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06 May 2007, 10:41 am

Not perfect but beats that old 350Mhz Pentium ! !.[/quote]

Thats great. I'm not to keen on the whole windows thing. But the rest of the computer is decent. Slightly lacking in ram but yea. Beats the pants off the other computer you had.

Don't you just love what educational institutions throw out.

So far from my Uni I have recovered:
16 optical Mice (given about 8 of them away and keeping the rest incase i need them)
1 1 Ghz Celeron with 512mb RAM and a 40 gb hd (I sold this for $120)
1 40gb Hd by its self
4 dvd combo drives.
1.2 GHz celeron with 640mb RAM
667 MHz Pentium III no ram or HD included. (sold for $40 :D)
One 450 MHz Pentium III processor and motherboard.
4 17inch CRT screens (given two of them away)
10 Microsoft Keyboard black. New.
Tonnes of network cables. Most of them 2 metres and below but some go all the way up to 7.5 metres.
Tonnes of spare powercables.[/quote]

About the Memory, i went to the Flea Market down the street an hour ago and upgraded the
computer to 768MB of ram for $10.



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06 May 2007, 10:42 am

Not perfect but beats that old 350Mhz Pentium ! !.[/quote]

Thats great. I'm not to keen on the whole windows thing. But the rest of the computer is decent. Slightly lacking in ram but yea. Beats the pants off the other computer you had.

Don't you just love what educational institutions throw out.

So far from my Uni I have recovered:
16 optical Mice (given about 8 of them away and keeping the rest incase i need them)
1 1 Ghz Celeron with 512mb RAM and a 40 gb hd (I sold this for $120)
1 40gb Hd by its self
4 dvd combo drives.
1.2 GHz celeron with 640mb RAM
667 MHz Pentium III no ram or HD included. (sold for $40 :D)
One 450 MHz Pentium III processor and motherboard.
4 17inch CRT screens (given two of them away)
10 Microsoft Keyboard black. New.
Tonnes of network cables. Most of them 2 metres and below but some go all the way up to 7.5 metres.
Tonnes of spare powercables.[/quote]

About the Memory, i went to the Flea Market down the street an hour ago and upgraded the
computer to 768MB of ram for $10.



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06 May 2007, 11:27 am

2.4 GHz Pentium 4 processor
1 GB of RAM
80 MB hard drive
CD burner and DVD-ROM as two separate drives

And it looks like this:
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06 May 2007, 3:51 pm

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2.4 GHz Pentium 4 processor
1 GB of RAM
80 MB hard drive
CD burner and DVD-ROM as two separate drives

And it looks like this:
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Pentium 4 in a awesome case like that?!?!


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06 May 2007, 3:57 pm

At the time I got the computer, Pentium 4 was top of the line. At the time, 3 GHz was the top speed available.


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06 May 2007, 4:06 pm

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2.4 GHz Pentium 4 processor
1 GB of RAM
80 MB hard drive
CD burner and DVD-ROM as two separate drives

And it looks like this:
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wow! nice, I admit that beats the case that mine is in hands down

If I ever build another computer I'll make sure it is in something as good as that :D


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06 May 2007, 4:44 pm

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At the time I got the computer, Pentium 4 was top of the line. At the time, 3 GHz was the top speed available.
So that case is also a few years old then.

Its okay for internet and email.


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06 May 2007, 6:09 pm

It's made by ATX. And via Google I was able to find it all over the place. Use the key words "Bubble Light" to narrow your search.

I also checked the web site of the computer store I bought it from -- they still have it available. (I went to the computer store and told them what I wanted, and they built it for me.)


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06 May 2007, 7:17 pm

Xenon wrote:
It's made by ATX. And via Google I was able to find it all over the place. Use the key words "Bubble Light" to narrow your search.

I also checked the web site of the computer store I bought it from -- they still have it available. (I went to the computer store and told them what I wanted, and they built it for me.)



Made by ATX?? Don't you just mean its a ATX form factor.


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06 May 2007, 7:24 pm

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Made by ATX?? Don't you just mean its a ATX form factor.
I was thinking that


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06 May 2007, 7:32 pm

Umm... yeah. Right.

(I know squat about hardware...)


