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Geek Culture / New PC on order

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Steve Fash
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Posted: 15th Mar 2006 16:26
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Finally I'm managing to upgrade my athlon xp2400 (768mb) to a newer model...I've got on order a p4, 3ghz with 512mb ddr2, 80gb hd, ati300 gfx on board, dvd rewriter etc.....
Should be a lot more fun than the athlon as it seemed to get a bit distressed playing some games (and writing tunes live with more than 6 processor consuming vst effects)....(and the new one's in a trendy black, red, and neon case as well, LOL)

Should do well for my son though, as he likes to play 2d platformers hehehe ;o)

For game/demo music for YOUR PC productions visit:-www.futuredevelopments.org.uk
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Richard Davey
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Posted: 15th Mar 2006 17:28
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Why only 512MB ram? I would double that ASAP if I were you!

Bite my shiny metal ass
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himynameisali
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Posted: 15th Mar 2006 17:40
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Do what Rich says, he's an honest man

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 15th Mar 2006 18:25
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I have 256Mb of memory and play 1GB minimum requirement games with no problems. WHY you would need that much I'll never know.


At least farting ferrets are better than stinky stoats.
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Richard Davey
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Posted: 15th Mar 2006 18:44
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Because everything starts up faster? Apps switch quicker. There is less crunching of your hard drive as Windows swaps out, faster operation of heavy-weight apps like Photoshop (which I use daily), etc. Windows itself will suck up the majority of that physical ram. My pity goes to whatever has to run in whats left.

Bite my shiny metal ass
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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 15th Mar 2006 18:50
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My physical memory usage when playing Call of Duty II is 116MB/256MB. Virtual Memory 8MB in use.


At least farting ferrets are better than stinky stoats.
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Richard Davey
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Posted: 15th Mar 2006 19:05
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My physical memory use when running Windows XP Pro and nothing else (bar a few services) is 367MB/1GB.

Bite my shiny metal ass
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Steve Fash
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Posted: 15th Mar 2006 20:48
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I'm gonna stip one of the 512 sticks out of the athlon as they're the same ddr
Should make much fun with a gig in

For game/demo music for YOUR PC productions visit:-www.futuredevelopments.org.uk
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re faze
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Posted: 15th Mar 2006 21:02
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Quote: "Because everything starts up faster? Apps switch quicker. There is less crunching of your hard drive as Windows swaps out, faster operation of heavy-weight apps like Photoshop (which I use daily), etc. Windows itself will suck up the majority of that physical ram. My pity goes to whatever has to run in whats left."

yeah but that doesnt count, your a professional, we're just average bums.

Dont code slowly be SWIFT about it!
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