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i built my freind a $2,500 editing computer
1X Antec 3800BK Black Mid Tower 400W for $148.00
1X Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz -F -2MB - 800MHz - LGA775 Original Boxed - for $226.00
1X Intel D945PVSLKR w/Sound+SATA+Firewire+Lan& PCI Express for $139.00
1X Seagate 80GB 7200RPM S-ATAII Hard Drive - IDE for $69.00 ( Seagate 80GB SATA is now out of stock )
2X Seagate 200GB 7200RPM S-ATA Hard Drive for $216.00
4X Kingston 512MB PC-4200 DDR2-533MHz for $220.00
1X Pioneer DVR-110/10 16X DVDRW - Dual Layer Black for $75.00 ( Teac is now out of stock )
1X Inno3D Geforce PCX 6600 256MB w/TV-OUT for $148.00 (was going to get him a P650 PCI-e but they where out of stock so we seteled for less
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2x viewsonic 17' LCDs 8ms ones
and a pair of referance audio monitors from M-audio
this freind is my students as well.. i thought him all about editing and using avid not just a s a user but also as a creative person...
ok my computer is a few yrs old... still running on an 865 MBD with a 2GHz PIV with 400 FSB and 1 GB of DDR 400.. and my trusty matrox G550
well i did all of this for free (he paid for the parts... i got them and put the damnd thing together)
he works at a TV station here .. he is an Assistant Producer.... so he was in one of the waerhouses and he saw an original Avid costomised Keyboard ... which i didnt get to see untill mutch later... so the people there said he can have it since they had no particualr use forit and it was just lying there... he was gloting how his KBD was original and mine was from a third party (well his turned out to be mayde by compaq lol)
any way as a joke i told him that since this is his first real computer that he had better give it to me and take mine instead beacuse he will simply screw it up ... and its better to screw up something old and let the pro work on the good machine...
... ofcourse he declined... his GF was over here when i was handing him the PC... he was still gloating about the KBD.. i took her aside and said that the KBD is not going to work and that the computer is not going to last more than 24hrs befor he brakes something in it......
off they whent....
in 2 hours.. lo and behold.. i get a phone call from him.. the KBD is not working.. he brings it over.. i discover its not an AVID original and try to explain that to him... he dosent get it... i open it up and i see that the cirutry is all fried up... so the KBD is dead... off he goes and gets a regular KBD... ....
next mornig... i get another call from him.... lo and behold... he cant see anything on his monitors.......?!?!?
he comes to pick me up and tells me he was trying to set up a screen saver and did something where it indicated that the "monitor" was getting bigger and then he pressed ok and he couldnt see anything to he kept on pressing the butuns on his kbd but nothing hapened..... i cracked up laughing.......
aperently.... he was trying to get the DESCKTOP WALLPAPER to strech to the boundries across insted of bing this one small pic in between the two monitors.... he calls the descktop wall paper the "scereen saver" ... what does he do... he goes to the display properties nad takes the resolution up all the way to the end... the resolution is now beyond the limits of the LCDs so he gets no Image.... what i cant figure out is what he did to circumvent the 15 sec. timout that returns him to normal if he dosent hit OK......... must have been all those votons he franticly pressed..... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
cant wait for him to **** up again ....
1X Antec 3800BK Black Mid Tower 400W for $148.00
1X Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz -F -2MB - 800MHz - LGA775 Original Boxed - for $226.00
1X Intel D945PVSLKR w/Sound+SATA+Firewire+Lan& PCI Express for $139.00
1X Seagate 80GB 7200RPM S-ATAII Hard Drive - IDE for $69.00 ( Seagate 80GB SATA is now out of stock )
2X Seagate 200GB 7200RPM S-ATA Hard Drive for $216.00
4X Kingston 512MB PC-4200 DDR2-533MHz for $220.00
1X Pioneer DVR-110/10 16X DVDRW - Dual Layer Black for $75.00 ( Teac is now out of stock )
1X Inno3D Geforce PCX 6600 256MB w/TV-OUT for $148.00 (was going to get him a P650 PCI-e but they where out of stock so we seteled for less
)2x viewsonic 17' LCDs 8ms ones
and a pair of referance audio monitors from M-audio
this freind is my students as well.. i thought him all about editing and using avid not just a s a user but also as a creative person...
ok my computer is a few yrs old... still running on an 865 MBD with a 2GHz PIV with 400 FSB and 1 GB of DDR 400.. and my trusty matrox G550
well i did all of this for free (he paid for the parts... i got them and put the damnd thing together)
he works at a TV station here .. he is an Assistant Producer.... so he was in one of the waerhouses and he saw an original Avid costomised Keyboard ... which i didnt get to see untill mutch later... so the people there said he can have it since they had no particualr use forit and it was just lying there... he was gloting how his KBD was original and mine was from a third party (well his turned out to be mayde by compaq lol)
any way as a joke i told him that since this is his first real computer that he had better give it to me and take mine instead beacuse he will simply screw it up ... and its better to screw up something old and let the pro work on the good machine...
... ofcourse he declined... his GF was over here when i was handing him the PC... he was still gloating about the KBD.. i took her aside and said that the KBD is not going to work and that the computer is not going to last more than 24hrs befor he brakes something in it......off they whent....
in 2 hours.. lo and behold.. i get a phone call from him.. the KBD is not working.. he brings it over.. i discover its not an AVID original and try to explain that to him... he dosent get it... i open it up and i see that the cirutry is all fried up... so the KBD is dead... off he goes and gets a regular KBD...
....next mornig... i get another call from him.... lo and behold... he cant see anything on his monitors.......?!?!?
he comes to pick me up and tells me he was trying to set up a screen saver and did something where it indicated that the "monitor" was getting bigger and then he pressed ok and he couldnt see anything to he kept on pressing the butuns on his kbd but nothing hapened..... i cracked up laughing.......
aperently.... he was trying to get the DESCKTOP WALLPAPER to strech to the boundries across insted of bing this one small pic in between the two monitors.... he calls the descktop wall paper the "scereen saver" ... what does he do... he goes to the display properties nad takes the resolution up all the way to the end... the resolution is now beyond the limits of the LCDs so he gets no Image.... what i cant figure out is what he did to circumvent the 15 sec. timout that returns him to normal if he dosent hit OK....
..... must have been all those votons he franticly pressed..... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAcant wait for him to **** up again ....
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