Habibi's New Computer
 

I know the pic sucks , but it's the best I could do for the time being.
There's a few of you guys who helped me figure out what kind of system to get, so thanks a lot for the help.

It's a Dell Studio XPS with the following:
~ Windows Vista Ultimate 64
~ i7-920 Quad Core @ 2.67 GHz
~ 12 GB RAM
~ Dual 1TB Hard Drives
~ 6X Blu-Ray Writer
~ 1024 MB ATI Radeon HD 4870
~ Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium

I'm pretty much using this pc as a dedicated DAW (Digital Audio Workstation)
for my home studio. It's hard to tell from the pic but I have a pair of Mackie HR824's hooked up through a Edirol firewire FA-101 interface which has replaced the soundblaster audio card.
I'm still using the crappy Dell speakers for the windows sounds, but all the Music from the recording software comes through the Mackie's.

My old pc is behind me which I use for internet surfing, retrieval of porn etc.
Wifey is bitching me out because I am using some of "her' desk, but she will get over it eventually :)

A big thanks to Dzervit, wherever he is :thumbsup:

Regards
Habibi
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That's a nice setup you have there. Probably set you back about $2.5K.

You should have gotten 128gb of ram.

In 98 I bought my first PC; it was a AMD K6-2 with a processor speed of 366 MHz and 64MB of RAM.

When I upgraded to 96 MB I felt like all that and a slice of cheese, most people still had 32 mb or maybe 64, 96 made you the cat-daddy.

I still have it somewhere because I have that neurological disorder where I am unable to throw anything out. :lol:

We had a 166mhz IBM aptiva in 96. UPGRADED to 8 gigs of ram one time...that was just a ridiculous amount of space.

You have a band that you're working on this music stuff with?

I need to ask d, about beginning my "home theater" system (receiver, sub, c-channel & a couple sides). He knows his tech crap.

No band RD, just a solo guy enjoying a hobby. (My band days are long behind me)

Speaking of old systems, check this bad boy out.
My dad had this sytem back in the day:

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Alex was in his late 40's when that one came out....:lol:;)

LOL, ok very funny :lol:
How are ya Bucky? Hope you're well bro.
:beers:

When I was in High school in the 80's we trained on radio shack trs-80's they had large floppy disks and the print was green writing on a black screen ... I also got my first computer when I was about 18 . It was a commodore 64... It hooked to your TV set... But my first windows computer was in 1997 I bought a Windows 95 computer for about 1000.00 dollars .. I remember having to put the telephone on the modem to get online.. Geez I am so Old...

:rocker: TRS-80 !!! Heck Yea! Mine had the 10k RAM expansion module on the back, for double the performance!

Nice rig Habibi!

I also had a Trash 80. We mainly used it for gaming, lol, the Missle Command and Space Invader knock offs were the best.

My dad got on the PC train very early, and was heavy into Apple II. He had boxes and boxes of 5 1/4" floppys. Upgraded from an amber monitor to an RGB by 1980 or so. Some of the early games were just text.

In college, most of my papers were typed on my roommate's Kaypro, and printed on a daisy wheel printer. That Kaypro was the early version of the laptop (a copy of the Osborne). It had like a 5" monitor, that we also gamed on, lol.

Took awhile before the PC's caught up to the gold standard for home gaming: The Atari 2600. We got ours (well, the Sears badged version) in '77 or '78 (can't remember which) and put many many hours on it.

In '84, I graduated college and the small company I worked for had a state of the art IBM PC, with the optional 20 Megabyte hard drive. I think the standard hard drive was 5 MB. My friend's that were into technology would get a woody just hearing about a 20 MB hard drive back in '84 & '85.

My dad was the same way - he had boxes of those gigantic floppies everywhere, his home office looked like he was a mad scientist, I didn't know computers back then, so I had no way to realize each floppy held like 2kb of memory or whatever they held. (I know it was more but I'm just being sarcastic :lol:

Yeah, in the late '70's those floppies were like 180k. Then they improved and got dual sided and double density, and eventually up to 1.2 MB by the time they went away in the mid '80s.

By the mid '80s, the 1.44 MB 3.5" floppy was the hot ticket. Big step forward.

I had several computers with both 3.5" and a 5.25" drives in the late 80's. Had to keep all bases covered, lol.

I am doing well habs. Nice PC.:thumbsup:

nice setup. i love that processor you have