If the anandtech moderators dont mind,
I would like to have an off topic journal/ blog of my interesting endeavors.
I would like to have an off topic journal/ blog of my interesting endeavors.
OFF TOPIC ANANDTECH BLOGS/JOURNALS OF ME
- Thread starter girlpower4ever
- Start date
I w ould love to say in before the lock but last time that got me banned.
I don't see this as happening, and this kind of seems like a shameless attention whore plug.
AgaBoogaBoo
Lifer
- Feb 16, 2003
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being stingy and being a cost saver costed me 3 power supplies,
1 generic psu died on my stock case
1 generic 500 watt psu died, salvaged from my brothers case
1 450 watt rosewill psu had to be rma because i fried it on my rig
lol
i built this awhile back in 2006 when pentium ds were coming out.
intel pentium d 820 with stock hsf
xfx 7800 gt downclocked ( following story)
2 gb ddr 667
160 gb hitachi
250 gb maxtor
i finally gave up and bought myself a coolmax 500 watt psu, generic yes but comes with active pfc.
newegg appearently gave me a gift of a sli ready 650 watt coolmax psu with active pfc.
thanks newegg.
after i got the 650 watt psu,
i finally had a stable system.
wanna know who told me to get an aftermarket psu,
my brother,
lol
i was being to stingy and cost savey on my build, i disregarded my brothers advice and that costed me 2 weeks of not using this decent build at the time.
1 generic psu died on my stock case
1 generic 500 watt psu died, salvaged from my brothers case
1 450 watt rosewill psu had to be rma because i fried it on my rig
lol
i built this awhile back in 2006 when pentium ds were coming out.
intel pentium d 820 with stock hsf
xfx 7800 gt downclocked ( following story)
2 gb ddr 667
160 gb hitachi
250 gb maxtor
i finally gave up and bought myself a coolmax 500 watt psu, generic yes but comes with active pfc.
newegg appearently gave me a gift of a sli ready 650 watt coolmax psu with active pfc.
thanks newegg.
after i got the 650 watt psu,
i finally had a stable system.
wanna know who told me to get an aftermarket psu,
my brother,
lol
i was being to stingy and cost savey on my build, i disregarded my brothers advice and that costed me 2 weeks of not using this decent build at the time.
A Downclocked XFX 7800gt
the following month when i purchased my 7800 gt with my rig,
it kept on crashing and locking up when i was playing battlefield 2 at max settings.
i went into the anandtech forums and found out that i had to downclock it,
i said,
wow, xfx really sucks, might as well stick with bfg with the factory overclocking.
so thats why i had to downclock my xfx 7800 gt to 400 gpu timings and 1200 mem timings.
seems like i didnt get my moneys worth.
question to all
do you consider this doa if the next person that may be buying this has issues with it because of the factory overclock???
i'll be furious enough if they blamed me that i overclocked it and thats why its not working right at stock factory settings.
lol
the following month when i purchased my 7800 gt with my rig,
it kept on crashing and locking up when i was playing battlefield 2 at max settings.
i went into the anandtech forums and found out that i had to downclock it,
i said,
wow, xfx really sucks, might as well stick with bfg with the factory overclocking.
so thats why i had to downclock my xfx 7800 gt to 400 gpu timings and 1200 mem timings.
seems like i didnt get my moneys worth.
question to all
do you consider this doa if the next person that may be buying this has issues with it because of the factory overclock???
i'll be furious enough if they blamed me that i overclocked it and thats why its not working right at stock factory settings.
lol
A local buyer trying to make profit off a fried e machine computer
Ok, i met a local buyer that wanted to sell a computer for freakin a good deal.
what i knew was that he was a smart techie 14 year old "KID".
what i didnt realized i was being scammed in buying a fried out emachine.
fried meaning from what i found out
a dead psu
and a dead mother board
it was a socket 478 emachine packing a 2.7 ghz celeron.
i gmailed the kid saying hey,
why are you selling it,
he replied, oh i'm just selling this computer for a friend,
i asked him, does it work
and he replied, i took out the ram and the hard drive so you have to bring the ram.
i said ok,
original price was $90.00 for
e machine computer and whats in it
emachine atx case
power supply
celeron 2.7 ghz cpu with hsf
motherboard
40gb hard drive
and thats that
Oh yeah, forgot to mention that the kid was trying to be shady with the testing meaning,
he had no effort with the testing, lol, he was a smart tech support kid that can build and fix computers, why didnt he test it out for me,
i said oh well,
i hope it works,
so i came over and brought the wrong type of ram
rdram
that sucks
it runs ddr
so i borrowed his ram and he said " yeah, the ram is untested"
lol because it came straight out from this fried out machine.
