Post your desktop/computer pics.

[zAAm]

Yup, it's the same in my class don't worry! At least my friends knew what I was talking about. But I'm really aceing programming on highest grade... Although my class are all grade 12's so they have a basic idea of pc architecture!! BASIC though!! Try it with MOSFET or CMOS... They'll never know what your'e saying! It's fun playing on someone else's incompetence.

 

[wtf8269]

At least you didn't say Central Processing Unit instead of CPU... or did you?

I just said processor, this is just a basic Microsoft Office class (I'm a freshman) and I needed to take that as a prerequisite(sp?) for any other computer class. Anyway there are a lot of hot girls/popular people and I didn't feel like making a complete smart@$$ of myself. Although I did go into great detail about my overclocking/overvolting and flashing my graphics card.

Yup, it's the same in my class don't worry! At least my friends knew what I was talking about. But I'm really aceing programming on highest grade... Although my class are all grade 12's so they have a basic idea of pc architecture!! BASIC though!! Try it with MOSFET or CMOS... They'll never know what your'e saying! It's fun playing on someone else's incompetence.

Haha I know what you mean. The kid that sits next to me when he first saw my computer instead of asking what kind of processor it has in it, he said "What kind of Pentium does that thing have?" He had a hard time understanding that there was something else out there besides Pentiums. Anyway, yeah moronic people are fun to mess around with. The only thing that sucks is that theres only a couple of other people in my grade that have similar knowledge as me. Both of which are my best friends. Which means, small LAN parties.

 

[zAAm]

There are only 2 people my age (both my friends) that know close to what I know about PC's... One of them actually convinced someone that he didn't know that you could change the wallpaper from the default XP background. It was hilarious to see this guy trying to explain it to my friend (who was being intentionally dumb)... But what the heck!

 

[wtf8269]

Ahahaha. I remember this one guy didn't know how to install a motherboard or processor or anything. I just made up a buncha BS like don't forget to lubricate your CPU before you put it in the socket.

 

[wazzledoozle]

Ahaha I'm in my computer class right now (EEEEEEEEEAAAAAASSSSSSYYYYY!!!!) I just presented a PowerPoint to the class with talking agents in it. It was all about my computer and it had pictures and stuff. They were all just like Lol, I even went so far as to say double data rate random access memory instead of DDR RAM.

Im a freshman in highschool, and I have to take a computer TYPING CLASS. Excel and word all daY!!! So boring. Its easy though, I jsut mess around all week and do all the work on fridays

Its really annoying how even our teacher doesnt udnerstand ANYTHING about computers. She calls the computers the CPU's, and when windows gets a BSOD or just freezes, she has gotten to think that that means the mouse is broken!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO

 

[djbbenn]

Ha, I have a class called exploring tech. The teacher doesn't care what you do. Its sweet.

-Dan

 

[Bugalaman]

these are quite old but here they are anyways:

thats my old crappy 17" viewsonic E70F, since then I've upgraded to a Samsung 730B LCD

damn its only my 2nd post (and lol, I haven't changed my sig since I bought my BFG6800GT over 6 months ago, hahaha)

 

[wazzledoozle]

Wow is that video card getting bent down by the ram slots?
Makes me thing twice about getting a long video card.

 

[djbbenn]

Ya it looks like it is...can't help the card any. My X800 just clears the ram slots by about 2mm.

-Dan

 

[nightelf84]

why is the 'Antec' and 'AMD Athlon' inside your case? Does it have a windowed side panel?

 

[zAAm]

thats my old crappy 17" viewsonic E70F, since then I've upgraded to a Samsung 730B LCD

Hey don't say that! There are people here that actually have the same monitor eh!
Hehe, but my E70f is still good enough for me at the moment thanks...

 

[JALOOS]

looks like MSI had a good thought moving the ram on the mobo. Won't get in the way of the longer cards. Now if the nf3 chipset was moved it would be better.

 

[Rule-R]

U can make ppl believe anything, i once told some person in some gaming lobby that i was @ the CIA main terminal or something similar. and that i could host up to 200 persons on server. ANd he took it for real, afterwards i told it wasnt true, but he thought i was kicked in the arse by my "boss" and wasnt making a joke. Thats what i call: ppl believe anything!

 

[nightelf84]

U can make ppl believe anything, i once told some person in some gaming lobby that i was @ the CIA main terminal or something similar. and that i could host up to 200 persons on server. ANd he took it for real, afterwards i told it wasnt true, but he thought i was kicked in the arse by my "boss" and wasnt making a joke. Thats what i call: ppl believe anything!

huh?

 

[wtf8269]

Im a freshman in highschool, and I have to take a computer TYPING CLASS. Excel and word all daY!!! So boring. Its easy though, I jsut mess around all week and do all the work on fridays

Its really annoying how even our teacher doesnt udnerstand ANYTHING about computers. She calls the computers the CPU's, and when windows gets a BSOD or just freezes, she has gotten to think that that means the mouse is broken!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO

Ahaha that sucks. My teacher knows a good ammount about software. Mainly just Office though. I respected her at first but by about halfway through the year I found out I knew more than her. So eh, atleast she knows software. She's clueless about hardware though.

