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[Guest]

Not true. When I was running my system on 64mb of RAM, it would blue screen on me all the time and tell me there wasn't enough memory. I'd added a second hard drive and a cd rw to mu system, and once I installed another 64 mb, it hummed along nicely. And before you comment, I did regular maintenence on it.

Word perfect.

OK, first of all, Draco may have my pasasword and such, but he doesn't post under my name.

Second of all, just because I have a vision problem does NOT mean I can't perform these tasks myself. My limited vision does not hamper me in learning or in my ability to add things inside my pc. I HAVE added a slave hdd, put in a couple different cd roms, a cd rw, more RAM. I've also moved around various cards in my pc. Yes, this was done with help from Draco over the phone, but the only person to PHYSICALLY be inside my pc has been ME. Yeah, me, with my limitesdd vision.

Just so ya know, legally blind doesn't mean TOTALLY blind. Get it straight.

My point proved exactly. No poke at you SweetCherry but it you have a style all of your own when you post. The first one was Draco was it not? Their were no errors at all. This (as above) is your own hence the spelling mistakes.
You are an intelligent woman. I know that. I am just establishing the facts.

 

[Draco]

Unregisturd, you ANAL retentive FUCKTARD.

She just answered your mis-judged and WAY OUT OF LINE call and you still call her AND ME a liar. We know you are a regular, not many here know of SC visual disability. I dare you to come out and publicly name yourself and clear our names. You owe SweetCherry a rather large apology.

 

[SweetCherry]

My point proved exactly. No poke at you SweetCherry but it you have a style all of your own when you post. The first one was Draco was it not? Their were no errors at all. This (as above) is your own hence the spelling mistakes.
You are an intelligent woman. I know that. I am just establishing the facts.

Wel, my spelling errors come out more when I'm pissed. I do not fight Draco's battles. I do know a thing or 2 about pc's. The first post WAS mine. I made my comment after scanning thru and seeing something I disagreed with. My style differs with my moods. I have a serious mode and a flirting mode. I also have a pissed off mode that I don't seldom show. If you'd been paying attention, you'd have noticed that Draco and I were both on at that time. Pretty hard for him to post under my name when he's in his own.

I'm pretty well pissed over these implications. I said nothing about his remark. I made my own point over something he hadn't even covered. My idea was on RAM, not the AMD/Intel controversy. I know which I like and due to this I'll keep it to myself.

Next time, think about what you say before bringing something like someone's disability into such a light. It's not something I need to be reminded of in the one plcae I like to try and forget about it. And have the courage to do so under your registered name. Then I can correct you in pm, rather than public forum.

Oh yes, and so you know, there WAS an error in the first post. Look closely and you'll notice that I had a typo of "mu" instead of "my".

It's in your quote, so there's no way you can try to pin that as an edit to put up false evidance.

 

[Guest]

Re: YOU GUTLESS SLIME FILLED MOTHERFUCKER

AND I'D WATCH YOUR MOUTH, THAT HAPPENS TO BE THE WOMEN I INTEND TO MARRY.

Stop beating your chest. We all have got the point. She is YOUR woman.

 

[Draco]

Easy way to sort this mess out, we ask the Moderator fro the server logs, they'll show each posters IP address, that will clarify once and for all where each post come from.

Get your facts straight before you start throwing accusations around that you have no hope of backing up with facts.

Until you name yourself, you will be referred to as ASSHOLE # 1

 

[Draco]

Re: Re: YOU GUTLESS SLIME FILLED MOTHERFUCKER

Stop beating your chest. We all have got the point. She is YOUR woman.

Look, this is getting us no-where, you obviously have a problem or a strong dislike for Me. PM me and we can sort this thing like civilised adults. I dont like people who take 'ill-informed' potshots
at SweetCherry, she has already posted that it was her. Now send her a PM and apologize. Thats all I ask of you. I dont care if you dont send one my way, I'm not looking for that. But you OWE her one fro calling her a LIAR. And making fun of her visual disability is just sick. Very un-called for. She hasn't done anything to you, so why the swipe at her. Very nasty.

 

[Guest]

SweetCherry, I publicly apologise if you think I was, in any way, making fun of your visual disability. It was unintentional. I think you are are a very nice lady.

 

[SweetCherry]

SweetCherry, I publicly apologise if you think I was, in any way, making fun of your visual disability. It was unintentional. I think you are are a very nice lady.

As I said in my thread, apology accepted. Just don't accuse without real proof.

 

[Draco]

Ok, Unregstered, thank you for the apology.
End of matter now.

