My 10 year olds pc faster than yours?

[chew*]

So i decided to add up the cost of my sons pc today which is the result of all my hardware hand me downs and jeebus his pc costs alot.......Some stuff i priced origianlly as its no longer available and "rare"

Specs
Abit AN8 fatality $200 <-rare and in high demand on ebay apparently....original price i paid
939 sandy 3700+ $233
X1800XT retail $500
samsung dvd/cdrw $40
Floppy < lol $10
TT big Typhoon $50
2x512mb corsair XMS
pc 3200 2-3-3-6 $150
80 gig WD sata $80
antec neo 480 watt $116

subtotal $1379
tax +7% $96.53
Total $1475.53

:( almost as much as my current rig........

[halo112358]

Alright, before I take the bait I need to see screenshots of 3dmark05 & 06 scores :D

[Vex]

will you adopt me?

[Kesnel]

will you adopt me?

Me too!

I wish I had that rig when I was 10. Your son is a lucky fella. :)

[3NZ0]

Pass the caviar here please. :D

[perry_78]

when i was 10 i was lucky to have a playstation :(

[Vex]

i think i had a 386 with windows 3.1 :D witch i broke lol

[trakslacker]

when I was 10 I rocked the Genesis. That and the NES were damn find systems.

[palehorse]

The first PC my parents ever bought me, when I was 10 or so, was a Franklin Ace 1000, and it was about $5000 cold hard cash at a New Jersey computer show... (and trust me, they couldnt afford it then!)

now, thanks to them, I have a hobby that developed into a career that pays extremely well!

So I think that it's AWESOME that you gave a great system to your 10-yr-old! My kids will have an entire lab at their disposal at birth if I can help it!

[Vex]

ok now i want palehorse to adopt me lmao.

[Magnj]

jebus. teach him how to OC the thing then i'll be impressed.

[chew*]

jebus. teach him how to OC the thing then i'll be impressed.

heh it is oced mildly....and he is very good at FPS. Ill make a pro gamer out of him yet :) as for results gimme a few and I'll run some tests :)

[palehorse]

heh it is oced mildly....and he is very good at FPS. Ill make a pro gamer out of him yet :)
now THAT is the type of encouragement I like to see! Maybe my BF2 clan should lower their over-21 age requirement in this case! lol..

And by the time he hits 18, pro-gaming will probably be a very viable career! (i just wish that were already the case in the US damnit! lol)

GL!

[Movieman]

when i was 10 i was lucky to have a playstation :(
When I was 10:
JFK was alive and President of the USA
Color TV was still 2-3 years away and a BIG TV was 17 inches!
Cable TV? What was that!
You could let your kids go out on Halloween without walking across the street from them to make sure no scum bothered them!
PC was a expression not even invented yet.
And most of us have more computing power in our own house now than existed in all of the US combined!
Damn, I'm getting old!:(

[chew*]

Results :). Didnt't run 06 as its dual core biased but here's 03 and 05. this is stock settings on card stock bios.

http://members.cox.net/wmdieselmc26/10yearold03.jpg
http://members.cox.net/wmdieselmc26/10yearold05.jpg

[cdelong]

9,100 3Dmarks!! man that's kickin';)

[mursaat]

Answer to the thread question: YES :mad:

I get ~8400 in 3dk05 with the pc in my sig :stick:

And BTW at 10 I had an IBM PC with 1Mb ram, 20Mb and 286 proc :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: It was best of the best then :cool:

Price: ~3500 actual $$$ :fact:

P.D. which is your 24/7 rig then? :D :D

[dickeywang]

Answer to the thread question: YES :mad:

I get ~8400 in 3dk05 with the pc in my sig :stick:

And BTW at 10 I had an IBM PC with 1Mb ram, 20Mb and 286 proc :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: It was best of the best then :cool:

Price: ~3500 actual $$$ :fact:

P.D. which is your 24/7 rig then? :D :D
Better than me.I didn't have a PC/video game console until I was 19.:p:

[Eagleclaw]

Nice system he has..


When I was 10 all I had to play was Pong :(

[lv_dicedealer]

HAHA... Glad to see that I am not the only father that builds a PC for his son!

Son's rig:
3800+ X2 @ 2.5ghz
ECS nf4 m/b (it really is a pos, but it was part of the Fry's $279 combo deal)
1Gb Geil UltraX (pointless in my Xeon rig @ 200 fsb)
x300SE (just fine for his video needs, no FPS yet)
Dell 2001fp
CoolerMaster Stacker painted to look like Thomas the Tank Engine
Storm watercooled w/ PA120.2

Not too bad for a 2 year old...

Before anyone jumps down my throat, I built it for him because I can

[Pinnacle]

Me too!

