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Computer geeks RISE!!!!!!!! - 9/2/2014 5:55:52 PM

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My boy is moving out in 2 months....time to but a new rig....last time I bought a supercalifragilistic device was when they have 600 meg hard drives and 2X chips (it's been a while), now I can have a multiple of 4 tb hard drives, 64 gigs of memory....can I have more?

What OS (Windows...I aint gonna change from that) can I have that gives me the best device for my home?

Can I have 126 gig ram? Will it actually be useful?

Anyone want to help me spell out a super system?

Rigs last for 7+ years now.....advice?

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RE: Computer geeks RISE!!!!!!!! - 9/2/2014 6:30:40 PM

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The first question I ask people that want to buy a new computer is what do you do with your computer now? This answer will determine which way you can go with a system. If you simply use your PC for internet and email and basic functions then you do not need a high end system. If, however, you are a gamer or are doing video editing or other processor and system intensive things, then a higher end system is in order. So...

What do you use your computer for now?

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RE: Computer geeks RISE!!!!!!!! - 9/3/2014 1:41:56 AM

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The internet is for Lookie's porn collection....

I am getting by with my 6 gigs of RAM and 500 gigs of HD. about 5yo and hardly any lag time. I want to upgrade my video card though (I am a gamer, what can I say?).

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RE: Computer geeks RISE!!!!!!!! - 9/3/2014 5:00:25 AM

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I only use mine for business, play, surfing and video watching altho work wise I do use adobe, and other graphic intensive programs.
I just built a new rig altho I certainly didnt go overboard,
64 gig ram, and a good graphics card with anew mb with an 8 core processor(which is expandable) but using what I use now, I wont have to upgrade for a long time.
I use my old one as a non networked back up for business/private stuff, and have a back up on a terabit removable drive.
Ive got lots of speed, space and enough memory to do what I need. I dont see a need to upgrade for at least five years

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RE: Computer geeks RISE!!!!!!!! - 9/3/2014 5:28:55 AM

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eshhhh.. 1TB? for a long term system I need waaaaay more than that.. and although I have a back-up hard drive, to be safe you need a back-up for your back-up cuz all hard drives will fail at some point.. I have been trying to upload to a encrypted cloud service but it takes forever to upload even 400GBs that I have on my laptop (unless you want to pay extra to have a hard drive sent to upload to then send it back to them).. and my back-up hard drive has 800GBs so more to upload from there.. In addition, I could easily add another 1 TB of info if I had the space for it but I don't right now.. So for me, the most limiting factor has always been hard drive space.. 5 years from now I could have 5TBs of info on hard drives, or maybe even more.. I am an info junkie.. what can I say? its my only vice..

as for the rest of it, I would read up-to-date recent articles, mags, blogs etc on building a custom system to figure out what you should have for your system to last.. like this one..

http://lifehacker.com/5840963/the-best-pcs-you-can-build-for-600-and-1200

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RE: Computer geeks RISE!!!!!!!! - 9/3/2014 5:58:04 AM

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nah thats just for work files.... each back up is for under a gig,and each website/db for every update I make is backed up twice. sorry I should have made that clearer, thats just on my main system and non networked.
I have 6 tb in my machine right now,
I wont upload that stuff to cloud I dont and never have trusted it. I have about 12 TB total, all my files are backed up on other drives that dont see the light of day, never mind inside a computer.
I have backups going back to 1997, on all my OS's and from IDE drives to sata...and way to many backed up on DVD discs n cds.
Ive learned my lesson:)
now finding files on specific drives? ....yeah im not that organized, lol
I prefer to use 1 terabyte drives, just in case theres a failure, on the drive. I lost a 3tb drive , it took forever to replace the files...
I built my latest one for 850$, and im pretty happy with it. Its got bells and whistles I wont use, unless the OS changes to the point I have to( Im using 7)
I dont have time to try linux or ubuntu, or red hat, and even tho my pet thinks I should learn unix, I just dont have enough time in the day for all I want to do now.

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RE: Computer geeks RISE!!!!!!!! - 9/3/2014 6:59:31 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: LookieNoNookie

My boy is moving out in 2 months....time to but a new rig....last time I bought a supercalifragilistic device was when they have 600 meg hard drives and 2X chips (it's been a while), now I can have a multiple of 4 tb hard drives, 64 gigs of memory....can I have more?

What OS (Windows...I aint gonna change from that) can I have that gives me the best device for my home?

Can I have 126 gig ram? Will it actually be useful?

