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Old 06-30-2012, 10:41 PM
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dell xps w 17" screen, most of the bells and whistles. New in Jan 2011 The desktop it replaced was rocking a mix of 2002-2004 vintage hardware.
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dell xps w 17" screen, most of the bells and whistles. New in Jan 2011 The desktop it replaced was rocking a mix of 2002-2004 vintage hardware.
Doesn't that get annoying after a while? I try to keep my computers quiet.
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Old 07-01-2012, 6:59 AM
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The laptop roars. I used to be a quiet freak, now not so much. The fans only blow big time when the GPU is working and then I am usually wearing headphones anyways. My desktop fans (while replaceable I wasn't replacing them) had developed a number of whines that were less "white noise" like than what I have now.
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Couple years

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The laptop roars. I used to be a quiet freak, now not so much. The fans only blow big time when the GPU is working and then I am usually wearing headphones anyways. My desktop fans (while replaceable I wasn't replacing them) had developed a number of whines that were less "white noise" like than what I have now.
There is a fix for the fan speed on the dell support site. You have to update the BIOS.

Great laptop for multimedia not so much for gaming though.
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My computer is so old, I have to give it an enema in the morning to get it going. Huh? No drum roll?
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My computer is so old, I have to give it an enema in the morning to get it going. Huh? No drum roll?
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I built a PC around the AMD 965 quad core processor a few years ago mainly for video encoding and it is still serving its purpose. I stopped doing the whole upgrade every year thing once I really started buying guns and I can't say that I miss it. It made the decision easier once I realized how quickly they depreciate compared to guns that actually appreciate. For day to day stuff I mainly use our macbook air which had grown on me after being a hardcore PC guy forever.
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Tandy TRS-80, just got the upgraded 21.5k baud card modem. It's so much faster now!


Plays BF3 on medium to high.
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Tandy TRS-80, just got the upgraded 21.5k baud card modem. It's so much faster now!


Plays BF3 on medium to high.
I feel you. My first Leading Edge, there were two 5.25 drives, I loaded the OS first then the "data". It was better than the back of envelopes.

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Upgraded from:
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750w gold coolermaster PSU
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Cheap, reliable, and plenty fast for most applications.
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Built in 2008:

EVGA 790i Ultra-SLI
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Runs pretty damn smooth. No glitches. Runs cool. Play's BF3 with all settings on high.
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Ya know, I need to stop posting in things like this. My game system POPPED the other day and I dunno WHAT it was and it seems to be running fine now, but WTF was that pop it has me wondering... Looks like I might have to replace something soon. I am playing skyrim on it now though so we will see.
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2012 Gaming rig
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coolermaster V8 cooling (air cooled)
750w gold coolermaster PSU
EVGA GTX560
8gb 1866mhz Patriot Memory-Viper series
Antec 300 case with 2 out 1 in case fans.
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Cheap, reliable, and plenty fast for most applications.
Only Intel uses HyperThreading. AMD uses physical cores.

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bulldo...0FRW4KGU).html
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Old 07-12-2012, 12:29 PM
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Ya know, I need to stop posting in things like this. My game system POPPED the other day and I dunno WHAT it was and it seems to be running fine now, but WTF was that pop it has me wondering... Looks like I might have to replace something soon. I am playing skyrim on it now though so we will see.
Was there a smell with it? If so you popped a capacitor.
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Old 07-12-2012, 3:55 PM
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I have a 6-year old 24" iMac that runs just as sweet as the day I bought it.. But, not quite as smooth as the new all SSD 21" iMac i'm using now.
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Was there a smell with it? If so you popped a capacitor.
^^^ This. Open your case & look at the capacitors. If any have a rounded top, you blew a cap.

If you know someone, it's an easy fix. If you don't, it's not worth it.
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^^^ This. Open your case & look at the capacitors. If any have a rounded top, you blew a cap.

If you know someone, it's an easy fix. If you don't, it's not worth it.
Most caps are easily desoldered, and then solder in a new one, but they usually have twins, triplets, quadruplets or more... if one goes bad.

Easier to just buy a new board with a warranty (but if you are at it, you might as well get a new CPU, and RAM to go with it..).

I have not had this issue on anything I have run (even) a (cheap) UPS and a $50+ power supply.
I HAVE on just about everything plugged straight into the wall, and it is more prominent with cheap (<$50) power supply usage.

I have also seen projectile caps inside power supplies...

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After reading about all your It guru"s rigs. I Feel I have you all beat!!! Im on a HP LPR server running server 2k pro. with dual voodoo cards, and 1 gig of reg ram, and dual 10 gig scsi HD's try and find that stuff any where
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After reading about all your It guru"s rigs. I Feel I have you all beat!!! Im on a HP LPR server running server 2k pro. with dual voodoo cards, and 1 gig of reg ram, and dual 10 gig scsi HD's try and find that stuff any where

Found it

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LOL true but mine has never crashed, or broke since i have ran it its going on 14 years now. for a $23K investment Ill run it another 20 years!!!
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My main laptop just had a HD issue. A dell Inspiron 6400. Adding a 7200 500GB drive and Windows XP, partitioned.
Just ordered a dell 15R w/8Mb 3 gen i7 intel RAM, 1TB HD.
Finally, the grand daddy, a dell Inspiron 4600 mini tower, 6MB RAM, 320 GB HD, 2001-2003 Pentium III running XP sp3. I will be upgrading to a Dell mini tower, Inspiron 602 w/8MB RAM, 1TB HD... Both new desktop and laptop will be running Windows 7 w/XP, Microsoft Office Pro 2010 and adobe CS6 Master Collection. Both 1user 3 computers.
With student discount, office is $100 and the adobe Master Collection for $725 instead of $140 & $2,599 respectively.
I also learned that my HP scanner and SCSI are obsolete.
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Early 2000's Sony Vaio Desktop ... 2.8Ghz P4, 2GB RAM, 80GB HD.