I wish I had that rig when I was 10. Your son is a lucky fella. :)


I agree

[Pinnacle]

x300SE (just fine for his video needs, no FPS yet)


Well, I suppose its satisfactory for pinball :)

[stone_cold_Jimi]

When I was 10:
JFK was alive and President of the USA
Color TV was still 2-3 years away and a BIG TV was 17 inches!


You and me both, m8. When I was 10, Jimi Hendrix released "Hey Joe". Life was pretty good, not a gadget in sight... well, crystal radios? Listen kids, we used to play outside, creating virtual worlds entirely dependent on our imagination. How funky is that then? ;)

Err, yes, very nice rig for a 10 y. o. to have. In the top 2% of gaming rigs, I'd imagine. Considerably quicker than my old rig, in fact.

[CrashOv3r1De]

Nice rig :) Cant be faster than mine though :D

[chew*]

Nice rig :) Cant be faster than mine though :D

Nope but then again that's what my rig is for :) and yes its as fast or faster

[Arkangyl]

wow, X1800XT vs Nintendo 64... lucky kid

[[XC] leviathan18]

when i was 10 n64 was the beast xD

[afireinside]

Nice... Did he build it him self? I remember when I was 10 I built my first setup for around 1500 dollars. Pretty cheap considering we had been spending 3k every other year on a top of the line OEM computer. I had:

abit KT7A RAID
800mhz tbird
GF2 MX
SBL MP3+
plextor 12x CD burner
40gb 2mb cache WD IDE hard drive
cheap enlight case with a generic 300 watt PSU
256mb PC133 SDram stick

MAN! That thing was a beast! Ended up upgrading to a GF3 Ti200 6 months later and started overclocking (just the GPU, CPU didn't come till I was 12 and got watercooling :p: ) and I was able to run sof2 @ 60 fps 1600x1200 max details :eek: Ah the good old days... Then asherons call 2 came... and 256mb ram wasn't enough. Thus starting my need for an xtremely fast PC.

Oh and your son very well could be a pro gamer :woot: Young kids have killer reflexes.

[chew*]

heh i remeber the days before that afire........when we used lead to trace a connection on the gold fingers on slot style cpu's WOOT 50 MHZ I rock.....

[afireinside]

haha thats old... My most primitive PC memories consist of a 133mhz P1 and win 95.

[palehorse]

For the win, and without Google (dont cheat!), who can tell me what compatibility my first PC, a Franklin Ace 1000, had? What was it compatible with?

/insert Jeopardy music

[[XC] Lead Head]

Nothing:p:

[charlie]

...when I was 10 I had a hamster. By 13 I was able to play my friends Atari with PONG.

C

[hawtrawkr]

my poor kid has to use my hand me down an8 sli fatal1ty board. luckily hes to young to ask "daddy why wont my memory run right on this pos"

[HARDCORECLOCKER]

:D When I was 10 there was somethin' like "B_A_S_I_C" and binary system - I also just learned not to type "Computer" beginning with a "K" and searched always for some new pimples on my face..........:eek:

:toast:

[SIOUX]

:D When I was 10 there was somethin' like "B_A_S_I_C" and binary system - I also just learned not to type "Computer" beginning with a "K" and searched always for some new pimples on my face..........:eek:

:toast:


LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL:D

[s7e9h3n]

Specs
Abit AN8 fatality $200 <-rare and in high demand on ebay apparently....original price i paid
939 sandy 3700+ $233
X1800XT retail $500
samsung dvd/cdrw $40
Floppy < lol $10
TT big Typhoon $50
2x512mb corsair XMS
pc 3200 2-3-3-6 $150
80 gig WD sata $80
antec neo 480 watt $116

subtotal $1379
tax +7% $96.53
Total $1475.53

Well at least that's considered a bargain compared to the $1999 + tax 486/16 system I got as a kid :p: Ahhh the days of $1/mb of HD space.....:rolleyes: .......

[axion]

Damn lucky kid. When I was 10 I think I got my first computer which was a Celeron 500. ;P Its still going strong aswell.. well at least as strong as a celeron can go. :P

[Vassili]

Specs
Abit AN8 fatality $200 <-rare and in high demand on ebay apparently....original price i paid
939 sandy 3700+ $233
X1800XT retail $500
samsung dvd/cdrw $40
Floppy < lol $10
TT big Typhoon $50
2x512mb corsair XMS
pc 3200 2-3-3-6 $150
80 gig WD sata $80
antec neo 480 watt $116

subtotal $1379
tax +7% $96.53
Total $1475.53
It would be cool if your kid asked you one day: "He dad why didn't you buy me a DFI nF4, now my San Diego can't run @ 3GHz @ stock-Air.:stick: "

:D

[Kjaks]

Maybe his pc is faster than mine, but I bet I'm faster than him ;)

[Delirious]

When i was ten, i was running around in the middle east playing with sticks and stones, dont even think i knew computers existed, aside from nintendo.

