Now i'm the rich boy :P NEW PC for FREEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Violineb · March 12th, 2003

Finally, all my hard work has paid off. If some of you can remember when I first came here, I made a nice little thread concerning my absolutely terrible Dell PC from hell. Well it seems things have flipped around because after two nice 2 page letters and threatening them for a suite, I have finally beaten the gigantic corporations (cheer now

)
That's right; today came my replacement PC. A Dell of course but not bad for something you didn't choose. I still have to get it set up but from the looks of it has a P4 3.06 CPU, Radeon 9700 (not sure if it's pro or tx), and 512MB of RDRAM (I don't think it's the PC800 kind)

I'll get it set up, borrow my neighbor's digi cam, and check back to you and tell you how it is

I'm still going to build my own PC though, unless you ppl advise otherwise. TTUall L,
Vio

**cooliscool** · March 12th, 2003

Keep it. That thing is a ****ing MONSTER.

rich boy

**Yeloazndevil** · March 12th, 2003

what other things do u have in that new pc of yours, this pc is way better than your old one wish I had a better pc now

GSDragoon · March 12th, 2003

It's much more fun to build your own pc. Not to mention that you learn a lot too.

zukeft · March 12th, 2003

Kinky PC. I'd get more RAM, though.

RF · March 12th, 2003

cool

I just got my new pc too

Asus A7N8X nFORCE2 Deluxe :w00t: (bios is a bit buggy)
xp2100+
512mb OCZ Heat Spreaders DDR

D.D. · March 12th, 2003

Cheers mate! Congrates to your new MONSTER comp!!!!! AFAIK, thats the fastest cpu available today and that 9700 (pro or np) is really all you need to play the latests games of next year

. Now, time to tell some friends with name brand computers to start sending letters to the manufacturers

.

Aleksei (St) · March 12th, 2003

even with antialiasing and anisotrpic filtering on

Raqia · March 12th, 2003

Enjoy your new rig! I'd really like to know if HyperThreading is useful or not, and I'd like to know the temps on that sucker.

Aleksei (St) · March 12th, 2003

thats interesting can you post your temps with
and without HT

Gamer1 · March 12th, 2003

that's pretty funny... just a lawsuit could bring one of the mighiest corporation to its knees... gotta love the american legal system.

Cons · March 12th, 2003

great, good for u...but uh, what was the law suit about??? sorry, wasnt able to catch that thread, havent registered yet back then. an ultra high end rig..talk about bragging rights..now u wont have to buy another comp or a part of it in few years time. congrats man

KINDRED · March 12th, 2003

way to go bring those suckers down their pcs cost way too much money anyways enjoy that monster "dude you got a monster dell"

Violineb · March 12th, 2003

OK I finally cleaned up the room for the PC and set it up

So the main specs are as follows:
Pentium 4 3.06 GHZ with hyperthreading (it actually says 3.05 also :S)
512MB RDRAM
ATI Radeon 9700 TX with TV out
Lite on 48x cdrom
NEC cdrw and dvd rom thingo drive (don't know how fast it is)
120GB WD 2MB probably, (not sure)

Couple more things though.

Number one, how the heck am I supposed to check the temp on a Dell PC?
and what would be the best/most accurate way to test speed with and without hyperthreading? Photoshop?

It was a real pain just to stick a second hard drive in there because there's 2 cd roms, 2 3.5 and a hard drive, and the cables are super short (not conventional) so I'm running with the case open. N64 games never looked better or played faster

March 12th, 2003

Good for you Violineb. You certainly should feel like "a Rooster on a fence" in that you have something to "Crow" about. I would keep you wonderful new computer and just forget about building your own. Yours beats mine, at least CPU wise, and I'm very pleased for you. I'm also very pleased that you taught Dell a much needed lesson. These "Giant" corporations need to lear that they can't walk all over the consumers and get away with it. After all, with out "us consumers" where would they be. Way to go man!

