That XP issue sucks :(, and what can i say.....im an impulse buyer

New video card today, so I will update my specs...

[list]
[*]WinXP Pro
[*]Intel P4 1.6A@2.4GHz (16x150MHz FSB) Northwood with stock heatsink and VCore
[*]SOYO Dragon P4S Ultra (SiS 645 Chipset)
[*]1GB PC2700 (DDR333) Mushkin DDR-DRAM
[*]WD 100GB ATA-100 HD w/ 8MB Cache
[*]Samsung 5x DVD/32x CD Drive
[*]GeForce4 Ti 4600, 128MB
[*]Onboard C-Media 6-Channel Sound
[*]Onboard SiS USB 2.0 with 5.25" Drivebay I/O
[*]Onboard Highpoint UDMA/IDE RAID Controller (33/66/100/133)
[*]Radius 19" Monitor (Trinitron AG CRT)
[*]MS Natural Keyboard Pro
[*]MS Intellimouse Explorer
[*]SanDisk USB Compact Flash Reader
[*]Spacetec SpaceORB 6DOF Game Controller
[/list:u]

Now I am just waiting for UT 2003 and Doom3 to come out.

Asus P4S533
1.6 Northwood @ 145mhz FSB for 2312mhz
Corsair XMS 2700 at 2-2-3 1T @4/5 divider
Leadtek A250 TI 4400 @ 310/670 mhz
SB Audigy MP3
Maxtor 80g 7200 Rpm ATA 133
Plextor 40x12x40
various large fans and neon lights

WINXP PRO Corp Gold
Office XP PRO
PSP 7.0
Norton 2002
Clone CD
EZCD PLat 5.0
list goes on....

best 3dmark2001se is 11530

Well, I got a new toy: a digital camera. Specifically, the Sony DSC-P20, 1.3 mega pixel camera. This is very good, since I can now take pictures of stuff I'm reviewing:D

i think everyone was reasdy to go postal on him!!!!, and hope some did


but anyways just check ma sig!

VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

Dude, that's like a year and a half ago! 8)

I think he's hanging around T-Break's forums. My systems are about as dope as I can keep them. I am totally 1337:D hahahahahahahahaha!

^^^ love the sig m8!!

ahahaha

my recent one i decide to use to some people who say ICQ messed up my comp

[size:24]ICQ doesn't kill computers , Idiots kill computers.[/color]

The quote is off SNL's "Nick Burns: Your Company's Computer Guy" It's hilarious to the nerds in the house, chiefly me and my dad

Anyway, I'll be looking at some different batteries: this new camera eats alkalines. I can use NiCAD or NiMH or Sony's expensive InfoLithium...suggestions welcom.

Time for another update:

Fortrex "Magic" MG-780 ATX Full Tower [a.k.a. that rather big full tower that Maplin sell under the wrong name ] [They call it a "Jupiter Full Tower"]
Macron MPT-300 PSU
Athlon XP 1900+ [1.6Ghz]
Abit KT7A-RAID v1.3
384MB RAM [3x128MB PC133]
IBM 75GXP 30GB
ATI Radeon 64MB DDR ViVo
Creative Labs Audigy [OEM, cos it's cheaper :)]
Lite-On LTR 12101B [12x 10x 32x]
BTC BCD24XHM 24x CD ROM
3.5" & 5.25" floppy drives [1 of each]
Antec EzUSB
Realtek RTL8029 based NIC
MRi PCI1456 56K modem [just in case cable server dies ]
Kensiko translucent blue PS2 keyboard [the ones Staples sell]
Logitech USB Optical Wheelmouse
Motorola Surfboard 3100 cable modem
Eizo Flexscan 9400 20" monitor

Goodbye & good riddance to my Sonic Vortex 2. Ok, so in fairness, it's not a bad card as such - when it works, it sounds nice - but let's face it - nobody wants to have to keep rebooting their PC whilst watching a video file because the sound dies on them. If I ever get round to building a second machine running on either Linux or 98SE then I might let the SV2 take up residence there, but until then it's on the sidelines indefinitely.

Update for me too.


