Type of Computer

[rdale]

Case - Antec
Motherboard - Asus A7N8X2.0
Hard Drives - Western Digital 120GB x 2
CPU - AMD Athlon 2500+ XP
Ram - Crucial 512MB x 2
DVDR+/- - Pioneer A06
Vid Card 1 - All-In-Wonder Radeon 7500
Monitor 1 - 19" Samsung SyncMaster 955DF
Vid Card 2 - Radeon 7500
Monitor 2 - generic 17"
OS - w2k


#2 is 750 Athlon, Asus MB, 512mb ram, Asus GeForce2 card, XP

 

[Heathen Dawn]

Why are you running XP on the less advanced machine and Win2K on the more advanced one, rdale?

 

[rdale]

XP Home, video editing, me likes it more...

 

[Heathen Dawn]

XP Home, video editing, me likes it more...

I understand. I used to be a Win2K user myself. But I’m in the business of multilingual computing, and WinXP supports even more languages than Win2K, so there was no question at all for me.

 

[kurabrhm]

What type of computer do you run?

I have a two laptops, one dell, one powerbook g4.

And My brother and I just built another desktop so that we can use the 3d animation package maya. the computer is a P4 2.8 Ghz, 800 FSB, 2 Gig RAM, 120 Gig Hd, DVD burner.. not much..

Acer Aspire series laptop
AMD Athlon XP-Mobile 2400+
256M DDR SDRAM
20GB HDD
DVD/CD-RW

 

[Fungal Growth]

AMD Athlon 2400+, MSI MB
1GB PC2700 DDR
Nvidia 5600 128mb video card
120g Maxtor HDD 8mb cache
20g WD HDD 2mb cache
Running WinXP
CDR/DVD combo drive

also a gimputer
AMD 1ghz
512mb PC133 SDRAM
20g WD HDD
52x CDrom
Nvidia MX440 32mb video card
second comp for gamin

 

[kurabrhm]

Currently I have a AMD 2400+XP, 256 MB DDR RAM, a DVD drive, a CD R/W (forgot the read/write speads), and a 64MB Geforce2.

I'd really like to do some upgrades, mainly get some RAM, a new video card, a DVD-R, and a better CPU fan.

looks like we have something in common.

 

[OceanAngel]

mine:

Processor: 2ghz Athlon
Mobo:Msi Kt 4v
Sound: onboard 5.1
Graphics: ATI 9500
CDRW 52x
DVDRW -/+ 8x
HardDrives: 2 40bgs
Memory 1gb
Monitors both compaq main one 17' secondary is 15' desk wouldn't suport anything bigger.
Keyboard: logitech Navigator
Fans 12 in total(one system blower at back, 2 80cm at back, one on top, one on side, 6 at front, one on card and one thermtake cpu heatsink one (volcano, I think it is)
Case: Modded with side panel and top panel lights lights on fans and strip lighting and airvents at front and sides of the front))
Fan Controller for 4 of the front fans
Noise from fans:far too much.

 

[SirKenin]

I have two computers as well.

P4-2.8GHz Prescott.
OCZ Eliminator 2 hsf
Antec 420W
Asus P4C800-e Deluxe mainboard
1GB OCZ EL DDR-3500 Dual Channel
Ati Radeon 9700 Pro
Sound Blaster Audigy 2
Pioneer 16x DVD
LG 4x DVD RAM
74 GB SATA Western Digital Raptor HDD
2-40 MB ATA Maxtor D740 HDD
Logitech Z680

P4-2.4B 533MHz
Asus P4P-E
1 GB Crucial DDR
Radeon 7200
HEC 350W
Pioneer 16x DVD
Antec case
SB Live MP3+
Maxtor 40GB D740x
Altec Lansing speakers

Both have Dell 21" Trinitron monitors. One of them is starting to go though It scrambles on low refresh rates.

 

[SDSUMarcus01]

I build my own comps, more fun, and more reliable (at least for me because I know what I'm doing)... this current rig is:

-Athlon XP 2700+
-Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu cooler (this thing is so sick)
-3 Antec Blue LED 80X80 Case Fans
-2 Antec 80X80 Case Fans
-Modded Antec power supply (put a REAL LED fan in there, not just an LED like the "True Blue") with cord sleeves
-Black rounded IDE cables
-Asus A7N8X Deluxe Motherboard (Nforce 2 Chipset)
-Geforce 4 Ti 4600
-Sound Blaster Audigy 2
-1 GB of Corsair Pro DDR400 Cas 2.0
-Western Digital 80 GB HD with 8mb Buffer
-IBM 45 GB HD
-Some 3Com network card (does it really matter? lol)
-16X Toshiba DVD Drive (Spraypainted to match case and LEDs changed)
-44X Yamaha CD-RW Drive (Spraypainted to match case, this thing also has the CD-Tattoo function where I can write words on the underside of the CD, it's cool)
-Floppy Drive (Spraypainted to match case and LEDs changed)
-Antec Plusview Case (with custom LEDs... lol)
-Win 2k
-19" ViewSonic P95+
-Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0+ (Optical)
-Microsoft Elite Keyboard with Blue LEDs installed
-Rat Padz GS mouse pad (this thing is awesome for gaming)
-Plantronics Audio .90 headphones

