What do you have?

[michaeljr5]

I'm bored and thought I would start a thread on computers. What do you have? When did you get it? What are it's specs? What upgrades do you want for it? What did you pay for it?

I'll Start:

Bought in 2004
Price Paid New $3000
Dell Demension 8300 (Should have gotten the XPS, DOH!)
3 Ghz Pentium 4
80 Gig HD
1 Gig RAM
128 MB Video Card
Soundblaster Pro 5.1 Digital Dolby sound Card
19 inch LCD Flat Panel Monitor
Optical Mouse
CD-RW
DVD-ROM
3.5 Floppy
8 USB ports
Integrated Either
Windows XP OS

Current Upgrades:
Secondary 160 Gig HD
Now runs 2 Gigs RAM
128 MB Video CARD Died and now has a 68 MB

Wanted Upgrades:
256 MB Video Card (Will have in 2 weeks.)
2 More Gigs of RAM
20+ inch LCD Monitor or LCD TV
500 Gig HD
DVD-RW

Even with out the upgrades, she is still not having any problems keeping up with current software.

 

[Qyöt27]

I received this one from my grandfather in 2003. I've no clue what he paid for it, but he got it probably around the time it hit the market (late 2001 at least).

eMachines T1110
1.0 GHz Celeron Coppermine
100 MHz FSB
256 MB RAM
Altec Lansing 2.1 speaker system
25 GB Seagate HDD (now housed in external enclosure)
16 inch flatscreen CRT monitor
standard-issue CD-RW and floppy drives, ethernet port and a couple of USB 1.0 ports in the front.
Windows XP Home

Upgrades:
standard-issue DVD-ROM drive I cannibalized from our Win98 Compaq (later removed when I got the DVD-R drive)
16x/4x/52x DVD±RW/DL/CD-RW drive
USB 2.0 card
replacement Mini-ATX power supply (the original one burned out)
80 GB Seagate HDD (in external enclosure)
160GB Seagate HDD (swapped out)
Windows XP Home SP1 (eh, not something you have to pay for, but whatever - I held out until late last year before installing SP1, though, due to the LBA concerns and one important program I use won't run without it - there's no way I'm installing SP2, though)
Ubuntu Linux (again, not have to be paid for; started out using 5.10, now using 6.10)

Wanted:
A 5.25-inch external enclosure so I can use the DVD-ROM again (I might put the burner in the enclosure so that I could use it away from home)
A new fan - I don't know how much more time this one's got in it
another 256 MBs of RAM to max out the memory capacity

Of course, with the video editing that I do, I really want/need a completely new system, which I would probably build myself/have built for me. The only problem is that I have no way to pay for it (the upgrades this thing has seen sofar have been mostly inexpensive or birthday and Christmas presents).

 

[micro]

Self built pc......prices include s&h most parts from newegg.com

Msi K8n neo 4 platinum mobo..... $125
Sony dvd burner..... $40
Amd 3000+ venice 64 bit cpu .....$100
nec dvd burner..... $39
Seagate hard drive 7200 sata 80 gig (two of these)..... $110
lucent win modem 56k (Local pc store)..... $15 from 2004
Sb400 audigy 2 sound blaster..... $50
corsair xms 1 gig ram 2X512 .....$200 from 2004
Case with 400 watt psu .....$60 from 2004
17" sony flatscreen (state sale, not estate)..... $35
x800xl pci-e video card 16x .....$135
win xp pro also winxp 64 bit .....free
logitec ussb/optical mouse (black to match).....$gift ($30 new)

Grand total .....$799 2005/2004

Upgrades

Corsair xms 2x1gig .....$200
forton fsp fx-700gln 700watt 4 12v rail..... $200
antec cpu cooler/artic silver..... $38
chipset cooler (gpu cooler runs under 60F)..... $15
creative 2.1 (on clearence localy)..... $30 (was $69)
viewsonic vp930b 19" lcd (photo editing model)(friends 3mo needed rma)..... $419 ( i paid $200)
logitec mx1000 wireless mouse (never use. it is too awkward)..... $gift ($79)

grand total of addons..... $683 2006

Total from 2004-2006..... $1,482 (current pc i am using ,including parts replaced.. list price of parts at the time)
Total of current system ...$1,274 (still priceing case at full $60)