[zub]

how can you get over 9000 05' marks! with my 7800GTX oc'd to like 500/1300 and my 3200+ oc'd to 2.4GHz i barely went over 9000! what gives. i also have the exact same ram!

[chew*]

how can you get over 9000 05' marks! with my 7800GTX oc'd to like 500/1300 and my 3200+ oc'd to 2.4GHz i barely went over 9000! what gives. i also have the exact same ram!

heh his is oced to ddr 500 :) with the fatailty that don't like any type of ram as one user stated..........guess he didnt see that coming(its 100 % stable no crashes in any game played for hours on end not to mention every bench you can dream of stable)........In the right hands the fatality isn't that bad and i took the AN8's where very few could even venture......but its no sapphire grouper or DFI. Hmm well your 100 mhz slower 512kb less and 100mhz slower on ram........and I know how to tweak a 24/7 rig..... and that is a current 06 record holding card..in its x1800 class........

[CandymanCan]

Chew youre isnt as fast or faster then crashoverde's He has a fx 60 @ 3ghz and a x1900xt.

As for me yea it is my pc is 2 years old tho and i havent run 3dmark test since 04

[s7e9h3n]

Chew youre isnt as fast or faster then crashoverde's He has a fx 60 @ 3ghz and a x1900xt.

As for me yea it is my pc is 2 years old tho and i havent run 3dmark test since 04
Chew runs an x2 @ 3g+ and a x1900xt as well ;)

[chew*]

It would be cool if your kid asked you one day: "He dad why didn't you buy me a DFI nF4, now my San Diego can't run @ 3GHz @ stock-Air.:stick: "

:D
By then he'll have a sapphire grouper and you will be saying damn i wish my 3gig cpu and mobo didnt die. If only i hadn't used a DFI........

[manomanx2]

I wept when I saw the X1800XT "hand-me-down."

It's a good thing you're doing. All kids need gaming computers to simulate killing people online. Haha, just kidding. Awesomely lucky kid.

[chew*]

Chew youre isnt as fast or faster then crashoverde's He has a fx 60 @ 3ghz and a x1900xt.

As for me yea it is my pc is 2 years old tho and i havent run 3dmark test since 04

well lets see.....I am highly skilled at overclocking........and i spent half the money crash spent. Not to mention an arsenal of ram. And i have a secret weapon.......Plus direct contact with certain ATI techs :). You think I grabbed a X1800XT 06 record cuz i'm lucky?

[dogsx2]

Oldest step daughter is has my old K7S5A with a 1700 and ATI 8500. She's a senior in hs going to college at the same time. Your kids computer may be faster but I'll bet she's faster on the computer.

Woops, forgot he's only 10.:D

[Raybo]

For the win, and without Google (dont cheat!), who can tell me what compatibility my first PC, a Franklin Ace 1000, had? What was it compatible with?

/insert Jeopardy music

I bought a Franklin back in..................1985? :shrug: got the upgrade to a 20mb HD, I think I paid around $2600 total for it.

It was an Apple clone to answer your question.

[CandymanCan]

well lets see.....I am highly skilled at overclocking........and i spent half the money crash spent. Not to mention an arsenal of ram. And i have a secret weapon.......Plus direct contact with certain ATI techs :). You think I grabbed a X1800XT 06 record cuz i'm lucky?


O im sorry youre machine over mine doesnt mean im highly skilled @ overclocking either ? Look @ my machine back then it was on of the highest overclocked computers back when it was all new.

I didnt say anything about you being lucky, or anything about youre 3dmark scores. Dont all defensive jackass. My 3000 is one of the first true newcasltes back then when they were actually disabled clawhammers, 2.6ghz was insaine back then for a newcastle. Not to mention my 6800GT, which i was one of the first people who wrote the guide's on how to flash and overvolte, unlock youre pipes and other stuff for 6800 series.

Dont judge me over my computer just because i dont have the money anymore to keep up with technoligy.

So before you bash me like you did go shove youre fist up youre mouth and shut up.

Did i mention i was one of the first people to reach 2ghz on the old palaminos using air, i was one of the first people to overclock the 9700pro beyond a 440 core with air cooling. I know what im doing and iv been doing it for over 7 years. Like i said tho i dont have them oney nore the time anymore to buy all new stuff and play these games.

When said nore youre pc isnt as fast as his i thought u were trying to imply youre new pc for youre son the 3700 was as fast as his 3ghz FX-60, since i dont pay attention to 3dmark anymore i never knew you had a 3ghz X2 nre the top score in 06 as i dont really care i thought u were trying to compare youre sons pc against his.

[chew*]

Whoa dude this has nothing to do with your PC.........You said crash's would own mine............I beg to differ........and so would a few others here.......

