Battle of the computers

[Evil_Cartman]

PIII 1GHz
512MB RAM
graphic card: ATI Radeon 9600 PRO w/128MB ram
Monitor: Compaq TFT7020 17"
Hauppage Win-TV PVR (tv card)
SB Audigy
Networking
Two 80GB Hard drives
60x CDROM Drive
28x CD Burner
floppy drive

And the stuff i attached:
My tiny mp3 player (about 4 cm with 256 MB)
SMC Reader
Logitech QuickCam Express
Logitech Z-560 Speakers (oooh surround sound)
GP32 PC-Link Cable
Logitech cordless desktop
USB Hub w/7 ports
HP Deskjet 5550
Yamaha PSR-GX76 (music keyboard)

h34r: h34r: h34r:

 

[nerd of nerds]

no offense to meon, but.........thats actually a pretty sorry @$$ computer :lol: (altho mine isn't much better.....)

since people here seem to be quite the nerds...should i wait for the athlon 64bit or just get an opteron???

 

[Mofokubik]

Ah, my trusty Emachines...
1.2ghz cpu (intel I think)
voodoo3 pci
256mb ddr ram
Sblive!
40gb hd
Some crappo Cdrw drive
What else really matters about it. Im not nerdy enough to get a new one...

 

[Meonlyeviler]

sorry, but you bought a gp32, so you're already a nerd

 

[trooper]

I had a cyrix cpu in my first PC.
Shop brought.

Cyrix m2 333 (250mhz)
32 meg ram
4.1 gig harddrive
4 meg unknown gfx card
Cdrom
Win 98
All in a tiny sh*ty case

I wouldn`t mind, But i didn`t even get a mouse
keyboard or monitor with it, I had to pay extra. :angry:

I paid £340.00 for it. I was done :angry:

My current system:
Self made.

Athlon XP1800+
512 DDR (Crucial)
Abit kR7A mobo
Geforce 4 TI200 64 mb gfx
Sound blaster live 1024 player
80 gig IBM GXP120 (Deskstar) Harddrive
Sony DRU-500AX DVD-RW +/-
LG 48x16x48 CD-RW
Win 2k Pro
All in a lovely Aluminium Lian Li PC 60 case

Trooper

 

[RoboJoe32]

My computer got wonned by raid


Cheiftec black server rackmount case

AMD 2500 OC'ed to 2.4 GHZ.

one stick of 512MB DDR geil PC3200 RAM.

basic 40 gig drive (western digital)

52X read and writing multi-drive

Geforce 4 4200 OC'ed to 282 (core) 505 (memory)

And Asus A7N8X Deluxe mainboard.

only 300+ offa newegg

 

[Gir]

P4 2.53/400bus
2GB PC3200
Gigabyte sinxp1394 sis655 chipset
w/ gigabit ethernet
Tachyon 9700pro overclocked
LSI ultra160 card w/deskstar u160 20GB scsi 15k
Maxtor 80GB ata133
Tekram card w/(3x) 4.5GB Cheetah 10kuw
Audigy 2
Winfast TV deluxe capture card
48x TDK velocd
52x (?brand?) Cdrw
(3x) 1.44fdd -1 usb
Lianli black aluminum case+ Digidoc 5 and like 20+ fans, (2 per drive +6 case, +1 processor, ect.)
logitech dual optical mouse+apple pro keyboard (...amusing to see it recognized by Xp)
sandisk dual flash reader/CF cards
cruzer flash reader/cards, Jetflash16
Sony 17" monitor
XP pro, Reason 2.5

 

[rcx21000]

866MhZ PIII
10GB HD - WINDOWS (NTFS)
40GB HD - 30GB partition: DATA (NTFS) 10GB partition: LINUX (4GOT)
NVIDIA TNT 2
Cheap Sound Card
CD-ROM Reader (too lazy to look up x)

/me hopes that my dad's company will include building a new computer as an educational thing, so I can get good expensive parts with the ~$3000 left that they will pay for my homeschooling

 

[Chip]

AMD Athlon XP 1800+ overclocked to 1.67 GHZ, cooled w/ Thermaltake 7 volcano
512 meg ram
ABit mobo with built in UDMA 133 RAID
160gig HD, 60 gig HD, 30 gig HD, round cables
48X Lite-On CDRW, 5X Hitachi DVD-ROM
GeForce4 64 meg video card
SB Live sound card
5.1 speakers
Custom metallic blue case w/ 6 fans, acrylic window, neon kit, and 350w PS
generic 19" monitor

I had a cyrix cpu in my first PC.
Shop brought.

