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Well, it's not really my comp yet ( its LSTV's) but 'mine' looks prety cool.
Not simply a boring beige box, it sports a customized design: Wood pattern. Since LSTV works for a big computer company, he can get all sorts of software and little goodies. Of course, this comp is now 2 years old, and he gets another one for free every couple of years.
(Drat him!)

My Computer...

Name: "The Gnome"...
HDD1: "HAL" - partition of 10gb for Windows and utilities.
HDD2: "SHODAN" - HDD of 40gb for games.
HDD3: "XERXES" - partition of 10gb for mp3s and other stuff like that.
CPU: P3-866
RAM: 512, SDRAM PC-133
GFX: XFX GeForce4 Ti4200
Sound: Hercules Gametheater XP
OS: Win98 (soon to be dual boot with Linux)

System perks:
Terribly twitchy system ju-ju.

Peripherals:
OEM Keyboard.
Microshite Intellimouse Optical
Microshite Sidewinder Precision 2 (got it in a bundle with FS2002 after my Wingman Force Feedback exploded)
Logitech Wingman Gamepad
4.1 Altec Lansing surround sound.

Mine is a plain ol' gray box from CompUSA, the only unusual thing about it being the fact that it has four 5.5" external bays.

Name: Rob's Computar
Processor: AMD Athlon 950
Mobo: AOpen AK73 Pro(A)
Video: Radeon 8500LE 128MB
Audio: Turtle Beach Santa Cruz (sweet card, but my speakers suck)
RAM: 384 MB PC133 SDRAM (IIRC...)
Hard Drive: Maxtor 40gb 7200RPM
Disc Drives: Iomega ZIP100 internal (scrounged from old Compaq Presario 5030), some generic DVD-ROM I got off a friend for 30 bucks (not even sure how fast it is), Yamaha 1020EZ CDRW (or something; it burns at 16, reads at 40), and a generic floppy scrounged from an old HP Vectra
Miscellaneous crap: USB card, Gravis Gamepad Pro, ATI TV Wonder USB, Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro and Intellimouse Explorer.

Pics later when I borrow my dad's Olympus digicam.

I'll have to get a picture of this hunk o junk up. Here's it's specs though.

AMD 1700 XP+ (1466mhz)
PC133 640mb RAM (so far)
CD-RW 48x12x48x
Asus Motherboard AVT something-or-other
Asus 64mb GeForce 4 MX420 video card
Standard Sound Blaster Live sound card
IBM 80gb Hard drive
17" monitor
standard keyboard
Logitech Trackman Marble + (just got the fucker today too)
Wingman extreme flightstick
Wingman dual analog force feedback controller
Cambridge surround sound speakers
Broadband via cable connections

My computer:

A Star Destroyer White mid-sized tower with four 3.5" bays (two external) and four half-height 5.25" bays (if anybody remembers the days when there used to be full-height bays). It has two lights and two buttons, a power button, and the one-fingered-salute button (i.e. the Reset)

When one pops off the cover one discovers that I have the following:

- An AMD Athlon 950 MHz (to become 1.2 GHz at some point) on a ASUS A7V133 board.
- 512 MB of RAM. (The best $39 I ever spent!)
- An nVidia Geforce2 MX400 driving a 17" monitor at 1024x768x64K (I could go higher, but I'm very happy with that resolution.)
- A Sound Blaster Live 5.1 which is really under-utilized (I've only got two speakers.)
- Two hard disks. One 40 GB divided into two partitions. One for my core Windows (WinME . . . eat me. I'm going to Win2K sometime soon.) install, and one for the apps. A 15 GB drive divided into two partitions. One 10 GB one for my data and a 5 GB Mandrake 7.2 Linux partition that's lurking around there somewhere.
- A DVD-ROM drive. Useful for the viewing of anime and other sorts of movies.
- A ZIP drive. ZIP drives are the most useful invention in the history of humankind.

current machine:

computer name: number3

configuration: hybrid
proc: AMD athlon T-bird 900/256
ram: 384mb PC133 SDRAM
vid: nvidia GeForce2 MX400 64MB
HDD1: 18.2 IBM ultrastar DDYS-T18350N SCSI-160/LVD 10krpm
HDD2: 18.2 IBM *prototype* DMVS18V-class SCSI LVD 10krpm
cd-rom: 16x Matshita (bad condition, corrosion/water damage, looks like shit (smells like it too), but runs flawlessly)
Mobo: ASUS A7V133 (recycled after it was thrown out by a local store, literally salvaged from a mudpuddle, seems to operate fine)
OS: win2kpro SP1 (not enough free HDD space to decompress the install file since the drive is full of backups from both of my other failed comps.)
sound: on board trash codec


yes, i'm down to this pile of junk now...

got the damned #2 back up... even worse config than before....

current system:

computer name: Milennium Falcon
configuration: hybrid/kludge
proc: AMD athlon 500/512k
ram: 384MB PC133 SDRAM
vid: nvidia GeForce2 MX400
HDD1: 9.1gb IBM *prototype* DCHS09W-class SCSI-2/wide
HDD2: 4.77gb IBM *prototype* DCHS04W-class SCSI-2/wide
HDD3: 18.2gb IBM *prototype* DMVS18V-class SCSI-LVD
cd-rom: hitachi 8x32 DVD-rom
other: ZIP 100 IDE internal
OS: win2k pro SP1

yes, now one machine has the misfortune of having all but one of the prototype drives at one time...

now i'm pissed, i got it running fine with a kludge config (see above), and you know what happens, the same damned problem happens again... by some odd chance i disconnected the USB mouse from the forward ports and what do you know, it fucking boots up fine, plug in the mouse, it installed it, now it runs fine... it seems this bastardized POS developed a quirk about the forward USB ports i installed... (either that or the glue on the velcro is slightly conductive)

bumped at einhander snoman's request...

