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Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited November 2003 in Hardware
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product%5Fcode=307520&csearch=&cmid=&pfp=srch1

It has a window.
It has a coolermaster Jet heatsink.
It's in a coolermaster case.
It has a light.

It's a... COMPAQ!?!?!?! :wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf:

Yes, it's a Compaq.

This is even more wrong than Dell's "gaming" machines.

What's worse is that people will buy them.

Comments

  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    :shakehead
  • Al_CapownAl_Capown Indiana
    edited November 2003
    :ninja:

    This is bad, because?
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited November 2003
    Compaq + Window + Aluminum case.

    Cannot compute.
    Runtime error.
    BSOD.
    *geeky1's head blows up*
  • Al_CapownAl_Capown Indiana
    edited November 2003
    SARCASM
    Ya, I too am a fan of their older design and wish they wouldn't have gone away from it. With it's .... stuff it looked so incredible.

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    SARCASM
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Intel® Pentium® 4 processor, 3.2GHz with Hyper-Threading Threading

    Double Hyper-Threading! We wouldn't want to miss out on that!

    Hey, I'll give Compaq credit for at least being aware of trend towards performance gaming machines. I won't badmouth the computer too much, as I know nothing about the case and heatsink that machine sports.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited November 2003
    Al, I realize you were being sarcastic (the signs helped :p) but:

    It's not about the looks. It's about the fact that I have yet to see ANY big OEM (Gateway, Compaq/HP, Dell, EMachines, basically anything that's more-or-less a household name) produce anything that's worthy of being called a "high performance" machine. And the fact that they insist on selling machines that are touted as such bugs me.
  • Al_CapownAl_Capown Indiana
    edited November 2003
    I'd be more pissed off at little 12 year old rich kids who get their parents to buy them :-/

    What's not high performance about a P4 3.2C, 1 GB pc3200, 2x 120 GB SATA drives Raid-0'ed, and a Canterwood chipset (note that I left out the 5950)?

    Sure you can't tinker with anything in the bios, but it is still a fast system and IMO deserves the "High Performance" title.

    Now what pisses me off are these computer shops in Indianapolis that advertise custom built pc's with horrible cases, 350w power supplies, P4 1.8A's, 512 MB pc800 RDRAM, 60Gb HD, a 4x dvd-rw burner, a tv tuner, windows xp home, and a Radeon7000 as bleeding edge technology and top of the line computer. Priced at just $2400. On my break during driver's ed I decided to head over to this place called Computer Renaissance. I looked at their prices and they were ridiculous. REFURBISHED 4.3 GB HD's for $50, 128 MB of PC133 for $75, Athlon 2000+'s for $150. Just total crap. Only thing in the shop I considered buying were some k6-2's for $10, but the only drawback is I doubted they were in working condition. Some have Thermal wax, paste, and grease all over the heatspreader.
    /me grumble grumble
     I hate that place
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited November 2003
    I'd have to see the benchmarks, but it's Compaq. I'm betting they'll fugger something. Like this Compaq computer that we have for one of our <a href="http://www.zeiss.de/us/imt/home.nsf">Zeiss CMMs</a> at the shop (Zeiss has a contract w/Compaq). It's an Evo system with a P4 in it. You know what kind of heatsink it has?

    It has one of <a href="http://www.antec-inc.com/pro_details_cooling.php?ProdID=76003">these</a&gt;

    Yes, it has a P3 heatsink. How did they attach a P3 heatsink to a S478 P4? They replaced the Intel-designed mounting system with a couple of clips that bolt onto the motherboard.

    The base on that heatsink is smaller than the heatspreader on the P4.

    I took it off, replaced the thermal compound with Ceramique, blew out all the dust, and checked the BIOS' temperature readout.

    It was reading 50*C and climbing fast. I didn't have time to do anything about it, so I just left it and let the P4's thermal protection take care of it.

    That's the kind of screwup that makes it difficult for me to believe that Compaq didn't screw up SOMETHING on this one.
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited November 2003
    This is no worse than my cousin wanting my grandfather to take his entire company to Macintosh systems and run the software through emulation. In fact, it's no where near as bad. At least this *IS* a computer . . . not some piece of fluff that costs 2-3x too much.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited November 2003
    Is there any way you can shoot your cousin?
    If not, is there any way you'll let me shoot him for you? :D
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited November 2003
    I wanted to shoot my step-bro last night when he told me what my cousin was proposing. Not because I wanted to shoot the messenger but because my step-bro wanted to act like the Dell 2.2GHz machines for $700 a pop were "perfectly fine." its Intel @ 2.2GHz. Give me an Athlon @ 2.0GHz anyday for less money and more F@H power. My step-bro also wanted to make sure I knew it was 512MB of RAM. Well Woop-de-friggin'-doo. 512MB of PC2100 no doubt. How about we pop in 512MB of PC2700 OR PC3200 and make these suckers fly. :)

    Seriously, they're just business machines, but going the Athlon-route would have been prefered by me. Could save about $80 or so just on the CPU by going with a 2400+ rather than a 2.2GHz p4 and have more F@H power. But, I won't be able to put F@H on them anyway so I guess it doesn't matter. Shame too . . . that could be 46GHz of Athlon power folding for me. :doh:
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited November 2003
    For business machines, it makes no difference tho. The last two office machines my grandparent's business bought were 1.7GHz Celerons with 512MB of PC2100 (1 stick of PC2100 mind you... these are in ASUS i865G boards... :banghead: ) but they're more than fast enough. The CAD/CAM systems we buy now are all AMD, tho.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    For business machines, it makes no difference tho. The last two office machines my grandparent's business bought were 1.7GHz Celerons with 512MB of PC2100 (1 stick of PC2100 mind you... these are in ASUS i865G boards...

    I agree. The machines at my office are an assortment of low performance first generation P4s, primarily - Dells and IBMs. The one exception is our POS Gateway 850MHz Celeron wonder. AND, it JUST HAPPENS to be our file server! :hrm: For the most part, the snail 1st generation P4s are perfectly adequate for our office applications.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited November 2003
    Heh... MOST of our office systems are P2-400s with 64MB of RAM, Diamond Stealth III S540 or Viper V550 16MB/32MB AGP cards, 4-6GB HDs, and Win '95.
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