Cyrix m2 333 (250mhz)
32 meg ram
4.1 gig harddrive
4 meg unknown gfx card
Cdrom
Win 98
All in a tiny sh*ty case

The first PC I ever bought was also a Cyrix. I bought it when I was in 9th grade ('93) for $1200:
Cyrix 486DLC 40MHz (technically a 386 mobo with a 486 processor)
8 MB RAM (paid $180 extra to upgrade from 2 MB)
200 MB HD
2400 baud modem (fastest available at the time!)
1 meg Trident SVGA card
(no sound card)
3.5 & 5.25 floppy drives
14" monitor
large format AT desktop case

That is technically the ONLY computer I have ever bought. Since then I have upgraded a component or 2 at a time, every 6 months or so. The only original component remaining is the keyboard. It's the big, heavy, microswitch veriety, and it will probably outlive me, so why replace it?

 

[jot2b]

WinXP Home (did use Win98se until I lost the disc recently)

AMD Athlon 900mhz
Geforce 4 mx400
288mb ram
KDS 19' monitor (cheers to other fellow with one!)

20gb primary HD
120gb secondary HD (for video files)
2gb backup drive (my motherboard is RAID compatible)

Sound Blaster Live
Sound Blaster 16
Altec Lansing (2) speakers, (1) subwoofer
Benwin (cheap) (2) speakers (plugged into SB16 for specific DOS games)

(4) Sidewinder gamepads, (2) PC Propad 4's, (2) PSX controllers with USB adapter, (1) SNES original controller w/ parallel port adapter, and a partridge in a pear tree.

...and the most valuable component in my entire system:
Pinnacle DV500 Video editing board including blackbox and bluebox
w/ Adobe Premiere 6.0, manuals, and other software (I'm an ambitious young film editor!)

I take advantage of my family cable internet access (Comcast) and my computer represents the home base, housing a Linksys wireless router providing access to the family computer downstairs and a snaked cable which leads to my brother's PC. I assembled my brother's computer as a surprise birthday gift out of lots of spare parts around the house and a few purchased ones. This gave me an excuse to upgrade my monitor and Geforce, although I put some real money into his system, particularly the 50ft ethernet cable and Athlon 800mhz processor w/ fan. I even donated 128mb of my system's SDRAM.

Darkgod, I sympathize with anyone who owns a Samsung SM308b DVD/CDRW combo drive. I salvaged my dad's (came w/ his Dell) after he declared it broken a few months after purchase. A billion other people on the internet who had purchased the drive complained about it being defective, but Samsung ignored all emails, and provided no apology, fix, or recall. The drive now works in my computer's bay, but it is almost completely "skeletized", because after inserting a CD, you need to give the disc a few small taps before the unit wakes up and starts spinning. I'm dead serious, it's really ghetto! Is yours working properly?

 

[ColinR]

My first PC was a 12MHz 286 with 5.25" and 3.5" disk drives and a massive 40meg hard disk. 1 meg of ram. It cost us a grand and my mother wouldn't let me open it up to put a soundcard in it (a soundcard I'd already bought!!!!)

Before that I had a C64 and an Acorn Electron.

Since then, I bought a 486, and things have evolved from there. My 3.5" drive is the same as the one that was in the 286 (now 14-ish years old and still going strong!). Everything else has been upgraded at least twice (the case for example) and at most five times.

