# Geek thread. What have you got for a PC and are you upgrading soon? If so, to what? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 16, 2002, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-thread-what-have-you-got-for-a-pc-and-are-you-upgrading-soon-if-so-to-what/143198 "2002-12-16T23:46:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-thread-what-have-you-got-for-a-pc-and-are-you-upgrading-soon-if-so-to-what/143198/21 "2002-12-17T22:17:47Z")
I have a home-built system. Asus a7v333 RAID Athlon 1800+ running at 1545 mhz. GeForce 4 ti 4200. 256 MB of PC 2700. 2 40 gig ATA 100 drives configured as RAID 0. Onboard sound. I am planning for this system to last me 5 years. If all goes well, I will be getting a (3 year old, used) 21’’ Trinitron monitor for $250 in Februray. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-thread-what-have-you-got-for-a-pc-and-are-you-upgrading-soon-if-so-to-what/143198/22 "2002-12-17T22:27:35Z")
Dell 5440 2.4ghz 512k Ram Sony Dru500a dvd writer Windows XP Home Ultrasharp Dell 15" LCD monitor. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![Sdrawkcab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@Sdrawkcab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sdrawkcab)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-thread-what-have-you-got-for-a-pc-and-are-you-upgrading-soon-if-so-to-what/143198/23 "2002-12-17T22:38:59Z")
I’ve got two computers, both Macs: iMac G4 800, 256 MB RAM, 60 GB HDD, DVD-RW, 15" TFT flat panel, GeForce2 MX, Mac OS X Jaguar. iBook G3 700, 384 MB RAM, 20 GB HDD, CD-RW/DVD-ROM, 12" TFT screen, Mac OS X Jaguar. Mainly used for Microsoft Office, Final Draft, video editing, Internet stuff, Civ3, Warcraft III, Photoshop, InDesign and HTML-design stuff. Both systems are less than a year old, no plans to upgrade anytime soon. ---
**Author:** ![ReBusEniGma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@ReBusEniGma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReBusEniGma)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-thread-what-have-you-got-for-a-pc-and-are-you-upgrading-soon-if-so-to-what/143198/24 "2002-12-17T23:24:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by black455 \* > \*\*…My next system is gonna be a ground-up Linux desktop… \*\* **black455** , I realize it’s slightly OT, but now I’m curious; What GUI (if any) are you gonna use? X-windows, xfree, KDE(KWin)? ~eNiGma ---
**Author:** ![deathawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@deathawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deathawk)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-thread-what-have-you-got-for-a-pc-and-are-you-upgrading-soon-if-so-to-what/143198/25 "2002-12-17T23:43:29Z")
System I built in July: Athlon 1.80(~2200) on an Asus mobo (A7v333 w/RAID) 512MB RAM NVidia Ti 4400 SB 5.1 4x120GB WD Drives (no RAID - just wanted the spare controller) Plextor 40/10/40 Toshiba DVD Chenming Dragon FT with 5 fans + 550W PS Wireless KB + Mouse XP Pro Also have a Sony laptop AMD 1.3 (?) 512MB w DVD/CD-R combo. I love the pop-out keypad. ---
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-thread-what-have-you-got-for-a-pc-and-are-you-upgrading-soon-if-so-to-what/143198/26 "2002-12-18T00:11:05Z")
The PC, which is a little more than a year old: Athlon 1.4 Asus a7v333 (recent addition: the original Soyo Dragon was slain) Geforce 2 MX Soundblaster Audigy Platinum Maxtor 30 and 80 gig drives 512 meg o’ DDR ram This machine currently sits unused. Last summer, when I thought I was going to lose my job and would need something to do freelance work on, I bought a 667mhz Powerbook G4 with 10.2. Ever since then, I have had no desire to boot into either windows or linux on the desktop machine. Every once and a while I fire up Battlefield 1942, but that’s about it. I keep thinking about upgrading the PC, but I probably won’t till the Doom 3 based games start coming out. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-thread-what-have-you-got-for-a-pc-and-are-you-upgrading-soon-if-so-to-what/143198/27 "2002-12-18T00:26:00Z")
