girls are welcome to participate.

the specs of my_dick are :

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FIC SD11 : I hate FIC. Therefore I hate my motherboard. I fucked myself up the ass on this one... shoulda bought the Asus.

Athlon™ Classic : five hundred and fifty million cycles per second of pure processing power. AMD gave me this one for free because my business card makes me look like I deserve one.

384MB of PC133 SDRAM : If you have less that 256MB of RAM, I want you to take a pen and jab it repeatedly into your asshole. That is precisely how your machine feels about the memory situation.

13G IBM hard drive : 7200rpm! Zoom! I want the 30GB Deskstar.

300W SPI power supply with noise killer fan : why do people hook up 񘈨 worth of equipment to a cheap-ass power supply? I don't get it. Spend the extra thirty bucks and make your shit stable, you misers.

--- Multimedia: ---

Mitsumi 4X2x8 CD-RW : You can laugh at the brand, you can laugh at the slow speed, but it's still the best drive I've found for audio CD's. I back up a lot of those for my friends.

Pioneer 6x DVD : I can watch DVDs. That's pretty cool. See below.

Sound Blaster Live! Value : modded to have an SPDIF connection to DVD player, two quarter-inch mono inputs, and RCA SPDIF output.

Sony STR-DE445 Stereo Receiver : I bought it after Christmas. Oh, man, this thing is sweet. It has SPDIF digital input, with full Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS decoding.

Cambridge Soundworks bookshelf speakers : nice and buttery. They sound killer when I crank 'em up.

Roland D-5 synthesizer : my main music input device. One of the E's is broken and the top octave doesn't work. I hate it.

Korg Poly-800 synthesizer : this thing sounds so 80's I can't believe it. The interface is horrible, but I love the way it sounds.

Diamond Viper V770 : okay. This video card is wuss (16MB TNT2), but I don't really play games. A GeForce 2 is on the wishlist.

ViewSonic E771 : It's not the best, and not the worst. I worked on a 14" for so long, I'm just glad it's big.

--- Network: ---

1.5MBit DSL fed into a 100MBit switch in my housemate's room. 4 other machines, including 2 Linux boxes. Domain control by Samba.

--- Miscellany: ---
Logitech Internet Keyboard : it's a good keyboard, except for the fact that the left leg broke off. I have it propped up on two 16MB EDO SIMMs.

Microsoft Optical Mouse : if your mouse isn't optical, I feel really, really sorry for you.

Canon BJC-2000 : Never buy a Canon printer. They go through ink faster than I go through K-Y jelly.

Mustek 1200UB scanner : This is a nice little scanner. It runs off USB power (draw : 496mA), and uses red, green, and blue LEDs for illumination instead of a xenon tube. Scan quality is respectable. I probably wouldn't use it for commerical work.

Okay, that's mine, now let's see yours.

edit : this is the biggest post i've ever typed. i just wanted to say that. thank you.
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This message has been edited by damien_s_lucifer on January 26, 2001 at 10:33 PM

17' flatscreen
800 mhz PIII
40 gig 7200rpm
128 mb ram
4x8x32 cd writer/re-writable
12x dvd drive
3 speaker system, 2 front, one sub...

and a whole buncha cool software

Hey Damien, how do you like that STR-DE445? Doesn’t it make so much difference when you have an actual SOUND SYSTEM hooked up? I used to have the DE945 until I upgraded... I am currently pushing somewhere between 1500 and 2000 watts and when the bass hits my kidneys malfunction, my computer restarts, and the cops show up at my door...god I love it

for the record, i have an old dick.
my 200 MHz pmmx processor isn't very impressive and my 30 gig of hd space and 128 meg of ram is easily outdone these days.

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kuru
'dancing is the vertical expression of horizontal desire.'
-robert frost

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Originally posted by Blain:
Doesn’t it make so much difference when you have an actual SOUND SYSTEM hooked up? I used to have the DE945 until I upgraded... I am currently pushing somewhere between 1500 and 2000 watts and when the bass hits my kidneys malfunction, my computer restarts, and the cops show up at my door...god I love it

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hell yes. All of you who are running PC speakers, I am sorry... none of them thump like my system. From the sound of it, Blain, your system would kick my systems ass. I bow to you, sir.

don't talk smack about my sound card, though - it's too tricked out to be properly considered a "Live Value" any more. I just looked at the specs - a Live 5.1 is just a Live Value card with SPDIF out on the back. It uses the exact same sound chip, and the Value has pin connectors for everything.

If you have a connector on the back that says "Digital Out" you're already set. Just get a mono 1/8" plug to RCA adapter and plug into any Dolby Digital amp. If you don't, and are comfortable splicing two wires together, I can tell you how to make the digital connector, using a CD-ROM audio connector and a RCA cable.

You can also add a couple SPDIF IN ports, to plug in your CD-ROM (so the sc gets a digital signal on audio cds, instead of analog) or other SPDIF device.

good lord, I love a good sound system...

solid, for God's sake please get more memory. 128MB on a 800MHz PIII makes me want to cry

current price at my work is ๟ for 128MB.

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syf0n
Bastardize.net

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Originally posted by damien_s_lucifer:

If you have a connector on the back that says "Digital Out" you're already set. Just get a mono 1/8" plug to RCA adapter and plug into any Dolby Digital amp.

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//me smacks head// Goddamn, why didn’t I think of that? The only reason I wanted a 5.1 card is because it has optical out (the very words make me all warm and fuzzy inside)
Off to circuit shitty I go...

Blain - there's absolutely NO difference in sound quality between copper and optical SPDIF. They're just two different ways of encoding the same digital signal. It's a way for the audio companies to make $$$ - think about it - you almost got suckered into paying another 贄 for the same sound card you already have, plus another ุ for the optical connection.

Kinda reminds me of the Pentium IV.

bring it on my system ownzzz lol