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CleanNeon98 · 09-02-2006, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Raven18940

ATI drivers = Teh crap

Funny that my 2 computer wise friends told me its a great card. And my friend's dad who hapens to build computers for a living.

Raven18940 · 09-02-2006, 12:48 PM

Oh the card is fine, but the drivers will drive you nuts. My favorite one was when the drivers crashed while I was just surfing the internet and watching a video. Nice.

Yeah, I've got a ATI card, looking to replace it. A X1300 Pro 512MB in case you're curious. I also used to own a radeon 8500 way back when (3-4 years ago, ages in computer years :P) and the drivers were terrible then too, but they didn't randomly crash. I don't know how they've managed to make them worse. Hopely AMD's new ownership will get their software act together cause I generally like their hardware offerings.

I work on computers for a living and have been building computers from scratch for about 5 years now. That's the thing about computers and us "experts," there are as many opinions about how best to build a computer and what parts to use as there are opinions about what car is best and which parts to use on it. ;)

slavetothemuzic · 09-02-2006, 01:34 PM

Ray, you shoulda called me first.

I coulda got you an employee discount.

igo4bmx · 09-02-2006, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Ender81

You mean Lenovo, IBM sold the pc side of their company to them. I spent years working on IBM laptops and they were complete crap. I don't know if they've changed but I wouldn't really care to find out.

BTW sick laptop. But shouldn't you have TST on the screen behind it instead of nasioc? lol

IBM t series laptops are prolly one of the best and why most companies use it.

the IBM lenovo partnership is weird, since IBM and lenovo logos are on the new stuff

Mac @ R/T Tuning · 09-02-2006, 01:46 PM

Yeah IBM Thinkpad is rad. Lenovo bought IBM's PC business, and has the right to use the IBM logo for however many years. The new Apple stuff is where it is at...

Raven18940 · 09-02-2006, 01:50 PM

I've got a Thinkpad, great pc except for the hitachi HD, I'm just waiting for it to die.

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Originally Posted by Mac @ R/T Tuning

Yeah IBM Thinkpad is rad. Lenovo bought IBM's PC business, and has the right to use the IBM logo for however many years. The new Apple stuff is where it is at...

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34040

igo4bmx · 09-02-2006, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Raven18940

I've got a Thinkpad, great pc except for the hitachi HD, I'm just waiting for it to die.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34040

the hitachi deathstar...
happened to me once...

james_ls · 09-02-2006, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Raven18940

ATI drivers = Teh crap

Who runs company stock drivers??

Make your own or get some 3rd party ones...

**Ender81** · 09-02-2006, 05:09 PM

Raven instead of being all negative about what other people bought and post up some pics of the laptops you've built for comparisson.

**Ender81** · 09-02-2006, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by igo4bmx

the IBM lenovo partnership is weird, since IBM and lenovo logos are on the new stuff

It's not a partnership Lenovo bought the pc side of IBM and leased the IBM logo for five years, the closer it comes to that lease ending the more Lenovo logos you will see so nobody notices when the IBM logo is gone.

*EDIT*
Just realized Mac said the same thing, +1 for the new Apple setups, I am considering moving to the darkside and using Bootcamp to run windows for all of my work things.

Raven18940 · 09-02-2006, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Ender81

*EDIT*
Just realized Mac said the same thing, +1 for the new Apple setups, I am considering moving to the darkside and using Bootcamp to run windows for all of my work things.

And I'm not being negative, just very opinionated.

My computer:
AMD Opteron 165 (1.8 GHz) clocked at 2.38 GHz.
Abit KN8-SLI motherboard
2 GB of ram
dual 120 GB seagates in RAID 0
"borrowed" nVidia 7600 GT (cause I was tried of my x1300's crap)
SB Audigy 4 sound card.

And my umipressive, old thinkpad sporting a powerful dropping P3-M.

**Ender81** · 09-03-2006, 01:08 AM

I'm digging the cartoon lol. Not a bad setup, if I do stick with pc's I am probably going to wait for the quadcore setups to come out.

Honest_Bob · 09-03-2006, 07:47 AM

EEEWWW ITS A DELL! J/p
Shoulda got a business class Toshiba notebook, pure sex.

Not bad I got a similar setup.

Abit KN8-SLI
AMD 3800+ X2 64Bit
2gb o ram (Currently in the rma process

)
EVGA 7800GT
36GB Western Digital Raptor for OS (Also currently in the rma process for the 2nd time under its stay with me

)
72GB Western Digital Raptor for storage (Has been sent back 2 times)
Lite-On DVD Rom
Lite-On 8X DL DVD Burner
and the Santa Cruize Turtle Beach sound card because onboard audio is evil.

Raven18940 · 09-03-2006, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Honest_Bob

EEEWWW ITS A DELL! J/p
Shoulda got a business class Toshiba notebook, pure sex.

Not bad I got a similar setup.

Abit KN8-SLI
AMD 3800+ X2 64Bit
2gb o ram (Currently in the rma process

)
EVGA 7800GT
36GB Western Digital Raptor for OS (Also currently in the rma process for the 2nd time under its stay with me

)
72GB Western Digital Raptor for storage (Has been sent back 2 times)
Lite-On DVD Rom
Lite-On 8X DL DVD Burner
and the Santa Cruize Turtle Beach sound card because onboard audio is evil.

Dude, Seagate. 5 year warranty = reliable stuff. And why would you get a raptor for storage when you could have a 250 GB 7200 rpm drive for the same price? If the 7800 GT needs a good home while your hard drives are away I"ve been wanting to try SLI.

slavetothemuzic · 09-03-2006, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Raven18940

Dude, Seagate. 5 year warranty = reliable stuff. And why would you get a raptor for storage when you could have a 250 GB 7200 rpm drive for the same price? If the 7800 GT needs a good home while your hard drives are away I"ve been wanting to try SLI.

I've had 2 - 73GB 10K rpm Raptors running RAID 1 for over a year now. No issues.

The speed is what I was after, since I also run a P4 extreme chip.

Raven18940 · 09-03-2006, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by slavetothemuzic

I've had 2 - 73GB 10K rpm Raptors running RAID 1 for over a year now. No issues.

The speed is what I was after, since I also run a P4 extreme chip.

If speed is what you're after then why run RAID 1? RAID 0 man, come on.

slavetothemuzic · 09-03-2006, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Raven18940

If speed is what you're after then why run RAID 1? RAID 0 man, come on.

Because RAID 1 is fast enough, and RAID 0 offers zero data protection.

If a drive does get lost, all I have to do is swap the drive and let it rebuild, not reload everything I had on it, patch it, blah blah blah.

Honest_Bob · 09-04-2006, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Raven18940

Dude, Seagate. 5 year warranty = reliable stuff. And why would you get a raptor for storage when you could have a 250 GB 7200 rpm drive for the same price? If the 7800 GT needs a good home while your hard drives are away I"ve been wanting to try SLI.

The Raptors have a 5 year warrenty too. I need the games stored on that drive to load fast!

Its a pain but I'll own raptors until something better comes out for the price.

Raven18940 · 09-04-2006, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Honest_Bob

The Raptors have a 5 year warrenty too. I need the games stored on that drive to load fast!

Its a pain but I'll own raptors until something better comes out for the price.

2 7200 rpm Barracudas in RAID 0 > a single raptor.

I know what you mean though, I can't go back to a single drive anymore, it's just too slow.

JasterM5 · 09-04-2006, 03:59 PM

Shoulda bought it from me I coulda hooked you up.

<--Works for Dell. Oxford Valley Mall if anyone is interested.

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