Yes, but then again we are nerds and actually enjoy putting machines together. I usually just build a middle of the road rig every 2-3 years as well. Then upgrade everybody else in the family when i build a new box. While I think some people could go 10 years without needing a new machine...I think that might be pushing it a bit for many. But 5-6 years for lots of people is not abnormal.
Yeah, me too. I'm running a Q9550 with a mild overclock, an Nvidia 9800GTX+ (I'm admitedly not a hard core gamer), I have an Antec P182 case with a Corsair Modular power supply and an Intel X25-M Gen 2 80GB SSD drive and a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black for storage. It's not too shappy of a box.
I didn't want to wait this long...why forgo fantastic performance and extremely low access times now? I always see people pushing off the move to SSD until they can RAID it and crank even more performance out of it. I just find it funny as often they are using 70MB/s mechanical drives and could jump to well over 200MB/s with an SSD drive...with almost non-existent access times. To me, the best of both worlds is a high performance high capacity mechanical drive for storage and an SSD for OS and Apps. Great performance, reasonable price. My total hard drive investment is about $389 for the SSD and the WD Caviar Black.
It's a discussion about piracy, which isn't an open and a shut case. I see no reason why we would close this thread, people are just sharing their opinions, experiences and viewpoints.
Sharing Technet keys is a big no-no.I personally dont have a pirated OS, i got Win7 pro through tafe with MSDN Academic Alliance. and then my Friend got a Technet liscence and gave me a pro key (Legal?) software wise, it depends usually i will pirate it and try it, if i like it i will buy it, if i dont i will remove it and delete all the files
i can't say anything about testing illegal torrents, i do it quite often with various software and games, that i intend to purchase to make sure i like them. and of course ripping my video collection to my media center pc probably wasn't legal, but i'll view my media how i choose in my own home, and i'll confess i helped my sister get every disney movie we couldn't find legally for her kids, but really many of those have been out of circulation for ages, when is the last time you saw puff the magic dragon on dvd?(if we could have found them we would have bought them)I personally dont have a pirated OS, i got Win7 pro through tafe with MSDN Academic Alliance. and then my Friend got a Technet liscence and gave me a pro key (Legal?) software wise, it depends usually i will pirate it and try it, if i like it i will buy it, if i dont i will remove it and delete all the files
i can't say anything about testing illegal torrents, i do it quite often with various software and games, that i intend to purchase to make sure i like them. and of course ripping my video collection to my media center pc probably wasn't legal, but i'll view my media how i choose in my own home, and i'll confess i helped my sister get every disney movie we couldn't find legally for her kids, but really many of those have been out of circulation for ages, when is the last time you saw puff the magic dragon on dvd?(if we could have found them we would have bought them)I personally dont have a pirated OS, i got Win7 pro through tafe with MSDN Academic Alliance. and then my Friend got a Technet liscence and gave me a pro key (Legal?) software wise, it depends usually i will pirate it and try it, if i like it i will buy it, if i dont i will remove it and delete all the files
Don't forget that stolen and hacked copies could also include some major security risks that should be taken into account before being used as well. So many people just assume that all is fine, or their computer, privacy or information is not important.