I could care less about your PC....And this is what you typed just to remind you.....
Originally Posted by CandymanCan
Chew youre isnt as fast or faster then crashoverde's He has a fx 60 @ 3ghz and a x1900xt.
No mention of my sons.....

And this was what that comment you made was based on....
Quote:
Originally Posted by CrashOv3r1De
Nice rig Cant be faster than mine though


Nope but then again that's what my rig is for and yes its as fast or faster

/\ no mention of my sons again........

[Cpt Twitchy]

It is much faster then my pc is. Much faster. I need a job

Barton at 2200mhz and dont ask about gfx :p:

[manomanx2]

Whoa Candy buddy, you started these wild shenanigans. Is that spelled right? Shenanigans. It's an awesome word.

Anyway, once I build my new comp... it... it'll still be worse. Aha, how depressing.

[flashnc]

lol chew....

man my son, like yours, gets all the hand me downs.
we are close......
his rig.......

MSI Platinum..sli.
X64 4000+@ 2.9
ATI x850XTPE oc'd
2x36 raptors raid-o-
TT V1000 full tower
TT500W ATX 12v 2.0
dual layer dvd burner
water cooled cpu and gpu !!! he eh he

he will be getting this MSI Diamond+ with the x1800xl card inna couple weeks, im waiting for the new sapphire PI to come out again to go with my x2 4400 @ 2.8 and a new x1900xt or xtx depends if prices change any......oh yea..he is 12

and im an ol fart too...lol i remember when remote comtrol was..telling your kid to get up and change the channel to the "other" one or 2 channels you could get !!!!
filling up a 66 chrysler new yorker took about 3 dollars for gas.
T-bone Steaks were 59cents a pound.
i had one of the first ever production slot car race sets, about 1961...it was a stromberg 1:24 scale.
and having a bycycle ment you were one of the coolest kids on the block..............

[Starscream]

@chew*
ur looking for a 2nd kid?
im 23 but if i shave i can pass for a tall 12 year old :D
i can tie my own shoes also :D

man when i was 10 NES 0wned.
back then Mario was stil cool no one ever heard of Osama and noone wondered about Ernie and Bert living together and stuff.

[mnewxcv]

when i was 10 i ran a pentium1 233mhz with mmx technology, 32mb ram, 6gig hdd.

[chew*]

heh i rememeber when pentium didnt exist.....Ithink it was APPLE or IBM...he windows wasn't even conceived yet.....

[CandymanCan]

No i was talking about his and youre sons i just misinterpreted.

Also took youre "vast overclocking knowledge" comment as a offense i took it as you were trying to say basicly im nothing. At least thats the way i see things.

[dogsx2]

When I was a few years older then your son, this is what took place:

Doug Engelbart invents the mouse.
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/2415/firstmouse9mm.th.gif (http://img141.imageshack.us/my.php?image=firstmouse9mm.gif)

[chew*]

HAHA /\ Sweet :)

[chew*]

No i was talking about his and youre sons i just misinterpreted.

Also took youre "vast overclocking knowledge" comment as a offense i took it as you were trying to say basicly im nothing. At least thats the way i see things.

Nah i meant I have a little more knowledge and experience over crash :) + some extra help on the ATI side of things.

[dogsx2]

No i was talking about his and youre sons i just misinterpreted.

Also took youre "vast overclocking knowledge" comment as a offense i took it as you were trying to say basicly im nothing. At least thats the way i see things.

I don't think Chew was putting you down. You just misunderstood. Shake hands and be friendly.:D

[ex2cib]

Results :). Didnt't run 06 as its dual core biased but here's 03 and 05. this is stock settings on card stock bios.

http://members.cox.net/wmdieselmc26/10yearold03.jpg
http://members.cox.net/wmdieselmc26/10yearold05.jpg


so is that screenshots of you playing FEAR, or your 10 year old playing FEAR;) .

[Enjoicube]

hehe, this is pitiful, my PC absolutely sucks compared to your 10 year old son's. when I was ten (even 14 for that matter) I was using a k6-2 300, and that was 2004 LOL. needless to sy, the comp had AWESOME integrated 2 MB rage Theatre pro gfx

[nn_step]

YOur child is spoiled rotten.. I had to earn my first computer.. Spent Six months on a paper route to save up enough...

[003]

So did he get this PC with parts you no longer used, or did you just buy it for him? Thats one spoiled (no offense :P) 10 year old if you just went and bought that for him!

