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While it's not mine, my friend whom I'm helping with some problems at the moment uses as his only computer a Pentium 1, 133 MHz, with 48 MB of RAM.

I gave him my old 16 MB S3 Savage4 graphics card though. But the monitor can't display anything over 800x600 (and even that gets a little cut off). At least he has USB...

He's having trouble getting dialup working at the moment.

Wow. I haven't used a system that pathetic in a loooong while. In fact, we recently scrapped said system my sister was using in favor of a Pentium II Celeron. Anyways, mine:

Pentium 4, 2.53 GHz
1024 MB RAM, PC2700 (upgraded from 512)
nVidia GeForce FX5700LE, AGP. Upgraded from a 64MB GeForce4 Ti4200
Soundblaster Live! card. It said it was a 5.1, but it's not.
5.1 speakers, which of course don't work to their fullest extent. Upgraded from shitty old stereo speakers.
I honestly don't remember the speed of the CDRW drive, as the days of worrying if your dual-speed CD-ROM drive would cut it for a specific program are long gone.
We have an external DVD drive I haven't bothered to mess with, mostly because I don't feel like digging through my comp to see if it's got a USB2 port right now.
3.5in floppy drive, of course. I refuse to get a system that doesn't have one.
Haven't bothered to check for a modem card. We've been on cable longer than I've had this system.
72 GB hard drive.

My computer is pretty shitty, nothing compared to some of the ones mentioned, but I'd be surprised if anyone had a computer crappier than the one my friend has:

500 MB HD
32MB of RAM
No USB ports.
Don't know the clockspeed. I think it's 233 Mhz.

She runs Win98 on it.

Destructionator XIII wrote:

JediNeophyte wrote:3.5in floppy drive, of course. I refuse to get a system that doesn't have one.

I agree. I see new systems without one, and I just laugh to myself thinking about what they would do if their bootloader or config files got fucked up.
[snip]

I fail to see the use of them anymore. I can't remember the last time I've used a floppy bootloader. I know in the bit I snipped you said that CD-Rom's are generally impractical, but they're easier. Can't get Windows to boot? Get a proper Linux OS booted in there, get into the harddrive, and fix the damn thing without Windows moaning at you every 2 minutes asking me if I'm sure and if I'd like to reformat with NTFS, because it's *waves hands around*so much better!*stops jumping like an idiot*

Oh yes, to transfer files, I use use a USB pen. It's always in my pocket.

The computer i use at my parent's place is a pentium I 166mhz, 32Mb ram and 2,1Gb hardrive, 2Mb display adapter thingy with no 3d accelerations whatsoever, soundblaster16, no usb, 28,8 dial-up modem, non operational cd-drive, windows95. What is it good for? absolutely nothing. (except for reading e-mails and doing your online bank business)

Lessee here...

Asus K8V SE Deluxe motherboard
AMD Athlon64 3200+ (2.2GHz)
ATI Radeon 9600XT
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz (Sound card)
3 hard drives (Maxtor 40 gig, WD 80 and 120 gig) and a generic FDD
Samsung DVD-ROM (40x I think, I got it for 9 bucks thanks to an OfficeMax sale one of the SDN guys clued me into...Vertigo, I think)
Samsung DVD+-RW (Dual Layer)
Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro and Wireless Intellimouse Explorer
Sylvania/Proview 772 17-inch LCD monitor
Onboard Firewire and USB
Xoxide X-Turbine case (black)

And I can't do shit with it because I have a crappy little stock heatsink that I have to have replaced with this shiny new Zalman.

Machine:
PowerMac G5
Dual 1.8 GHz PowerPC 970's.
2 GB DDR-400 SD-RAM.
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB.
200 GB SATA/150 HDD with 16 MB buffer.
80 GB SATA/150 HDD.
Pioneer DVR-107D Superdrive (firmware flashed to 12x burning).

Peripherals:
Envision EN-980 19" CRT.
Apple Standard Keyboard.
Logitech MX1000 Cordless Laser Mouse.
Logitech z680 5.1 speaker system (hooked in via Monster optical cable).
Epson Stylus Photo 820 Printer.
Epson Perfection 1250 Scanner.

Okey, Current specs:

Athlon 2400+
Gigabyte mobo, based on a VIA 400 chipset
One burned out 9700 Pro, that thing is dieing
1024DDR 2700
CD drive
CD burner
80GB shitstain.

the new PC:
ASUS A8N SLI-deluxe
Athlon 3500+ Winchester
6800GT PCI-E
1024DDR 400
DVD drive
DVD burner(notice a pattern here?)
74GB raptor
300GB diamondmax10.

