Author Topic: Super Computer ! ! ! (Read 9710 times)

Firebreath · « **Reply #25 on:** October 21, 2003, 10:48:03 pm »

I know darius, but really, who uses win9x on a good machine nowadays?

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All I want is a license for WinXPpro, because this PC is more of a workstation than a home computer, really...

Darius Greywind · « **Reply #26 on:** October 21, 2003, 11:04:49 pm »

XP's copy protection is extremely irritating. I don't like companies that support copy protection. I had hoped that it had died out since the 80's but it hasn't. Besides, Win98 runs much better on a C3 powered machine than XP could ever hope to.

Firebreath · « **Reply #27 on:** October 21, 2003, 11:21:33 pm »

A C3? Wassat?
Call me dumb, but seriously, I don't know that kind of CPU/rig...

unless you mean a P3...

Darius Greywind · « **Reply #28 on:** October 21, 2003, 11:25:33 pm »

VIA Cyrix3. Cheap, low power. Found in those Mini-itx boards mostly.

WhiteShepherd · « **Reply #29 on:** October 21, 2003, 11:30:06 pm »

Chimera Soul it's basicly computers and the components you can put into them. We're talking of putting high grade stuff in our computers like the hot-rodders do in their cars. Feel free to ask any questions you like.

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WhiteShepherd · « **Reply #30 on:** October 22, 2003, 02:02:59 am »

I had a really funny link on a beer cooled overclocked computer. I'm not sure if they were happier they got increadible speeds or that they could drink the coolant!!

I'll have to hunt that link down.

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WhiteShepherd

Darius Greywind · « **Reply #31 on:** October 22, 2003, 02:14:45 am »

I seem to remember seeing that one WS. If you do find it again, post it!

Chaz_wolf · « **Reply #32 on:** October 22, 2003, 09:46:54 am »

I use Windows ME on my computer and it runs better than XP faster and more stable.. Espical since I made the computer out of an outdated computer and a pile of thrown out spair parts.

As for overclocking.. my laptop is overclocked and has been running well for afew years.. at 150% CPU speed. runs fine.. but burnt out the onboard sound for some reasion. ?
Admitaldly the case gets hot enough to burn wood.. but then what heatsick case doesn't.

Your folfy
Chaz

Firestorm Six · « **Reply #33 on:** October 22, 2003, 04:18:43 pm »

I had good service from most of windows os, i still have a reliable older laptop that runs win 98, my desktop ran Win-ME for almost two years, untill i up-graded to Win XP Pro. Alot of people gave Win ME alot of bad ratings, but it worked fine for me. Both my desktop & new laptop uses XP pro, and my Mac uses OS9. (i wanted to upgrade that to OS-x , but the older G3 would not support it. it works fine with OS9 anyway.

Now the idea of "Beer" cooling sounds cool ......though it would probally tast a little flat and stale after a year or so flowing through copper, aluminum, and rubber tubing. ':p'

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Darius Greywind · « **Reply #34 on:** October 22, 2003, 04:55:44 pm »

Hey Chaz, I like your new avatar. Hehe. I overclocked a Toshiba Libretto once. 75->100mhz. It was a day or two old when I did it too. Small machine that was.

WhiteShepherd · « **Reply #35 on:** October 22, 2003, 09:23:19 pm »

In the days when I had my 286-8 I would actualy tinker with the ram refresh rate which would actualy speed it up to 11.6mzh (as high as I could get befor the ram failed). This was not actualy changing chip speed. But it bosted me JUST enough to play Amiga .mod files and WingCommander (1) for DOS. =)

Firestorm Six · « **Reply #36 on:** October 22, 2003, 09:28:30 pm »

I still got my old Commodore Vic20 in the attic somwhere. I can't remember what "speed CPU that had, or if it even had one.

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Darius Greywind · « **Reply #37 on:** October 22, 2003, 09:43:07 pm »

Quote (Firestorm Six @ Oct. 22 2003, 9:28 pm)

I still got my old Commodore Vic20 in the attic somwhere. I can't remember what "speed CPU that had, or if it even had one.

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That would be a 1mhz 6502. With a whopping 5k of ram. Whee!

WhiteShepherd · « **Reply #38 on:** October 23, 2003, 12:54:15 am »

*sings* Memories! I had an Interact with a whole 6k of ram and did 4 colors on the TV screen in the 70's. That was actualy big stuff back then. I remember faimly watching on the couch as the computer filled the TV screen with colored blocks (about 30 min to do this) and one of the family saying "That's amazing!". Used to have HUNDREDS of programs for that thing. They were loaded on audio cassette tapes and you loaded the program by forwarding the tape to the start of the program and playing the audio of the stored program through to the stop "beep" where you stopped the tape player. For it's size and time it had some very imaginative games. Though I never knew anyone else who had one.