Athlon 1.4 running at various speed depending on the game I'm playing.
KT7A-RAID (I know it's old, but Athlon64 is less than 6 months away now)
two 20gig Maxtors running on a striped RAID array.
512meg ram (SDR)
Videologic Sonicfury soundcard.
Asus Geforce3Ti200

and all sorts of crap attached to it (video, stereo, GP32, Cyborg ForceFeedback, mobile phone)

 

[Evil_Cartman]

i dont know why everyone uses amd.

 

[Twimfy]

I used to have a Cyrix too!

Anyhoo,

My main PC:

1.4ghz Athlon Thunderbird
256MB 133mhz SDRAM
20gig samsung hardrive
Hitachi DVD Rom
16* CDRW
52* CDrom
A-TEK Geforce 4 MX 460
On board SiS Modem and 16bit sound chip (lame but it works)
17" samtron monitor (prefer the big 'uns to a flat screen anyday!)
Optical mouse
Silver and black keyboard

My other PC ( the internet one)

1.8 ghz celeron
16mb shared graphics
128mb of SDram
Onboard sound chip and modem
Basically it's a Piece of crap, on of those Dell advert PC's that my parents fell for.

My main PC however is custom built and despite being cheap and below average I haven't found any game yet that I can't run in 1024*768 in high detail. It's one of those anomolies of science.

My very first PC was a 120mhz compaq presario, installation of direct X would screw the computer up to the point where an entire rebuild was nessacary. The version of win95 that came with it had it's own Windows XP multiple user interface exclusive to compaq. It's 2gig harddrive didnt like this much.

 

[trooper]

i dont know why everyone uses amd.

Because it pi*ses all over the P4, Except for bus speed

Trooper

 

[kraahl]

networked to a PS2 devkit

Now I´m interested. Do you develop PS2 games?

 

[kraahl]

i dont know why everyone uses amd.

AMD>Intel
That´s why.

 

[Chip]

i dont know why everyone uses amd.

Because at a given clock speed, an Athlon does more and costs less. My Athlon XP 1800+ is the 6th CPU I've owned, and none have been an intel.

The real question is, why is anybody using intel?

 

[jot2b]

Right on Chip. Couldn't have said it better myself.

 

[Mark1970]

PC 1:
CPU: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 11 1.2Ghz (celeron with 256Kb cache)
BIOS: AMIINT - 11 Version 1.00, 01/07/02
MSI Socket 370 tualatin motherboard
PCI, ISA, USB
384 MB (55% Utilized)
Harddrives: 28.62 GB, 19.07 GB
Plexwriter CDRW, Aopen DVD-RW
Video: MSI MS-StarForce GeForce4 MX 440/440SE with AGP8X (NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440
Windows: 5.1 (Build 2600)
Ethernet 100/10
17" EIZO Flexscan F56

PC2:
CPU: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 11 1.0Ghz (celeron with 256Kb cache)
BIOS: AMIINT - 11 Version 1.00, 01/07/02
MSI Socket 370 tualatin motherboard
PCI, ISA, USB
384 MB (55% Utilized)
Harddrives:30 Gb, 10Gb, 8Gb
Pioneer DVD rom
Video: Asus NVIDIA GeForce2 DDI
Windows: 98
Linux: Mandrake 9.1
Beos R5 Professional
Ethernet 100/10
15"Philips 105s

PC3:
900Mhz Celeron (128Kb cache)
256Mb RAM
Harddrives: 6Gb, 4Gb, 2Gb
CD-rom
Video: ASUS TNT2 Ultra AGP
OS: still wandering what to do with this beasty.
Ethernet 100/10
TV-screen or other monitor with switch

My girlfriend's system:
PIII 650, 190Mb ram
80Gb HD
17" 107S monitor
Ethernet 100/10

All connected to the web with a nat-router & firewall through ADSL subsription.
Soon an Xbox will join in.

Cheers, Mark

 

[trooper]

CPU: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 11 1.2Ghz (celeron with 256Kb cache)

CPU: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 11 1.0Ghz (celeron with 256Kb cache)

Bloody hell, They are extremely fast PC`s :blink: .

Their over 100 Ghz each .

Are they overclocked .

Trooper