Brag about your computer

If you’re a geek like me and you love your home built computer this is the place to brag about your specs.

CPU: AMD Athlon T-Bird 1.4 GHz
Mobo: MSI K7 Master
Memory: Crucial 512MB PC-2100
GPU: ASUS V8200 Deluxe 64MB GeForce3 VIVO+VR
Storage: IBM DeskStar 40GB 7200 RPM
Storage: Maxtor DiamondMax 80GB 7200 RPM
Audio: Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Optical: Plextor 16X CD-RW
Optical: Pioneer 16X Slot-In DVD-ROM
Comm: Linksys USB Wireless Network Adapter
Monitor: NEC FE950+BK 19” Flat CRT (black)
Case: Antec 1040b Tower (black)
Power: Antec 412x 400w
Cooling: 3 Enlight 80mm High Output Fan
Cooling: Taisol CGK760 HSF w/ Artic Silver II

Behold, my aging laptop. The screen doesn’t work; I have an external monitor. The mouse pad doesn’t work; I have an extra mouse.

For my next magical trick, the keyboard will stop working, and I’ll have an external keyboard as well.

I’m bragging 'cause my computer outlasted my entire marriage. And how many computers have outlasted an entire marriage, outside of Hollywood?

My mom thinks I’m cool.

Not really. I gave her $20 to tell you that so you wouldn’t cry, Mr. Pussywillow Can’t-Drink-10-Guinnesses-In-An-Hour man.

My computer is so ancient, it doesn’t even warrant bragging about! (except maybe that I got it for free from a friend… its age probably helped)

My computer hasn’t died ye

It’s old by computer standards, but here goes:

CPU: AMD Athlon T-Bird 1.2GHz
Mobo: ASUS A7A266
Memory: Crucial 512MB PC-2100
GPU: Elsa Gladiac GeForce 2 Ultra
Storage: IBM DeskStar 40GB 7200 RPM
Storage: Maxtor Something-or-other 12GB 5400 RPM
Audio: Creative Labs Soundblaster Live! Value
Optical: Plextor 16x10x40x CD-RW
Optical: Creative Labs PC-DVD 6x
Comm: Generic $20 job
Monitor: Optiquest V95 19"
Case: Frozen CPU Blizzard 360
Power: Enermax 350W
Cooling: 3 Unknown Brand 120mm Fan
Cooling: Thermosonic ThermoEngine w/ 8000 RPM Delta fan

I would brag about my husband’s computer, but inevitably he or I starts crying thinking about how much money we laid out for memory on prior machines. Hundreds of dollars for just a few more megs… sob Oh how things have changed.

My husband’s computer fairly screams because he has to render animations on it. Nice monitor, too. But the machine he paid thousands for to get it to be this way… your average high school punk can get for half the price today.

Not much to brag about…

Athlon 1.33 ghz
768 MB memory
2, 40 gig WD hard drives
16 MB TNT video
Firewire card
52x CD
4x CDR (scsi)
Some cheap adaptec scsi card
Sound blaster live (hooked up to a RCA amp and some JBL northridge speakers)
100 MB internal zip drive
10/100 ethernet

My 2nd computer which is used for storage:

800 Duron
512 MB memory
2, 40 gig WD hard drives
1, 30 gig WD hard drive
4x CDR
Sound blaster something (I forget)
10/100 ethernet

Both computers share a 19 inch monitor, wireless mouse and some POS keyboard via a 4 port KVM switch.

My recording computer is a 1 gig athlon with a darla PCI card (2x8). It uses two video cards which go to a 17 inch monitor and a 15 inch LCD. My MIDI computer is a 450Mhz pentium with a winman 2x1 and a couple of Sound blasters hooked up to a 19 inch monitor.

Ok here is my beauty:

CPU: 2GHz
Memory: 512 MB RDRAM
HD: 120 GB
CD: 48x
DVD/CD Burner
Graphics: GeForce3 Ti500, 64 MB
Sound card: Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Speakers: Altec Lansing ADA 885 THX-Sound (huge subwoofer and 4 speakers)
Monitor: 15" Flat panel
Colour: Black
Internet connection: Cable modem

Well, my computer is rather old (2 and something years), but it’s a decent gaming machine.

CPU: PIII 500 (overclocked to 550)
Memory: 768 MB SDRAM
HD: 20.6 GB 7200 RPM Maxtor (primary)
20 GB 7200 RPM Western Digital (secondary)(boo-hiss I know, but it was cheap)
DVD: 10x
CD Burner: 8x4x32 Creative
Graphics: Geforce 2 GTS 64 MB DDR
Sound card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum (WOOO!)
Comes with Audigy drive, a kickass piece of digital music hardware.
Speakers: Cambridge Soundworks Digital 4.1 DTS2100 (I think that’s the model)
Monitor: 19" Flat Screen NEC FE950
Colour: Hot Beige
Internet connection: Cable modem via LAN

My friend has a much newer system than me, with about 3x everything I have (except my Audigy Platinum!)

