battle of the computers

[norm_au 0]

I feel a little intimidated here with all you big guns running around,but here you go some thing to have a chuckle over.put it together myself with bits and peices,be well,peace and joy to you all.

 

Intel D815EEA Board

Pentium III .

CPU 800EB.

256 SD ram.

32 meg tnt 2 vid card .

20 gig Seagate HDD .

8 gig Quantum Fireball secondry HDD .

Lite-on LTR 52x32x52x Burner

microsoft key board

USB laser mouse

1.44 floppy

[upgrading soon]

[veegee 0]

HELP!!! my gforce mx 4000 card won't play the medal of honor pacific assault game.

computer shop said i have to change to an FX video card 128 mb 128 bit. is this the only solution? i play all the medal of honor games and the latest one is the only one that won't run

 

please email me at veegee1@edsamail.com.ph

 

thanks

[norm_au 0]

ok upgrade is here,a lil better than the other one,i picked this board and cpu up for 120 bucks.

 

Gigabyte

Pentium III .

CPU 1B GIG.

320 meg SD ram.

creative sound card

32 meg tnt 2 vid card .

20 gig Seagate HDD .

8 gig Quantum Fireball secondry HDD .

Lite-on LTR 52x32x52x Burner

52x Sony rom

1.44 floppy

Multy Media FMK-3068 USB Keyboard

USB laser mouse

 

[ScinteX 0]

Hi Norm- l like your posts!

Just remember, if your PC is a bit slower than the rest, its ok since it just means that the crashes will have longer between them and that the junk that Windows seems to generate all by itself will take longer too!

It's all about the taking part not the size of the wallet- and we are all jolly chappies so no need to feel intimidated. Theres as much value in picking up bargains and slowly crafting your machine as there is making all of the right (very expensive) hardware purchases all in one go.

 

 

 

A slight elabouration on my sig:

 

MB is a Lanparty Infinity 875P

P4 2.8 oc'd to 3.6

512 Mb Corsair XMS4000 RAM

ATI 9800XT

Zalman graphics cooler + optional 80mm fan

Coolermaster Jet7 CPU cooler

Antec truepower PSU

2 samsung cd drives (DVDROM/CDRW)

2 x WD Raptors (36Gb ea.)

Lots of UV reactive leads

3 x cold cathodes

3 x UV led clusters

6 x Antec 80mm fans

Logitech MX510 optical mouse

Zboard keyboard

CTX TFT panel

Thermaltake fan/temp controller

 

 

 

That is my ickle box there in that photo

[Wicked101 0]

Hi all,

 

The box on the left is my main PC running XP Pro, the box on the right is my little Linux Suse PC:)

 

XP PC:

P4 3.2Gig Prescott

Asus P4C800-E Deluxe mobo

1024MB RAM

256MB GeForce FX5900 Graphics card

160Gig S-ATA HDD

Watercooling

RAM Freezer

HDD Heat Terminator

3 x 90mm CoolerMate (metal) fans

1 x 120mm CoolerMate (metal) fan

 

Linux PC:

AMD Athlon 900

256 MB RAM

Riva TNT Graphics (hee hee)

40Gig, 8MB HDD

At least it works:)

 

[Wicked101 0]

I'm busy setting up a new PC for someone, a really cheap one for 578 Euro.

 

Intel P4 2.4Gig

ASUS P4PE2-X mobo

512MB RAM

ATI 128MB Graphics card

120Gig IDE HDD

1.44 Stiffy

Benq Internet Keyboard

Logitec Mouse

DVD ROM

real cheap case incl. 400W Power Supply (with int./ext??? speaker)

HP Deskjet 3745 Printer

 

hehe, here's the pics of this int. speaker, I cracked myself laffing when I saw this.

 

[Wilhelmus 1]

LOL

[Wilhelmus 1]

System "Capricorn"

 

CPU: Intel Pentium IIIE, 800 MHz (6 x 133).

Motherboard: MSI 815EP Pro(-R) (MS-6337 v3.0) (6 PCI, 1 AGP, 1 CNR, 4 DIMM, Audio).

