# What's your current computer system?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-computer-system/223155
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 7, 2004, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-computer-system/223155 "2004-01-07T05:15:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McDeath_the_Mad)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-computer-system/223155/21 "2004-01-07T23:15:36Z")
**World Eater** is the pope Catholic?
You betcha, this mother board is teh win! I can’t believe the amount of goodies that came in the box with this mobo. It was pricey ($279 CAN) but well well worth it. I love the dual BIOS as well.
MtM
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### Author:  [@MrTuffPaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrTuffPaws)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-computer-system/223155/22 "2004-01-07T23:33:16Z")
AMD Athlon 1700+
512 MB of DDR
20gig hard drive
SB live 5.1
DVD and CDR
Win98 2nded (yes I know)
19’’ flat screen CRT
Cable internet (the really important part)
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### Author:  [@Matt70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Matt70)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2004, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-computer-system/223155/23 "2004-01-08T02:19:00Z")
Case:Antec PLUS1080AMG ( Metallic Gray ) 10 Drive Bay SOHO File Server Case w/430W PS
Motherboard:Asus P4C800-E Deluxe
CPU:Intel Pentium 4 2.4C GHhz 800FSB
Video Card:MSI FX5600-TD256 GeForce FX5600 256MB DDR 8X AGP
Memory:Kingston 1024MB Kit ( 2x512MB ) PC3200 DDR 400Mhz ( KVR400X64C3AK2/1G ) CL3
Hard Drives:Maxtor 80GB ( 6Y080M0 ) 7200RPM 8MB Buffer Serial ATA Hard Drive, 2 drives in Raid 0 array
Optical Drive:Samsung SM-352 16x DVD-ROM / 52x24x52x CDRW INT IDE ATAPI Drive
Sound Card:Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum
Monitor:Sony Trinitron HMDA240, 17" Flat Panel CRT
OS:Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Internet:Cable Modem
I put this together last August and I’ve had no problems. It’s much better than my last computer (P3 800MGhz). I just got the sound card for Christmas. When I put it in I cleaned out the dust that accumulated and my temp for the CPU went down about 4C. I don’t like to overclock so everything is running at rated speed.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-computer-system/223155/24 "2004-01-08T03:03:49Z")
HP Pavilion 7865:
AMD Athlon 1.2Ghz
128Mb RAM
80Gb primary drive
120Gb secondary drive
Sony DRU-500a DVD±R/W burner (replaced factory CD burner)
Compact Flash card reader
Belkin USB audio/video capture device (kinda sucks)
Logitech wireless mouse
Cable modem
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### Author:  [@Spacegirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spacegirl)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-computer-system/223155/25 "2004-01-08T04:19:20Z")
ibook 800mhz G3
12" screen
640mb RAM
30Gb hard drive
CD RW drive (Sony)
DVD player
wireless internet card (with wireless cable internet)
32mb ATI video card
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### Author:  [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2004, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-computer-system/223155/26 "2004-01-08T06:23:33Z")
At home:
• Gateway 233 or 266 MHz PII (I don’t remember)
• 17" no-name monitor
• STB Stealth video
• 96 Mb RAM
• 100 Mb Zip drive
• CD-ROM
• 1.6 Gb EIDE HDD
• no sound
• whatever modem might have come with it in 1996
• no printer
• Win95, IE 4
At work:
• 3.06 GHz dual processor SuperMicro P4
• 2 Gb RAM
• 3 x 21" Viewsonic monitors
• NVidia (GForce?) triple video
• CD-RW
• Exabyte Mammoth 8 mm tape drive (_not_ for b/u - that’s via network server)
• Sound and speakers (I hardly ever use them)
• NIC is whatever the zippiest you could buy six months ago was
• 18 Gb SCSI HDD
• 137 Gb SCSI HDD
• 80 Gb removable EIDE HDD
• 40 Gb USB portable HDD
• Epson Expression XL 12.20" x 17.20" flatbed scanner
• Epson Stylus 1520 inkjet
• HP750c+ plotter
• Win 2000 Professional
• Some big ol’ APC UPS
I guess I never was _too_ geeky about it all…
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### Author:  [@Rex\_Fenestrarum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rex_Fenestrarum)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2004, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-computer-system/223155/27 "2004-01-08T07:37:34Z")
Since you asked:
**My Home Box**
Asus P4GE-V motherboard
P4-3.06GHz processor
1GB PC 2700 DDR RAM
GeForce 440MX AGP vid card w/128MB RAM
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card (Woo-Hoo!! No Creative Labs crap in MY box!)
LiteOn 52x CD Burner, black
TDK 4x DVD Burner, black
WD 100GB 7200 RPM drive
WD 100GB 7200 RPM drive (another one)
WD 160GB 7200 RPM drive
Broadcom Integrated 10/100 NIC
19" Hitachi CM751 CRT Monitor (1600x1200)
IBM Model M keyboard (circa 1991)
Lexmark Optra E laser printer (circa 1997)
Nice black Antec server case with locking door
XP Pro (with SP2 beta)
Office 2003
SanDisk CF card reader
**My Home Server**
Abit BP-6 motherboard
Dual Celeron 466 processors
512MB RAM
80GB Maxtor hard drive
60GB IBM hard drive
Intel 10/100 Pro NIC
no monitor, keyboard or mouse (access via TS)
Windows Server 2003, running Exchange 2003
I also have another PC downstairs, a laptop and an iPaq. All of those access the network via a Linksys 802.11b FW\router with Road Runner 3.5Mbps down for Internet. Life is sweet!
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### Author:  [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-computer-system/223155/28 "2004-01-08T20:26:34Z")
Heh… I forgot about what I use at work:
IBM Thinkpad T23
1.13 GHz
256 MB RAM
CD-ROM
Windows 2000 and an infectious rash of really funky security tools, some of which make Internet Explorer very fragile.
Also, I spend a lot of time in an elderly Sun Enterprise 250 Unix box that’s listed as having a 50 MHz (I hope that’s a typo!) processor and 2 GB of RAM. Happily it’s pretty much EOL and due to be retired this year and replaced with something a bit more oomph.
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### Author:  [@maleinblack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maleinblack)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-computer-system/223155/29 "2004-01-08T20:55:39Z")
Well my machine is 2 years old now and serves me very well.Here are the specs:
P4 1.8 Ghz,512 Megs Ram(to be 1 gig soon)
Intel 850 Mobo with onboard sound
80 GB HDD(40GB Seagate Barracuda+40GB Samsung 7200RPM)
GeForce 128MB Graphics card
ikey Super multimedia keyboard and Logitech optical mouse
52X CD rom Samsung and 48X ASUS cd burner
17 inch Viewsonic Monitor
Double boot with Win XP Pro and Win ME
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-computer-system/223155/30 "2004-01-09T02:22:40Z")
Trigger’s Broom:
Trigger: I’ve had the same broom for 14 years…
…It’s had 9 new heads and 5 new handles.
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