CPU: Pentium IV 1.8 GHz
Mobo: Asus
Memory: 512 MB DDR
HD: 80 GB
CD-ROM/CD-RW
DVD writer
Graphics: ATI Radeon AIW 7500 (TV tuner, video capture)
Monitor: Sony 19"
Color: Silver/grey
Connection: Cable modem

CPU: Celeron II 1.3 ghz OC’ed to 1.6 ghz
Mobo: Abit vh6-t
Memory: 256 megs pc150 mhz
Hard Drive: 40 gb
16x DVD Rom
12x8x32 CD-RW
ATI Radeon all in wonder 7500
monitor: 32" flat screen tv
Soundblaster live sound card
cambridge soundworks 4.1 speakers
internet: dial-up
lots of different case fans and such for cooling
blue/beige front grey sides

CPU capable of simultaneous access to forty-seven million data channels and transluminal processing at a rate of five hundred seventy-five trillion calculations per nanosecond. Can operate in a temperature range of 10 through 1790 degrees Kelvin.

Here’s my new BEAST of a machine that I built:

CPU: AthlonXP 1700+ @ 1800+ (1540MHz)
Motherboard: Soyo K7V Dragon Plus (KT266A chipset)
RAM: 512MB PC2100 Crucial DDR SDRAM
Video: Visiontek GeForce3 ti200 @ 220MHz core / 500MHz mem
DVD: Pioneer 106S Slot-load 16x DVD-ROM
CD-RW Lite-On 40x/12x/48x
HD: 3 HDDs for a total of 107GB…biggest is an 80GB Seagate Barracuda IV
Sound: SoundBlaster Live Value
Monitor: Viewsonic A90f 19"
Input: MS Trackball Explorer and Intellimouse Explorer
Gamepad: Gravis Eliminator Aftershock
Scanner: Epson Perfection 636U
Printer: HP Deskjet 940C
Case: Antec SX1040b w/ 400W power supply
Extras: 2 4-port USB hubs, and 2 front USB ports not in use.

Built by me. :slight_smile: I love this machine: It’s extraordinarily fast, and it is the most stable computer I’ve ever owned.

Jman

Curse me for not previewing. Damnit. And that was post 700 (#2)

Oh…and the 10/100 NIC is on-board, as is a Promise Ultra100/Raid controller for 8 IDE devices. :slight_smile:

Darnit…it just doesn’t look right to have that stuff strung out like that, and I keep forgetting little things, so here’s the full listing. (mods, if you want to delete the original post, go ahead. :slight_smile: )

CPU: AthlonXP 1700+ @ 1800+ (1540MHz)
Motherboard: Soyo K7V Dragon Plus (KT266A chipset)
RAM: 512MB PC2100 Crucial DDR SDRAM
Video: Visiontek GeForce3 ti200 @ 220MHz core / 500MHz mem
DVD: Pioneer 106S Slot-load 16x DVD-ROM
CD-RW Lite-On 40x/12x/48x
HD: 3 HDDs for a total of 107GB…biggest is an 80GB Seagate Barracuda IV
Case: Antec SX1040b w/ 400W power supply
Sound: SoundBlaster Live Value
Monitor: Viewsonic A90f 19"
Input: MS Trackball Explorer and Intellimouse Explorer
Gamepad: Gravis Eliminator Aftershock
Scanner: Epson Perfection 636U
Printer: HP Deskjet 940C
Cooling: Stock CPU HSF, Tt Crystal Orb on GPU, 2 PPCnC Silencer 80mm fans, 2 other 80mm fans (2 intake, 2 exhaust).
NIC: On-Board 10/100 ethernet
Controllers: Promise Ultra100 / RAID controller (on-board)
Internet: 3.5Mbps cable.
Extras: 2 4-port USB hubs, and 2 front USB ports not in use.

There we go…much better.

Jman

Norrath Express:

CPU: AthlonXP 1600+
Motherboard: MSI K7T266 PRO2-RU (built in RAID)
RAM: 512MB DDR 266 (wishing I’d gotten more when it was cheap!)
Video: 64 MB GeForce2 TI 500 VIVO
DVD: 16x DVD-ROM
CD-RW: Lite-On 40x/12x/48x
HD: 2 20gig 7200rpm RAID 0 configuration
Sound: SoundBlaster 5.1
Monitor: 19" AOC
Mouse: Logitech Wireless
Scanner: HP 3200C (currently non-functional may be replaced soon)
Printer: Epson Stylus 600
Case: Antec ATX SOHO 350W
Comm: 10/100 ethernet -> 16port 10/100 switch -> 4 port linksys Router -> DSL 768/128
Extras: [ul]
[li]4-USB ports (2 on the front 2 out back)[/li][li]6 case fans[/li][li]neon red drive cables[/li][li]Red Heatsink/fan on the CPU [/li][/ul] Built by me for specifically to play Everquest, the other machines on the home network are:

Pentuim 100 16meg (printserver)
AMD Duron 450 128meg (Mrs Probes machine)
PIII 500 512meg (Ambers EQ machine)
PII 166 96meg (Harmonys Machine)

I probably have more operating systems on mine than the rest of you folks do. Does that count?

Hmm…as far as stats go, well, my mother loves me.

HP 866mHz, so on, so forth.

But, in the last month or so I’ve…
[ul]
[li]added 128 mb RAM (256 mb total)[/li][li]swapped out a CD-ROM for a DVD-ROM[/li][li]upgraded to a 19" monitor (barely fit in my car, and I had to reinforce my monitor shelf)[/li][li]added a 32 mb video card (PCI-mobo doesn’t have AGP)[/li][li]added DSL[/li][li]swapped a 56k modem for a Soundblaster Live (mobo only has 4 PCI slots)[/li][/ul]

…so I feel pretty techno-geeky. My next project is to marry drives and cards to a new mobo, CPU (I’m thinking P IV 1.7), case, and power supply. Which should keep me fat and happy for a while…