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Desktops: Poll: How old is your current main computer?
- 10/17/08 11:17 AM
Chugging is better than none
by nerv2010 - 10/18/08 6:25 AM In reply to: 6-year-old Dell by PatrickRsGhostHey, don't laugh, it works for you. I still have an old 3.5 on my 3 year old box and I still use it occasionally. Mostly to wipe old 3.5's. USB makes it too easy now.
6+ years old
by m7842g - 10/18/08 2:59 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Dell Dimension 8200 running Win XP SP3, Office XP, etc.. Now looking ahead 18-24 months to Win 7, SP1 (probably 64-bit) for new PC and replacement of legacy peripherals and s-ware.
Sony Viao
by dgn1956 - 10/18/08 3:01 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Sony Viao on 3rd Hard drive. Pentium 4 3.06GHZ, Gig of ram (maxium for this PC), 250 Gig hard drive. Use an APC UPS. Not sure now if bought in 03 or 04.
2 year old PC
by NJGoodliffe - 10/18/08 3:08 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Built by small PC company GMT Compters Ltd. 2gb memory. O/S Windows XP Home. Works well - bit slow at times. Have added another internal drive plus an external drive for backup.
MY NEW RIG
by dave-shaz - 10/18/08 3:15 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
i had build my first gaming rig its great my first pc was a 3200 amd 3gig ram OS XP pro and now the OS is vista ultimate 64 bit very nice OS DX-10
GA-X48T-DQ6 MB
Q9550 CPU
TWIN3X4090-1600C7DHX RAM
2X 500 GIG HDD
HIS-HD4870X2 GPU
2 EXTRA ZALMAN 12mm FANS
PIONEER DVD SATA
ANTEC TRUE POWER QUATTRO 1000WT
THERMAL TAKE ARMOR + CASE
AND IT WAS WORTH EVERY $$$$ A VERY GREAT GAMING MACHINE
IF ANY ONE IS LOOKING TO BUILD A NEW RIG I WILL HIGHLY
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how old
by Madnut1 - 10/18/08 3:15 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
as old as the Dinosaurs?
I have an old IBM netvista P3 with 512meg ram raddon vid card, evicta 5.1 sound card it works!!!!
How old
by exsencon - 10/18/08 4:26 AM In reply to: how old by Madnut1I got two Dell computers almost two years ago (yes,I know)
Dell desktop dimension 520 P4 3GHZ 2GBRam 2HD 320gb Nvidia graphics
Dell laptop inspiron 1501 2GB Ram 120GB HD Radeon Xpress graphics
I must say both machines perform quiet well taking into account some of the Dell particulars. They both came with winXP prof installed and after looking around I decided against Win Vista and went for Linux instead. Very good experience (after some initial trial and error stuff)Running smoothly on a multiboot between WinXP and 14 linuxes divided between the two PC's. Happy man!
Home Build
by Riker_1 - 10/18/08 4:18 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
intel 2.6 quad cpu
4 gig memory
zotac nvidia 280 graphics card
2 striped/raided 75 gig drives just for windows to sit on
2 250 gig hdd for games to sit on
2 ext turnal 1t hdd
water cooled
goes like the wind and super cool even on so called super games ,
grid crysis all cool at 40 even with house temp in baking mode ...
10 Months and counting
by terrierterrorNH - 10/18/08 4:59 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
10 month old Acer Aspire 5520 Laptop runin Vista Home Premium with 4GB of RAM. Love it!! and I have left XP behind as of this week. I can do everything I used in XP on the Vista.
how old is my main computer-5 years
by earthrabbit39 - 10/18/08 5:23 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My Dell Inspiron 8600 was shipped 11/10/03..using XP..Mostly e-mail, photo, VOIP.......Computer had a serious melt down while under an extended warranty and Dell came to the house to repair it ........after 18 trips to Italy, 3 to the Dominican Republic, plus thousand of hours of use at home I am starting to get worried.....and while this computer has served me extremely well I'm not sure which computer to purchase in the near future.......a new one is out there waiting for me ....just have to do the research.....
BRAND NEW SPRING '08
by DRDRJAY - 10/18/08 5:33 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Dell Precision M4300 Laptop, 4 GB Ram, 250 GB Sata HD, 15 1/4 WUXGA, 2.8 Ghz. Core 2 Duo Extreme, 3 Usb, Built In: Wireless, Blue Tooth...everything for communication with anything! Fast!
9 year old PowerMac G4 AGP graphics that's still going.
by Fritz the cat - 10/18/08 5:37 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
It's not the latest, nor the greatest, but after several years of doing a good job for me, I still use the old girl. and it's helped after maxing out her ram (4 512mb SD-Ram sticks making a total of 2gb of Ram), replacing her old PowerPC 400mhz proccessor with a 1.8ghz processor.
Giving her 2 graphics cards 1 being an ATI AGP 9800 pro card, and the other being an ATI PCI 7800 card. 4 monitors, a 20 inch widescreen HP LCD monitor, a 17 inch HP LCD monitor, a 15 inch samsung LCD monitor and an old 28 inch GE TV that I play most my movies on.
Given her 2 internal 120gb replacing the single 20gb hardrive that was in her. Even replaced the original Zip drive with a GeeThree: Sweet Multiport.
She even still uses an original Apple airport card.
All in all since I'm not a big gamer and more a movie nut I mostly play several DVD's , Divx, Xvid, iTunes, and quicktime movies on her plus casual web browsing. She also does hard work encoding video's over an Xgrid with my much older G3 iMac witch was recently upgraded to 1gb.
ancient technology you say? Yes. Does it get the job done? HELL YEAH!!!! XD
(And for those that want to know I'm still running Tiger on the G4 and G3 since it was the last great OS for the PowerPC architecture.)
upgrading the processor
by Carizma22 - 10/18/08 6:09 AM In reply to: 9 year old PowerMac G4 AGP graphics that's still going. by Fritz the catCan I upgrade the processor in my titanium Powerbook? I have 867 MHZ.
Carole
Mine's 3
by at78rpm - 10/18/08 5:40 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use a ThinkPad Z60m. It's on every day for at least 9 hours, and works beautifully. Hard drive died last year, which surprised me (ThinkPads are normally synonymous with quality) but was actually a blessing in disguise. I put in a new 100 GB hd and installed Ubuntu. Ubuntu takes advantage of all the fun stuff this ThinkPad can do, so in no way do I miss Windows.
This machine, with a 2GHz processor and 1.2GB ram, has exceeded my expectations in every way. Talk about a workhorse.
9 years and still kicking!
by j7173 - 10/18/08 5:56 AM In reply to: Poll: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I built this thing in 99 and it still runs although slowly.Just recently started to see the blue screen of death Hardware Failure come up on every so often so I think I may have to buid a new one soon.Pentium 3 1ghz,half gig mem,120 gig harddrive and a really old graphics card (64mb mem I think).
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