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I've got :

Some random Intel Socket7 MotherBoard

AMD K6-2 450 Mhz (it's been through a house fire)

4mb PCI video card

16 bit ISA sound card

56k v.92 modem (newest piece of hardware I own)

32x cd

52x cdrw/dvd combo (I can't even burn at half that)

10gb maxtor hd

15in monitor that keeps losing colors (mostly no blue)

So, what do you have?




...Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most (ozzy osbourne)[ulist]

(Edited by I X I on 05-14-2004 06:02)

Asus 800mHz FSB MB
Pentium 4 2GHz Proc
ATi Radeon 9200 256 MB
512 PC2700 Ram (soon to be replaced)
21" Sony Monitor
80 gig 7200 RPM HD

I can't even remember what my CD-ROM drives are but they'll be replaced soon too.
And soon to be Audigy 2 Sound Card
and after all that and after I buy my new V-Twin Pre-Amp (which is going to come before all my computer stuff) i'll get a new proc.


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Right now a:

Pentium III, 733MHz, in an
Asus P4X3V motherboard, or something like that, with
512MB of ordinary PC-133 RAM,
ATI 8500DV graphics card,
NEC 1300-A DVD recorder, a
Creative DVD-CD reader, an
ordinary win-modem, an
ordinary Creative PCI sound card,
ordinary speakers,
MS natural keyboard (one wireless, another with cord, as spare),
Logitech trackball, a
Wacom tablet (the simplest one),
monitor CRT Sony trinitron 17"
5 HDs, totalling 550 MB of real state
all in a very ordinary case



I'm assembling a new system that'll be:

CPU Pentium 4, 3.2C GHz

heatsink SwifTech MCX478-V
OR a heatsink Zalman CNPS7000-Cu or AlCu
OR a heatsink Thermalright SP94

MoBo ASUS P4C 800E Deluxe

Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2
OR Corsair TWINX1024-3200LL-PRO
OR Corsair TWINX1024-3700PT

Samsung 213T-Silver SyncMaster 21.3in Digital LCD Monitor (Silver)
Antec case Aluminum P-160, no window
2 SilenX 120mm fans for the case
Power Supply 450w <14 dBA Active-PFC iXtrema SilenX
Maybe a SilenX fan also for the heatsink

Two Maxtor 200GB ATA-133, taken from the old system
MS wireless keyboard taken from the old system
DVD recorder taken from the old system or I may buy the NEC 1500 8x
Wacom taken from the old system
Trackball taken from the old system

Maybe a new graphic card, but I can use the one from the old system and use an older one that I have in the old system

Maybe a better sound card - the MoBo already has built-in stuff

I will need also a router, a good scanner, maybe new speakers, but I'm satisfied with my headphone Grado SR-60.

Also a GPS, a notebook for my brother, a new 50" TV for my wife, a new stereo system, and a new car.

Some years from now, a new house and a new dog.
A new life style.
Less computer, more fresh air.
Less walls, more trees and grass.

Oh man, what am I doing?

I built my PC three or more years ago at an initial cost of about £750. I have spent only very little on it since. My greatest expense so far has been upgrading my 64MB GF4 MX460 to a 128MB GF-FX5600 - but through selective sourcing and offsetting the cost of upgrades with the sale of the replaced parts, I think that I've managed to make fairly good use of a limited budget, despite the fact that a similar amount of money could buy a lot more now.

