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Title: My New System
Post by: Thing on September 13, 2009, 12:55:35 PM


I recently purchased a new rig from Til Death and I am very pleased.  His work was top notch and he was very courteous, and professional in my dealings with him.   If I ever had a question he was just a phone call away, and he made sure I was happy with my system.


Thanks TilDeath      :aok


 :salute  Thing

 
Title: Re: My New System
Post by: Getback on September 13, 2009, 03:19:27 PM
Specs?
Title: Re: My New System
Post by: Thing on September 13, 2009, 09:51:12 PM
Hey Death

Can u post those pics again?


 :salute
Title: Re: My New System
Post by: Dragon on September 14, 2009, 09:08:26 AM
Hey Death

Can u post those pics again?


 :salute


I saved them here:

http://www.uinotebook.com/images/hamster_powered_computer_xsmall.jpg (http://www.uinotebook.com/images/hamster_powered_computer_xsmall.jpg)
Title: Re: My New System
Post by: usvi on September 14, 2009, 04:46:24 PM
A purple pimpin' system.
(http://www.graphicsarcade.com/funny_pictures/computers/Cute%20Computer.gif)
Title: Re: My New System
Post by: TilDeath on September 14, 2009, 08:16:50 PM
Things Specs

Case: NZXT Tempest
MB: EVGA 790i Ultra FTW
CPU: Intel E8400
Mem: OCZ DDR3 1800Mhz Blade Series 2 x 2Gb
GPU: GeForce GTX 260
PSU:OCZ GameXStream 850W
HD: Western Digital 640GB Hard Drive 32mb cache


The Guts
(http://www.tdcomputersystems.com/builds/thing/cable_mgmt.jpg)

The Glory
(http://www.tdcomputersystems.com/builds/thing/cpu-z_occt.jpg)

The Temps
(http://www.tdcomputersystems.com/builds/thing/temps.jpg)
Title: Re: My New System
Post by: gyrene81 on September 15, 2009, 11:10:08 AM
 :O Holy cow. Nice system.

I remember the day when a 486DX2 66 EASA VESA with 32MB RAM and dual 120MB hard drives was the most powerful desktop around. More storage and memory than you would ever need, even as a file server running Lantastic, Novell, or Banyan Vines...it was obsolete within 2 years.
Title: Re: My New System
Post by: guncrasher on September 15, 2009, 04:38:59 PM
Nice, really nice.  I think I know what santa clause is gonna bring me this christmas :)

semp
Title: Re: My New System
Post by: Rich46yo on September 15, 2009, 05:51:05 PM
Death is a straight shooter and Im going to buy my next one from him.

From now on its builds for gaming. Buying store brands just aint the answer.

Thats a nice looking rig he put together for you. Enjoy.
Title: Re: My New System
Post by: Getback on September 16, 2009, 10:13:09 AM
Thing, Have you had a chance to salivate on it yet?
Title: Re: My New System
Post by: SlipKnt on September 16, 2009, 07:35:17 PM
I have been doing a lot of research.  It is extremely difficult to find anything that rates the cards against this game...   ...until now.

I had an earlier post and TilDeath may have saved my marriage (good or bad).  I know now that I would have bought the popular name brand only to have to spend more money upgrading and trouble shooting.

Thanks to Skuzzy & Time (LazyDog) I finally posted something here and got immediate response.  Try doing that with a brand name company and see where it takes ya!   :rolleyes:

I only wish I came here earlier.  I do believe I am making my purchase from someone that understands the game and specs needed to play it.

TilDeath, I do belieev I will be making that call to you this week.  Thank you for your quick replies already.

 :rock
SlipKnt   
Title: Re: My New System
Post by: Ghastly on September 16, 2009, 09:13:08 PM
:O Holy cow. Nice system.

I remember the day when a 486DX2 66 EASA VESA with 32MB RAM and dual 120MB hard drives was the most powerful desktop around. More storage and memory than you would ever need, even as a file server running Lantastic, Novell, or Banyan Vines...it was obsolete within 2 years.

