What\'s everyone running? (Post your Specs)

[Living-In-Clip]

Alright - post your specs and what you\'re running.

As most people know, I am running OS X on a G3 600mhz iMac, with 256 megs of Ram. It\'s nothing special, OS X is stable but the computer is far from a workhouse. With that said, I\'m in the process of building a new computer and goin\' back to the evil empire (*cue Star Wars / March of the Empire music*) and using a MS OS. Though I will also most likely run a distro of Linux also.

With that said - post your specs, OS you are running and if you built it or bought it.

(Oh and just for fun - how many PC\'s do you own or have owned? This will be my fourth!)

[Paul2]

Pentium 4 2.66 Ghz
two 512 MB of DDR RAM (one at 333 Mhz and one at 400 Mhz)
Sounblaster Audigy 2 Platinum soundcard
128 MB DDR of Video RAM 3D Prophlet 8500 LE Hercules

this is probably the 3rd computer i am using.  the first one was 200 Mhz Pentium, upgrade it to the 2nd one of AMD athlon xp 2200+ which is now had been move to my brother\'s room.

[Living-In-Clip]

I\'m torn right now, on if I am going to go with dual CPU\'s or just a single CPU. A part of me really wants to go with DUAL CPU\'s - but I am not sure I want to commit the money to it. This PC is mainly inspired for runnin\' Half-Life 2 and Doom III.


The only thing I know for sure is it will have two 160 gig Maxtor drives, 1 gig of Ram. The rest I am still debating on...argh, the choices.

[Paul2]

how about this suggestion...take your time...take your time...

[Living-In-Clip]

Originally posted by Paul2
how about this suggestion...take your time...take your time...

I have no paitence. I am an impulse buyer. I wll start this project Monday, when I order the case. After that, I\'ll do some research and order a new part every week.

[§ôµÏG®ïñD]

Don\'t go Dual CPU for gaming. Its not worth it..
Anyway my current specs.
Main Rig
CPU Amd Athlon Xp 2800+ (333fsb)
Sink Tt Silent Booster  (wave bearings)
Case Tt Damier V6000A (Pure Aluminum)
PSU Just Cooler 400watt psu (Aluminum)
Motherboard Asus A7N8X Deluxe (Nforce2 MCP-T)
Harddrive Seagate ATA 100 7200rpm 80gig HD
Gfx Card Leadtek A250 TD 128meg (ti4400 o/c ti4600) My vivo  ~ updating to Radeon 9800Pro
Mem 1 Gig Pc3200 (400) Kingston DDR Dual Channel (7-2-2-3)
Sound Onboard MCP-T (SoundStorm) chipset - Dolby Digital Encoding
Speaker System Inspire 5.1 Digital 5500 Speaker System. (Aluminum face plate)
Video/Audio card Tv Excal (Tv/fm/capture)
Modem DynaLink external 56k (soon to be ADSL)
Monitor Samsung 17inch Flatscreen .20dp Syncmaster 753Dfx
DVDRom Pioneer 16x DVD rom
Burner Liteon 48x 24x 48x Re-writer
Gamepads
Logitech Rumble Gamepad
M$ sidewinder control pad
Dual PSX Adapter
Keyboard CoolerMaster Alloy Keyboard Q (Aluminum)
Mouse Logitech MX500 Mouse
OS Windows Xp Pro w/sp1


err.. it does the job, yea i built it myself.

I have 2 other pcs.

Amd Athlon Xp 1800+ (333fsb)
Stock Sink for Amd2800+
350 Stock PSU
Gigabyte GA-7VAXP  Motherboard
Seagate ATA 100 7200rpm 20gig HD
Abit Gf2 T400 Gfx card
512meg pc2100 (266) Kingston DDR
SoundBlaster Live 5.1
Juster 2.1 Speaker System
SwannSmart II  Internal 56k Modem
15inch .24dp Daiwoo monitor
48x liteon Cdrom
M$ sidewinder control pad
Officeworks Keyboard
Officeworks Mouse
Windows Xp Pro w/sp1
2 Thermaltake Smart Fan
 
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Celeron 533A cpu with Stock sink
350watt psu
Gigabyte BX2000+ motherboard
Seagate ATA 100 7200rpm 20gig HD
Creative Geforce1 32meg card
640meg PC133 SDR
Vortex2 Soundcard (A3d)
2 crappy speaker system
Crappy 15inch monitor
32x diamondmm CDrom
crappy mouse and keyboard
Windows 2000 pro + service pack 4
Perspex Window +  Taichi Fan Grill
2 Thermaltake Smart Fan, and Trilight Fan
4 fan connector Rheobus (4 channel 13 watts per channel)
2 3 spread UV Lazer led units
All wires wrapped with Spiral Wrap


and i\'ve had about 6+ pcs so far.

i bought in December

p4 2.8 fsb800
p4p800 mobo
dual kit 512 ram DDR400 (1gig ram)
radeon 9600 pro 128 megs
Antec 350pw

i kept my old audigy1 pro
cd r-rw
dvdrom
floppy
17" nec

going dual processor if you are an app guy. if its for game, you wont notice the difference for the price invested. Put that money into ram or better graphic card.

