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Post Wed Sep 22, 2010 11:47 pm

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Another LOL-worthy repsonse, I see. You tend to rack those up.

I like a lot of your choices. I personally consider Windows 7 polished enough to be willing to fully migrate off of XP. After all, the only true applications I need to support on Windows are the games I play...the rest I have Linux programs for. However, I still manage to keep up with a full suite of Windows applications for the purposes I might need, for example, on my laptop (with is Windows-only).

I recently switched to Avast! Antivirus myself, actually. AVG has become just a bit too bloaty if you ask me. I used AVG to get away from the bloat of Norton, not return to it... OpenOffice is all I use for my word processing on any OS. I love it. And I would also recommend CDBurnerXP if you haven't heard of it. Great substitution for the venerable Nero Burning ROM, which I used to use myself.

As far as the "try before you buy" crap, I have a lot of problems with manufacturers like HP which plop all that shit on the systems. I find it's easier to wipe the entire machine and start from scratch rather than trying to uninstall all of that, plus the stupid and annoying applications they embed into the OS (do you REALLY need a better wireless connectivity application than the one Windows provides???). But maybe that's just me.

And yes, your history of Microsoft OSes is very accurate. As my old boss put it eloquently, Microsoft would alternate "revolutionary" releases (e.g. Windows 95, Windows ME, and Windows Vista) and "evolutionary" releases (e.g. Windows 98, Windows XP, and Windows 7). But yeah, I can safely say I've moved on from XP happily, and the crashes or application bugs are extremely rare, if at all.
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Post Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:42 pm

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I understand that 7 is better than XP, but I'm not PC gods like you, Eagle and Byte, so, I need to be happy with my XP... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


Also, I'm SOOOOO jealous now, because my friend won a notebook in a city contest... It's an Acer with W7 Ultimate, 4GB RAM, 500GB HD (I think)... Wow, I need to study more for the next contest... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Also, I'm just telling you guys that I'll be inactive next week, since my test week starts tomorrow, I need to study, because I need a good grade in Biology...

Wish me luck guyss :3
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Post Mon Sep 27, 2010 5:35 pm

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I'm still an XP man on the Windows front - on the Linux side of things I'm still dabbling around in a load of different distros - despite the fact that it's been over a year and a half since I first tried out Linux - I have none installed at the moment but I'm planning on finally having a fuckaround with Gentoo when I get around to it sometime soon.
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Post Wed Oct 27, 2010 12:21 pm

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Post Wed Oct 27, 2010 1:04 pm

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Sheizenhammer wrote:Porn.


Will somebody please get me the trank rifle - this guy needs some serious bed-rest! :D
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Post Wed Oct 27, 2010 3:59 pm

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Sheizenhammer wrote:Porn.


*Bitch-smacks Sheiz up the head for a good hour or two until his face is so ugly it could be a modern-art masterpiece*

The computer looks like shit, too. :-P Want to see what a real computer looks like, inside and out? Go here.
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Post Wed Oct 27, 2010 5:20 pm

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On the outside, most of my PCs look like plain old clones....however, on the inside, my most recent creation blows that toy away:

Intel i7 - 930 cpu, 8 core, 3.08Ghz
12GB DDR3 Triple channel RAM
4 TB (mirrored) 10,000RPM SATA drives
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R X58 MOBO
Radeon HD5870 1GB DDR5 Video Card
1000W Coolmax PSU
Windows 7 Professional


You can stop drooling now....
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Post Fri Dec 03, 2010 3:55 pm

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Byte, would you mind not making me so damn jealous with those things? I'm sitting here with my integrated graphics, stuck unable to play the majority of games from 2006 onwards, while you're out there with that... beast. Oh my. :3
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Post Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:45 am

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With some of the money I received for Christmas, I'm starting work on a new PC - but this time, I am going to be trying something different - and far more challenging: Configure 3 PCs as similarly as possible - but NOT identical - but run Windows 7 Pro on all of them. Connect all three using Cat6 (Gigabit) fiber-optic cables to a high-speed hub. Then begin work on O/S tweaks to simulate true task / CPU sharing among all three units.

