Computer talk time

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03-15-2004, 08:46 PM
Erdrick Holmes

Computer talk time

I felt like making a thread about our beloved computers and exactly what we do with them. So if you feel like it answer these questions.

Is your system a brand name system? If so what?: Mine is sorta made from the chassix, mother board, and processer from two compaqs my uncle let me have after he took a few parts out of it to add to his new system he build.

What has to be the best item inside your system? The Ethernet/ NIC card. Easy to set up for LAN parties.

Is the computer you use alot your own? Yes it's mine, mine alone, nobody else is aloopwed to go near it. Its my baby, my presssioussss.[/smeagle]

Where in your house is your computer located at? In my bedroom, where nobody can get to it.

What OS does your PC use? Windows XP Professional, I might upgrade to 2000 when I get some money.

What do you use your computer for alot? Games, web browsing, and music. LOUD music with that mother of a soundcard

Have you ever actaully lugged your computer to some placeo utside your house? If so where?: I take my PC to LAN parties at some friends houses alot. The farthest I had ever taken it was my Skill Center in Net Plus class, it was my last day before Summer Break so Mr. G let us all have a huge fragfest on Half Life and we where aloowed to bring our own computers if we wished. I had to lug mine on the high school bus with my own speakers, mouse and Keyboard (Mr. Gs keyboards and Meeces suck, half of them are castrated) and then I had to get back on the bus and carry the whole thing home when I got off, I wish I were allowed to drive to high school.

Have a nice day :)
03-15-2004, 08:53 PM
Skogs

Is your system a brand name system? If so what?:
It's a Dell.

What has to be the best item inside your system?
Yeah, I'd say the Ethernet card as well. Unlimited broadband courtesy of college :cool:

Is the computer you use alot your own?
Yup. I'm in my own room at college, with my own PC.

Where in your house is your computer located at?
See previous question.

What OS does your PC use?
Windows ME. :mad:

What do you use your computer for alot?
Web browsing, music, word processing, watching DVDs, games...

Have you ever actaully lugged your computer to some placeo utside your house? If so where?:
Yes, I had to get it from home to college in the first place. I also have had to take it to a storage centre over the summer holidays when college doesn't let me leave any of my stuff in residence. I've taken my old computer once over to a LAN party.
03-15-2004, 08:53 PM
Shoeberto

Is your system a brand name system? If so what? It's an HP case but most everything else in it is new. I'm going to get a new, non-suck case sometime.

What has to be the best item inside your system? Probably the GeForce FX 5200.

Is the computer you use alot your own? Prettymuch, yeah.

Where in your house is your computer located at? A side room where I spend a lot of time.

What OS does your PC use? XP Pro.

What do you use your computer for alot? Multimedia (editing and viewing), video games, internet, homework.

Have you ever actually lugged your computer to some place outside your house? If so where? When I was upgrading it, I took it to my uncle's friend's shop to get something fixed. Otherwise, no.
03-15-2004, 08:59 PM
crono_logical

Re: Computer talk time

Is your system a brand name system? If so what?:
PC: Some cheapy crappy one I got cheap. I think I've only replaced the RAM and the old NIC though, everything else is either original or added.
Laptop: I won it at a university competiton thing at IBM, so yes, I guess it's a standard make IBM model. :p

What has to be the best item inside your system?
PC: I don't think I'd call anything "best". I guess 1 GB RAM and 200 GB HD space is more than most people though, considering how old it is.
Laptop: Again, dunno. TV-out is useful though.
Since both have firewire support though, I can use my 250 GB external drive with either - I think I need another one soon too (maybe 300 GB this time). :D

Is the computer you use alot your own? Both are, yes.

Where in your house is your computer located at? In my room.

What OS does your PC use? XP Pro on the PC, XP Pro SP1 on the laptop. I don't plan to use linux until I get another seperate computer for that.

What do you use your computer for alot? Lots of stuff - and at the same time :p *insert screenshot of taskbar with 30+ tabs/tooltray with 25+ icons here*

Have you ever actaully lugged your computer to some place outside your house? If so where?: Between home and college.
03-15-2004, 09:20 PM
PeTeRL90

Is your system a brand name system? If so what?: It's somewhat new. It's a Dell, though.

What has to be the best item inside your system? All the free space.

Is the computer you use alot your own? I wish.

Where in your house is your computer located at? Downstairs, where the SNES and Nintendo 64 are hooked up.

What OS does your PC use? Windows XP

What do you use your computer for alot? Games, downloading/burning music, talking with friends, and uhhh... stuff.

Have you ever actaully lugged your computer to some placeo utside your house? If so where?: Nope.
03-15-2004, 09:33 PM
m4tt

Is your system a brand name system? If so what?: It's a VPR Matrix.

What has to be the best item inside your system? The processer.

Is the computer you use alot your own? Yes.

Where in your house is your computer located at? My bedroom.

What OS does your PC use? Windows XP Home Edition.

What do you use your computer for alot? Games, Web, Work.

Have you ever actaully lugged your computer to some placeo utside your house? If so where?: Nope.
03-15-2004, 09:38 PM
Reason

Re: Computer talk time

Is your system a brand name system? If so what?: HP laptop. It's cute. :)

What has to be the best item inside your system? "I am a girl and do not know too much computer-stuff"

Is the computer you use alot your own? =D Mine! =D

Where in your house is your computer located at? I live by myself, in a tiny apartment-thing, and it's in there......

