Brent Posted January 1, 2005 Report Share Posted January 1, 2005 Hi guys. I'm Breepee, surfing the web since '94. And the first thing I did in 2k5 was register here IRL my name is Brent Huisman, I'm from the Netherlands, so my native thoung is Dutch, but I can read/write/speak English also, pretty well I guess. I can also read and understand a little German. I'm 17 summers young and one of my big hobbies is computing!I'm surfing the web using a brand new dual Xeon system, built by my own hands I'll give some specs:2x Xeon 2.4GHz @ 3.2GHz (16x200)Asus PCH-DL 1.02 with only 512MB memoryGeforce FX 5900 XT with Zalman passive coolinga grand total of 300GB storage spaceand I think that that was the most interesting part of my system.I think this covers the basics and the only thing I'd like to add is that 0AD WILL ROCK!!!!!!Can't wait for it to come out (especially for linux)! If I can help you guys in any way on the game, I'll be glad too. Maybe I could compile/render some stuff. I can't code, only html and a little php. I can hack though at n00b level (well, sorta. using hexeditors and reshackers ). So PH34R |\/|Y 1337 H4XX0R SK1LLZZZZZ!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dnas Posted January 1, 2005 Report Share Posted January 1, 2005 Welcome!Cool. You seem to be a computer person. (try visiting the computer desk.)"only" 512MB? I only have 256MB. (I have crap computers that came with their entire 40GB hard drives each filled with one partition for Windoze, so I need another hdd to install Linux on a decent computer. Just been playing with Knoppix and a full install on a 6 year old computer.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenratiophi Posted January 1, 2005 Report Share Posted January 1, 2005 Welcome to WFG! I am also on my home-built computer!@Dnas: Compared with the rest of his computer, 512MB is tiny. I wish I had a300GB HD. But I'm stuck with 60GB. Oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Tutankhamun Posted January 1, 2005 Report Share Posted January 1, 2005 I have 512 now, but am going to be building a new computer within hte next month or so. I plan to have 2gb ram, x850 Pro PCIe card, ect. Nice computer. How does that Dual Xeon work for playing games?Welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yiuel Posted January 1, 2005 Report Share Posted January 1, 2005 Welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brent Posted January 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2005 Thank you all!Dual CPU isn't really worth it if gaming is what you do. There are only few games which support multiple threads/cpu's so I don't have more frames per second than a P4 3200. The fun part is that during surfing, typing, gaming or whatever, I can perform the heaviest task without even noticing it. I'm an audiogeek so when converting my 100GB music library (just too see if I can gain 10 megabytes ) from FLAC to APE I don't even notice it And this is when my memory falls a little short, 512MB is a littlebit too little for multiple heavy apps like playing Half Life 2 and rendering a homevideo to DVD or something at the same time (HL2 alone needs 700MB or so, so that's some heavy swapping ).So I seek to upgrade this to 1 or 2 GB. My next upgrade will also be a faster HDD, like a WD Raptor.(to tell you the truth, this is all a preparation for 0AD! I just wanna make sure I can play it at the highest settings available! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paal_101 Posted January 1, 2005 Report Share Posted January 1, 2005 Welcome d00der Thanks for your kind words and you are right, 0 AD will rock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argalius Posted January 1, 2005 Report Share Posted January 1, 2005 Finally a Dutch person here. I know Klaas speaks Dutch too, but well he stays Belgian and you can't change that (too bad )Anyway to this forum, it's great here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brent Posted January 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2005 Hee, altijd leuk, een landgenoot! En Klaas mag er ook wel bij hoor Prettig nieuwjaar nog!Happy 2k5 to all, in which, I hope, I'll play my first game of 0AD! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argalius Posted January 1, 2005 Report Share Posted January 1, 2005 Jij ook nog een zalig nieuwjaar!0AD is planned for summer 2006 so... maybe the beta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodeOptimist Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 Welcome, Brent! Geeks are always welcome! *grin*Wow, that's one beefy system. I don't know of many people who have a dual Xeon setup for a workstation. That's a lot of power!For the record, I have 512MB of RAM as well. I'd like to upgrade to at least 1GB sometime, but I'm not sure when. (Price is my adversary ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titus Ultor Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 Lol. I have...256MB. I thought that was big, too. It works, though. I can do everything I need (AIM + MSN Messenger, WMP, 0AD Forums) all at once. And if I close everything, I can play just about any game I want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brent Posted January 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 Well, I don't want to close everything before I do heavy tasks. I want to do everything simultaniously, that's why I have two Xeon's. I bought them a month ago and now I'm totally broke. So the memory will have to wait another few months. And I have many applications, especially games, which use over 512MB alone, so 1GB is no luxury (well, a computer is luxury, so what am I whining about). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorian Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 Hey! Welcomw to teh forums, sounds like you got a pretty cool computer, wish I had it... Or atleast the money to build my own, I'm always penniless *sniff* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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