Front Side Bus: Intel GTL+,64bit, 133MHz,1067MB/s.

NorthB: Intel Solano i815EP. SouthB: Intel 82801BA ICH2.

Memory: 512 MB (SDRAM).

GPU: nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200, AGP, 64MB, DirectX 9.

SND1: Creative SB PCI128 (Ensoniq ES5880) Sound Card.

SND2: Intel 82801BA(M) ICH2 - AC'97 Audio Controller [b-1].

HD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7, ST3120022A, 120 GB(111 GB), Ultra-ATA/100.

CDRW: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8480B, 48x/16x/48x.

DVD: HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B, 16x/52x.

NIC: Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC.

Modem: Rockwell/Conexant SoftK56 Voice/Data/Fax/SpeakerPhone Modem.

KeyB: Standard 101/102 keyboard.

Mouse: PS/2 compatible mouse.

Partition(0): Windows 2000 Pro, SP 4. (Tweaked alá Wilhelmus)

Partition(1): Windows XP Pro, SP 2. (Tweaked alá Wilhelmus)

Partition(2): Downloads, "my documents", games, etc.

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Ok... not a "gun", but enough for me.

 

Runs Half-Life 2, CSS with medium settings, without too much thinking, fps ~25.

 

[MegaManExtreme2005 0]

you all seem to have rubbish specs for todays games:

anyway my specs are:

AMD Athlon XP 2600+

512MB ram (128MB in use by the onboard NForce 2 graphics)

2 hard drives:

1x120GB

1x200GB

Win 2000 Pro(build 2195)

Logitech cordless pilot optical mouse

Microsoft keyboard

DVD-Rom drive

3.5in floppy drive

[CyberGenX 0]

Cray XT3

5TB of Disk space

4GB RAM

4X 2.4GHz Opteron64

256MB ATI Fire GL V7x

20.2" Widescreen Sony Flat

 

and a butt load of BS, LOL...

 

 

 

[tsonta101 0]

Recenly got some Geil PC4200 memory, been able to run at 274MHz FSB, that is 3.84GHz for my poor 2.8 Northwood P4. Since it's been stock aircooled, I am planning on getting some decent cooling for it and the northbridge.

 

Hell, this is an endless race of cash being thrown at my box......

[Wicked101 0]

Originally posted by tsonta101:

Quote:

Recenly got some Geil PC4200 memory, been able to run at 274MHz FSB, that is 3.84GHz for my poor 2.8 Northwood P4. Since it's been stock aircooled, I am planning on getting some decent cooling for it and the northbridge.

 

Hell, this is an endless race of cash being thrown at my box......

 

Hey tsonta, are you from Germany?

Yeah, Geil is a pretty good brand of RAM, its rather new and its a German brand. Its also not too expensive either.

[tsonta101 0]

@Wicked101

 

i'm Greek and I am fluent in German, so I know what Geil means, hehe. The ram is running perfectly fine, I was using some generic Samsung PC3200 memory which was hitting a wall at 244MHZ FSB onwards. With this Geil memory it runs at 274MHz, this is quite an unexpected improvement....

[Wicked101 0]

Hi Tsonta,

 

Hehe, yeah, I wonder why they called it Geil :-)

Well, anyway, it looks like that RAM is doing what its good at, how does that make you feel? LOL

[Dark_Sword 0]

Rig1:

 

Windows XP prof

AMD XP 3200+

Radeon 9800 pro

(both watercooled (2x120mm Blackice Pro Radi))

Asus a7n8x

2x 512MB Corsair PC3200 LL (2-3-2-11)

2x 160GB Seagate RAID0 with Promise TX2000 (stripe 16k)

Audigy2 ZS + Creative T5400 5.1

Logitech MX 510

Cherry Keyboard (black/yellow)

Netgear Router RP614v2

MS Tech LC401 Case

Plextor 716a

Mitsumi CR 485F TE

 

 

Rig2:

 

Suse 9.2

AMD Thunderbird 1400+

Geforce 2 MX 400

ECS K7s5a

256MB Infineon PC2700

40GB Quantum

DVD Aopen Pro

Typhoon optical Mouse

 