And, here are all of my rigs:
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/Reaper-SM.jpg

my main rig:
Absolute Evil 2.0

Chenbro Net(black) modded for more and bigger fans

Panaflo fans
{
4x120mm M series
1x92mm H series
2x60mm H series
}

Custom Built PC Power & Cooling 450W PSU

1x White LED

2x Blue LED

2x Red LED

P4 1.6a @ 2.24 w/ Alpha 8942-ThermalTake SmartFan*once AC is on, i'll take it back to 2.4

1gb(2x512) PC3200 Corsair DDR

Abit IT7
{
i845e
Firewire
4 Intel USB2.0 ports
4 Via USB2.0 ports
onboard Realtek 10/100 NIC(8139, if I recall correctly)
Highpoint 374 ATA133 RAID controller(set up as a standard IDE controller)
}

Gainward GeForce4 TI-4400/128

Leadtek TV2000XP TV-tuner/FM/Capture Card

Turtle Beach Santa Cruz

Dlink DG500T 10/100/1000 NIC

LiteOn
{
16x DVD
24x10x40 CDRW
40x12x48 CDRW
}

Toshiba 40x CDROM

Drives on HighPoint controller
[
Windows XP
{
Western Digital WD1000JB-SE 100gb/UDMA100
2x Maxtor D740X 80gb/UDMA133
}

Linux or other OS
{
Western Digital AC38400 8.4gb/UDMA33
}
]

4x Vantec EZ-Swap LCD UDMA133 bays.

4x 36" rounded UDMA133 cables

1x 24" rounded UDMA133 cable

1x 9" floppy cable(for when I need to flash a BIOS)

Panasonic Floppy(black)

Microsoft
{
Intellimouse Explorer 3.0
Natural Keyboard Pro
}

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AEFR.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AEFL.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AEFC.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AEF.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AE-Bays1.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AE-Swap.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AERP.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AERU.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AERIO.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AELO.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AETT.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AELL.jpg

iiyama VisionMaster Pro 451 19" CRT(running 1600x1200@85hz)


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Ragnarok(still empty):

Chenbro Ultra (modified for more and larger fans)

Panaflo fans
{
4x 120mm fans(1xL, 1xM, 2xH series)
9x 92mm L-series fans
5x 80mm L-series fans
2x 60mm H-series fans
}
6x White LEDs

2x Blue LEDs

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/RFL.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/RFR.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/RB.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/RFO.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/RRC.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/RRU.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/RRO.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/RLO.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/RLOF.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/RLOR.jpg
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Oh, and my laptop too!

Cerberus:
Toshiba Satellite 3000-S353

Pentium3 900mhz(em class)

815 chipset motherboard

512mb (2x256) Centon RAM

16mb GeForce2 Go

14.1 TFT (1024x768@60)

AC-97 sound

Firewire

3x USB ports

IR port

onboard Realtek 8139 NIC

Orinoco Silver PCMCIA WLAN card

onboard 56k Modem

Toshiba 8x DVD-ROM

Sandisk 64mb SmartMedia card

IBM 20gb 4200rpm HDD

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/Cerb-C.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/Cerb-o.jpg
http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/Cerb-R.jpg


You'll notice it lacks PS2 and Serial connectors. USB only

Very nice. I can't quite bear the thought of ditching my PS/2 ports just yet, but that IT7 is very sweet in concept.

Well, I think I may be building a LAN box in the future, and I kinda want to try the P4 this time around. Hopefully, I will build this system in a few months time.

Iwill P4D (i845-D)
P4 1.6GHz retail
256MB PC2100 Corsair value-select
ATI Radeon 8500LE 64MB
Panasonic 32x CD-ROM
Maxtor 20GB 5400RPM ATA100
Some 10/100 NIC I have lying around
ATX midtower case
300W ATX 2.03 Macron Power I have lying around
MS Intellimouse Optical
Logitech Keyboard
15" monitor (maybe 17"---I wanna keep this whole build under $700)

This will take my total # of PC's I own up to 4.

Well, I ordered the CPU, mobo, and video card this morning. I'll buy the RAM locally ($59 for a 256MB stick of Samsung PC2700--better than online prices!) This should be fun...Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha:D

you go p4 in the end?

i think i can win this one

supermicro p4cd6+
p4 xeon 2.2ghz (times 2)
1gig rdram
adaptec scsi raid array on 2 cheeta x15's
sb aud platinum
leadtek geforce4 ti4400
scsi burner
scsi dvd
scsi cdrom
all on a 21" sony trinitron

btw yea i remember that guy "why is my system so dope"
kinda goofy

Yeah. I figured this would be nice to play with as I already know the AMD side of things. I needed to keep up with the desktop portion of Intel. I've heard a lot of good things about Iwill--which is good considering they're trying to make headway in the dual-processor/server board end of things.