I can't wait til Junior year. Computer Tech 1, A+ Certification here I come!!!

 

[Morlak]

I never did A+. It wasn't around when I was in school (neither were PCs), or even when I worked on PCs. By the time that cert came out, I had been doing network related work, and started doing Cisco certs instead. I even droped my CNE cert to concentrate on Network certs. I work for Cisco now and do system testing on the BTS10200 SoftSwitch. It's a class 5 voice switch that runs on Sun servers. Have you thought about what you want to do? I knew pretty much when I was 8 years old it would be something in electronics. Got a Amateur Radio licence in 1972 that got me interested in electronics, and that led me to computers, then to networks, and now Voice over IP

 

[zAAm]

Hehe. Strange... I've wanted to be a programmer for 8 years since I was 9 but now I'm going to study Financial Engineering. A bit off course?! And I don't think A+ will interest me though. I'm not into much software. I know alot about it, but I don't see the need to have a qualification in basic computing... I'm going to be programming in Java and also do maths in a similar way as an Actuary. But we'll see how it turns out...

Anyway, I've wanted to ask you guys, do you think a blue side fan would destroy my X logo on my PC?? Because that would pretty much then become ".X" or sumthin. Maybe I should keep with a black Stealth fan on the side and blue inside?? Any ideas?

PS. Included a pic in case (no pun intended ) you guys forgot how my case looked

 

[wtf8269]

Have you thought about what you want to do? I knew pretty much when I was 8 years old it would be something in electronics. Got a Amateur Radio licence in 1972 that got me interested in electronics, and that led me to computers, then to networks, and now Voice over IP

Something with computers for sure, for awhile I wanted to do something with cars (my other love), but I know a little more in the computer industry and it's booming right now so I figured computers would be the better way to go. I don't know specifically what I'd like to do, but I'm just going to take damn near every computer class my school offers and then see where it takes me. I'd like to work with hardware more than I would software. Dream computer job would probably be working at ATI designing/texting new cards.

Anyway, I've wanted to ask you guys, do you think a blue side fan would destroy my X logo on my PC?? Because that would pretty much then become ".X" or sumthin. Maybe I should keep with a black Stealth fan on the side and blue inside?? Any ideas?

PS. Included a pic in case (no pun intended ) you guys forgot how my case looked

Yeah, we should probably get back on topic lol. I vote a tornado fan + fan controller. It would still be black, and it would cool off your video card even more. However, if you do want an LED fan, a Tt LED Smart Fan would be a good choice as well. I think either would look good.

 

[zAAm]

Thanks... I think I'll probably get a black fan though. Might look better? Maybe a Thermoflow or a Tornado. Although I like the silent PC idea (which is why I built my own fan controller to switch between 7V and 12V for each fan) I've never left my fans running at 7V! Dunno why, maybe because my CPU fan makes so much noise anyway...

 

[wazzledoozle]

Ahaha that sucks. My teacher knows a good ammount about software. Mainly just Office though. I respected her at first but by about halfway through the year I found out I knew more than her. So eh, atleast she knows software. She's clueless about hardware though.

I can't wait til Junior year. Computer Tech 1, A+ Certification here I come!!!

Dont waste your time. Just get a good A+ book. Most of it you wont need to know for the test though. (Or so ive heard form numerous people)

 

[Morlak]

Hehe. Strange... I've wanted to be a programmer for 8 years since I was 9 but now I'm going to study Financial Engineering. A bit off course?! And I don't think A+ will interest me though. I'm not into much software. I know alot about it, but I don't see the need to have a qualification in basic computing... I'm going to be programming in Java and also do maths in a similar way as an Actuary. But we'll see how it turns out...

Anyway, I've wanted to ask you guys, do you think a blue side fan would destroy my X logo on my PC?? Because that would pretty much then become ".X" or sumthin. Maybe I should keep with a black Stealth fan on the side and blue inside?? Any ideas?

PS. Included a pic in case (no pun intended ) you guys forgot how my case looked

The A+ is for computer hardware. I did programming (C/C++, and Assembler) in graduate school, and didn't want to make a living doing that.

 

[wtf8269]

Dont waste your time. Just get a good A+ book. Most of it you wont need to know for the test though. (Or so ive heard form numerous people)

I'm just taking the class because it looks like fun. We get to build robots and then take them to competition. The A+ Certification is just a bonus.

 

[wtf8269]

Hey, Morlak, have you done any benches now that you've got your card back? I'll bet that sucker screams.

 

[djbbenn]

Just got some pics of mine. Friend brang his digital camera over. Got a new PSU on the way and hopefully a new mobo and cpu in the summer.

-Dan

 

[Morlak]

Hey, Morlak, have you done any benches now that you've got your card back? I'll bet that sucker screams.

I was bored and edited my sig, its fixed now to (soon). He has not even received the card yet, that will not happen until Monday according to Fedex. It means I wont have it back for about 2 weeks. Dont worry, I'll post pics of it and bench it soon after