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Name: Teletran-One

Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz
Memory: 2GB Dual Channel DDR PC-3200 SDRAM at 400MHz - 4 sticks of 512MB
Video Card: ATI Radeon X800 PRO 256MB DDR3 w/Digital and TV Out
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 High Definition 6.1 Surround
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2
Case: Alienware Classic Full-Tower
Motherboard: Intel Desktop Board D865PERLK
Floppy Drive: 3.5" 1.44 MB Floppy Disk Drive
Optical Drive One: Lite-On 16x DVD-ROM Drive
Optical Drive Two: Lite-On 52x32x52x CD-RW Drive
Display: BenQ FP731 Black 17" LCD Monitor
Mouse: Logitech Cordless Optical Mx 700
Keyboard: Logitech Cordless Keyboard.
Power supply: 480 Watts
System Drive:120GB Seagate Barracuda 7,200 RPM w/8MB Cache
Storage Drive: 120GB Seagate Barracuda 7,200 RPM w/8MB Cache
Home Networking: Linksys WRT54GS 802.11g Router
Network Connection: Integrated High Performance Intel Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Speakers: bargain Logitech 2.1 x-230's
(I have a set of Logitech z680's but they are hooked up to my game console systems.)
Printer: HP Deskjet 3650

Power Macintosh G4 (Digital Audio) "Simurgh Datafortress"
Commissioned in September, 2001 as Primary System

System Specifications:
Operating System: Mac OS X "Panther" (10.3.8 ) & Mac OS "Classic" (9.2.2)
Current CPU Type: 2x PowerPC G4 (2.1; Cache: 256kb L2 & 2mb L3)
Current CPU Speed: 867mhz
System RAM: 1.5 Gigabytes PC-133 SDRAM
System Bus Speed: 133mhz
Video Card: ATI Radeon Mac Edition AGP (32mb VRAM) (Will be upgraded to a Radeon 9600Pro or 9800Pro by next month)
Monitor: 19" Hitachi CM715
Hard Disk(s): 152.7GB Maxtor 6Y160P0
Optical Disk(s): Pioneer DVR-105 (4x DVD-RW)

System Peripherals:
Apple Pro Keyboard (White)
Logitech MX1000 Cordless Mouse
Lexmark Z53 Color Inkjet Printer
Boston Digital BA790 (Analog Connection)

Network/Communications Devices:
10/100/1000Base-T ethernet connector
Internal 56kbps Modem
Airport 802.11b wireless card

Additional Devices:
Sony DCR-TRV340 Digital8 Video Camera
Kodak DX3700 3.1 Megapixel Digital Camera and Easy Share Dock
SmartJoy PLUS PS2-to-USB Controller Adaptor

Why do so many people here have so monster-huge power supplies?

My pc works happily and stable with a mere 350W power supply...

Laptop

CPU: Intel Pentuim 4 3.06 GHz
Clock Frequency: 3.06 - 1.86 GHz
System Memory: 448 MB
Cache Memory: 1024 KB
Video Memory: 64 MB
RADEON IGP 345M
50 Gig HD

CD/RW + DVD (no burn)
15.4" 1280x800 LCD screen meaning...
... a full freaking sized keyboard! Can't stand the small shit.

It suits my purposes which is this board and the Greater Internet, movies, MP3 chores and Starcraft.

My laptop

• 1.6 Centrino
  512mb RAM
  60gig 5400rpm HD
  64mb ATI Mobility Radeon 9200
  3 USB 2.0, 1 FireWire
  Dual drive CD Burner/DVD drive
  15.4" 1920x1200 max res screen

Here is the slowest machine actively in use in my home:

(1) IBM Thinkpad 600
Specs:
- Pentium II 300 MHz (Originally these came with PII-233 MHz processors, but I opened it up and replaced it with a faster 300 MHz processor card.)

- 288 MB of RAM (256 MB + 32 MB onboard memory.)

- Originally came with a 6 GB HD. That, I replaced with a 12 GB Hitachi HD, which died a couple months later when I was forced to use the laptop as my primary machine (due to the heatsink falling off my desktop's AMD CPU.) Currently, a 30 GB HD resides in the beast, which is probably gross overkill for a PII.

- The original 24x CD-ROM drive, a ZIP-100 drive, and a CD-RW 8x drive.

- 13 inch 800x600 display with a mind-blowing 1024x768 peak resolution to an external monitor.

- Integrated 56k modem which only works right the day Windows is freshly installed, and stopped working the day I went to SP4.

- 10/100 ethernet PCMCIA card, 56k modem card, wireless 802.11g card.

- Windows 2000, on a PII-300 Woohoo!