Thank you. That bites about the USB stuffup.

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Thank you. That bites about the USB stuffup.

probably messed up that cable...

This is my computer.

If you look closley, you can see Korean named icons

j1j2j3 wrote:This is my computer.

If you look closley, you can see Korean named icons

The specs are

CPU : P4 Northwood 1.6A @ 2.13Ghz
RAM : Dual Channel Rambus 512Mb ( Samsung PC1066 )
VGA : Geforce 2 MX 400 32Mb
HDD : Seagate Barracudda 4 80Gb x 2
ODD : Teac 40x CD-rom , Samsung DVD CDRW Combo( 16 40 40 24 40 )
ETC : Zalman Noiseless cooling system, Hiroichi 300W noiseless power supply, I-don't-remember case with 2 ultra blue indicator lamps

LCD : Samsung 175s with 180/180 veiwable and 20ms response time at 1280x1024@80hz

That's about all I can remember at the moment

gray box with a blue "i want to look cool, but fail to" part on it.
the 19" monitor has a "vans" sticker on the top right corner.

Computer In Storage

AMD Athlon XP (Palamino) 1.53GHz
Shuttle AK31A Motherboard
512MB DDR266 SDRAM
40GB+10GB 7200RPM HD
2x2GB 3400RPM HD
Promise ATA100 controller card
Matrox G400/16 Video Card
SoundBlaster Live! Value OEM
Supermicro SC750A chassis
Many a Panaflo L1A 80mm fan
Philips 8x4x32 CD-RW
Toshiba 48X CD-ROM
NEC 100MB ZIP Drive
17" Viewsonic Monitor
Microsoft Optical Mouse

Laptop

Compaq Armada M700
Pentium III-M 650MHz
384MB PC133 SDRAM
6GB HD
3Com NIC/Modem PC Card
Gateway 21" Monitor
M-Audio Sonica USB DAC
Compaq Mouse

(the lighting is lousy in my room, so the picture is a bit dark even with the flash)

Beige box that was state of the art...5 years ago.

PII 350 overclocked to 400
192 megs of PC133 RAM, the board's running at 133MHz with the OC
Matrox G200 vid card
32x cd-rom and a 8/4/32 CDRW
1st generation seagate 7200rpm HD, 6.5 GB
Runs on Win98SE and doesn't crash unless I try to run MShit Office or those shitily coded webpages with fucked up javascipts and animation shit.

It works and does everything that I need it to do, it's a tool not a status symbol.

phongn wrote:

(the lighting is lousy in my room, so the picture is a bit dark even with the flash)

damn nice.... i'm still looking for a laptop (p 266+) for school now that mine's starting to go.

It's an old laptop (the specs are above), but yes, the setup is rather nice

phongn wrote:It's an old laptop (the specs are above), but yes, the setup is rather nice

Especially the furniture Looks like an Avid edit bay.

Hyperion wrote:uh, i said computers... NOT macs....

Well *hrumph* I won't be posting my specs then

Acutally, my rig is an ancient mac, that with upgrades and such is more third party than anything else at this point.

Zip, Orb, several ext. HDDs, scanner, USB/FireWire, and two monitors - a 22" and a 17".

edit: it's name is Ashanome

Dalton wrote:

phongn wrote:It's an old laptop (the specs are above), but yes, the setup is rather nice

Especially the furniture Looks like an Avid edit bay.

I got the furniture from a dot.bomb. I just got the trackball, but this particular iteration of that one is a POS. I may go to CompUSA and exchange it.

I really want a Kensington TurboMouse (the classic trackball design), but they're way too expensive.

Ye Olde generic beige Dell system, with the casing cover bulged out a bit because one of the screw holes in my hard drive doesn't align quite right with the bracket. The monitor is a 15" TFT and I highly recommend them... no problems with eyestrain considering the amount of time I spend in front of this thing. The specs:

Pentium III 667 mhz
256 mb of PC800 RDRAM
nVidia Geforce 4 Ti4600 card, 126 mb RAM
8x/4x/32x CD-RW
16x DVD-ROM which no longer reads DVDs (*grrrrrr*)
7200 rpm OEM 20 gig hard drive
7200 rpm Western Digital 100 gig hard drive
Windows 98 SE
Harmon-Kardon speakers
A3D-based sound card
the aforementioned 15" Samsung TFT display

needless to say, I have many many things about it I want to upgrade.

*raises thread from the grave*

About time I got 'round to this...


Where Mr. CPU lives. Note the 4 external 5.25 bays. The Gravis gamepad resides to the right atop a bunch of jewel cases with the box from Norton Systemworks 2002. Underneath is a stack of old Astronomy magazines. My keyboard and optical mouse are up top. Note the veritable firetrap of tangled wires in the chair space.


The monitor. An old 15 inch(?) Dell topped with knick-knacks that have no place else to go and I haven't the heart to throw out (most are gifts from my grandmother). Note the top, which contains every Pratchett novel except for The Last Hero and all the Ender books except the latest. The Argonath on the top right solidifies my status as a sad geek.