1.4 GHz Athlon-C 384 MB RAM 19" MultiSync FE950+ monitor PlexWriter 16/10/40 CD-burner Sony DVD floppy zip ( dieing - ‘click of death’ ) IBM 60 GB, 7200 rpm hard drive GeForce3 ( older one ) w/64 MB of RAM modem, ethernet card, optical mouse, blah, blah, blah Other than maybe replacing the zip and possibly adding a little more RAM at some point, I’m not looking to upgrade any time soon. I find that I’ve yet to get any obvious performance degradation with the latest software ( helps that gaming-wise I stick to strategy and rpg’s ) and I’m not expecting any in the near-future. The need for constant upgrades really does appear to have slowed dramatically in the last couple of years, even for the gaming crowd. - Tamerlane ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-thread-what-have-you-got-for-a-pc-and-are-you-upgrading-soon-if-so-to-what/143198/28 "2002-12-18T00:29:11Z")
Oh, yes - Soundblaster Pro soundcard and Klipsch 2.1 speaker system. I was going to upgrade to a slightrly better soundcard at one time, but since I’ve recently put a second stereo system in my study, accessible right next to the computer, I don’t feel the need for it anymore. - Tamerlane ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-thread-what-have-you-got-for-a-pc-and-are-you-upgrading-soon-if-so-to-what/143198/29 "2002-12-18T00:56:59Z")
System I built in August Athlon 2000 XP 512 Megs PC2700 Ram Geforce4 Ti 4600 Video Card 100 Gig Hard Drive DVD, CDRW, drives Soundblaster - something soundcard This should last me until machine with AMD Hammer proccessors become relatively cheap. ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-thread-what-have-you-got-for-a-pc-and-are-you-upgrading-soon-if-so-to-what/143198/30 "2002-12-18T01:07:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ReBusEniGma \* > \*\ ***black455** , > > I realize it’s slightly OT, but now I’m curious; What GUI (if any) are you gonna use? X-windows, xfree, KDE(KWin)? > > ~eNiGma \*\* I’m currently using the default RH XFree86 w/ GNOME 2 install, and it works for me. I’m a recent Linux convert, though, so that’s not exactly hard and fast. When I get a new box, I’d like to try out SuSE in addition to Red Hat, and I’ve heard SuSE works best with KDE, so we’ll see… ---
**Author:** ![badmana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@badmana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badmana)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-thread-what-have-you-got-for-a-pc-and-are-you-upgrading-soon-if-so-to-what/143198/31 "2002-12-18T02:04:20Z")
System I built about a year ago: AMD 1700 512 megs DDR ram 75 gig IBM Deskstar HP DVD+RW writer Creative SB LIVE! with whatever that thing is called that’s sitting in one of my bays (brain fart, I’m at work). 5.1 DTS speakers Nvidia 256 GE-force 256 pro (by asus) 19" viewsonic flat secondary computer is a 750 athlon with 512 SDRAM and 2 60 gig drives and 1 firewire 40 gig drive with an ATI radion (PCI!) all - in - wonder card (my “VCR” computer) with DVD and 40x writer cd writer. And a 17" viewsonic. I also have a dual 466 celeron server (my friend is borrowing it) running NT with 512 megs, 1 60 and 1 120 gig drives. and my baby is my new toshiba 5000 satalite(sp) laptop with 512 megs ram, 40 gig drive, firewire, 17" UXGA monitor… all it needs is 1X wireless internet and I’m set… ---
**Author:** ![Stccrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Stccrd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stccrd)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-thread-what-have-you-got-for-a-pc-and-are-you-upgrading-soon-if-so-to-what/143198/32 "2002-12-18T04:23:26Z")
So I tried running DSL to that PI 70 mhz with Xp. Needless to say…Overload! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geek-thread-what-have-you-got-for-a-pc-and-are-you-upgrading-soon-if-so-to-what/143198.md?page=1)