Wanted parts

amd opteron 165/170 cpu..... $150 (i will buy this)
Video card cooler..... $?? (may buy)
cpu cooler for opteron..... $??(will buy)
sata dvd burner..... $100(may buy)
new video card after i get vista/dx10..... $??(may buy)
2.1 klipsch speakers .....$140(may buy)
Better logitec mouse (wireless?)..... $??(may buy)
g5 logitec keyboard .....$60(will buy)
storage/editing hard drive (other 2 are in raid) size? .....$??

grand total $?? 2007

It will no longer run new games at max settings. i need the new cpu and video card to keep up with my gameing needs and screen resolution of 1280x1024. There isnt much more i should do to remain cost effective. the 939 (s939) motherboards and cpu's are now outdated. I can make it another year with a cpu upgrade before i have to get new motherboard, cpu, and 240 pin ram.My psu should handle the upgrade. It is far cheaper to build in short and long run then to buy a boxed pc! I emplor you , if you cant build it your self, go to your local pc store!

http://www.christianforums.com/t4429972-help-me-shop-for-computers.html a link to build or buy a pc and some prices.On page 2 i posed links to a good $500 pc.(parts)

 

[michaeljr5]

I forgot about my other computer.

It's a Dell Optiplex
1.8 Gig Pentium 4
40 Gig HD
CD-RW
512 RAM
Intergrated Audio and Video
Wireless Lan
15 inch CRT
Windows XP OS

My daughters use it. They are 4 and 6. No upgrades planned till I get the new parts for mine and transfer the old ones to this. Cost me $85.

 

[Sketcher]

I got this the summer of 2005.

Rebuilt out of an old IBM Intellistation M Pro worskstation:

Epox 9NPA+Ultra motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice core
2x 512 MB sticks of DDR400 RAM
NVIDIA Geforce 6600GT w/ 128 MB
Seagate 160 GB hard drive
12x DVD burner
Antec Truepower 2.0 480W PSU
The original floppy drive
The original DVD-ROM drive (does not work with my mobo )
Samsung Syncmaster 997df 19" monitor
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 1.1A
And my good old stereo for the speakers

Upgrades:
Koutech front panel USB/Firewire port
Canon Canoscan 8400F

Desired upgrades:
An additional 2 GB of RAM
Probably a mid-range DX10 card when they come out (The Geforce 8800s draw too much power)
A good second monitor with the graphics card
A Wacom Intuos3 tablet, either 6x8 or 9x12

 

[raphink]

I've got 3 machines running here:

* My main machine is a PowerBook G4 Laptop, bought to a friend about 1 year and a half ago for 500 euros.

1 GHz PPC processor
768 MB RAM
60 GB HD
running Ichthux 6.10 as the main OS
dual boot with MacOS 10.3 (rarely used)

* My desktop comp is almost dead and needs to be changed:
2 GHz AMD Athlon 2400+ processor
1 GB RAM
160 GB HD in 2 HD
running Kubuntu 6.10 as the main OS

* A desktop machine used as an http and printer server:
600 MHz P3
192 MB RAM
46 GB
running Ubuntu server 6.06 LTS

 

[macrohard]

I definetly need more RAM, but that wll have to wait till I get my W2 and do my taxes.....

