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On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 06:45:28 -0700, "John ward"
<johnrmward@opyusnet.com.au> brought the following to our attention:
>Hi Gregory,
>
> I've just set up a system with three 160 GB SATA drives - one has Win Xp
>Pro + FS9 + everything else, one is a storage drive, and the third one has
>x64-Bit Win Xp Pro + FS9.
>
> CPU is an AMD64 4000+, and I finally upgraded from my 32 MB TNT2 to a
>Saphire 256 MB ATI Radeon X850 XT PE graphics card, and 2 GB of matched
>RAM..
>
> It's a Dual-Boot setup - just toggle whichever one you want to use.
>
> I guess Downloader can relax, then?
So you already DID spend way too much on hardware!!
Back when times were good.. one could invest in computer companies
and buy systems with the proceeds. That is with all the Corps, Gvmnts,
and Mil Orgs buying PCs, routers, and switches.. how could the stocks
NOT go up!!
Glad that you're not stuck with a cruddy old Sim platform!!
-Gregory
>Regards,
>John Ward
>"Gregory" <flightsim.maps@bkwds.comcast.net> wrote in message
>
>> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 05:28:39 -0700, "John ward"
>> <johnrmward@opyusnet.com.au> brought the following to our attention:
>>
>>>Hi Gregory,
>>>
>>> " There are two Xeon CPUs (25watt ea.) side-by-side in a tunnel and in
>>>front of that assembly is a horizontal
>>>rack of 10k SCSI drives....."
>>>
>>>Strewth, mate - with that amount of hard drive space, you could get
>>>Downloader Bob a little nervous about losing his Title if you really put
>>>your mind to it!!
)
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>John ward
>>
>> aww John.. there aren't 10,000 hard drives!! only four.
>> it means 10,000 RPM spindles. you're a humorous guy
>> sometimes.. yep! Thing is.. don't spend way too much
>> on hardware like in this example.. you'll be stuck with it
>> when everyone else has 4x or 5x the CPU power.
>>
>> -G
>>
>>
>>>"Gregory" <flightsim.maps@bkwds.comcast.net> wrote in message
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:37:39 +0000 (UTC), "Quilljar"
>>>> <wykehill-flightsim@yahoo.co.uk> brought the following to our
>>>> attention:
>>>>
>>>>>A300_Snippy wrote:
>>>>>> Hello everyone. Everytime I run Flight Simulator, it freezes my
>>>>>> computer. I will be running a flight for sometimes as little as 5
>>>>>> minutes before it freezes up. I tried defragging my computer, freeing
>>>>>> up memory, updating windows, and running many anti-spyware utilities
>>>>>> to kill anything that might be taking up memory. This just started a
>>>>>> couple days ago. If you have any suggestions on how to fix this
>>>>>> problem, please post back. Thankyou.
>>>>>
>>>>>Is it a hot summer where you are? This could be an overheating problem.
>>>>>Try
>>>>>opening the case and placing a room fan by it. Then have another go. If
>>>>>it
>>>>>is this, you can increase the size of your power unit and fan and also
>>>>>add a
>>>>>special fan in a spare PCI slot if you have one.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If it's in fact a cooling problem.. then have a look at these:
>>>>
>>>>
http://www.mdmm.com/products/techietoyz/fans.asp
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> sounds like a joke right.. but last spring the rear-panel case fan got
>>>> noisy and slow.. and not wanting to loose another SCSI drive.. got a
>>>> replacement unit above.. `TurboFlow FanMod 80mm' .. and let me tell
>>>> you that thing moves some air. There are two Xeon CPUs (25watt ea.)
>>>> side-by-side in a tunnel and in front of that assembly is a horizontal
>>>> rack of 10k SCSI drives.
>>>>
>>>> The FanMod is NOT quiet by any means.. but it moves LOTS of air..
>>>> (not Whisperfan, Turbofan) and was delighted by how well it worked!!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Gregory
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Cheers
>>>>>Quilljar
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Try 'Living With Technology' magazine
>>>>>http://www.livtech.co.uk
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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