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  • E Eytukan

    Oh well, that's not so expensive. It's only 4 times the budget I have for my PC ;P


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    Ashley van Gerven
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    No, not expensive at all :) Expensive would be a voodoo gaming PC[^] *STARTING* at US$6000!! :omg:

    "For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza

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      :envy: Me wants one...

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      Thats why I got one :)


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      • N Nitron

        How u likin' that Sky? She looks like a blast to drive! I got 2 kids to load in a back seat, so I ended up 'settling' for a (6.0L 400HP) Goat[^] a few months back. ;)

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        Ray Cassick
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        That car rocks! I have never driven a more solid feeling auto. I would like to have a bit more HP but for the price she is VERY worth it. I have had people driving BMW speedsters tell me that they feel they got ripped off because of what they paid :)


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        • R Ray Cassick

          I plan on activating hardware vitalization and playing around with VPC for that reason.


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          Mike Dimmick
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          You'll need Virtual PC 2007 Beta or Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta 2 for hardware virtualization to have any effect. Also, it still doesn't emulate a DirectX 9.0-compatible video card so you won't get Glass. To get the Virtual Machine Additions for Vista RCs, you need to sign up for the Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta at connect.microsoft.com[^].

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          • R Ray Cassick

            Supermicro X7DVL-E[^] The only thing that I really don't like right now is that it does not have any x16 PCIe slots so I have to use PCI video cards.


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            Dan Neely
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            Looks like an old server board, which fits with thier desktop practice of dumping the junk they can't sell into the barebones systems.

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            • R Ray Cassick

              Holly .... errrrr ... you know what... This thing SCREAMS! I have never seen a system so fast and it rocks pulling up task manager and seeing 8 (yes that is an eight!) CPU graphs :) 8 fans and it is still softer sounding than my last P4 desktop. I will be spending the next week gettin' the place all comfy and setup but it is going to be worth it. Time to fill up that 800 Gigs of HD space and 4Gig or RAM with VS.NET :)


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              Marc Clifton
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              And what are you planning to do with it? Marc

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              • S Shog9 0

                Ok, fair 'nuff:

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                S Douglas
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                [drool]

                :wtf: Where did you get that smiley?


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                • S S Douglas

                  [drool]

                  :wtf: Where did you get that smiley?


                  I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

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                  Drew it, years ago. Don't often use it though.

                  every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?

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                  • M Marc Clifton

                    And what are you planning to do with it? Marc

                    Thyme In The Country

                    People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
                    There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
                    People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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                    My intent was (besides ending up with one kick-butt piece of equipment :) ) was to try to future proof myself for a while. I am in the habit of hardware swapping every few years and wanted something that I could keep for quite a while that was not going to leave me wanting more after 18 months or so. That and the wife dared me to buy a Xeon system :)


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                    • J JBurkey

                      Bradml wrote:

                      What Brand??? Brad Australian Have you tried Rebooting it?

                      Systems like that, and at that price, don't come branded... He build that puppy. And I think it will reboot just fine. J

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                      I am very pleased with the restart performance actually. Aside from the time it takes to display the SATA config to the screen and give you a chance to press CTRL-I to configure Raid on it the boot up time from cold to desktop is between 45 seconds to one minute.


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                      • P peterchen

                        :drool:

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                        Dual Intel Xeon 5050

                        Arethey dual core w/ Hyperthreading?


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                        Ray Cassick
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                        Yes. Task manager shows me 8 CPU gauges :)


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                        • D Dan Neely

                          Looks like an old server board, which fits with thier desktop practice of dumping the junk they can't sell into the barebones systems.

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                          Does what I need it to do. They are all about price, that's for sure. I would not buy anything form them that I wanted to stick in a data center that's for sure, but for my home use they have treated me well over the years. Never had any complaints about the service or any product that I bought from them and I have a purchase history that goes back about 10 years.


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                          • A Ashley van Gerven

                            No, not expensive at all :) Expensive would be a voodoo gaming PC[^] *STARTING* at US$6000!! :omg:

                            "For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza

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                            Ray Cassick
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                            That is just obscene. There is spending money and then there is wasting money. I paid for raw horsepower, they are really overcharging for that system.


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                            • R Ray Cassick

                              That is just obscene. There is spending money and then there is wasting money. I paid for raw horsepower, they are really overcharging for that system.


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                              Ashley van Gerven
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                              Yeah there comes a point where you pay a lot more for just a bit extra. I think in their case you're also paying extra for the brand and their testing etc.

                              "For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza

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                              • A Ashley van Gerven

                                No, not expensive at all :) Expensive would be a voodoo gaming PC[^] *STARTING* at US$6000!! :omg:

                                "For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza

                                ~ Web SQL Utility - asp.net app to query Access, SQL server, MySQL. Stores history, favourites.

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                                Eytukan
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                                Ashley van Gerven wrote:

                                *STARTING* at US$6000!!

                                Even the US$6000 didn't shock me but the "Starting". damn, Rs. 2,70,000 I can set my OWN LAN at home & invite all my friends to play AOE, Counter Strikes at home :cool: hey, did you notice in that site,

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                                Worlds Fastest & Quietest Production PC

                                :omg: An international Affair ! :-D My friend assembled a *high* end machine (dont know the exact configuration) but it was made with AMD64 x2, with mid end ATI chips. It costed him only 75,000 (US$1666). The machine runs really fast! And you know the cost of the machine with which I'm typing this message right now(I've come to my sister's home to enjoy the holidays :cool:)? It costed almost the same. 70,000. But it's a P4 1.6 Ghz X| , 128 MB RAM, 40 GB HDD. How can this be? Yup, my sister bought it 4 years before :rolleyes:


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