I know that Win7 Pro can use multiple CPUS on a single PC. I want to see if I can make it work across a high-speed link between separate PCs. In theory, instead of running 3 separate 8-core machines, I could be running 24 cores at once on one task.

Sharing data across PCs is easy - virtual drives on multiple physical devices have been around for a while. But how to synchronize and unify the O/S????

Power...can you feel it?....

Note to Eagle: If someone has already done this in Linux, let me know - I'll use different drives and do it that way first, as proof of concept...
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Post Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:35 pm

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FYI... Lizzy got an iPad for Christmas. :3.

Now Uncie Eagle isn't the only one with fabulous toys. ;)
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Post Thu Jan 13, 2011 10:14 pm

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Wow Bytes... You with that thing that has 12GB OF RAM?? WTF? My little netbook has 1GB. lol

It barely runs Age of Mythology, just immagine my compared to yours...

Now, can you - Pc masters - please tell me what's a good pc for gaming? I've been looking at the Alienware M11X, is it worth the price or it's just sensationalism. I searched in Google if it's graphic card can support new games, like Black Ops or Bad Company 2, but I found nothing in Portuguese. So, can you guys please tell me if it could run some new games?

I plan on giving this netbook to my mom and buy a M11X when I go to my state's capital to pass the whole High School, I'll go next year, living by myself, and I'll need a good PC to do all those researchs and feed my gaming hunger... :lol: :lol: :lol:

So, is M11X a good machine, or it's just sensationalism crap?
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Post Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:16 am

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RogerBK wrote:Wow Bytes... You with that thing that has 12GB OF RAM?? WTF? My little netbook has 1GB. lol

It barely runs Age of Mythology, just immagine my compared to yours...

Now, can you - Pc masters - please tell me what's a good pc for gaming? I've been looking at the Alienware M11X, is it worth the price or it's just sensationalism. I searched in Google if it's graphic card can support new games, like Black Ops or Bad Company 2, but I found nothing in Portuguese. So, can you guys please tell me if it could run some new games?

I plan on giving this netbook to my mom and buy a M11X when I go to my state's capital to pass the whole High School, I'll go next year, living by myself, and I'll need a good PC to do all those researchs and feed my gaming hunger... :lol: :lol: :lol:

So, is M11X a good machine, or it's just sensationalism crap?


Well, first off, did you know that most Alienware units are actually DELL XPS Gamer boxes with fancier cases? Inside, they have the same parts - and if you call up Alienware support, you get DELL technicians. Mind you, I do use DELL for servers and PCs and laptops - they're not bad, actually.

Before you select a "model", you need to figure out your balance between budget and functionality. For example, the DELL Studio XPS 9100 is a great gamer box to start with - and not only can you overclock it, you can also upgrade parts and the CPU later, if you want. It starts with:

Intel i7-930 (8-core, 2.8 Ghz CPU) - but can also take faster i7's (more $$$, though)
4 GB RAM (expandable to 24GB)
Windows 7 Pro, 64 bit
1 TB single SATA drive - can support up to 4 drives, 2TB each - max 8TB
NVIDIA GeForce G310 512MB DDR3 Video Card - not a bad start - you can get bigger / faster, but this should be ok for now
CD/DVD Reader/Burner
1 Year warranty
Base price (before tax & shipping): $999 (US)

Since it's a standard size case and tower, upgrading to 3rd-party components is an easy matter.

I recommend the DELL Studio XPS line over Alienware because you can get basically the same components inside the box - for less money. True, you won't have a freaky alien-shaped cabinet - but if you have $300 extra bucks to piss away, well go ahead and get it. I'd rather have a killer machine inside an old cabinet than a mediocre machine in a fancy one. In fact, ALL of my gamer boxes have been built inside old AOPEN cases that are at least 7-8 years old. If someone comes in and sees the PC off, they'll thinks its old junk and leave it alone. No one is gonna steal a 7 year old PC. But when you power them up, and the lights dim in the room when 3 boxes, each running 1000 watt PSUs, spring to life, you can feel the energy in the air. It doesn't have to be fancy outside, as long as it's a monster inside.

What kind of budget are you dealing with? Let me know, and I'll spec out a few possibilities for you, ok?

Hey, this is what I do for a living. Kids, don't try this at home - I are a professional! :lol:
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Post Fri Jan 14, 2011 3:10 am

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Well, first off, did you know that most Alienware units are actually DELL XPS Gamer boxes with fancier cases? Inside, they have the same parts - and if you call up Alienware support, you get DELL technicians. Mind you, I do use DELL for servers and PCs and laptops - they're not bad, actually.

Before you select a "model", you need to figure out your balance between budget and functionality. For example, the DELL Studio XPS 9100 is a great gamer box to start with - and not only can you overclock it, you can also upgrade parts and the CPU later, if you want. It starts with:

Intel i7-930 (8-core, 2.8 Ghz CPU) - but can also take faster i7's (more $$$, though)
4 GB RAM (expandable to 24GB)
Windows 7 Pro, 64 bit
1 TB single SATA drive - can support up to 4 drives, 2TB each - max 8TB
NVIDIA GeForce G310 512MB DDR3 Video Card - not a bad start - you can get bigger / faster, but this should be ok for now
CD/DVD Reader/Burner
1 Year warranty
Base price (before tax & shipping): $999 (US)



HOLY SHIT!
That amount of power in a computer for 999 BEFORE TAX & SHIPPING, $69.93 for tax, and then I figured in 35 for shipping, came to a total of $1103.93, about 900-1000 less than what I paid for, for my laptop
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Post Fri Jan 14, 2011 3:13 am

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ByteSlinger wrote:Note to Eagle: If someone has already done this in Linux, let me know - I'll use different drives and do it that way first, as proof of concept...


Linux clustering is quite advanced. Hell, Cray does their clutering on Linux now for their supercomputers. We use it at work, to, on IBM 3950s running RHEL5. Plopping Fedora on those puppies you're planning will definitely work well for a basic cluster. As far as your shared storage, issue, just get yourself some kind of SAN or NAS as your cluster drive. If you're going to be running on fibrechannel anyway, it's not hard to get this data shared to all three systems. Also, since you have an odd number of computers, you don't need a quorum disk, either. Should be easily done for a techie gal like you.

Here's the HOWTO from Redhat's site. Note that this is the RHEL documentation, but all the software necessary is in the Fedora repos:

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_H ... istration/

By the way, Christmas was good for me. Got COD:Black Ops as well as Fallout:New Vegas. I was disappointed with the performance on my machine, though.

So, I had to plop down the cash for a GTX 570. :-P Luckily, Microcenter had it for really cheap ($360 with tax). Runs awesome. Fallout:NV runs at max settings with 16xQ antialiasing and 16xanisitropic filtering (and all other eye candy, of course). Black Ops is maxed out too. I can't get either game to dip below 60fps (on 2048x1152 resolution, of course :-)).

However, Minecraft still runs like balls. Go figure.
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Post Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:34 am

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Hmmm, thanks for the awesome answer bytes... I saw Alienware's components, and, with the little I know about notebooks, RAM, graphic cards, processor and all that complex shit, I realized there's a lot of things better than it. I searched a bit in the web, and I saw Alienware is not the "Ultimate Gaming Machine" like it's described, I think people sucks Alienware's balls because of it's design, that is awesome.

So, I'll follow what you said and search a little more in the internet, and the Dell you said before seems to be perfect for what I want. Really thanks Bytes.

Now, I have only one question (OMG, I love to ask things. 8-) ) I was thinking, is a Intel i7 of 2.66 Ghz better than a Dual Core of 3.0 Ghz?? I know it can be a really dumb question, but I was confused, since the i7 is the newest processor in the market, it should be better than an older one like the Dual Core. Does the Ghz of the processor is the thing that really matters when you compare 2 processors??

Sorry if I mispelled some words.... :)

Thanks again Bytes! :) :)
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