Desktops: Poll: How old is your current main computer?
- 10/17/08 11:17 AM
Poll: How old is your current main computer?
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) - 10/17/08 11:17 AM
How old is your current main computer?
- It's brand-spanking-new (What do you have?)
- Less than a year old (What do you have?)
- 1 year (What do you have?)
- 2 years (What do you have?)
- 3 years (What do you have?)
- 4 years (What do you have?)
- 5 years (What do you have?)
- 6 or more years (What do you have?)
- It's so old I'm embarrassed to say (What do you have?)
5 year old home built
by Steven Haninger - 10/17/08 2:51 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Still runs fine for what I do....which isn't much of anything worthwhile.
Out with the old, in with the new
by Silvertop - 10/17/08 8:42 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Last May I decided to build a new system. I have been an AMD man for many years but with the Intel duo E8400 coming out I switched. So now I have an Intel Core2 DUO E8400 dual running at 3.0 GHZ with 2 gigs of PC2-8500 dual channel Ram. The motherboard is a Gigabyte P35-DS3L. I kept my old 500gig SATA2 Seagate and my Antec case, LG DVD drive and 650W power supply. I also kept my Nvida Gforce 7300 512M video card. What a difference between my old overclocked AMD X2 4800 running at 2.6 GHZ and the new Intel. I hate to admit it but I was wrong all these years about AMD being the best. Intel rules. Oh well we learn by doing.
Welcome to the Dark Side
by nerv2010 - 10/18/08 6:28 AM In reply to: Out with the old, in with the new by SilvertopWe love AMD converts. Ah, ha, ha! Nice rig you built though, better yet that you scavenged parts from the old box.
Spanking new
by nerv2010 - 10/17/08 8:43 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
HP xw6400 workstation. Going to work with my older custom 3 yr old box.
Stats on boxes
by nerv2010 - 10/18/08 6:18 AM In reply to: Spanking new by nerv2010Old box:
P 3.0, 2G RAM, 2x WD raptors, ATI vid, XP Pro, Office Pro
New box:
dual quad core Xeon 2.0, 4G RAM, 2x WD raptor, 1x 160G HD, Quadro NVS 285, XP Pro, Office Pro.
First thing to go in the new box will be the video. Should upgrade to a Quadro FX.
Poll: How old is your current main computer?
by bskoros - 10/17/08 8:49 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
About Six months ago my P4, 3 gig mobo went south for the second time, so I decided it was time for a new system. Went with a Core 2 quad, 2.4 gig, 4 gig ram, Vista Business, duel Nvida 8800 GT's (SLI) with duel Acer 22" widescreen LCD's. Originally I went with a Creative Audigy card but recently switched to a Razor instead.
Love it!
Bill
Laptop
by beinghappysucks - 10/17/08 8:49 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I'm a college kid. This is the laptop I got from my boarding school 2 years ago. Can't really afford to replace it and it runs Ubuntu fine. I would want to switch more if I gamed, but I do not.
just turned 2
by kaptainzero - 10/17/08 8:52 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I bought mine off uBid.com refurbished and got a bigger power supply and a new graphics card. The whole thing cost me about $800 and can play any of today's games on max settings perfectly (except Crysis, that's not fair). Does everything with zero problems, I installed Vista Ultimate with no slowdown. I completely reformat it every 2 months or so to keep it running fast.
Reformat!?
by mwooge - 10/17/08 10:30 PM In reply to: just turned 2 by kaptainzeroYou reformat every two months? How much do you have in your HD? I should think if you have much of anything you'd lose stuff that didn't re-load properly.
smart move on the reformett
by psharer4062 - 10/18/08 7:14 AM In reply to: Reformat!? by mwoogeIf you set it up right yu will loose nothing, I do the same thing but I have an extra dfew drives that I store all of my important data on like photos, word documents etc. So when I reload all I have to do is reload the OS and the drivers.
Why reformat so often?
by Rickanne - 10/18/08 5:39 AM In reply to: just turned 2 by kaptainzeroSeriously, why? Conventional hard drives only get so many good reformats. They are like CD/DVD-RW. You only get to erase it a certain number of times before its no good. Have you ever tried using something like CCleaner? Or how Disk Cleanup and Disk Defrag? I know reformatting keeps the thing fast, but every time you have to reload all your games, programs, and other apps (unless you have complete hard drive backup images). Now I use CCleaner and Revo Uninstaller. These clean out all the junk and remove any unused programs at my discretion without leftover registry entries. Keeps my Vista x64 PC running as quickly as the day I built it. I run Intel Core2Duo E7200 at 2.53 GHz, 4 gigs of DDR2 at 667 MHz, GeForce graphics card, and a 250 GB SATA II hard drive. Ultimately, what you do is your choice, but the above programs/suggestions may make your computing life a little easier.
totally agree
by bush4rat8kizzy - 10/19/08 3:12 PM In reply to: Why reformat so often? by Rickannehave been using to clean up a Vigor laptop bought used and had lots of cleanup, using Ccleaner, Defraggler from same co. and Revo is the killer cleaner without doing anything else this laptop now works 100% and I'm sure I could still offload a whole lot more without having to reformat. Try it you'll like it...
One fairly new; three older
by websquad - 10/17/08 9:01 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Main machine is Win XP/Pro SP3 I had built in Feb'08: Indel Core 2 Quad 6600, eVGA nFource 780i MB, 2x2GB PC-6400 RAM, nVidia GeForce video with 512MB, SLI capable, pair of WD Raptor X's in RAID-1 for sys/programs; pair of WD Caviar 500GB in RAID-1 for data, Cooler Master case + PS; Floppy; modem, DVD. Have a ~7 year old HP laptop ... adequate because I require so little of it. Also an old Compaq driven by Linux/Ubuntu and a Mac PowerPC G4 with OS-X 10.4. Do web development on the XP/Pro machine, use the others to check web compatibility and to play with. New machine can be overclocked and the socket will take several CPU upgrades. Waiting for Windows 7 to spring for 64-bit computing. As is, am pleased with configurations.
- 6 or more years -IBM Thinkpad A20p
by electricseashell - 10/17/08 9:03 PM In reply to: Poll: How old is your current main computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
IBM Thinkpad A20p not enough RAM and keys are worn but it still runs.. 
I traveled around the US with it for two years and then coffee shop visits for 3 more. I bought it when it was at least a year old and refurbished. It had to have the hard drive replaced while under warranty but really hasn't given me too much trouble until I tried to run Windows XP.
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