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03-14-09, 01:00 PM | #76 |
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That's a great idea, about setting everything up and making a backup, since I just got Norton Ghost, I should do that!
Edit: Done!
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03-14-09, 06:03 PM | #77 |
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Let us know how the payment thing works out with Black Shark, that's one thing that's holding me back, just not sure about it.
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03-14-09, 06:15 PM | #78 | |
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03-14-09, 06:44 PM | #79 |
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Black Shark looks very cool
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03-14-09, 08:01 PM | #80 |
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Dell's are great for...
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03-15-09, 07:54 AM | #81 | |
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03-15-09, 06:20 PM | #82 |
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If you do it on a boot disk outside of the native operating system, any such software wouldn't know that it even happened.
Also with that method i suggested you do kind of have to separately do incremental file backups of stuff like internet browsers, email, documents and other such files. This can be done automatically via different backup software, or when planning to restore the backup. You can also do a second incremental full image backup periodically for emergency reinstalls. What i suggested is pretty much for non emergency restores unless you have been backing up the other stuff. |
03-15-09, 09:55 PM | #83 |
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Hmmm... not sure how to go about that. I'm using Ghost 14, it supposedly makes a "full backup" and also does incremental backups.
Back on the topic of new computers, I dug out my old receipts, at least all I could find since my first Pentium PC. Dec 1995 IBM Aptiva P100MHz, 16MB RAM, 1.7GB HD, 1 MB video card: $2698 June 1999 Gateway 500 Pentium III 500MHz, 160MB RAM, 13.5GB HD, nVidia TNT1 6MB card: $2069 Sept 2002 Gateway 500X Pentium 4 2.4GHz, 512MB RAM, 80GB HD*, GeForce Ti4200 128MB card: $1439 Mar 2009 Dell XPS630i Core2 E8400 3GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HD, GeForce 9800GT SLI 1GB cards: $1100 Isn't it cool how they hardware is getting better expotentially while getting cheaper too? I suppose when I'm 60, I'll get a PC that is 100x better and will cost the same as a pack of gum! *not even showing the fraction anymore
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03-16-09, 12:32 PM | #84 |
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Well I'm not sure ghost can do individual file/folder replication which is kind of what you need, that or you do a regular incremental backup (basicly thats updating to an existing backup) for emergencies which is fine if you dont mind it taking up a lot of space.
The entire point is to keep some sort of continual backup of locations on the computer that change (like email, browser favorites, save games and settings for games, documents, desktops, etc) to supplement the clean reinstall image so that data is not lost when re imaging or if there is a hardware failure (mainly this is to protect against hardware failure, as if you doing a normal reinstalling of the image you can just simply backup on the spot by hand right before. So basically you can do a regular full incremental backup to protect against a hard drive failure. Its the easiest to set up and do but the most space consuming as it will back up everything in the selected partition. Or you can set up automatic file/folder replication for those parts that you want backed up (replication means the selected files will be duplicated at the location specified). Depending on the program used you can do anything from x days between backups, or monitored on the fly backups (this takes up processing power as the software actively monitors the locations for changes). Or you can just do it manually as you feel like it/need to. Anyhow here are some links to some free file replication software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_synchronization http://allwaysync.com/ http://directorysync.sourceforge.net/features.html http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ |
03-16-09, 12:52 PM | #85 | |
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That's being done daily. Is that what you are referring to? Wow, another thing I just realized--this PC does NOT HAVE A FLOPPY DRIVE! :rotfl: That's kinda weird for me... glad I'm less of a flashtard than before.
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03-16-09, 01:05 PM | #86 |
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These days floppy drives are taken care of by using Viagra
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03-16-09, 02:26 PM | #87 |
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Yep that would be it as long as its not backing up every single file. Also be sure its not doing that on to the clean install image or it wont be clean any more (well unless you carefully select what files are backed up and don't let it update the registry backup).
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03-16-09, 07:52 PM | #88 |
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Fallout3 using the same game engine as Oblivion, as far as i undertand. Not that heavy game. If you realy want to test performance try to get. Crysis on dx10, a heavy game. GTA4 - (not for kids) I think the developers push it too far thise time but its still a very good game with lot of stuff to do. Addicted as well, at least its my opinion. Any way, have fun with your new PC |
03-17-09, 10:47 PM | #89 | |
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First PC was a IBM PCjr. costed $2000 My second was a Cortex 386DX for over $3200 My third was one I built first generation Pentium 75 costed me $1600 parts Fourth PC was a lemon from Microbytes P2 266 for $2600. Never again.. Fifth one I upgraded custom build P3 1.4GHz total cost $1880 Sixth Dell Laptop Insperon 2650 P4 1.6 $3400 Seventh PC was a P4 3.2GHz fully loaded custom build I made for $3000+ Now my Dell XPS 730 Quad core uber system for only $2664. But I got a special deal. I didn't included my wifes many PCs and my mothers hehe which I paid for... Now If I have invested all that cash into hmmmm savings well maybe I would have a nicer car now.... But yes over the years Computers are much cheaper if you buy value PC's, Uber rigs always cost well uber... |
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03-17-09, 10:57 PM | #90 |
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In many ways the prices have slowly dropped over the last decade, however in certain areas prices have actually doubled or more. That would be the area of video cards were at the start of the decade gaming video cards didn't cost a whole lot, then the GeForce vs ATI thing started and video card prices skyrocketed to 500-700$ for a top line video card. Now we have been convinced that we need 2 or 3 of the 500-700$ cards and that they should be replaced every 2 years.
The biggest investement now in a new computer pretty much is the video cards. |
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