SAL IS REAL

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Spidey01
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SAL IS REAL

Ok, my passionate little convosations aside - yeah I'm cracking but shes my baby.

Gateway (What woman is perfect?) GM5045 I think.

Shes got

Intel Pentium D 930 Dual Core 3.0Ghz/800Mhz/2x2 2mb L2 Cache with each core running at 3.0 Ghz
2 Gig Dual Channel DDR2 Ram
Geforece 6200 /w intregrated TV stuff (PCI-EE x16 slot)
Sound card ? Unno but seems to work ok. (Prolly intregrated)
TV Tuner
DVD +/- RW DL (w/e - dual layer DVD/CD Rom RW drive)
DVD-ROM
9-in-1 card reader
500GB SATA II Hard Drive Disk (Remebered why I always say HDD ^_^)
Wireless Keyboard /w net/quicklaunch/CC&Paste buttons
MS Basic Optical Mouse - I didnt want the included Wireless one.
My Nokia 446XS 19 inch CRT monitor - running at 1600x1200 px
With Windows XP Media Center Edition (200GB), PC-BSD I'm installing soon (200GB counting swap space), and FAT32 partition for file sharing between (50GB), and a few meg's of Recovery partition.

I wanted to just reformat so I'd get 200GB NTFS instead of like 485+ but Windows would ONLY let me give it the ENTIRE disk other then the recovery partition so I loaded up my Knoppix 4.0 Live CD (Linux) and used QTParted or w/e it is to srink C: to 200GB, make a FAT32 G: for shares, and free up 200GB for PC-BSD. I tell you if I do PC Trouble Shooting I am not leaving home w/o my knoppix if it involes harddrives.

She cost me $1600 USD, so her name is SAL1600...after HAL 9000s sister . If I yank out the 56K modem, and if I can use the GF6200 without the other TV Tuner card do hicky I can free up 2 PCI-E Slots later.

Also got 7 USB 2.0 and 3 Fire Wire, front/back audio jacks.

Remote for TV stuff e.t.c.

LOVE MY BABY.

Maybe I can get my bro to take a digital picture of her or us if he's got one on hand.

SAS_WIZ
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You name your Pc? Spidey your mad. Biggrin

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SAS_Recon
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Not to be disrespectful, but how much does she cost ? Blum 3

Rouge
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As all women are -- i bet she is expensive.. Blum 3

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SAS_Python
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Good gaming PC spidey, just make sure you get the best out of it with new games otherwise its worthless. I mean your not buying it for Raven Shield.

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im happy with what I have if it works thats all that matters

"Game over man." Pvt. Hudson. SAS 22nd E.V.R.

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My life is heading more into computing stuff, programing, html, net, e.t.c. And about all I've been doing latly for games is related to [SAS] My Home Online always:)

Going to do a quick research of the VCard and CPU. So far all works well except I can't get my mic to work period!!! Maybe I can get ma to let me use the crappy SBL Value sound card in the Dell - after all it is a family part like my Raedon VCard in her PC.

Going to install PC-BSD before I worry about the mic tho, and I gotta install RvS/S4/BF2.

BTW as I said be4 SAL cost $1600 US standard Dollars Hence her name is SAL, model # 1600 ^_^

SAS_Leon
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SAL like Sally?

SAS_Python
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Its a very expensive computer. Your 500GB hard drive will come in handy when your storing your information.

SAS_Recon
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The price sounds ok to me. thats what a new awesome computer cost.

Spidey01
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Yeah but I wanted 2 HDD's so i could give a disk to an OS and get 4 partitions to windows, and 3 to BSD + 1 for Swap space.

Rand
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Nice computer Spidey,
Congratulations! Biggrin

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Spidey01
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SAL Sends her thanks:)

This PC is getting to be my baby lol

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Computer & country music. Spidey -- I am slightly concerned. May be we ought to find you a date w/o partitions and sound cards? Biggrin

SAS_Rouge

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Does she get embarrassed when you open her up? :P.

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:oops: :roll: 8O 8O 8O

Jso
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How do you keep the CPUs cool? Turbo Jet powered fan (she must purr quite loudly) or liquid cooling system?

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I'd love a LCS:) If it didn't make harder to work inside the core.

In the case of my system, the CPU has like a gigatonnage of heatsinkage on it + a big air duct/fan w/e going to the front air vents. And inside around the mobo it's mostly clean of wire frenzy + All the best ventilation thats not owned strictly by the PSU; she's only noisy when the PSU Fan runs which appears to be rare for better or worse. My video card alone runs a 65C normal temp at the desktop - compared to the Dells 85+ C on the weeker ATI card.

For air flow - the cables from the PSU to the 5.25 drive bays is a bit of a tangle but it's the only area with reduced ventilation - and the PSU has plenty for it self as well as the rest of the system.

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I guess that is a normal temp for PCI-E cards, at first I thought it was high. 6600 AGP runs at 38 C full steam, but PCI-E is 4 x faster, so decided that must be normal.

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Spidey01
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Well any thing beats 85 C 'ish normal for a less powerful AGP 8x card running out of an AGP 4x slot. (if that matters)

Just noticed Rouge/Leons posts.

ROFL.

At lest computers come with headaches:) Not headaches and pain on top of pleaseure