tednigma
Guitar Hero
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Post by tednigma on Aug 4, 2007 15:49:31 GMT -5
Greetings fellow GZ'ers. What a GRAND day. I've a rack of ribs in the smoker, a lager at the ready, a BEAUTIFUL day at 27c, and got me a new drive.
My 90GB XP drive got full after the GZ import. ;-) So I bought a 500GB SATA drive for $200.00. I've also 2 150GB drives, and the 90GB that I am going to RAID together for a total of approx. 890GB of storage. This will also house my movie/music collection for streaming through the house.
Anyrate, I am glad I finally upgraded this thing.
G-Day
-cheers-
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Post by stupidcarrots on Aug 4, 2007 16:05:35 GMT -5
yer right, it is bigger than mine. mine only 500GB. wah!!! i proly have more ram than you. 512meg lolz!!
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Post by nugget on Aug 4, 2007 16:08:48 GMT -5
i'll take my 150gb raptor anyday. 10000rpms of smokin hot (literally... i needed a separate hd cooler for this thing) goodness.
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tednigma
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Post by tednigma on Aug 4, 2007 16:16:08 GMT -5
Raptor is good stuff. Yeah, mine is on the 'low' end, 7200 SATA2/300. But hey, it still smokes the doors off the EIDE I had in there before.
I had a water cooled machine I built once. My favorite beast actually. Everything had a water cooling plate under or attached to it. I had water plates for the drives, blocks for the video card, snap ons for the RAM, blocks for the I/O chips, and of course the CPU block.
Instead of water, I ran motorcycle racing coolant in it. Even with the GPU/CPU overclocked to the max, it ran cool as ice. I miss that machine, it had neon, plexiglass case, LED's on the fans and such.
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Post by scottpole on Aug 4, 2007 18:36:59 GMT -5
nice a SATA drive...
super fast processing
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Post by nugget on Aug 4, 2007 18:49:53 GMT -5
Now, wouldn't a processor do the processing?
lol.
SATA drives simply use different connections than the now obsolete IDE drives, which allow for faster data transfer.
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Post by hzac on Aug 4, 2007 19:04:31 GMT -5
Lol, nerds. My computer plays Guitar Zero  |
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Post by scottpole on Aug 4, 2007 19:23:49 GMT -5
well excuse me for being inferior to you to computer knowledge nugget lol i meant data transfer  |
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tednigma
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Hello Mr. Gates
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Post by tednigma on Aug 4, 2007 20:06:48 GMT -5
ROFL!! Yeah, you can laugh/joke/hijack any of my threads just so you know.
And the SATA technology is 'more' than a cable. heehee...
Also, MOST of the speed increase is due to the 16GB cache, vs the 2GB on the old drive.
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r4l
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Post by r4l on Aug 4, 2007 22:18:54 GMT -5
Screw you and your super-duper computer!  I'm jealous! I can't even run Call Of Duty 2!!! |
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Post by cool29801 on Aug 4, 2007 22:56:14 GMT -5
My new computer is ok, my old one got burned in a fire about a year ago.
currently
pentium D 935 3.20GHz dual-core
1024 DDR2Ram
ATI radeon 9550.
Its not bad, but my video card is definantly slowing me down in gaming. when its overclocked though i get a good 80 Fps in halo 2.
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r4l
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Post by r4l on Aug 5, 2007 0:18:05 GMT -5
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tednigma
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Post by tednigma on Aug 5, 2007 0:39:05 GMT -5
That ATI 9550 has been around a long time. I run one, and it's FAST!!!! If you need a AGP card, get that, otherwise it's nVidia PCI-x for my next video upgrade.
I had a choice though. I had about 1k sitting around, and I could upgrade the computer beast, or get a PS3.
I got a PS3; now I've three controllers so the kids and I can play Marvel Ultimate Alliance. They are to young yet for Resistance: Fall of Man, I either hook it to my TV tuner on the gaming beast, or play in the bedroom. That'd give the tikes nightmares. LOL! Yes, I've a TV tuner with a remote spliced into the cable in my computer. As stated, I am a 40 year old 'gaming nerd'. LOL
I also got the drive.. I am in the process of setting it back up, and I am copying flix from the Linux box to it to play in Media Centre. The Linux machine is the ONLY machine that downloads files or goes to techie sites. No viruses can get me, and I can scan them before I turn the files loose on my network.
Anyrate, I'am streaming Dragnet from the new install to my Linux box; it has 5.1 surround, and all is grand.
-cheers-
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Post by cool29801 on Aug 5, 2007 15:01:01 GMT -5
Do you keep your video card overclocked? youll see about a 30 - 60 fps increase in alot of things. halo 2 unoverclocked runs on low at about 20 fps. overclocked i get about 80. it gets pretty hot though, i dont have a fan for it, and i know its not good for it, but it hasnt blown up, malfunctioned, or anything. if it does sometime decide to explode or something then that just motivates me more into putting my money into a better video card.
your lucky to be on your own and get to spend your money how you want. even if i had the money my parents wouldnt let me spend some on a computer part or anything. even if somethings only like $20 cant get it. but i dont get too much money anyway, i work at a car wash getting $5.80 an hour, but the tips definantly make up for that.
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Post by Confusingboat on Aug 9, 2007 1:30:42 GMT -5
Wait wait wait...did I read correctly somewhere up there, 16 GIGABYTE cache?! I'm pretty sure you mean megabyte there man lol. Anyways, ATI 9550, eh? Man that's old stuff. But I'm amazed that you can get 80fps in Halo 2, I have an nVidia GeForce 7300GS 512mb (PCIx16) and it lags like a b1tch...something's up, I can feel it lol. Maybe I should try overclocking it a bit...that or just buy a new damn card, 8800 FTW!
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