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bigwill68
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31. January 2008 @ 19:36 |
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@abuzar1
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Will, you have EIST enabled that's why. Either way I wouldn't use that software. Uninstall it and only mess around with OC in the BIOS.
ok i'll try that out..i unstlled the other software.I just put it in to see what it doe's and you all said seem to be a bad option to go with.I'm just learning as.I go on these things be patient with me as .i learn remember.I'm from the old school of the p2& p3 error.lol
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31. January 2008 @ 21:44 |
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Hey guys so I'm on a Mac now. Leopard in fact...
It's HORRIBLE! I want XP back!
I miss my games and all my compatible programs. This shit is so gay. Al it does is look good, I can't imagine doing REAL work on this thing. Hell I like to design websites and I would still prefer XP.
I'm gonna boot-camp into Vista now(it's almost as good as XP now, only about a 5% performance hit if you have enough RAM and plus I lost my XP disk).
Only reason I installed this was as an selling point...
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31. January 2008 @ 21:52 |
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Bigwill68,
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I'm just learning as.I go on these things be patient with me as .i learn remember.I'm from the old school of the p2& p3 error.lol
What does that make me? My first build was a 386! LOL!! Sorry for the confusion the other day. I somehow got mixed up and thought your post was Abuzar's and chewed on his leg a bit! The damn print is so tiny when you scroll down while replying to a post. I apologized, but I think he's still mad at me! LOL!!
The reason that type of software is so potentially dangerous is because the changes are held in memory until you re-boot, if something goes wrong you can lose your bios and can't recover it!
Best Regards,
Russ
GigaByte 990FXA-UD5 - AMD FX-8320 @4.0GHz @1.312v - Corsair H-60 liquid CPU Cooler - 4x4 GB GSkill RipJaws DDR3/1866 Cas8, 8-9-9-24 - Corsair 400-R Case - OCZ FATAL1TY 550 watt Modular PSU - Intel 330 120GB SATA III SSD - WD Black 500GB SATA III - WD black 1 TB Sata III - WD Black 500GB SATA II - 2 Asus DRW-24B1ST DVD-Burner - Sony 420W 5.1 PL-II Suround Sound - GigaByte GTX550/1GB 970 Mhz Video - Asus VE247H 23.6" HDMI 1080p Monitor
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31. January 2008 @ 21:57 |
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Lol I'm not mad at you. I didn't even see the post! You edited it too fast.
Ugghh I ca't get bootcamp to work. Leopard thinks my 250GB drive is 128Gb. How gay...
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31. January 2008 @ 22:03 |
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abuzar1,
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Lol I'm not mad at you. I didn't even see the post! You edited it too fast.
Yeah, but everyone else did! ROFLMAO!!
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Russ
GigaByte 990FXA-UD5 - AMD FX-8320 @4.0GHz @1.312v - Corsair H-60 liquid CPU Cooler - 4x4 GB GSkill RipJaws DDR3/1866 Cas8, 8-9-9-24 - Corsair 400-R Case - OCZ FATAL1TY 550 watt Modular PSU - Intel 330 120GB SATA III SSD - WD Black 500GB SATA III - WD black 1 TB Sata III - WD Black 500GB SATA II - 2 Asus DRW-24B1ST DVD-Burner - Sony 420W 5.1 PL-II Suround Sound - GigaByte GTX550/1GB 970 Mhz Video - Asus VE247H 23.6" HDMI 1080p Monitor
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ddp
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31. January 2008 @ 22:13 |
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bigwill, old school of the p2 & p3, i predate you back to xt turbo & no hard drive.
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31. January 2008 @ 22:15 |
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Originally posted by ddp:
bigwill, old school of the p2 & p3, i predate you back to xt turbo & no hard drive.
Yeh but you were around when they invented dirt. hehehe. :P
...gm
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31. January 2008 @ 22:15 |
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P2 was OLD school? lol I remember when Pentium mmx was the shit.
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31. January 2008 @ 22:20 |
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Originally posted by abuzar1:
Hey guys so I'm on a Mac now. Leopard in fact...
It's HORRIBLE! I want XP back!
I miss my games and all my compatible programs. This shit is so gay. Al it does is look good, I can't imagine doing REAL work on this thing. Hell I like to design websites and I would still prefer XP.
I'm gonna boot-camp into Vista now(it's almost as good as XP now, only about a 5% performance hit if you have enough RAM and plus I lost my XP disk).
