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I got my new computer today... and I am now a happy happy man. I've gone from a shitty pentium 75 to this new Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz... this is fucking awesome. I just wanted to share my joy!!!!! I'm finally up to date and I'll have broadband next week and then I'll be really set. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
That's quite an upgrade... congrats.
Once you've had broadband, you'll never go back. :)
Remember if you have an erection for 8 hours you faint from lack of blood.
Play Deus Ex. Now.
Oh, and, uh, yeah, congrats.
Ah cool man. I plan on buying these parts to build my own over the weekend.
http://insertcoin.2y.net/newegg_com.htm
1.8 ghz AMD Athlon XP
256 DDR RAM
80gig
dvd/cdrw
case cooling system mobo floppy
Sound Blast 5.1
(already have a 64MB graphcis card, Win XP Pro, Monitor, Speakers)
Oh, I plan to... very soon. :)Quote:
Originally posted by Tain
Play Deus Ex. Now.
Oh, and, uh, yeah, congrats.
YAY for cookies. :)Quote:
Nice. Getting a new computer is the greatest. That's a huge jump from a P75. I would have killed myself with that thing.
My jump is only 800 to 1800. It's not all that impressive. I'm most anticipating my 256SDRAM to 256DDRRAM. :)
I'm only getting a new PC because my current one is 2 years old and dying at an alarming rate. I can't take the god damned noises when I'm doing my homework that it makes!
I still have my Pentium 60 I loaded with MS-DOS 6.22 and a 5.25 floppy drive, I use it for playing those older PC games ;)
My biggest jump would be from a P166 with a 4 meg video card to my current PIII600 with a GeForce 256.
I play(ed) Half-Life on both machines. :)
I did a motherboard/CPU upgrade a couple of months back... went from a firstgen Athlon 700 to an Athlon XP 2000+. My old parts generally go to either of two places: upgrading my parents' PC's, or building Linux servers (I have three of them now).
I just need to get a new hard drive (more so I can put my main PC's old drive into my main Linux server), a new video card, and maybe more memory, and I'll be set. :)
youre a guy? :D :bang: :DQuote:
New Computer!!!
bbobb is a happy man
i wish i had the cash for a new setup... christ i need a job.
Christ- Thou shalt work as a fry cook at Arbys!:noob:Quote:
Originally posted by Rhydant
christ i need a job.
Deus Ex, post-haste.
Hey, don't you work at a game site? With a forum? A forum that could use more threads like these?
I just ordered a new PC after 7 years or sumthing.
My current system:
P133,48mb, 1Gb HD, Voodoo3Dfx, SB16
Teh new:
P4 2.8GHz, 80Gb HD, 512 DDR, GF4, SBlive5.1 :D
Set for another 6 years ;)
Shit man thats a huge jump congrats!
My big jump was going from a 300mhz amdk6 to a 1ghz Athlon.
I now run an Athlon XP 2100+/ 654 megs ram/ ect...
Ha, you guys ain't got nothin on my jump ;)
I went from a P1 200mhz 3.2 gig hard drive with 16 megs of slow ass ram and no video card (it was onboard)
to
Athlon XP 2700+ 120 gig 7200rpm hard drive, dual ddr 512 meg pc2700 memory sticks, and a geforce 4 ti4200, needless to say I'm happy!!!!!
(btw i had another computer between there, but that was the families, these are just mine)
My jump was going from a 2.5 gig Emachine (no Pentium) to a 60 gig Emachine with a Pentium 4 processor. I was blown away by the speed.
Just last week, I too upgraded from:
Pentium III 450
384 SDRAM
80 gig HD
Geforce 3 Ti 200 w/ 128 DDR
to
Athlon 2100+
256 DDR
new 80 gig HD
same Geforce 3 Ti 200 w/ 128 DDR
cost about 500 to upgrade it, and i took the video card and sound card from the old one and put them in the new one
and this is only the families new comp... After graduation I get my dream setup :evil:
Looks like I will be needing to upgrade my PC as well, any recommendations. I can build one no problem but I've been out of the loop as far as what is out there in the PC market.
I can't go too high price wise and I really only need a the PC itself but I want a decent video card in it and a good size hard drive would be nice :)
Werewolf, you could do what I did and get a Best Buy open item computer. I got my 60 gig behemoth as one and it saved me hundreds of dollars (only cost $420.) Although I'd recommend getting an extended warranty for it, as the thing being an open item does increase the chances of something going wrong with it.
Get a parts list from a dealer in your area. (search online or shop around)
Compile your own PC and you get warranty with it as well (normally).
I did it that way and I have 3 year warranty with mine.
Even though I would have no problem building one I'm leaning towards buying one simply because of updating my OS and gettings parts would almost cost the same as buying one and as long as I can get something close to what I want I'd rather go that route.
Of course if that's not possible I will build one as a last resort, since finding time to buy all the parts and putting it together might be kind of hard for me to do :)
Yeah, I built my own. I'm only 15 so I'm not moved out yet, and I needed a new computer, so I asked my parents if I could build a new one (having never done it) and they allowed me to get whatever I wanted! I pretty much got my dream machine, but there were a few extras I didn't get simply because I felt bad about wasting the money...
Now everyone is jealous of my room! I'm spoiled, shoot me
My jump was from
PII?
66mhz
8mb Ram
4gb HD
to
Intel Celeron
HP 366mhz
32mb ram
16gb HD?
to
P4 2.6mhz
128 or 256mb ram
40gb HDcd-r/rw
dvd rom
SB Audigy
I'm still living in the stone age with this Pentium II 300 Mhz. :(
I always say I'm gonna upgrade, but I can never seem to get the cash together.
I think whoring myself out to the neighborhood pervs will soon be a viable option.