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TrustAndObey
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How can that be? Most computers are obsolete by the time they arrive at the retail store.
Such is the mystery that I call my husband.
He built this thing forever ago and it's still got all the bells and whistles that some computers don't even offer yet.
When we signed up for cable internet in Colorado, the cable guy said my husband's computer was a "beast". That's what we've called it ever since.
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My brother-in-law works for Cox Internet, and he sees the biggest and baddest computers out there and immediately has to go buy something he doesn't have (he builds his own too).
His is clear and the tower is the biggest thing I've ever seen.
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The CPU and the fans are the only things he's upgraded on this thing in 7 years.
He also added some gaming sound cards.
But the rest of it is from day one.
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JonMiller
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To upgrade the CPU to something current, you would need a new motherboard. Although upgrading CPU I am sure helped a bit.
Also, there has been an increase of speed in a lot of different components. For example, while you might have the same amount of RAM from 7 years ago 2 GB say), current RAM uses a new manufacturering process, which allows it to be smaller and run at higher speeds. Additionally, video cards have went from using AGP to using PCI-X. This also allows much faster information flow (besides the vertex shaders, added pipes, and more that modern video cards have, modern video cards are very powerful). Harddrives have went to Serial ATA which allows a large improvement in information flow. However, 7 years ago you could buy SCSII drives, which are faster then SATA drives, and so you could still be beastly there.
DVD writers I don't think were very cheap 7 years ago, although they probably could be purchased. They definitely weren't as fast as the ones we have now.
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Also, there has been an increase of speed in a lot of different components. For example, while you might have the same amount of RAM from 7 years ago 2 GB say), current RAM uses a new manufacturering process, which allows it to be smaller and run at higher speeds. Additionally, video cards have went from using AGP to using PCI-X. This also allows much faster information flow (besides the vertex shaders, added pipes, and more that modern video cards have, modern video cards are very powerful). Harddrives have went to Serial ATA which allows a large improvement in information flow. However, 7 years ago you could buy SCSII drives, which are faster then SATA drives, and so you could still be beastly there.
DVD writers I don't think were very cheap 7 years ago, although they probably could be purchased. They definitely weren't as fast as the ones we have now.
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He didn't have to buy a new motherboard when he got the new CPU, but I do know that the motherboard is what he spent the most money on. Whatever that means.
We have two hard drives (but as I mentioned, one of them that was partitioned got hosed from a virus).
As for the rest of what you just said...it went right over my head!
We have two hard drives (but as I mentioned, one of them that was partitioned got hosed from a virus).
As for the rest of what you just said...it went right over my head!
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He worked at the Department of Defense when he built the beast. He worked as a System Programmer and his co-workers were the epitome of nerdiness. They'd spend hours on the phone talking the language Mjona just used.
They all knew where to get the best stuff.
That's all I know. Seriously officer, that's all I know.
They all knew where to get the best stuff.
That's all I know. Seriously officer, that's all I know.
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When I was in the first year of college, I brought a 386, the salesman hackled us for the 2MB of ram upgrade (2 to 4). Then later I built a 486 33megahertz with 8MB, 240MB of HDD with the industry's first video card and a CD rom. All of it in a full size tower which I called it a super computer 8-9 years ago, probably all in a trash dump somewhere today. LOL my little laptop now has a million times more processing power. Anyone remember the first batch of windows 95? Can't count how many curse words I said because of it.
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I built my desktop PC and it does have an internal floppy drive. I have a business application that depended on floppies as the transfer medium at the time
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JonMiller
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My two built desktops didn't have a floppy drive. But I ended up installing one when I had hardware that didn't come on a CD, and for some reason I couldn't connect to the net (at least one time it was because the network card was the hardware that needed a driver that was only found on a floppy).
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