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[Guest]

19 minutes ago, barnz said:

DvD drive is pretty much filling the spot on the case I dont have a cover plate for anymore...

 

 

[Rab]

There was one like ^^ that was an actual ashtray - like a proper, push the button and the ash tray pops out for your ciggy

[barnz]

lol,

also just remembered voodoo graphics cards, that celeron ended up with like 128mb of ram, voodoo2 which still needed the primary ati card coz weird. Then maybe a 3 in that pc I got a lot of use out of it, was family pc I just stole basically. Then I had the voodoo5 and athlon..xp maybe and they went broke or something. Voodoo gone

[Rab]

Athalon XP was awesome - there was a period there where ATI and AMD both (while still separate) kicked arse.

 

They had the goods on both Intel and Nvidia - the XP series of CPU's and the 9xx series of AMD cards were the biz

 

AMD focused on x64 too early and ATI went tock instead of tick - stuffed them both :(

 

My most rewarding GPU I ever had was an ATI Radeon 950 Pro that all it needed was a bios flash to turn into a fully legit 970 Pro

 

Geforce 2MX?? was my first real GPU - it let me play Quake? or was it Unreal?

 

GF3 then the GF4MX taught me that an extra number didn't mean better :( - have been wary ever since. (they were before the ATI 950)

 

Not sure if the ATI was before or after the Nvidia 4xxx (oooh - they had TI's) era - but was green from that time til I went the AMD 7970's

 

Have been Intel CPU for myself since the Athalon days, but often buy/recommend AMD CPU's for others where it's the smart purchase - never for myself though :S

 

Am sure I had an S3 Virge at some stage - 

 

Think Voodoo did 3d only - needed a primary card for the normal 2d stuff?

 

And - f*ck soundcards - SB especially

[Guest]

Vodoo cards rocked. I remember those babies. I had a titanium too. 

 

Ohh the good old days 

[Rab]

Radeon AIO were the one's I lusted over - did TV shiz on the PC etc

 

The boxes the cards came in were bigger than the PC's we were putting them into lol

 

I got lost for a while there with capture cards, firewire and surround sound soundcards - spent $2k plus in early 2000 on pinnacle "firewire" cards that never actually worked - a year later we had it all standard :( 

 

I always used to be on the tail end of stuff - would buy into it just before it got superseded, or just before the drivers for it didn't work on the next version of Windows.

 

 

[bloodycrashboy]

7 hours ago, Rab said:

What was your first computer? (as a kid (parents)/as an adult (yours))

 

 

 

I was a very late starter on the computer scene

Got a digital camera for a Christmas pressie in 2004, had to buy a PC so we could store the photos.

Bought a second hand ex school PC, would not have a clue what the specks were.

In 2005 I had a PC built to my own specks

Athlon 64 socket 754 3200+ @ 2.2GHz 

K8N-E Deluxe motherboard

2 @ 512Mb RAM ( I think )

Had a whopping 200GB HDD

Still remember the comment made when I asked for that HDD

"man that's huge, you wont need a HDD that big"

I got an Antec case that had a side window, and that is where the love of computing started for me.

Looking into the case at all the electronic goodness started a love affair with PC hardware that has only got stronger year after year.

Still have that case, it now houses my home server.

Will dig up some old picks tonight.

 

  here was my old setup in 2005

 

[bossmang]

20 hours ago, Rab said:

 

 

 

Yeah - wasn't real patient

 

MB/RAM/CPU/Cooler installed

 

 

 

 

 

 

the white looks nice, saw this on the MSY FB page today

want

 

 

19 hours ago, luke187 said:

 

haha nah linux mint. I really liked w10 at first but it started pissing me off more so did some searching and stumbled across this linux distro. Dual boot windows because some games dont work in linux, and theres no linux afterburner. 

 

Having troubles uploading any screenshots but from the main screen with all the clock speeds if you click the setting button at the bottom of the main screen, 3rd box down should be "Compatibility properties". You need to check "Unlock voltage control" and "Unlock voltage monitoring". Ok that then at the main screen the numbers in the green boxes are how many mhz above core clock speed in game. No idea with the 900's but best recommendation would be to find an overclocking 960 article and go from there. They usually provide every detail you need and things to watch out for, as well as what voltages and clock speeds they used. 960's are a really popular card so certain there would be a few around. 

 

 

 

sweet thanks ill have  play later, never heard of that OS, im running Win10 running like a dream though. 

Edited 24/06/16 06:27 AM by Ford Freak

[bloodycrashboy]

I made a bo bo with the dates on my first PC.

It was at least 1999 when I bought the second hand school PC.

I remember Y2K and turning the time and date on it to   31st  December 1999 at 5 minutes to midnight and watching it tick over to see if the hype was a hoax.

 

Because   , here are some.

 

this is the first incarnation of my media center.

big HDD's and lots of fans = bloody noisy.

 

 

 

 

This is my current Media centre, under volted fans, no mechanical HDD's  = silent 

 

 

 

 

This is where my first Antec case ended up.

All movies etc accessible via a gigabit network to all PC's in the house, and wireless to all portable devices.

This is in my workshop/motorcycle room.

I do want to tidy things up a bit with a rack mount enclosure.

 

 

10 TB, running windows home server 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Built this PC in 2010, was my main rig, but now its my wife's desktop

 

 

 

 

took this heatsink out of my AMD Athlon setup (it had a few incarnations as well) did my first lapping job and installed it in Mrs Bloodycrashboy's PC.

 

 

 

also running a much better cooler on the graphics card and 16GB of G.Skill goodness.

also special custom cable tie job on the graphics PCB 

 

 

 

 

Was having red screen of death problems when gaming, so I disassembled my GTX690 to clean the dust and re-apply thermal compound to the GPU's.

Turned out to be a fault with one of my monitors.

 

 

[.Stripes.]

On 6/17/2016 at 4:42 PM, Frederick said:

My tech extends to this forum... even that I fail at... ask keith.. hes like my permanent vaccum now ...

I did enjoy having nbn for the fact I played CoD ... I miss cod

 

I miss playing CoD, the trash talk by 12yr olds on Xbox Live, not so much. I bought the recent one that had Kevin Spacey in it (which was pretty much why I bought it) and played it for like a few hours then just never finished it. I've got so many games like that these days, bought but never finished. The Mass Effect series were the last games I played all the way through, think they just managed to grab my interest/curiosity enough to suck me in.

Edited 24/06/16 09:57 PM by .Stripes.