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Post your computer specifications
Well I guess its time to show off as i just built a new one :D
CPU - AMD Athlon 2000+ XP Fan - Coolermaster 5 Memory - DDR 512MB DDR333 Mother Board - MSI KT3Ulta 2 Video Card - Asus Geforce 4 8440 TI4400 128MB CDRW - Teac 40x12x48 HD - 120 gig:D running on windows XP professional. damn this thing is a beast!:D :D Later, Nick |
Ok, don't poke fun, but my dad has a lot of crap on this computer and he insists on keeping it, so I have to wait a few more months until I go to college to get my own computer, so for now:
(purchased in March 1995 and still kickin' hard!) Dell Dimension XPS Originally 133 mHz, Pentium I, 16 MB ram Upgraded to a 400 mHz, Pentium II, 96 MB ram Original hard drive was 1.5 gig, we added a second hard drive that's 6.5 gig.... Still runnin' Windows 98 up in here too..... Oh yeah, I have a CDRW too......:p |
the one i use all the time...
gateway-pentium III 750 mhz 512 megs RAM 20 gig hard drive HP CD-RW drive HP DVD zip drive (ghey) floppy network card 56k modem (LOL) ADSL modem HP scanner HP printer Boston Acoustics sound 21" monitor intel webcam logitech trackball Geforce 128MB Win XP pro the other computer: (skyler made it for me) Athalon 750 mhz 128 megs ram 20 gig hard drive network card (use main computers ADSL connection) 56k modem (LOL) dvd player floppy lexmark printer unknown sound system Win XP pro |
XT w/ tandy monitor....hell ya baby...:D
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I have 2 computers right now. One PC one Mac.
PC: HP 500MHZ/192mbRam/15gigHD/32xCDRW Drive Mac: iBook 300MHZ G3,256mbRam Thats it now :D |
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AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz 512mb RAM Dual 20GB WD Hardrive NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS Sound Blaster 16 Yamaha 16x/10x/40x CD-RW Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse (It's ballless!" Logitech Quickcam Windows XP PE HP Deskjet 842C NEC 19" Flatscreen Monitor not to mention my 300W Pioneer receiver hooked up to 4 3-way 12" technics, 1 audiobahn sub, philips center channel, and two rca surrounds all hooked into my "line out" for access to 3600 mp3s :D....and i wonder why the people below me sicked threir RA up after me.....lol |
CPU - AMD 2000+
HSF - Coolermaster HHC-001 Memory - 768mb DDR 2100 HD - WD 120gb Video card - ATI Radeon 8500, 128mb OS - XP Pro I like it, handles everything I put on it. |
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Looks like alot of AMD's? Are they really OK? I'm more of an Intel guy myself.
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P2 350Mhz motherboard: spacewalk something. too lazy to crack it open! 256Mb PC100 RAM Generic floppy Generic CD-ROM 16 Bit Voodoo Banshee video card Sound Blaster Live 8 GB 5400 Samsung HD 10/100 generic Windows XP Newsroom Edition my other one that is my main one, but needs a processor: AMD Athlon 800Mhz Slot A ABit KA7 Motherboard 256Mb PC133 RAM Generic Floppy Toshiba DVD ROM HP CD R/W ATI Radeon 32Mb DDR Video card(i would recommend GForce!!) Sound Blaster Live Platinum 10/100 Netgear 40GB 7200 IBM HD IDE 80GB 7200 IBM HD IDE 400 Watt Power supply Win98 SE |
Umm lemme see...suck, suck, and yes more suck. heh Actually it's not too bad. An older Dell. Can't really call it a Dell anymore though. It's a mutt.