Anyone want to help me spell out a super system?

Rigs last for 7+ years now.....advice?

As with everything computer related it depends what you want to do with it.

Technically, standard Windows 8 will support up to 128GB, Windows 8 Pro / Enterprise 512GB Windows 7 Home 16GB, Windows 7 Pro 192GB

However,

Unless you are doing something extremely memory intensive like extremely large photo editing (with multiple copies open) Video editing, VMWare, CAD or animations (with 128GB all at the same time) you won't need anything close to that amount of memory.

You would be far better putting that money into multiple hard drives and a raid system, that is where your performance bottleneck would be in that system. (remember anything that gets into memory probably has to be read from disk first)

I can't think of a use case where having 16gb in a user PC would be needed, 24 / 32 would be approaching overkill.

I've been running a dual core, with 4gb for about six years now, it gets a bit grumpy occasionally, but for the most part it chugs along happily! (if I'm doing something that needs some extra kick I rent a cloud computer for pennies an hour)

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RE: Computer geeks RISE!!!!!!!! - 9/3/2014 9:46:07 AM

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actually i have no idea...i lost track of whats what...and why do you want it....unless you are trying to tear a hole in space time must be this one

ShaharThorne kindly posted the specs

I am on windows 7 bloatware - this tend to be the culprit for speed..as hard ware is so cheap these last few years. it runs adobe 6 Microsoft 2007 and other bits and bobs faster than i can type, click etc not so much adobe flash Jake yer pcs adverts (fkers)

once you tear open a hole in space time do you plan on bringing about the apocalypse, end times etc and should i stock up on cake and cheap chardonnay

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RE: Computer geeks RISE!!!!!!!! - 9/3/2014 10:52:10 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

nah thats just for work files.... each back up is for under a gig,and each website/db for every update I make is backed up twice. sorry I should have made that clearer, thats just on my main system and non networked.
I have 6 tb in my machine right now,
I wont upload that stuff to cloud I dont and never have trusted it. I have about 12 TB total, all my files are backed up on other drives that dont see the light of day, never mind inside a computer.
I have backups going back to 1997, on all my OS's and from IDE drives to sata...and way to many backed up on DVD discs n cds.
Ive learned my lesson:)
now finding files on specific drives? ....yeah im not that organized, lol
I prefer to use 1 terabyte drives, just in case theres a failure, on the drive. I lost a 3tb drive , it took forever to replace the files...
I built my latest one for 850$, and im pretty happy with it. Its got bells and whistles I wont use, unless the OS changes to the point I have to( Im using 7)
I dont have time to try linux or ubuntu, or red hat, and even tho my pet thinks I should learn unix, I just dont have enough time in the day for all I want to do now.

I don't trust the cloud either but this particular one encrypts the files so I am doing a trial with it right now.. the problem for me is that if I travel in the future I don't want to take a laptop with a bunch of info on it with me, especially crossing the border back and forth, in particular the snoopy dudes on the US side where they can take your laptop (or any other device), copy it and then go thru it all (without a warrant).. so what else can ya do but go to the cloud? and its not that I am doing anything illegal but down the road I wont be living in the US so don't want them knowing squat about me.. the US has a way of perverting its own laws to reach people outside of the US and they keep intruding more and more on non-US residents/businesses..

I have had problems with backing up on dvds so I don't care for that route, plus you are limited in the amount you can save to each one.. but what you say about 1TB back up drives makes sense..

and yeah, I don't want to learn any other OS either.. windows is pain enough!

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RE: Computer geeks RISE!!!!!!!! - 9/3/2014 11:09:09 AM

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I guess I do have cloud, in the respect that its hosting space, but I only travel with my tab and if anyone at the border wants to see personal pics ...more fool them

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RE: Computer geeks RISE!!!!!!!! - 9/3/2014 6:04:08 PM

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The first question I ask people that want to buy a new computer is what do you do with your computer now? This answer will determine which way you can go with a system. If you simply use your PC for internet and email and basic functions then you do not need a high end system. If, however, you are a gamer or are doing video editing or other processor and system intensive things, then a higher end system is in order. So...

What do you use your computer for now?

Internet searches, video editing, email, occasional graphics editing, Bids for real estate using Google Earth.

What I'd also like to do is store 8 kabillion videos so I can just scroll through my list and play them without having to find the DVD.

And, I'd love to save that 50 bucks a month that I pay some online company to store all my office server crap...just have it sent to my home computer on a separate drive every night.

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