Demon Speed

[codestryke]

After 7+ years I finally (thanks to Nyx's research) have a new computer!!! I hate breaking in a new system and fight it tooth and nail (is this a programmers trait?).

The system I'm retiring is a AMD single core 2.0 ghz handed down to me by a friend because he felt sorry for my, the graphics card was so bad (slow) its not even worth mentioning what the stats were LOL, 1 gig of memory and (at the very least) I had a SATA only because the old hard drive died. Wrote a TON of code on this machine Every morning when I woke up I would have to wiggle the mouse around then go make coffee and by the time I got back most of the info would have swapped back from the HD to memory and the computer would be usable.

For those interested the new computer is an AMD Phenom II x4, 4 gigs of RAM, 6800 series Radeon graphics card and (once I get exchange on a bad drive they sent me) dual 650g that will be setup RAID 1. This is also my first real hands on with windows 7. I've played with it a bit, Nyx has had it for a while it, but now I'm being forced to use it. So far it's pretty decent, always a pain to try and find things (drive sharing was a pain) but overall not bad.

So now with my super duper fast computer I will be able to write buggy error ridden code 10x faster then before

[Nox]

Gratz have fun, you earned it

[lolninja]

Ah cool, 7 years is a long time between upgrades, I've recently replaced my '06 Macbook with a new laptop, its amazing how many programs you can have open at once with these modern quad core machines

[MystressNyx]

I finally had to put my foot down and just tell him I was building it and that he'd use it and like it! I know, I know, I'm sooo mean to him. lol

[CygnusX]

This is funny to me.    My old PC is AMD single core 1.6 ghz, GeForce 6800 graphics card, 1 gig memory.  The hard-drive still uses serial connections as I was re-using a hard-drive from a 450 MHZ GATEWAY computer : P  I still use it for coding... but its really quite awful.  It was built in 2005 before I knew what I was doing.

I recently built a duel core AMD, ~6800 series Radeon, 4 gig of memory with an Asus MB and Win 7.  Only 500 GB hard-drive space though.  Its extremely mean.  I use it primary for gaming (league of legends) and letting my wife watch Hulu/Netflix.