My PC:
Windowed Black+White+Silver tower case with cold-cathode blacklight
3 near-silent case fans (making one far-from-silent overall noise)
320W PSU (which is going to have to go)
ECS K7S5A rev3.1 mainboard (I should have gone Pro)
AMD XP1800+ CPU (bought a month before the price of the 2200 dropped - doh!)
512MB PC133 SDRAM (board supports PC266)
128MB AGP (8x) GeForce FX5600XT (board has only AGP 4x)
On-board AC'97 6-channel audio (SiS 735) (output to Creative SB250 speakers, hi-fi, and TV/Video)
On-board 10/100 LAN (SiS 900)
56k v.92 AMR modem (disabled due to lack of use - I have broadband)
Mercury TV Tuner (VERY low-end)
16x48x AOpen DVD/CDROM + 48x12x48x Artec CDR/RW slave
60GB 7200rpm IBM hard drive + 8.4GB slave (S.M.A.R.T enabled, DMA mode 5)
19" Hansol 920P (CRT) + a nice big TV
NEC 4+1 port USB 2.0 PCI card (I'll NEVER buy VIA again)
Trust 380 USB2 SpaceC@m camera (nothing but hassle - Trust suck ass)
Microsoft Intellimouse Optical USB mouse + generic multimedia PS2 keyboard (PS2 for power-on by key)
Saitek Cyborg 3D Rumble Stick (USB) + Thrustmaster Dualpower analogue gamepad (USB)

I have various bits and pieces attached to (or hanging off) various ports, including a touchpad/tablet, USB Bluetooth dongle, IR receiver, 256MB USB 'Easydisk', etc.

I'm running Windows XP Pro, protected by Norton Internet Security and Anti Virus 2003.
Applications installed include Office XP, Macromedia MX suite, Adobe Photoshop 7.0, and a veritable database of odds and ends.
Games include: Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal 2/XMP, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Hidden & Dangerous Deluxe, Need for Speed Porsche 2000, Medieval Total War (Viking Invasion), C&C Tiberian Sun, C&C Red Alert, Colin McRae Rally 2.0, and more.

I'm a total tweak-freak, so the machine runs pretty damn fast for what it is, and boots in a little under 40 seconds (from BIOS done, to fully-functional desktop), even with the Norton AV and IS on autostart (somethng that seems to slow most PC bootups to a crawl, I've noticed). Also, where possible, the BIOS, all firmware, and drivers are the very latest versions. The AOpen DVDROM replaced a damaged Artec which I had flashed with de-regionalised firmware, but now I use Region-Free (which has the added bonus of defeating the Macrovision protection more strictly enforced with the latest NVidia TV-out drivers). I would recommend this software to everyone.

The 8.4GB drive is currently home to my pagefile and almost anything else that uses VM-type background swapfiles. This vastly improves my overall application and drive performance. I'm considering transferring my boot partition to the smaller drive and setting it to master, but when something works well, it is not always wise to chop and change. However, I need a lot more magnetic real estate for future projects, so a larger hard drive is definitely on the books eventually.

My power supply unit is woefully insufficient for drastic upgrades, therefore I have ordered a 550W supply, which should be okay until they start manufacturing PC add-on kettles/heaters/lawnmowers, etc.
The CPU is beginning to show it's obsolescence, and I've been meaning to upgrade the RAM for ages - but the mainboard should be my first concern (as it severly restricts the potential upgradeability of the rest).

So my immediate upgrade list (pending a lottery win) goes something like this:

New mainboard (specs to be decided)
AMD 64 3000 (or greater) CPU
1GB PC2700 RAM
200GB (or more) 15000rpm HD
DVD-RW/+RW
NVidia 6800 w/ViVo
Printer/scanner

There are obviously a lot more considerations, but I could be typing for hours...

I don't think I will be considering a panel display for quite some time, as my CRT monitor provides a better, clearer, and far more vibrant image than any flat-screen I have yet to see. I work in the industry and have observed the performance of a wide range of panel displays - CRT, despite its obvious disadvantages (weight and size), is still the best display technology IMHO.

I originally had a printer which turned out to be so crappy that I could have saved myself the extra cash for DDR RAM at the time of the build - but such is life.




Wow! I typed a hell of a lot more than I thought I might. I've trimmed it down a bit, but apologies for the waffle.

quote:

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I don't think I will be considering a panel display for quite some time, as my CRT monitor provides a better, clearer, and far more vibrant image than any flat-screen I have yet to see. I work in the industry and have observed the performance of a wide range of panel displays - CRT, despite its obvious disadvantages (weight and size), is still the best display technology IMHO.

