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| Thread ID: 30644 | 2003-02-26 09:13:00 | what drives your hardware upgrade ?? | tweak'e (174) | Press F1 |
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| 124172 | 2003-02-26 21:47:00 | Driven mainly by games though I dont play them that often, I havent seen a need to upgrade anything recently in the last year mainly due to lack of finances, my cpu is a 1.3 thunderbird uses the 200 fsb technology old but does the job and my HDD's to a 40 and 80 gig. My graphics card is a GEforce 3 plus have 512 megs of sd133 ram which is heaps for the few things that I do ; will need an upgrade only if I get into really intensive movie editing and ripping . |
kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 124173 | 2003-02-26 22:17:00 | Robo: AFAIK, XP (If that's what your newer PC has) has a "File and Setting Transfer Wizard". Ive been told this works across a network, and that could save a lot of hassle for you. If you know what you're doing, a full backup, format, OS re-install and driver setup can take a little under two hours. Then theres proggys again mind you. Just a thought ;-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 124174 | 2003-02-26 23:03:00 | Well; do I start with the ZX81...? That wasn't a computer really, even tho' Clive Sinclair called it that. BBC Acorn (a pre-laptop "laptop") lovely machine for writing toy programs. Most complicated thing I did was a version of John H Conway's Game of Life in BBC Basic (Basic with parameter-passing subroutines! I cut my teeth on Algol 60) and 6502 Assembler. But really! Domestic TV display and cassette tape recorder as storage device? Rather surprised that a Digital Equipment machine called a Rainbow could only do monochrome (I never bought the thing; it was on long-term loan from DEC, because they had a scheme to encourage amateur developers of apps they might be able to use). Painfully aware that it was "proprietary" so shifted to "IBM compatible"... Pentium 75MHz, some Ks of RAM (can't remember) 60 MB of hard disk. Moaned to Microsoft that it wouldn't run this new thing called Outlook (forget why I ever wanted to). Someone in MS got me a cheap deal and I went up to: 166 MHz and about twice the RAM, which just about ran Outlook. After several years, I just felt I was Behind The Times and should at least experience the post-MMX world. Went up to a Pentium II with a whole 4GB of disk (which is still partitioned into two logical drives!) Two motives for the next upgrade: Having moved to A 128K internet connection, I got to download video files in a reasonable time. The machine was gasping and panting trying to run them with Windows Media Player (tho an ancient DOS thing called VMPEG ran the mpegs fine - but of course not the other formats). Second motive, an Unexpected Windfall which meant I had the proverbial $2999 to spare. (Actually about $3500 by the time I added a writable CD drive and the GST). So that's my present machine: 1GHz Athlon 128M RAM (should really double that now I'm on XP) 20G disk, 17" monitor (which I did honestly try to give to my partner to make up for saddling her with my previous-generation one. It ran fine, but her 14" wouldn't work on mine). My new machine came with Windows ME. Upgraded to Win XP Pro just because it was the New Thing and I had to try it. AGONY, and Pressf1 has some records of that. It was wound back to ME with disastrous results, then wound forward again. "Runs tolerably well" is the best mark I could give the OS. SP1 seemed to slow it down perceptibly. Argus. |
argus (366) | ||
| 124175 | 2003-02-27 01:33:00 | Original machine was a 486DX-66 with 500 Mb HD, 8Mb RAM - upgraded after about 18 mths to a P120, 2Gb, 16Mb for a speedier Win95. Over 6 years it had a Voodoo 1, 2 x 4Gb hard drives and a RAM upgrade to 48Mb. The addition of a PCI USB card, force feedback wheel and Win98 pretty much killed it mid-2000. Going from that to a 1Ghz Athlon, 30Gb, 512 SDRAM, GF3 was pretty phenomenal - lasted about 20 mths before frying the CPU; upgraded the mobo, CPU to Athlon 2000+, and 256Mb DDR. The P120 is still used for a file server, jukebox, development web server and mySQL server. |
antmannz (28) | ||
| 124176 | 2003-03-01 15:00:00 | Games, with the secondary benefit that my graphics software runs better :) | Greg S (201) | ||
| 124177 | 2003-03-01 17:38:00 | As I had suspected nearly all upgrades have been game driven. As I never play games other than Solitare and hearts there has been no valid reason to spend all that I have on upgrades. My principal usage is with Word and several genealogy programs that all ran well on a 486 and did all I wanted. However five comp upgrades later and I am still doing the same work with upgrades of the same programs. And not realy doing anything faster. I can remember paying about $800 for Word 6,which came on about a dozen floppy's and with an 800 page manual. Then Word 97 and then Word 2000. And all I am doing could be done with the Windows Write program. Likewise I rush out early in the morning of release date for each new version of Windows. So mymotive foe upgrades is simply STUPIDITY Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 124178 | 2003-03-11 01:16:00 | Main concern these days are better software and learning how to use it properly movies mp3s games etc chew up space so HDD upgrades are in the offing need about 200 gig's of space maybe more at !40 now lol | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 124179 | 2003-03-11 01:37:00 | LOL - I agree! Ive got 3 HDD's, one 6 (Which was fine a year ago), now I've also got a 7.5 and a 10! Although Im running 3 OS's which is half my problem ;-) I saw a 300Gig HDD for only $800 the other week!!!! Prices are dropping as always, and 256MB DDR is $55 @ QMB, cheaper than SD-RAM from most places! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 124180 | 2003-03-11 10:33:00 | It`s just games and hedging against the next three years. Sad, really; | wrought iron (3250) | ||
| 124181 | 2003-03-11 10:35:00 | Also a vain search for a prog. to eliminate emoticons. | wrought iron (3250) | ||
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