[Major]

Chew* did you know what you were getting into when you started this thread ? :D

[eva2000]

LOL i didn't even touch my first computer until first yr uni in 1995 when i was 18yrs old and that was a 486SX/33 with 12mb ram and 340mb hdd Acentia 810N notebook - now as you can see making up for lost time :D LOL

[nn_step]

Things like this make me think Chew Should have named his kid Lucky son of a B*tch

[Cpt Twitchy]

Too add to the list of what I had when I was ten. A family pIII 450 with i think 384 megs of ram. My bro built a rig around that time which would have been a tbred, sorry for lack of details but tahts because I'm only into pc's 1.5yrs.

[Enjoicube]

yes, this is sort of sad. I worked HARD for my BUDGET comp, I scrubbed toilets, babysat (kids can be hard) , and cleaned Refrigerators (one of the worst jobs). and for all this working (2 years of doing these jobs) i still had to borrow money to get a
$580 comp.

[chew*]

Chew* did you know what you were getting into when you started this thread ? :D

Nope......... shoulda known but not enough coffee. Prolly cuz i spit it out when i realized how much his cost.......

And no i did not originally buy this for him....he gets all my past OC'ed stuff..... Most people here know i was using this stuff in my own rigs......He was on a socket 754 system that was a handme down for awhile. and before that when i rocked 754 he was still on AXP socket 462 tbred and so on.... Just I recently upgraded alot. didnt forsee the x1900 coming out 3 weeks after i bought x1800....Had bought an x1800 xl as well.......No one bought the x1800xt in the sale thread so i sold the x1800xl and he lucked out.

Yes thats FEAR that he was playing that i screen shot. He plays RTCW/FEAR/BF2/COD etc......

[nn_step]

THat kid needs to learn the meaning of Earning his first build..
Make him wash dishes for a year

[eva2000]

how can you get over 9000 05' marks! with my 7800GTX oc'd to like 500/1300 and my 3200+ oc'd to 2.4GHz i barely went over 9000! what gives. i also have the exact same ram!
guess you're not trying hard enough :)

Single BGF 7800GTX stock heatsink with HeavyH20 rev4 bios @564/1410

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1452613

http://www.fileshosts.com/DFI/NF4_SLI_D/results/Opteron146/CAB2E_0540FPMW_1/Hydrocool200/OCZ/PC4000EB/2_1/704_2BTA/LDT3x/10x/166/313-260-3325-7-14-2223_1.59-1.4-1.6-2.66_1552_dsN4dds1_8N5_16clk_16x7x/3dmark_noSLI/3dmark05_564-1409_9644_tn.jpg

512MB HIS X1800XT with Acetal Maze4 waterblock
@816/981

3dmark05 @816/981 = 12,001
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1698234

http://www.fileshosts.com/DFI/NF4_SLI_D/results/Opteron170/CCWBE_0546XPMW/Gskill/PC4400LE/2x512/799_800/1114_3/10x/295-295-2.5336-8-22-2223_1.65-1.5-1.6-2.9_3684_ds8dds2_8N55/X1800XT_Maze4/3dmark05_816-981_12001_tnn.jpg (http://www.fileshosts.com/DFI/NF4_SLI_D/results/Opteron170/CCWBE_0546XPMW/Gskill/PC4400LE/2x512/799_800/1114_3/10x/295-295-2.5336-8-22-2223_1.65-1.5-1.6-2.9_3684_ds8dds2_8N55/X1800XT_Maze4/3dmark05_816-981_12001.jpg)

[heater918]

At 10 flubber was the most high tech thing around.
1/2 of the school day was practicing duck & cover, but we did learn how close Cuba was not in miles but impact time.

[bullet2urbrain]

your sons PC is not as fast as mine... but its an amazing system for a 10yr old....

when i was ten... lets see that was 5th grade... so i was into soccer,and we just got our first computer.. a Toshiba Desktop P133 that never worked right a day in its life...

now im 4 days from being 20 and have a 2500 dollar computer... jeez what a waste.

[Reinvented]

your sons PC is not as fast as mine... but its an amazing system for a 10yr old....

when i was ten... lets see that was 5th grade... so i was into soccer,and we just got our first computer.. a Toshiba Desktop P133 that never worked right a day in its life...

now im 4 days from being 20 and have a 2500 dollar computer... jeez what a waste.

Yeah, how technology has changed. When I was 10, I had a Packard Bell 300 mhz which was used to play Red Alert, and very little Microsoft Word.

I have no idea how much my computer is. Most of it was cheap as hell. I don't find it as a waste at all though.

[nn_step]

My first computer was a commodore 64 which I bought for my own damn self...

[zentrad]

Ck,ck,ck...when i was 10 my parent ONLY buy me a Sciencetific Calculator (which can be considered as computer?) for school purpose
When at 13 i bought my own PS after draining 3 years hard to earn saving...
get first PC when i am at second years at the university, a damn slow P4 williamate...