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Let's see if I can remember everything
My two computer's i've built Dorm comp CPU - XP1600+ running at 1.53Ghz Motherboard - msi k7n420 pro memory - 512MB crucial pc2100 @ cas2 heatsink - alpha pal8045 w/ ystech fan(30cfm) video - geforce2 mx400 hard drives - ibm 60gxp 60GB, western digital wd800jb 80GB Drives - Pioneer 16x dvd drive, lg 40x/10x/40x cd-rw firewire card pc power and cooling turbo cool 300 watt power supply winxp professional logitech mouse and intel wireless mouse lexmark z12 printer(free w/ 3 months internet) dell 17" monitor(free, old part from a comp at work) klipsch proaudio 2.1 speakers campus network Comp sitting at home CPU - XP1600+ running at 1.6Ghz(1800+ equivalent) Motherboard - Abit KG7 Memory - 512MB crucial pc2100 @ cas2 heatsink - alpha pal8045 w/ ystech fan(30cfm) video - ati radeon 64mb soundcard - sound blaster live hard drives - ibm 60gxp 40GB, maxtor 80GB Drives - HP 12x dvd drive, sony 12x/8x/24x cd-rw firewire card winxp professional generic mouse and intel wireless mouse lexmark printer generic 16" monitor altec lansing 4.1 speaker cable modem It's getting to the point where intel processors and amd processors excel in different areas. So to know which one is better you have to look at what you use your comp for the most and then see which processor does better. You have to think now, you can't just pick the one with the higer mhz number. If you hate noise you're probably better off with intel, amd processors tend to run hot and require a better heatsink(faster, and thus, louder fan) than pentiums. |
Wow lot of athlon chips... Im surprized as AMD has steadily been losing market share.
I don't really prefer one brand over the other, but in the 2.5ghz spectrum INTEL is cheaper, more stable and faster. In the 1.5-1.8ghz area, the amd chips are dirty cheap. I have a Athlon XP1500 Laptop 256MB DDR266 CDRW/DVD Combo 14.1" Screen 802.11 Wireless Card I really only use it for surfing the web though. Skyler |
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How come it took so long to get from like 133 mHz to 1 gHz, but it took no time to get clear up to 2.5 gHz after that? Is technology just accelerating that quickly?
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Ok...this is coming in late, but I have the P4 1.8 GHZ w/ 1/2gig rambus RD ram--all bought a 1 1/2 years ago...talk about pricy, but it's still kickin @ss.
As for the advance in technology, the military has 30+ ghz comps...I've seen a few at my school--they are monsters. The towers are about 12' tall...and they have their own AC units (ok, that exagerating...but they're huge). These things run so many simultaneous programs it's not even funny. The technology is out there, but the demand has (and probably never will) catch up. Besides, who needs a 30 GHZ computer??? |
There is a Law that was made up by a guy in the late 70's. I can't remember the name of it now, but what it states, is that every 18 months silicon microprocessor techology doubles itself, so we are going at an exponetial rate of growth in speed and technology.
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Ahh I was a bit off, the law was made in the 60's, heres a lot more info on it, is quite interesting if you take the time to glace it over. Gives you an idea where we are going to be going here in the near future.
http://www.intel.com/research/silicon/mooreslaw.htm Another very interesting, but longer article on what the future holds as far as CPU's and what computers are gonig to do for us is this... http://www.intel.com/labs/eml/patinterview.htm Skyler |
they also changed the design of the chip at the pentium 4...its smaller and faster, easier to develop further upon...so its all about technological enhancements....
titan is right...who needs a 30ghz computer?....YET....imagine telling someone back in 89 when the 486 came out that you would use a 30gb harddrive....lol..."whats a GIGAbyte?"...wait 10 years then see if we have 30ghz processors...right now, theres nothing for personal use to need that.... |
I spent bucks overhauling this machine with all the bells and wistles. Waiting for less expensive DVD burner. I think there is not a real popular standard yet.
By far the best item is my Logitech Daul Optical "Wheel" mouse. I freak when I get on a system that does not have a wheel mouse. Maybe should pass some kind of law about that. Something so simple but can drive me Kookoo! |
JJ-Jonathon Think about the applications that you would need to utilize, to make a 30ghz CPU necessary, thats the type of stuff we need to think about.
