Geekery

[Rosie]

The bits have been ordered for my new computer wossname. I'm led to believe it's somewhat spiffing. Now I need to convince the boys to turn these box of bits into a wossname.

Intel Quadcore Q6600, 4GB (2*2 Corsair 1000 RAM), 1TB Harddrives (2*500 Seagate SE), 512mb Nvidia 8600GT Graphics Card.

Some women just get flowers and chocolates. I get bits :P

[TGITC]

Duel monitor or single? and how big / screen rez?

[Jase]

I hope there is a new motherboard and power supply in there somewhere too :cheer:

[ApacheAnderson]

You running 32-Bit XP? If so you probably wasted money on that 4th Gig of RAM

[smoothballs]

obviously those come with quad-xxxxspeed and quantum-5000?







just made those fuckers up hehe! :)

[Rosie]

Duel monitor or single? and how big / screen rez?

Long story but I refuse to get a new monitor.......so one monitor. And it's 5 years old this week :)

[Rosie]

I hope there is a new motherboard and power supply in there somewhere too :cheer:

Pardon? :)

(I asked Geek-o-dom and he says yes to both)

[Rosie]

You running 32-Bit XP? If so you probably wasted money on that 4th Gig of RAM

Dunno.... Beloved husband used to work for a big IT company so we have a business disk for XP..... no clue how many bits it is....er....has...er....whatever

[Rosie]

obviously those come with quad-xxxxspeed and quantum-5000?

The case is pretty :chores011:

[S.D.]

I didn't see a Mouse mat in there :noway2:

[Hinc]

I hope there is a new motherboard and power supply in there somewhere too :cheer:

Being the one who threw the junk together - it comes with a Corsair 620W powersupply and a P35 Intel Chipset motherboard from Gigabyte...and a miditower, dvd burner and such things...

It is Windows XP 32bit so yeah, its only likely to make use of 3gigs - but sooner or later the sneaky plan is to force one of my Vista 64bits on her...at which time it will eat anything :)

[Rosie]

I didn't see a Mouse mat in there :noway2:

HINC! Buy me a mouse mat too! :noway2:

[S.D.]

(I've been so busy lately I'm thinking about getting a bigger Mouse mat)

[Rosie]

I've got nasty black crud all over my current mouse mat. As you would expect from me, my mouse mat is the hight of kinky pervery.


It's got The Lion King on it :)

[Hinc]

Personally, I bought one of these today: NQ2910, External HDD Case, Upto 4 HD ATA Drives, 300 watt PSU, Black

As I´ve somehow developed a habit of killing my powersupplies when putting in new old drives...geez.

Btw: You can have a new mousemat....the cats have brouht in plenty of material for it recently

[ApacheAnderson]

Dunno.... Beloved husband used to work for a big IT company so we have a business disk for XP..... no clue how many bits it is....er....has...er....whatever


If you don't know then it's probably 32-bit, it will only use somewhere between 2.75gb and 3.5gb of ram, the rest will be wasted, depending on your Mobo setup.

It's not that much of a wast as you can't buy 1.5gb sticks of ram so for dual-channel over 2gbs you have to go for 4 really. Though you'd have to be doing something really heavy to need more than 2gb.

[Hinc]

If you don't know then it's probably 32-bit, it will only use somewhere between 2.75gb and 3.5gb of ram, the rest will be wasted, depending on your Mobo setup.

It's not that much of a wast as you can't buy 1.5gb sticks of ram so for dual-channel over 2gbs you have to go for 4 really. Though you'd have to be doing something really heavy to need more than 2gb.

True. But - the machine is used for heavy video editing and rendering...and at least on my old one (running XP32 on an old AMD 3500+ - going from 2 to 4 actually made a significant difference during exactly those processes).

Of course, going to a Vista64 Quadcore with 8gigs made it all a swift pleasure later on :)

[S.D.]

I've got nasty black crud all over my current mouse mat. As you would expect from me, my mouse mat is the hight of kinky pervery.


It's got Don King on it :)
:noway2:

[ApacheAnderson]

True. But - the machine is used for heavy video editing and rendering...and at least on my old one (running XP32 on an old AMD 3500+ - going from 2 to 4 actually made a significant difference during exactly those processes).

Of course, going to a Vista64 Quadcore with 8gigs made it all a swift pleasure later on :)

If you're lucking you're going to get 1.5gb extra going to 4gb and video editing would probably come under the 'really heavy' I was refering too ;)

Personaly I went to 4GB from 2 and it didn't make sod all difference to me (even doing large print stuff in Photoshop) what did make a hell of a difference was moving to a 10,000 PRM RAID 0 setup.

[smoothballs]

Pah! Commodore 64's...all of em!! :oldman:

[Hinc]

I loved my Commodore 64.
Getting all sticky thinking about her.