On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 06:03:12 +0900, "Ed" <gwbush@whitehouse.gov>
belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

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>"Michael Cash" <mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote in message
>news:ufg1kvsq4ruse7b1v8prneupu4puqgtcgd@4ax.com...
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>> I bought all the components separately. The only exception being that
>> the case had a 400w ATX power supply already installed.
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>Isn't it more expensive doing it that way?

I *think* I saved a little bit. The whole project ended up costing me
about 170,000 yen. It could have been done for a lot less money, but
then it wouldn't have been what I wanted. I looked around the stores
and tried to figure out if I could get something similar for less
money, but never found anything. Anyway, I sorta wanted to see if I
could do it. Now that I know how simple it actually is, it doesn't
feel like as much an accomplishment as I thought it would.

>Me, I buy the cheapest computer
>running the fastest processor I can find, and then wait until technology
>makes the whole thing run slower than pigshit.

I didn't realize that a Pentium III 733mhz was slower than pigshit
until I fired up the Pentium IV 2.6ghz. I could have gotten a faster
one, if I had been willing to pay twice the price for not nearly twice
the speed.

And the hyperthreading technology (whatever the fuck that is) in the
Pentium IV does seem to make a real difference in the overall speed of
the system. I believe I'll turn it on for stuff other than games.




--

Michael Cash



"There was a time, Mr. Cash, when I believed you must be the most useless
thing in the world. But that was before I read a Microsoft help file."

                                Prof. Ernest T. Bass
                                Mount Pilot College


http://www.sunfield.ne.jp/~mike/