Your pride and joy.

The question has been brought up before, but not recently enough to be a pain to do again. Looking toward the American northwest region specifically,I am taking this poll with no hidden agendas. What you need vote is, "What is your basic manufactured machine made from"

If your machine was purchased at Best Buy, but you upgraded the s**t out of it, it is still a premanufactured job. If you bought the components at Best Buy and assembled them yourself then its home made. Its that simple.

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There is no history until something happens, then there is.

I'd prefer an AMD in some ways, but this is a great box. I got a good deal on the CPU from Intel for doing retail training with them last year.

P4 3.47GHZ w/ Gigabyte heatsink/fan
2.5GB PC3200
GeForce 6800GT 256MB AGP w/ Arctic Cooling
Maxtor 250GB Hard Drive
Abit AS8 865 Chipset, 775/AGP/DDR1 Motherboard
Antec True Blue 480 Watt power supply
Antec Tower/Server Case (black)
SIIG IDE Controller Card, needed to connect 4 Optical Drives
Pioneer 8x DVD Burner
Samsung DVD-ROM
Samsung CD-RW
Antec CD-RW
Vantec Fan controller --> 4 Blue LED Antec Fans

Note that when I initially built the machine DDR2 was super-expensive and PCI-Express video cards were rather hard to find. By the time either makes significant improvement to performance I'm sure I'll be building a multi-core AMD system to replace this one mwuahahhahaha >;D

By specfically asking for American Northwest region people, are you
saying you don't want people from other regions to vote? Seems a
tad...limiting for an open forum.

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ReNo said:
By specfically asking for American Northwest region people, are you saying you don't want people from other regions to vote? Seems a tad...limiting for an open forum.

Read between the lines Mr. Reno. :wink:

I was insinuating that our local critic from Oregon not make this into a mountainous adventure when its merely a molehill walk in the park. :biggrin:

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There is no history until something happens, then there is.

You'd think, specifically where I live in Oregon, that Intel products would be cheaper ... there's like 7 campuses around my house. BUT, they're not. The "northwest" has a bunch of stuff, but it's advertised just like anywhere else.

The only reason I prefer AMD is that they're cheaper for comparable power/speed. The one thing they've done though that gives them an upper hand is the 64-optimising-32-bit processor(s). Which, they're the only ones who did that, everyone else was like, "lets just stop supporting 32-bit stuff", since, unless I'm mistaken, is what they did when they upped memory operations other times. (moving from 8-bit instruction sets to 16-bit, then eventually 32. I believe it wasn't until later that 32-bit actually supported 16-bit programs ... still they may be slower) ...

Anyway, you should also cater to laptops. Since, it's a little harder to build one of those on your own.

I know a lot of people who just use Laptops ... would you just chock that up to "pre-made".

I'm also wondering why it would matter if it were just pre-packaged ... would this include "custom jobs" some companies do? Since you didn't put it together yourself? (In other words, add a laptop/custom-order/other option. For the non-Dell, HP, Gateway, and Compaq consumers :smile: )

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I was wondering why you targetted the NW-US ... thought maybe you had some idea that it would be different here :razz:

I'm not making anything into a "mountainous" anything.

Critic? ... :rolleyes: so misunderstood.

There was nothing to discuss when just talking about your original topic ... you should realize that I would have just voted, given the reason why I think that and that'd be it ...

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

(laughs till ribs hurt)

I edited the options. Better?

(continues laughing)

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There is no history until something happens, then there is.

It was just a suggestion ...

If that seemed so imperative why aren't my other suggestions taken into account?? (not for threads, but other things in general)

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

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If that seemed so imperative why aren't my other suggestions taken into account??

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(continues laughing)

Imagine in the Potter books. Specifically the dead/ghost teacher whom teaches "History of magic" He drones on and on. His topics could be important but no one will ever know because they are asleep.

You drone Mr. Crono.

I can just imagine your voice as you type. You have got to sound like that old fella who does the "Clear eyes" commercial.

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amd 3200xp with 2gigs of ddr400 ram on an nforce2 asus board that has lots of 'stuff'. 400gigs storage. fx5900 ultra with a 19" crt/15" lcd combo. also a coulpe of front panel things for the soundcard/media readers/firewire/fan speeds etc.

not quite at the cutting edge, but i don't think it'll be desperate for an upgrade anytime soon.

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i eat paint

#1

mobo and cpu are 2 years old but in total it handles things ok.

barton 2500 on A7v8x-x mobo

768mb ram @333mhz fsb

GF 6800 GT

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These words are my diaries screaming out loud

AMD home made monster, although its not really a monster anymore, a year ago it was. Now its more of a high-end/mainstream homemade AMD.

AMd 64 3200+
1 GB RAM
80 GB HDD (god I need more room)
geforce 6800

AMD 3500+
Asus 939 motherboard
160 gig HD
DVD/RW
pc3200 ram
9800 pro
running WinXP Pro

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There is no history until something happens, then there is.

my parents bought me a dell a while back though it sucks something major, o well i didnt have to pay for it

however, i am in the process of building a new one finally

My computer really started out as several other computers. Ya,
when certain parts just stoped working, I canabalized parts of the
others. They've been modified so much that I don't even know
witch parts are from the origanal.

Oh, by the way, I don't buy prebuilt computers. Primarly, the
manufacturer is trying to take up as little space as possible that they
overlap everythin. Seriously, a year ago I was at High school
when a teacher asked me tfigure out how to put some ram in her home
computer; took me a good 3o minutes to figure out how to remove there
big holding trey that blocked any easy access.

Second most, the last time I bought a store computer, when I brought it
home, it decided to take up smokeing. But seriously, I was
staring at the monitor so long that I didn't even realize that the room
was filled with smoke; now that's dedication.

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