Computer upgrade

[Zopperoni]

O, very nice. I like the side panel case fan around the AGP slot height.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Fez
Whenever anybody else asks for help on computer parts there is somebody... not for me though.

I'm buying six new 3.06 GHz P4 Xeons for a cluster of three dual processor servers. I think our tastes and budgets run in different directions.

[TCO]

Boddie, what is your avatar? It looks like a poop...

[Whaleboy]

I'm buying six new 3.06 GHz P4 Xeons for a cluster of three dual processor servers.

Why???? I want one!!!!!

My system is 2.8GHz p4 with 128Meg G4ce IV MX440 half a gig of Ram and 60 gig HDD. How dare you have a better computer than me!!!!! jk

Seriously though, how come the prices for components are so low?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
I'm buying six new 3.06 GHz P4 Xeons for a cluster of three dual processor servers. I think our tastes and budgets run in different directions.

If I were you, I'd pick up some Opterons instead. Xeons never worth their price tages.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Asher
Hey, f*ck you, I'm paying for it all by myself. Just like the last computer.

Nevertheless, if your parents aren't in the dough, you probably wouldn't be flinging your money around just now.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Nevertheless, if your parents aren't in the dough, you probably wouldn't be flinging your money around just now.

So?
I pay for my own college, I pay for my own computers.

I think it's obscene for Provost to take cracks at me for parents "made of money", especially considering he still lives with his mother, and he's what, in his mid-20s?

[Giancarlo]

I am leaving in two months on my own..

Provost has the guts to say something like that to you Dave? That little hypocrite...

[MRT144]

fez, stop trying to get your **** up ashers ass...

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Asher
I think it's obscene for Provost to take cracks at me for parents "made of money", especially considering he still lives with his mother, and he's what, in his mid-20s?

That's cultural difference. For Italians, Jews, and East Asians, living with the family is the thing to do. It's tradition. We are way more family oriented than North Americans.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
That's cultural difference. For Italians, Jews, and East Asians, living with the family is the thing to do. It's tradition. We are way more family oriented than North Americans.

Eh? Provost is British...who cares where his family came from years ago.

He lives with his mom because he was unemployed forever. Not because of cultural reasons.

And even then, it's not his place to say **** like that.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Asher
Eh? Provost is British...who cares where his family came from years ago.

He lives with his mom because he was unemployed forever. Not because of cultural reasons.

I am not sure about the Brits, I don't know if they are as individualistic as the North Americans. Probably not. I think a large part of individualism in North America were caused by the huge amounts of land available and the relatively low population.

[Cruddy]

Originally posted by Asher
The PC as it's speced out right now will come to $2400CDN including tax for where I get it from..which is like $1550US. Not a bad deal for a top of the line rig...The case itself is $150US.

I'm going to line the case with industrial soundproofing foam, too, should lower the noise by 5-10dB...

That's an unrealistic price from a Brit POV. 17.5% VAT (sales tax) + import costs mean we are looking at equivalent $2000+ US.

Interesting idea on the foam. You may hit a snag with thermal problems - cases do radiate some heat, although I reckon you probably won't notice in a temperate climate. DO let us know how it goes - I'm fascinated.

As for Provost, hey man, over here, if you're not the right colour a lot of jobs ain't open to you. Sad, VERY unfair but true. "Those who go without, hate".

I can understand you being upset about the crack on your mother - but heaping scorn back isn't going to get Provost a better attitude or indeed a job.

EDIT: Urban, there is no set on British culture - but typically if you haven't left home by the time you are 19, you are seen as freak by mainstream teen youth.

It used to be possible for any teenager to leave home at 16. However, changes to the benefit system meant you couldn't claim anymore at 16-17, locking hundreds of thousands of teenagers at home (unless they went awol and homeless - which 10s of thousands do).

From my own point of view, I was paying keep/rent to my folks since 16. At least a third of my pay or £50 a week, whichever was less. It certainly encouraged me to fend for my self - but I suspect I was the exception, not the norm in this.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Cruddy
Interesting idea on the foam. You may hit a snag with thermal problems - cases do radiate some heat, although I reckon you probably won't notice in a temperate climate. DO let us know how it goes - I'm fascinated.

PCStats.com had an experiment with it, I browsed it at work today (so I don't have a link, found it on google though). They found it lowered sound by 5dB and raised temperature by 2C. A tradeoff.

I'm aiming for a Prescott, and a 3.4GHz CPU on Intel's 90nm should be good...copper interconnects, strained silicon and all...

[Giancarlo]

Originally posted by MRT144
fez, stop trying to get your **** up ashers ass...

You are sick in the head. You think that is all I have in my mind? I am trying to stand by a person who has received a whole lot of crap from some people here. I know how that is. I have given Asher problems in the past. I have said things to him I shouldn't of.