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Evilchap Joined: Aug 25, 2006 Posts: 57 From: New Zealand PM |
man Im jealous, starting to think about building a new pc myself. |
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Muhammad-Oli Joined: Jun 13, 2004 Posts: > 500 From: The NZ of L PM |
Haha I could never be bothered building my own PC, and wouldn't know what I was doing if I tried! Probably buying a new MacBook Pro soon though.
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carkitter Joined: Apr 29, 2005 Posts: > 500 From: Auckland, NZ PM |
One of the teachers stuffed up so I get my PC tomorrow all going well. That means I won't have time to get it up and running until Thursday arvo.
Up and running means installing a dual boot of W7 Professional 64-bit and Server 2008, putting Sun Virtual Box on W7 ready for the server/client software I'll be getting next week, plus all the usual SE software, freeware, Anti-virus and browser guff.
My Vaio will still be my day to day computer, I'll only use the PC for DVD's and homework; otherwise it'll be used by my girlfriend. A Core2 Quad running W7 64-bit on 4-8GB of RAM with 21" HD screen will be a big step up from her Acer Notebook with Celeron 1.6GHz Dual Core running Vista 32-bit on 1GB of RAM She is understandably pleased...
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carkitter Joined: Apr 29, 2005 Posts: > 500 From: Auckland, NZ PM |
On 2010-03-30 12:46:07, Muhammad-Oli wrote:
Haha I could never be bothered building my own PC, and wouldn't know what I was doing if I tried!...
We had to build it using the parts we were given otherwise I'd have used a Core i7 processor, a motherboard with 2 PCIe slots (to house 2 graphics cards - I like to have room for upgrades) and probably a 1GB NVIDIA card to start off with. I wish I could get an SSD under $400 to use as a boot drive. Such a combination would be lightning fast.
What we have built is 'server grade' but I wish it was up to gaming level too.
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yea g Joined: Jul 02, 2008 Posts: > 500 From: New Zealand PM, WWW
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On 2010-03-30 12:46:07, Muhammad-Oli wrote:
Haha I could never be bothered building my own PC, and wouldn't know what I was doing if I tried!
Its very easy. If something doesn't fit in one slot, try it in another. The only way it could be easier is if they put a giant orange sticker with an arrow saying "Put RAM here" etc.
I really need a new computer, pretty urgently. I keep blowing the damn usb fuse in this one, it only has 1gb ram, core 2 duo 2.2GHz with no hardware virtualization, and very little expansion card space. My freeview HD tuner is jammed in there just beside my graphics card.
Have my eye on the Sony Vaio VPCF117HGBI, Core i7, full HD screen, Blu ray burner, 6gb ram, 1gb video graphics, and in a laptop. All for $3500, a little bit high for a computer, but not unreasonable for those specs. The only problem I see with it so far is the rather crap 1 hour battery life. Let's just hope that 1 hour playing crysis and not 1 hour surfing the web
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Muhammad-Oli Joined: Jun 13, 2004 Posts: > 500 From: The NZ of L PM |
On 2010-03-31 11:00:47, yea g wrote:
On 2010-03-30 12:46:07, Muhammad-Oli wrote:
Haha I could never be bothered building my own PC, and wouldn't know what I was doing if I tried!
Its very easy. If something doesn't fit in one slot, try it in another. The only way it could be easier is if they put a giant orange sticker with an arrow saying "Put RAM here" etc.
I really need a new computer, pretty urgently. I keep blowing the damn usb fuse in this one, it only has 1gb ram, core 2 duo 2.2GHz with no hardware virtualization, and very little expansion card space. My freeview HD tuner is jammed in there just beside my graphics card.
Have my eye on the Sony Vaio VPCF117HGBI, Core i7, full HD screen, Blu ray burner, 6gb ram, 1gb video graphics, and in a laptop. All for $3500, a little bit high for a computer, but not unreasonable for those specs. The only problem I see with it so far is the rather crap 1 hour battery life. Let's just hope that 1 hour playing crysis and not 1 hour surfing the web
Yeah but I wouldn't really know what I was doing when buying the parts. I think I could manage to slot them together once I had the bits I needed. I;d rather just but me a new Mac anyway.
Which I will soon hopefully, but the rumours are that the new MacBook Pros will be Core i7 so I don't want to but one until I see what the new ones are like! Only thing that could tempt me away from a Mac is a Sony like what you're looking at yea g, but I would probably miss OS X if I went Windows only.
