Geek thread. What have you got for a PC and are you upgrading soon? If so, to what?

In My Humble Opinion
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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.

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Dell 5440 2.4ghz
512k Ram
Sony Dru500a dvd writer
Windows XP Home
Ultrasharp Dell 15" LCD monitor.

Yum.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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
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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
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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.

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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…

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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…

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So I tried running DSL to that PI 70 mhz with Xp. Needless to say…Overload!