Only reason I installed this was as an selling point...
I'm glad to here some feedback on Leopard. I almost bought it when it first came out cause it was only $99. I've heard so many good things about MAC stuff but I know very few people that use them unless they're into some real video editing stuff. :D
I'd be curious to see how you liked it if you gave it a chance and were able to "find" progies for it. :)
....gm
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ddp
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31. January 2008 @ 22:37 |
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gm, i'm not that old as i think i'm about your age maybe!!! do you hear that approaching thunder?
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31. January 2008 @ 22:39 |
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Why should I try to find programs for it? I already have programs for Windows that are better than anything on a Mac! Mac might be good for Video Editing but not much more. Real WORK is done on Windows and Linux.
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31. January 2008 @ 23:20 |
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ddp,
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bigwill, old school of the p2 & p3, i predate you back to xt turbo & no hard drive.
I only invented mud! LOL!! Try CPM on a Z-80 with 8" Winchester drives! ROFLMAO Not really sure if you're old enough to remember that. Sam would go crazy with the noise of those old Winchesters winding up! LOL!! jk The 386SX was my first build back in 89! It was an AMD 40MHz chip!
Best Regards,
Russ
GigaByte 990FXA-UD5 - AMD FX-8320 @4.0GHz @1.312v - Corsair H-60 liquid CPU Cooler - 4x4 GB GSkill RipJaws DDR3/1866 Cas8, 8-9-9-24 - Corsair 400-R Case - OCZ FATAL1TY 550 watt Modular PSU - Intel 330 120GB SATA III SSD - WD Black 500GB SATA III - WD black 1 TB Sata III - WD Black 500GB SATA II - 2 Asus DRW-24B1ST DVD-Burner - Sony 420W 5.1 PL-II Suround Sound - GigaByte GTX550/1GB 970 Mhz Video - Asus VE247H 23.6" HDMI 1080p Monitor
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31. January 2008 @ 23:33 |
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Ok guys I'm officially on Vista now. FYI it takes up about 200 more MB of ram. Of course I haven't installed CCC and Zune yet. So I'm guessing Vista using about 400MB extra Ram for no reason.
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31. January 2008 @ 23:39 |
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Originally posted by ddp:
gm, i'm not that old as i think i'm about your age maybe!!! do you hear that approaching thunder?
Nah..... NO thunder here. :P
I can't remember your age or don't know it. ;) 39 here and I remember AT's and XT's. We had to "program" in college on those. lol. Fotran if I remember right. :D
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31. January 2008 @ 23:48 |
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abuzar1,
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So I'm guessing Vista using about 400MB extra Ram for no reason.
Sure there's a reason. It keeps the memory manufacturers in business! LOL!! Think about it. 2000 ran fine on 1GB, XP-Pro runs fine on 2GB with the C2Ds and now you need 4GB for vista with the Quads! LOL!! You can run less memory on all of them, but performance suffers.
greensman,
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We had to "program" in college on those. lol. Fotran if I remember right. :D
Scientific, wasn't it? I had Pascal and Machine language.
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Russ
GigaByte 990FXA-UD5 - AMD FX-8320 @4.0GHz @1.312v - Corsair H-60 liquid CPU Cooler - 4x4 GB GSkill RipJaws DDR3/1866 Cas8, 8-9-9-24 - Corsair 400-R Case - OCZ FATAL1TY 550 watt Modular PSU - Intel 330 120GB SATA III SSD - WD Black 500GB SATA III - WD black 1 TB Sata III - WD Black 500GB SATA II - 2 Asus DRW-24B1ST DVD-Burner - Sony 420W 5.1 PL-II Suround Sound - GigaByte GTX550/1GB 970 Mhz Video - Asus VE247H 23.6" HDMI 1080p Monitor
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31. January 2008 @ 23:54 |
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I'll try running 3DMark again, see how my graphics performance has decreased.
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GregI6
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1. February 2008 @ 07:00 |
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Speaking of 3dMark, i got my quad at 3.6ghz but could still not get past 13,000 (12958)
I'll leave it at that i think. I do however need some help.
Any speaker suggestions?
Also, can't get COD4 running. If i get speakers..........problem solved?
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1. February 2008 @ 07:56 |
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Nah, getting speakers won't help, you need to reinstall your audio drivers.
