What do you have under the hood?

[Jarodaka]

I'm curious as to the computer everyone is running. Just being nosy.

I switch between a 2.4GHz P4-M, 1GB, 32MB Mobility Radeon 7500, Dell Latitude Laptop and my custom-built, aluminum case, 512 MB, 64 MB GeForce 3, 2.0 GHz Athlon XP... something... wow, I haven't played PC games in a long time.

I really want a Mac Mini! First I have to get a ReplayTV, though.

[The_Dark]

Asus K8N-E Deluxe

AMD Athlon64 3000+

2 GEIL 512MB PC3200U DDR (CL2.5)

eVGA Geforce 6800 GT 256

2 36.7Gb WD Raptor RAID 0

2 120Gb WD Caviar SE RAID 0

Lite-On 16x DVDRom

Lite-On 8x DVD/CD RW

It's a little bit custom and a little bit rock and roll.

[Ginevra]

Win2kPro (I won't change to XP because of my burner)

AMD Athlon XP 2400+ 2.0GHz

512MB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200

NVIDIA nFORCE Audio

ATAPI DVD-ROM 16xMax

OPTORITE CD-RW CW5201

Linksys Wireless-G PCI Adapter with SpeedBooster

[Scary Guy]

http://www.virtualblood.com/sgu/hitech.html

My computers are so bad assed they have their own website.

The BSD system is up but the web page on it is down.

[SomeDanGuy]

WinXP Pro (no service packs)

P4 2.6GHz

ASUS P4P800S motherboard

512MB RAM

40GB HD, and a 120GB HD

nVidia GeForce Ti4200 (Waiting for the AIW x800 to finally come out)

Sony Dual-Layered DVD+/RW drive

Scorpio-X case

This is my first built-myself computer, with many parts salvaged from my old Dell.

[Black Sunday]

Apple G3 powerbook

566 MHZ (that sounds slow but remember, Apple processors work differently than PC's so it's not as slow as it may sound.)

512 MB ram (I run pro tools with 12 tracks running before anything starts to get crazy)

30 GB HD

DVD drive (I have a firewire CD-RW drive)

I added a wireless networking/internet card.

While it's a G3 I think you'll find it's still a pretty powerful laptop, Depeche Mode used the same computer to record their demo's for "Exciter" in 2001.

Like Jarod I want a mac mini and will probably get one in the next couple of months.

[Head Wreck]

the list?

avearge typing i use an Alphasmart keyboard. i dont like computer chairs and sometimes my workload clashes with the few TV progs i MUST watch (TV is in the other room)

current system.

XP home ed

Athlon XP running at 1.1GHz

512MB RAM

Geeforce 4 card (dunno which, long time aqo i built this system)

brand new 17" TFT :D (my 19" CRT died of old age blurryness)

the other systems are older

but i only paid £200 at the time for the build

[TheLordShaper]

P4 3.6

Intel 925pbel motherboard

2 74 gig 10000 rpm raptors raid 0

2 300 gig maxtor 16mb raid 1

ATI x800 xt pci EXpress

1 gig Cosair XMS pc 5500

HP 8x DVD burner

Pioneer Slot loader

7.1 creative audigey 2

now the debate is whether to change motherboards and graphics to look into nvidia SLI technology. Aggghh gaming is to damn expensive.

~TLS

[The_Dark]

I just setup an FX53 with two 6800U in SLI mode and 2 gigs of ram.... Wow... thats all I have to say... Wow.

[Soulrev]

-=takes a deep breath=-

ATX Clear Acrylic Case

Vantec 420w Power Supply with all of the output cables sleeved myself with Blue UV reactive sleeving

ABIT NF-7 S motherboard w/Nvidia Nforce2

AMD Athlon XP Mobile 2.2ghz processor

ATI Radeon 9600 XT Vid. Card

768mb Kingston PC2700 memory

Western Digital Caviar 80gb hard drive

Western Digital Raptor 36gb Serial ATA 10,000 RPM hard drive

Samsung DVD-Rom drive

Samsung DVD/DVD-R @ 16x/CD-R @ 48x burner combo

Mad Dog Multimedia CD-R @ 52x burner

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What I'm getting in about a week -

Thermaltake Damier V5000 case - http://www.coolerguys.com/840556018476.html

Logisys 500W All Acrylic Dual Blue LED power supply - http://store1.yimg.com/I/yhst-24067115789173_1826_3589697

ABIT AV8 3rd-Eye socket 939 motherboard

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 512k L2 Cache processor (best on the market for overclocking)

ATI Radeon X800 XT video card

1 gig of Kingston PC4000 ram

Western Digital 250 gb RAID Edition Serial ATA hard drive (3 year warranty, longer than I'll own it)

And of course various Cold Cathode Flourescent Lights, LEDs, Fans, etc. etc.