Things that need instant reactions, or even anticipations of our actions... ohh scary isn it? Skyler |
Well, have you guys read about "The Cell" chip that Intel, IBM, and Sony are working on? It's due for production in 2004-5, and it is reported to be operating in the single-digit TERAHERTZ range (like 1.8THz) or so!!! :eek: :cool: I guess from what I read, they don't feel like waiting for Moore's Law (you know, processor speed doubling every 18 months), and the demand for faster processors in video game systems is very high. They're saying that video games in the near future will look like and be as smooth as the movie "Toy Story". The "cell" itself is supposedly about 16 chips integrated to operate as one somehow... Don't quote me on any of this, I just read it from somewhere, and I'm not someone to believe all that I read. ;)
Okay, the "Budget" system I assembled a month ago for "schoolwork" :p 1. PC Chips mainboard, Click here to see the specs. Has an AMD Duron mounted to it from the factory 2. AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processor 3. DVD/CD-ROM...think it's a 48x, but it's fast whatever it is! 4. Micro-ATX case w/ 350W power supply 5. NVidia GeForce2 AGP video card (even though there's one built into the 'board). 6. Lucent 56k modem (oooooooh.......) 7. Floppy drive 8. Iomega ZIP 650 12x4x32 CD-RW/CD-R drive (cannibalized from my main living room machine) 9. There's a totaly of 3 fans in the machine: one on processor, one sucking, one blowing. 10. First HDD: Seagate 40GB 7200 RPM 11. Second HDD: Maxtor 60GB 7200 RPM 12. 256 MB of DDR 13. Then there's the $5 mouse, the $50 MS Office keyboard (this thing is a fReAk!), and the $125 17" flatscreen monitor. 14. Oh, and the network cable and switch to network this thing to my main living room computer. I plan on adding more memory eventually (it'll handle up to 2GB worth of SDRAM or DDR), but for spending less than $500 on the system, I think I did pretty well. I just can't believe how stable it is! I'm running WinXP Pro, Office XP Pro w/ FrontPage, and MS Visual Studio w/ .NET framework. On my old Win98se system, the C++ compiler seemed to crash it about every other time I'd compile a program. :mad: Can't believe how nice the .VOB~.AVI conversions are. Very stable!!! I used to belong to the Intel camp, as well. The support from AMD is outstanding comparatively! Oh, and you Apple guys aren't allowed to post here..... ;) J/K!!!! |
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capri, have you seen some screen shots of doom3 (coming out beginning of next year)? That's pretty damn close to toy story graphics already.
There's lots of places where we need more processing power. Graphics companies could use them to create better special effects quicker and cheaply. I like to do some video editing/encoding and rendering graphics as well, it'd be great to be able to do that in real time, or even faster than real time. Games is where i'm most forward looking to it though, better physics engines that actually mimic real physics, having surroundings that are realistically affected by what you do, and better AI. I can't wait. Here is a good article about where the future of computing is going. This guy knows what he's talking about. |
Wow, that's a great article, man. Kinda like a "nice" version of Orwell's "1984", I guess. It's coming, and the stuff's only gonna get cooler as time progresses. I'll take on of those $100 pc's for now, though. ;)
Haven't seen the previews for Doom yet, though. Shoot me a link if there is one! |
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i heard about the new doom over a year ago...i thought it was supposed to be out by now...hrmm..theyre also planning a quake 4 and sim city 4 is almost out....thats the sweetes sim city ive ever seen, and sim city 3000 was sweet....
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Screenshots This Movie talks about all the doom series, but seeing some of the scenes being rendered in real time for doom 3 are worth the long download. |
I thought doom 3 was out already, too...I know nvidia (sp) designed the Ge-Force 4 specifically for that game. As for a gaming comp, see if you guys can find anything on a computer called the "Alien." I saw the add about 3 months ago, I think it was a 2.6 ghz p4 hybrid. I know it was made ONLY for games. Had 2 gigs of RAMBUS rd-ram...was so much tho, don't even remember the price...but it had a cool green tower ;)
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All i know is the day i go to shut this thing off and it says "I'm sorry HotRod I can't let you do that" ... I'm gonna freek !!
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzt Ouch !!! I think this thing just shocked me ??? :eek: |
Wow those pics of Doom3 look awesome!! But when did Doom go into the whole zombie thing? Does anyone know what the stroy of 3 is sopposed to be?
