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| Can your machine FLY ! |
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| Nomi |
| 07/10/03 at 17:21:41 |
| [slm] Had to throw this (subject line) at some friends who were irking me with this discussion on specs of their systems. Man! there are so many high tech graphic cards and stuff these days that its crazy... and people really change their system specs fast!!! So, how often do you get your hardware changed ? Any special hardware/card you got in that box? what are the specs btw ? Oh, dont forget to mention that whether your system can fly or not :P i'll post my answers later .......... to shock you bad !! [slm] Asim Zafar. |
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| Al-Basha |
| 07/11/03 at 02:42:08 |
| [slm] Heh nice post, well no box isn't something totally out of this world. I am not the type of guy who believes in using bleeding edge hardware. Software on the other hand ... So here's what I'm running AMD 800Mhz Duron MSI K7-T Motherboard 512MB PC133 SDRAM 160GB 7200RPM Maxtor Drive with an 8MB buffer @ UDMA-133 Hitachi 16x DVD-ROM Drive Sony 16x CD-R with an 8MB buffer Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 64MB RAM w/TV-Out Alhamdulilah, built the box myself. Honestly I will never buy an OEM box again insha Allah. I tell all my friends and family to 'build your own', once you do you'll never go back ... I usually get a new CPU every 3 or 4 yrs. Yeah I know that's a very very very long time in CPU advancements but the way I see is that it takes at least that long for any decent software to come out that'll take some advantage of those wasted CPU cycles. And no I won't run SETI@HOME, it's a conspiracy and there are no aliens :P Video card I upgrade every 2 years. Drive space, whenever I fill up my current drive, I went 2 yrs with my first drive before getting the 160GB one. Insha Allah my next box will look like this AMD Opteron 5Ghz 64-bit CPU 2GB DDR?? RAM 500GB Serial-ATA HardDrive DVD +/- R/RW Drive 512MB Video Card ??????? |
| 07/11/03 at 02:55:35 |
| Al-Basha |
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| superFOB |
| 07/11/03 at 06:33:46 |
| [wlm] Well there is always folding@home and gromacs. SETI is stupid. Here is my config: AMD Athlon XP 2200+ 1.8GHz Processor 512megs DDR RAM: DDR333 PC2700 Asus nforce2 mobo: A7N8X Deluxe nforce2 GeForce4 4200 video card: MSI G4Ti4200-TD8X64 Samsung combo drive: CDRW/DVD 48X24X48X16 Wester Digital HD: CAVIAR SE 80GB ATA/100 HD 8.9MS 8MB 7200RPM Antec chassis: ATX12V 400W P/S 4 5.25 6 3.5 19" dual monitor and logitech wireless kb/mouse combo. No floppy drive! Boy, this should be in the ikhwan folder. |
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| muahmed |
| 07/11/03 at 15:12:39 |
| [slm] WoW ! 80 GB and 160 GB harddisks! What do you people do with that much space? I have a 30 GB HD and I dual boot Linux and Win XP and I still have tons of free space! I can't seem to use it up! I don't think I am gonna run out of space ever (inshAllah)! What do you guys do with such big hard disks? |
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| bhaloo |
| 07/11/03 at 22:03:39 |
| [slm] Here is my system: AMD-2200 mhz 512 megs DDR 16x DVD ROM Drive 4x DVD-R, PIONEER A-05 RECORDER!!!! WOOHOO TI-4200 64 megs AGP card 80 gig drive (I can easily fill this up, *hint* *hint* the recorder and firewire) Firewire connector Finally a real MAN topic in a looooooonggg time. Not bad SuperFOB. |
| 07/11/03 at 22:05:02 |
| bhaloo |
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| superFOB |
| 07/12/03 at 07:30:44 |
| [slm] When I was buying my system, 30 gig drives weren't around anymore. The price difference between 40, 60, and 80 gig drives was such that buying 80 gigs gave you most bang for the buck. 120 gig and higher were a little expensive though. Believe me, when you have hard disk space, you find ways to fill it up. Btw, any tips on upgrading the stock CPU cooling fan, anyone? |
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| Al-Basha |
| 07/12/03 at 19:50:52 |
| [slm] Well before I start I just wanna see, the fellow geek sisters out there (and yes they DO exist :) are more than welcome to join in on the topic. As for cooling, recently I built a barebones Shuttle SK41g box for my sister and it came with this thing called an ICE heatpipe. It's basically a heatsink with 4 or 5 pipes about 5 or 10 cm apart from each other. The pipes are bent at about a 60 degree angle and at the end there are sheets of metal about 1cm apart stuck on the heatpipes which you can put behind a fan. You can find pretty good fans out there, i recommend something along the order of 3-4K RPM for using with a heatpipe. They are a bit expensive, and depending on the material (copper, versus titanium alloys) it can put a dent in your wallet. But if you're die hard OCer then a heatpipe is definetly the way to go short of getting some liquid nitro coolant through your system. P.S: Nice box you got there Bhaloo, can i take it for a spin ;) [quote author=superFOB link=board=media;num=1057868501;start=0#5 date=07/12/03 at 07:30:44][slm] Btw, any tips on upgrading the stock CPU cooling fan, anyone?[/quote] |