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carkitter Joined: Apr 29, 2005 Posts: > 500 From: Auckland, NZ PM |
On 2010-04-01 05:47:03, Muhammad-Oli wrote:
Yeah but I wouldn't really know what I was doing when buying the parts...
It's not that hard with a little research.
You decide what you want to do with the PC - gaming, server or just cheap browsing and email.
Then you choose a processor to do the job, and the corresponding motherboard to match the processor and it's cooling needs (if going high-power, high-end).
Then the case, RAM, HDD, DVD ROM, Network card and Graphics card pretty much choose themselves depending on your budget.
I am going to run probably 4 or 5 Operating Systems at the same time all on virtual machines so I need 4GB RAM minimum (preferrably 8GB), a Quad Core processor and a 64-bit OS. All necessary for my Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) homework beginning on Tuesday.
I sat and passed my first COMPTIA A+ exam today - 84%, one more on Tuesday afternoon.
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yea g Joined: Jul 02, 2008 Posts: > 500 From: New Zealand PM, WWW
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hmm... I think you'd be better off with 8gb running that many VMs, although it depends on what os they are going to be running
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carkitter Joined: Apr 29, 2005 Posts: > 500 From: Auckland, NZ PM |
On 2010-03-30 13:21:15, carkitter wrote:
My Vaio will still be my day to day computer...
That's because I was very happy with the speed of my Vaio on W7, but I've just been transferring some photo files from the Vaio to the PC via USB stick and what takes 15 - 20 mins to upload onto the USB takes 1 - 2 mins to download, the PC is that fast! It's not just a read/write difference, deleting the files from the USB takes a fraction of the time too.
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lukechris Joined: Dec 30, 2007 Posts: > 500 From: Preston, UK PM, WWW
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On 2010-04-01 06:23:31, carkitter wrote:
All necessary for my Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) homework beginning on Tuesday.
Sorry to butt in and no I'm not from NZ but I have done the MCITP Microsoft Certified IT Professional course its really good. How much are the exams in NZ?
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carkitter Joined: Apr 29, 2005 Posts: > 500 From: Auckland, NZ PM |
You're very welcome here!
I'm not sure how much MCITP exams are; the CompTIA A+ exams I am doing cost GBP 168.50 each and are provided online by an Australian company 1300 miles away. The diploma course I'm doing comprises 3x 12 week short courses - A+, MCITP and CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) and costs about GBP 6,500 with all the exams included (resits cost extra). I'd like to do CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) sometime in the future.
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carkitter Joined: Apr 29, 2005 Posts: > 500 From: Auckland, NZ PM |
Anyone built a Cantenna before? Looks like I'm gonna need one for the PC as sitting under a desk is not good for wifi reception.
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lukechris Joined: Dec 30, 2007 Posts: > 500 From: Preston, UK PM, WWW
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On 2010-04-01 13:57:22, carkitter wrote:
Anyone built a Cantenna before? Looks like I'm gonna need one for the PC as sitting under a desk is not good for wifi reception.
Jesus, you lot do talk about random stuff . What router are you using?
I'm doing the MCITP: Windows 7, Enterprise Desktop Support Technician certification course now, and its great, the exams cost less than £200 and its something good on my CV as well as everything else. I'm only 15 so doing all the cheap exams now whilst I can, because chances are when I'm over 16 I'll never find the time to do them . Why are you doing your course? Is it work related? Chances are it won't help me but like I said it looks good
Thanks
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carkitter Joined: Apr 29, 2005 Posts: > 500 From: Auckland, NZ PM |
On 2010-04-01 18:15:19, lukechris wrote:
What router are you using?
The router is a Belkin N1 but it's not my router, that's the problem. It's my landlord's and it's locked in his room and the signal has to travel through two doors and down a hallway to reach us. Then it has to go around the bed and under the desk to reach the PC, that's why I'm considering a cantenna. Plus I like building stuff like that...
On 2010-04-01 18:15:19, lukechris wrote:
I'm only 15 so doing all the cheap exams now whilst I can, because chances are when I'm over 16 I'll never find the time to do them . Why are you doing your course? Is it work related? Chances are it won't help me but like I said it looks good
I'm doing my course because I'm retraining for work in the IT industry having left the motor industry. I expect to find an IT job in September after the third course finishes.
Chances are it will help you a great deal. Have you seen where IT has taken Masseur?
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carkitter Joined: Apr 29, 2005 Posts: > 500 From: Auckland, NZ PM |
X10 now available in black and white versions running Android OS v1.6 at Expert Infotech.
Not sure if SE has v2.0 update available yet, anyone?
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