[Fierce Critter]

This is what we had been using from 2000 through this past Friday: an HP Pavilion 6635, 233 mhz Celeron processor (PIII), 64 mb RAM (you read that right), Yamaha 16/10/40 CDRW.

This is what we were going to get.

When we got to the store and looked around, we ended up bringing home a refurbished (off-lease) emachines T2858 with an 2800+ AMD Athlon XP Processor, an 80GB hard drive, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 48x Max Write CDRW/DVD Combo Drive, 8 in 1 media reader (much improved over our USB-connected single Smart Media reader), Windows XP Home, yadda yadda yadda.

Benefits: It had twice the RAM, a DVD (Not just CDRW), the combo drive, an installed operating system, some really nice front connections, ready to use. Drawbacks: small case that's hard to get inside for upgrades, 3 month manufacturer's warranty vs. 1-year TigerDirect warranty.

We are kinda your typical "buy a ready-made system and just get a whole new one rather than upgrade" type of home-computer users. And we're not into a lot of the things that would require a lot more add-ons. This will already be such a blast into light-speed vs. the HP we were using, it's more than adequate for us.

I was a bit reluctant to go with the emachines brand, as it's always struck me as a sort of "K-Mart vs. Saks Fifth Avenue" type of bargain-basement brand. But nobody liked HP's, and that little guy serviced us for almost 5 years without a single, solitary problem.

[Soulrev]

Yeah one year warranties suck.. And word of advice don't waste money on a hard drive with a 1 year warranty..

I've changed my mind on the case I'm getting, I've decided to go with this one instead-

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc....-133-128&depa=1

Just a different color..

I'll probably be ordering this stuff tonight or tomorrow..

Not sure what I'm doing with my current PC, I'll probably e-bay it so I can buy a 20" Widescreen LCD from Dell.

[nodrew]

Motherboard: ASUS K8V Deluxe

CPU: AMD Athelon64 3200+

RAM: 512mb PC4000 Kingston

Vid: BFG GeForce FX 5950 XT

PS: Antec True-Power 430w

HDD: 80gb Western Digital 7200rpm

40gb misc. hard disk.

Optical: Sony DVD/CR-RW

WLan: D-Link PCI 802.11g

Monitor: 19" Viewsonic CRT

Custom blue and green lighting with a straght white case, with clear plexiglass on the front and a window on the side.

[Vater Araignee]

im going bye bye

[SomeDanGuy]

We have some serious computer nerds here :grin:

[Soulrev]

I'm not teh n3rd.. Lol.

You'll really think I'm a nerd when you see my water-bong cooling system I'm making for the new PC.. YOu basically use a long pipe (most use PVC, I'm trying to find a clear 3" x 4' pipe), a T connector or two, a shower head or some kind of sprayer that sprays a fine mist, a couple of fans.. Basically the misting of the water and cooling it with fans makes for a very efficient way to cool the CPU and Graphics Card..

Only drawback is that you have to add water to it every now and then, where your closed cooling systems generally never need water added.. If I could afford it I would buy one of those water coolers that actually takes the water temp down to about 20 degrees, but those run about 250 bucks and I see no reason to overclock THAT much..

[Soulrev]

Pentium processors are not all they're hyped up to be.. The AMD Athlon 64 90nm Winchester Core socket 939 2.2 ghz processor is better than any pentium out there. Gigahertz isn't the factor that matters.. It's the 90nm process that sticks it to the Pentium processors..

[The_Dark]

But the new LGA P4s are 90nm.

[The_Dark]

OK, I did a little upgrade aws my cpu was bottle necking when I was gaming.....

Asus K8N-E Deluxe

AMD Athlon64 3400+

2 GEIL 512MB PC3200U DDR (CL2.5)

eVGA Geforce 6800 GT 256

2 36.7Gb WD Raptor RAID 0

2 120Gb WD Caviar SE RAID 0

Lite-On 16x DVDRom

Lite-On 8x DVD/CD RW

Oh man... I really need to clean that thing....