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15 May 2007, 7:39 am

I made some changes to my desktop system, there are outlinded below

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Desktop (the one known as coolblue)
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OS:Linux (Ubuntu 6.06 LTS)/Windows XP (XP boots first by default) (Now Ubuntu 6.10 but will be further upgraded to 7.04 later
CPU:Intel Pentium 3 (Katmai) @550.021MHz
Chipset:Intel i440BX-8671
RAM:320MB present, motherboard sees 192MB
Hard Drive:Prmary: Maxtor91021U2 10GB (Linux drive). Secondary: Western Digital WD64AA 6GB (Windows drive)
Primary Optical Drive:Creative CD5230E (52X CD ROM)
Secondary Optical Drive:Lite-On LTR-16102B (16x 10x 40x CDRW drive)
Media Manager:Amarok/Windows Media Player (depending on which hard disk I boot from)
Graphics:S3 Savage 4 (changed card to a 3dfx Voodoo3 2000, which is a more superior card :D)
Sound:C-Media CMI8738
Monitor:LG StudioWorks 771B
AGP Slots:1 (1x, 2x, 4x)
PCI Slots:4
PCI 1x Slots:0
PCI 4x Slots:0
PCI 16x Slots:0
Manufacture:home built
Model Number:none


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24 Jul 2007, 10:59 pm

what are your current computers specs? Use this form:

OS: Windows XP Professional (Corporate Edition w/ SP2, heavily modified using nLite and XPize)
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2200+
Chipset: VIA KM266-8235
RAM: 512MB DDR PC-2100
Hard Drive: Some random crappy 30 gig one
Primary Optical Drive: Sony DVD/CD Combo Drive
Secondary Optical Drive: Crap 52x CD Combo Drive
Media Manager: Don't Use One
Graphics: 128MB ATI Radeon 9600XT
Sound: Realtek AC'97
Monitor: 17' LCD (1280 x 1024, 75Hz)
AGP Slots: 4x AGP Slot
PCI Slots: 2
PCI 1x Slots:
PCI 4x Slots:
PCI 16x Slots:
Manufacture: None. (Custom built)
Model Number:



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26 Jul 2007, 7:13 am

gamefreak wrote:
MindOfOrderedChaos wrote:
Lau wrote:
What makes you think you need more RAM, MindOfOrderedChaos?
I get by with 512MiB, with the rest of my main m/c spec as yours, except for my puny GeForce2 MX/MX 400.


I run virtual Machines on my computer. Thats why.

Your main specs like mine? PCI Geforce2?? Because I don't think a PCIe Geforce2 ever came out.



They didn`t, if you want a good video card get something capatable with 8X AGP.


Its been a long time since I had a MX 400 in my main computer. DOn't know how long ago that was posted.

My current setups are as follows

Main Desktop PC. Homebuilt

e6300 Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86GHz
1gb ram
160gb HD
7600GT nVidia Albatron PCI-e
Asus Dvd burner
Acer 19" LCD screen

HP Laptop

T5300 Intel Core 2 Duo
2gb RAM
120GB HD
7600 GO nVidia
DVD burner
17" Widescreen

The computer I just built for my little brother

3600+ Sempron 2GHz (got it and the mobo for cheap so used it)
1gb RAM
80gb HD
7600GS nVidia XFX (my old card) PCI-e
DVD Burner
17" CRT


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26 Jul 2007, 10:01 am

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The Dualie
Hard Drives: 2x Western Digital 200GB SATA drives (7200rpm/8MB), 2x Seagate 200GB IDE drives (7200rpm/8MB)


The 200GB SATA drives are now gone, replaced with a pair of 400GB SATA II (7200rpm/16MB drives). The old drives are now in the gateway. The 8 and 80 gig disks in the gateway have been retired.


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28 Jul 2007, 3:10 pm

Pikachu wrote:
I made some changes to my desktop system, there are outlinded below
Pikachu wrote:
Desktop (the one known as coolblue)
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OS:Linux (Ubuntu 6.06 LTS)/Windows XP (XP boots first by default) (Now Ubuntu 6.10 but will be further upgraded to 7.04 later
CPU:Intel Pentium 3 (Katmai) @550.021MHz
Chipset:Intel i440BX-8671
RAM:320MB present, motherboard sees 192MB
Hard Drive:Prmary: Maxtor91021U2 10GB (Linux drive). Secondary: Western Digital WD64AA 6GB (Windows drive)
Primary Optical Drive:Creative CD5230E (52X CD ROM)
Secondary Optical Drive:Lite-On LTR-16102B (16x 10x 40x CDRW drive)
Media Manager:Amarok/Windows Media Player (depending on which hard disk I boot from)
Graphics:S3 Savage 4 (changed card to a 3dfx Voodoo3 2000, which is a more superior card :D)
Sound:C-Media CMI8738
Monitor:LG StudioWorks 771B
AGP Slots:1 (1x, 2x, 4x)
PCI Slots:4
PCI 1x Slots:0
PCI 4x Slots:0
PCI 16x Slots:0
Manufacture:home built
Model Number:none


I would suggest Windows 2000 Pro for your computer.