If i were you though, i\'d buy a 9600 and wait the next generation of card wich should be out within next month or 2.

[§ôµÏG®ïñD]

even better.. wait for the new line of cards. So all the current cards drop in price. I doubt u want to pay 600+ dollers for a gfx card.

My computer
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Pentium 4 2.4GHz 533bus
Intel motherboard (not sure which one exactly)
1 gig of DDR Ram
Radeon 9800 Pro (128)
40GB Harddrive
160GB Harddrive
soundblaster Live!
IEEE 1394 firewire card
17" flat panel display
Harman/kardon POS speakers
40x10x40 CDRW
16x DVD-Rom
HP 960CSE printer
Logitech mx500/mx700 mouse
Linksys Switch\\Router
Logitech Cordless mx duo
winXP Pro

Mom\'s computer
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Pentium III 800mhz
Intel motherboard (some stock brand)
512MB of SDRam
Radeon 7500 (64)
40GB Harddrive
Soundblaster Live!
17" flat panel display
24x10x24 CDRW
16x DVD-Rom
Lexmark x73 printer
Logitech Internet Navigator keyboard
Logitech Cordless mouse
(4 years old this summer)
winXP Pro

Laptop
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Pentium 4m 1.6ghz
Intel motherboard (beats me which one)
512MB of ram
GeForce 2 (16)
20GB harddrive
Soundblaster Live!
14.1" display
8x DVD-Rom
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
Wireless Ethernet for Internet hot spots
(1 year old)
winXP Pro

The first PC above marks my 5th computer in my lifetime while the laptop marks my 6th.  My first ever computer was an Apple Lisa.  Some years after that, 2nd year of Junior high actually, we had a windows 3.1 machine and then a Sony Vaio Pentium I 233.

[nO-One]

Being broke kicks ass, haven\'t been able to afford an update on my hardware in a long time.

anyhoo
1,3ghz Thunderbird
256 ram (so broke I sold my other 256mb chip)
30gb IBM
40gb IBM
80GB Western Digital
120 GB Western Digital
GF2 GTS
\'
Real workhorse

AMD Athlon - XP 2400+ 266MHz FSB

Jetway V400DA Mainboard Socket A

512MB Major 2700 PC333b DDR

Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 80Gb, 7200 RPM

Chaintech GeForce 4 Mx 440 se chipset GPU

Altec Lansing 221 speakers

Liteon x48 x24 x 48 Burnproof Cd re-writer

Sony 16 DVD Drive

Microsoft Optical mouse

Logitech Interent navigator 967903 Keyboard

Samsung 15" TFT 151s

10 / 100Mb Network card

Microsoft Works suite 2003

XP home

My Computer:

P4 2.4
Asus P4PE Mobo
1GB 2700 DDR
Sony Combo DVD Burner
Pioneer 16X DVD Rom
ATI 9700 Pro
NEC 19 Inch Monitor
160 GB WD HD
80 GB WD HD
SB Audigy 2 Platinum
MS Wireless Desktop

Wifes Computer - its old

1Ghz AMD Thunderbird
256 MB Ram
60 GB HD
32 MB GeForce 2
Soundblaster Live
HP CD Burner
16X DVD Rom
17 Inch NEC Monitor

[videoholic]

P4 1.3ghz
368ram
80 gig HD
120 gig HD
3 Firewire 80 Gig HD
DVD burner and miscellanous crap

Laptop is a G4-500 with 512 of ram running OSX.

Main computer

AMD Athlon XP 1900+
512MB SD-RAM
10GB HDD
60GB HDD (thinking of getting a 160GB)
Inno3D GeForce 4 Ti4200 64MB (had to replace the fan)
19" DELL monitor
Creative SoundBlaster something
Samsung CDR 2x (one 32x and the other 52x)
WINXP Pro

The other two I only use to surf.

PIII 400MHz
128MB RAM
30GB HDD
Creative nVidia TNT2 Ultra 32MB
17" DELL monitor
WIN XP Pro

Laptop
PIII 336MHz
64MB RAM
5-6 GB HDD
14" I think TFT
Win2000 SP4 SWE

All connected to 8mbits Internet.

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
(Oh and just for fun - how many PC\'s do you own or have owned? This will be my fourth!)

Here is a brief history of the computers I\'ve owned, not counting the ones I built for other people:

Sinclair ZX-81 [Z-80] - What\'s an operating system?
TI 99-4A [Some TI chip, I dunno] - Some TI operating system, I dunno.
Atari 800XL, et.al. [6502] - Too many OSs to list.  
early AT&T PC [8088] - DOS, baby!
Zeos Desktop PC [486/66] - DOS / Windows 3.11
Homebuilt Desktop PC [Pentium 200] - Windows 98
IBM Thinkpad 600E [Pentium II 266] - Win2K
Homebuilt Desktop PC [Pentium III 500] - Windows 98 / Win2K dual boot

And currently,

Dell Dimension 4550 [Pentium 4 2.53 ghz]
Windows XP Pro
640 megs of RAM
Sapphire Raedon 9800 Pro 128meg
Two HDs, each in the 60gig range
Nothing else about it worth mentioning.