Computer system curious question

Maxwell

Update - I bought a 200gb Seagate external HD. Works great.

Artman

Wow, 200 gb! I remember when a big HD was 10 mb.

I have an update as well, I added 512 mb of Kingston 333 DDR RAM and a Maddog Combo 52-24-52 16DVD player CDRW. Got a great deal on the RAM and the burner. The RAM was marked $169.00 it was on sale for $69.00 with a $20.00 rebate! I couldn't leave it there for that. the burner was $59.00 and also had a $20.00 rebate. I put them in later that afternoon and they are both working great!

almohandes

I have 3:
- one i built my self:
amd athlon xp 2000
40gb 7200rpm
k7 motherboard, 256 mb ram: pc3200
radeon 9800 64mb DDR
15" monitor
cdrw drive and cdrom drive

and one compaq:
celeron 2.6GHz
40gb 5200rpm
intel xtreme graphics
512 mb ram:DDR 400
17" monitor

and one hp laptop:
P4 2.8ghz
radeon 7000 IGP
40 GB
512 mb ram
15"

and planning to build a new one :
*xaser 3 with 64bit CPU, *intel motherboard, *9800 Graphics and 80 GB HDD +creative modem.

- the ones with this (*) infront i've got.

Artman

Very nice. Are you planning on networking them?

megashawn

My home pc is

AMD XP 1800 (1.53ghz)
Via Kt333 mb
512mb ram
ATI Radeon 9800 (Forget the details, I think 128mb)
Hercules XP Game theater (sound card, pretty sweet, takes load off main cpu for music and audio)
Linksys WMP54G wireless adapter, using a Dlink 802.11G wireless router
KDS 17" True Flat CRT (wal mart special)
80gb Maxtor
30gb maxtor
6 speaker w/sub surround sound

Artman

This sounds pretty good Megashawn. I found that an add-on sound card increased my overall system performance on my old PC, like you said it took some load off the CPU. It really punched up the sound over the integrated card as well.

alexkerhead

I am very interested in many thing, among them are computers, and physics..

I am just curious to see what kind of machines you are running.
I am currently running..

Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz @3.402GHz
1024MB PC2700 DDR333 Viking Memory
Asus P4G8X Motherboard
ATi Radeon 9600Pro 128MB
60GB Seagate ata-133 HDD 8MB
40GB Western Digital ata-100 HDD 2MB
40x24x48 CD-RW
16x40 DVD-ROM
Eagle All Aluminum case with electric sliding front door..
17" KDS flat screen monitor(CRT)
Cooler Master Jet4 Vertical Blower

That is my latest PC I have built out of all of my 9 PCs..

Please tell me and the others what you are running for a Computer..

motai

Slightly older system compared to the top-of-the-line computers:

AMD Thunderbird 1 GHz
640 Meg RAM
ATI Radeon 8500 LE 128 Meg
120 Gigabyte Maxtor 5700 RPM HD
Memorex 40x12x48 CD-Rewritable
Generic 52x CD-ROM drive
Mad Dog PCI Sound Card
Creative Modem Blaster v.90 PCI Modem
Basic Tower Case
17" MAG Innovision 770FS CRT Monitor

alexkerhead

nice classic system, I run one of those that a brought to my school, to put in my office there..
Mine only has 512MB ram tho..
Those TBs still kick some arse..

hitssquad

Then you may want to check out the Computer system curious question thread.

Marijn

Desktop:
P4 2Ghz
2048mb DDR400
1*40G maxtor 5600rpm
1*120G maxtor 7200rpm 8mb cach
1*external 400G maxtor.
ATI Raedon 9600 256Mb
19inch crt

new Mobo and CPU un their way.
when they arrive its the ultimate home GIS machine (and its really nice for games )

Laptop:
Promedion D470V
P4 3.2 Ghz
ATI MP10-P (9600pro) 128Mb
1024Mb memory
40Gb 7200rpm (dunno the brand atm, srry).

alexkerhead

So you(hittssquad) have

Dell 4100 laptop. 1.066 MHz PIII Tualatin Celeron (256 KB backside cache). 1 GB RAM at 133 MHz. 18.6 GB 4200-RPM 2.5" 2-platter hard drive. ATI display adapter (16 MB non-shared video RAM). 14" XGA (1024 x 768) screen. Synaptics trackpad

hitssquad

Yeah. From the reviews, I'm afraid of the ALPS trackpads that are replacing the Synaptics trackpads on most of the newer laptops.

dekoi

I am currently using a 1.72 Ghz Pentium 4 with 1024mb DDR SDRAM 133mhz, sitting on a P4B533 Asus Motherboard, with an overclocked GeForce 4 Ti4400 (300MHZ Core, 600MHz Memory),

with JET4 Heatsink and 3 80mm fans (w/ fan control for both).

My case temperature is an average of about 24 degrees on full rpm load, and 29 degrees CPU Temperature.



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If you are looking for the optimum level PC for home and game use:

Athlon 64+ 3800 CPU (Socket 939)
w/ compatible Mobo (e.g. ASUS A8V Deluxe)
AGP VC: X800 PRO 256MB
etc. (sound card, monitor, keyboard, mouse, webcam, speakers)

Which would come out to be about 1500 dollars for the first three items. Good luck :)

Artman

I just placed an order for a system for a small business on a small budget. I got them a P4 2.4HT, 800FSB, ASUS P4P800-VM Mobo with built in Video, Audio, LAN, and SATA, Windows XP home ed. with CD and COA, ATX case, CD-RW 52-24-52, 256 MB DDR 400, 80 gig Samsung HD, 17 inch CRT monitor, keyboard, scroll mouse and speakers, Lifetime Tech Support, and assembly with 1 year warranty, all for $707.00 delivered. Not too bad huh!

This should work pretty good for creating PDF files, doing some e-filing and word processing, maybe some bookkeeping.