Bobbin Gets A New Pc

[Bobbin Threadbare]

I'm getting adecent PC! w00t!

[Quintopotere]

Erm... this is a very technical topic... :blink:

Anyway, enjoy it!

[efthimios]

Congratulations.
May you spend as much time as you want with it and may it serve you well.

[Rogue]

Specs? :blink:

[Bobbin Threadbare]

Originally posted by Anubis@Nov 30 2005, 12:27 AM
Specs? :blink:
All I know is that it's a Pentium 4 and is Windows XP. We're buying it tomorrow.

My old PC (one I'm using now)'s specs are:

Pentium 90Hz
48MB RAM
Windows 98 (though it isn't even meant for Win95)

[The Niles]

What I'm wondering is whether you will notice any performance increase ^_^ .

Let us know what your getting will you?

[Danny252]

Im getting tons of new pc stuff myself. This pc has had a new motherboard and a GeForce 7800 GT Overclocked aswell as a decent wireless mouse. The other pc will be getting another 80gig HD and a joystick.

[Rogue]

But you’re still jealous that he will get brand new PC and you got only additional hardware to make your old computers work with today’s games… LOL LOL LOL

Yes,
Bobbin keep us informed of any differences between new and old system. (new system's video card is more likely to have more memory then whole old computer :))

[Tulac]

I had such a jump from p1 on 133mhz to AMD on 2hz, and I was like wow all this stuff works :D, enjoy it :ok:

[Danny252]

Hey! I dont want anythign new for this pc! I wanna keep my harddrives, I like my CD/DVD RW and my LAN card is good.

More or less the same with t'other pc.

[win98]

Wow big jump in pc speed I jumped from a 233 mhz pentunum2 with win95 to an athlon 2000 when it needed a new motherboard. that got win98 so the drivers could run. To a cheap semperon 2400 becuase I neededa new pc but I do not wanna go to fancy.

[Rogue]

My biggest jump was from Amiga to PC. From somewhere around 7.12 MHz to a P1 200 MHz. LOL

After that one I had K6-2 450Mhz for a long time, until I created new PC from scratch (XP2100, which just couple weeks ago I upgraded to XP2800 CPU).

I guess I will wait next 6 months to make 64bit machine.

[Bobbin Threadbare]

Oh, and I'm pretty sure this PC has USB ports (unlike this one...) I'm still unsure about many statistics but ai'm going to make it even better. I'm gonna add two new hard drives (0.99GB and 5.99GB) and put some extra CD-ROM drives in. I hope that all fits. Will that all fit on the size of the tiny computers I see these days? Though, there's two downsides... I now don't have an excuse for not making any progress on my games and the biggest one of all..... I HAVE TO USE DOSBOX! *pauses to see spectators expressions* I find it quite sad that I have to emulate something that is for PC. OMFG! I also realised... I HAVE TO USE SCUMMVM! *pauses again* I am again saddened by this. Now, I must take out my pain by staring at a near-dead mosquito and rip off it's limbs.

[troop18546]

Ehh. 0.99 hdd? :eeeeeh: You crazy??? :eeeeeh: it's like going back to the stone age. :blink:

[Danny252]

I have games bigger than that...

[The Fifth Horseman]

Get bigger HDD's. Something like 80 GB or more.

[Danny252]

He'd need the 5.99GB one just for his OS,a dn the other one wouldn't hold any decent amount of much...

[win98]

Ha some of my games take more space than the 0.99 hd has to offer Is he nuts? he should grab a 80gb harddisk for it.

[troop18546]

Right now, I'd take the 360GB hdd if i was him.
My installed games take over more than 20GB. :max:

[Sebatianos]

Well, my installed games don't take up much more the 1GB, but I still have over 75% of my 120GB HDD filled up - need to get something bigger (I'm thinking of a USB HD 320GB).

Anyway - Glad you're getting this new PC, I remember when I switched from my old 486 100MHz 640MB-HDD 16MB-RAM (could hardly run Win98) to my Celeron 2400MHz 40GB-HDD 128MB-RAM - I felt like a whole new world opened up (well never-the-less I changed that one shortly after...).

Let us know how you're satisfied with the new machine (but keep the old one if you can, I still strart up the old 486 for some stuff - although rarely).

