Topic: Post Your Setup (Read 110464 times)

xolik · « **Reply #250 on:** September 04, 2006, 08:08:12 PM »

I changed out my monitor agian. I'm now using an Akai 42 inch plasma as my main display now. The old 26 incher has been moved to the table next to me and is primarily now used for the PS2.

WoW is a hell of a lot better now.

jeee · « **Reply #251 on:** September 30, 2006, 01:47:26 PM »

hackess · « **Reply #252 on:** October 01, 2006, 12:21:30 PM »

+1, jeee

pbsaurus · « **Reply #253 on:** November 17, 2006, 03:12:36 AM »

I got an iMac for my birthday

Machine Name:   iMac
Machine Model:   iMac5,1
Processor Name:   Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:   2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors:   1
Total Number Of Cores:   2
L2 Cache (per processor):   4 MB
Memory:   1 GB
Bus Speed:   667 MHz
Boot ROM Version:   IM51.0090.B00
SMC Version:   1.9f4

ntel ICH7-M AHCI:

Vendor:   Intel
Product:   ICH7-M AHCI
Speed:   1.5 Gigabit
Description:   AHCI Version 1.10 Supported

WDC WD2500JS-40TGB0:

Capacity:   232.89 GB
Model:   WDC WD2500JS-40TGB0
Revision:   20.06C04

12AX7 · « **Reply #254 on:** April 07, 2007, 03:57:49 PM »

Just got this... well, just purchased. It hasn't got here yet. I've never heard of Biostar; the mobo, but hell, there's $180 worth of hardware there; not counting the mobo and cpu. It'll be replacing the machine that just died - not sure yet if it's the mobo is fried, or my two AMDs are fried. (I tried two different procs in it). It was a Soyo KT333 with an AMD 1.3G T-bird. Pretty much the same setup. A little bit slower processor, I think, though I doubt I'll be able to tell.
All-in-all; I think it was a good deal. I'll of course have the RAM and video card, etc from the fried one to pop into the new one. Hopefully everything'll go smoothly.

TheJudge · « **Reply #255 on:** April 08, 2007, 07:37:29 AM »

I've used biostar mobos before. Actually, I think I'm running one right now. They are not the top end, but the best bang for the buck. Never had problems with them.

12AX7 · « **Reply #256 on:** April 08, 2007, 08:15:41 AM »

Cool. While I wasn't really worried, it's still nice to hear the words "never had a problem".

I don't need anything near high-end for this machine. It will be the one Im on the most; but all I ever have running at one time is Winamp, Photoshop, Notepad, Firefox, a windows explorer window, and SmartFTP. That's when I'm on a posting binge, lol. Plus I'm real picky about what services and processes I allow to run in the background - even system processes, etc. Unneccessary crap gets shut down; partially neccessary crap gets changed to "manual", etc., etc., so there's very little resource loss overall. So this board/cpu combo should do the trick, I believe. If not; I can always purchase a better board/cpu package, and drop it in either this new machine, or in the "old" one that's being replaced.
I'm certain it's a Cooked CPU or a melting mobo. I had tried to barely touch the edge of the CPU fan to knock off this piece of lint that was mocking my blowing efforts. I've done this many, many times before, only this time I didn't realize the angle of my fingertip and the fan blades were wrong. In other words; instead of laying my finger on the blades with them spinning from fingerpad to fingertip and sliding right on off; I lay my finger to the blades backwards. So that the blades slammed right into my fingerTIP head-on :-: SNAP!!! Broke two blades off.
"Ok, no problem...dumbass." I thought, since I have four other CPU coolers w/fans. "I'll just get that other big one and snapperright on there." So I swapped them out, and when I powered back up; the BIOS POSTed, then I got one long beep, and it shut off. I've swapped the CPU out with another of the same; and it, too, craps out. So I'm not sure now if BOTH my CPUs are fried; or it's just the mobo that died. Regardless; it ain't booting up. So I've had to migrate to the little bitty comp I'm using now which originally was set up just to telecommute for work. It handles that fine (a VPN and two or three Remote Desktop connections); but for me to use as my "Main" recreational comp - it ain't cutting it. Can't wait for the new one. lol.

12AX7 · « **Reply #257 on:** April 08, 2007, 08:38:06 AM »

Hmm.
Now that I've spent the $$ and bought a new machine, it has occurred to me to ask one more question. Does anyone know if - since there's hardware monitoring on this board - the AMD cpu looks for a minimum RPMs from the cpu fanslot; and if you happen to plug in one, say, the next "bracket" down (it lists below what the AMD looks for) - will it refuse to boot?

**edit - I'm not able to try this out for myself, as the other three coolers I have don't fit on this socket. My next step would be to swap the fan itself off the cooler, but this will require some engineering which I'd rather not do if it doesn't matter.