Slowest functioning machine in my home right now:

486 DX-33 with 12 MB of RAM.
- 600 MB Seagate SCSI drive (FULL HEIGHT 5.25" MUTHAFUCKA!)
(In my closet is a 1 GB SCSI drive.)
- 1.44 MB FDD.
- 24x CD-ROM (Gross overkill by a an order of magnitude on a 486)
- 1 MB Trident SVGA card.

Running MS-DOS 6.22 with Windows 3.1

Slowest functioning machine I own, period, which resides at my parents' house:

IBM PS/2 Model 50Z

80286-10 MHz
~4-6 MB of RAM.
1.44 MB FDD
~20-30 MB HDD
VGA.
Running MS-DOS 6.22, and can be networked to the 486 through use of a serial cable and some software.

Dahak wrote:Why do so many people here have so monster-huge power supplies?

My pc works happily and stable with a mere 350W power supply...

350W doesn't always cut it. I, for example, have four hard drives, two optical drives and an A64 3200+ - I wanted the flexibility to be able to plunk in a nice new vid card sometime down the line, so I went and got a 450W power supply because it satisfied the 12V amperage requirements of all my hardware and then some.

Plus, wattage isn't everything; your 350W quality power supply could easily be equal to or even superior to a crappy bargain basement 450W power supply.

I always like to refer people to this Power Supply Guide whenever the question of purchasing a power supply comes up.

CPU: x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel ~2793 Mhz (or, in short, Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.80Ghz)
Op System: Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2
Memory: 512MB DDR-RAM (and striving to buy another slot with 512MB )
Vid Card: NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 128MB
HD: 120GB disc (can't remember the details of it now )
Soundcard: Creative SB Extigy (yeah, I know, old, but I love her )
Monitor: Philips 107E (17inch/CM2600)
One 3.5 Floppy disc and a HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4081B (a drive to RW CDs and DVDs from the company LG)
Also have a 1394 Net Adapter, and an Alcatel Speed Touch USB ADSL PPP modem.
Plus a cute and simple optical mouse from Microsoft and the Easy Internet Keyboard SE from Logitech, along with a Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2.
And a pair of Satellites and a Sub-boofer (sp?) from Creative Cambridge SoundWorks SW320.

My comp isn't top of the line, but it's a helluva lot better than what I used to have: (I'll post the specs for both)

Current:
Asus A7N8X 2.0 Deluxe mobo (nForce 2 Ultra 400)
-onboard NVidia Soundstorm Audio Processing Unit
-onboard LAN, etc.
AMD Athlon XP 2800+, Barton core
1024 MB PC2700 RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
500W power supply and a pretty blue case with flashy lights
2 hard drives:
-200 GB Serial ATA
-40 GB IDE (this is my C drive)
A decent CD burner; 24x, generic model near as I can tell (I took it out of a computer someone was throwing away)
decent, sturdy set of Plantronics headphones
CH Flightstick Pro joystick, bought at a garage sale for $1.50
Generic Microsoft wheel mouse

I am more than happy with that setup, seeing as I came from this:

Old:
Dell Dimension motherboard, circa 1998
Dell Pentium III, running at 550 Mhz
128 Mb RAM
Radeon 7200
Dell power supply and mini-tower
Soundblaster Live! soundcard
generic ethernet card

My current system

Originally Built as back in March 2003:

Case: Antec SLK 1600
Power Supply: Antec 300 Watt unit
Motherboard: MSI K7N2 with 333mhz FSB and Nforce 2 chipset
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2600+ @2.1 GHz and 256k cache
Drives: a 52X Creative CDROM and a Sony 12x10x32x speed CD Writer
RAM: 256mb of DDR 333mhz
HD: Maxtor 80GB 7200rpm ATA 133
Vidcard: MSI Geforce 4 Ti4200 AGP 8x
Audio: Used audio that came on Mobo, it sounded good enough since I primarily listened through headphones and I didnt feel the need to spend the extra money on a sound card.
Monitor: 19 inch Samsung Syncmaster 950b


Curently Running it As:

Same Case but recently added one front mounted 80mm fan sucking air in and a 92mm rear mounted fan blowing out. My average CPU temp dropped almost 10 degrees just from doing this (it used to idle at around 52 degrees Celsius before).

Same old 300 watt power supply and CPU (Both gonna be upgraded soon) and I also just added today the Vantec Aerocool copper cored CPU heatsink/fan system to my CPU replacing the old piece o junk that came with the thing. My CPU temp now idles at about 34 degrees Celsius with it and the two case fans.

