Nooooooooo!

[bkehoe]

I'm sorry to tell you that the 2 Cceleron 333 machines that I had have gone back to the school. [img]/forum/frown.gif[/img], which means I'll do only about 700 blocks/day now, instead of up to 1400. [img]/forum/frown.gif[/img]

And now that I'm back to school on Wednesday, I may even have to switch off these machines and only switch them back on when I come back from school at 4:30PM, so only 8 hours max per day at RC5. [img]/forum/frown.gif[/img] Maybe if I can convince the computer teacher in school to leave on all the machines there for about 1 night in a week there may be hope. [img]/forum/wink.gif[/img]

A bit of good news: I am ordering an Athlon 550MHz based system tomorrow. Can't get the processors on their own, so a pre-built system is the only way to go. Getting quite a few cool extras with it too, monitor with USB hub, 20GB hdd, 6X dvd, e.t.c.

Hopefully d.net will bring out a client with a K7 core, but for now it should beat my Celeron 504, [img]/forum/smile.gif[/img]

So bad news + good news = nothing much. [img]/forum/smile.gif[/img]

Brendan

[mnx]

what school do you go to?? Is it high school or collage?? Just curious...

[bkehoe]

Well here it's called Secondary school, which is the equivelant to a U.S. High School.

Got a few hundred blocks off them yesterday, but that will fall. There is only 1 computer left to get blocks off, and then they will only be on for classes.

2 week waiting list for my athlon, hope d.net have a K7 core out by then....

Brendan

[mnx]

Here in canada some call it secondary school and others high school... (I'm in my last year of high school but i don't go back until second semester becuase i only have 2 courses to take...)

[Dash709]

Outa curiosity, who did you order your Athlon from?.

[bkehoe]

Evesham Vale.

U.K. based supplier, but with offices in Ireland too.

They don't integrate things like sound cards in any of their decent systems, and have many awards - PC Plus supplier of the year is one.

And since I couldn't find any Athlons available on their own, getting a syetem was the only way to get one. [img]/forum/smile.gif[/img]

Brendan

[U-96]

FYI (and any other UK people)

AMD Athlon 650Mhz Slot A 512Kb
Mfr Code:K7/650MTR Ordered Upon Request £650.00

http://www.dabs.co.uk

I've used them a couple of times for mail-order and the service is good. Free carriage for internet order last time I looked too.

U-96