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It aint great...
Win7 64bit
4GB
500GB
Quad Core
Pretty standard fare all round.
However, and this is where it is sexy, It is clean!
It only has the Accounts package, Office, Thunderbird, Filezilla, Firefox and VS.
Nothing else!
I am going to try to keep it as clean as I can for as long as I can.
Obviously there will be odds and sods added over time, but no dross or dead wood.
It took bloody ages to get everything installed and updated.
(2 days in fact!)
I am looking forward to the weekend when I can get in and do some work on it.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Don't use it!!!
I fear it will quickly be load with heaps of stuff as soon as you start using it!!!
And don't connect to the internet! It's much more secure that way!
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It should perform pretty well without a lot of extra stuff on it.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Dalek Dave wrote: I am going to try to keep it as clean as I can for as long as I can.
Dalek Dave wrote: I am looking forward to the weekend when I can get in and do some work on it.
That sounds contradicting. 
Signature construction in progress. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Damn you have the perfect signature - CBadger
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I just got done (just now) converting my main desktop over to RAID 1, so my specs are:
AMD Phenom X4 3.4 Ghz Black Edition (actually an X3 unlocked to an X4)
12GB RAM
1TB Main RAID Disk
3TB Backup Disk
1TB Secondary Disk
Windows 7 x64
750W Modular Power Supply
GeForce GTX460 4gb Graphics Card
I wanted to build a new one, but I couldn't justify the entire expense. The base hardware on mine is still pretty good, and my wishlist was over $1500
Computers run pretty damn fast, until you start updating them
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2 days for those few packages ? 
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Throw the dog a bone man.....it is Dalek after all. 
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Thanks for that.
Remember I have a day job too, this is just the stuff running whilst I am at home of an evening.
And VS took hours alone.
Then there was the office stuff, plus all the configuration for 6 different email accounts.
Probably about 12 hours in total.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Did I get a bite.....
Fek me, I'm gonna need a bigger boat!
I know what you mean though.
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Admittedly a lot of the time was spent playing Battlefield 4 as I was waiting, hardly the most vexatious of tasks.
BTW, the PS4 is Super-bloody-duper!
If you can get one, do so.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I probably will next year.
I have hardly touched my PS3 or Xbox in the last 6-9 months due to being too busy, so don't see the point in getting one now, probably wait till around easter when prices have eased and issues resolved, more games available etc.
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On Wednesday I got my system at work upgraded from 4GB to 16 GB RAM. It's also a Win7 64 bit.
A fairly sweaty i7 CPU, but the 4GB RAM was killing me. It was sooooo slow when working in Visual Studio. Granted, the main workspace is a monster with 203 projects, but the extra memory has truly made a huge difference, so NotSoMad right now  .
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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No McAfee? No Norton? Your machine is deprived of the very software that gives it its identity and purpose.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I would happily burn in hell for all eternity than stick that steaming pile of sauropod dung on my machine!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Me too, ten times over.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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My new PC
64 Gb Ram
512 SSD for Op Sys
Intel i7 3930k (6 Cores, 12 Logical Processors Running at 3.2ghz)
2 Tb Raid
AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
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I dream of such specs!
[Wipes dribble from chin]
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Company bought for home use
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Along with the software to load, try configuring your network settings to use OpenDNS http://www.opendns.com/[^] instead of the ISP DNS. That provides a better security against malware and phishing sites besides a good speed in surfing.
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This sounds exactly like my current dev workstation, except for the bitness, built in 2009 when Win7 was released...October I think. Anyway, four years later, and loaded with VS6, VS2010, 3 versions of Cyrstal Reports, 2 versions of Office, 3 instances of SQL Server, MySQL, Komodo Edit, etc. it still rocks! Load it up and see what it can do. I think you will be surprised.
This machine has broken my 3 year cycle for hardware replacement. Short term, I hope to double the memory and do a fresh install to 64 bit. It'll also be getting a new case and possibly a CPU cooler/fan to minimize the noise...but mostly, the same hardware in a new box. Good luck with it! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Be warned: "dirty deeds done with sheep"
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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ahmed zahmed wrote: Be warned: "dirty deeds done with sheep"
Reads the sign that the local council erected outside Griff's house. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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The original DDDDC was one of my favourite albums during my teenage years.
speramus in juniperus
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Back in Black was always my favorite!
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