That child of yours are lucky...BTW happy chinese new years

[radcruiser]

Dang, if I remember correctly there weren't any computers when I was 10 at least that the average family could buy, when I was 20 my parents bought a 286dx or something like that. That was over $3200.00 back then Packard Hell!!

[Detract]

Need to read the titles better. I thought this thread was about your 10 year old PC being faster than those today. That 's' on the end makes a huge difference.

When I was 10, my father purchased an IBM for $2500. We had nothing but trouble from it, would randomnly turn itself on.

[Enjoicube]

yeah, now I finally got a legit job, but I finally learned the value of money and am afraid to spend any of it. I dream about getting an X2 someday (that might be in 5 months). Right now I deposit all of the 160 buck I earn in a 1) CD account 2)20 bucks for fun

[palehorse]

I bought a Franklin back in..................1985? :shrug: got the upgrade to a 20mb HD, I think I paid around $2600 total for it.

It was an Apple clone to answer your question.
we have a winner! Apple IIc to be exact... my first "upgrade" was to a Franklin Ace 2200 which was AWESOME since it was Apple IIe compatible instead! lol...

"Larry bird vs. dr. J basketball" 4tehwin!

I was also kickin it with an Atari 2600 and an Odyssey gaming system! lol..

[OmegaMerc]

At 10 flubber was the most high tech thing around.
1/2 of the school day was practicing duck & cover, but we did learn how close Cuba was not in miles but impact time.


oh boy heh, i remember duck n cover, and going into the hallways and putting yourself against the wall LOL. They would tell us it was to help the building out and have order in the hallways. Crackpots. I also remember watching the coldwar on CNN tv,and not understanding ANYTHING of it, which is wierd because I was born in 1984 yet I still have memories of way back then.

[jpharg]

It crushes mine and I've got 20 years on him :p:

[ex2cib]

nn step, we get the picture, you had to work very very hard for your computer and should be proud of the fact you did. some parents like to give their kids new toys...i just wish my parents were like that.

and my 1st computer was when i was maybe 5 or 6, blazing intel 486, had DOOM 2 on it...you can probably run doom 2 on cell phones now,lol

[nn_step]

nn step, we get the picture, you had to work very very hard for your computer and should be proud of the fact you did. some parents like to give their kids new toys...i just wish my parents were like that.

and my 1st computer was when i was maybe 5 or 6, blazing intel 486, had DOOM 2 on it...you can probably run doom 2 on cell phones now,lol
Actually I know you can play it on the Ti-83 plus calculators :p:

[Carlz0r]

Damn I wish my parents would buy me something like that. They feel that since I have a part time job (well, supposed to be part time but 40+ hours a week) I should buy everything myself (should have seen the look on their face when my 148 arrived ["YOU SPENT $350 ON WHAT?!?!"]) :p: Looking for another son? I'm only 15 and I work hard :D

[Blacklash]

Your son has a great rig and I know he loves it.

I am working on getting my graphics card up to 750 or so on the core. I need to up the voltage a tad. Right now 700|850 with the rig in my sig gives me 12,692 in 3dmark05. Not the best score out there and certainly not the worst.

6.2 driver, and card 702|850.

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/7421/62067pb.jpg

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1136/6205a4lw.png

EDIT: they finally let me publish my 06 and 05 score:

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=118362

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1792016

[Daytime Dreamer]

When I was 10 I had a spectrum 48K and waited 10 to 15 minutes just for the game to load ... talk about loading times ... :p:

[Newbie_User]

Very nice....

Will have a baby soon.....

Age of 9
First rig was Amstrad (386 SX CPU @ 20 Mhz...120 Mo HDD...Floppy..we had talking parrot on it plus INCA.....was nice with a game pad......rig was almost silent if i remenber....)
Then Pentium Pro 200 (No MMX) + Matrox Millenium...Then 3Dfx Voodoo 3 :)

Then Ce socket 370 + Titan heatspreader....ATI Rage CG

Then Athlon 2000+ + 512 RAM :) + Matrox G550 (3D stinks !)

Then P4 C 2.8 HT (1 Go Dual Low Lat) Geforce FX 5200 64 bits :( + 80 Go HDD.

So by the age of 20, i had the first rig i have ever wanted.
A gaming rig...:)

Damned prices for 3D cards...almost half of the price....:eek:

Well, your son is lucky........

Take care

[GMX]

YOur child is spoiled rotten.. I had to earn my first computer.. Spent Six months on a paper route to save up enough...


You act like a 10 year old In fact, from short review, i can probably guess 2700 posts are full of crap/lies/childish :banana::banana::banana::banana:

If you feel jealous, don't reply. okay?

You have no idea what i went through to save up. And I'm 99% sure alot of people went through tough regulations to save up at young age. All my classmates were spoilt snobs, i went to a school in a rich area(the school was cheap though) and they had EVERYTHING you could ever want.
How do you think i felt as a migrant with nothing, with rich (i have to add, most of them are very friendly) people around me.

