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Old Dec 24, 2008 | 10:40 PM
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Merry Christmas all its good to see the OT back in the 7.3L Forum

Well I had a pretty good day I traveled up to North east TN (carter County) to see my grand parents on my moms side today. I meet Huck (hucka1a) today a few minutes from my grandparents and gave him a taste of Jody's magic I think we'll see another one join the ranks in a few days. Great guy thats all I have to say and wonderful wife.


I just got an Xbox 360 for Christmas, but I have been playing a little on the PS2. I have been playing Call of Duty 4 online on my PC for a while any one else play on the PC here?
 
Old Dec 24, 2008 | 10:41 PM
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Originally Posted by preppypyro
I just cant get over the size of hard drives now a days!

When I built my desktop, oh about 3 years ago now, I bought a SWEET 160 gig hard drive!
I dont think they even sell them that small anymore!
lolololol.... That's when I built this one, and it's got a 160GB drive.

My FIRST PC was a 386DX 25MHz, 40MB HD, 2MB RAM. 14" 1024x768 SVGA CRT monitor, and I added a 16 bit SoundBlaster card. That cost me just under $2000 back in 1991.

Then I built a 486 of two different flavors (50 MHz SX first with added math co-processor, then a 486 DX66), then a couple Pentiums after that (120 and a 200). Then I switched to an AMD K6-2 400 back in '99. That damn PC is STILL running today!!!! I've had AMDs ever since, and I won't go back. They are amazing processors!
 
Old Dec 24, 2008 | 10:41 PM
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Chris they have rules for beer pong? Lol thats hilarious, our only "rule" was everyone got smashed one way or another!!
There are TONS of rules for it, most are stupid but we uses the most common ones and they are reasonable.

But we mainly use the same rule as you did
 
Old Dec 24, 2008 | 10:50 PM
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Thats good Chris, too many rules wrecks the fun of things

Joe, sounds like youve built alot of computers! ive just done a couple, and so far I have been an intel man over amd. Not realy sure why anymore, but when i built this one p3 I did a ton of research between the amd and intel that were available at the time, and the intel was better then, but shortly after then amd became the top dog for the p3 scene!
 
Old Dec 24, 2008 | 10:56 PM
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Thats true, we dont use a lot of rules when we play drinking games. We just go get hamered! lol
 
Old Dec 24, 2008 | 10:57 PM
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Originally Posted by AzBlueWolf
oops...picked the wrong system...

Sam's Club - HP AMD Phenom? Desktop 1.80GHz, 1000GB, 24" LCD

this is an amd system...Joe...

can you get us good deals on Samsung too?


Sheldon...my first upgrade to my fathers desktop was a 4 gb hard drive that cost $300 new...that was in 1995

I upgraded the ram from 8mb to 256mb...another $300!!
I dunno, man. If you have a case & power supply already, you can build a system like I'm getting for the same $350. That's a 2.5GHz Phenom 9850, Asus MoBo, 4GB of RAM (I was mistaken earlier -- thought that was 2GB!), and a 500 GB SATA II drive. I actually added a couple extra goodies for me too, so I'm up to $415 to my door. Upgrading my crappy 128 MB AGP video card to a 512 MB card. Extra $60.
 
Old Dec 24, 2008 | 11:02 PM
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lolololol.... Then I switched to an AMD K6-2 400 back in '99. That damn PC is STILL running today!!!! I've had AMDs ever since, and I won't go back. They are amazing processors!
I built my first AMD in '95 think a 586 200 and that's all I've had since except a P4 1.8 that was slower than my AMD 500
I won't have anthing but AMD anymore
 
Old Dec 24, 2008 | 11:05 PM
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Hahahah. That's good.


Originally Posted by Izzy351
lolololol.... That's when I built this one, and it's got a 160GB drive.

My FIRST PC was a 386DX 25MHz, 40MB HD, 2MB RAM. 14" 1024x768 SVGA CRT monitor, and I added a 16 bit SoundBlaster card. That cost me just under $2000 back in 1991.

Then I built a 486 of two different flavors (50 MHz SX first with added math co-processor, then a 486 DX66), then a couple Pentiums after that (120 and a 200). Then I switched to an AMD K6-2 400 back in '99. That damn PC is STILL running today!!!! I've had AMDs ever since, and I won't go back. They are amazing processors!
Same here on the AMD. If you are a gamer, they are the processor to get.
My laptop has a dual core processor and it smoked the desktop in performance before the desktop overheated and died.
 
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Old Dec 24, 2008 | 11:05 PM
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Dang Joe I wish I knew that you were a computer expert I would have had you help me find a new one when my last one went down in the fall. I got a new gateway and it hasn't impressed me that much.
 
Old Dec 24, 2008 | 11:07 PM
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Howdy yall!!! Well so far ive got two new pair of cowboy boots $170's in winchester auto gift cert.s a sweatshirt and some $...
 
Old Dec 24, 2008 | 11:07 PM
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So many good amd stories here, temped to try an amd for the next computer I build!

Gotta try and get rid of my old one first, but im guessing its pretty hard to sell a computer that was top notch 3 years ago!
 
Old Dec 24, 2008 | 11:10 PM
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just about any home built computer is better than an off shelf model. You can pick up some pretty good MB combos fairly reasonable
 
Old Dec 24, 2008 | 11:13 PM
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What did you get Ariats?
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I have always used AMD processors my last truck was a custom made PC but it had a lot of troubles This PC I bought it as a online and picture PC with mild gaming since I got a 360.
 
Old Dec 24, 2008 | 11:14 PM
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I have been noticing alot of guys giving out xmas reps, just wanted to say to yall thanks, and if i didnt get ya back, the rep police got me!
 
Old Dec 24, 2008 | 11:15 PM
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Chris they have rules for beer pong? Lol thats hilarious, our only "rule" was everyone got smashed one way or another!!
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Thats true, we dont use a lot of rules when we play drinking games. We just go get hamered! lol

Best rule ever! Theres only one goal to a night out drinkin when youre young!
 



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