The Half Life 2 Rig By Tornado

Tornado has added a system to »ASEville\'s »System Area.



This system has been modified at the time shown below

Please add your comments below

Sweet system!! sounds really good but....err...whats up with Windows 2000?? could you expalin that?

My uncle didn't trust (and still doesn't trust) the stability or safety of Windows XP so he decided when we were building it to put in Windows 2000. I'm thinking about asking him if we can at least put in a spare hard drive with XP SP 2 on it when he comes over to visit next time (he lives in Maryland, and I live in a state which is not Maryland) so when Microsoft drops support for 2000 we can more easily switch to XP.

win2k easy to explain try explaining an amd x2 cpu in a p4 mainbord

sounds like a quick pc, when u gonna tidy up ha ha

That sucks about the motherboard being fried. What broke it?

That day there had been power outages around my neighborhood, and I never sprung for a surge protected power strip because I didn't think I needed one (due to lack of internet usage). The power went out at 4:30 ish while I was using AutoCAD. When it came back on, some sparks blew out of the mobo and it started to stink. The problem was that when it came back on all of the power in the house went into the computer (my two computers and my mothers being in on a seperate breaker switch, which I had gone down to reset thinking that was what happened, because the breakers in my house all turn off if the power goes out and forgot to turn back off when it didn't work) and it heated a couple of leads so much that they failed and started melting the actual plastic of the mobo. It was a spectacular (if a bit costly) spectacle though, with the sparks being incased in a plume of smoke being whirred around by the fans. It even set off a smoke alarm.
In summary? Well, it was my absent mindedness about forgetting to turn the breaker back off and ignorance regarding the power strip. The reason it didn't fry the other two computers was that they were surge-protected and weren't on when the power went out.
Edit: I forgot to mention that when the mobo went it took the front-mounted LCD temp. and fan adjustment screen with it, which I haven't replaced yet.

Wow. That sucks. You should invest in a good UPS to protect your computer. I never trust anything without a UPS.

Man, that's awesome!

I did something like that. I touched my SB AWE64 with my headphones (the ones with metal for the band) and it shot a spark out from the card while I was looking at it. AWESOME.

Sucks about the hardware, though.

A new update: Yesterday, while testing my EEPROM reader for the Genesis, it fried itself out. An explanation is under "Notes." Nothing too expensive, but I have to build another one now, and buy another copy of Super Manaco GP. I also now have an 8 plug surge protector.

You should invest in a UPS rather than a surge protector...

Why? What are the advantages of a UPS? Hell, what is a UPS?

An uninterruptible power supply will condition the power going into your computer so (hopefully) spikes, surges, and dips won't occur.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninterruptible_power_supply

i had bout 3 power cuts in last year all of which my pc has been on and luckily no damage was caused to mine ? i always think of getting a ups off ebay or summink it always worries me.

It's like a PC-plug only power strip? So, does it go into the computer or just sit outside of it?

It sits inbetween any electrical device. It can supply power to anything that uses AC.

Ain't I lucky to have a good power connection that only sometimes fails for a split second due to lightning... never had a serge

I have a UPS for all my computers and some other electronic devices.

If you have DSL or cable, you should invest in surge protection for those modems as well.

Impresive build

I've been looking at the prices of bigger HDD's falling, and I'm wondering if I should go for a bigger drive. I've managed to fill up 184 gigs of the 250 I have with various things (mostly DVD's and game back-ups), so I was wondering whether I should spring for a bigger one. Cost really isn't much of an object so long as it slots under a grand (it's one of my months that I have nothing to buy, so I'm naturally hording money).

Get two more 250s and put them in a RAID 5 array .

The problem is though that I only have room for three more HDD's, and I want to have wiggle room to upgrade in the future. That, and setting up RAID arrays annoys me greatly. I wouldn't have done it with the Raptors if they weren't so bloody fast.

The RAID 0 you got with the raptors is asking for trouble with data loss.

I really do like the way your system is setup. Well, you could go with a RAID 5 array for redundancy and speed. Seriously, RAID 0 is just bad for data retention... plus those raptors die faster.

But it's so fast. The only reason I set it up for RAID 0 was because it was fast, and I really do not enjoy the time it takes to get a RAID array going. Besides, see journal post.

I'm considering selling this one as well. Though I'm not decided either way what to do with it.