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| BroHanif |
| 07/14/03 at 19:47:10 |
| A real system in my hand Dell PDA Axim 68 megs of memory Wireless enabled Enough storage OS Pocket PC Does it fly, why yes have you seen the looks on my friends faces when I say I've got Bukhari/Quran and other great works in my pocket. Beat that Nomi. Salaams Hanif |
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| Nomi |
| 07/16/03 at 09:33:21 |
| [slm] heh.. all you bros with your high tech stuff and no body with those oldy goldies has replied. You ppl must have thought that i have got a dream machine on my hands :P. Well infact i bought this "super computer" some 6 years back, it rarely crashed on me and has become a "first love" so i can't let go of it ;) Its a Pentium ONE 200 "em em ex" machine :P with 2.1 GIGA <= you hear that GIGA BYTE of storage space in it ;D During studies mostly i used computers at uni, now at my workplace i've got this P3 machine that supports all the heavy softwares (and games that i used to play with my colleagues eg. Quake II ; Unreal Tournament etc). So no worries as i just want my PC to support the basic stuff. This system is the oldest thing among my friends'... bro Hanif try to beat THAT [slm] Asim Zafar :) |
| 07/16/03 at 09:53:03 |
| Nomi |
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| bhaloo |
| 07/16/03 at 09:39:06 |
| [slm] We should have a *FRAG* session. ;) [quote author=Nomi link=board=media;num=1057868501;start=0#8 date=07/16/03 at 09:33:21] Unreal Tournament etc).[/quote] |
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| Nomi |
| 07/17/03 at 07:51:10 |
| [slm] Alright, let me just get my Hyperblaster, arena will be of your choice ;).... and there was a thing that destroyed everyone including yourself, ah i even forgot name of those weapons. Btw that devil on the last level was such an evil, if i get to see him real lifa i'll...... argh, i'll STILL be running like hell coz he is unbelievably fast. |
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| Nomi |
| 07/22/03 at 18:50:02 |
| [slm] [quote author=Nomi link=board=media;num=1057868501;start=0#10 date=07/17/03 at 07:51:10]and there was a thing that destroyed everyone including yourself, [/quote] its called a Redeemer, just recalled.. hm... anywayz... |
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| BroHanif |
| 07/25/03 at 14:07:51 |
| Salaams, [quote]Its a Pentium ONE 200 "em em ex" machine [/quote] Why am I not surprised to say that I have the same machine aprt from the disk mine is 10gigs in size. Anyway soon to get a laptop with all the doo dahs. Salaams Hanif |
| NS |
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| Nomi |
| 07/27/03 at 17:49:26 |
| [slm] Welcome back bro and have a ZamZam cola on me [] ... but plz plz plz save few sips for me coz i'm running low on stock due to mass distribution :P |
| 07/27/03 at 17:51:05 |
| Nomi |
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| SuperHiMY |
| 07/27/03 at 21:10:50 |
AsalamAlayKum, Peace and e-Greetings be upon you... Commodore VIC-20 8 K ROM 8 K RAM Tape Drive (can use regular audio cassettes as storage medium) Keyboard with funny graphics that if you press the CTRL key and that letter, you can see it Oh, and it's in COLOUR! You know, I don't know if this even exists...but... did Recitation of the Qur'an ever appear on 8-track cassettes? I do know for a fact that the FIRST audio cassette recordings of the Qur'an to appear was actually the FIRST decree of the Zulifiqar Ali Bhutto when he became CMLA of Pakistan (Chief Marshall Law Administrator). Our family had a set of the tapes. Anyway, Does anyone have any Vic-20 games to trade? Anyone? |
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| NinthMuharram |
| 08/01/03 at 05:50:26 |
| my system doesn't fly. it stays one place. [quote]Dell PDA Axim 68 megs of memory Wireless enabled Enough storage OS Pocket PC [/quote] Bro hanif ;D [quote]Finally a real MAN topic in a looooooonggg time. Not bad SuperFOB. [/quote] this is when one of those nuisance :-) disturb the balance ;) i remembered this topic when i am playing with my new toy. was actually aiming for middle range workstation but have to settle with something less . just enough to start a career as an amateur spielberg. Pentium 4 CPU 3.0G 2G 400Mhz DDR SDRAM 128MB ATI Radeon 9800 TX DDR w/tvout & dvi 120G SATA 7200RPM HDD 4xDVD +R/RW burner 17" CRT monitor which will be changed to 17" LCD monitor The portable currently using is quite old Pentium 3 800Mhz ATI Mobility M4 384 Mb memory CDRW 15" LCD |
| 08/01/03 at 05:52:24 |
| NinthMuharram |
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| superFOB |
| 08/01/03 at 07:39:30 |
| [slm] Lower jaw hits the floor. |
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