It got the best of me (PART II)

[Farley]

Re: It got the best of me (PART II)

Calico,

Seriously, why do we need PCI-E? What has it done for me? Well, nothing actually. I stopped updating my box when I stopped gaming. My video card is still an old ATI Radeon 9600 XT. Bah, it doesn't even have DDR2 RAM! Still, I have a big hard disk, still it's almost full. I need to upgrade to a 1.5 TB seagate baraccuda.

[2BME]

Re: It got the best of me (PART II)

I stopped updating my box when I stopped gaming.

OMG!
Am I the only one that is biting their tongue?

[Jules1980]

Re: It got the best of me (PART II)

Yes 2bme lmfao!!!!

[CalicoPrairie]

Re: It got the best of me (PART II)

Calico,

Seriously, why do we need PCI-E? What has it done for me? Well, nothing actually. I stopped updating my box when I stopped gaming. My video card is still an old ATI Radeon 9600 XT. Bah, it doesn't even have DDR2 RAM! Still, I have a big hard disk, still it's almost full. I need to upgrade to a 1.5 TB seagate baraccuda.

Well at least your graphics card is better than mine! But I'm not a gamer

Woot---a TB.....yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssss. NEED. I'd love to have an external TB for my lappy. I could save my whole life on there. As it stands, I've got a 60gb jobby.

No DDR2 ram? You must have a dinosaur. What do you have? DDR? DRAM?

Ok--so I can barely keep up with you, ha ha.

Being that I'm the only computer hardware savvy person in the family, and have been for the past 20 years, I know some stuff that is specific to our own household computers, but I'm no major techy. Still, I loved it when my son told me I should get a job with the Geek Squad.

[Jules1980]

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Well my bf is a computer genius! and would know exactly what you guys are talking about since he builds computers for giant ships on the oceans! LMAO But I have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE what you both just said!! haha

[2BME]

Re: It got the best of me (PART II)

I don't know what they said, but I know what I thought of when I read it.....

K - It is Friday afternoon and I am off to fence practice. I shall catch ya all alter!

I am riding out of this thread blasting some Pantera - Cowboys From He11!

[Jules1980]

Re: It got the best of me (PART II)

Pantera is pretty hard core!
Im bustin outta here listening to Matt Costa! LOL So opposite of Pantera! lol You dig?

[Farley]

Re: It got the best of me (PART II)

/geek on

Calico,
The RAM in my desktop is regular DDR, 2 GB of PC 2700. It's an intel P4, 800 MHZ FSB, 3.0 GHz chip (Overclocked to 3.4 GHz). The vid card is overclocked too. It's actually a "Sapphire" Radeon. Very stable, but I replaced the stock heat sync and fan for a Thermaltake unit that came with RAM heat syncs. The slave HDD in my desktop is a Maxator 320 GB drive, the master is a little 80 GB drive. I have an external connected to my Asus O!Play digital media player and it's a 750 GB Baraccuda (e-sata) drive. I do, however still want a Networked 1.5 TB drive. I would love to connect it to my router. I recently modded it and flashed the firmware to turn it from an Asus WL520gu, into a "tomato". It's a modded version of the open source WRT type firmware that turns your $60.00 dollar router into a $600.00 dollar router (features wise). I love the interface.

Speaking of my O!Play, does anyone else have a "digital media player" like Apple TV, or WDTV? I am anxiously awaiting the release of the Boxee box (by Dlink). It's supposed to be released soon, and the interface looks soooo sexy.

/geek off

[CalicoPrairie]

Re: It got the best of me (PART II)

/geek on

Calico,
The RAM in my desktop is regular DDR, 2 GB of PC 2700. It's an intel P4, 800 MHZ FSB, 3.0 GHz chip (Overclocked to 3.4 GHz). The vid card is overclocked too. It's actually a "Sapphire" Radeon. Very stable, but I replaced the stock heat sync and fan for a Thermaltake unit that came with RAM heat syncs. The slave HDD in my desktop is a Maxator 320 GB drive, the master is a little 80 GB drive. I have an external connected to my Asus O!Play digital media player and it's a 750 GB Baraccuda (e-sata) drive. I do, however still want a Networked 1.5 TB drive. I would love to connect it to my router. I recently modded it and flashed the firmware to turn it from an Asus WL520gu, into a "tomato". It's a modded version of the open source WRT type firmware that turns your $60.00 dollar router into a $600.00 dollar router (features wise). I love the interface.

Speaking of my O!Play, does anyone else have a "digital media player" like Apple TV, or WDTV? I am anxiously awaiting the release of the Boxee box (by Dlink). It's supposed to be released soon, and the interface looks soooo sexy.

/geek off

Heee.....ok you win--you ARE the biggest geek!

You run all that one 2GB of Ram tho??

I need a slave drive, but alas, my lappy can't upgrade in any way except externals, save the ram but I think I'm at my limit.

Nope, no digital media player. I wanna watch tv on my laptop---besides from the internet, I mean. I love options.

[Farley]

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Yup, three sticks of RAM, two 512 MB, and one 1024 MB. Windows XP Pro only recognizes 4GB of RAM, and then there's like 600+ MB that are unavailable... better to just use 3 GB in an old 32 bit OS.

My lappy, on the other hand is newer and shinier. But the video card is sadly, sad. It is a 4 GB laptop, with a 64 bit processor and operating system. It also has a 320 GB HDD. It's an Acer Extensia. Can't remember which model. The screen sucks, but it's been a very durable unit.

[CalicoPrairie]

Re: It got the best of me (PART II)

Ohhhhh ok. Windows XP Pro. Not a Vista or 7 enthusiast? Lots of people aren't. I have it and don't really care one way or the other what OS I'm using as long as it works.

Hey your lappy sounds similar in build as mine, but mine's a Gateway. Love this little thing, don't know how I ever lived chained to my desktop! I love being mobile!

[Jules1980]

Re: It got the best of me (PART II)

blah blah blah no understand geek language! lol

[CalicoPrairie]

Re: It got the best of me (PART II)

blah blah blah no understand geek language! lol

ROFL!

Next subject? Low carb pizzzzzzzzaaaaa. What recipe do you use and love?

[Farley]

Re: It got the best of me (PART II)

Yeah my desktop is just a file server now. Although, if I ever decide to play a computer game again I would very likely play it on the desktop (if it can handle it). I played Assassin's Creed on the laptop because my old desktop doesn't do the newer versions of pixel shader coding. It's better than I am out of the gaming thing for more reasons than just the money I blew on components. I used to play EverQuest (I & II) and when I was playing the most, it was between 50 and 70 hours a week (on top of working full time and being newlywed). But that was another life ago.

[Farley]

Re: It got the best of me (PART II)

LOL Okay okay.

My LC pizza crust is the cauliflower, egg, mozerella recipe.

1 cup riced cauliflower
1 cup shredded mozz
1 egg
fennel, oregano, parsley (to taste).

450F for 15-20 mins