[Data]

Originally posted by Bobbin Threadbare@Nov 30 2005, 02:07 PM
Though, there's two downsides... I now don't have an excuse for not making any progress on my games and the biggest one of all..... I HAVE TO USE DOSBOX! *pauses to see spectators expressions* I find it quite sad that I have to emulate something that is for PC. OMFG! I also realised... I HAVE TO USE SCUMMVM! *pauses again* I am again saddened by this. Now, I must take out my pain by staring at a near-dead mosquito and rip off it's limbs.
You'd be even more unhappy if these 2 programs didn't exist.

[chickenman]

Good Thing I'm getting a new computer :), this thing is falling apart.

[Bobbin Threadbare]

Originally posted by troop18546@Dec 1 2005, 01:24 AM
Ehh. 0.99 hdd? :eeeeeh: You crazy??? :eeeeeh: it's like going back to the stone age. :blink:
@Troop: It's my current one... The 5.99GB one is too new to work on this PC. So it's networked via another pC.

@Data: I guess that''s true.

@People complaining about "my games are bigger than that" in a moany style: Well, soooorry. That was probablt the best HD you could get back in the day.

[The Fifth Horseman]

That was probablt the best HD you could get back in the day.
Unless you will have another, better HDD as the main hard drive in your new PC, this does not make the idea of installing them in there any smarter.

[Rogue]

I believe Armed and Dangerous (Lucas Arts) is somewhere around 3 and half gigs when installed.

[Danny252]

Originally posted by Bobbin Threadbare+Dec 2 2005, 02:51 PM****</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Bobbin Threadbare @ Dec 2 2005, 02:51 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> ******QuoteBegin-troop18546@Dec 1 2005, 01:24 AM
Ehh. 0.99 hdd? :eeeeeh:* You crazy??? :eeeeeh:* it's like going back to the stone age. :blink:
@Troop: It's my current one... The 5.99GB one is too new to work on this PC. So it's networked via another pC.

@Data: I guess that''s true.

@People complaining about "my games are bigger than that" in a moany style: Well, soooorry. That was probablt the best HD you could get back in the day. [/b][/quote]
Are you saying that you're gonna be running oldgames?
Why didnt you say?!

Still, why not get a bigger one? Win98 can hadle a rather large size.

[win98]

It is possible to get win98 on a 10gb one that is about the max the computer could probably handle.

[The Fifth Horseman]

And our dear user "Win98" as always knows almost nothing on what he's speaking about. Windows 98 can handle - IIRC - up to 160 GB drives, but someone on this forum said once that above 40 GB data corruption starts.
Right now I have Windows 98 running 32 GB partition here. Would be 40 GB if not for that the motherboard doesn't support anything above 32.

[win98]

I thought he meant the pentunium 90 he had If that was the one he was talking about the max the bios could handle would be around that much.

[punch999]

Enjoy! I got a new pc but I got a virus that infected the bios and is now useless! :bleh:

[win98]

Your joking! Some parts of the BIOS should be read only. So how could it infect the main part of the BIOS.

[Bobbin Threadbare]

Grr! My main HD for the new PC is 4OGB or something (not that I know). Those are just other HDs I'm gonna use.

[Danny252]

Why didn't you say so in the first place?

[Titan]

Originally posted by win98@Dec 3 2005, 05:01 AM
Your joking! Some parts of the BIOS should be read only. So how could it infect the main part of the BIOS.
Actualy, you BIOS could verry well be infected/erased by a Virus, as most BIOSes are basicly a flash-memory.
Remember a few years ago? There was a specific virus that was triggerd at a sertain date and erased the BIOS. I clearly remember it.. I recived around 15 phone-calls that day frim friends and ppl living around there, since theire computers wasn't starting.

[Tulac]

I never knew that was possible :blink:

[Bobbin Threadbare]

Yowza!

[Bobbin Threadbare]

Ok, I saw a sheet with all my PC details on it. But it got quickly snatched away. It said 80G ..... somewhere. Does this mean 80GB HD? It's definately P4. When I can sneak around the house, I'll look for the sheet and post the details. it's beige BTW.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Likely. I say... that's not much.