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[Samoa]

See,

I knew someone had an eMachine here on Neowin... :p

[Steve]

There are prolly more here who do, they just have the sense NOT to admit to it! ... i can't comment tho ... i dunno WTF it is, i jus go with "word on the st." that is is a POS?! ...anyone got pics?

[username]

  Impulfusion said:

Pentium4 2.4GHz w/ Hyperthreating

how did you get a 2.4ghz with HT working?

[Seb]

emachines is considered a joke..ppl say they put toghather the ******iest components and sell it..that wud really xplain the price difference between brands..and y i had to get it replaced 4 times

[mistical]

A friend of mine has an emachine, I had to fix it once so he could play a few games though I didn't get it totally fixed. They are too ******ty as you've said. I did get Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 to work for him that he bought but, he also bought Sim City 4, and it doesn't work. I feel bad for him :/ This was over 2 months ago, I havn't tried yet to see if it has, since there is now patches and such for Sim City 4. And I think he may of upgraded his video card. A friend of his dads has upgraded his computer for free too.

But anywho, I don't like computers that you would buy at stores. I'd prefer building one for someone and especially myself. Most or even all computers are just too expensive/overpriced, of course they have to be for them to make money. But still they are.

[pINK_puppy]

Well, I make and design my own computers and all I use is AMD CPU's so here it is.

AMD ATHLON XP 3000+ 512K 333FSB BARTON

Aopen AK79G Max 333fsb 400 DDR Support Dual Cpu+VividBios

SOLTEK GEFORCE4 MX440SE AGP 128BIT 64MB SDR W/ TV OUT

Generic PC2700 333Mhz 3Gig

Self Designed Modding Case, with 16 Case Cold Cathods

300gig HDD Seagate Baracuda .09B ss.0.76 1bels

72X Lite-On Cd Rom

58x48x42 CD-RW Lite-On Cd Burner

1.4 inch Floppy

Long Beach Turtle Sound Card ssBuffer 500w 247mhzu

24in Viewsonic Monitor

[Seb]

hmmm..is that really ur pc..or ur dream machine?

[pINK_puppy]

Real PC I got about 12000 sunk into right now.. all i need is another upgrade.. hmm

[Seb]

hmmm 12000..hmmm..how much did the 300gig cost..is it that 8mb buffer one?

[pINK_puppy]

300 gig hdd 230$ and the bels on it are nice quiestest thing I haven't heard.

[username]

  pINK_puppy said:

Well, I make and design my own computers and all I use is AMD CPU's so here it is.

AMD ATHLON XP 3000+ 512K 333FSB BARTON

Aopen AK79G Max 333fsb 400 DDR Support Dual Cpu+VividBios

SOLTEK GEFORCE4 MX440SE AGP 128BIT 64MB SDR W/ TV OUT

Generic PC2700 333Mhz 3Gig

Self Designed Modding Case, with 16 Case Cold Cathods

300gig HDD Seagate Baracuda .09B ss.0.76 1bels

72X Lite-On Cd Rom

58x48x42 CD-RW Lite-On Cd Burner

1.4 inch Floppy

Long Beach Turtle Sound Card ssBuffer 500w 247mhzu

24in Viewsonic Monitor

lol, you make me laugh :laugh: half that stuff does not even exist

Edited March 30, 2003 by username

[Samoa]

  mistical said:

A friend of mine has an emachine, I had to fix it once so he could play a few games though I didn't get it totally fixed. They are too ******ty as you've said. I did get Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 to work for him that he bought but, he also bought Sim City 4, and it doesn't work. I feel bad for him :/ This was over 2 months ago, I havn't tried yet to see if it has, since there is now patches and such for Sim City 4. And I think he may of upgraded his video card. A friend of his dads has upgraded his computer for free too.

But anywho, I don't like computers that you would buy at stores. I'd prefer building one for someone and especially myself. Most or even all computers are just too expensive/overpriced, of course they have to be for them to make money. But still they are.

Yeah, now that I've built my own, I won't buy proprietary again. I don't suggest anyone do it either. Somepeople need to however, mostly those who do know computers. I am going to build a couple for a few friends who have asked me to. and I just help a friend with his Compaq with K6-2 processor. He has it on the 98se it came with, and it was loading uptine no. of programs at startup that basically made the thing crawl the crash. I installed a used HD for him and installed a new video card an more RAM that he bought. I put XP on the Second disk so he could keep the Compaq 98 with recovery, and just use the XP as a main. boy that machine runs nice with XP installed. I NTFSd his drive as well, he thank me with 40.00. :D

I just was hoping 20.00 for the time I spent. I was giving him the HD since I wont use it and it is still good. I actually told him he didn't need to give me anything. but a little appreciation pays .....

[pINK_puppy]

Look around it's realy alright, but very expensive a first buy only .. basis ..

[aaron901]

  pINK_puppy said:

Real PC I got about 12000 sunk into right now.. all i need is another upgrade.. hmm

what?! US$12000 you mean?! oh my god, is that for your personal use only? what do you do with your pc?

hell i can't believe someone spent this amount of money into a pc..