1 homebuilt box
512 MB ram
P4 1.6GHZ
250GB HD
CDRW
DVDRW
Nvidia Video Card (Just dont remember off the top of my head what it is)
Running Freespire and Linspire on 2 partitions, plus run VMWare Server to run many other different kinds of OS's when I feel like it (And yes Raplink Ichthux is in there somewhere, plus for anyone who thinks Im anti-social towards Windows, there is a Windows 2000 Advanced Server in there to somewhere as well)
No floppy drive (Dont need them)
Canon Lide30 Scanner
HP Deskjet Printer
Sound Mike
Cost?
Under 500.00


Dell Optiplex GX150 mini tower
120GB HD
Just a plain old CD drive (too lazy and tired right now to put anything else in it.)
512 MB Ram
P3 1.0ghz
Floppy Drive
Also running Freespire and Linspire on 2 partitions, plus running VMWare and doing the whole OS thing on that too.
Cost: Under 200.00

They are both hooked through a KVM switch and run through a wireless keyboard and mouse. Display is a 21 inch monitor, and both have generic sound speakers.
(Monitor was a work write off and got for free, the rest wasall under 50.00)

I have another computer in my son's room an older Dell optiplex running a P3 800 mhz and 256 mb ram with 10 GB drive running Windows 2000 pro and 15 inch flatscreenfor his games, Openoffice, and his educational programs.

 

[peanutbutter12]

Home built

AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego 2000MHz HT Socket 939
ABIT KN8 SLI Socket 939 Motherboard
Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3300831AS 300GB 7200 RPM
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Platinum System Memory
XFX GeForce 6600 256MB PCIe w/DVI/TV-OUT
Codegen Black BRIZA-97 Case w/ Handles (400W PSU Not used)
LiteOn SHW-1635S 16xDVD Burner
Ultra 500w V-Series PSU Black Power Supply
Logitech Cordless Desktop MX3000 Laser Keyboard & Mouse
Acer AL1914 AB Black 19" 8ms LCD Monitor
LINKSYS WMP54G PCI Wireless-G Adapter
XP Pro

CJ

 

[Pikachu]

Desktop:

PowerMac G5 dual 2Ghz PowerPC processors
2.5 Gb DDR SDRAM
OS X 10.4.8
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro video card
500 Gb of storage
DVD burner
Tons of software

Server:

IBM Netfinity 6000R (rack-mountable)
Quad Xeon 700 Mhz
6 - 9Gb hot swappable SCSI drives in RAID 5 configuration
3 redundant power supplies
DVD burner
4 Gb of ECC SDRAM
OS: Fedora Core 5 Linux

And an old Intel box running Mandrake Linux10.1....

 

[A Taffer]

AMD Opteron 170 2.0Ghz Dual Core Socket 939
Gigabyte K8NSC-939 Socket 939 Motherboard
Kingston HyperX 2048MB PC3200 400MHz (2 x 1024MB)
1 IBM Deskstar 60gb harddrive
1 IBM Deskstar 40gb harddrive (both 7200 rpm ata 100)
eVGA Geforce 6800 Ultra 256mb ddr3 video card
Creative Audigy 2 sound card
US Robotics 10/100/1000 network card
Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 v1.0
Logitech G7 Laser Gaming Mouse
Altec Lansing with 2 25 watt speakers and 1 50 watt subwoofer
LG L203WT Flatron 20" Widescreen LCD monitor with DVI

 

[KristianJ]

My laptop:

IBM ThinkPad T40
Pentium M 1.5 GHz
1GB RAM (bought with 512MB)
80GB HDD (bought with 40GB)
14.1' XGA screen
ATI Radeon 7500
Atheros a/b/g wireless LAN (bought with a Cisco a/b card)
CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo
External LG DVD-R/RW 16x dual layer burner (bought for about $80 AUD a few months ago)
External 40GB 2.5" HDD (my old hard drive in a 2.5" enclosure)
Labtec wireless keyboard/mouse
Sharp stereo used as speakers
XP Professional
PCMCIA USB 2.0/Firewire card to add to the 2 USB 2.0 ports on the laptop (makes 4 in total)

When bigger hard drives come down in price, I might buy an Ultrabay hard drive adaptor and have the 2nd hard drive in place of the optical drive, since the external DVD burner can do my CD/DVD work and I hardly ever have the need to use an optical drive when I take the laptop out of my house.

