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Dungannon, United Kingdom (Great Britain)


I'm good man, plugging along at the Computer Science course while working. Just got a house and stuff back around where I grew up.
How're you doing man? I think last time we'd spoken previous to seeing you on the train you where still at university?
A quad core clocked at around 3.2 ghz
4 gig of ddr 3 ram
2 gig ATI Raedon HD 5500
Terabyte of hard drive space plus another terabyte of portable hard drives
I'll need to upgrade all of it sadly, except the ram which ill just need more off, the hard drives are find too
Fortran's pretty easy to be honest, and shell scripting is simple enough as well.
Literally the hardest part is getting unix on your computer :D
Yea my mate did physics and he mostly just had to copy teachers code
Our teacher made us do it ourself, he just taught us commands...bastard :P
Theres a mag out there,, I think it's PCGamer perhaps, not sure, some popular pc magazine anyway. They have "making gaming computers on a budget" section so they tell you what components to buy and which are compatable with each other etc.
They usually have 3 or so such examples from around £500, then around £1000 then around £1500 I think.
It's where I got some of the advice for mine years ago :)
We used it for mathetmatical calculations, for repetitive lists of data that needed processing and stuff like that. It was relatively interesting except the math itself :P
Computer hardware is surprisingly compatable, you just have to get good offers and such on components. The most important thing is a modern motherboard so that your processors, Ram, graphics card etc will fit :P
Yea my pc i build a few years back plays skyrim pretty easily but that damn thing cost alot so it still has a year or two left before i need to start downgrading settings :P
I still use ubuntu but its mostly for fortran programming so i only need it on the laptop, and only a partition at that.