December 18, 200520 yr That is the most ghetto thing ....lol Im almost 16 built my first intel pentium 3 when i was 10.......Built my pent IV 2.4 ghz HT (2gb ddr ram, 2 teras of HDD space, water cooled, custom built tower made entirely of glass in the shape of a pyramid with custom designs on it and blue and red cathodes inside everywhere)....that one was when i was 13 and i still have it.....about to upgrade to AMD 64 to accomadate windows longhorn Why in the world would you ever need 2TB of hard drive space? Thats 2,000gb. I can hardy fill up a 160gb hard drive :? . Given the fact that motherboards of that time had 4 hard drive connectors, maximum, that'd mean he would have needed 500GB drives. Which didn't exist two-three years ago. Hence, he's lying. Medium server-class systems of that time (which would have Intel Xeon processors, not pentium 4's) barely had the amount of RAM mentioned, and nowhere near 2TB of HDD space. My school bought two servers back then, each with 3.6Ghz processing power provided by dual Xeon chips, and one with 1Gb and the other with 1.5GB RAM. Both servers used six 120GB harddrives (hot-swappable), to a combined storage space of 720GB, which is less than half of what he's mentioning. Oh, and I fail to see how a 13-year old would manage to glas-blow a pyramid, much less, how to insert a computer inside it without breaking it. I think the guy means see-through plastic, if this isn't all made up as well. To be fair.. Couldn't he have used daughter-boards with extra HDD connectors? Also, he says he uses it as a server in case the other goes down, it's not primarily a webserver, just in neccessity. That being said, though, I also have trouble beleiving it.
December 18, 200520 yr Aldeon could have had 2 terabytes of space... One acronym, SCSI. Notoriously Trollish.
December 18, 200520 yr ATI can shove it, I'll take my pile of resistors and duct tape any day. ;) :D Can you get those on amazon?
December 19, 200520 yr Testing some old parts on the carpet. ESD is no fear! Given the fact that motherboards of that time had 4 hard drive connectors, maximum, that'd mean he would have needed 500GB drives. Which didn't exist two-three years ago. Hence, he's lying. Medium server-class systems of that time (which would have Intel Xeon processors, not pentium 4's) barely had the amount of RAM mentioned, and nowhere near 2TB of HDD space. My school bought two servers back then, each with 3.6Ghz processing power provided by dual Xeon chips, and one with 1Gb and the other with 1.5GB RAM. Both servers used six 120GB harddrives (hot-swappable), to a combined storage space of 720GB, which is less than half of what he's mentioning. Oh, and I fail to see how a 13-year old would manage to glas-blow a pyramid, much less, how to insert a computer inside it without breaking it. I think the guy means see-through plastic, if this isn't all made up as well. Hannibal I love you to death but I got some points here: What if he used USB HD's? Correct me if I'm wrong but he could daisey chain some usb hubs and get almost infinate connections. When it comes to RAM I think he's straight. 1 channel can suppourt 1gb on most mobo's so he could have done it. When it comes to the case I don't think he blew the glass but more or less pieced it together. Oh and the see-through plasstic is Plexi-Glass. But the weak spot is the proc. HT is a new invintenion no where near 3 years old.
December 19, 200520 yr That computer isnt safe on the carpet lol. Static electricity + computer parts = NOOO! NOT WORKING ANYMORE!
December 19, 200520 yr That computer isnt safe on the carpet lol. Static electricity + computer parts = NOOO! NOT WORKING ANYMORE! Wow do you not know what ESD is or can you just plain not read? Look at the text under the pic.
December 19, 200520 yr Hannibal I love you to death but I got some points here: What if he used USB HD's? Correct me if I'm wrong but he could daisey chain some usb hubs and get almost infinate connections. When it comes to RAM I think he's straight. 1 channel can suppourt 1gb on most mobo's so he could have done it. When it comes to the case I don't think he blew the glass but more or less pieced it together. Oh and the see-through plasstic is Plexi-Glass. But the weak spot is the proc. HT is a new invintenion no where near 3 years old. Sure, USB HDD's would have done it. Except that the transfer speed, especially through a HUB, would suck so incredibly much that it's an absolutely useless idea. He could probably have managed the RAM, but (a) one would hardly ever need that much (especially 2-3 years ago) and (B) it would have been more expensive than simply getting a double-xeon system in the first place, which would have been much faster and much more capable. As for the glass, you can't piece glass together, it breaks (unless you use glue, which would be so ugly that it'd destroy the point of it). That's why it's glass, and that's why I'm assuming he meant plexi-glass. Also, glass corners are generally sharp. I much prefer a usable case over a weirdly shaped case I keep cutting my hands on. As for HT, I checked Intel's pages, it got out somewhere in 2002. So it's possible. Source: http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/ ... 07comp.htm Processor he's talking about came out in 2003: http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/ ... 21comp.htm
December 19, 200520 yr Author ok... now, with the computer in a box thing, how do i get it to start? I know it has to do with jumpers. If i know how this works, then I'm all set for my "fast comp in a box" project. Aside from that, how many fans are we recommending here?
December 20, 200520 yr ok... now, with the computer in a box thing, how do i get it to start? I know it has to do with jumpers. If i know how this works, then I'm all set for my "fast comp in a box" project. Aside from that, how many fans are we recommending here? You start it by pressing the power button on.
December 20, 200520 yr Theres probably pre-teens on this forum that have built their own PC's. Its not exactly rocket science. Its no difference to lego really. You have all the bits and just fit it all together. I didnt build my computer the store did (for $40 why risk doing something dumb and breaking it?) I did however choose All components of my computer the motherboard was the biggest choice. Choosing hardware is much harder than jigsawing everything togather (most stuff only goes in one way) ~Dan64AuSince 27 Aug 2002
December 20, 200520 yr Theres also compatibilty issues which cant get quite complicated :wink:Not really :-?
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