Hangshai
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- Joined
- Dec 2, 2007
- Location
- Central California
Greetings to everyone on this site, hope I can make some new friends!!
Hello everyone, I would like to take a few minutes of your time to introduce myself and tell you all a little bit about my computer history. I am not involved in computers professionally in anyway, just an enthusiast, but my computer history is a bit spotty.. I started out with a Commodore Vic-20 in the 80's (I'm 32), graduated to an Amiga 500 in 1988-89, and thats when the fun began. I began upgrading that thing like mad. When all was said and done, my BAD-*** amiga 500 had a 7.14 Mhz 68000 Motorola proc, AmigaDos 1.3, 1 full megabyte of ram, and a 10 megabyte hard disk. Oh, yeah, I had a 2400 Baud modem, and 3 floppy drives. As you can imagine, it was the envy of the neighborhood. Then Commodore went belly-up around 1994-1995, and I swore off computers until 2005. Fast forward about 10 years, and I find myself purchasing a computer in front of a pawn shop(not in it, but from a guy outside) for 100 bucks. AMD athlon proc, 1 gig ram, and a geforce 4 vidcard. Just enough to whet my appetite. After all was said and done, I upgraded it as much as its agp slot and 32 bit proc. would let me, and this year, in January, I built my first ever PC from scratch. Current set-up is:
e8400 @ 3.16 stock
asus P5N-d 750i
2 x 8800 Ultra vid cards, stock
8 gigs 6400 ram
2 x 150GB raptor drives
2 other HD @ 280 GB storage space
22x dvd writer drive
creative x-fi titanium card
Oh, and since my mobo has stupid SATA ports that are covered by my vid cards, I have to use a PCI sata controller to hook up the other 2 sata devices that wont fit in the normal spots (2 of my HDs are IDE).
Anyway, my latest dilemma has been loading Vista 64 ultimate, switching from xp 32. XP was stable as all hell, but I figured Id go for more ram and maybe a performance boost, but since Ive installed vista, Ive had problems.. crashes, and not being able to get programs to work. So, I decided I needed to join some type of online community and get some help.. Anyone want to help?
Hello everyone, I would like to take a few minutes of your time to introduce myself and tell you all a little bit about my computer history. I am not involved in computers professionally in anyway, just an enthusiast, but my computer history is a bit spotty.. I started out with a Commodore Vic-20 in the 80's (I'm 32), graduated to an Amiga 500 in 1988-89, and thats when the fun began. I began upgrading that thing like mad. When all was said and done, my BAD-*** amiga 500 had a 7.14 Mhz 68000 Motorola proc, AmigaDos 1.3, 1 full megabyte of ram, and a 10 megabyte hard disk. Oh, yeah, I had a 2400 Baud modem, and 3 floppy drives. As you can imagine, it was the envy of the neighborhood. Then Commodore went belly-up around 1994-1995, and I swore off computers until 2005. Fast forward about 10 years, and I find myself purchasing a computer in front of a pawn shop(not in it, but from a guy outside) for 100 bucks. AMD athlon proc, 1 gig ram, and a geforce 4 vidcard. Just enough to whet my appetite. After all was said and done, I upgraded it as much as its agp slot and 32 bit proc. would let me, and this year, in January, I built my first ever PC from scratch. Current set-up is:
e8400 @ 3.16 stock
asus P5N-d 750i
2 x 8800 Ultra vid cards, stock
8 gigs 6400 ram
2 x 150GB raptor drives
2 other HD @ 280 GB storage space
22x dvd writer drive
creative x-fi titanium card
Oh, and since my mobo has stupid SATA ports that are covered by my vid cards, I have to use a PCI sata controller to hook up the other 2 sata devices that wont fit in the normal spots (2 of my HDs are IDE).
Anyway, my latest dilemma has been loading Vista 64 ultimate, switching from xp 32. XP was stable as all hell, but I figured Id go for more ram and maybe a performance boost, but since Ive installed vista, Ive had problems.. crashes, and not being able to get programs to work. So, I decided I needed to join some type of online community and get some help.. Anyone want to help?