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I paid $310 from newegg. Dualcore 2.2ghz 2gb's of ram 160gb hdd ati x1650 evga mobo No problems and runs like a champ. So no, I dont think im going to be paying over a grand for a computer, so simple to build them.

What do you mean more info!? The internet is the information highway!

Hows it going frost? I had some spare change around xmas time and bought myself a present for about $320 shipping included from newegg. Ended up being about $260ish after sending and receiving all rebates. For that change I was fortunate enough to get: 250GB 3GB/s sata Allendale 1.8GHz (stock) Core 2 Duo, OC'd to 2.25GHz 2gb kingston ram (667) 550 watt psu 4 12v rails 2x ATI Radeon x1650 256mb, crossfire evga mobo, 1066 fsb, hd audio...etc. Your average pc, but it SCREAMS on linux.

Recently I invested in a dual boot scenario, via Windows XP Pro and Ubuntu's New Release of 8.04 Gusty Heron or something of that nature. But I tell you this 64bit/opensource software flys...I have never seen a comp this fast, my video card now has 64bit drivers and has improved fps dramatically. Played wow a few times to test it and its purely amazing, better performance than XP. Not to mention my testmy speeds, pings, tracerts have all dramatically improved, and I have no tweaks (etc. cablenut). I thought application hang was normal, apparently in windows and mac it is, I have yet to see an app hang. Not to mention the install was cake, and I didn't have to search aimlessly for drivers this dist package. If your looking into it, I personally love the switch, soon Ill be formating my windows partition to make moar room! RAWR! Let me know what you guys think, or if you have any questions, feel free.

i didn't quite catch that.. your saying its 2g's b/c its got the name "XPS" on it? its like a pair of sneakers your paying for the name??

It probably ends up at 2g because its with Dell©, if he would have invested 2 grand with newegg his system specs would be much much better. Reasons this system shouldn't have cost $2G. -Slow Ram (667mhz is nothing compared to today's DDR3 speeds, 1066-1800) -Slow FSB = 1066 (todays highend mobo's are at 1600's) -Doesn't even show spec's on motherboard (MAIN component) -2g's and he's not even SLI'd? Is this a joke? Despite the things above the PC will be good for any game he puts in it mostly.

What isn't illegal? This is America! We're we love to have our freedoms stripped from us! But anyways man, ghandi once said "If an eye for an eye, the whole world would be blind.". Asking isn't illegal either man! Edit: If its brought to my attention with some proof that its against forum rules to talk about that I will be glad to remove it.

I agree with s1, a couple years ago I pinged 18 to testmy consistantly now its triple digits! I'm sure theres much more computer users now than there was then... but damn... thats a shit load of speed reduction.

Welcome! Knowledge is power so let these be known! Heres a small list of great programs I was recently introduced too: All of these programs are around 1MB or less(great for thumb drives!) All available from Micro$oft's technet website. Some of you may know them as sysinternals. Most of them were created by a guy named Mark Russinovich. Process Explorer: Provides ALOT of insight to how applications work, or if you just want to know what DLL's are doing what. (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx)(replaced it with my task manager ) Autoruns: Shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them! (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx)(Great for removing pesky 3rd party services/startup crap , show those 3rd party'rs whos in charge!) Process Monitor: This is an advanced monitoring tool that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity! (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx) I know all the default programs that can be used to view some of this information but these programs are much more advanced and show you MUCH more information, even every read and write to the HD. I learned about these in my network engineering class recently and these are just a few that I use, you can get a full list at the website, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx. <snip> Thanks in Advance! Also I hope someone will really find these as useful as I did! edited: private info removed

McCain would suck balls. Anyone besides mcain imho. What kind of idiot would want be in iraq for over 100 years?

Mine are the same, though I do not get those upload rates untill late am time

Nah, its strictly call center and for some reason the 4 story building im in is high security. But anyways, anyone who enters the building has to have clearance via badge. So far its awesome surfin' the web making about 88$ a day.

u should post your ping times maybe a tracert, and whats the advertised upload?

