people that swear by them, but every Dell I've used has been a piece ... then again they were ancient school computers so I'm sure they've improved since then.

I'm just glad to hear that what you buy works out for you, but I don't know how you can rate Sony behind eMachines and Compaq?!?. In my honest opinion Compaq is the worst (or at least used to be) PC brand on the market, but Dell and HP definately do dominate. I'll agree with you on Sony being overpriced as well, but their PCs are at least more reliable than Compaq and even eMachines/Gateway. I have nothing against eMachines since that was my very first PC I bought 6 years ago and it is STILL running, but from my Best Buy work experience I've seen more eMachines and Compaqs come back for repairs than any other brand...

DEm

2405FPW, no i dindt heard ill look for it...

I think the best brand out there its the "generic" that way you can pick the exact pieces you want/need and usually you get a better deal putting it togheter yourself, than buying any brand name, even dell, and came on, if you know how to use a screw driver and how to read, you can put a computer together, the only donw side if that you f*uck something up, you are on your own, no warranty

Lozz

I changed my quality order >_>.
compaq and HP are the same company(compaq was bought by HP a long time ago), generaly their computers are now about the same quality with the compaq's being the more "value" oriented brand.. so generaly they'll contain somewhat lesser parts.
Dell's used to suck I agree..and their bottom line comptuers still kinda stink.. but the stink is much less than that of other bottom of the barrel computers. Most problems with today's comptuers imo.. can be attributed to one of three things: dust build up, which a $4 can of compressed air can solve if done every month, spyware/adware/ general malware. which a $30 router or free sybot S&N can solve. Or, just location of the computer itself.. I think most people don't realize that computers today need to be in AC rooms on a desk and not on the floor ina wooden cabinet where it can create it's own sauna.

it litertally was just announced today. ATI has it up on their homepage.

ehh...if you buy retail parts usualy you got a 1-3year warranty, you just have to ship individual parts and know how to tell which are really broken to avoid extra shipping charges.

KrayzieFox

Very well put ... we're finally on the same page Dust and humidity aren't friendly to electronics, and as malicious as the internet has become you can't just go commando out there and think your free trial of Norton is gonna take care of you. But yet again as you said it yourself, a lot of people don't realize it ...

KrayzieFox

Thanks for the advice, one of my PCs actually was in the recall but that was the one that already had the battery replaced. And the replacement was done 3 months past the recall date so I think my new battery SHOULD be ok ... thanks though, I'll have to check on that more often.