PC gone up the shoot...

[Tom B]

Mmm, you have a point - most 15-year olds had difficulty remembering their password for more than a week...

Tell me about it.....Thank god they can change it.....

Or more likely, that their fellow 15-year old will reset it for them if bribed (that would be me ).

 

[Tom]

Gareth, I am very good with PCs, part of this server is built by myself!

I'll have a new PC by Friday.

 

[HSTfan!!!]

I'm good with pc's yay! and I turned 16 the other month and I CAN remember my passwords!
I'm more a hardware person but software isn't a hard thing to master. Had to install a new motherboard for someone yesterday. And expect to do my own sometime in august hopefully. (hopes my bosses pay me a nice sum of cash very soon!)

 

[Tom B]

Fixing hardware is easy *thump* *bang* *wallop*!

 

[HSTfan!!!]

hehe if only that worked for chipsets!

 

[Tom]

Chipsets and shorted motherboards are not easy to fix!

Anyway - here's my new PC:

• Intel Pentium 4 3GHz Processor
• 512GBMB PC3200 DDR RAM
• 3.5" Floppy Disk Drive
• On-board 10/100/1000 M/Bit Network Adapter
• ATX Midi Tower Case
• MSI 865 Neo2 PFS Motherboard
• 80GB IDE 7200rpm Hard Disk Drive
• 6 x USB 2.0 Ports
• Microsoft Windows eXPerience Home OEM CD
• 256MB GeForce FX6600 Graphics Card

 

[Guinness]

Chipsets and shorted motherboards are not easy to fix!

Anyway - here's my new PC:

• Intel Pentium 4 3GHz Processor
• 512GBMB PC3200 DDR RAM
• 3.5" Floppy Disk Drive
• On-board 10/100/1000 M/Bit Network Adapter
• ATX Midi Tower Case
• MSI 865 Neo2 PFS Motherboard
• 80GB IDE 7200rpm Hard Disk Drive
• 6 x USB 2.0 Ports
• Microsoft Windows eXPerience Home OEM CD
• 256 Geforce FX6600 Graphics Card

Cost?

 

[joeholmes]

I think that'll run MSTS quite well considering i no nothing about PC's

 

[Tom]

£535

 

[HSTfan!!!]

Intel........ Intel.... how could you?
I'm about to build a new AMD Athlon Xp 3200+ system for £250 - well i haven't added on graphics and that yet lol!

 

[Tom]

Intel is far better when it comes to reliability, you can't overclock AMD's much, they already are overclocked!

 

[HSTfan!!!]

Intel aren't about reliablity, they're about taking over the world with microsoft! AMD even sued intel over that not too long ago! What you mean you can't clock AMD's much - every clocker I know uses AMD. Intel are too complicated to clock anyway....
AMD's are also easier to fit/remove with their simple drop in chip, clip on the heatsink, screw in a fan and go... I spent 15 minutes yesterday trying to unbolt a celeron to transfer to another motherboard... instead I gave up and put a slightly slower one in.
AMD are stable, AMD are reliable, AMD are brilliant for clocking should you need to.... AMD is everything intel isn't!

 

[Tom]

My processor (new one) has hyperthreading, something AMD hardly have.

 

[HSTfan!!!]

woo hyperthreading - just a big word imho. maybe intel have it, just means AMD don't need it. I could take an average 2600+ athlon xp barton core - thats quite a low clock speed and easily beat any intel pentium 4 3Ghz processor - thats why AMD are the best with me.
Also I own a duron 1Ghz and a celeron 2.6Ghz - guess which is faster - the AMD duron - shame the motherboard has had it's day!

 

[Tom]

1.2GHz in an Apple, hyperthread as default, instant 4GHz-ish.

 

[Tom]

Adding on to that, Celeron's are rubbish, my old 1.7GHz is more like a 25MHz.

 

[HSTfan!!!]

thats different again.... do apple still use motorola cpu's?
One credit to intel though is my old 486DX 50Mhz - that was a beauty! Also having seen a pentium 4 do 5.2Ghz with alot of cooling it shows you can do what any AMD can do.
I would love to own an AMD T-bred A (clocker's dream of a cpu!) but don't see that happening lol!

and ye celeron's are rubbish - i have seen on clocked quite well before mind!

 

[Tom]

I think not, I believe they use a hybrid of Intel's CPUs.

 

[HSTfan!!!]

since when did they use intel? I heard they were switching to intel to make things cheaper.... hock:

 

[Tom]

They are expensive in the first place, I believe my Mac uses a Motorola CPU, it was bought about three quarters of a year ago.

 

[Guinness]

AMD Athlon - Fair better than Intel (Never tried Intel though)

 

[Tom]

How can you say AMD is better than Intel, if you've never tried it? :P

 

[Guinness]

How can you say AMD is better than Intel, if you've never tried it? :P

I'm not really sure. Some Article I read told me that Intel Sucks that persuaded me .

 

[Tom]

Article name: AMD sucks

AMD sucks, use Intel instead, it's far better.

 

[47205]

Adding on to that, Celeron's are rubbish, my old 1.7GHz is more like a 25MHz.

TBF, my Celery Prosessor is 2.6 Ghz and hasn't done to badly hock:

 

[Guinness]

Article name: AMD sucks

AMD sucks, use Intel instead, it's far better.

Something on the opposite lines of that.

 

[HSTfan!!!]

Put it this way when I've worked with a 2.5Ghz Celeron and then switched to a 1Ghz AMD Duron and find the duron faster....... what does that suggest for intel?

 

[Tom]

Celeron's are rubbish? (plus, you'd be using a different PC most likely, as motherboards are not compatible)

 

[Tom]

Here is my first post on the new machine, it is beautiful. BVE at 50fps~... mmmmmm....

 

[HSTfan!!!]

Hmm just wait till I get my new AMD super monster lol, we'll see what that outputs on BVE4 eh!