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I have just bought this 21.3 inch LCD, Samsung, and it's beautiful, slim, big, more than big, it's huge, but honestly, the quality of the image is not as good as my old Sony trinitron 17" in one very important aspect: the black. It has good colors, better definition, because I'm using the native resolution and digital signal, but it has a lack of black. I would give it 5 stars out of 5 if it had a good black, but it hasn't. And I love to see black as black in my monitor. Unfortunately, with this new LCD, I'll have to leave the room lights always on.

I would prefer to have a big CRT monitor to this big LCD monitor but CRT monitors are too heavy and I have to cut the weight because I'm taking the beast to Brazil.

I can understand that, and in my job I am forever lugging displays of various types around. Even bloody great big plasma screens in even bigger flight cases are ultimately preferable on a job to a handful of 19" CRTs.

Another failing of LCD is the rate of change of the pixels. Even some of the best screens out there still suffer from motion-blurring with moving images.

In fact, this is the reason why projectors have been moving away from LCD in favour of DLP - an advanced technology that uses millions of microscopic mirrors manipulated via electromagnets, which can be switched back and forth thousands of times a second. When I first heard of this, I couldn't help thinking that it seemed like an implausible technology, but out of the dozen or so projectors we possess, only ONE of them uses LCD technology now.

I will be coming back to this very thread later to post a link to a site that explains DLP (an absolutely fascinating thing for a geek like me), but I now have to rush off up London - funnily enough: to retrieve a projector. I'm going to be bringing this one home for the weekend rather than suffer the round trip to the office again.

Guess who's going to be playing ET on a fifteen-foot wall projection this Saturday!!!

ASUS P4B533 MoBo
2GB RAM
240GB HDD
ASUS nVidia GeForce 4 Ti4400 128MB Videocard
Soundblaster Audigy Platinum Soundcard
16x DVD-ROM
24/10/10 CD-RW

Windows XP and Linux RedHat 9.0 Dual-boot


Justice 4 Pat Richard

if i can remember what's in there now...

800mhz athlon cpu
384mb RAM
leadtek (i think) geforce3 with 64mb
plextor 24x cd-r (beautiful drive, no complaints whatsoever)
toshiba 12x dvd-rom
sound blaster audigy platinum
microsoft intellimouse optical
mitsubishi diamondtron 19"
20 gig hd that needs to be replaced
win2k pro

soon to all be replaced by...something. not sure what yet

chris


KAIROSinteractive | tangent oriented

Main home system

P4 3GHz
512 Mb
160GB UDMA HD
16xDVD + 4x DVD-writer
GeForce FX 5600 128MB

20.1" TFT monitor (HP 2025)
Labtech speakers
DLink 614+ WLAN router
Agfa Scanner
HP DJ 5150


Laptop (crappy one to be used with Seaclear mainly)
PIII 366
256Mb
WinXP
20GB HD
GPS with USB adapter on the way...

Work Laptop - Compaq Evo N610c
1.8Ghz Intel Mobile P4
768Mb
28GB HD
ATI Radeon 7500
Wlan adapter

Then my old PIII-computers waiting for me to sell to someone and an iPAQ 3630 (first generation. Not so fun...)

G3 266 Macintosh with a G4 500 processor upgrade card
Standard sound and audio card built in
128 mb ram
40 gig Maxtor HD
Mac OS 9.1
Windows 98se (using Virtual PC.)
21" ViewSonic monitor

Applications: Photoshop 4.0, Illustrator 8.0, Director 6, Pagemill 2.0, BBEdit 4.0, Poser 4.0.

Games: The Sims, Unreal Tournament, Hoyel Casino.


Sanity is optional... (and so is clothes!)

