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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Well some people should know that their pc goes out of date quickly i had a 'up to date' pentium 500mhz pc and it cost loads, a few weeks after a faster processor comes out.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I had the 500mhz pc for about 2-3 years and it was out of date within those couple of years, my bro bought this pc i'm using at the moment 2 years ago, and its been working perfectly fine until now.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 And i'm hoping it won't be too out of date again in a few years.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 but the point is you think its 2ghz when its not! its like me naming my 80gb hard drive westend digital 120 hard drive

yea but it actually works as good or better than 2ghz.

i think they just did to make you think that the amd 2000xp is actualy 2000ghz

Remeber the days when 600mhz was top of the range when 6gb was the maxium when 128mb ram was like WOO! i can never afford that when cd writers would write at 4x , when graphics card were only 8mb max! and when there was no broadband.

Turbonutter wrote:
> Because people are retards. If AMD are flogging their flagship chip
> the XP2000 against the P4 2.4ghz, and it only runs at 1.66ghz in
> realisty, people won't buy it. The fact that the 1.66ghz Athlon will
> easily stand up to the Pentium in most tasks makes no odds. Hence, the
> PR naming scheme was developed. It shous how fast a Thunderbird would
> have to be to match it (2ghz in this case), and Tbirds still run
> faster than Pentiums.

1ghz Thunderbird vs 1 pentium...
Athlon XP 2400 v 2.4 ghz pentium
Athlon wins i think

§n][pe® wrote:
> Athlon 2000+ etc someone explain why they call it that but not 2ghz
> never new way cos my Thunderbird if clearly named 1ghz.

Sorry for the bad spelling

Because people are retards. If AMD are flogging their flagship chip the XP2000 against the P4 2.4ghz, and it only runs at 1.66ghz in realisty, people won't buy it. The fact that the 1.66ghz Athlon will easily stand up to the Pentium in most tasks makes no odds. Hence, the PR naming scheme was developed. It shous how fast a Thunderbird would have to be to match it (2ghz in this case), and Tbirds still run faster than Pentiums.

yeh i want to know that aswel
A AMD XP2000 is 1.67Ghz
WHY!

Athlon 2000+ etc someone explain why they call it that but not 2ghz never new way cos my Thunderbird if clearly named 1ghz.

Who cares? Today it's all about AMD's XP3000 Barton cores.

you can never really have the best pc ever

When are intel going to release a faster than 3.06 ghz its been 3 month since there last update of speed.