:yum:

what? no raid array?

that casing is bad.I saw that at Comp USA..can you get them cheaper online?I forgot the name...

I dont have a need for RAID.

I dont have a system that has to be up 24/7, and I archive all of my data on CD's and TAPE.



trust me, RAID is not the best way to keep all of your data; it should be relied upon only as part of your design to keep your system up as long as possible..



and yes, I should know; my last gig was on the Netfinity/E Server series team at IBM.

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Sorrow: do you mean the casing is bad or hot?

I was going to get this case online, but I got a sweet deal at a local shop here for the case and 400Wt PS. Plus it already included the clear side case, which at the time was going for around 19.99 online a couple of months ago when I got it.

that case IS bad ass. I'd have it... if I could.

What do you mean hot? as in stolen?



I dotn think that case went for $19.99...



What did you pay for it..and how did you get the lights inside?

i think the case was around 70-80, powersupply was thrown in at a good deal ( i cant remember)



the 19.99 part is not the case, but the Clear Panel part of the case.

Most of the sites that sold this Skyhawk Case sold it stock, with the regular side panels. They offered you the choice at the time to pay an additional 19.99 for a Clear sided panel.



When I saw this at a local store, I haggled with the guy, and he gave it to me for a real nice deal, and I took it home and found out that it included the Clear side.



The light is a mod that you can add, which connects to your Powercable DIN connectors. Installation was kinda easy, you just have to be creative.



Do you see the black switch on the front that says "ON/OFF"?

I took one of the extra Floppy Drive filler panels, and drilled a nice center hole to place the switch in, so it looks all professional and sweet.



And HOT meaning phat or fresh, not stolen, LOL.

I guarentee you, CompUSA doesnt sell this case!

i have seen a variation of that case an OEM i deal with uses them. compusa sells LIAN LI cases and knockoff ones too.....

I know hot didnt mean stolen..Sweet ass set up...Comp USA sells a case liek this ..mde by Lai Li? or some **** liek that with the same set up for $179.? Almost 200.$



I like it cause its aluminum..and has the open view...



Hey now you have a place to display your ant farm...lol!!!!!!

common people, POST YOUR PC's! I'm not asking you to post your faces for goodness sakes.

Give me tomorrow...... https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png

yes! Something I can talk about, fluently. *geek*



My PC ain't show material, I'll gut her a little and take a picture tomrrow morning (camera sucks need daylight to get good pictures)



And, I thought raids were to optimize disk speeds.



If you can't show pics, give some specs..they're always nice



I'll give you this systems specs..aint much..enough to play CS, browse forums and that's fine by me.



Tri-booter system (Windows2k, WinXP, SuSE Linux 8.0 soon to be 8.1)

Pentium 2 400mhz

Geforce 4 420MX (PCI bus..I KNOW AGP is faster, no agp slot, no money to rebuild, no job to buy parts..)

256mb 133mhz Crucial dimms. (x2 128mb)

SoundBlaster LIVE! something..I forget.

Cnet Pro lan

x2 Seagate Baracuudas 40gb each

And a peice of crap Circut city phillips 12x write 32x read CDR



And my face :O

http://www.members.aol.com/fallendeity/mad.jpg

I thougth the Unibomber was caught....This guy is pysco ...

http://www.members.aol.com/fallendeity/mad.jpg

Nice finger...hahah

now we are ricing out computers????? hey you need a big fat wing on the back and some racing stripes.... lol by the way they sell those cases over here in korea for like 20 bucks... hehehe the land of cheap ****.

ahah @ Mr ashe

there ya go. Yes I got the hurting Lian Li case from comp usa. Thanks vosko. Hey but I cut in the window myself.

I guess it would help to add the pic

Bwaaaaaaaaaahahahhahahha

heh my case isn't much to look at... but it has lots of fans and goes pretty fast https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png



Athlon XP 2200+

MSI KT4 Ultra SR mobo

ATI Radeon 9700 Pro

1 GB pc 2700 ram

TDK 24/10/40

an ancient DVD drive

an ancient network card

and a 4 year old SB live

Baha I use a PII 350 with 384mb of ram that I lost the side to.



Good thing I don't play games.

pretty much, I'm also working on a CAI ;\



And I like that picture. :P used to be my avatar..on a couple of bbs'es

This is my porn mechine!! https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/boink.gif

here's my current main machine... not too good of a pic (g/f has the digicam, had to use video)...



http://smackfu.net/images/rig.jpg



the specs are:

Cooler Master ATC-201 case with Enermax 400w p/s

2 x 933Mhz PIII (yes... 2)

1GB memory (PC133 cas2)

GeForce 4 Ti4200 64MB

Adaptec ATA2400A IDE array controller with 128MB cache

4 IBM 60GXP 60 GB hard drives at RAID5

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy

Klipsch 4 way speakers with sub https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/boink.gif

1 1st gen RX-7 badge https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/BURNOUT.gif



going to be upgrading this to 2 x 2.4Ghz P4 Xeons soon...



here's the other machine I use alot (not a pic of my actual machine)



http://smackfu.net/images/U30.jpg



Sun Microsystems Ultra 30

300Mhz UltrasparcII proc

512MB memory

2 x 18GB 10Krpm hard drives

elite3D graphics

20" Sun Trinitron monitor



for being old this machine rocks! I use this for testing things for work and learning...



