Topic: Post Your Setup (Read 110471 times)

Anonymous · « **on:** July 16, 2002, 02:52:32 AM »

Just what the title says. Post the specs of your system for the rest of us to go "ooooo.... aaahhhhh" or maybe even "hahaha! what a piece of crap!"

Here goes mine:

Dual PIIIs 500mhz(each)
Expox kp6-bs 440bx chipset
512 megabytes pc133
Geforce2 mx 32megs
Realtek 1839 fast ethernet
WD 30gig 5400rpm (next thing on the list, faster and larger drives)
IDE controler card
el cheapo Yahmaha sound card (quite cheap, quite good too)
Sony 16x CD burner
AOpen DVD rom

Anonymous · « **Reply #1 on:** July 16, 2002, 08:34:53 AM »

I have an old peice of shit at home, a PII300 that I don't even use anymore. It will make a good CS server when I put linux on.... mmmmmm... Counter-Strike.

However, my employee is generous enough to provide me with the following laptop:

IBM A21p

PIII 850
256 Ram
ATI Mobility AGP 16 MB Video
DVD
30 Gb Drive
Crystal sound fusion (not familiar with this card, but it works pretty good)
10/100 Network Card
Modem, usb, etc.

MISTER MASSACRE · « **Reply #2 on:** July 16, 2002, 10:53:59 AM »

PIII 866mhz
192 meg o' ram
ATI Radeon 32 MB
Intel Integrated Sound Card (or whatever - goddamned package deals...)
CDR-W
40 GB Drive
Modem o' cabley fun
Etherjunk
USB Hub (ASound Solution)

Next time, I build my own. Enough of my family's love of warranties.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #3 on:** July 16, 2002, 08:29:03 PM »

God, you guys are way up on me.

Processor: Pentium III 450MHz processor
Memory: 384MB SDRAM (100mhz bus)
Storage: Total of 40gb (30gig C-drive, 10gig D-drive for storage only)
Operating System: Windows 98SE with some "modifications"

Printer: Lexmark z23 inkjet
Graphics: ATI Radeon 7000
Connection: Ethernet NIC to Cable modem with sweet-ass throughput, always on
Mouse-thingy: Microsoft 5-button Intellimouse Optical (USB)
Soundcard: El-cheapo basic Soundblaster pile of crap
Keyboard: Boundless Technologies PCXAC-GA custom-order job with NO FUCKING WINDOWS KEYS (because I like it that way). Normally $70 but I got mine for $53 because of an employee discount at my last job.

Here's a pic of my keyboard (it's sweet):

Note that there are no stupid Windows keys present, and note that the backslash key ("\") is located in the correct position, directly above the enter key.

The way I see it, since my keyboard is my main interface between me and my computer, I want it arranged in a way that is the most comfortable and conducive to speed and accuracy.

Plus, the thing's built like a brick-shithouse. No cheapo keyboards for me. Those are for amateurs.

Back to my list:

No fucking DVD.
No fucking CD burner.

That about covers it.

LFD · « **Reply #4 on:** July 16, 2002, 10:15:03 PM »

My computer sucks and is extremely outdated

Processor:KMD Athlon 7 499(500) mhz processor
Memory:384 mb SD Ram
Storage:15 gb hard drive space (only 5 used)

OS: Windows 98
Sound: Factory Default Sound Blaster
Video: Voodoo 5 5500 (old but if I had a driver that supports open GL.....)

Keyboard:SystemMax Factory Defualt
Mouse: Laser Mouse AKA: battery eating demon of hell

Connection: Kingston Ethernet- something something "DSL"

Just wait till I get some cash.....I will show you all

I am truly a testement to barely making it.

hob goblin · « **Reply #5 on:** July 16, 2002, 11:02:19 PM »

p3 933mhz
256mb pc 133
voodoo2/tnt2 combo
sound blaster live! x-gamer
40 gig 7200rpm
4 gig 5400rpm

looks like i got most of you beat.. and hell, im even buying a new motherboard, with an athlon xp 2200

also, im getting my geforce 2 64mb back soon too (the next couple days)

drDigital · « **Reply #6 on:** July 17, 2002, 09:29:53 PM »

IBM NetVista
MS Windows XP Home
Pentium 4 1.8 GHz
256 MB SDRAM
CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive
Floppy drive
80 GB HDD
GeForce 2 graphics card
some Sound Max sound card
19" (18" viewable) IBM Monitor (alas, not flatscreen)
some speakers
a decent keyboard
a mouse =D

drDigital

Revka · « **Reply #7 on:** July 21, 2002, 02:57:56 AM »

