Favorite PC?

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 1:34 pm

I don't have an Alienware box - but if my budget was appropriate, it would be my box of choice!

anastrophe · Post by **anastrophe** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 5:08 pm

i picked 'other', as i'm into home built hardware. i'm a deep geek in that regard.

athlon 2000+ overclocked to 2GHz (normally 1.6GHz), with a front side bus of 391Mhz.

1.5G memory overclocked as well.

low-end geforce fx 5200, overclocked enormously.

zalman 'flower' cpu heatsink, quieter than normal.

used to do water cooling, but it was no quieter, and a hassle. once i have a little more disposable income,

, i'm lusting after the zalman 'reserator', a semi-passive water cooling tower that sits outside the case - two feet tall, tiny pump in the bottom to recirculate the fluid. supposed to virtually silent, and works as well as other water cooling systems.

see how easily i can just yack up a storm about computers? geek!

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 5:32 pm

Oh man! You need a special "GEEK" smilie icon!

anastrophe wrote: i picked 'other', as i'm into home built hardware. i'm a deep geek in that regard.

athlon 2000+ overclocked to 2GHz (normally 1.6GHz), with a front side bus of 391Mhz.

1.5G memory overclocked as well.

low-end geforce fx 5200, overclocked enormously.

zalman 'flower' cpu heatsink, quieter than normal.

used to do water cooling, but it was no quieter, and a hassle. once i have a little more disposable income,

, i'm lusting after the zalman 'reserator', a semi-passive water cooling tower that sits outside the case - two feet tall, tiny pump in the bottom to recirculate the fluid. supposed to virtually silent, and works as well as other water cooling systems.

see how easily i can just yack up a storm about computers? geek!

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 5:34 pm

anastrophe wrote: i'm lusting after the zalman 'reserator', a semi-passive water cooling tower that sits outside the case - two feet tall, tiny pump in the bottom to recirculate the fluid. supposed to virtually silent, and works as well as other water cooling systems.

Anastrophe,

I can sell you mine. It's called a fish aquarium. :p

anastrophe · Post by **anastrophe** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 5:44 pm

yeah, but the neon tetras get clogged in the lines and it makes a big mess.

:p

CVX · Post by **CVX** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 4:52 pm

Computer Maker in an Alien World

For one brief moment during a recent business meeting, Nelson Gonzalez wondered whether he'd inadvertently booked himself an appointment for a forced brain reboot by the men in black.

Gonzalez, co-owner of Alienware Computers, was showing off the company's collection of space-invader style machines to a group of potential buyers that included representatives from the Air Force and the Pentagon.

"All of a sudden I realized I was showing these guys machines named Area 51, and to make it even worse all the computer cases have these little alien faces with bright glowing eyes," said Gonzalez. "They must have realized how ironic it was at the exact same time I did. I looked at them. They looked at me. We all paused for a moment, then we smiled and nodded and got right back to business."

More:

http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101, ... _tophead_2

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:03 am

LottomagicZ4941 · Post by **LottomagicZ4941** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:25 am

I don't even know what I'm using. This is the wife's computer as my HP died. Dell is one of my bigger stock holdings in the mutual funds so pehaps I should have voted Dell instead of for that Alian thing which this thread sold me on:)

Lotto

http://www.flalottomagic.net/cgi-local/ ... elcome-344

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