My lunch money went straight into my drawer without letting my parents know. I EARNT another bunch of funds. I saved eventually $700AUD, Invested that in stocks and made another $750AUD(lucky telecommunications boom).

Finally in 2001 i bought an AXP 1600 with a GF2 MX400, 768mb sd 133, 20gb hdd, SB Live. Oh and to cut down further... i used my dads 15" crt from 1997. He replaced his with a 19" flat screen which cost about $500AUD at the time.
before that we had a hand down 386 since 1994, and my dad got his own K6 in 1997

Before you complain, shut your mouth and think about others. Who knows, maybe Chew went through a tough time himself, and doesn't want his son to feel the same way?


Chew, nice of you to make that PC for your son! I'm sure his happy! Certainly beats mine, I'm on a 6200TC!

[Pinnacle]

You act like a 10 year old In fact, from short review, i can probably guess 2700 posts are full of crap/lies/childish :banana::banana::banana::banana:

If you feel jealous, don't reply. okay?

You have no idea what i went through to save up. And I'm 99% sure alot of people went through tough regulations to save up at young age. All my classmates were spoilt snobs, i went to a school in a rich area(the school was cheap though) and they had EVERYTHING you could ever want.
How do you think i felt as a migrant with nothing, with rich (i have to add, most of them are very friendly) people around me.

My lunch money went straight into my drawer without letting my parents know. I EARNT another bunch of funds. I saved eventually $700AUD, Invested that in stocks and made another $750AUD(lucky telecommunications boom).

Finally in 2001 i bought an AXP 1600 with a GF2 MX400, 768mb sd 133, 20gb hdd, SB Live. Oh and to cut down further... i used my dads 15" crt from 1997. He replaced his with a 19" flat screen which cost about $500AUD at the time.
before that we had a hand down 386 since 1994, and my dad got his own K6 in 1997

Before you complain, shut your mouth and think about others. Who knows, maybe Chew went through a tough time himself, and doesn't want his son to feel the same way?


Chew, nice of you to make that PC for your son! I'm sure his happy! Certainly beats mine, I'm on a 6200TC!


OOOHHHH, catfight!

:D

[chew*]

Heh actually i was raised on welfare and ate mac and cheese everynight for about 7 years while my moms smoked crack with the rest of the welfare check.......when i was 16 i worked for a traveling carnival setting up and running rides under the table..Made $600 a week for back breaking work..paid moms bills etc etc...Finally i moved out and am now a father of 2 and a diesel mechanic making $17.50 an hour...Goes to show you have no clue what type of person is at the other end of the internet...... BTW I came from the ghetto and to this day still live there.....at least the people aren't artificial. And yes i wanted better for my son then i had......

[Mauri Antero]

nice rig your son got, my son just got my old fx-53 , msi neo2, 1gb twinmoss bh5 utt and ati x800pro@xt. Soon time to upgrade some parts, mobo and vid card fist, maybe also 2x 1Gb memory combs too.

[dogsx2]

oh boy heh,. Crackpots. I also remember watching the coldwar on CNN tv,and not understanding ANYTHING of it, which is wierd because I was born in 1984 yet I still have memories of way back then.

1984 wasn't that long ago, way back then??

[Kasparz]

When i was 10, i was soooo happy, to SEE Norton Comander.
My first PC was in 14 years (Duron 700Mhz), lol, killed fast.

[physics_geek]

I was born back in 1926, and the first ever computer I have used was the Eniac. Your topic bring back memories.:D

[Newbie_User]

Gotta hold my tongue.....

To Chew* : I guess you're far more happy now.....from what you were living as a child...
Gotta do the same way for my kids....
Love and care are what they need.....freedom and training are what we should help them to practise on.....;)

Funny, worked as a worker, bodywork, ;) We made a prototype of the Gillet Vertigo...carbon chassis.....well, our teacher ("master" :) did the repair on it.....
Was back in school.....entering French Police now.....
Family blood....can't help that....fair and strong.....:D
Will probably be on unit who'll take care of those....drugs....how to prevent...those stuff....some work to do......:(

To physics_geek : You worked on ENIAC ? NICE :eek:
Have you read Cryptonomicon? from stephenson??

It's kind'of a punk'version of Asimov.....a bit messy ....the autor seems likes he is under acid.....on its way to write..

[physics_geek]

To physics_geek : You worked on ENIAC ? NICE :eek:
Have you read Cryptonomicon? from stephenson??

It's kind'of a punk'version of Asimov.....a bit messy ....the autor seems likes he is under acid.....on its way to write..
I was kidding, but I do have OLD comps.