[Samoa]

  aaron901 said:

what?! US$12000 you mean?! oh my god, is that for your personal use only? what do you do with your pc?

hell i can't believe someone spent this amount of money into a pc..

he's just getting attention. let him be. :D

[username]

i would love to know where the guy got the 300gig Seagate HD, 72X Lit-On, and 58X48X42 (that stat alone is so funny... the drive can write and rewrite faster than it can read) that all do not even exist.... i really hope this was a joke

[aaron901]

  username said:

i would love to know where the guy got the 300gig Seagate HD, 72X Lit-On, and 58X48X42 (that stat alone is so funny... the drive can write and rewrite faster than it can read) that all do not even exist.... i really hope this was a joke

there's no 300GB hdd yet? i didn't know that.. coz LaCie has already got 400 and 500 GB external hdd..

but the burner is quite hilarious.. :laugh:

pINK_puppy i think you need to clear things up...

[Samoa]

  username said:

i would love to know where the guy got the 300gig Seagate HD, 72X Lit-On, and 58X48X42 (that stat alone is so funny... the drive can write and rewrite faster than it can read) that all do not even exist.... i really hope this was a joke

there are some posers around here..... ;)

[pINK_puppy]

After a chum of mine read a story about Seagate's general availability of its Barracuda Serial ATA (S-ATA) drives at the end of January, he gave me a call on my cell.

Apparently Seagate will be releasing the Barracuda series of S-ATA hard disks sometime either at the end of February or at the beginning of March.

She said that its biggest capacity drive will be the 5400 RPM (revs per minute) 300GB model, which previously was going to be a 320GB drive.* and it pays to know people.

As far as the CDand cdrw the fastest one is 56x, I was simple able to relay it to drive a little faster and with the hepl of a inducing program "like" Nero's cdspeed amplifying program i achieved my, 72x it's not that difficult. However the cdrw was a little more difficult, i sent it in to a buddy of mine as I was only able to achive the write speed of 52 he did the rest .. based on the same priciple I used to speed up the normal cdrom

[Samoa]

  pINK_puppy said:

After a chum of mine read a story about Seagate's general availability of its Barracuda Serial ATA (S-ATA) drives at the end of January, he gave me a call on my cell.

Apparently Seagate will be releasing the Barracuda series of S-ATA hard disks sometime either at the end of February or at the beginning of March.

She said that its biggest capacity drive will be the 5400 RPM (revs per minute) 300GB model, which previously was going to be a 320GB drive.* and it pays to know people.

As far as the CDand cdrw the fastest one is 56x, I was simple able to relay it to drive a little faster and with the hepl of a inducing program "like" Nero's cdspeed amplifying program i achieved my, 72x it's not that difficult. However the cdrw was a little more difficult, i sent it in to a buddy of mine as I was only able to achive the write speed of 52 he did the rest .. based on the same priciple I used to speed up the normal cdrom

Well that kind a explains it.??? :huh:

Btw that 320gig Drive must suck at 5400rpm....

[aaron901]

5400rpm.. hmm.. recalling the hard time with my 30GB 5400rpm hdd.... sucks big time..

[Seb]

haha..emachines usually ships with 5400rpm..thank god this one is 7200

[lxccl37]

and mostly all hp computers ship w/ a slow 5400 rpm

[Poser]

Antec SX 835, AMD Athlon XP 2000+ @ 2.06GHz, ASUS A7V8X, OCZ 512 DDR PC333 With Copper Heat Spreaders, Western Digital 100gig 7200RPM W/ 8mb Buffer, Western Digital 40gig 7200RPM W/ 2mb Buffer, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, Soundblaster Audigy Platinum HD, Sony 24x10x40 CD-RW, Samsung 16x DVD-ROM, Mitsubishi E85LCD, Cambridge SoundWorks FPS2000, Logitech Cordless Freedom Pro, Logitech WingMan Extreme Digital 3D, Microsoft Windows XP Professional W/ Service Pack 2 1185

[username]

  pINK_puppy said:

After a chum of mine read a story about Seagate's general availability of its Barracuda Serial ATA (S-ATA) drives at the end of January, he gave me a call on my cell.

Apparently Seagate will be releasing the Barracuda series of S-ATA hard disks sometime either at the end of February or at the beginning of March.

She said that its biggest capacity drive will be the 5400 RPM (revs per minute) 300GB model, which previously was going to be a 320GB drive.* and it pays to know people.

As far as the CDand cdrw the fastest one is 56x, I was simple able to relay it to drive a little faster and with the hepl of a inducing program "like" Nero's cdspeed amplifying program i achieved my, 72x it's not that difficult. However the cdrw was a little more difficult, i sent it in to a buddy of mine as I was only able to achive the write speed of 52 he did the rest .. based on the same priciple I used to speed up the normal cdrom

funny how the largest Seagate drive on their site is only 182GB....

There are NO 56X drives out there, let alone 48 rewrite drives

and you cannot make your cd-writer or cd-rom faster with Nero CDspeed... sorry its all :x