A new mobo but a similar one from the same line, its now an MSI K7N2 Delta2 (I recently killed the original K7N2 in a ignorant uninformed overclocking attempt.....) Oh well, this Delta2 ILSR version has two SATA ports and the IDE slots are positioned a bit better and I now have 400mhz FSB support and it only cost $97 cdn.

Now running 768mb of DDR 400mhz RAM

Still got the 80gb Maxtor and now also have a 120gb Maxtor for backup and other storage.

My video card is also currently the same old Geforce 4 Ti4200, but I also plan on upgrading that. Likely to a 6600GT (I think they make that in AGP 8X now), or a 6800

Audio is still running off the Mobo but I now have a Logitech Z-2300 2.1 speaker setup and it sounds absolutely beautiful even though its still just the mobo audio hardware.

Still running the same Samsung monitor and don't plan on upgrading that since its still great and works flawlessly.



Ok now, that was just my CURRENT system but I am also in the process of getting parts for a new system for my video editing and other stuff.

As of now I have:

Case: Just 4 PC 767 Silver Mid-Tower case with transparent side panel, front USB ports, 450-Watt Power Supply and two 80mm case fans
Mobo: Asus P5AD2-E Premium with 1066MHz FSB and DDR2 711MHz support. (This is THE Pentium 4 motherboard to get folks, it just doesnt get better than this, look into it for yourself)
Drives: Two LG-GSA 4163b 16x DVD Writers
Graphics: ATI Radeon X700 Pro PCI Express
RAM: 1 gigabyte of High Performance OCZ 667mhz DDR2 RAM

I still need to get the CPU and the Hard drives. I plan on getting a 3.4 GHz P4 and two 160GB Seagate SATA drives. For monitors I will be getting two 19inch Samnsung 977DF+S beasts. (Not yet ready to switch to LCD because they arent good enough yet for their cost IMO, once they drop another 100+ bucks or so I may look into them, but thats a few years away.)

Current System, had it for a couple years now.

900 Mhz AMD Duron
Radeon VE, 32 MB
383 MB of RAM
18 in LCD Monitor
DVD-R/CD-RW Drive
CD-ROM Drive
40 GB Maxtor HD

Not sure on mobo, power supply, and audio. But I expect to finally upgrade it this week, planning to get an 64-bit AMD Athlon 3000, half a gig of DDR RAM, and mobo that will have an AGP slot.

Case: 2 ft. tall server tower
PSU: 400 Watt Starlogic
OS: Mandrake Linux 10 Official, Win2k Pro SP2
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2800+ @ 2100 MHz
MBoard: Abit KV7
RAM: 512 MB
Video: ATI Radeon 9800 SE
Sound: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live!
Master HD: Maxtor 6Y080L0 EIDE 80GB @ 7200rpm
Slave HD: Maxtor 6Y120P0 EIDE 120GB @ 7200rpm
DVD Burner: NEC DVD+R 3500A EIDE, Dual-layered @ 16x4x16x
DVD-ROM: Pioneer 120S EIDE @ 16x
Monitor: 19" Samsung SyncMaster 997DF
Video Capture/Firewire: Pinnacle Systems DV500 Firewore and Analog

Destructionator XIII wrote:

Jon wrote: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

Surely you don't still use that?

LOL, no.. but I still own it, I'm in uni atm but off the top of my head my main machine includes;

Athlon XP 2600+ (1.91Ghz)
512 DDR2
120 Gigs 7200 HDD
128mb nVidia Graphics
19 Inch Ultra Hyundai Flat CRT
yadda yadda

It works.

erm should I mention the nuclear powered oni-sendai with the all black keyboard, and direct neural interface for sound and graphics?

Athlon64 (Newcastle) 3000+@10x245 Mhz (LDT/FSB ratio:3x)
LanParty UT nF3 250Gb (9/14/04 Official BIOS)
2x256MB Corsair VS DDR400 (5:6 ratio used for 205 memspeed @ 245 FSB)
ATI Radeon 9600Pro 128MB
Promise SATAII150 TX2plus SATA PCI card
Seagate ST3160023AS 160 GB SATA HD
Seagate ST3120026AS 120 GB SATA HD
Pioneer DVD-120R DVD-ROM
Plextor PX-W5224TA CDRW
NEC ND-3520A DVD RW

Antec TruePower 380S PSU

Dell 2001FP LCD
Harman/Kardon HK695 2.1 speaker system


I also have a Dell laptop.

Whats with the kangaroo background?

oldest I still have

CPU: 8086
HDD: 30MB
RAM: 628k
GFX: Hercules Graphics Accelerator (Monotone....)
MNT: 15" Monitor, Monotone - Amber
OS: Dos 6.2
Floppy: Full Height 5.25", 3.5"

My first comp
-wipes tear from eye-
It now rests quietly in a ministorage along with my old atari 2600...