Processor: Pentium III 667MHz processor
Memory: 640 MB SDRAM (133 mhz bus)
Storage: Total of 80gb (30 gig C-drive, 20 gig D-drive, 30 gig E-drive)
Operating System: Windows 98SE
Printer: Canon BJC-4000 (old, but free)
Graphics Card 1: ATI 128 Graphics Accelerator Card (not sure of specific specs)
Graphics Card 2: Cheapo card that came off my old computer
Monitor 1: ADI ProVista E55/E55+ - 17"
Monitor 2: Trademark High Resolution Color Monitor - 15"
Sound Card: Really good soundcard
Speakers: PCWorks Speaker System (Sub-woofer + 2 tweeters) and I spliced some speakers from my old computer onto it, too.
Connection: 10BaseT 32-bit Ethernet Card
Mouse: Microsoft with IntelliEye
Keyboard: Microsoft type keyboard
IDE Controller Card
CD-RW: 4x10x24 speed
DVD Drive

All in all my system is pretty cool. I think the next thing on my list to upgrade is the Power Supply (it's only a 250 watt) and a faster processor. That's about it.

I almost forgot... I could use a bigger tower for all this stuff. It's pretty cramped right now.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #8 on:** July 22, 2002, 12:37:20 PM »

Quote from: Revka

I almost forgot... I could use a bigger tower for all this stuff. It's pretty cramped right now.

Bah! Who needs a tower? Just screw everything down to a big piece of plywood, throw a sheet of plastic over it, and have a fan blowing air underneath to remove heat, and you'll be fine. It wouldn't be pretty, but who cares?

Anonymous · « **Reply #9 on:** July 22, 2002, 12:48:54 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes

Quote from: Revka
I almost forgot... I could use a bigger tower for all this stuff. It's pretty cramped right now.
Bah! Who needs a tower? Just screw everything down to a big piece of plywood, throw a sheet of plastic over it, and have a fan blowing air underneath to remove heat, and you'll be fine. It wouldn't be pretty, but who cares?

I actually did that once when I first got a computer a while back. I didn't have enough money for a case. My brother and I got two eye hooks, put them into the wall and hung the motherboard from it, and the other componets on my desk.

It works pretty well, I never had a problem with it.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #10 on:** July 22, 2002, 01:54:21 PM »

You'd probably want something to keep the dust off of some components when it's not running (hence the plastic in my suggestion to Revka). But otherwise I don't see any reason why something like that shouldn't work quite well. If anything, you should probably get slightly better airflow...

blitzrieg bop · « **Reply #11 on:** July 24, 2002, 08:22:51 PM »

Where or how on my computer can I locate all the specs? I dont think mine could compare to any of yours but still, I want to know what I have.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #12 on:** July 24, 2002, 08:27:05 PM »

If you don't know what you have (without having to check), you probably don't have much to contribute to this conversation, friend.

blitzrieg bop · « **Reply #13 on:** July 24, 2002, 09:02:10 PM »

not to contribute, just to know, for my sake.....I am not going to post it.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #14 on:** July 24, 2002, 10:05:35 PM »

Lol.

Well, when your computer boots up, it should say what kind of processor it's running, one of the first pieces of text it puts up on the screen.

As far as RAM goes, if you right-click on your "My Computer" icon on your desktop and select "properties", it should tell you how much RAM you have (and sometimes what kind of processor too, but sometimes that's strangely absent for some computers).

And as for your OS, if you don't know that, you shouldn't be touching that thing.

blitzrieg bop · « **Reply #15 on:** July 24, 2002, 11:12:14 PM »

haha thanks alot demo

Anonymous · « **Reply #16 on:** July 25, 2002, 12:08:19 AM »

Try opening up your computer. You'll notice that most of the time the plugs will only fit into one socket. However, there are more than one of some sockets.

But really, it's a lot harder to mess up your computer than you think by taking a closer look at it.

Just, if you mess it up, I'm not responsible for what happened to it.

Anonymous · « **Reply #17 on:** July 25, 2002, 07:32:07 AM »

I remember when I first started to open up computers years ago. My first experience was... memorable! Here's the story:

I had an old 386 at the time. I wanted to get a sound card so I went to this store and bought the cheapest card they had. $40 for the card, and it only played midi sounds, not even .wav files!! So the guy wanted to charge me an extra $40 to put it in and I though this was unresonable so I told him I didn't feel like bending over and that I would put the card in myslef.

I get home, open up the case for the very first time. look around and see that there are a bunch of slots on a big electronic board. I see that there are some cards in those slots and figure out what they are, then I see some spares. I think to myslef "that fucker from the store was really ripping me off if it's just a matter of sliding a card in!!! That bastard!"

So I put the sound card on a free slot, read the instructions for conecting wires from my internal speaker to the card, and the card to the motherboard. Then I decide to turn it on...

