What kind of computer do you have?

AMD Athalon 900mhz
240+mb RAM
32mb ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon video editing card.
SoundBlaster Platinum
20gig main and 3gig slave hd
5.25 floppy
1.44 floppy
100mb zip
32X cdr burner
8Xdvd
6usb ports
10/100lan
52k moden internal
cable modem, external

On to the other boxes,

Commodor Colt 8088
???k Ram
32mb hd
14.4 internal modem
dual 5.25 floppy

Misc 8088
20mb hd
dual 5/25 floppy

Classic 80's Mac
Just rescued not rebuilt fully yet.

Misc 286
Being rebuilt.

several misc 486's (about 6)
Being rebuilt.

Several misc P-5's (about 5)
being rebuilt

IBM Micro-Channel Servers (3)
being rebuilt.

AMD k-5 75
1.6gig main 600 and 500mb slaves

AMD k-6 II 350mhz
3gig hd

And too many other parts boxes to list including 15-30+ mother boards and misc stuff.

My family has 2 PC's both of which I built through God's grace. Here's the first one's specs:

AMD Duron 1GHz
256MB PC2100 DDR
Shuttle AK31A mobo
ATi Radeon 7500
30GB WD 7200RPM HD
56K Modem, and Linksys 10/100 NIC
8x4x HP CD-Writer
NEC DVD-ROM
Antec SX630 Case with 300W Power Supply
1 Gateway EV700 17" Monitor and 1 Hitachi 13" Monitor in DUal Monitor configuration on Radeon 7500
Windows XP Pro
OpenOffice.org 1.0 (Office Suite)

Our second PC is the following:

Intel Celeron 900MHz
PC Chips M779 Mobo
128MB PC100
On-Board SiS Video
20GB WD 7200RPM HD
52X Creative CD-ROM
On-board 56k Modem
Netgear NIC
15" Monitor
Windows 2000 Pro and Office 2000 Small Business

I don't have enough space to list 'em. To summarize, many Unix machines, a few gaming consoles, and a couple of Macs and even a token Windows box provided by work in case I have to read a Word document.

I can never count, but roughly on the order of 15 systems that are normally up and moving packets.

*envies seebs*

Wish I could have that many to fiddle with.

System 1:

Motherboard: Asus A7V333
CPU: Athlon XP 1800+
RAM: 512 MB PC2700 DDR @ 333Mhz
Hard Drive: Maxtor 80 gig @ 7200rpm
Graphics card: GeForce 4 Ti4600 / 128 MB DDR ram
Soundcard: Soundblaster Live
NIC: 3Com 3C905B-TX 10/100
CDROM: Sony 52x
Monitor: Sony GDM-400PS 19"


System 2:

Motherboard: Asus A7V133
CPU: Athlon Thunderbird 1200
RAM: 512 MB PC133 SDRAM
Hard Drive: Maxtor 20 gig @ 7200rpm
Graphics card: GeForce 3 / 64 MB DDR ram
Soundcard: Diamond MX300
NIC: 3Com 3C905B-TX 10/100
CDROM: Sony 32x / 4x/4x/8x CD burner
Monitor: Viewsonic 17"

Originally posted by paulewog
*envies seebs*

Wish I could have that many to fiddle with.

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What's annoying is that I can never find a scratch machine. I always end up, somehow, needing the machines I already have running to stay doing whatever they're doing... So I have a dedicated MP3 server, and a dedicated this, and a dedicated that... It's sorta frustrating.

I build my own.

My top system is called "Lenora" because she roars.

Athlon 1600+
Abit kr7-raid
0.5 GB of corsair 150 DDR
Alpha PAL8045 heatsink
2 IBM 60 GB HDD in a striping raid array
ATI Radeon 64 DDR vivo
Creative Live! X-Gamer 5.1
3.5 FDD
Zip 250 internal
Pioneer 40x slot DVD
Plextor PlexWriter 24/12/40 CD-RW
Four huge fans!
Lite-On FS020 case

Windows XP pro sp1
RedHat Linux on a VMWare virtual machine

My wife and I have three other desktops (only one of them set up right now) and two laptops.

We also have three high-end dell workstations in the lab, and a color laser printer.

Mines getting a bit old in the tooth now. My next buy will be a good notebook I think.

CPU: AMD Athlon 1 GIG
RAM: 384 MB PC133
H/D: Maxtor 30 GIG
Graphics Card: ATI all in wonder (I dont play games, well solitair sonetimes and pool)
Sound Card: Soundblaster Live
Sony DVD drive
Pioneer WRW
Monitor 17" CTX

Some of the systems you guys have are pretty impresive. Must have cost ya.