12AX7 · « **Reply #258 on:** April 16, 2007, 01:03:57 PM »

The new machine is up and running stable and fast. I'm happy. I can have a Flight Sim, a browser, Photoshop, and SmartFTP running. Not that I do normally; I just wanted to set it up beefy. The oddest thing was the wireless setup. It's a Linksys Wireless B/G Rtr, and I got a Linksys PCI wireless NIC ;antenna and all, and it wouldn't hook up using the (lol) "Secure Easy Setup"- their auto-setup thing, the card and router find each other and negotiate, etc. It worked fine with my laptop's built-in wireless. But not with a card of the same brand. I finally found how to turn that off; and set it up manually - works great now.

Justinhere13 · « **Reply #259 on:** April 28, 2007, 04:38:01 PM »

Time to run the old DXDIAG....

OS: Windows XP Professional
Processor: AMD Sempron Processor 3400+
Memory: 1022MB DDR RAM
Video: NVIDIA GeForce 6200 A-LE 256MB
Sound: SoundMAX Digital Audio
HD: 160 GB + 40GB Slave

Yeah i just made this recently with only so much money to spend.

sociald1077 · « **Reply #260 on:** March 18, 2008, 04:16:28 PM »

This is the new system I am thinking about "adding to cart" from my newegg wish list:

Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-EX38-DQ6 LGA 775 Intel X38
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
RAM: CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (gonna get 4 gigs total)
Video card: EVGA GeForce 8800GT 512MB
HD: Western Digital Caviar 400GB 7200 RPM
Sound card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty
Power supply: CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX ATX12V / EPS12V 750W
Case: COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 Black Aluminum Bezel
Monitor: SAMSUNG 245BW Black 24" 5ms Widescreen LCD

Once I add on the various other details (disk drives, new keyboard, coolers, ect.) total cost is gonna be about $1800. Then after I recoup a bit I'm gonna get a second video card to SLI with and maybe a card reader and other extraneous stuffs.

I just have no idea what I am going to do with the tower I have. Thought about putting Linux on it, but I have no idea what I would do with it.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #261 on:** March 20, 2008, 01:19:41 PM »

Wow. That's a sweet mobo.

xolik · « **Reply #262 on:** March 20, 2008, 05:25:59 PM »

NO FLOPPY DRIVE?

sociald1077 · « **Reply #263 on:** March 20, 2008, 05:48:37 PM »

Quote from: xolik on March 20, 2008, 05:25:59 PM

NO FLOPPY DRIVE?

I have 2 USB floppy drives if the need arises.

LuciferSam · « **Reply #264 on:** March 22, 2008, 02:32:27 AM »

I forget if I mentioned this, but I'm running an Aristo Multilog Nr. 970 with Netscape and a good install of chessmaster 2000.

Chris · « **Reply #265 on:** March 30, 2008, 12:01:42 AM »

That reminds me, here are some updated pictures:

Chris · « **Reply #266 on:** April 10, 2008, 06:19:18 PM »

I made a little update to my workstation today:

sociald1077 · « **Reply #267 on:** April 10, 2008, 10:33:45 PM »

Vampire · « **Reply #268 on:** April 25, 2008, 07:44:38 PM »

Aspire T180
Operating system : Vista
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600 2.0 Ghz
RAM: 2048mb (2x 1gb sticks) Adata
Graphics Card: SAPPHIRE 100173L Radeon X1550 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16
Power supply: 250w
Mobo: don't actually know but it sucks in one way... only supports 2gbs of ram and 500gb hardrive
HD: 250gb (thinking about putting the 40gb from my dell in but Im scared... its a dell part...)
monitor: 19.1 flat LCD wide screen acer also

Hopefully by the end the year I will be able to put another post in here about the beastly pc and laptop I plan on buying!

Demosthenes · « **Reply #269 on:** April 28, 2008, 02:57:33 PM »

Quote from: Vampire on April 25, 2008, 07:44:38 PM

Hopefully by the end the year I will be able to put another post in here about the beastly pc and laptop I plan on buying!

Somehow I doubt you'll be doing that.

dcrog · « **Reply #270 on:** April 28, 2008, 03:17:51 PM »

I was looking forward to his 1000 posts per hour.

Fade^C · « **Reply #271 on:** May 01, 2008, 11:31:22 AM »

IBM Thinkpad T23

Intel Pentium 3 @ 1.13 GHz
512 MB Ram, 160 GB HDD
DVD-RW
DWL-520 Prism Wireless PCMCIA
2 Port USB 2.0 PCMCIA

Slackware Linux 11.0
(With Fluxbox)

Demosthenes · « **Reply #272 on:** May 05, 2008, 05:31:38 PM »

Quote from: Fade^C on May 01, 2008, 11:31:22 AM

IBM Thinkpad T23

Intel Pentium 3 @ 1.13 GHz
512 MB Ram, 160 GB HDD
DVD-RW
DWL-520 Prism Wireless PCMCIA
2 Port USB 2.0 PCMCIA

Slackware Linux 11.0
(With Fluxbox)

What kernel you running in that?

TheJudge · « **Reply #273 on:** May 06, 2008, 07:29:59 AM »

Kernel Sanders?

Phl4m3z · « **Reply #274 on:** September 17, 2008, 02:01:18 PM »

Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: Dell XPS720
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs)
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Hard Drive: 314 gigabytes
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
Audio: SB X-Fi Audio [CCE0]

I'll post a picture of it later

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