You must be a youngster - I was building PC's when power users actually got 2 single sided floppy drives (160 KB), rather than the one it came with standard so they didn't have to do the floppy shuffle - and opted for an add-in memory card or three to bring it up to a max of 256 KB from the 64 KB it came with. (Note the KB, not MB).  Up until the XT came out that is, in which case you could get a 10 MB hard disk.

<S>
 

 
Title: Re: My New System
Post by: TheZohan on September 16, 2009, 10:21:34 PM
i thought my 268 with dual 20 meg MFM drives was gonna last forever.... :x
Title: Re: My New System
Post by: guncrasher on September 16, 2009, 10:28:41 PM
 I remember when u could use a regular cassette and a cassete player to save your programs, and they had a blazing 256k ram, no hard drive, and the mouse was something you caught with a trap.

semp
Title: Re: My New System
Post by: Condor on September 16, 2009, 11:09:47 PM
Guncrasher,

Was it a Trash 80 by any chance?  My first flight simulator was the Sublogic sim with B&W wire frame graphics on a TRS80 model III.  We've come a long way (and gotten a lot older.)
Title: Re: My New System
Post by: skullman on September 16, 2009, 11:13:39 PM
does anyone remember how to work in DOS?I bought a q9550  runnin @2.83.This is so sweet.I have never been below 59 fr.Tildeath I love my setup.
Title: Re: My New System
Post by: guncrasher on September 17, 2009, 09:44:12 AM
It was an apple II. The one for word processing was an ibm which we thought was bolted to the floor til we found out it weighted like 60 lbs.
Programing we did in basic and machine language. People like td back then were known as gods and if u got a computer from them u would show it to your friends with the understanding they couldn't touch it.


Semp.
Title: Re: My New System
Post by: gyrene81 on September 17, 2009, 10:32:28 AM
You must be a youngster - I was building PC's when power users actually got 2 single sided floppy drives (160 KB), rather than the one it came with standard so they didn't have to do the floppy shuffle - and opted for an add-in memory card or three to bring it up to a max of 256 KB from the 64 KB it came with. (Note the KB, not MB).  Up until the XT came out that is, in which case you could get a 10 MB hard disk.

<S>
 
:D late bloomer...my first contact with a desktop was an Uncle Sam issue Apple 2 dual 5.25 drive and a nice big 12 inch monitor...irritating little thing. Didn't mess with desktops again until the 486DX33 became the standard.




does anyone remember how to work in DOS?
Sure, which version? I'm pretty sure I even remember how to do a memory map of some processes to free up the upper memory.
Title: Re: My New System
Post by: katanaso on September 17, 2009, 11:55:43 AM
Sitting in the closet at my folks' house is our original IBM PC with the expansion chassis to get the 10MB HDD.  The 5.25" floppies were made to be double-sided via use of a hole-punch.  It was an 8088 processor -- think it was 4.33MHz.

I also have an Apple IIc there.

I think we have 400-500 floppies combined between the two.

First version of MS Flight Simulator is there as well (I think with the manual). 



mir
Title: Re: My New System
Post by: skullman on September 20, 2009, 06:51:03 AM
My 1st was an 8088.The OS was on th5.25 floppy.I thought I was pooing in high cotton when my father in law added a 20 meg hard drive.Man we have come along way.Have you seen about going to nano technology.What is next
Title: Re: My New System
Post by: captain1ma on September 21, 2009, 08:52:56 AM
how about:


asus P6t Motherboard
6gigs of ocz 1600 DDR3 ram
I7 2.66 processor
zalman 120mm cpu cooler
seagate 1 Tb harddrive
card reader
2 DVD burners
OCZ 600watt P/S
Xclio windtunnel Full tower with 2 250mm fans
MSI Radeon 4890 1gig 256bit GDDR5 pci-e card

all for under $1200. frame rates hold at 59 all the time with everything on running windows7!