Up until recently (when my new, sweet, sweet notebook took over the role), for my bedroom, I had still quite frequently used this old computer:
Pentium 150Mhz (which replaced a Cyrix 686 PR200 CPU)
24MB RAM
500MB harddisk
20x CD-ROM
2MB graphics card

My main computer:
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ "Newcastle" CPU
Gigabyte GA-K8NSPRO Motherboard
RAIDMAX 500W Power Supply Unit
Paradise 128MB Geforce 5700
Kingston 512MB PC3200 DDR RAM - CL3
Seagate ST3120026AS 120GB SATA Harddisk
LITEON Internal 16x/48x DVD-ROM
LITEON Internal 52x/32x/52x CD-RW
Panasonic 1.44 Floppy Disk Drive

I've also got an (fairly old) IBM 30GB 7200RPM harddisk sitting around which I might install, though I might get a fan for the front of my case first to deal with the extra heat.

Super-Colossus (primary computer)
(the dead predecessor was named Colossus)

MSI Neo2-FIR motherboard (VIA K8T800 Pro chipset)
Athlon64 3200+ (socket 939)
1024MB (2x512) PC3200 DDR-SDRAM
Geforce 4 Ti4400
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz

~320 GB total hard drive capacity
NEC DV-5800C DVD-ROM
NEC ND-3500AG DVD burner

Dell P1110 21" CRT monitor
An old Altec Lansing 2.1 speaker set from 1998 (it works, although I think that's the next thing I'll look into improving)

Windows 2000 Professional

Magnus (server)
Intel 440GX+ (some big server motherboard with twin Slot 1's)
2x Pentium III - 600MHz
512MB (4x128) PC100 SDRAM

Western Digital 10GB HDD
Generic 50X CD-ROM
3.5" FDD

Windows 2000 Professional

Desktop: P4 2.7, Ti4400 graphics (128), 1 gig RAM, 190 gigs storage, 17" flatscreen

laptop: P4 1.9 Centrino, 16" screen, 512K ram, radeon mobility graphics, DVD/CDRW, auxiliary battery (6-hr life), wireless networking

Win2K Fileserver: P4 1.0, 256 ram, Win2K Server, 60 gigs storage, web-ftp server, audio-video file server

At home they all hook up to a mixed ethernet/wireless network behind some unit of our company's hardware firewalls (currently an FB-III 1000) running to static IP DSL at 1.5/768.

Faabio wrote:The computer i use at my parent's place is a pentium I 166mhz, 32Mb ram and 2,1Gb hardrive, 2Mb display adapter thingy with no 3d accelerations whatsoever, soundblaster16, no usb, 28,8 dial-up modem, non operational cd-drive, windows95. What is it good for? absolutely nothing. (except for reading e-mails and doing your online bank business)

Ha, my buddy still has you beat in the processor department :p

You beat him in RAM, HD, and graphics though. He's got two 1.5 GB HD's, 48 MB of RAM, and a 16 MB card, plus Windows 98, and a working CD drive. And USB.

Tough call on which is more pathetic. I think you win though :p

Durandal wrote:Machine:
PowerMac G5
Dual 1.8 GHz PowerPC 970's.
2 GB DDR-400 SD-RAM.
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB.
200 GB SATA/150 HDD with 16 MB buffer.
80 GB SATA/150 HDD.
Pioneer DVR-107D Superdrive (firmware flashed to 12x burning).

Peripherals:
Envision EN-980 19" CRT.
Apple Standard Keyboard.
Logitech MX1000 Cordless Laser Mouse.
Logitech z680 5.1 speaker system (hooked in via Monster optical cable).
Epson Stylus Photo 820 Printer.
Epson Perfection 1250 Scanner.

*shakes first*

Laugh at my CPU and RAM bottlenecks!

Shitty mini-tower case with a 300W power supply and one additional fan at the front, sucking air in
900 MHz AMD Duron (reports as anywhere from 908 to 940 MHz, depending on the program)
ASUS A7V-133 Mobo
512 MB PC-133 SDRAM
120 GB Seagate Barracuda ST3120026A ATA/100 HDD with 8MB buffer
Iomega ZIP-250 IDE
Lite-On 16x DVD-ROM
Sony DRU-530A DVD±RW (firmware flashed to 12x burning)
BFG Geforce 6800 GT OC 256MB GDDR3 (67.66 Forceware)
MAG Innovision MX21F 21-inch CRT (Old. As. FUCK.)
Creative Audigy 2 soundcard
Altec Lansing ACS41 2.1 speakers (The subwoofer that came with them was made of plastic and sounded like shit.)
Labtec APX-4620 44-watt subwoofer (Was only $10 at a thrift store, so I instantly bought it to replace the aforementioned shitty plastic one)
5¼-inch fan drive (again, sucking air in)
Diamond SupraMax 56i modem
Linksys LNE100TX network card
D-Link 4-port USB hub
HP Deskjet 840C printer
Logitech Corded Elite keyboard
Logitech iFeel mouse
Logitech Wingman Force 3D
Nyko Airflo gamepad

the shared comp i'm using with the roomate:

AMD Athlon 1.6Ghz
512 Megs DDR Ram
10 Gig Primary HD, Windows XP Home
120 Gig Maxtor Secondary HD
1 DVD Dual Layer Burner
1 CDRW Drive
ATI All in Wonder 128 Meg Video Card
Flat Panel Liquid Video Monitor

Craptop:
Compaq Presario w/333 MhZ K62 Processor
Windows Millenium Edition
5.1 Gig HDD
64 Megs Ram

Mine is:

AMD 64 3500+
Asus K8V
1024 MB RAM PC3200
X800XT PE
350W power supply
1 80GB WD IDE HD
1 250 S-ATA HD
1 dvd drive
1 dvd dual-layer burner
1 floppy

My shittiest computer working atm is a Intel 386 running Windows 3.1(I love me that ski game ) with a whopping 16 megs of ram and a 500 megabyte hard drive

P4 2.7C
Intel 875P motherboard
1Gig RAM
Radeon 9800 128MB
2x 80GB SATA hard drives
DVD Reader
DVD +/- Burner (should support Dual-Layer as well, but I can't upgrade the firmware as it's in a USB 2 enclosure. Pioneer, in their infinite wisdom, decided that you're only allowed to upgrade your firmware if the drive's attached to the chipset IDE controller. )
SoundBlaster Audigy
380W Power supply
17" monitor
Floppy Drive
MS Keyboard and Mouse
Windows XP SP2 (experimented with Linux, but couldn't enable 3D acceleration on my Radeon and my DSL modem isn't supported at all)

Pentium, 90Hz
4 MB SDRAM
100MB HDD
1MB Dedicated Graphics
Windows 3.11
2x CD Rom
9 Inch Monitor (640x480 @ 30Hz (256 Colours)
12kb/s dial up connection

Mr Bean wrote:My shittiest computer working atm is a Intel 386 running Windows 3.1(I love me that ski game ) with a whopping 16 megs of ram and a 500 megabyte hard drive

Dude, is there an XP version? I love it.

My Lappy:

Pentium M Centrino - 1.6ghz
512 MB RAM (pc2100)
60Gig HD
ATI Radeon 9000 (Overlocked by HP/CPQ and sold as 9200) 64MB
DVD/CDRW combo drive

Mr Bean wrote:My shittiest computer working atm is a Intel 386 running Windows 3.1(I love me that ski game ) with a whopping 16 megs of ram and a 500 megabyte hard drive

I miss the ski game...

Praxis wrote:

Mr Bean wrote:My shittiest computer working atm is a Intel 386 running Windows 3.1(I love me that ski game ) with a whopping 16 megs of ram and a 500 megabyte hard drive

I miss the ski game...

http://ski.ihoc.net/

A7N8X-E Deluxe (Will be updated 939 socket)
Athlon XP 2600 (will be updated soon)
1 Gig DDR 3200 (I know why with a 333 FSB)
120 Gig HDD (Will be updated, SATA)
80 Gig HDD
On board sound (nvidia south bridge I think)
6800GT 256DDR RAM
CD Burner 52x
DVD Burner 8x
Media Card Reader
Antec Sonata quiet case
380w Power Supply (I think)
Wireless KB/Mouse (Logitech)
Samsung 17in. LCD or 30in. LCD TV, depending on what I'm doing
Logitech 640 5.1 analog speakers

ASUS P4P800PE
Intel Pentium IV 2.8C
512mb Hynix DDR400
MSI RX800Pro
60GB of HDDs
Sony CD R/RW + DVD
ASUS CD 40x
Hercules Gametheatre XP
17" Shitty monitor
Koss SB-40 Headphones
Altec Lansing Speaker/sub setup
OEM keyboard
Microsoft Intellimouse Optical
Logitech Dual Action gamepad
Logitech gamepad
Microsoft Sidewinder Precision Pro joystick