Hey guys!
Today I have for you all a doityourselfer puzzle. I'm posting this here, because I know many of you guys are college types may have encountered similar probs and might have an idea what I should do. Here is the scenario:
I am a recent college graduate, goin to grad school, and my family wants to help me upgrade my computer as a graduating present. Sounds simple right? Well my dad is an Everquest (Evercrack?) addict and his computer isn't going to be able to run the next installment of his game (too slow). So he is considering selling his computer, and upgrading my current computer up fast enough to play his game. At the same time however, my mom's computer has a small problem. It has an ECS motherboard, which according to my father is having trouble reading its current Athlon 1.2 Ghz CPU. It always reads it as being a 900 mhz. He called the company which told him that if he upgrades to an Athlon XP that the problem would go away (I'll get back to why this is relevant).
The Machines:
Dad: (loves games)
NEC Direction SPB 400
Basically a PII 400
320 Megs of Ram (upgraded)
PSU (upgraded)
Sound Blaster Live! Gold (upgraded)
GEForce 3 Ti 200 (upgraded)
Me: (musician/programmer, loves games has no time)
Asus P2B-F, PIII 450
256 PC100 RAM
Voodoo II 2000 (although I have a 16 meg TNT card sitting around)
10 Gig Diamond Max
Sound Blaster Audigy Platnium ex
6x Cheap DVD that I hate
4x HP 8100i Burner that I hate
Cheap Case that I hate
Mom: (photoshop mom)
Some ECS Board 1.2 Athlon
512 meg PC 2100 memory I think?
Matrox G450 Dual Head
37 gig harddisk
2 CDRW 16x drives.. Why the hell she has 2 of them, I don't know.
And of course the basic stuff.. floppies, nics etc.
Now what do I do?
One solution that may make everyone happy is if I buy a 1 Ghz Pentium III slap it in my machine, and give it to my dad. Then buy a nice motherboard for me, take mom 1.2 ghz athlon and buy her an xp. Then finish off my machine with some new stuff, sell my dad's machine fix my mom's, and call it a day.
Confused? So am I, and the kicker is this is my graduation present, yet I'm stuck with the work!
Kind Regards,
Rob
Today I have for you all a doityourselfer puzzle. I'm posting this here, because I know many of you guys are college types may have encountered similar probs and might have an idea what I should do. Here is the scenario:
I am a recent college graduate, goin to grad school, and my family wants to help me upgrade my computer as a graduating present. Sounds simple right? Well my dad is an Everquest (Evercrack?) addict and his computer isn't going to be able to run the next installment of his game (too slow). So he is considering selling his computer, and upgrading my current computer up fast enough to play his game. At the same time however, my mom's computer has a small problem. It has an ECS motherboard, which according to my father is having trouble reading its current Athlon 1.2 Ghz CPU. It always reads it as being a 900 mhz. He called the company which told him that if he upgrades to an Athlon XP that the problem would go away (I'll get back to why this is relevant).
The Machines:
Dad: (loves games)
NEC Direction SPB 400
Basically a PII 400
320 Megs of Ram (upgraded)
PSU (upgraded)
Sound Blaster Live! Gold (upgraded)
GEForce 3 Ti 200 (upgraded)
Me: (musician/programmer, loves games has no time)
Asus P2B-F, PIII 450
256 PC100 RAM
Voodoo II 2000 (although I have a 16 meg TNT card sitting around)
10 Gig Diamond Max
Sound Blaster Audigy Platnium ex
6x Cheap DVD that I hate
4x HP 8100i Burner that I hate
Cheap Case that I hate
Mom: (photoshop mom)
Some ECS Board 1.2 Athlon
512 meg PC 2100 memory I think?
Matrox G450 Dual Head
37 gig harddisk
2 CDRW 16x drives.. Why the hell she has 2 of them, I don't know.
And of course the basic stuff.. floppies, nics etc.
Now what do I do?
One solution that may make everyone happy is if I buy a 1 Ghz Pentium III slap it in my machine, and give it to my dad. Then buy a nice motherboard for me, take mom 1.2 ghz athlon and buy her an xp. Then finish off my machine with some new stuff, sell my dad's machine fix my mom's, and call it a day.
Confused? So am I, and the kicker is this is my graduation present, yet I'm stuck with the work!
Kind Regards,
Rob