I am such a GOOM...

Hm, any advantages with a dualie system? I don't think I'd find any gains in gaming..But it has to be a lot faster..

But I have been looking into possibly making my next box a dualie board. But I'm gonna use AMDs, those xeons cost a fortune, not to mention the boards are like 500 bucks.

Heres mine:

Advantage of Dual monitors: Lots of windows open to surf, LOTS of room when doing CADD

http://smackfu.net/images/rig.jpg



Haha, I have one of those badges that I repainted with model paint on the top of my monitor. Id post a pic, but im at a friends house https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png.



~T.J.

I take advantage of them because I'm usually running alot of programs at once... you ever had your PC just freeze up for a second or two while running more than one thing in the background? I usually don't have that problem... some programs can use both directly, but even if they don't... if you have a multi-cpu aware OS like WinNT/2K/XP or Linux, the OS will handle sceduling the tasks across the CPUs



Some games like Quake3 and others can actually take advantage of the duals, but not too many... there are however other OS level processes like graphics and sound processing that can be offloaded to the other CPU by the OS...



I'm wanting to get dual monitors but don't have enough desk space at the moment... need to get 2 LCDs (mmm... that would be nice), the car parts are winning out though... https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png the LCD screens I want are pretty pricey :(



I think about the Dual AMD solutions sometimes... depends on my mood on which would be better though... the Intel stuff will be coming down in price real soon though... AMD does have that advantage for now... I'm mostly concerned with the newness of AMD multi-cpu chipsets, although I've heard that the 760MP is supposed to be pretty stable and a good performer... *shrug* who knows... my Pc is fast enough for now... car needs to go faster... https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub... (even though it's pretty darn fast already https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub... )

I guess I did have pics of my puter up online already. They're crappy as they're taking with my webcam.



I will put up specs at a later time..... Gonna do my brake pads and change oil here in a sec ! https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png



http://nopistons.net/christi/misc/comp1.jpg



^

Montior





http://nopistons.net/christi/misc/comp2.jpg



^

Tower.

AMD Thunderbird 850MHz

Abit KT7A

Gateway OEM Geforce3

320MB PC133 Cas2

45gig Maxtor HD, 7200RPM ATA100

in an InWin case

displayed on a 19" Viewsonic E790 monitor



games currently installed:

Unreal Tournament 2003

Tropico

Quake

Quake3

Age of Empires 2

Warcraft 3

i just have a boring dell

oh but its nice though

HEY! I got updates (pics better view and specs):



Here's mine:



Sony Vaio Digital Studio Computer Specs:



Model: PCV-RX552



Processor: 1.6GHz* Intel Pentium 4



HD Drive 80GB, ATA-100

C/D Partition (Approximate): C = 16GB / D = 64 GB



Standard Memory (RAM): 384 MB PC-133 SDRAM, expandable to 512MB



Video RAM: 32MB (64-bit



MPEG: "Sony Tuned" MPEG Digital Video supports full screen video playback



Graphics: NVIDIA TNT2 M64(32MB) graphics acceleration



Sound Capabilities: Analog Devices 1881A



Floppy Disk Drive: 3.5" 1.44MB



DVD-ROM:

6X max. DVD-RW/DVD-R reading

16X max. DVD-ROM reading

32X max. CD-RW reading

40X max. CD-R/CD-ROM reading





CD-RW:

40X max. CD-RW/CD-R/CD-ROM reading

16X max. CD-R writing

10X max. CD-RW writing





Modem: V.90 data/fax modem (REN 0.79B)



Expansion Capabilities: hard dist drive bay



Connection Capabilities -

Front: USB ports(2)

i.LINK (4-pin) port





Connection Capabilities -

Rear: USB ports (2)

PS/2 keyboard port

PS/2 mouse port

VGA monitor port

Serial port

Parallel (printer) port

i.LINK (6-pin) port

Line In jack (audio)

Mic Jack

Headphones Jack

Modem line jack (RJ-11)

Telephone Jack (RJ-11)

10Base-T/100Base-TX Fast Eithernet-LAN jack (RJ-45)





http://nopistons.net/christi/comp4.jpg



^ CPU Tower





http://nopistons.net/christi/comp3.jpg



^ Montior & keyboard



Eh, I don't feel like hunting down the Specs of the Montior https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png

Heres My Set-Up!

Here's a pic of My drives

lol nice names for your hard drive

christi you need a real digital camera that one is horrible!

Hey $60. You pay what ya get. Logitech Quick Cam express isn't that bad .... lol

Here's my new beast:

http://www.trs-80.com/trs80-4.gif

what's that? lol