Current Rig (6 years old)

CPU: Duron 600 MGHTZ
RAM: 384 PC133 SIMM
HDD: 1 Western Digital 20 GIG HDD(Primary), 1 20 gig Seagate HDD (Secondary)
GFX: 32MB RIVA TNT2 card
OS: Windows XP SP2

LG 16x DVD Reader
Sony CDR/W 16x 8x 32x
3.5 Floppy
4 USB ports
Linksys Network Card

Mid Tower case with 300 Watt Power Supply
Microsoft Optical Mouse


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I'm looking at getting a new laptop soon to replace the desktop as my primary machine.....anyone have a suggestion on a decent rig?

DarkSilver wrote:I'm looking at getting a new laptop soon to replace the desktop as my primary machine.....anyone have a suggestion on a decent rig?

Pentium M's, but hold for a month or 2.

CPU: Barton 2500+
MB: Abit NF-7S v.2.0.
256 Mb PC3200 (at least another 256 MB should come as soon as I can get some more money)
80Gb WD with 8b cache
XpertVision 9800SE 128MB
LG F700P display (maybe a LCD in the nead future)
LG combo drive
Floppy drive
Logitech optical mouse and A4Tech keyboard.


I also hope to get myself a decent laptop in the near future, so that I can get mobile too

Destructionator XIII wrote: It is a 4 gig drive that I plugged in where my dead CD drive was (secondary master). As I type this, I still have the cover off my computer because I am not sure if I want to go with 3 hard drives and my CD burner, or go 2 hard drives, my CD burner, and a new CD reader (not actually new, but it is a 32x that still works). While the burner could take up the slack of the missing reader, I'm not sure if that is a great idea because it is a used burner and I don't want to over work it to death with trivial read operations. But at the same time, having 10 gigs of hard drive space is really nice (though I still haven't partitioned it yet... can't decide if I want more Linux or FAT32 space)
The nerd's problems....

Ah, the wonders of having an SCSI system...
AMD Athlon 1700, true clock speed 1500
512 MB RAM
Asus A7V266E mobo
Soundblaster 512 PCI
Asus NVIDIA GForce something or other 64 MB card
Adaptec 29160 SCSI controller
IBM 36GB SCSI harddrive
Maxtor 60GB IDE harddrive
Plextor 40Plex SCSI CD ROM drive
Cherry standard Windows keyboard
Typhoon ambidextrous cordless optical mouse
Multiscan no clue 17" 61 kHz CRT monitor

So, how many of those threads does that make?

I have this 16 megahertz 386 beast lying in pieces somewhere in my garage.....maybe i should fix it and fire that baby up..

Yggdrasil
Lian-Li PC V-1000B
Asus K8V SE Deluxe
Athlon 64 3200+ (1MB cache)
1GB Crucial PC3200 DDR
PNY Verto GeForce 6800GT 256MB
Samsung SyncMaster 955DF 19" CRT
Creative Audigy Platinum EX
Some old 4.1 Creative speakers that are next on my replace list (only using 2.1 of them, anyway)
AT Pro-9 9-in-1 card reader
Sony Dual-Layer DVD+-RW
Maxtor 200GB 7200RPM 8MB SATA
Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM 8MB
Maxtor 120GB 7200RPM 8MB
Maxtor 120GB 7200RPM 8MB
Maxtor 60GB 7200RPM
Maxtor 30GB 7200RPM
(Christmas HDD deals were a great boon to me. I can't fit any more IDE drives in, so any expansion will have to be SATA (still have 3 ports open) or I'll have to give up smaller drives)

Logitech MX-500 optical mouse
MS Natural Elite keyboard
Belkin n52 Nostromo Gamepad
IOGear 4-port KVM

I'd take a picture, but my computer desk is too messy right now (Glocksman, you disgust me).

I only know what half of the following mean. . . But I like my lappy

Intel Mobile Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
Data Bus Speed 533 MHz
Chipset Type ATI RADEON IGP345M
DDR SDRAM - 266 MHz
60 GB
DVD±RW - integrated
Read Speed
24x (CD) / 8x (DVD)
Write Speed
16x (CD) / 2x (DVD-R) / 2.4x (DVD+R)
Rewrite Speed
8x (CD) / 2x (DVD-RW) / 2.4x (DVD+RW)
Display Type 15.4" TFT active matrix
Max Resolution 1280 x 800
Video Graphics Processor / Vendor ATI RADEON IGP345M

these specs I do know (remember) (my Desktop is under repairs)

a 1.5 GHz Athlon prosessor
256 Mb of RAM
CD-R drive.
Soundblaste Live! (IIRC) soundcard.