What OS does your PC use? Windows XP

What do you use your computer for alot? Internet, music, schoolwork. In that order.

Have you ever actaully lugged your computer to some placeo utside your house? If so where?: Nope.
03-15-2004, 10:12 PM
Mr. Graves

Is your system a brand name system? If so what?: Gateway. Bought it for $600 on June of 2002.

What has to be the best item inside your system? Processer. Lots of free memory.

Is the computer you use alot your own? Yep. xD

Where in your house is your computer located at?
TV room.

What OS does your PC use? Windows XP.

What do you use your computer for alot? Emulation, chatting, and WinAmp.

Have you ever actaully lugged your computer to some placeo utside your house? If so where?: Yeah, to the nearest Gateway shop about a month after I bought it. The OS crashed. Haven't had a real problem ever since that, though. xD
03-15-2004, 10:50 PM
Thunday Man

Re: Computer talk time

Is your system a brand name system? If so what?: Nerp, I ordered all the parts, and my brother and myself slaped it all together ourselves.

What has to be the best item inside your system? Gforce FX 5950 Video card

Is the computer you use alot your own? Yep, its my baby

Where in your house is your computer located at? My basement. It used to be in my room but i took it out. I felt I was spending way to much time in my room with a bathroom, tv, my gaming councils, and a minifridge in my room.

What OS does your PC use? Windows XP Professional

What do you use your computer for alot? Games, Movies, Ventrilo, AIM, surfing, music, downloading, and of corse, porn!

Have you ever actaully lugged your computer to some place outside your house? If so where?: Yeah, about ever weekend or two. Me and my friends LAN it up often, and very often recently. If we do that, I have to drag it there, but not if its at my house ;)
03-15-2004, 11:24 PM
edczxcvbnm

I have a Compaq

I run windows 98

I use it for doing programming, school work and such.

I plan to get a new computer soon(if my friend can get off his ass and give me some help) and then I will use it to burn some anime and things like that from work.

That reminds me....EBAY ^_^
03-15-2004, 11:32 PM
fire_of_avalon

Re: Re: Computer talk time

Is your system a brand name system? If so what?: IBM Thinkpad R40 or T40. I got it through college for being smart and poor

What has to be the best item inside your system? I like the wireless card. Wirelessness is fun

Is the computer you use alot your own? This one, as long as I graduate or pay for it if I leave school

Where in your house is your computer located at? Where ever I want it to be, it only weighs six pounds.

What OS does your PC use? Windows XP Pro

What do you use your computer for alot?Everything I do :)

Have you ever actaully lugged your computer to some place outside your house? If so where?: Like I said, where ever I want.
03-16-2004, 12:05 AM
Lament

MY PC is a complete pile of crap. I don't have the cash to build a good one right now so it's made of scavenged parts which are years out of date. :( Pity me. There are no side panels (merely a steel frame) and the noise made by the clapped-out 300W PSU is frightening... it sounds like a jet engine idling.

CPU: x86 P3 Celeron 1.1GHz
RAM: 128mb PC133
Graphics Adaptor: TNT2 AGP 32mb
Sound: SB Live! 5.1
Mainboard: It's so troutE I don't actually know. It has slots into which some parts can fit, that's all that matters!

Storage: 7200rpm ATA100 20Gb HDD, 16x DVD ROM, 24x16x24 CDRW, Iomega external zip drive.

There's fans fixed to the northbridge with zipties because I fear it overheats (the original heatsink "broke off" when the board was allegedly dropped)... and I'm pretty sure even the stupidest goldfish gets fewer "out of memory" errors. Perhaps I push it too hard... :greenie:

The best item in my system? it's all trash... so I wouldn't give two h00ts if it blew up and burned to death. It would be a good excuse to build a new one anyway... with a shiny new AMD 64bit processor :D raa.
03-16-2004, 12:10 AM
Dr Unne

Is your system a brand name system?
Yes.

If so what?:
Dell.

What has to be the best item inside your system?
Processor.

Is the computer you use alot your own?
Yes.

Where in your house is your computer located at?
Upstairs.

What OS does your PC use?
Gentoo.

What do you use your computer for alot?
Everything.

Have you ever actaully lugged your computer to some placeo utside your house?
Yes.

If so where?
College.

PS: Sméagol.
03-16-2004, 12:30 AM
Peegee

My main computer's a burned out (PSU) piece of junk that's sitting in the corner of my room until I can replace the PSU. Right now I'm using an HP 933 Mhz/5 year old or something of that sort computar machine.
03-16-2004, 05:48 AM
Kirkpatrick

Is your system a brand name system? If so what?:
Nope.

What has to be the best item inside your system?
I guess the graphics card. GeForce 2 MX/MX 400, 64Mb of Ram.

Is the computer you use alot your own?
Sadly no.

Where in your house is your computer located at?
My basement, same as the TV and the NES.

What OS does your PC use?
Windows 98 SE. I dislike it.

What do you use your computer for alot?
Games, Random Internetness, some image editing, and schoolwork.

Have you ever actaully lugged your computer to some placeo utside your house? If so where?:
Nope.

Have a nice day :)
Thank you, I did and I think I will tomorrow too.