Same Keyboard and same Monitor for both Rigs via KVM D-Link

[SoulNothing 0]

Rig 1 (primary)

 

MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum

Amd64 3000+

512MB Memory (Corsair XMS)

Nvidia Geforce 6660GT 128MB(evga)

Creative Audigy 2 ZS platinum+(cheap)Altec Lansing 4.1 speakers

160 GB Seagate IDE Hard Drive

160 GB Western Digital Sata Drive

2 5 port USB cards

2 CD rws at 52x, one is cdrw/dvd

Fan Control and tempature monitor

OSes: Gentoo(Stage1), Debian, Ubuntu, Win2kPro(for gaming),FreeBSD, slackware

 

Rig 2 (testing box)

 

Creative I440BX

PIII stock at 650 overclocked to 850MHZ

4x 128MB Sdram sticks

Nvidia Geforce 2(Mx) 32 MB

15GB hard drive

Dlink ethernet card

Creative DVD drive

48x CDrw

OSes: Gentoo(Stage 2), Debian(sarge), and Slackware

[Wicked101 0]

Originally posted by Wicked101:

Quote:

XP PC:

P4 3.2Gig Prescott

Asus P4C800-E Deluxe mobo

1024MB RAM

256MB GeForce FX5900 Graphics card

160Gig S-ATA HDD

Watercooling

RAM Freezer

HDD Heat Terminator

3 x 90mm CoolerMate (metal) fans

1 x 120mm CoolerMate (metal) fan

 

Linux PC:

AMD Athlon 900

256 MB RAM

Riva TNT Graphics (hee hee)

40Gig, 8MB HDD

At least it works:)

 

I just added another 160Gig S-ATA HDD to my XP box and changed the TNT card with a GeForce FX 5700 128MB card on my Linux box :-)

[Shadow64Bt 0]

Well, I made my upgrade about 2 months ago now, went from my Athlon XP 2600+ to this:

 

Athlon 64 3000+ @1.8GHz

Asus A8V Deluxe

2x512Mb PC3200 Corsair ValueSelect D-C Kit

ATI Radeon 9600XT (Picking up my ATI Radeon X850 XT 256Mb on Monday )

2x 80Gb E-IDE ATA 133 Hds (Western Dig & Maxtor, both w/ 8Mb Cache)

LG HL-DT-ST SuperMulti DVD-RAM/RW/R

ALC850 Onboard Audio (frickin' sweet, it actually beats my older Audigy in quality)

Thermaltake Silent PurePower 480W PSU

 

Serves me well so far, been ironing out little problems here and there, cost me a bundle in work too, but it was worth it.

 

 

 

[zenarcher 0]

MSI KT6V Motherboard

AMD XP3000+ Processor

1 Gig PC2700 RAM

Nvidia FX5200-128 Video Card

Aspire X-Super Alien 500W Power Supply

ECS 6 in 1 Card Reader

Nu Technology 8X DVD+R 4X DVD+RW DVD Burner

2- Western Digital SATA 80G, 7200 RPM Hard Drives(Soon to be SATA RAID0 Configuration)

Artec Diablo 52X24X52X CD Burner

Digital Doc 5 Temperature and Fan Controller

Raidmax Scorpio Full Tower Case with Clear Window

Mandriva 2005LE PowerPack (Soon to try SUSE 9.3)

 

I have two virtually identical boxes (one for me and one for my wife) and a clunky antique HP box for her Windows games on my network, using a Linksys BEFW1154 Router(Which also connects my VoIP telephone) to a Broadband Cable connection.

