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A little bit of hilarity

  • 24-07-2001 5:02pm
    #1
    JustHalf
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    What's the oddest system you've ever built?

    I'm going to build mine tonight ... P200MMX@225MHz, and 256Mb of PC133RAM (@75MHz) and a 40GbATA100 drive.

    I'll push it up to 250 after I put in the water cooling.


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  • #2
    Gerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭Gerry


    more money than sense smile.gif Tell me how it needs more than 128 megs of ram?


  • #3
    phaxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭phaxx


    gerry: ram is like money, you can never have enough.


  • #4
    JustHalf
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    Having a swap partition on a ramdisk


  • #5
    Red Moose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭Red Moose


    Loads of things need more than 128MB. Heck, to get the original Unreal running reasonably smoothly you needed that (in 1998 or so).

    Also, you can get better AGP performance if you have enough spare (256MB) to allow a larger AGP aperture size.

    Put the whole OS in a ramdisk!


  • #6
    _CreeD_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,151 ✭✭✭_CreeD_


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by JustHalf:
    Having a swap partition on a ramdisk</font>

    Or having no swap file at all (Who says 768 is a waste?.. smile.gif...)


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  • #7
    Gerry
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    notice he's running freebsd on a p250 red moose. Not too much gaming going on there I'll guess! He'll have a tough time getting it to use swap at all.


  • #8
    PowderHound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭PowderHound


    Here's mine
    75 Mhz Pentium,
    Three Hard drives totaling around 1 GB,
    4X CD rom drive,(fast) tongue.gif
    Floppy drive

    and

    No Memory cos its the only part i couldnt get for free and EDO ram is too damn expensive frown.gif

    I will complete it eventually


  • #9
    JustHalf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,525 ✭✭✭JustHalf


    Not much gaming? I'll be playing XPacman 'til the cows come home! (w/Aphex Twin's "Powerpill Pacman" playing on repeat).


  • #10
    sutty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,109 ✭✭✭sutty


    Hahaha......I beat you all smile.gif

    550@700MHz Athlon Classic
    256 megs O'ram (PC100 and 133)
    7ix gigabyte mobo
    8.6gb hd
    36x cdrom
    full tower case
    floppy drive.
    AGP, ATI rage pro

    Was build for....er...gerry how much was that 128 megs of ram again? the rest I found in my room....even the case biggrin.gif


    Ciaran Sutcliffe
    aka: sutty
    [HIV]sutty
    For a good time goto:
    http://www.hotinternetvirgins.com


  • #11
    Gerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭Gerry


    All the other stuff was free sutty? Nice one.


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  • #12
    po0k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,815 ✭✭✭✭po0k


    P200 (non-MMX I think), 48Meg EDO, VooDoo1 4meg, 1GB on IDE1, 850MB = 4x CD on IDE2, Cirrus Logic 1MB built on, SB Vibra16 built on too.
    I'm in the proccess of building a spare one too, just for playing that Starcraft demo over my Lan. I own my Brother at it but i want more competition


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