Results of the stress test: CPU, GPU are OC'd. Game Settings: Computer: 1.80 Dual Core Pentium Allendale (OC'd to 3.0ghz / 1133 FSB + runs stable and cool 41c [STOCK COOLING!]) 2gb 667mhz Kingston ram dual channel(OC'd to 1ghz) 2x 120gb Sata 3gb/s raid 0 ATi Radeon x1650 512mb 500mhz (OC'd to 700mhz) Nvidia 610i Northbridge on mobo

very nice, ill do the same, my vid card and cpu are overclocked atm, also i will printscreen my video settings and comp specs

very nice dsl speeds, you do not see that often, you must live very close to the server...tommie what are your speeds on sprint evdo?

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] © Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. Tracing route to testmy.net [75.125.181.200] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1 2 11 ms 8 ms 8 ms 73.47.32.1 3 6 ms 6 ms 7 ms ge-2-1-ur01.rankin.ms.malt.comcast.net [68.86.24 5.93] 4 11 ms 6 ms * te-8-2-ur02.jacksonnorth.ms.malt.comcast.net [68 .86.241.41] 5 11 ms 22 ms 13 ms pos-3-1-ar01.dannythomas.tn.malt.comcast.net [68 .86.240.109] 6 22 ms 29 ms 24 ms pos-0-7-0-0-cr01.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net [68 .86.85.178] 7 38 ms 51 ms 40 ms pos-0-15-0-0-cr01.denver.co.ibone.comcast.net [6 8.86.85.129] 8 88 ms 83 ms 85 ms te-0-1-0-7-cr01.sanjose.ca.ibone.comcast.net [68 .86.84.125] 9 99 ms 94 ms 89 ms te-1-1-pr01.11greatoaks.ca.ibone.comcast.net [68 .86.84.126] 10 88 ms 87 ms 96 ms 68.86.88.250 11 118 ms 119 ms 132 ms 216-54-253-2.ev1.net.demarc [216.54.253.2] 12 119 ms 119 ms 120 ms 216-54-253-2.ev1.net.demarc [216.54.253.2] 13 123 ms 128 ms 128 ms ivhou-207-218-223-126.ev1servers.net [207.218.22 3.126] 14 120 ms 122 ms 118 ms 75.125.181.200 Trace complete. Pinging testmy.net [75.125.181.200] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 75.125.181.200: bytes=32 time=120ms TTL=49 Reply from 75.125.181.200: bytes=32 time=122ms TTL=49 Reply from 75.125.181.200: bytes=32 time=123ms TTL=49 Reply from 75.125.181.200: bytes=32 time=122ms TTL=49 Ping statistics for 75.125.181.200: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 120ms, Maximum = 123ms, Average = 121ms

yea i probably wont have a problem getting cussed at, not my fault ill just be super technical and nerdy to confuse them, lol

Recently landed a new comcast job as a phone tech (phone customer service) and get some sweet benefits, free internet and every channel including hd and ondemand Starts monday, just hope i dont get cussed out every day

yea, i comcastic speeds

:::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 11847 Kbps about 11.8 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB) Download Speed is:: 1446 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2008/01/21 - 12:47am Bottom Line:: 207X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.71 sec Tested from a 12160 kB file and took 8.408 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 92.98 % faster than the average for host (comcast.net) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-ZIX6WN3MF User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11 [!] 6/384 advertised

bout 20$ n bestbuy

I have comcast 6mbps/384kbps with 20mbps powerboost, heres my current results: :::.. testmy.net test results ..::: Download Connection is:: 7521 Kbps about 7.52 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB) Download Speed is:: 918 kB/s Upload Connection is:: 1448 Kbps about 1.4 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Upload Speed is:: 177 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Main) Test Time:: 2008/01/20 - 10:09pm D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-89IJRSNC3 U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-1TG4IV03O User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11 [!] My highest results are in my sig.

Thats a great package for the speed whats the advertised and hows the upload doing?

yup check my sig Location: Jackson, Mississippi 6mbps/384kbps package!