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Hachiroku wrote:[color=blue]
> "Learning Richard" <learningrichard@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1153155229.985978.130180@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...[color=green]
> >
> > badgolferman wrote:[color=darkred]
> >> Hachiroku, 7/16/2006,10:42:37 PM, wrote:
> >>
> >> > I need some advice:
> >>
> >> > If you guys were building a new system, and money WERE an object, what
> >> > would you buy?
> >>
> >>
> >> I would suggest you post this in alt.comp.hardware and/or
> >> alt.comp.homebuilt
> >> You will get much more meaningful and informative replies.[/color]
> >
> > Take it easy on yourself hachi. Call Dell. You can get a Pentium IV
> > with a DVI video card, tons of ram, multimedia, and a 17" flat panel
> > LCD monitor for $449. You can prolly even get 18 months no interest,
> > as I did on my 26" LCD TV/computer monitor.
> >
> > Good luck homey[/color]
>
>
> But where's the fun in that?!?!
> No wedging the motherboard into the case?
> No fanagling the three drive cables I need for my DVDs, CDs, Zip and 2 HDDs?
> No pressing so hard on the fan you think you're going to waste the MoBo?!?
> No cursing at Microsoft for making an OS that can see there have been
> changes and just load the correct parameters, digging out the Install CD and
> waiting 40 minutes while it reloads the operating system for the 5th
> time?!?!
> No playing with clock speeds, freezing the system, resetting the BIOS and
> starting over, getting it up and running at mind warping speeds until XP
> chokes on it? (Linux just says, OK, 4 GHz? Let's do it!)
>
> Where's your sense of adventure, man?!?!?
>
> (I've had AMD "K" Systems that have run circles around P-IIIs...)[/color]

I suppose I lost _that_ sense of adventure around the same time I got
tired of getting brake fluid on my hands when I changed the shoes on my
old Honda. I knew how to do it, but I found that a trained mechanic
could do a better job, and can also be the best friend a guy ever had.