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Offline Commander Maxillius

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Re: Building your own case question.
« Reply #20 on: December 07, 2005, 09:31:58 am »
Quote from: E_Look NCC-9091 on December 06, 2005, 10:30:24 pm
Klingon parts??

probably just red lights and the case probably has many scratches and dents to simulate a real live Klingon actually owned it and ran WinME on it :P
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Re: Building your own case question.
« Reply #21 on: December 07, 2005, 08:08:45 pm »
Close... Klingon Parts, Fed parts, Rommie Parts, they are all built in China...
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Re: Building your own case question.
« Reply #22 on: December 07, 2005, 08:38:59 pm »
Quote from: Maxillius NCC-13443 on December 07, 2005, 09:31:58 am
probably just red lights and the case probably has many scratches and dents to simulate a real live Klingon actually owned it and ran WinME on it :P

That is just wrong.  Klingon's on occasion may be sadistic but never masochistic.
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Re: Building your own case question.
« Reply #23 on: December 08, 2005, 03:06:29 pm »
The reality is that the case has a soft-core klingon theme. There has been a little laser cutting and embossing done. The blue led's on the system have been replaced with red ones. Such as; the vga, keyboard, etc. had blue leds, they are now red. Fasteners (screws) that were all types are all now TriWing heads. But I do like the base WaveMaster. I have good airflow. The hassle I have is that the system can crank out more heat than I can get rid of in the smaller room wher I work. The A/C system was build up for this to be a bedroom, not a "computer-server" room. If I were building an other sys I might look at the CM Stacker for "use" and the WaveMaster by the entertainment center in the living room...

As your keyboard thoughts... or other custom ideas... Laser cutting out of the budget? There are endless possibilities with the vinyl graphics that can be printed.
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Re: Building your own case question.
« Reply #24 on: December 09, 2005, 04:14:32 pm »
Quote from: IKV Nemesis on December 07, 2005, 08:38:59 pm
Quote from: Maxillius NCC-13443 on December 07, 2005, 09:31:58 am
probably just red lights and the case probably has many scratches and dents to simulate a real live Klingon actually owned it and ran WinME on it :P

That is just wrong.  Klingon's on occasion may be sadistic but never masochistic.

I didn't say he did it on purpose ;D  The dents are from beating the crap out of it when it crashed upon booting for the 15th time in a row.
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Re: Building your own case question.
« Reply #25 on: December 10, 2005, 01:50:52 pm »
LOL..  After 10+ BIOS re-writes, and one VGA BIOS rewrite... There have been thoughts about using the BFH (Big F Hammer) at times... Now to get the Air Filter built up and exhaust ported "outside."  ;D
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Re: Building your own case question.
« Reply #26 on: December 10, 2005, 06:22:43 pm »
Hee hee hee...

... you must know my son, whose rig, built by yours truly, crashes on him three to thirty times in a row, often within as short as a one or two hour period.

But he'd better not put any "Klingon grafitti" on the case; he'd lose his computer privileges until his grandchildren build him another one.

Besides, his is a blue Raidmax basic box with blue LED fans and red LEDS somewhere on the motherboard, making it a Starfleet vessel.
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Re: Building your own case question.
« Reply #27 on: December 12, 2005, 11:17:06 am »
I have NEVER had problems with Windows ME.. and I ran it for five years.
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Re: Building your own case question.
« Reply #28 on: December 14, 2005, 08:34:33 am »
Quote from: SkyFlyer on December 12, 2005, 11:17:06 am
I have NEVER had problems with Windows ME.. and I ran it for five years.
I ran WinME longer then you and had problems w/ peer-to-peer networking.  >:(
I then upgraded my syst and it now runs XP and no problems what so ever. ;D
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Re: Building your own case question.
« Reply #29 on: December 14, 2005, 09:05:19 am »
While i dont reccomend WinME - i found if the laptop is DESIGNED for WinME, it runs similar to 98... ie tolerably.

500mhz HP pavillion, 64meg ram.  runs like a charm till i overload it with programs running - my own fault.

Have had very little problems with it.  Still... i'm glad to not have it as my primary machine anymore.  64meg ram bites.

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I have NEVER had problems with Windows ME.. and I ran it for five years.
I ran WinME longer then you and had problems w/ peer-to-peer networking.  >:(
I then upgraded my syst and it now runs XP and no problems what so ever. ;D
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Re: Building your own case question.
« Reply #30 on: December 14, 2005, 06:02:42 pm »
I wouldn't reccomend ME over XP either....

But it isn't a piece of crap like most people say it is.

You might need to tweak it a little bit, but after that it runs very smoothly.

I upgraded to XP because some games nowdays don't support 98/ME
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Re: Building your own case question.
« Reply #31 on: December 14, 2005, 07:44:31 pm »
64 meg Ram!!! Ouch...

My aunt uses an old computer with a original Pentium in it...and it has 80 megs even!!!
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Re: Building your own case question.
« Reply #32 on: December 15, 2005, 07:01:45 am »
Used laptop.  Proprietary ram - or i'd have upgraded it myself.  Wasnt about to pay 2-3x as much as normal PC100 ram costs to go to 128meg.

Still... for only 64meg ram, it did pretty well for mudding/browsing, which was all i used it for anyway



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64 meg Ram!!! Ouch...

My aunt uses an old computer with a original Pentium in it...and it has 80 megs even!!!
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Re: Building your own case question.
« Reply #33 on: December 16, 2005, 03:04:37 pm »
My sister had a Compaq designed for WinME that ran like crap until I put XP on it, then it ran fine.  It's got Linux on it now and it runs better lol.


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Re: Building your own case question.
« Reply #34 on: December 17, 2005, 04:03:21 pm »
I don't know if Stephen is still planning on building his own case but he might find this of interest:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1899276,00.asp
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Re: Building your own case question.
« Reply #35 on: December 18, 2005, 11:57:38 am »
Quote from: Javora on December 17, 2005, 04:03:21 pm
I don't know if Stephen is still planning on building his own case but he might find this of interest:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1899276,00.asp



Thats nice work!
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Re: Building your own case question.
« Reply #36 on: December 23, 2005, 06:42:08 am »
Quote from: Javora on December 17, 2005, 04:03:21 pm
I don't know if Stephen is still planning on building his own case but he might find this of interest:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1899276,00.asp


Another link
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Re: Building your own case question.
« Reply #37 on: December 26, 2005, 12:09:36 pm »
Quote from: Javora on December 17, 2005, 04:03:21 pm
I don't know if Stephen is still planning on building his own case but he might find this of interest:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1899276,00.asp



Thanks Javora, I'm still planning on doing It, It just might be a few months down the road.

Stephen

PS: thanks nem, that's pretty cool also.

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Re: Building your own case question.
« Reply #38 on: December 26, 2005, 02:51:36 pm »
http://www.g-news.ch/articles/nhp200nc/

Unlike this guys computer... upgradeable ???


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Re: Building your own case question.
« Reply #39 on: December 26, 2005, 02:53:24 pm »
Quote from: KBF-K' MalaK on December 26, 2005, 02:51:36 pm
http://www.g-news.ch/articles/nhp200nc/

Unlike this guys computer... upgradeable ???





LOL, years ago, i worked at an ACE hardware store in AZ. we sold tis product called good stuff. That mod looks like it was covered in Good Stuff. ;D

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