My little bro's comp is an Athlon 64 3200+ with a Radeon 9800se. My mom's is my old P3 1 Ghz and a Geforce 4 MX card.. I've also got a computer in the garage with an Athlon 1.4 and a Geforce 3... and I built all of them

 

[Stryper]

I build my own comps, more fun, and more reliable (at least for me because I know what I'm doing)... this current rig is:

-Athlon XP 2700+
-Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu cooler (this thing is so sick)
-3 Antec Blue LED 80X80 Case Fans
-2 Antec 80X80 Case Fans
-Modded Antec power supply (put a REAL LED fan in there, not just an LED like the "True Blue") with cord sleeves
-Black rounded IDE cables
-Asus A7N8X Deluxe Motherboard (Nforce 2 Chipset)
-Geforce 4 Ti 4600
-Sound Blaster Audigy 2
-1 GB of Corsair Pro DDR400 Cas 2.0
-Western Digital 80 GB HD with 8mb Buffer
-IBM 45 GB HD
-Some 3Com network card (does it really matter? lol)
-16X Toshiba DVD Drive (Spraypainted to match case and LEDs changed)
-44X Yamaha CD-RW Drive (Spraypainted to match case, this thing also has the CD-Tattoo function where I can write words on the underside of the CD, it's cool)
-Floppy Drive (Spraypainted to match case and LEDs changed)
-Antec Plusview Case (with custom LEDs... lol)
-Win 2k
-19" ViewSonic P95+
-Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0+ (Optical)
-Microsoft Elite Keyboard with Blue LEDs installed
-Rat Padz GS mouse pad (this thing is awesome for gaming)
-Plantronics Audio .90 headphones

My little bro's comp is an Athlon 64 3200+ with a Radeon 9800se. My mom's is my old P3 1 Ghz and a Geforce 4 MX card.. I've also got a computer in the garage with an Athlon 1.4 and a Geforce 3... and I built all of them

building comps is great. i just finished building my first one about a week ago. i will never buy retail again.

 

[askbros]

I got:
-ibm thinkpad, 512mb ram, 10 or 20gb
-compaq prestario, 384mb ram (gettin' more), 10gb
-2 self built machines, one is 20gb, the other 33gb (13+20), each with 512mb ram. One is my programming machine (PIII) -- I design websites -- the other a gammin machine (P4).
-An old Mac I'm givin' away.

A friend and I are building a Linux server that we will use for his business...

 

[MediocrityInAction]

800mhz PIII, 256 meg of RAM. Is showing its age a bit, and I'm thinking of possibly building myself a new one soon. I also have a P4 2000mhz laptop, but it is in for repairs at the moment.

 

[Heathen Dawn]

It’s a pity, IMO, that people don’t mention what OS[es] they have installed on their machines. The OS is an integral part of the computer. And I’d like to have an idea of how many people use alternative (ie non-Microsoft ) OSes.

 

[merryheart]

start an OS thread...

 

[MediocrityInAction]

Oh, sorry. Windows XPletive on both. I'm tempted however to give into the constant nagging of my friends and give Linux a try.

 

[Heathen Dawn]

start an OS thread...

I might do that.

Windows XPletive on both.

I don’t call XP names, it serves me so well.

I'm tempted however to give into the constant nagging of my friends and give Linux a try.

Ah, your friends have been preaching the gospel of Linux. I did give Linux a try, and I’ve decided to stay under the peace of the Roman Empire (Pax Microsoft). I like free (GNU) software and all that, but that software (TeX, The Gimp, Ghostscript, html2ps, FOP and a lot more) is available under Windows as well; and Windows XP has better multilingual support than Linux, which for me is a decisive factor.

 

[Word of Peace]

building comps is great...i will never buy retail again.

I totally agree! I've built 7 computers, including the one I'm currently using. (2 of them are no longer in use - they're too out-of-date.)

 

[rodeo_queen]

uhh hp pavilion mx70

that's all i know

 

[SirKenin]

building comps is great. i just finished building my first one about a week ago. i will never buy retail again.

I agree. I have been building them for 10 years. Using them for 15. I believe that I have built thousands of them by now. To this day the only ones I don't like building are my own when it's time to upgrade them.

However, I've built machines from the IBM AT on up. The worst to work on so far was an Emachines. :S