It struggles with today's newfangled HD videos

I want to upgrade just so I'm not using as much electricity. These P4's run hot all the time!
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Most caps are easily desoldered, and then solder in a new one, but they usually have twins, triplets, quadruplets or more... if one goes bad.

I just posted about my monitor fix. It had bad caps, but was an easy repair.
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My newest laptop is a Dell Latitude E6400, but I only use it as a backup since my go-to laptop has been my trusty Latitude D630. I run XP 32-bit on both of them.

I also have a Windows 7 gaming rig with Thermaltake Element V chassis, EVGA Classified X58 motherboard, Intel i7, and dual Nvidia 580's running in SLI. I hardly use it though since it's overkill for checking emails and forums. I only have it because it was given to me at work.
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I always buy state of the art, 5 years later, for a tenth the price.
Yeah going on over five years here myself.
Ancient MSI MB
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ATI HD 3850 agp
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WinXPsp3.
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Yeah she is OLD, however still running strong,
and I can run newer games just fine.
(Exception: DX11 games).
Need to upgrade soon though.
Would be nice to run Win7, DX11, Ect.
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...running Windows 98.

Oh yeah? Beat this:


Lol. Seriously though, if all you do is check email, surf, and post on CG, that's all you would need.
Although the lack of security would scare me.
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I built a PC around the AMD 965 quad core processor a few years ago mainly for video encoding and it is still serving its purpose. I stopped doing the whole upgrade every year thing once I really started buying guns and I can't say that I miss it. It made the decision easier once I realized how quickly they depreciate compared to guns that actually appreciate. For day to day stuff I mainly use our macbook air which had grown on me after being a hardcore PC guy forever.
This is my argument ALWAYS. Really you only need to replace a piece at a time, not just go and buy a new setup. Besides, by replacing parts and getting in your system and playing around you learn a few things here and a few things there. I once lost a bet to a Chinese guy about a motherboard having a defective speaker. THAT was the one time that I ever came close to having the computer in a shop for a repair, and it was only the MOBO and believe me, I have learned my lesson and Now I have backups for my backups when it comes to testing things. In all honesty though, you only need to replace an item here or there. The ONLY time you need to replace the whole computer is under two circumstances, 1. If you own a Dell. Or 2. If you own a MAC. Maybe you can replace components on a MAC now, I am sure you can, but hey, it is a MAC so until it is a PC it needs replacing anyways. Dells are obvious. They make screwy mobos that you have to buy a DELL mobo to replace OR else you have to get a new mobo, new case, new HSF, new PSU and then just hope you did not have an OEM version of winblows cause THEN you will need to either change that over to a volume license or reload it from scratch...

As much as I hate them, I LOVE computers. I love all of mine and I mean that in a totally platonic sort of way that a man can love a machine and not a woman loving a vibrator. That latter is NOT platonic... When I get a freshly installed XP PRO OS on a multimedia system and then put in the vid capping stuff and the fast Hdd and I start editing movies, THAT is pure bliss right there. Having a properly working machine to do the job efficiently. 0o0o0 Another idea for my you tube video series...
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Mac or Dell? (e-machine even...)

LoL...
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I keep my main computer relatively "fresh" at around 4 or 5 years, since I work from home (software engineer) and spend a lot of time on it. I also use it to play video games, making it the most used piece of electronics at home.

Occasionally though, I'll swap something out, video cards being the most common or HDD and RAM (when I need to run more or heavier duty virtual machines).

Other server type machines i tend to upgrade less, they mostly 6 years or older. The oldest one is a HP Vectra Pentium running Windows 2000, just decommissioned it a few weeks ago actually since running the same processes on a virtual machine is more efficient.

I took the DIY approach (except for the work notebooks supplied by my employer) for my computers. That way I can keep the case and just replace the motherboard/HDD/power supply etc. when I need a major upgrade.
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My current main PC is a Dell XPS 8300 I bought for $700 during a sale in November of 2011.

Much faster and quieter than the machine I had been using since 2003.

My laptop is still my old IBM Thinkpad T43. I don't think it'll die anytime soon. Still runs awesome, but the hard drive is slow. Finally bought a new battery for it.
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I upgrade when my box won't run the games I want to play at high resolution/ frame rate anymore. I built a new machine last July/ August, but my previous one was about 4 years old.

Current box:
Corsair 600T case, white
Intel i&-3930K @ 3.2ghz (6 core)
64 Gb G.Skill ripjaws DDR3 RAM
256 Gb Crucial M4 SSD
3 Tb Seagate Barracuda 7200 rpm
MSI N680 GTX video card 4gb ram
Asus Rampage IV Intel x79 mobo
PC Power & Cooling 950w power supply
LG Blu-Ray burner
Corsair H100 enclosed water cooler
Dell 27" Ultrasharp LCD monitor
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