howhard does my puter rock !!?

qwijibow · 12-24-2004, 03:12 AM

ey guys... just got a new Puter....

Beautiful case, AMD64 3400+, 512 megs ram, 400Mhz FSB, Nforce3 chipset, Nvidia FX5700LE Graphics, 2 NICS, 6 USB ports,.

and how much did this monster of a machine cost..... 404 pounds

MD5 sums on a cd image used to take several minutes on my Athlon-tbird 1.3Ghz.

now that take just under a second.

and.... that was running of Knoppix (a 32bit OS)

im currently compiling Gentoo AMD64.

whadaya think.. good deal ?!?

marghorp · 12-24-2004, 03:20 AM

Dream machine, without dispute

BinaryLinux · 12-24-2004, 08:15 AM

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Originally posted by qwijibow
ey guys... just got a new Puter....

Beautiful case, AMD64 3400+, 512 megs ram, 400Mhz FSB, Nforce3 chipset, Nvidia FX5700LE Graphics, 2 NICS, 6 USB ports,.

and how much did this monster of a machine cost..... 404 pounds

MD5 sums on a cd image used to take several minutes on my Athlon-tbird 1.3Ghz.

now that take just under a second.

and.... that was running of Knoppix (a 32bit OS)

im currently compiling Gentoo AMD64.

whadaya think.. good deal ?!?

Thats an awesome deal! Did you buy the parts to build the PC yourself or did you buy it ready made?

qwijibow · 12-24-2004, 08:39 AM

bought the parts and put it together myself.
a similar stats machine at PCworld costs 700

J.W. · 12-24-2004, 09:20 AM

Sweet rig - what kind of storage do you have? -- J.W.

slackist · 12-24-2004, 10:17 AM

Cool qwijibow,

Have fun with your new mainframe

mark

qwijibow · 12-24-2004, 11:35 AM

lol...the sydden huge hardware chnage is a shock the the system,,, i used to be able to configure kernels for my old machine in my sleep... now im back wondering aimlessly around /proc

its an 80GIG disk... which is nice, my last hard disk was a 6 gig and a 1 gig.