....300gig Samsung Harddrive and this time I'm gonna treat her with respect.......Yup! My old 40gb is on its last legs, it's buying the farm, kicking the bucket, so I got me a biggy to replace her. I also got a 128mb 3d card to replace the 32mb I've been using for the last 5?years. and I gotta tell you, it's the cat's meow! Yous guys work has never looked so good! Hell, even mine looks good. Only now I have to spend the next 6 months re-installing everything....;-( "Sam-sung-blue....everybody knows one, Sam-sung-blue...everyone should own one, Funny thing, but you can.........' (I'm not well btw and my meds is doing my brain in...lol)

brain-shmain....Now you have more capacity and visual memory. Nice score.

Ah, its always an event when getting some new hardware. I just got myself an AMDX2 chip and I'm lovin it:)

Oooohhh the X2's are nice.

groan..not Neal Diamond..;)

Congrats on the new HD Bryster. Still nothing beats Xeons( 2MB L2 Cache),hee, hee, hee.

A cross of Neil Diamond and Madonna........now thats a mix!! LOL No stopping you now TB.....Get it on! :)

I nearly choked when I read the subject line, LOL. Thats great Chris, but get better soon so you can put it to use! hugs

LOL! Hey, Sackrat! ;-P That's a 300gb WITH 8mb cache! So there! Ang: Thanks girl! Me love you long time! (He sez, stoned out of his mind on anti-biotics)

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Yeah,.........but that's your HD,........I'm talking Processor, dual 3.2 Ghz Xeon w/2mb L2 cache. Nice HD by the way,....suweeeet ! Anti-biotics,.........you're not smoking them are you ?

But outside of a business or a lottery win, who can afford a dual xeon (or opteron for that matter)! I am counting down to an AMD X2 machine myself.

Sackrat: I got another chest infection. ;-( If I had something to smoke, I would!

@Incarnadine It cost me just under $2200 US for the parts and I built it myself. Bryster,......feel better soon, make sure you take ALL the anti-biotics and on schedule, no half-measures OK.

Bryster, re Video card: I remember you needing something like that last year but I thought it was your monitor. (Oh well live and learn.) glad you finally got it fixed BTW what speed is your computer? some guy in a shop told me my 1.6 was too slow to use a 128mb card. I'm not sure he was right about that. re HD: You might look into imaging software. Also read up on exporting your registry and on moving your files (in MS help). one or the other or the other might make it easier. BTW I found a couple of things on the internet that could help in a general purpose sort of way: one is called restore (any files you want back AFTER you empty them from your Recycle bin). The other is called EBCD an ISO based administrator tool that allows you to manipulate your accounts in a system recovery sort of way... sort of hard to use and even understand; if you want them let me know I'll post a link. . . . Also for anyone with a home network: a server application that allows you to see and manipulate a remote computer's desktop in real time (mouse like.) BTW for future ref Seagate,Western Digital and Maxtor are the three lesding HD makers according to an article I read on Serial ATI hard drives not too long ago. well whichever way you go, good luck and get well soon!!! - TJ

=> sackrat
"Still nothing beats Xeons( 2MB L2 Cache),hee, hee, hee."

Really ? Perhaps, but this one comes darn close. ;)

AMD Opteron 175 ~ $500 shipped.
64-bit Socket 939 Dual Core Processor
2GHz FSB
2MB L2 Cache
Anyone know what Xeon FSB speeds are up to these days ? :)

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Sackrat: Thanks for the good wishes! Bikermouse: Celeron 2.2ghz. It's not the fastest but it gets me along ok. I'm using a 160gb hdd SATA as a backup and took onboard what everyone sez about mirrors and imaging. When my hdd became unstable and started to die I backedup everything and the only thing I lost was my favourite lists on AOL. As for price, the samsung cost me 110. in PC World's no-frills section. Buggered if I'm gonna pay 30 ontop for packaging. So maybe I'd have preffered a WD or Maxtor, but when you're on a budget....... Thanks for the heads-up though.....;-)

Bryster, good luck with the hardware and get better soon. And for goodness sakes, leave the singing to those that get paid for it! ;)

Yep, I really like my AMD X2 chip. I highly reccomend them.