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Very nice things

Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:30 pm
by Lochar
No where near on topic for anything, but as I just got this set up, I thought I'd see how jealous I could make everyone.

Just got in the mail my 15 foot DVI cable so that I could connect my new 32" LCD TV to my computer. As I type this, I'm in my room typing away in my bed from a wireless keyboard and mouse.

Life is grand. Now to go see how Oblivion looks on this.

Re: Very nice things

Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:56 pm
by Starstryker
They don't have a Radio Shack where you live ? Is where I got the 20' ethernet cable for my FF11 addiction.


Starstryker

Re: Very nice things

Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:15 pm
by Lochar
They do, but video cables have the highest markup price for any electronic item.

Locally, a 10 foot DVI cable cost 70 dollars. Through the internet, a 5 meter cable was 31 dollars plus 8 s&h.

Re: Very nice things

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 12:54 am
by Wingsolution
I know someone with one of the best jobs on the planet, it involves placing things inside exotic particle beams... including particle beams that 'don't exist' according to the government... how can anything but a good book compare to that?

Re: Very nice things

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 1:01 am
by J-Man5
Wingsolution wrote:I know someone with one of the best jobs on the planet, it involves placing things inside exotic particle beams... including particle beams that 'don't exist' according to the government... how can anything but a good book compare to that?
What an interesting change in topic.

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Re: Very nice things

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 1:19 am
by Lochar
J-Man5 wrote:
Wingsolution wrote:I know someone with one of the best jobs on the planet, it involves placing things inside exotic particle beams... including particle beams that 'don't exist' according to the government... how can anything but a good book compare to that?
What an interesting change in topic.

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J-Man5
You know, you could have at least attempted to re-rail it for me. Bastage. ;)

Re: Very nice things

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 1:26 am
by michaelsuave
Wingsolution wrote:I know someone with one of the best jobs on the planet, it involves placing things inside exotic particle beams... including particle beams that 'don't exist' according to the government... how can anything but a good book compare to that?

Re: Very nice things

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 2:27 am
by Spec8472
Lochar wrote:Just got in the mail my 15 foot DVI cable so that I could connect my new 32" LCD TV to my computer. As I type this, I'm in my room typing away in my bed from a wireless keyboard and mouse.
Me too.

Except, I got the 32" LCD TV (LG) a few weeks ago.
Running Windows Vista Media Centre on the "old" PC.

New PC and Network specs here:
http://will.hughesfamily.net.au/20060914/upgrade-time/

Network Diagram (slightly out of date): http://will.hughesfamily.net.au/wp-cont ... enetv6.png

Gee, I wonder where I got half the PC names from ;)

Re: Very nice things

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 2:37 am
by Lochar
Nice TV. Mine's an Olevia.

My system beats yours in a couple of places, mainly memory. I really need to install a 64 bit OS to take advantage of my 4 GB of memory and SLI configured Geforce 7600 GTs.

Re: Very nice things

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:16 am
by Spec8472
Lochar wrote:I really need to install a 64 bit OS to take advantage of my 4 GB of memory and SLI configured Geforce 7600 GTs.
What do you do with [s]a drunken sailor...[/s] err... with the 4GB RAM?

I can easily use 2GB (writing software in XP, and/or just general stuffing around in Vista), but I havn't needed more than that yet.

Also, is all your hardware supported in 64bit mode?

I ran Windows XP x64 for a while, but gave up because of the total lack of hardware support. I havn't tried Vista in 64bit yet (only installed it to real hardware when I got the new PC -- I'd played with it in VMWare before that)

Re: Very nice things

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:29 am
by Fiferguy
Ok.. I couldn't resist.

Right now, for A/V I have a 55" Sony HDTV with Onkyo 7.1 Digital Surround sound... around 1500 Watts total. I don't network my computers into it, but I have dual 30" LCD screens hooked up to my Mac Pro. Mac Pro Specs:

Dual 3.0 GHz Processor
8GB Ram
3 x 500GB hard drives
NVIDIA Quadro FX4500
Dual 30" Flat Panel Moniters
2 x 16X SuperDrives
Bluetooth 2.0 and Airport Extreme
Wireless Keyboard and Mouse

And before you ask, I do a LOT of audio editing. I use that computer to power my studio, and also to do video editing. 8)

Re: Very nice things

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:34 am
by Fawks
J-Man5 wrote:
What an interesting change in topic.

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J-Man5
Sounds like your talking about the Knight Bus from Harry Potter. :lol:

I don't have a 32" monitor but here are my computer specs...
Guam
Asus sli deluxe (non 32 version)
Athlon X2 4400
3Gb ram
300Gb WD raid model HD + 400Gb Maxtor
ATI X800 PCIe + X600 PCIe
21" Dell CRT flat screen + 19" NEC CRT flat screen + 20" Widescreen Viewsonic LCD 8ms response time
Sony DVD DL + Sony DVD+-R/RW + noname CDRW/DVD-ROM
APC Back-UPS XS/RS 1500
Oh yeah... a ATI PCI HDTV tuner. :D

Wake
Athlon 64 3000+
1Gig ram
120Gb + 250Gb + 250Gb HD's
integrated nVidia video
Viewsonic LCD w/ pivot feature connect 1
MadDog CDRW/DVD-ROM
APC Back-UPS LS 700

Pearl
Athlon 2500+
512Mb ram
120Gb + 120Gb hd's
Viewsonic LCD w/ pivot feature connnet 2
USB CDRW + SCSI DVD-ROM

Axium x51 520Mhz
2Gb SD + 4Gb CF
bluetooth GPS w/ M$ Streets n Trips Pocket version

Re: Very nice things

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 6:36 am
by Wingsolution
sorry about earlier, but I'm stuck with a hand me down laptop that won't run ANY of my games well, a 14 inch TV/VCR with basic cable, and I have to use my PS2 for a DVD player...

my larger computer failed recently, I think I need to replace the motherboard, but that requires money I don't have...

I can't even play Diablo II...

I'm going to go be depressed for a while now...

Re: Very nice things

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:02 am
by SirVal
HAHAHa :D
This is what I got:

Intel P 3 (498Mhz)
512MB RAM
12 GB harddisk
And the rest I'm not entirly sure of.

Luckily I've put about a thousand euros aside for a new computer, bud since I know didly squat about computers :? it's probably gonna sit in my account until . . . . well I dont know.

Re: Very nice things

Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:45 pm
by Trekkie
Well here are my computers:

gaming
Intel P4 2.6 Ghz
ABIT IC7-MAX3
1024 MB ram
120GB + 400 GB(sata 2) HD
Onboard Gigabit Ethernet
Radeon 9600 XT
DVDR + CDR
Clear Acrylic Case
Windows XP / Gentoo

Scotchtape (router)
700 Mhz Celeron
96 MB ram
20 GB HD
FreeBSD

Ducttape (fileserver)
Athlon 2800 XP
512 MB ram
5 X 400 GB (sata 2) (raid 5) hd
200 GB hd
250 GB External
Linksys Gigabit Ethernet Card
RIVA TNT2
SuSE 10.1

Maskingtape (mythtv)
Athlon 2800 XP
512 MB ram
400 GB hd
Linksys Gigabit Ethernet Card
Nvidia FX 5700
DVD Drive
WinTV PVR 250
Fedora Core 4
Mythtv Version 0.20

omg-laptop
1.7 Ghz Intel Pentium M
1024 MB ram
80 GB hd
15.4 in screen
Intel 915G (video card)
SuSE 10.1 / Backtrack(slax) / Windows XP

Then I have a gigabit switch.