 

[BlkPnthr]

Re: Heres the Comparison I promised

AMD XP1800+ & XP1900+ run at 1553mhz and 1600mhz respectively.
Intel P4 2Ghz runs at 2000mhz and P4 2.2ghz runs at 2200mhz. This article is scanned from the February 2002 issue of Australian Personal Computer www.apcmag.com.

They used 3D Mark 2001, Z-D Winstone 2001 and Quake 3 as the benchmarks.

Gee, that's funny......looks to me like Intel beat all the others on every benchmark. As for your "qualifications and certifications", I am not gonna bother commenting on it. You've shown great immaturity in your failed attempts to slander me. I won't stoop to that level.

 

[BlkPnthr]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Now I know you're full of it!

I have read the whole thread.
Particularly the ccomments on Amd/INTEL
"That depends on her operating system. If it's Windows 98, 64 megs is plenty to run them all. Unless she's has an AMD processor.....in which case I'd go buy a new motherboard and processor chip....Intel is pretty good. I run a P4 1.5 Ghz with 384 Megs of RAM, 40 Gig HD, 32 meg video card, and a whole lot of other goodies, but then this computer wasn't meant for just posting on a board. It's mainly used for gaming. "

From what I glean his computer is used mainly for gaming hence the AMD CPU which is more suitable.

Perhaps one could have astutely offered your obvious skills and experience balancing this discussion instead of making it heated?

AMD's are all good and well for regular use, but again....you get what you pay for. Intel costs a bit more, but if you enjoy games, it's the better of the two. And even the benchmarks proved it.

 

[Unclebill]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Now I know you're full of it!

Originally posted by BlkPnthr
AMD's are all good and well for regular use, but again....you get what you pay for. Intel costs a bit more, but if you enjoy games, it's the better of the two. And even the benchmarks proved it.

The fact is, the AMD chips will run anything the Intel chips do. The AMD chips are cheaper, hence more bang for the buck. And I seem to recall earlier that someone said, AMD is a better buy, i. e., better perfomance for the money; not that it is necesarily outperforming the Intel chips.

But there was a point where a main board designed for the AMD Athlon with a 200 MHz bus would blow away the Intel (and any other) competition. I think that Intel design has now nullified that AMD advantage, however.

Years back, Intel had a significant edge on other chip makers in that they had a proprietary design for the FPU. Intel definitely had the fastest FPU going and that was their big edge in speed.

Then AMD purchased a company (National Semiconductor, I believe) and since this outfit had engineered the FPU for Intel, AMD then became the owner of that FPU design. After a brief court tussle with Intel, AMD won their case to use the technology they now owned in their own chips.

Hence, Intel's edge slipped away. And since AMD chips are manufactured for the same instruction set as are Intel's (license agreement predating the Pentium and maybe even the 80386), their chips run the same software as does Intel's.

And the main board (or motherboard) can be as influential as the CPU in determining the speed of a computer. From personal experience, I saw a difference between a 200 MHz MMX and a 233 MHz MMX that was probably a 50% increase in performance just by using a different main board only; no other changes. But looking at the clock speed alone, the expected improvement in performance should have been about 16% or so, hardly noticeable.

 

[Draco]

Slander You..??

Gee, that's funny......looks to me like Intel beat all the others on every benchmark. As for your "qualifications and certifications", I am not gonna bother commenting on it. You've shown great immaturity in your failed attempts to slander me. I won't stoop to that level.

Panther, no-one is trying to slander you.
The bench marks prove that the AMD processors can foot it with the Intel, and each run at a SLOWER clock rate. An XP1800+ runs at a clock rate of 1553mhz, and it is comparable in performance to the P4 @ 2.0ghz, while being HALF the price. As Uncle Bill stated, more bang for your buck. The money left over from the purchase of the AMD could go into more accesories for your system, instead of Mr Intels back pocket.
I sense from your earlier post that you dont recommend AMD's (quote: I'd advise you buy a new CPU and motherboard). To each their own, I guess. I wasn't trying to slander you or come off as a smartass. I was just pointing out that the AMD's are comparable to anything Intel have produced yet, and that will continue for some time.
The reason I post my credentials is easy. I have undergone the training and have the qualifications to back my post.
If you took that the wrong way, thats not entirely my fault.
Thers no need to get all defensive. There are millions of PC technicians on the web and probably more than a few here at LIT. Theres no need to knock them down, many people have studied hard to get those qualifications. I dont see the sense in putting them down.
I give my knowledge freely and ungrudgly, service with a smile.
I dont judge them as newbies or retards because they dont know as much as I do.