so i stuck the ram in and booted it up,
doesnt work
figured that it was a power supply
swapped the power supply and booted it up
light is on the motherboard
but no boot
so
i figured
motherboard is fried
i said,
lmao
omg, i was about to waste my money on a mega friend computer,
lol
the psu was dead
and the motherboard was dead
but heres what i negotiated with this cheapskate
meaning what i got working since the past few days of testing
intel celeron 2.7ghz cpu with hsf
a dying 40gb hdd with bad sectors, works but will die in the next 3 months, *junk*
256 mb ddr 333 ram
cd rw optical drive
nice e machines micro atx case
windows xp home COA sticker,
for $65.00 cash.
i hope it was a good deal, but since the hdd is going to die, it was an ok deal,
but the kid,
lol
omg, he was a techie support kid crazed on making cash from other people, lol
tried to sell me junk for a bad deal, he builds computers and refurbishes computers, why didnt he take the effort on actually fixing his "FRIENDS" computer, lol, instead of selling it to me.
possibly he wants to build his "friend" a new computer for MORE MONEY.
lol
i could have fixed it for his friend for $50.00 free of labor charge,
he buys the motherboard, and the psu and i just verbally blah blah blah install it for him.
i bet hes gonna be spending $350.00 including labor charges and installation of windows xp for a 1 ghz computer with a failing hard drive.
lol
i got the good deal over all when i think about it.
the xp home coa sticker rocks on the case
Ok, i met a local buyer that wanted to sell a computer for freakin a good deal.
what i knew was that he was a smart techie 14 year old "KID".
what i didnt realized i was being scammed in buying a fried out emachine.
fried meaning from what i found out
a dead psu
and a dead mother board
it was a socket 478 emachine packing a 2.7 ghz celeron.
i gmailed the kid saying hey,
why are you selling it,
he replied, oh i'm just selling this computer for a friend,
i asked him, does it work
and he replied, i took out the ram and the hard drive so you have to bring the ram.
i said ok,
original price was $90.00 for
e machine computer and whats in it
emachine atx case
power supply
celeron 2.7 ghz cpu with hsf
motherboard
40gb hard drive
and thats that
Oh yeah, forgot to mention that the kid was trying to be shady with the testing meaning,
he had no effort with the testing, lol, he was a smart tech support kid that can build and fix computers, why didnt he test it out for me,
i said oh well,
i hope it works,
so i came over and brought the wrong type of ram
rdram
that sucks
it runs ddr
so i borrowed his ram and he said " yeah, the ram is untested"
lol because it came straight out from this fried out machine.
so i stuck the ram in and booted it up,
doesnt work
figured that it was a power supply
swapped the power supply and booted it up
light is on the motherboard
but no boot
so
i figured
motherboard is fried
i said,
lmao
omg, i was about to waste my money on a mega friend computer,
lol
the psu was dead
and the motherboard was dead
but heres what i negotiated with this cheapskate
meaning what i got working since the past few days of testing
intel celeron 2.7ghz cpu with hsf
a dying 40gb hdd with bad sectors, works but will die in the next 3 months, *junk*
256 mb ddr 333 ram
cd rw optical drive
nice e machines micro atx case
windows xp home COA sticker,
for $65.00 cash.
i hope it was a good deal, but since the hdd is going to die, it was an ok deal,
but the kid,
lol
omg, he was a techie support kid crazed on making cash from other people, lol
tried to sell me junk for a bad deal, he builds computers and refurbishes computers, why didnt he take the effort on actually fixing his "FRIENDS" computer, lol, instead of selling it to me.
possibly he wants to build his "friend" a new computer for MORE MONEY.
lol
i could have fixed it for his friend for $50.00 free of labor charge,
he buys the motherboard, and the psu and i just verbally blah blah blah install it for him.
i bet hes gonna be spending $350.00 including labor charges and installation of windows xp for a 1 ghz computer with a failing hard drive.
lol
i got the good deal over all when i think about it.
the xp home coa sticker rocks on the case
MmmSkyscraper
Diamond Member
- Jul 6, 2004
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James Bond
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- Jan 21, 2005
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