Chaz_wolf · « **Reply #39 on:** October 23, 2003, 09:18:04 am »

Hey WS.. I had one of thouse too... and I had a Sharp ZX80..
I still have a box full of Tandy computers, Amigas, Ataris.. all the old clasics..

I also had the Origanal PONG console.. rember that ?

I rember my first 'home computer' after the sharp.. it was a Olivette 086 at 6Mhz.. I had it running at 16Mzh before it overheatered and locked up..

Also a fun thought I got my P2 to run at 1Mhz last week.. Yes thats One Mhz, underclocked.. just becouse its possable.. and was a jumper set board without the book..

Have fun all,
Your techno folfy
Chaz

Firebreath · « **Reply #40 on:** October 23, 2003, 11:55:06 am »

want to see how older CPUs fare against today's?

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http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030217/index.html

Enjoy. ^^;

Firestorm Six · « **Reply #41 on:** October 23, 2003, 03:57:34 pm »

I remember Pong * ':.'

it was cool when it was first availiable. I remember when i recieved an old 486-60 laptop from my uncle many years ago, I thought it was a leap in technology from my old Vic20, 10 Mb of ram , 200 Mb HD, parallel port , floppy drive !...futureistic stuff *

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Wtcher · « **Reply #42 on:** October 23, 2003, 04:03:05 pm »

Firestorm Six - you said you had a Vic-20? Do you also have the game Escape from Mount Drash?

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As for Windows Activation - I personally don't feel that this was ever a form of copy protection. I feel that it's a form of user tracking, and it's ridiculously bothersome because some people (ie. me) like to swap parts in and out of their machines from time to time.

Thusly, I don't play with XP. Also, it eats up a lot of memory I'd rather conserve for more important things (like running software applications and games).

Firestorm Six · « **Reply #43 on:** October 23, 2003, 04:23:56 pm »

Quote (Wtcher @ Oct. 23 2003, 4:03 pm)

Firestorm Six - you said you had a Vic-20? Do you also have the game Escape from Mount Drash?

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I faintly remember somthing about the game, but i'm sure i never had that one.

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Chaz_wolf · « **Reply #44 on:** October 24, 2003, 11:16:01 am »

I agree Wtcher,

XP is too memmory hungry for my liking and with my laptop only having 64MB. I don't run XP.

(man I rember when 4MB was alot of RAM... now I see software at wal-mart recomending 4GM !!! )

I rember the Vic-20 I had to fix afew in my first computer job.
I was there for the 1st Pentum.. I was there the night Windows 95 came out.. *sighs* gods I feel old...

LOL

Your Techno Folfy
Chaz

Firebreath · « **Reply #45 on:** October 24, 2003, 02:27:53 pm »

Although I have to admit that XP's a bit too memory-hungry, I think that it does still offer good points, mainly the fact that it supports hyper-threading natively, and the only other alternative would be WIndows 2000 Advanced Server, which specs are nothing to spit at either.

I'd switch to XPpro only for that... because I hate having CPUs that are HT-enabled but not the OS to support it... :\

Chaz_wolf · « **Reply #46 on:** October 26, 2003, 09:43:11 am »

Firebreath,
The new version of Linux supports Hyper-Threading too.
And that uses alot less memory than any version of windows.
Just an opption

Also does the HT support in WindowsXP make up for the memmory hogging ?

Your folfy
Chaz

Kattywampus · « **Reply #47 on:** October 27, 2003, 01:12:07 pm »

Great Googly-Moogly. ':.'

Kada-Ru · « **Reply #48 on:** October 27, 2003, 06:30:17 pm »

That's what I had! A Vic-20!

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There was one game for it, I played it a lot at the time but don't remember the title. Every now and then I will hear the 'tune' on tv and it would bring back memories of playing it!

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WhiteShepherd · « **Reply #49 on:** October 27, 2003, 10:20:12 pm »

The best idea for a OS is to chose it's job. For a server platform I go with OS/2 and Linux as the best and most stable. Win2k has proven stable for apps that require it so we run one of those as well. For my personal PC I switched from 98 to XP for the stability. The memory usage is a lot more. But I remember when it was $100/meg or more for memory. Now a days you pay $70-$80 reach EACH 512meg DDR. With these prices memory is not so painful to get these days.