:grin: :Popcorn:
sincerely,
sx/amiga

**Yeloazndevil** · March 12th, 2003

Quote:

It was a real pain just to stick a second hard drive in there because there's 2 cd roms, 2 3.5 and a hard drive, and the cables are super short (not conventional)

get longer IDE cables then

KINDRED · March 12th, 2003

how did you get dell to give you that ,maibe i can do the same thing with pccillin
piece of crap program I get it out of my sys

Violineb · March 12th, 2003

pccillin? what company is that. I doubt they're rich enough to help you :P Any ideas about temp and other stuff about that with this limited BIOS/MOBO. I won't complain right now though

KINDRED · March 12th, 2003

its actually preaty big its a virus program
check chip config

Raqia · March 12th, 2003

For temps and such, try looking on google for a program called "Motherboard Monitor." For an HT test, try running 3dmark while encoding divx or run 3dmark while running sandra/superpi versus running one of those alone.

March 12th, 2003	#1 (permalink)
Violineb Study>Bton/Live>Bmore Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Bloomington, IN/Baltimore MD Posts: 1,351	Now i'm the rich boy :P NEW PC for FREEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! Finally, all my hard work has paid off. If some of you can remember when I first came here, I made a nice little thread concerning my absolutely terrible Dell PC from hell. Well it seems things have flipped around because after two nice 2 page letters and threatening them for a suite, I have finally beaten the gigantic corporations (cheer now) That's right; today came my replacement PC. A Dell of course but not bad for something you didn't choose. I still have to get it set up but from the looks of it has a P4 3.06 CPU, Radeon 9700 (not sure if it's pro or tx), and 512MB of RDRAM (I don't think it's the PC800 kind) I'll get it set up, borrow my neighbor's digi cam, and check back to you and tell you how it is I'm still going to build my own PC though, unless you ppl advise otherwise. TTUall L, Vio __________________ PC1: CPU: Pentium 4 3.06 ghz - GeForce 4200 ti - 2x 256MB PC 1066 RDRAM - 120+160GB Western Digital JB PC2: Abit NF7-S -AMD Athlon XP 1700+- 2x 256MB PC2700 Kingston HyperX BH-5 chips!!!! Western Digital 120GB JB GeForce3 Laptop: Sony Vaio VGN-S360 :guitar: 3DFX Voodoo 5500 PCI-Sega Dreamcast May 1999

March 12th, 2003	#2 (permalink)
cooliscool Natural medicine Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Redmond, Washington, USA Posts: 6,179	Keep it. That thing is a **ing MONSTER. rich boy __________________ Fayt :** Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 @ 3.06GHz (1360MHz FSB), 2GB Crucial DDR2-800 Dual Channel @ 800MHz 4-3-3-11-14 1T, 512MB BFG nVidia GeForce 7950GT OC @ 650/1600, Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS, MSI P6N-SLi - nVidia 650i SLi, 200GB Seagate Barracuda 8MB Cache 7200RPM SATA2, 80GB Seagate Barracuda 8MB Cache 7200RPM SATA2, Lite-On DVD+-RW 16x w/ Lightscribe, Lite-On 16x DVD-ROM, Aspire X-Dreamer II case, Logitech MX518 Optical Mouse, Asetek Waterchill kit (distilled water + Red Line Water Wetter), T.I.M - AS Ceramique

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GSDragoon Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,970	It's much more fun to build your own pc. Not to mention that you learn a lot too. __________________ Athlon64 3400+ @10.5x250MHz, 2.625GHz \| DFI NF3 250GB 2x512 Corsair pc3200 \| BFG FX6800 OC 128MB \| X-Fi XtremeGamer

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zukeft Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Bogota, Colombia Posts: 1,157	Kinky PC. I'd get more RAM, though. __________________ Flaretech.biz web hosting

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RF Canadian Spaceman Join Date: May 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 8,594	cool I just got my new pc too Asus A7N8X nFORCE2 Deluxe :w00t: (bios is a bit buggy) xp2100+ 512mb OCZ Heat Spreaders DDR __________________

