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Corbet posted:The fact that alot of people have nice modern gaming PCs and 5+ year old CRTs boggles my mind. Some of us like having highish resolution, fairly dense pixels, and not spending more than $35 for a monitor. I mean, my "nice modern gaming PC" cost me $300 or so, and you can barely get a half decent monitor for that nowadays.
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 Yep, I live like poo poo. This is kind of a "before" picture, it's as it is right now, but I'm trying to improve it. My plan is to get everything rackmounted (or on shelves) in that cabinet under the rightmost monitor. All my CRTs are good to me. The three that I use are all PerfectFlat Trinitrons, the two main ones do 1600x1200@85Hz. For $35 each. I can rarely find a monitor under $300 that doesn't ghost like a bitch (like that Dell LCD on the left, whose panel I replaced with a PVA one... excellent color, lovely response) or look like total crap (TN panels). Color's great on the CRTs, motion looks great, I just don't take them to LAN parties (that's what the Dell LCD is for). e: I suppose I shouldn't say that all my CRTs have been good. I used to have another 19" like the one second to the right, but it died (logic problem, monitor test works, but the signal itself is the green tube only). Hence the too-large 21". Raluek fucked around with this message at 11:17 on Dec 15, 2008 |
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TuxRacer69 posted:
My regular screenname is Packrat. It's for a reason. I do use most of the machines from time to time, and a few things are kept for sentimental reasons. The spare parts and boxes are "just in case".
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Aug 14, 2008 02:59
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quote:mixed horror
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Prelude Gundam posted:
See, here's a guy who's not living like poo poo. You can't even tell he has cables!
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Aug 14, 2008 05:13
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DevastatorIIC posted:I count like, five motherboards in that picture. Yeah most of them are out of frame
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Aug 14, 2008 06:07
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Anyone else do better?
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InferiorWang posted:1 Machine. Use VMware if you want "extra" machines. Just virtualize your clutter. Keep an extra nic around just in case. Everything else should be dumped or donated. That's what I'm in the process of doing. I'm gonna be putting almost all my machines on Craigslist once I do clean installs on them (and get around to it). The black machine on the floor is staying though, it was my first homebuild so I'm rather fond of it. It's not worth anything anyways (AthlonXP system).
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jink posted:a PC as well as a Mac. I am bucking the trend! I have I think one of the top five lovely-assed rooms in this thread, and I've got some macs in the middle of my room set up for that repeating backgrounds thread, I've just been lazy.... I've got a Performa 6400/200 and an Apple IIci set up on boxes in the middle of my floor. Have to step over them to get to my bed from the door. How's that for
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Oct 16, 2008 05:43
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I guess this is the best place to ask this. I'll be totally re-configuring my desk area, and I need kind of a special desk. It has to support 300LB and be wide enough for three 24" widescreens. Is this possible with something that won't cost more than my car, or should I just make something out of 2x4 and plywood?
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tonelok posted:Raluek if you have the money, just pick up the Galant from Ikea - there are several sizes to pick from. Looking at them, looks like their widest one is 63" wide. Baaarely enough, with some monitor overhang. I think that's enough considering the slight arc they would be in, and that overhang isn't the worst thing in the world. Doesn't look like there's any way to tell what size the ones people are selling are without emailing everyone. Oh well, my quest begins.
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Alligator posted:'Tis a Dell XPS 430 case. Looking around I don't think they're sold individually.so it stays quiet. No use if they did, they're (probably) BTX. Not just flipped-upside-down ATX, but actual BTX, so you can't use pretty much any board in there except the Dell ones. At least that was the case last time I took one apart.
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