1) A7M266-D with 2 2000MP 4Gb Ram , 2 80Gb drives & dvd+rw drive
2) A7M266-D with 2 2000MP 2Gb Ram , 1 80Gb Drive & dvd-rom
3) A7M266-D with 2 2000MP 2Gb Ram , 1 80Gb Drive & dvd-rom

Runing linux redhat 7.3 with mosix clustering to bind them to a cluster
1) is master with 2&3 slaves

O and one A7M266-D with 2 1800MP 1Gb Ram , 80Gb Drives & dvd-rom (for winxp)

Update on my comps

Added 2 case fans to my 1800 and a 80GB IBM 7200RPM HDD Also

PC 1
---------------
400Watt Virgo Case + 2 Case Fans
AMD Athlon XP 1800+
Gigabyte GA-7DXR+ w/USB2
512MB DDR 2100RAM w/Thermaltake DDR Cooler
GeForce3 Ti200 64MB
80GB IBM 7200RPM HDD
60GB IBM 7200RPM HDD
16x LG DVDDrive
16x LiteOn CDReWriter
10/100 Genius NIC
WinTV Primio FM
Creative Soundblaster Live! 1024
4.1 Cambridge Soundworks Speakers
17" NEC Multisync A700 Monitor

PC 2
---------------
300Watt Midi Case + Exhaust
AMD Duron 1.2Ghz
Gigabyte GA-71XE4
512MB Hyundai PC133 RAM
GeForce2 MX200 64MB
60GB IBM 7200RPM HDD
40GB Seagate 5400RPM HDD
16x LG DVDDrive
24x Samsung CDReWriter
(2) 10/100 Genius NIC
(1) 10/100 Netgear NIC (for cable)
Creative Soundblaster PCI 128
300Watt 2.1 Logic Speakers
17" AOC LCD Monitor

What do you run on this cluster, some DB app?

OK let's play who can make up the best system, as some are already.

Fun TiMe!!!

2X86 Intel Processor @ 25MHz
1MB RAM 30 pin
256K RAM Video Card VESA
30MB IDE Hard disk
2X CDROM
5" Floppy
DOS 3.0
12" Monitor
900Bps modem

Alright, my new system, final specs:

--TRANSMATiC--
Iwill P4D
Pentium 4 1.6A (no OC yet)
256MB PC2700 Samsung
Radeon 8500LE
Realtek 8029 10/100 NIC
Maxtor 20GB 5400RPM ATA100
Panasonic 32x CD-ROM
Antec 350W ATX 2.03 PSU
mid tower case

I may have to dual with the other 1.6A owners here. This is the first Intel chipset based board I've used since Intel's own SE-440BX and a PII 400...whoa!</keanu reeves>

Updated my 'puter:

(Note, In the past 4 months I've only had time with my once lovely computer for 1 month total. In my brief visit back I upgraded some parts before I left...again)

Monitor =Sony E500 21"
Speakers =Creative Soundworks DTT3500 Digital
Mouse =Microsoft Intellimouse Optical SE (PS2)
Joystick =Microsoft Precision Pro (USB)
Gamepad =Logitech Wingman Rumplepad (USB)
Keyboard =Generic 104k Keyboard (PS2)
Case =Coolermaster ATCS-110 w/Enermax EG651P 550W PSU
Motherboard=Abit KX7-333R Bios 9K
Processor =AMD Athlon XP 2000 @1666mhz 133X12.5
Cooling =Alpha PAL8045
Memory =Corsair 512MB C3000 DDR CAS2 (2 DIMMS=1GB)
Video =Leadtek WinFast A250 Ultra (GF4 Ti4600 128mb DDR) C=300Mhz M=650Mhz
Floppy =3.5"

MOBO CONTROLLER DMA/100
PMIDE1/Pioneer 16X Slot DVD-106S DMA/66 1.22 Bios
PSIDE1/Plextor 16X CDR
SMIDE2/LiteOn 40x12x48x CDRW
SSIDE2/IBM 120GXP 123.5GB DMA/100

HPT372 CONTROLLER DMA/133 Bios v2.31
PMIDE3/Maxtor L080J4 80GB DMA/133 (OS)
SSIDE3/Maxtor L080J4 80GB DMA/133 (GAMES)
SMIDE4/IBM 60GXP 61.5GB DMA/100 (BACKUP2)
SSIDE4/IBM 60GXP 61.5GB DMA/100 (BACKUP1)

PCI SLOTS
PCI1/EMPTY
PCI2/Soundblaster Audigy Ex
PCI3/EMPTY
PCI4/NetGear FA310TX NIC
PCI5/EMPTY
PCI6/Hauppauge WINTV Theatre

Windows 98SE/NT4 Workstation/2000 Server slipstreamed SP2/XP Pro (2000 Main OS)
Nvidia 29.42 Reference Drivers
DirectX 8.1 Build 881 /Windows 2000
Directx 8.1 Build 810 /Windows XP
Via 4.39 4-in-1 beta 2


Benchmarks taken under Windows 2000 Server


Quake 3 v1.31
2048X1536=90.5
1600x1200=131.7
1280X1024=164.2
1024X768 =181.8
800x600 =183.5
640X480 =184.4
320X240 =205.0 (lowest video quality settings)


