Church PC

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you guys are going WAY overboard for a simple church computer... i agree with rob on this, there's no reason to have raid and watercooling and etc. build the cheapest thing possible. they won't need to upgrade it in a year, they are going to be playing half-life 2. as long as they can turn it on, make a powerpoint presentation, and run it, why would they want to upgrade?

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you two are acting like having this one computer go down would anger god, and he would smite you for it or something. trust me, if you don't need raid's and watercooling to keep a computer running... i have a celeron 700 that runs like a tank. a very slow tank, but the hard drive has yet to die, the cpu has not overheated once, etc. it's an hp computer we picked up several years ago from wal-mart for $500 (hey, it was a REALLY good deal at the time... gotta love those early bird christmas sales). anyway, the point is, just because you want a "rep" with all the church folk as "the" computer guy, doesn't mean the church wants to pay for it, or that anybody will care anyway. what happens if you do go watercooling, and then it springs a leak? then the church has to pay for a whole new computer, and you look like an idiot. not like you don't already, for wanting to make a church spend several hundred dollars on something that only needs to run powerpoint presentations.

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,Jun 17 2004, 23:23]They are showing paltry powerpoint presentations.

A celeron 1.0Ghz, 128MB Ram, and 20gb hard drive would be overkill for doing that.

i take Rob's side on this completely. he doesn't need water cooling or such a high end processor. all he needs is an average, lower-spec computer if he's only showing slides, etc. nothing will destroy your computer unless YOU do something to it, or maybe a power failure...but you can get ups or something for that.

install an nt based os and you should be fine for os stability. just have an updated virus scanner and spyware scanner as well for stuff like that. firewall too :p if you're planning to have intenet connection.

your computer wont crap out on you if you dont screw it up yourself.

and yes, 128 mb of ram will do powerpoint presentations fine as well as integrated video/sound/everything else..no need for water cooling lol geez..

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,Jun 17 2004, 23:31] :blink: A church does not need watercooling..

No, a church needs holy water cooling.

After all blessed water runs 10% cooler...

Just run some tubing to the baptismal font.

Cool the PC and make a nice hot tub for the newly annointed.

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At my church, I create the presentations each week.  The PC I purchased on eBay was a Dell Dimension 4100, P3 933, 512MB, 40GB, DVD, CD-RW, GeForce FX5200 128MB.

Good enough for a church of 1500 people each Sunday.

how about giving me some of that ram? :shifty: heh..j/k

What is so great about this ClearTweak Crap!?

thats what i dont get either :p

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