Windows Vista Beta, AAHHHHH!!

William from NOLA · Post by **William from NOLA** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:14 pm

AMD 64 3000+ Venice core
Gigabyte K8NS-Ultra 939
Patriot 1 gig of ram
three 160 gig WD hard drives and one 250 gig sata seagate hard drive
Albatron Geforce4 4800se
Echo MiaMIDI recording card
Soon to come: DVD burner

XP SP2 and have Vista on a separate hdd. I run Knoppix 4.xx from a cd (Linux).

My server:
AMD Athlon 1133MHz
512 megs of ram
30 gig Maxtor drive and 160 gig Seagate

joeyc · Post by **joeyc** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:33 pm

That 6800 is a nice card!! Oh and william, dude I would get lost with all that HD space!!!!!!!! Why do you need so much?

NViejeP · Post by **NViejeP** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:14 pm

Loading up on some videos I see William.. haha

anyways, I like my ATI Radeon 9700, it came with my dell 4 years back. Been reliable ever since. I don't really do that much of gaming

solacedagony · Post by **solacedagony** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:19 am

William from NOLA wrote:AMD 64 3000+ Venice core
Gigabyte K8NS-Ultra 939
Patriot 1 gig of ram
three 160 gig WD hard drives and one 250 gig sata seagate hard drive
Albatron Geforce4 4800se
Echo MiaMIDI recording card
Soon to come: DVD burner
XP SP2 and have Vista on a separate hdd. I run Knoppix 4.xx from a cd (Linux).
My server:
AMD Athlon 1133MHz
512 megs of ram
30 gig Maxtor drive and 160 gig Seagate

Did you just put that 3rd harddrive on your secondary IDE channel?

OnYrMrk · Post by **OnYrMrk** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:01 am

JeremyC wrote:You know MS gave a bunch of hackers a copy, and asked them to break it. I guess these guys are the best of the best in the hacker world. So we will see what happens.
Yeah I got a few min free at work. Not much going on tonight.

Hackers nothing, I will just let my grandmother use Vista, she can break anything.

on that note, I can get Vista at no charge, so when it comes out, I will see how good the actual Vista really is.

my current computers are: 486DLC w/math coprocessor, 33mhz with Turbo button, 850meg hard drive, both kinds of disk drives (3.5 and 5.25) with a 4x cdrom drive. 12meg of ram. Believe it or not, this is my gateway, it runs Red Hat Linux 6.2 (gui not installed).
Next up is a dual 600mhz Pentium 2 with 512mb ram, 120G HD, Windows XP running (son's computer, used to be mine)
Next up is my Dell (got tired of building them) Pentium 4 3.24Ghz, 1.5G Ram, dual 250G harddrives, CD-RW/DVD-RW combo drive, Windows XP Pro installed, but dual boot with Windows 2003 Server to play with.
Next is my laptop: Dell 17" Widescreen 2.40Ghz Pentium Centrino Duo? something like that, I don't have it handy to double check, but the work gave it to me. DVD-RW, Docking station, 1G Ram, Windows XP Pro installed. Oh and 120G HD. That is about it, unless you count the new computers I have at work, to which they are Dell's as well, my current one has dual 19" LCD monitors, Pentium 4 Duo, 3.24GHz, 2G Ram, 250G HD, with CD, DVD-RW, and everything is USB 2.0 based so I have about 10 ports on the computer and 2 ports each on the monitors.

Bwcad1 · Post by **Bwcad1** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:19 am

my system! lol i have 2 first my work computer

compaq evo w6000 intel xenon 1.8ghz 2gb ram 2 120 gb hds xp and about 40k worth of programs.

home dell ispiron 5160 laptop 3.2ghz 1 gb of ram. xp operating system. 80gb hard drive but the only thing that sux is it has a invidia geforce fx go 5200. its only 32mb

solacedagony · Post by **solacedagony** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:14 am

Beautiful computers Joe!

Btw, I cancelled the order for the 6800 and just went with the x1600pro instead. Figured I might as well buy the near cream of the crop so this computer will last me a few more years until another set of processors come out lol.

CaptainPioneer · Post by **CaptainPioneer** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:31 am

My computer:
NZXT Gamer Case Nemesis Sandstone Red
Smasung 19" flat monitor
JBL Alien 2.1 Sound
Operating System Win XP Pro sp2
Processor: AMD Athlon Barton 3800 1.8ghz overclocked 2.4ghz
Asus Deluxe, unsure of model, 64 compatable though :)
1 gb Kingson Ram
80 gb Maxtor; 40 gb maxtor hd
DVD-RW+-; DVD ROM Drive; CD-RW all lite-on drives
Typhoon Cooling over processor Thermaltake (yea the huge one)
Case Black lights, and orange Neon reactive sleeving over the cables (Took forever to do that)
Video Card is ATI Radeon 5700 or something like that... Runs Doom 3 no problems.
Soundcard is 128MB Card, totally forgot what it was but does the job

NViejeP · Post by **NViejeP** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:45 am

I got out of the computer hardware scene awhile ago. I still have my old computer, but I used to love getting the top of the line computer and building them.

William from NOLA · Post by **William from NOLA** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 12:00 pm

solacedagony wrote:Did you just put that 3rd harddrive on your secondary IDE channel?

Yea. My cd drive is the master on that one.

joeyc wrote:That 6800 is a nice card!! Oh and william, dude I would get lost with all that HD space!!!!!!!! Why do you need so much?

Haha, I had RAID configurations before. I needed that hdd speed with striping for video editing. I'm a film major. Raw uncompressed video is 30 MB/s, so you do the math :)

I no longer am running the 3 in RAID 0. I found out recently that this motherboard only does software RAID. My previous had hardware RAID.

The 250 gig really wasn't going to be in my good computer, but I had to change motherboards on my server, and the mobo in there now does not have sata.