Wolfen's Sig Site | WolfenMedia | Cell #226 | Fun Link | E-mails of Wisdom | Wolfen Deviantart

My home studio includes:

#1: Primary Workstation

AMD 2800+ 333mhz FSB
1 gig of Dual channel DDR
Nvidia FX5600
80 gig SATA & 2, 40 gig IDE drives
TDK CD_RW and 2 SCSI 32x CD-ROM drives
Pinnacle Studio DV10+
Adaptic 2930 SCSI Card
SCSI ZIP & JAZ, and 4mm sony Dat.
Agfa E50 & Duoscan T1200 scanner
Samsung 995df 19" & Hitachi SuperScan Elite 20" monitors.
WinXP Pro

#2: Workstation 2 & Rendernode

Windows ME:
AMD 2.4, with 512 meg ram
Sound blaster live 5.1
2, 20gig Drives & Creative 4x CD-R
Nvidia TNT 32 meg
15" HP Monitor
Agfa Arcus II Scanner

#3: Development Web/Print/ & Ftp Server (Sometime Rendernode)

Windows 2000 Pro
PIII 500 mhz 512 meg
Nvidia 5200fx
50x cdrom and 4mm sony dat backup
15" Sony Monitor
HP 1120c

#4: Mac Workstation:

Beige G3, OSX & 9, 352meg,
2, 4gig Drives, SCSI Zip
17" Apple monitor
Nikon 3510af Slide Scanner.


#5 Linux ( Ghostscript RIP)
AMD K6 300, 512 Meg
TNT PCI 64 meg, No Monitor
4, 4gig Drives (raid)
Linux SuSe 8

HP JetDirect 170x driving my HP 2500c

J. Stuart J.

(Edited by jstuartj on 05-15-2004 07:10)

2.26Ghz P 4
1GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 128MB
80 GB 7200 RPM HD
13 GB Qantam Fireball HD
Liteon LTR CD ROM/Burner
Samsung DVD reader
Creative audigy Sound Blaster
Stereo w/subwoofer
15" FPD LCD
MS Natural keyboard
MS Optical trackball
Win 2K Pro



(Edited by docilebob on 05-15-2004 07:03)

2400+ AMD XP
256 RAM
40 GB HD
FreeBSD

oh can't forget my new laptop:

a Cretacolor 25, with Smooth Bristol




J. Stuart J.

And Since you were so non-specific: I'll list my guitar rig (current and future)

Guitar:
Ibanez '87 RG100 (customized) > Ibanez '03 TM71 Semi-hollow > Dean Del Sol (future)

Amp Rig:
Guitar -> Rocktron All Access MIDI Controller > Rackmount Tuner > Rocktron Chameleon Pre-amp > Carvin solid state power amp > VHT 2x12 Cabinet with Eminence 12's

I'd like to get a rackmount equilizer, because the Chameleon's EQ is rather shabby. And maybe get the Tech 21 PSA-1 pre-amp to replace the Chameleon ina couple years... maybe. I need to buy a case for my cabinet.


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I'm gonna list some other stuff also:

- a 4-inch globe,
- one dust-off professional XL
- an ottoman
- a printer Epson C-80 that I promised never again to buy ink for it, so it's fate is the trash
- a non-digital small desk clock
- a mini maglite
- a 12-inch metal ruler
- a one-inch-tall pewter viking bought in Kopenhagen, atop the monitor
- a Pentel P-205
- some not-allowed-in-the-USA pills for headache
- two directory lists that I use on the floor to rest my feet
- some other useful things...

worn out New Balance. but walk more than run.

AMD Athlon64 3200+
MSI K8T NEO-FIS2R motherboard
512 MB DDR-RAM
Gainward (Nvidia) GeForce FX5900 128MB DDR Ram
120 GB old Western Digital harddisk, going to by a new 160/200 GB Seagate Barracuda later on today
17'' Hansol LCD monitor
Plextor PX-708A DVD burner
Old keyboard, been with me for at least 5 years now and still better than everything else I try
Simple Logitech optical mouse
OS: Gentoo Linux

Bought this system in February and I'm very happy with it so far. Haven't had any problems with it, and everything runs extremely smooth on it. And the best thing is that a Stage 1 install of Gentoo (ie. compiling every package being instaled) doesn't take more than a couple of hours

I've also got my previous computer standing in the corner. It isn't in use now, but that mainly because I don't have any free space for a second monitor. It is has:
- 600@900MHz Celeron processor
- GeForce 2 MX graphics card
- Abit BH-6 motherboard
- about 128 MB RAM
- a floppy station
- HP 4x CD burner

_________________________
"There are 10 kinds of people; those who know binary, those who don't and those who start counting at zero"
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Sorry I never got back about that link.