 

[BlkPnthr]

You know Draco, you'll get a lot better of a response from me saying things that way I will agree AMD gives Intel a run for it's money, but as a whole and this may be just personal experience, I find Intel more stable, compatible and reliable. Again....this may just be my experiences. Kind of like Ford vs Chev I guess.

 

[Draco]

Hi, personal experience and likes/dislikes is a good thing.
What a boring world it would be with out them, can you imagine if everyone drove a Ford taurus and used a pentium 233MMX to compute on? OMG Please no..!!

I'm running a Thunderbird 1330 on a DFI AK72-SN Mother board with 512 megs of SDRam , 64 meg GeForce2 MX400, 20GB Seagate ATA-100 HDD, with Win 98 and 2000 in dual boot mode. No stabilty issues at all, apart from the occasion piece of poorly written software code. I have NO programming experience (dont even wanna got there.)

Nice to touch base with you at last. If my earlier posts came off as arrogant, I meant no offence.

 

[BlkPnthr]

Hi, personal experience and likes/dislikes is a good thing.
What a boring world it would be with out them, can you imagine if everyone drove a Ford taurus and used a pentium 233MMX to compute on? OMG Please no..!!

I'm running a Thunderbird 1330 on a DFI AK72-SN Mother board with 512 megs of SDRam , 64 meg GeForce2 MX400, 20GB Seagate ATA-100 HDD, with Win 98 and 2000 in dual boot mode. No stabilty issues at all, apart from the occasion piece of poorly written software code. I have NO programming experience (dont even wanna got there.)

Nice to touch base with you at last. If my earlier posts came off as arrogant, I meant no offence.

No worries....water under the bridge man.
I am running a P4 1.5 Ghz on an Asus P4B motherboard with 384 Megs of of SDRam, 32 meg TNT 2 Nvidia pro, 40 GIG Matrox 5400 RPM HD, 8X, 16X, 32X RW-CD ROM, running Windows XP and it's never crashed on me once. I'll admit to a love of Intel though

My programming experience is limited at best, but I know hardware really well, and can troubleshoot both hardware and software

 

[Honeygirl]

Can Someone Answer / Help Me?

Help!
Lately, I've been getting a lot of error messages - such as `The connection with your server has been reset' -(then nice blank screen!) - or more puzzling...`you have performed an illegal operation'...bloody hell!

A): What does this mean? (And please don't reply `because you have performed an illegal operation'...because I haven't - honest!).

B): Any way that I can get rid of these pesky messages?

The computer also tends to `freeze' every now and then - and I suspect that I'm being booted off the server.

Any offers of help gratefully received.

As a side note, yesterday - I `defragged' my computer - and this took about two hours...which I take means that there was plenty to purge out of the system.

 

[The Dipsomaniac]

i've got a question for whoever may be able to help...
A friend of mine brang his laptop around for me to look at... (i've got a reasonable puter knowledge - built and assembled many systems and played/tinkered on them for years...)
but his machine would come up with 'Windows cannot find command.com - the file is either missing or corrupted'.
No biggie i thought. Just overwrite it with a new copy of command.com. Nope, wouldnt work. This dam thing wouldnt even allow access into the hardrive to see what was there... tried using a boot disk to circumvent the prob on hard drive but it would not do anything but show this command.com file missing. No matter where or how you specified where it was it wouldnt find it...
Even thought - stuff it, maybe we could just run the install disk straight over the top (win98) got the machine to boot up, and hitting del(ete) or the F8 key you can go into some options on boot up... selected it to run install from cdrom, would start, then go back into, you guessed it... cannot find command.com.

Well i couldnt do much more... didnt have a lot of time to play/look. So he's gone off to see if anyone elese can help... But i am curious as to how i could have got around that prob.

Anyone who may be able to enlighten me????

DM
always curious.

 

[BigDawg69]

The simple fact of the matter is that mhz for mhz the AMD's benchmark faster. Put an AMD XP 1800+ (1600mhz) against a P4 1600mhz or even a P4 1800mhz and the AMD has and will out benchmark the Pentium anyday! The Northwood's .13micron allows it to benchmark faster than the AMD XP 2000+, but new AMD's with .13mircons will match and surpass the Intel Northwood chips especially with DDR333 and Via's KT333 chipset coming.

 

[Weird Harold]

...but his machine would come up with 'Windows cannot find command.com - the file is either missing or corrupted'.

This is one of Windows error messages that doesn't correctly report the error, I think. I've seen it caused by a hard-drive with bad spots in the FAT, and I've seen it caused by bad RAM in the first 64K addresses.

Your case sounds like a RAM problem.