 

 

 

[zenarcher 0]

MSI KT6V Motherboard

AMD XP3000+ Processor

1Gig PC2700 RAM

2- Western Digital 80G 7200 RPM Hard Drives (Soon to be SATA RAID0)

Nvidia FX5200-128 Video Card

Digital Doc 5 Temperature and Fan Controller

Artec 52X24X52X CD Burner

ECS 6 in 1 Card Reader

Raidmax Scorpio Full Tower Case with Side Window

Aspire 500W Power Supply

NU Technology 8X4X DVD+RW DVD Burner

17" Solaris LCD Flat Display

IBM Webcam

Mandriva Linux 2005LE PowerPack(Soon to try SUSE 9.3)

Linksys BEFW1154 Router(Connects two of the idential boxes..one for me and one for my wife), as well as an old HP box running Windows for my wife's games and my VoIP telephone system to a Broadband cable connection)

 

Sorry about the double post! I did this too early in the morning!

 

[FredL2 0]

My box (Pudding):

Model: Noname/homebuilt

OS: Custom Slackware Linux 9.1 (replaced bootscripts and services)

AMD K6-2 350MHz

64 MB SDRAM

3+80 GB HD

Noname PCI IDE Controller

NVidia GeForce GTS 2/Pro (64MB)

Creative SB16 soundcard

 

Laptop 1 (Chimera):

Model: Toshiba Satellite 120

OS: Slackware Linux 9.1

Intel Pentium 120 MHz

32 MB EDORAM

1.3 GB HD

12" Dualscan LCD monitor

Chips and Technologies graphics card

 

Laptop 2 (alpha)

Model: HP/Compaq nc6000

OS: Slackware Linux 9.1

Intel Pentium M 1500 MHZ

512 MB RAM (unknown type)

30 GB HD

14" TFT LCD monitor

ATI Radeon 9600 Graphics card

 

[wizard8873 8]

Gigabyte GA-7n400 pro2 mobo

AMD Athlon XP 2500+ @ 2.2GHz

512 (2X256MB) PDP Sytems PC3200 Dual Channel RAM

2 120GB SATA drives at RAID 0

Sony 16x Dual Layer DVD Burner

TDK 52x cd burner

Geforce 6600GT AGP @ 520/1170

Windows 2000 Professional SP4

 

its not the best system but still one hell of a gaming system.

[KleShreen 0]

my brand new laptop, just bought today...

 

HP Pavilion zd8000 BTO Notebook PC

- 17.0" WXGA+ BrightView Wide Viewing (1400x900)

- 54g Integ. Broadcom 802.11 b/g WLAN & Bluetooth

- 1.0GB DDR2 SDRAM, 533 MHZ (2x512MB)

- Intel® Pentium® 4 520 w/HT Technology, 2.8GHz

- 80 GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive

- LightScribe 8x DVD+/-RW&CD-RW Combo w/Double Layer

- Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition

- 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon X600

[jdulmage 0]

Has this exceeded my "I don't mean to piss everyone off..." post from back in 2000? LOL.

 

 

[Harpocrates 0]

Well I just registered to this forum so i guess ill post my specs too :

 

Main Pc:

Windows Xp Pro SP2 dual boot with Suse 9.2

Athlon 64 3500+ socket 939

1024 Mb Geil DDR 400 dual channel

Pioneer DVD/RW 108 16x

Thermaltake Xaser Case silver w/window

Thermaltake butterfly PSU 480w

Abit AV8 Guru mobo

Ati X800 256MB

Maxtor pci Hdd controller (supports 2 sata and 2 ide Hdd's)

Main Hdd: WD Raptor 74GB Sata 10000rpm

Secondary Hdd's: 2x300Gb Sata Maxtor,

1x300 GB Ide Maxtor,

2x250 GB Ide Western Digital

Usb Hdd: 300 Gb Ide Maxtor in Samcheer aluminium case

Accesories:

Gtech 19in1 usb card reader

Logitech Cordless Desktop LX700

Netgear wireless usb adaptor Wg121

Belkin BLuetooth adaptor

Epson Cx3200 Printer

17" Iiyama crt monitor

 

Been trying to get familiar with linux but cant get the usb wireless adaptor working(newbie) so i havent been booting a lot into linux. When I have a net connection in linux boot ill try to slowly learn all i need to migrate completely...will be a long time! Hope ill manage...thanx for listening...and hi to tsonta my sumpatriwti!!Zitw o gousgounis!