Here it is for anyone who cares to know a little about DLP technology: http://www.dlp.com/dlp_technology/dlp_technology_overview.asp?bhcp=1

I must say, a 3000-lumens projector makes a lovely centre-piece in my room. I think I will have to make a deal with the governor - see if I can borrow it for DVD and games nights in the future!

Played Medieval Total War: Viking Invasion projected across the wall. It is definitely the way it was meant to be played!

PC specs have changed a little now. I've swapped out my AOpen DVDROM for an NEC DVD+/-R/RW (8x). I have it set as master to the CDR/RW (which I will continue to use for the bulk of my CD burning to keep the load off my shiny new drive).

The 8.4GB hard-drive turned out to be on it's way out, so I'm thinking of buying a SCSI card and drive to boot from - but that's very low priority.


One other thing: I have this novelty herb-grinder. It is a glow-in-the-dark eyeball which doesn't grind *herbs* the way it should any more - so now it stares out through the window on the side of my PC, where it glows very nicely under the UV cathode.

Might not be as impressive as a whole studio of equipment, but it does look pretty impressively freaky...

3000 ANSI Lumens? Jesus Christ...what are you doing? Projecting a 30 metre picture from 60 metres away?

Edit: After reading your initial post on this, that may very well be what you're doing.


Justice 4 Pat Richard

(Edited by Skaarjj on 05-19-2004 15:49)

17" iMac (1GHz) running Mac OS X.3

My apologies...

...it was actually 2500 lumens! Projected from a distance of about 4 metres, this provided me with a projected image more than two metres wide!

It was a sunny day, so it was quite a bright room even with the blinds closed.

I must admit that later, when the sun was set, it was rather like looking at an enormous CRT screen built into the wall.

One drawback was the amount of heat generated by the lamp. It was like running a fan heater on low the entire time.

I should think that 1500 lumens would not have been overkill, but this wasn't by prior arrangement, so I got stuck with 2500.

What rotten luck, eh? *sigh*

You all make me feel very sad about my ol' piece of junk, but it's still useable and I don't have the cash to upgrade so...

I can at least dream about having :
AMD Athlon XP 2200+
512 MB DDR
512 GB (RAID) a half terabyte HD would be REALLY NICE lol
128 MB nVidia
DVD burner

it sure would be nice, but you know what they say :
"wish in one hand and shit in the other, see which one fills up quicker"

anyway...




...Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most (ozzy osbourne)

Azza Motherboard (don't remember what model or ranking)
Pentium III Processor 933Mhz
256MB RAM
Voodoo Graphics Card (Hell knows which one)
40 GB + 20 GB Hardisks
64MB VGA Card (As well!!)
52x32x52x CD-RW thingy

Running Windows XP Professional
Games (in PC): CNC Red Alert 2 (plus Yuri's Revenge), CNC Generals, Starcraft (plus Broodwar), believe it or not CNC Dawn! and CNC Red Alert 1!! Commandos 3, CNC Renegade, Quake III Arena, Hidden & Dangerous II, OutBreak, CNC Tiberan Sun (plus Firestorm), Railroad Tycoon, Ceasar III (excellent game) and more!!!

There is a HELL OF A lota crap in my PC although I do hope to get a Mac some day.


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This thing was awesome back when I bought it. Still runs, amazingly enough.

IBM T40 Laptop
- 1.6 Ghz CPU
- 512 MB Memory
- 32 MB ATI Radeon Mobility (Runs UT2k3 full-screen with everything set to high quality quite nicely!)
- 1400x1050 Display
- Built-in WiFi and BlueTooth (!)

