I have some sad news, peeps. After seven years, three lightning strikes, several upgrades and no less than 17 reformats and rebuilds I decided to knuckle up and buy a new desktop. I got a laptop last year as a supplement but I need a desktop, just more comfortable with one.
Seeing as I have two internal 300 GB hard drives (plus a 400GB and 300GB external AND a 120GB backup for music and a 160GB hard drive I cant find that I was going to use for my modded X-Box), a 256 video card (and a 512 that DIED on me. fuck NVIDIA), IEEE card, 5.1 speakers, wireless keyboard/mouse and a 20 inch flat panel the system is bare bones. Hell, everything in that tower was new (hell the tower was maybe a year old itself) minus the processor, which was an old school 3.0 GHZ Pentium IV when it was brand spanking new. It was the fastest shit out there…in 2001. This morning the computer wouldn’t boot from the correct hard drive and I just said it is time to knuckle up and do this thing. It has been rebooting for no reason (as Monie can tell you) sometimes three to four times in succession and the temp on that bad boy, despite constant cleanings and tower upgrades is always up there and is constantly running hot to the point of insanity. Most of that was having so much stuff hooked up to it all the time and leaving it running back when I was a MiRC/edonkey server back in the day. Full Metal Alchemist? I was your hook up! Holler if you hear me! I am going to call Ted to see what other tests I can run on the unit but from what I can tell, the only problem is that it was over worked.
With that being said, there is a high probability that I am going to rebuild it and either use it as a file server when I FINALLY get my own place or use my pieces from my other old computers (still have an old AMD laying around with a GeForce 3 card somewhere in the house) and give it to some of the technology deprived (Rick, Jen, etc.) Of course, before I do that I have to make sure it isn’t a MAJOR problem like an ATA controller failure or an overheated and fried processor. That will make it as useless as Peyton Manning in a flexbone offense. PLEASE someone get that joke.
So after some MAJOR internal bickering (I have been an AMD guy since Denver Tech), I decided to go with the Intel Dual Core processor over the AMD Live 64. All the competitive information had both being even in terms of processing power (it was like picking L.T. over Reggie Bush. You either chose flash and potential or consistency and overall performance) with each having a slight edge in niche categories. I am in the middle of everything since I don’t do a lot of one thing but a little of all things. So doing that, the Intel was a better performance and surprisingly a cost choice. A lot of what I have I can put into my new system while the AMD reps were kind of ‘well it SHOULD work, but you may want to ask Microsoft’. That and I gave my mom my old AMD Gateway computer and she had the motherboard replaced 4 times because of bulging caps. Computer people know what I mean. So I have now owned 2 AMD Althlons (a 750MHZ an a 1.4GHZ) and now three Intel (3.0 GHZ and now a 1.86 Dual Core laptop and desktop) systems and all I can say is….IT’S ALL ABOUT THE PENTIUMS, WHAT?!
Chachi has joined the next-gen in computer technology…for the next 3 days or so. You got to love the world of computers. Even still, I am going to miss P-Fizzy. We have been through some rough times like those lightning strikes and when I didn’t put the studs under the motherboard (keeps it from touching metal. VERY STUPID ON MY PART!). We also had some good times, like the time I played Age of Empires online. That was good stuff. Sigh, I am talking about my computer like it’s a person. Well…we did watch a lot of porn together. Let’s just say I had three external hard drives for a reason. What is even worse is I DELETED IT ALL! Dammit to hell! I did get 300 gigs of hard drive space out of cleaning up my act. Silver lining peeps. Silver lining. Stay up, peeps!
Chachi Out.