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bigwill68
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1. February 2008 @ 11:29 |
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Yeh but you were around when they invented dirt. hehehe. :P
...gm
boy i really got something started with this (old school thing) I can remember my first computer also it was a 386.i didnt build it.i got it out the news paper for 100 bucks,man.i thought .i had the stuff windows 95,64 mb ram,6 gb wd hard drive and on dail up.i was smokie back then getting on the internet.that's all i wanna to do get on the net it was lay down model.i blame my brother for getting me into this stuff God rest his soul.but.i came along way sense then and build alot of machines and helping other people.I think.i have over 20 builts in my life and it's fun cause you can sit back and see what you have done with your hands and built them the way you like.i found alot parts back then at thift stores and goodwills stores you never know what people give away,and i still go there today looking one mans junk is another mans treasure.i got that from my brother also.lol
And yea.i'm 39 here also 40 in august and a grandpa..
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1. February 2008 @ 12:23 |
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mine was a ti99-4a from texas instruement back in 84. used the tv as a monitor & cassette tape for data drive. still have it in it's box.
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1. February 2008 @ 12:32 |
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hey will check your email....
still looking at some mem. cant make up my mind yet...lol
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GregI6
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1. February 2008 @ 12:35 |
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1. February 2008 @ 16:28 |
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ddp,
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mine was a ti99-4a from texas instruement back in 84. used the tv as a monitor & cassette tape for data drive. still have it in it's box.
I remember those! Worlds slowest 32 bit computer. I remember playing "Burgertime" on it and the little chef moved like he was wadding in Fudge! LOL!! The CPM machine with the 8" Winchesters, I bought at a garage sale. Paid $50 for the whole works w/4 Winchesters. never really used it as a guy that was also looking at it bought it all off of me for $200. He got my name from the seller, but the seller wouldn't tell him how much I paid! He offered $200 for everything, and I took it! I had a Timex-Sinclair, but I don't count that as a real computer, it was so damn tiny.
My first real computer was a Coleco Adam. I ran a business with it for a couple of years. It also used either a TV or a composite video monitor (Sakata SC-100). Bought an Atari ST-1024 after that. Best music computer in the world in it's day. Far better than the Mac and had a color 640x480 in 32 colors to boot! LOL!! It also did 600x800 in 4 colors! ROFL I had the optional 20MB external hard drive for it, on sale for $399! ROFLMAO!!
I'm 63, and I've built right around 250 PCs over the last 18 years or so. I got bored with computers in 98 and didn't own one for about 5 years. I missed all of the P2 and most of the P3. came back to computing in 03 when I moved to California. Hey, I had to have some place to throw away my money! LOL!! Most people don't realize how much more expensive it was back in the late 80s, early 90s. A decent (by the standards of the day) console, monitor, keyboard and mouse would cost you about $2000 to build. 386-40 by AMD, 4 MB 50ns 80 pin Ram, Trident 1MB video card, Sound Blaster Pro w/1x CD Rom, 40MB hard drive and a 1024x768 monitor. Memory got as high as $100 per MB for a while. That's why only the rich could afford 16MB! LOL!! I could build two of what I have now for less money!
Best Regards,
Russ
GigaByte 990FXA-UD5 - AMD FX-8320 @4.0GHz @1.312v - Corsair H-60 liquid CPU Cooler - 4x4 GB GSkill RipJaws DDR3/1866 Cas8, 8-9-9-24 - Corsair 400-R Case - OCZ FATAL1TY 550 watt Modular PSU - Intel 330 120GB SATA III SSD - WD Black 500GB SATA III - WD black 1 TB Sata III - WD Black 500GB SATA II - 2 Asus DRW-24B1ST DVD-Burner - Sony 420W 5.1 PL-II Suround Sound - GigaByte GTX550/1GB 970 Mhz Video - Asus VE247H 23.6" HDMI 1080p Monitor
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1. February 2008 @ 16:58 |
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Greg, nice speakers... :)
Seriously though that's a nice keyboard. What kind is it?
My first computer was a Pentium MMX that my Dad bought me when I was 5 years old. It still works today with the ORIGINAL copy of windows that was installed on it.
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GregI6
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1. February 2008 @ 17:34 |
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Keyboard - Saitek Eclipse 2
As for first PC, about 12mb ram........struggled to run 98.
P.S. - COD4 blows Crysis out of the water. Id go as far to say better graphics. I just rescued that pilot and loled when my guy crawled up the helicopter floor after getting shot down.
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