raggie33
*the raggedier*
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- Aug 11, 2003
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I miss them days building them then heading over to futuremark and 3d mark to bench test are latest builds any of you all. Ever used to build? First build specs?
Oh yeah. My first PC build consisted of an overclocked P4 2.0 Ghz Northwood clocked to 2.428 Ghz on air and seated on an Abit BD7 Raid coupled with a Radeon 8500. Corsair RAM with voltage boost. Remember PC Pitstop?I miss them days building them then heading over to futuremark and 3d mark to bench test are latest builds any of you all. Ever used to build? First build specs?
i recall useing a pencil to jump the bridges on a amd cpu so we can unlock the multi to ocOh yeah. My first PC build consisted of an overclocked P4 2.0 Ghz Northwood clocked to 2.428 Ghz on air and seated on an Abit BD7 Raid coupled with a Radeon 8500. Corsair RAM with voltage boost. Remember PC Pitstop?
I've built all of my home machines. Honestly I don't miss the day of having to set all of the bios settings manually, including interrupts, hard disk heads/cylinders/tracks etc. I had to recently recover some files from one of those old vintage machines from the days before smart hard drive controllers (remember MDM drives?) and it was a pain. It's so much easier to build a PC now.I miss them days building them then heading over to futuremark and 3d mark to bench test are latest builds any of you all. Ever used to build? First build specs?
Our oldest son's data miners have been our house's only needed source of heat this season. He was prepared when I mentioned the electric bill had doubled. Using a plug-in wattage meter he calculated the usage/cost of operating the pellet stove per hour and also factored in the cost of a bag of pellets. The miners cost less than the stove.My son used to build them with a big ole open box for massive amounts of fans. His mom complained about the increase in the electric bill.
These days he uses a Windows slate.
The closest I've ever come to "building" was swapping the dead battery for a new one in my wife's Vio laptop.
+1 on Frys.loved frys omg how i miss that store they would sell a cpu less then other stores then throw ina mobo lol..