Topic I'm back with a new PC

bigcanada813

well, it has been awhile since i last visited here, and in that period of time, i had to get a new pc. the old one (from eMachines) just had too many problems. Now, i've got a nice little number in the form of a dell inspiron:

19'' flat panel monitor
260GB Hard Drive
intel Pentium Core Duo processor
1 GB RAM
256MB ATI Radeon X1300PRO video card

much better than my old pc. it's glad to be back and i hope to be around the threads.

-HAL-

Very nice!
What kind of CPU did you get?

Don't forget to post your 3DMark and Super Pi results..

Riddar

Very nice. Eventually I'll post my own build. I'll post those scores when I get a chance to push it to its limits in earnest (have a Kandalf Liquid Cooling case, so I run real cool even not having lapped the heatsink and processor yet).

Do much gaming on the new machine, or plan to?

bigcanada813

i haven't done much gaming yet, but i'll split my game playing between the new machine and my ps2

kaos42256

What makes a pc run fast? I have one on a network in my home.It is very slow.Is it the cpu that makes one run fast or slow.?Sure would like to speed it up but I think it is because it is running on a router.

Riddar

Way too hard to say. I had one computer which ran... decently, but was certainly slow on my network because the Hard Drive only operated at about 3 MB/s. My network was fine, but accessing and transferring files took forever.

Or is it actually using the computer than slows it down? Give more details, maybe its an easy solution.