Poooofffff!!!! Black smoke!!! I pull the plug right away... hummmm... what the hell??? I head towards the smell of burned rubber and notice that my speaker wires are half melted... Must have iverted them I tought. So I switch them around and leave'em in, even though they are half melted and the metal conductor is exposed a few places. I turn the PC back on...

sniff sniff... sniff sniff... Nothing's burning! That's good! I get to windows 3.1, install drivers, test the card... It works!!!!

Then... A little flash, a little noise, then Nothing! The PC shuts off for no apparent reason. What the hell is going on now?

After opening up the case again, I look around, see some burn marks on the mother board. An exposed half burned speaker cable was lying next to it. Fuck! I fried the damn board!

Then I tough "Oh well, I wanted to upgrade anyway. Let's get a new motherboard!!! I'm sure I can put it in myslef now that I know what NOT to do!!!"

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

And I did. Never had any explosions since. After years of experience playing around the PC, I opened up a home business. I was selling computers. I would order all the parts and built custom PCs for my clients. Then I realised "Fuck! There's no real money to be made in this business. And I have to deal with stupid users all the time!!!" So I stopped.

Jon · « **Reply #18 on:** July 25, 2002, 03:48:28 PM »

Processor: Dual Pentium Celeron 850 per

Memory: 480 megabytes of RAM
Storage: Split hard drive (One partition only viewed by Windows 2000 server) Total: 80 GB -- Windows 98 partition: 20 GB -- 2000 Server partition: 60 GB

Operating System: Windows 98SE & Windows 2000 Family Server

Printer: HP DeskJet 610CL

Graphics Card: GeForce 3

Monitor: HP Ergo 1280 19 inches

Sound Card: SiS 7018 Sound Card

Speakers: Logitech SoundMan X2 (total Power output: 40 watts RMS -- Frequency Response: 30 Hz 20 kHz -- Input impendance: 10000 ohms)

Connection: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter

Mouse: Logitech USB Optical Mouse

Keyboard: Turbo-Xwing

CD-ROM: 80X

CD-RW: (External) 20x

Misc Specs (optional things):

External Hard Drive: Iomega JAZ drive
Total capacity: 1GB

Router: Linksys Etherfast Cable / DSL Router (Model BEFSR41)

Scanner 1: Scanport Color (Model SQ 2030)

Scanner 2: HP ScanJet (Model 4C)

*Pictures will be posted when I get them up*

Demosthenes · « **Reply #19 on:** July 25, 2002, 03:49:19 PM »

Weird Tingly Feeling happened to that old 386 that caused speaker wires to melt just from putting in a sound card?

??

You must have had a short somewhere... I've never heard of such a thing.

Though a buddy of mine tried plugging an Intellimouse into a really old machine, and that completely fried his motherboard and almost set the mouse on fire.... Kind of like that?

Demosthenes · « **Reply #20 on:** July 25, 2002, 03:50:00 PM »

That's a nice setup, jon. My compliments to your father!

Jon · « **Reply #21 on:** July 25, 2002, 09:26:01 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes

That's a nice setup, jon. My compliments to your father!

Thanks, but I have to upgrade my video card. How much does a GeForce 4 go for?

Also, my father did not build this himself. I helped.

Revka · « **Reply #22 on:** July 26, 2002, 06:26:46 AM »

Hey Demo, I think I can get a CD-RW for you from my parents. It has to be cleaned and everything, but if it still works I'll let you know.

Anonymous · « **Reply #23 on:** July 26, 2002, 07:09:11 AM »

Demo, I'm talking about the small speaker cables that go inside the case, from the card to the motherboard. Apparently the card was so damn cheap that you could not invert the wires. It's like if you have a + and a - on the card and the same on the mainboard. I connected the + from the card to the - from the board and the - from the crad to the + of the board. So it fried and my room smelled like some skank from hell for a day or two. Or maybe that stinky cloud was actually caused by my ex girlfriend... Actually, it's the same. She was a skank from hell

Demosthenes · « **Reply #24 on:** July 26, 2002, 12:02:44 PM »

Quote from: TheJudge

Demo, I'm talking about the small speaker cables that go inside the case, from the card to the motherboard. Apparently the card was so damn cheap that you could not invert the wires. It's like if you have a + and a - on the card and the same on the mainboard. I connected the + from the card to the - from the board and the - from the crad to the + of the board. So it fried and my room smelled like some skank from hell for a day or two. Or maybe that stinky cloud was actually caused by my ex girlfriend... Actually, it's the same. She was a skank from hell

Ah, gotcha... I thought you had been referring to the wires going from the back of the card to your external speakers... now THAT would be fucked up!

Revka: Really? They don't want anything for it?

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