I dual-boot Windows XP and Arch Linux (2.6 Kernel; I highly recommend Arch Linux, by the way) on it.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently arcane magic is indistinguishable from technology." -- P. David Lebling

There is a 1TB external hard drive unit available now for USB 2.0, I think. As current hard drives reach a reliable limit of about 330-380GB, three drives are combined to make one terrabyte.

It costs a bomb!

3 boxes, all the same
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Asus Mobo+800MHz P3,
512 Mb RAM
2x40Gb Disks of various pedigree (Seagate and Maxtor mainly)
Dvd drive (pedigree ditto)
CD RW Drive (pedigree ditto)
Matrox Millenium G450 Dual Head
On-board sound

Driving
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2 x 21" Ilyama 451 monitors vi 2 x 4-way KVM switches
Lexmark all-in-1 Printer /Fax/Scanner

Used for
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1 x Windows XP machine for DJ and Artwork,
1x Redhat 9 (soon to go Fedora) main server/router/gateway/mail/ etc. and
1x Fedora dev and play box,

All free ... I harvested the lot when the last company I left went bust - I took edverything I could get into the car the day before they folded up.

Laptop
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Dell c800 with 15.1" TFT screen running Gentoo installed from stage 2)

New One --- we've just ordered (today -- yahaaay) a new machine for our home entertainment and games center .. here's the order - verbatim
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Abit NF7-S v2 nForce2 MoBo
AMD Athlon (Barton) XP 2500+ (333 FSB)
Giel Dual Channel DDS - 1Gb (2 x 512 matched) PC3200
Coolmaster Jet7 CPU Cooler
(that lot will overclock to 3200)
Sound on board (for now at least)
Asus V9520VS GeForce FX5200 + 128 Mb
Maxtor Diamond+ 120 GB SATA HD
Leadtech Winfast TV2000 Pro TV/FM Tuner Video Capture/Edit
MSI DR8-a2 8x DVD+-R/+-RW (black)
Samsung CD/DVD Drive (black)
Asus Wireless LAN card
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It's going into a Beantech Glass-coloured Acrylic Case http://www.moddin.net/review.asp?ReviewID=80 with orange UV reactive round IDE and SATA cables and a Cold Cathode blacklight tube. I'm de-wiring the PSU to remove all unnecessary connectors and rewiring the remainder with with transparent wires and orange UV reactive molex plugs, and down each of the remaining PSU wire bundles I'm running an aqua-blue (cyan) EL light-wire. The PSU and CD/DVD drive boxes (ugly gray things) are being gold anodized, and if I can find the time, the drive fronts are being replaced with clear/green acrylic fascias to match the case. Estimated time to completion about 3 weeks from delivery of the main parts (some ohers need to be ordered from the USA).

Drivers and driven ... Wireless keyboard and mouse, and Creative T5400 5.1 speakers (for now) and visuals courtesy of my trysty old Panasonic 1200 lumen projector - Our lounge is 15 ft from projector to opposite wall, so we get a 9ft x 6 ft picture approximately. For daylight viewing we use a 30" Sony Trinitron. Sole purpose for the system ... Home entertainment, movies, games, surfing, CED/Mp3, TV and Radio (instant replay, record and pause on Live TV from the TV card and only $40 .. I love that idea) ... basically we're dumping all our other old home-entertainment equipment and gewtting it all (and more) from one box.

Future plans - replace the on-board sound with a top end sound card (maybe one of the Creative Audigy 2 series, or a Terratec) and shop around for some higher quality speakers, but that will have to wait quite a few months yet, this thing has already dented my credit card for slightly less than $900.


Bug-free software only exisits in two places
In programmer's mind and on a salesman's lips

(Edited by trib on 05-24-2004 10:34)

Friend gave me an unused APC Back-UPS unit the other day. Funny thing was that I finally got around to buying myself a new power-surge socket bar that morning.

Clean power. Invaluable.

I upgraded this weekend

PII 266mhz
256MB SDRAM
new PCI sound card
4MB AGP vid card

everything else is basically the same




...Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most (ozzy osbourne)