The Official Budget-Conscious Dream Machine!

I rarred an 8GB file once to rematch it to a torrent I was seeding. It took AGES. I'd pay a substantial proportion of the cost of a Quad just to avoid the tedium of waiting hours for that.

 

What are you guys talking about. I winrar for fuN!

 

In the same way you live with a scabby old laptop for fun? heh

 

It's a pretty decent laptop...

 

As a gamer, I take offense to that statement...

 

lol ok

1.5Ghz Core 2 Duo
2GB of RAM
250GB HDD
15.4 inch screen, and it's a nice one too
Memory card readers, etc.

It cant play games, but it's decent with everything else. Especially since I took Vista off. Vista is good on newer systems, but Xp FTW on the older ones.

 

Linux for the lower end systems, or 98SE or OS lepord/tiger

 

Lol

Not Tiger. That's a mess.

 

I'd consider that a decently fast laptop. You should have no problems with it apart from games. And, in all honesty, it's not meant for games to begin with I bet that thing flies with XP.

No, admittedly, winRAR is the least of my concerns. But it'll be darn cool to see my quad unRAR a 12GB file in half the time

Either way, I think my E6750 is going to keep doing most of my torrent/unRAR related things. It's still fast enough for any games out there and is MORE than up to the task of handling a few RAR files and some folding@home. Though, I think the quad will see some folding as well XP

 

I use my laptop for torrenting. I figure it uses less energy?

 

Now that is true,

 

Savin the world... one torrent at a time.

 

When Praetor first started this thread back in July of 2004 he sent me a PM and prodded me into joining this thread (I didn't need a lot of prodding) although at the time I was working a One click Transcoder thread. Over time we began to get just a bit off topic although we were still discussing PC hardware, and then we would remind each other to keep the value of thread intact. The point was to create an archive of knowledge that would weather and even prove a resource over time. Most of the current discussions now however have little to do with piecing parts together to build a high powered budget rig. I suppose that having it remain active for the purpose of a general chatroom has its merits, but discussions of WinRAR and torrent downloads just seem out of place.

 

Bored Soph?

 

You're something else????

 

RARs are easier to fix if they are corrupted than the original file in many cases actually. If you store digital media, store it as RAR if you can.

 

I will post a budget build today, for the sake of sticking with the thread.

 

Missing Case Fans and Externals:

Good comp, with fast 4GB of memory, GTX 260, 1TB, Quad core, 750W, you get what you pay for.

 

Reasonable build, but I'd swap the GTX260 for an HD4870 any time. The 4870, apart from being faster than the GTX260 is free from pretty much all of ATI's past driver woes, I'm willing to bet that it's a more stable card as well.