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.
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.
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: 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.
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. I love this machine: It’s extraordinarily fast, and it is the most stable computer I’ve ever owned.
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. )
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.
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:
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…
I love this machine: It’s extraordinarily fast, and it is the most stable computer I’ve ever owned.