The great central discovery, for me, was that the only application for which you ever care how fast a computer is, these days, is probably video games. Nothing else I do is particularly affected; okay, it took me something like a week to rotate ~500 albums into my MP3 player. That's still not a big speed hit, and it's a one-time task. Everything else? I leave my laptop permanently set to low-power mode, because it's Fast Enough, and it's a bit over a year old now. Rendering might be another application where performance matters - but if, like me, you're a recreational user, once again, *it's fast enough*.

Instead, I spend money on quality. ECC memory, motherboards that support error correction, stuff like that. Fewer crashes is worth a lot more to me than an extra second here and there.

I feel the same. Since I'm not a PC games player I find what i have ample for the applications I use it for. Still like to have a nice new notebook though. Mmmmmm sigh.

here is my computers.

 

1. Amd Athlon 2200+ (overclocked) 512megs of ddr ram. Geforce 4 ti 4600 agp gfx card, water cooled heatsink, 17inch montior.  Windows Xp (this is my gaming computer)

2. p3 700mhz, 256megs of sdram, voodoo3 3000. no monitor, the os is FreeBSD (this is my unix server) uptime is (6:54AM  up 137 days,  6:11, 2 users, load averages: 0.03, 0.12, 0.15)

3. p3 667mhz 256megs of sdram, geforce 4 mx 440, 15 inch montior, windows 2000. (just a computer i use for whatever)

4. p3 1ghz, 512 megs of ddr ram, geforce 3 mx, 15 inch montior, windows 2000 (another gaming computer)

At the mo

AMD Athlon 2000+
512M Ram
40GB Hdd
17'' Sony Triniton multiscan monitor
DVD / CDRw / Zip
Gf2 Mx 200 <--- changing at end of month

Im flogging my spair pcs (Atlon 1ghz and Duron 800) cos I have no use for em anymore

Exactley seebs, neither of my 2 PC's really need any speed for what they do (the Celery Desktop tho could use 256Megs of RAM.

Truth is, for me, the "cheapo" Laptop's are good enough performance wise, and actually, my Dad bought our first lappy last week, and he's gonna be using it the most prolly, but it made me realize that if it's God's will, I will be trading in my system for a laptop. The Lappy Dad picked up is a Dell Inspirion 2600 for $1500. Here's the specs:

Celeron 1.2GHz-M (Tualatin, performs like a P3 for those who don't know about the Tualaltin Celerons)
256MB PC133
20GB 4200RPM HD
On-Board 830M Video
DVD-ROM
14" LCD
Win XP Home, Office XP Small Business
and, really great battery life (supposedly, according to a PC Mag review, it got 3hr35mins of battery life on a single battery)

That lappy I will eventually trade my PC for (or a similar one). Its a tad bluky, but I personally don't mind it.

All I know about our computer is it is a Gateway and we have these cute little speakers and a printer

Anna

Originally posted by Cheriton
At the mo

AMD Athlon 2000+
512M Ram
40GB Hdd
17'' Sony Triniton multiscan monitor
DVD / CDRw / Zip
Gf2 Mx 200 <--- changing at end of month

Im flogging my spair pcs (Atlon 1ghz and Duron 800) cos I have no use for em anymore

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hey cheriton, ya mind donating some parts, please?

I'm lookin' for some parts for a pc and donations would be nice

The computer I have to my name right now is a

486 laptop @ 75 mhz,
windows 98,
6 gb harddrive,
no soundcard,
1 mb video ram
24 mb ram.

It's almost too slow to get on CF

I use my dad's computer, mostly:
800 mhz p3
256 mb ram
15 gb harddrive
cd-rom/cd-rw
SB pci128
Nvidia gf2 MX400(pny verto)

Since i've got so much going on right now for me to worry about, like driving school costs, and this newer car i'm looking at, newer pc parts aren't at the top of my priority list.

Originally posted by seesaw
here is my computers.

 

1. Amd Athlon 2200+ (overclocked) 512megs of ddr ram. Geforce 4 ti 4600 agp gfx card, water cooled heatsink, 17inch montior.  Windows Xp (this is my gaming computer)

2. p3 700mhz, 256megs of sdram, voodoo3 3000. no monitor, the os is FreeBSD (this is my unix server) uptime is (6:54AM  up 137 days,  6:11, 2 users, load averages: 0.03, 0.12, 0.15)

3. p3 667mhz 256megs of sdram, geforce 4 mx 440, 15 inch montior, windows 2000. (just a computer i use for whatever)

4. p3 1ghz, 512 megs of ddr ram, geforce 3 mx, 15 inch montior, windows 2000 (another gaming computer)

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Let me add I have a dvd-rw burner now for my Pc 1. Gaming computer and I love it so much.