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Raven
UO Staff
Joined: 19 May 2003
Posts: 2235
Location: Clyde, Ohio
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Fri May 28, 2004 8:05 am |
Well I am thoroughly glad this week is over. For those of you who don't know, my house got hit by lightning last weekend. It traveled through our phone line, into our DSL modem, through our router, and fried mine and my parents computers. Somehow my brothers survived this hit, dunno how... But just yesterday my Insurance report came back from the computer store for the new PC's; $800 for my parents PC, $1700 for mine, 150 for my router, 60 for my DSL modem, and a few other items that I don't need to mention. All in all I'm going to be collecting a $4000 insurance check for new PC's. I figure I can build 2 very decent pc's with that, or one extremely good, and one not so good. Whichever I want  one thing I am going to do tho, is grab a brand new ATI X800 video card and do a little reviewing! So once I get my pc parts I'll get right to work on that review!!! Anyways, on to the news! |
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barbos
Ultimate Fanboy
Joined: 18 May 2003
Posts: 508
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Fri May 28, 2004 11:55 am |
lol, well congratz... I guess  |
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TheSquirrelKing
Spamming Fanboy
Joined: 30 Jun 2003
Posts: 168
Location: Canada, eh!
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Fri May 28, 2004 4:09 pm |
Im crying on the inside for you man. Enjoy the new card, and next time consider surge protectors. |
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Raven
UO Staff
Joined: 19 May 2003
Posts: 2235
Location: Clyde, Ohio
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Fri May 28, 2004 5:44 pm |
i had surge protectors for the power cords, but i never considered one for my network connection....
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barbos
Ultimate Fanboy
Joined: 18 May 2003
Posts: 508
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Fri May 28, 2004 7:57 pm |
I've had a network card blown out due to a surge... it took the whole pc down, however, when I removed the network card, the pc booted up fine. |
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Raven
UO Staff
Joined: 19 May 2003
Posts: 2235
Location: Clyde, Ohio
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Fri May 28, 2004 8:32 pm |
well my PS did the "snap crackle pop" thing. then it looked like it was smokin a cigar, so i dont think that woulda happened for me |
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barbos
Ultimate Fanboy
Joined: 18 May 2003
Posts: 508
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Fri May 28, 2004 8:42 pm |
was it on when the surge happened ? |
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Raven
UO Staff
Joined: 19 May 2003
Posts: 2235
Location: Clyde, Ohio
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Fri May 28, 2004 9:21 pm |
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Kyllian
Novice Spammer
Joined: 03 Dec 2003
Posts: 75
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Sat May 29, 2004 4:09 am |
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Raven
UO Staff
Joined: 19 May 2003
Posts: 2235
Location: Clyde, Ohio
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Sat May 29, 2004 8:04 am |
yah i have one of those for each PC, but since i dont have phone lines going into my pcs i diddnt need to do it, my parents had one on our fax machine, and it still got fried... |
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Cheetah
Ultimate Fanboy
Joined: 25 Aug 2003
Posts: 2831
Location: Halfway between the gutter and stars.
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Mon May 31, 2004 10:59 am |
for 4000 you can build like a 2 proccersor supper PC,
i say build like 2, 2 decent ones, or.. make 1 thats real good for gaming and all, and another one for msn, irc, teamspeak, etc etc, and put em next to eachoter, both internet and network connections, thats prety nice, have everything you dont want while gaming on the other PC, or you can read the walktrough and not having to alt-tab... you get my drift. |
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<Cheetah01> hes nevaR here either 
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barbos
Ultimate Fanboy
Joined: 18 May 2003
Posts: 508
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Mon May 31, 2004 11:51 am |
a 2 proc machine doesn't really help any with games... unless you run 2 games at a time |
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Cheetah
Ultimate Fanboy
Joined: 25 Aug 2003
Posts: 2831
Location: Halfway between the gutter and stars.
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Mon May 31, 2004 12:21 pm |
for a multimedia PC its good, fast rendering and real time previews etc. |
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barbos
Ultimate Fanboy
Joined: 18 May 2003
Posts: 508
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Mon May 31, 2004 12:30 pm |
only if your applications support it |
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Cheetah
Ultimate Fanboy
Joined: 25 Aug 2003
Posts: 2831
Location: Halfway between the gutter and stars.
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Mon May 31, 2004 1:30 pm |
maybe, i dunno, but i assum the big aplications like adobe etc support it then.
i dont know all that much about that stuff, but i was just giving suggestions. |
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