March 12th, 2003	#3 (permalink)
Yeloazndevil :3 Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 10,147	what other things do u have in that new pc of yours, this pc is way better than your old one wish I had a better pc now

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D.D. band Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: HERE Posts: 4,575	Cheers mate! Congrates to your new MONSTER comp!!!!! AFAIK, thats the fastest cpu available today and that 9700 (pro or np) is really all you need to play the latests games of next year . Now, time to tell some friends with name brand computers to start sending letters to the manufacturers . __________________ 1. Small, Cheap, Powerful - you can have only two 2. Everytime you engineer something foolproof, the world comes up with a better idiot. 3. 「学問とは虚栄である。」 The PS3 Cell Processor Explained Page, IBM Research's Introduction to Cell Multiprocessor and Cell Processor Programming Guide

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Aleksei (St) In Love! Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ensenada Mexico Posts: 704	even with antialiasing and anisotrpic filtering on __________________

March 12th, 2003	#9 (permalink)
Raqia Ah! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Evanston Il Posts: 545	Enjoy your new rig! I'd really like to know if HyperThreading is useful or not, and I'd like to know the temps on that sucker. __________________ Laptop: 1.6@2.13 Dothan 2MB (Pinmod), 2 GB 533mhz DDR2, GeForce 6800 360/730 256MB, 100 GB 5400 RPM, 17" UXGA+

March 12th, 2003	#10 (permalink)
Aleksei (St) In Love! Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ensenada Mexico Posts: 704	thats interesting can you post your temps with and without HT __________________

March 12th, 2003	#11 (permalink)
Gamer1 Anti-Brand Loyalist Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Its too dark to tell... Posts: 3,237	that's pretty funny... just a lawsuit could bring one of the mighiest corporation to its knees... gotta love the american legal system. __________________ Iris: (Proc:Intel Pentium4 2.8Ghz w/ HT UNLOCKED @ 15x200) (Mobo: Asus P4C800-E) (RAM: Corsair XMS 2x512MB DDR400) (HDD 1: Seagate 80GB, 8MB Buffer, 7200 RPM) (Disk Drive 1: Lite-On 16x DVD Burner 1673S) (GFX Card: Radeon 9800 All-In-Wonder Pro 128MB) (Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy) Morrigan: (Proc:AMD Athlon 2500+ @ 11x200) (Mobo: Asrock K7V88) (RAM: Corsair XMS 512MB DDR400) (HDD 1: Seagate 80GB, 8MB Buffer, 7200 RPM) (Disk Drive 1: NEC 16x DVD Burner 3200AG) (GFX Card: Radeon 920064MB) (Sound Card: Sound Blaster Live! 5.1)

March 12th, 2003	#12 (permalink)
Cons Registered User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Philippines Posts: 325	great, good for u...but uh, what was the law suit about??? sorry, wasnt able to catch that thread, havent registered yet back then. an ultra high end rig..talk about bragging rights..now u wont have to buy another comp or a part of it in few years time. congrats man __________________ courtesy of STRIDER....thanks man

March 12th, 2003	#13 (permalink)
KINDRED Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Toronto, Canada raised in Argentina Posts: 88	way to go bring those suckers down their pcs cost way too much money anyways enjoy that monster "dude you got a monster dell" __________________ Processor~ Intel Pentium 4 1.6A GHz@1596MHz Motherboard~ Asus P4S8X Gfx~ Msi Geforce 4 TI 4200 128mb 8x agp Ram~ 512DDR-266 HDD~ Maxtor 40G @ 7200rpm CdRom~ Toshiba 12x DVD

