Hello everyone;
I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that my new Area 51 extreme edition laptop I bought last year, died. I killed it. Not pre-meditated, just accidentally. The two gig memory combined with the 3.2 ghz extreme processor made the latency to high. I tried everything to lower it, and since I build my own desktops, i figured I'd remove a gig of ram and do a "self=fix". Don't ever try this at home. I never had a laptop that had the memory stored under the keyboard like my alien. So I grounded myself (or so I thought) and removed the keyboard and a stick of memory) then when I went to turn it on, it showed no signs of life. Dead as a doornail. I FRIED THE MOTHERBOARD. I new the only thinkg I could do was learn from my mistake and sell the excellent hardware I had configured with it. I got around 900 dollors, (it was a $4,000 dollar lap) then saved up for the new one I'm getting which is in stage 3 at the moment/ I chose the Auroroa m 7700 dual core athlon 60 FX, with clear view screen, 100 gig hardrive 7,200 rmp, two gigs of ram, the r/w dvd cd r/w combo drive, and now I wait and wonder how the performance will be compared to my poor dead extreme edition. Which, by the way,, ran hot and was taken off the market by alienware two weeks after I bought it. It still kicked butt, but now that it's kicked the dust, I hope I can find condolence in my new rig. I'll keep up to par, and tell you the difference or my opionion of the difference between intel and amd. Nice to be back.
Astronut
I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that my new Area 51 extreme edition laptop I bought last year, died. I killed it. Not pre-meditated, just accidentally. The two gig memory combined with the 3.2 ghz extreme processor made the latency to high. I tried everything to lower it, and since I build my own desktops, i figured I'd remove a gig of ram and do a "self=fix". Don't ever try this at home. I never had a laptop that had the memory stored under the keyboard like my alien. So I grounded myself (or so I thought) and removed the keyboard and a stick of memory) then when I went to turn it on, it showed no signs of life. Dead as a doornail. I FRIED THE MOTHERBOARD. I new the only thinkg I could do was learn from my mistake and sell the excellent hardware I had configured with it. I got around 900 dollors, (it was a $4,000 dollar lap) then saved up for the new one I'm getting which is in stage 3 at the moment/ I chose the Auroroa m 7700 dual core athlon 60 FX, with clear view screen, 100 gig hardrive 7,200 rmp, two gigs of ram, the r/w dvd cd r/w combo drive, and now I wait and wonder how the performance will be compared to my poor dead extreme edition. Which, by the way,, ran hot and was taken off the market by alienware two weeks after I bought it. It still kicked butt, but now that it's kicked the dust, I hope I can find condolence in my new rig. I'll keep up to par, and tell you the difference or my opionion of the difference between intel and amd. Nice to be back.
Astronut