 

[EJXSD]

I've got a couple computers here.

Laptop:

Gateway CX210X Convertible Notebook/Tablet
1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5600
2GB RAM
160GB SATA HDD, 5400RPM
ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 256MB
Intel PROSet/Wireless 802.11a/b/g
integrated Bluetooth
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition w/SP2; Ubuntu Linux VM

Desktop:

Dell Optiplex GX270
3.0GHz Intel Pentium 4 w/HyperThreading
1GB RAM
120GB SATA HDD
nVidia GeForce FX 5200 128MB
Windows XP Professional w/SP2; Mac OS 10.4.6 "Tiger"

upgrades:
Dual-format DVD-R/+R burner
3 port Firewire 1394 card

Other random computer:

iMac G3 Blueberry
350MHz PowerPC G3
256MB RAM
10GB (I think?) HDD
who knows what graphics card is in this thing

Then I also have an Xbox:

Xbox v1.6
Xecuter3 Modchip
120GB HDD
XboxMediaCenter as default dashboard

 

[theSwitch]

HP Pavillion
AMD 64X2 5000
2GB RAM; upgradable to 4GB
Nvidia GeForce 6150LE
320GB SATA HD 7800
DVD Lightscribe burner
XP Media Center
$949

Samsung "20 LCD widescreen monitor
1680x1050
$179

 

[michaeljr5]

This is the new card I am thinking on putting in my 8300.

http://www.amazon.com/ATI-Technolog...1_3/105-2236872-6154046?ie=UTF8&s=electronics

 

[Gidgx]

built by a friend and it was expensive for me

Amd 64 Antholon duo core pro 4200+
Nividia GeForce 7900 GT overclocked addition
OCZ 2 gigs of ddr ram
OCZ 700 watt power supply
Western Digital 300 gig SATA hdd
Creative Blaster Audigy 4
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard
LG dvd drive
LG dvd burner
LG Flat tron 20.1 widescreen LCD monitor
windows xp pro
Logitech cordless keyboard & mouse
Logitech 5.1 suround sound speakers

Lets see what would I like..

would like to get another sata hdd so I can run linux..well lets just say dual booting windows and linux didn't work out too well

another 7900 gt graphics card or maybe an 2 8800 graphics card

my motherboard can handle 4 gigs of ram ...would be nice have 2 more gigs of ram

right now I have winxp pro would like to get vista ultimate in the future

a bigger monitor that could handle a 1080p hdmi input, vga input, dvi-d input and analog input

I know I'm dreaming.. would be nice though

 

[michaeljr5]

I found an AWESOME video card. It's not a bad price either.

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=A0683254

 

[micro]

michaeljr5

You realy need to start shopping at newegg.com.

The x1300 is equivelent to the 9800, but why not get a better card for the same price. This is an agp card i posted, but the pci-e are the same price.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814161052
X1650pro 512mb 128 bit with pixel shader 3.0. $135 before rebate - s&h.


Btw the x1300xt is supposed to be almost equal with this card. any other model of 1300 isnt worht getting. And why pay more for a 1300 than a 1600.

Though toms hardware isnt always the most reliable, here you go.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01..._money/page5.html#best_agp_card_for_under_100

 

[michaeljr5]

Actually I got an ATI Radeon 9550 tonight. $40 new in box. A guy opened it, it wouldn't work in his machine. $40 later it's in mine. Works really good.

 

[peepnklown]

I got this HP Pavilion 17-inch notebook from a relative [they didn’t use it].
Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
512 MB DDR [I will upgrade to 2 GB]
60 GB HDD [warranty replaced]
Geforce FX Go 5600
DVD-RW Drive [upgraded from CD-RW from warranty replacement]
Built-in Harman/Kardom speakers [use Boston speakers]
4 USB 2.0
1 Firewire 4-pin
Built-in Wireless
1 Ethernet
Windows XP Pro SP2

I have a 300 GB external HDD