PC for the woman in your life

[albert]

If you are wondering what you have to do to get the missus off your back when she starts using your pc too much and disrupting CS nights, well here's the (expensive) answer.

You get her, her own and have done with it once and for all.

Note the subtle benefits to bloke:

1) No longer does will the missus use my pc to play her adverture/ puzzle, role playing games.
2) I order her a Radeon 9800 Pro and sneakily give her my 9600 XT (that I got 2 weeks ago) and make a nice little upgrade for myself.
3) I can sneakily nick the PC3700 Twinx Corsair RAM and replace it with my PC 3500 OCZ RAM.
4) The nice overclockable XP2600+ can be swapped with my XP1700 fella.
5) I have a nice portable LAN PC to save me lugging my mod box to March next time out .

So like Slowhand has done, bought a GEF 4 for £220. For £1080 I just got me a RAM, CPU and GFX upgrade, and got the missus off my back.

Oh and she's paying £900 for it   .

Shuttle Spacewalker XPC SN45G nForce2 Ultra 400 Aluminium Barebones System (FS-020-SH)
£151.58
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 160GB 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-012-MD)
£76.38
Corsair 512MB DDR XMS3700PT TwinX (2x256MB) Platinum CAS3 (MY-022-CS)
£104.58
Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop - OEM (KB-010-MS)
£40.54
MSI X48 Active Panel 48x/24x/16x CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive - Retail (CD-007-MS)
£38.89
XP2600 OEM AIUHB
£64.21
Silver 3.5" Floppy Drive
£11.16
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB DDR TV-Out/DVI - Retail (GX-017-SP)
£223.19
AG Neovo S-17 Black 17ins TFT Digital & Analogue 15ms Access Time & Glass Fronted
£323.09
Inspire 5.1 5100 42w Speaker Set -5 Satellites (6w Each) + 12w Sub Woofer - Bulk Version OEM
£45.62
Total: £1079.24

I must be mad.  

And not a bad little system for just over a grand all in.

[Norm]

Nice one Albert,I had the same problem with the added burden of 2 daughters(8 year old plays cs ),so they all have there own computers now,but cost me an arm and a leg(But its worth every penny )

[DuVeL]

A few questions:
1)Does she go on the internet?
2)Does she know this link?
3)Did you delete all the cookies and stuff from your old comp?
 

[brass]

Nice move Albert, hope you didn't have/left any of Benny's downloads from the LAN on the machine :ph34r:

[albert]

Originally posted by DuVeL@Jan 4 2004, 06:21 PM
A few questions:
1)Does she go on the internet?
2)Does she know this link?
3)Did you delete all the cookies and stuff from your old comp?
 

Answers:
1) Yes
2) Yes
3) Yes
 
She knows about dMw, I keep trying to convinve her I'm off with several of my other women when I go to a LAN but that just makes her laugh.

Oh and she asked me to get a few things from Benny at the LAN   .