[DFI pit bull]

When I was 10 I had a Sinclair ZX81 no colour/sound and 1k mem OOOOOHHHHH yeh baby!!!!

[perry_78]

I guess even though we had nothing at home, my "experience" with my grandfathers commodore64 from the early age of 3 is something good :D

[MightyOne]

At 10 I believe I had already gotten my Atari 520ST (hand-me-down from my dad), and a little later I got my first HDD - 20MB!!!

And it's not a bad system, the crash animation in Sublogic's Flight Simulator II was the same breaking windscreen Microsoft still used in FS 95 ... ;)

Oldest computer I've seen working was a Zuse Z3 replica (first built in 1941, replica made after WW2 - the original was destroyed). The demonstration was quite funny, as it calculated 32 + 32 = 65 ... the Siemens technician who maintains it said it was because of the high relative humidity in the museum, the contacts didn't separate properly.

[Diverge]

My first PC was a Commedore 64.. lol.. not sure what my age was at the time... around 10 I suppose (but it wasn't purchased new). I even bought this cool piece of hardware for the diskdrive that sandwhiched between a certain IC and had a ribbon cable that ran somewhere else - it let me copy copy-protected games. Renting games and copying them was fun. Then came the evolution of manual-lookups, and code-wheels... nothing the photocopy machine couldn't handle :)

My first IBM type PC was a Tandy 486sx 25mhz... what a waste of money that was. Since then I've always bought my own PC parts and built my own PC's.

[chinkgai]

when i was 10 i come to america with no engrish


but today, my rig pwns joo and ur son's!!! ;)

[bullet2urbrain]

But this is what i came across in an army surplus store about 30 minutes from campus.

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/1966/canofilealpha2fi.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[josanai]

Nice rig going to your son. In a few months when I upgrade to AM2 and whatever the high end cards are when it is released, my 4 year old daughter most likely will be getting the lowest of my 5 computers which is:

ASRock Dual SataII
Opteron 144
VisionTek x800
2GB Memory
250 GB HD
16x Dual Layer DVD Burner
FSP 400 Watt PSU

It should be enough to handle her preschool programs.

[chew*]

Nice rig going to your son. In a few months when I upgrade to AM2 and whatever the high end cards are when it is released, my 4 year old daughter most likely will be getting the lowest of my 5 computers which is:

ASRock Dual SataII
Opteron 144
VisionTek x800
2GB Memory
250 GB HD
16x Dual Layer DVD Burner
FSP 400 Watt PSU

It should be enough to handle her preschool programs.

I dunno, Fun with spongebob program I hear is tougher to run than 3d06 :)

[josanai]

I dunno, Fun with spongebob program I hear is tougher to run than 3d06 :)

Yeah, I think you're right. I should probably give her the GTX SLi setup or the Crossfire setup at that time. The Spongebob program is almost as tough as 3D06, it's the Dora and Barbie programs that are tougher to run than 3D06.

[nn_step]

Yeah, I think you're right. I should probably give her the GTX SLi setup or the Crossfire setup at that time. The Spongebob program is almost as tough as 3D06, it's the Dora and Barbie programs that are tougher to run than 3D06.
she if going to need Crossfired X1900Xts if she wants to play those uber games :p: perhaps an FX-60 ontop of that with 4GB of ram

[Vapor]

Don't those games *not* use GPUs for compatibility reasons?

[chew*]

Don't those games *not* use GPUs for compatibility reasons?

yah we just goofing vapor......

[chew*]

she if going to need Crossfired X1900Xts if she wants to play those uber games :p: perhaps an FX-60 ontop of that with 4GB of ram

Not only that but playing barbi is like running the cpu tests in 06.....your going to most likely need an ageia card when it becomes available.

[nn_step]

Not only that but playing barbi is like running the cpu tests in 06.....your going to most likely need an ageia card when it becomes available.
it is probably so Physics intensive making sure Barbie's tits are realistic that you probably need atleast 2 or 3 of these Ageia Physics cards to make them shake right when she runs around town..:p:

[chew*]

it is probably so Physics intensive making sure Barbie's tits are realistic that you probably need atleast 2 or 3 of these Ageia Physics cards to make them shake right when she runs around town..:p:

LMFAO:banana:

[nn_step]

Which reminds me you guys are going to love the Reaper Mod's newiest Add-on
Barbie... two words "Boing Boing"

[girth_maul]

BBC B -> 286 -> 386 -> 486 from about aged 7 to 12. Dad was a programmer so always had computers baging around. I still remember the transition from cga to vga now lol!

[dinos22]

hmmm i was messing with Spectrum and Commodore64 when i was 10 heheheh.....damn these 10 year olds now......i used to wait for freaking 10 minutes for the game to load (on a perfect run of the tape in C64)....took me a while to get good at making those lines thin enough for it to load games :rolleyes: :D