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Well, I finally got my new computer, it kicks ass, it starts up in no time. Got it with money I got from my grandma for "college" as my parents put it, but since the field im in "requires" a good enough computer to work 3DS max 6 and photoshop and other important things like ahemm...games... any way its toatally over kill

3 GB of ram
crazy nvidia graphics card Quadro fx 3000 with 256 MB of ram
2 HDs one 220 GB and the other 120 GB
Dual Xeon 3.06 MHZ processors
a bajillion usb ports
6.1 surround speakers, and a cool 128 MB flash drive

If only my car was as fast as this...

Oh yeah and I got a digital camera so I can take pics when I fix my CRAZY IC plumbing.

NICE!

3 GB of ram
Quadro fx 3000 with 256 MB of ram
Dual Xeon 3.06




holy christ man, atleats you wont have to upgrade for the next 6 years.......

i though i was doing good with mine....



these are the specs of it....

MSI KT3 Ultra2
1800XP
Vantec Aeroflow heatsink/fan (cpu runs at 90F)
1gb Pc2100 DDR Ram
15GB WD
30GB WD
80GB WD
120GB WD
Promise Ata133 IDE
MSI GeForce 4 MX440SE 64mb w/Svideo out
24x10x40 CDRW
52x CD

DAMN!

LegacyPunk555 wrote:Dual Xeon 3.06 MHZ processors

Woweee! I've got a palmtop with a single 4.77 MHz processor. ;)

Seriously, though, that sounds like a really sweet setup.

Can you pee in it?

you're all ricers with your underbody neons

I run my 500Mhz @ 5Ghz by adding a Vortec Tornado fan to keep it cool! w3Rk$ $0 g0oD y0!!!!!!!!! d4 $h1zZl3 b4D1Zzl3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Steve

nothing wrong with overclocking I much enjoy juicing my sustem up.

Waste of money.

ciper wrote:Waste of money.

everything is a waste of money, welcome to life

No, Im saying that the machine is not optimized for the application.

Meaning that stepping down to 1gb of ram and two slower proccessors then using the additional money on a 0+1 raid configuration with write cache would have yeilded a significantly faster machine for the money.

why would he need raid 0+1? if any type of raid would be used it should be 0. I dont believe he's running any kind of business or applications that need that kind of backup.

But if he connected his pinzak valve to the manglo capacitor and then replaced his BER-426JS sterlo board he'd have one slick item.

Steve

Until you personally loose a crapload of data you wont understand. Raid 0 is terrible, it shouldnt even exist. You DOUBLE your chances of failure drives that are already likely to fail.

Actually raid 10 would be best except most cheap cards dont support it. With 0+1 a single drive failure causes the entire array to become raid 0 meaning a second drive failure causes data loss. Raid 10 allows you to lose more drives, upto half as long as they are on seperate stripe sets.

For the majority of operations the caching array controller can make a huge difference, for the money its usually the best upgrade you can perform. Even 32mb of read and write cache is enough to make a difference. It allows your system to be free without waiting for the disk. For example I have formatted an 800gb drive on a controller with 64mb write cache in about 5 seconds.

I have a P3 500 with 1gb ram at home with a raid 10 (4x9gb) and its ALOT faster than the many new machines others have in any operation except raw cpu speed (including a 3.xghz new dell with high bus speed and such). Its still on a 66mhz bus too.

More CPU cache is often better than the speed. Id rather take a dual 1.8ghz machine with 2 meg cpu cache than a dual 3ghz with 256k (for example).

Can you pee in it?

i've los ta bunhc of shit more than once, it sucks I know. It just seems odd that one would use 0+1 for anything other than a server or business applications. to each their own.

Well would you suggest raid 5 then (slow) or a mirror (slower)?

ciper wrote:Waste of money.

No offence, but I agree.