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"Are PC's shortlived?"

Well some people should know that their pc goes out of date quickly i had a 'up to date' pentium 500mhz pc and it cost loads, a few weeks after a faster processor comes out.
Okay i kept the pc, added a new video card and RAM but then my hard drive begins to fail on it.
So then my brother brings back a computer which he bought from someone who build his own pc's so then every is working fine, i buy a Geforce 2 GTS just to be able to play what i like (tactical ops) and i put in my old soundcard as i didn't want to use the crappy onboard sound option.
Everything seems fine, until.... my psu fan seems to be dieing now, its not the HDD this time either.
I had the 500mhz pc for about 2-3 years and it was out of date within those couple of years, my bro bought this pc i'm using at the moment 2 years ago, and its been working perfectly fine until now.
The thing with computers is inside it gathers up so much dust, the components begin to fail.
I'm getting a whole new rig but i'm hoping it lasts a little longer than i want. And i'm hoping it won't be too out of date again in a few years.
I have a owned several consoles, and while the Gamecube wasn't out i had a N64 which i was happy with even if the PS2 and X-Box was out and more powerful I didn't care.
I'm just hoping PC's can have a longer running life , as i have had a NES and SNES sitting in a box that still works o.O

yeh they work on High low on off , stuff like that. thats one thing i know that amd knows! its a start

O.k. but it is all to do with binary (the way computer comunicate) computers use a lower state voltage and a higer state voltage, lets say the lower state voltage is 0.05 volts and the higer state voltage is 0.5 volts well for us humans we turn this into binary so the lower state volt will be 0 and the higher state volt will be 1 (01), 8 0's and 1's make a bit and 8 bits make a byte get me, i won't go into all hexadeciaml, nibbles, octal and all that pollava.

c.b.

oh u beat me to it amd man! but let me have this one! you know everything else! someones got to give me credit for the knowledge i have!

yeh ,u divide it by 1024 so if you have 60 gb you do 60000 divided by 1024

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You can do 60 divided by 1.024

I think thats how u work it out anyway, its all to with a mb and bit

Also the reason why hard drive sizes are never what they say they are is that the hard drive manafacturers think of a megabyte as 1000 bits when in fact is is 1024bits, dunno why they do this.

c.b.

Few things guys, The athlons are named like that becuase they perform better than the equivalent Pentium, they have a set of instructions they call quanti-speed which is why the 2000+ only runs a 1.667ghz, basically they are not using the MHZ war anymore and are using differant technology, the same i suppose is that Super computers arent measured in MHZ or GHZ, As for the next pentium, there is a pentium 4 prescott coming out q3 this year which has .09 micron die size 800mhz fsb and loads of nice core inprovements.

c.b.

120gb HDDs tend to be 111gb, as companies can get away with a gigabyte being 1,000,000,000 bytes when it's really 1,073,741,824 bytes.

However it's not the same as the XP2000 thing. It actually processes faster than a 2ghz chip, but it doesn't actually *run* at 2ghz, simply because AMD make better chips than Intel.

Oh yea and harddrives arent always the size they say they are..... 120gig is slightly smaller sized than usual.

Of course... but that's more specific.

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