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"DOOM III is basically a 'retelling' of the original DOOM .... Most of the game is set on Mars, where you're a marine recently stationed at the Union Aerospace Corporation" excerpt from this article. No it isn't out yet, and the development team has been using ati's radeon 9700 pro to demo the game stating that it is currently the best performer for the game.
titan, it was probably an alienware computer, they're a good brand and is one of the next best things you can get to building one yourself. Looked and saw they have a P4 2.8 with 1gig of ram for $4200, get 2 gigs brings the price up to $5000. Personally I'd go with the gig of pc-1066 rdram(not offered in 2gb) which brings it to $4500. Actually if I were to get something like that, i'd buy all the parts myself and put it together which would probably drop the price at least $500. |
As much as I love my computer...I think I would enjoy a fully modded engine w/ a s/c instead.
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My home computer:
1 ghz 512 Meg of RAM 360 Gigs of HD space (NOT A TYPO :)) 2 video cards (Radeon + All in wonder..a tv card) Sound Blaster Platinum (4.1 surround setup) Work Computer: Dual 2.2 GHz Xeon Chip 1024 megs of RAM 80 Gigs of HD space Dual Video (geforce3 / radeon) 2 19" Monitors 24x Burner DVD Drive Work Server #1: 8 Processor 750mhz Xeon Chips 1024 Megs of RAM 150 Gigs of HD space I have two other servers (4 proc 500mhz and 4 proc 700) and two other workstations (900mhz and 600mhz), but that one is the fastest. I have downloaded at ~2 MBps at work :). Mu ha haha. :) Thanks, DoranW |
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Pretty wild servers! We just have a Dual P3, and download/upload at 3.5mbps.
Skyler |
!6 K
Does this mean my first computer, a 16 K Texas Instruments, is obsolete already? And after I upgraded to 48 K with a double sided double density 5 1/4" floppy disk drive?
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I work in the group the controls the company's email. It's fun, and also funds my Mustang addictions. :) Thanks, DoranW:rolleyes: |
You guys using gigabit ethernet?
Skyler |
Main Computer:
2000 Apple Digital G4 466MHz 80 gig hd & 30 gig hd, internal 60 gig hd Firewire external 896 mb pc133 ram Iomega Zip drive CD-r/rw Ethernet DSL Pioneer VSX-5400 100w Mac AGP & ATI Radeon video cards Dual monitors: ViewSonic 17" & 19" flatscreen Logitech wireless trackball Operating Systems: Mac OS 9.2, Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar (simultaneously), Mac OS X 10.1.5 Misc: UMAX Astra 1220S SCSI scanner Epson Photo 870 printer iPod 5 gig MP3 player Olympus D-460 digital camera ZiO! smart media adapter Backup Computer (hasn't been turned on in 2 years): 1997 Apple G3 233MHz 4 gig hd 128 mb ram 17" monitor OS: Mac OS 9.1.5 Paperweight computer: 1996 Packard Bell POS Don't even know. OS: Win 95 Take care, ~Chris |
Upgraded last Jan:
Athlon XP 1700 MSI K7T Pro R 256 2100 DDR maxtor 7200 40 Gb hdd maxtor 7200 80 Gb hdd Lite-on 32x12x40 CDRW Sony 8x4x32 CDRW EVGA geforce 3 ti 200 (64 meg ddr) Sound blaster live Viewsonic 19" monitor (e90f) Way too many peripherals... :P With the exception of adding RAM, I am not going to be upgrading it until my car is finished... |
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Ok lets see:
AMD Athlon 800 Slot A Asus K7V mobo 512 meg PC133 Dual Maxtor 7200 40 gigs GeForce 3 Soundblaster Audigy platinum Plextor 12/10/32 Pioneer 16x dvd RealTek ethernet Lian Li alum case with window rounded red IDE cables 550 Ethermax power supply 19" KDS monitor Microsoft optical explorer Windows 2000, XP |
originaly a HP pavilion 233mhz with 32MB ram and a 4 gig hard drive
now has a AMD athlon XP 1.53 ghz processor epox 8KHA+ motherboard 256 DDR memory ATI expert 128 video card onboard sound/hooked up to home stereo with two yamaha speakers with dual 8's and two cerwin vega LS12's linksys NIC coolermaster CPU fan same HP pavilion case..top and side panels removed same HP monitor HP CDRW drive, only 4x4x24..need to upgrade logitech laser mouse same HP keyboard with choc. milk on it and lots of other mini me's hiding in the cracks |
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