March 12th, 2003	#14 (permalink)
Violineb Study>Bton/Live>Bmore Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Bloomington, IN/Baltimore MD Posts: 1,351	OK I finally cleaned up the room for the PC and set it up So the main specs are as follows: Pentium 4 3.06 GHZ with hyperthreading (it actually says 3.05 also :S) 512MB RDRAM ATI Radeon 9700 TX with TV out Lite on 48x cdrom NEC cdrw and dvd rom thingo drive (don't know how fast it is) 120GB WD 2MB probably, (not sure) Couple more things though. Number one, how the heck am I supposed to check the temp on a Dell PC? and what would be the best/most accurate way to test speed with and without hyperthreading? Photoshop? It was a real pain just to stick a second hard drive in there because there's 2 cd roms, 2 3.5 and a hard drive, and the cables are super short (not conventional) so I'm running with the case open. N64 games never looked better or played faster __________________ PC1: CPU: Pentium 4 3.06 ghz - GeForce 4200 ti - 2x 256MB PC 1066 RDRAM - 120+160GB Western Digital JB PC2: Abit NF7-S -AMD Athlon XP 1700+- 2x 256MB PC2700 Kingston HyperX BH-5 chips!!!! Western Digital 120GB JB GeForce3 Laptop: Sony Vaio VGN-S360 :guitar: 3DFX Voodoo 5500 PCI-Sega Dreamcast May 1999

March 12th, 2003	#15 (permalink)
sxamiga Guest Posts: n/a	Good for you Violineb. You certainly should feel like "a Rooster on a fence" in that you have something to "Crow" about. I would keep you wonderful new computer and just forget about building your own. Yours beats mine, at least CPU wise, and I'm very pleased for you. I'm also very pleased that you taught Dell a much needed lesson. These "Giant" corporations need to lear that they can't walk all over the consumers and get away with it. After all, with out "us consumers" where would they be. Way to go man! :grin: :Popcorn: sincerely, sx/amiga

March 12th, 2003	#17 (permalink)
KINDRED Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Toronto, Canada raised in Argentina Posts: 88	how did you get dell to give you that ,maibe i can do the same thing with pccillin piece of crap program I get it out of my sys __________________ Processor~ Intel Pentium 4 1.6A GHz@1596MHz Motherboard~ Asus P4S8X Gfx~ Msi Geforce 4 TI 4200 128mb 8x agp Ram~ 512DDR-266 HDD~ Maxtor 40G @ 7200rpm CdRom~ Toshiba 12x DVD

March 12th, 2003	#18 (permalink)
Violineb Study>Bton/Live>Bmore Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Bloomington, IN/Baltimore MD Posts: 1,351	pccillin? what company is that. I doubt they're rich enough to help you :P Any ideas about temp and other stuff about that with this limited BIOS/MOBO. I won't complain right now though __________________ PC1: CPU: Pentium 4 3.06 ghz - GeForce 4200 ti - 2x 256MB PC 1066 RDRAM - 120+160GB Western Digital JB PC2: Abit NF7-S -AMD Athlon XP 1700+- 2x 256MB PC2700 Kingston HyperX BH-5 chips!!!! Western Digital 120GB JB GeForce3 Laptop: Sony Vaio VGN-S360 :guitar: 3DFX Voodoo 5500 PCI-Sega Dreamcast May 1999

March 12th, 2003	#19 (permalink)
KINDRED Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Toronto, Canada raised in Argentina Posts: 88	its actually preaty big its a virus program check chip config __________________ Processor~ Intel Pentium 4 1.6A GHz@1596MHz Motherboard~ Asus P4S8X Gfx~ Msi Geforce 4 TI 4200 128mb 8x agp Ram~ 512DDR-266 HDD~ Maxtor 40G @ 7200rpm CdRom~ Toshiba 12x DVD

March 12th, 2003	#20 (permalink)
Raqia Ah! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Evanston Il Posts: 545	For temps and such, try looking on google for a program called "Motherboard Monitor." For an HT test, try running 3dmark while encoding divx or run 3dmark while running sandra/superpi versus running one of those alone. __________________ Laptop: 1.6@2.13 Dothan 2MB (Pinmod), 2 GB 533mhz DDR2, GeForce 6800 360/730 256MB, 100 GB 5400 RPM, 17" UXGA+

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