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I’m building a NEW COMPUTER!!! I’m so excited! My computer specs (I can’t recall them all though) are:

Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz with Hyperthreading
800 Mhz FSB
1 Gig DIMM RAM
dual-channel 400 Mhz (can add other CPU later in the future)
ATI FIre GL Z1
120 GB Harddrive
1 DVD Rewriting drive
1 floppy disk drive
1 Wireless Keyboard with Wireless Optical Mouse

Case: Performance Plus from Antec
Monitor: 19" LCD

Cool eh? I’m soooooo thrilled! :smiley:

And, I’m at college now, majoring in pre-animation! :smiley: Cool eh?

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Sounds like a cool machine. Good luck with college, we know you’ll do well.

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Cree: Hehehe, it’s a MONSTER MACHINE! You better watch out! :slight_smile: Just kidding. :smiley:

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Does this have a Raid or SCSI hard drive ? What type of chipset does it have ?

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Paint flames on the sides like they do with hot rods.

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Sounds good DreamMaster, hope you have fun with it :slight_smile: BTW… how have things been going for ya lately?

RAID is only beneficial in certain circumstances though. Which a regular workstation hardly has.

SCSI, as compared to the modern advantages with ATA, is also no more a benefit to a single user. Unless of course you just have some monster need for total throughput.

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Nononononono… Paint ladybugs, butterflies, sunflowers and stuff on the sides :slight_smile:
That way, it would be more personal :wink:

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LOL… I tought I was the Hippie around here. :smiley:

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hehe cool DM7 :wink:

but where do all the money descends from :stuck_out_tongue: ``

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Ack! Why is everyone getting a new computer except me? :stuck_out_tongue:

BTW, DreamMaster7, congrats for your Monster Machine, and good luck with college, too!! (lucky you. they don’t teach 3D in here :-? )

Now…if you have some money left, you can send it to [my address] :stuck_out_tongue:

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Nice! Is that ATI Fire FL Z1 a new video card from them? If not, what’s the vid card?

Pooba

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I believe RAID increase the speed by splitting data into two seperate hard drives, A good hard drive would be a ata 133/33 and up, the fastest chipsets that I know of is Nviva 950 or kt400, try to say away for those pctoys shit as well as those copper core heat sinks.

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:o my goodness!
Ok… I really need to update my crappy computer (with crappy i mean 700MHz…) :x

I don’t know if you will bother telling me DM, but… how much for that beauty? 8)

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I have crappy 500Mhz, so i fell more miserable than you :stuck_out_tongue:

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Hehe, i have a 2.4 ghz :smiley:

Pooba

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Cool!!

DAMN YOU!! j/k

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Mines 1.3 GHZ :stuck_out_tongue:

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Hehehe,

First of all, I’m not sure how much it costed. LOL! Since I get in college for free because I’m deaf (long story), my dad uses some of my college investments to build me a new computer since it’s “college” purpose… I’m majoring in Animation remember? :slight_smile:

I’m done building my computer and installed Windows XP and other necessary things by using THIS computer’s CD-rom.

But the bad new is… MY new DVD-rom is FLAWED! :frowning: It doesn’t work so my dad’s heading out to buy other one and send this stupid DVD-rom back. Errrrrrrrr.

I just love my computer! What a beauty. In my computer specs showed up on Windows XP, I have TWO CPUs because of hyperthreading… I joked with my dad saying that I actually have 5.60 ghz CPU. :wink: I’m kidding of course.

By the way, I do have RAID, but I don’t connect anything to RAIDs… we both don’t know much about RAID so we decide to stick with IDLs for now.

My motherboard is Asus… P4P800 Deluxe. Capable up to 4 GB DIMM (RAM). Cool eh? And… uh chipset is Intel 865PE (cheaper version of 865P).

I got new photo-printer (Canon i850s) and a new scanner… really high quality scanner, Espon 1600.

Cool eh?

I haven’t connected them to my computer and get them ready yet though. Right now I’m concerned about that stupid DVD-rom. My new computer’s in this very same room. :wink: It’s not internet capable yet so I can’t surf on it yet. Unfortunately. LOL.

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I just asked my dad… roughly it costed him $1520 for case, motherboard, harddrive, etc. along with $600 for the 19" LCD monitor so in total it is about $2120. Printer and scanner are not included.

A lot cheaper to build the computer remember? :slight_smile:

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It doesn’t have to be raid, a Hard drive with an on board ATA controller should do, just make sure its the fastest one you can find.