You know you need a new PC when...

[MC Hammered]

I see this ad on the van.forsale newsgroup:

Dell Power Edge 2200 (tower) - great condition, no scratches, clean in and
out
PII 250, Dual CPU motherboard - one installed
9 Gb SCSI Hard Drive
SCSI CD ROM, 10/100 Mb NIC, S3 Virge Video PCI 2MB
256 MB SDRAM,
Creative Labs Sound Card PCI (brand new)
Win 2000 OS, Office XP, keyboard, mouse, power cord

- additional SCSI drive extra
- RAID card extra

$90 o.b.o

FAWK!

My primary PC at home is worth less than $200. :(

[BongMan]

I think I got somthin like that in the garage any one who wants to come and find it could probably take it for free.. Cant even scam it for parts 9 gig HD lol :)

[FeelGood]

Im running on a

Pentium III 800mhz
384mb SDRAM
Wester Digital 120gb hard drive
Sound Blaster Live!
Pioneer A06 DVDR Burner
LiteOn 52x24x52 CDRW Drive
ATI Rage 128 Pro <------------------ HHAHAHAAHAH!


Thats the machine I use, oh well, dont need to upgrade it does what I want/need it to do and thats download mp3s/dvdrs, chat on mIRC and MSN and web surf.

:D

[FeelGood]

but yeah ill eventually upgrade when I have some money, id rather spend my money on a car, some tables, new tv/dvd player for my room, clothes, raves...

[Sir_K]

IMO: Only upgrade every two generations, and buy the best you can. Shell out the big bucks once every two to three years and quantum leaps pending, you should be ok until the next one.

If you get caught up in Intel / Microsoft's recommended upgrade cycle, you'll be upgrading every 9 months which gets a bit expensive.

BTW_ Nothing you buy today will run this Microsoft Longhorn that will be coming out in 2005. It's beta currently requires a minimum of a Gb of RAM and a Intel P4 4.0 GHz CPU with everything top of the line and 40Gb of HD space (and reports are that it still runs like a pig). So if you're looking to buy something that will run Longhorn, you might as well wait until computers actually ship with it; and knowing Microsoft that will be about 2008.

[Clayton.]

Mine is also a piece of crap.

[G-Style]

Winston please tell me that your joking....you of all people have to have a better PC than that at home.

[Dr. Doom]

Originally Posted by Sir_K

I
BTW_ Nothing you buy today will run this Microsoft Longhorn that will be coming out in 2005. It's beta currently requires a minimum of a Gb of RAM and a Intel P4 4.0 GHz CPU with everything top of the line and 40Gb of HD space (and reports are that it still runs like a pig). So if you're looking to buy something that will run Longhorn, you might as well wait until computers actually ship with it; and knowing Microsoft that will be about 2008.

Do you even have a fucking clue what you are talking about?
Wait, of course not, you're an idiot.

[Séguin]

There isn't even a need for insanely powerful computers in the comon home yet. Almost no one uses their computer's power even close to capacity.

[Sir_K]

Originally Posted by Dr. Doom

Do you even have a fucking clue what you are talking about?
Wait, of course not, you're an idiot.

http://reviews.cnet.com/Microsoft_Wi...1008729-2.html

[G-Style]

Interesting article!

[Sir_K]

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1586599,00.asp

[Dr. Doom]

Originally Posted by Sir_K

From the link::
By the time Longhorn ships, according to Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, PCs will have 4GHz to 6GHz processors, more than 2GB of memory, at least a terabyte of storage, and graphics accelerators three times more powerful than those offered by ATI and Nvidia today. He says that Longhorn is designed to take advantage of all this muscle, and nowhere is that more evident than in the in the rich, three-dimensional interface known as Aero.

Key words there -take advantage of-, not -require-, quite a difference there. For instance, Windows XP -takes advantage of- the 2.4GHz processor, 1GB of RAM and 260 GB of harddrive space Doom has, however, it only -requires- (and can run decently enough on) a 233 MHz processor, 64 to 128MB of RAM and a single gig of Hardrive space.

The current longhorn alpha (with a bit of tweaking, admittedly) can run on a 350MHz pentium with 256MB of RAM. It isn't going to be anywhere near the system killer you are proposing it to be.

[G-Style]

I have actually heard from a buddy of mine that works for IBM that Longhorns going to not be everything it's cracked up to be. They had a viewing of it at the stage it's at and like mosst microsoft stuff he simply said "it looks pretty" with no further comment.

[Sir_K]

Originally Posted by Dr. Doom

The current longhorn alpha (with a bit of tweaking, admittedly) can run on a 350MHz pentium with 256MB of RAM. It isn't going to be anywhere near the system killer you are proposing it to be.

Yeah. With the zippy responsiveness fun of running Windows XP SP2 on your Pentium 133 machine with 64Mb of RAM.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1368464,00.asp

[MC Hammered]

Well.. my home PC is just a "bit" better.

Main PC is a p2-450, 512Mb RAM, 18Gb SCSI HD and a 6x CD burner.

ftp server is a p100 with 256Mb of RAM and a 2Gb HD.

Rest of the storage are Quantum Snap Servers

I'm old skool. :c-tard:

[G-Style]

Originally Posted by MC Hammered

Well.. my home PC is just a "bit" better.

Main PC is a p2-450, 512Mb RAM, 18Gb SCSI HD and a 6x CD burner.

ftp server is a p100 with 256Mb of RAM and a 2Gb HD.

Rest of the storage are Quantum Snap Servers

I'm old skool. :c-tard:

Damn I'm shocked

[MC Hammered]

The PC hums along nicely.

Here's an old screenshot: