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One of my computers at home looks like this:

CPU: 3.0GHz Pentium-4 "E" @ 800MHz FSB
Motherboard: Asus P4R800-VM
RAM: 1GB DDR400
HD: 100GB + 120GB = 220GB total
Videocard: ancient GeForce2 GTS w/32MB RAM

I think that wins the prize for most mismatched computer. Anybody else got one more mismatched than that?
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The ancient Pentium 133 that my parents use for web browsing has a 40GB 7200rpm hard drive in it. Less than a GB of that space is used.
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For awhile we had a P166 w/ 64MB of RAM running a 120GB RAID1 array and NT4 Server.

My dad's company produces servers with 24 hot-swappable ATA drives with a mighty ATI Rage M video chip on the motherboard :D
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Darth Wong wrote:One of my computers at home looks like this:

CPU: 3.0GHz Pentium-4 "E" @ 800MHz FSB
Motherboard: Asus P4R800-VM
RAM: 1GB DDR400
HD: 100GB + 120GB = 220GB total
Videocard: ancient GeForce2 GTS w/32MB RAM

I think that wins the prize for most mismatched computer. Anybody else got one more mismatched than that?
Funny thing is, your ancient GeForce2 GTS outperforms the semi-modern GeForce4 MX.
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phongn wrote:For awhile we had a P166 w/ 64MB of RAM running a 120GB RAID1 array and NT4 Server.

My dad's company produces servers with 24 hot-swappable ATA drives with a mighty ATI Rage M video chip on the motherboard :D
The early ATI Rage 3D accelerator chips were a crime against humanity.
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For a while I had a 486DX-33 with 12 MB of RAM featuring a 24x CD-ROM drive and a 1 GB hard drive. (At the time, these were both unheard-of in anything that wasn't a Pentium.)

Currently, I have an old IBM Thinkpad 600 with a P2-300 and a fairly new 30 GB HD. This isn't as bad a mismatch (it originally came with a P2-233 and a 6 GB HD.
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PIII-550
512MB SDRAM (I've seen many P4s w/ much less RAM)
RIVA TNT2
40GB HDD
SCSI 12x/10x/32x CDRW
SCSI 6x CDROM
ATAPI 32x CDROM
ATAPI 8x/4x/32x CDRW

I win. Oh, and this is my main PC, woefully underpowered for what I attempt to do (3D graphics/rendering/programming(which is somewhat alleviated by distributed compiling, not available for rendering w/ Blender)).

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Darth Wong wrote:
phongn wrote:For awhile we had a P166 w/ 64MB of RAM running a 120GB RAID1 array and NT4 Server.

My dad's company produces servers with 24 hot-swappable ATA drives with a mighty ATI Rage M video chip on the motherboard :D
The early ATI Rage 3D accelerator chips were a crime against humanity.
Oh yes. He also has twin Opteron 242s on those servers, too!
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Well, it's a server, and those chips are cheap, so eh.

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RAM: 128 + 64 mismatched (I'm only getting 191 for some reason)
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One of my friends has in her multi-GHz computer a 5.25" floppy drive. Still in working order, even.
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trust me I used to be able to win the contest, with a 486 housed in a paranioia looking TRS-80 case....In fact when the professor at the local computer sicience lab saw that it was a 486, with a transplanted monitor, hard wired to a graphics card, still in a Trash can 80, his only question was ?why? (professor begins twitching)

my answer was of course that I wanted to make the most continously upgraded personal computer....
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My sisters godmother had.....AND prepare for your laugh.

An IBM with

A 75mhz pentium
200 mb hard drive
1mb ram
a 28k modem
no usb
no sound card
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Post by The Yosemite Bear »

does that beat replacing the power supply, and the whole back end of a TRS-80 just so I could put a 486mb, a few megs of ram, a CDR, a 3.5, and two 20gig drives in the space of those two giant 5.25 drives?
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