XP Bench v1.03
1280x1024x16
Layered Window Tests:
Black as transparent: 116.29
47% visibility: 98.241
50% visibility: 98.157
100& visibility: 118.21
Overall Layered Windows Score: 430
Overall Benchmark Score: 430

SiSoft Sandra 2002 Pro
CPU Arithmetic Benchmark
Dhrystone ALU: 4572MIPS
Whetstone FPU: 2310MFLOPS

CPU Multi-Media Benchmark
Integer aEMMX/aSSE: 9058it/s
Floating-Point aSSE: 10597it/s

Memory Bandwidth Benchmark
RAM Bandwidth Int Buffered aEMMX/aSSE:2043MB/s
RAM Bandwidth Float Buffered aEMMX/aS:1964MB/s


PCMARK 2002
CPU Score 5031
Memory Score 3404
HDD Score 462

N-Bench
N-Bench Score 9358 Marks
FPS Average 292.46 FPS

N-Bench 2
N-Bench Score 2255 Marks
FPS Average 50.65 FPS

Evolva v1.2 Build 944
NORMAL
Average FPS: 187.6
Min FPS: 65
Max FPS: 364

DOTBUMP
Average FPS: 109.9
Min FPS: 48
Max FPS: 199

Cinebench 2000 V1.0 Performance
****************************************************

Tester : <fill this out>

Processor : <fill this out>
Number of CPUs : 1
Physical Memory : <fill this out>
Operating System : <fill this out>

Graphic Card : <fill this out>
Resolution : <fill this out>
Color Depth : <fill this out>

****************************************************

Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 17.66 CB
Shading (OpenGL) : 30.93 CB
Raytracing (Single CPU): 22.98 CB
Raytracing (Multiple CPU): --- CB

OpenGL Shading is 1.75 times faster than CINEMA 4D Shading!

****************************************************


Codecreatures Benchmark Pro
(version 1.0.0)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Official Score: 2085

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

DETAILS:

average number of frames per second
1600x1200 -> 19.1
1280x1024 -> 21.0
1024x768 -> 22.6

max. number of frames per second
1600x1200 -> 27
1280x1024 -> 30
1024x768 -> 37

average number of polys per second
1600x1200 -> 6.6 mio.
1280x1024 -> 7.1 mio.
1024x768 -> 7.7 mio.

max. number of polys per second
1600x1200 -> 10.3 mio.
1280x1024 -> 10.4 mio.
1024x768 -> 10.9 mio.

total amount of frames
1600x1200 -> 2501
1280x1024 -> 2762
1024x768 -> 2969

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

3DMARK2001 SE
3DMark Score 10979

3DMARK 2000 v1.1
3DMark Result: 13205

Ars Technica CPU Benchmark [Ver: 1.6] Clock Precision: < 1 us

1: 470% [FP ] 1.12s NTSC YIQ -> PAL RGB
2: 215% [FP ] 1.11s NTSC YIQ -> PAL RGB (Double)
3: 376% [FP ] 1.96s FP Divide
4: 85% [MEM] 2.36s Fast Fourier Transform 64k
5: 316% [FP ] 0.47s Fast Fourier Transform 16k
6: 331% [INT] 1.77s LZ77 (Lempel-Ziv) Data Compression
7: 380% [INT] 0.47s LZ77 (Lempel-Ziv) Data Decompression
8: 395% [INT] 0.87s RGB to CMYK with Color Correction
9: 344% [INT] 0.91s Blowfish Block Cipher Encryption (448 bit key)
10: 213% [INT] 1.25s File Allocation Table Manipulation
11: 365% [INT] 0.84s Encode G.723-40 Audio 100k
12: 268% [INT] 0.89s Complex Bitfield Operations
13: 167% [FP ] 1.66s Spherical Harmonics Legendre Polynomial
14: 318% [INT] 1.86s Dhrystone 2.1 (500k Iterations)
15: 374% [FP ] 0.78s Whetstone 1.2 (1000k Operations)
16: 235% [MEM] 1.20s LinPack (500x500)
17: 314% [INT] 4.80s TSCP 1.71 (Chess Benchmark)
18: 177% [MEM] 5.82s Sieve of Eratosthenes (Prime Generator)
19: 214% [INT] 2.59s Towers of Hanoi
20: 361% [INT] 0.89s Queens Puzzle Solver


---------------------------------------------------------------------
FINAL SCORE: INT: 318 FP: 319 CACHE: 166 SIMD: 0
PEAK SCORE: INT: 320 FP: 322 CACHE: 170 SIMD: 0
---------------------------------------------------------------------

See below:

Got my chip up to 2.32GHz with 1.6volts and stock cooling (didn't even slop on some better thermal goop) and my Radeon LE up to 290/317 ATM. Who's on?