OT question, computer nerds only - what computer setup are u guys running?

[BigKriss]

I'm now fully video conference equipped. Got the webcam and mic, dual 21" display, 150 kilobyte adsl connection. aus$50 per month for a 20 gig limit. Using trillian for multiple instant messenger accounts, seems to work okay so far.

the pc is overclocked a 2.4c to 3.3 pentium 4 processor, air cooled, 2 hard disks (280 gig)- , a 550w power supply, old video card ati 9800, audigy 2 sound card, dvd burner, dvd reader, clear window display and blue lights inside. runs very well and stable. about 14 months old. pics below.

http://www.bimmer.info/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=1001&stc=1
http://www.bimmer.info/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=1002&stc=1
http://www.bimmer.info/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=1003&stc=1
http://www.bimmer.info/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=1004&stc=1
http://www.bimmer.info/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=1005&stc=1

[Qube]

Hehe. It's one of those threads eh?

A bit dated as that is no longer my main machine, and I don't have the TR3AP1 or the P10 anymore, but all the others are still there. :p

www.torontorc.ca/other/rigs.htm

[winfred]

asus k8v-se delux
ati radion x800 pro 256
gig of ddr400 ram
dvd burner or two
blah blah blah
onboard 5.1 sound
blah blah
amd 3200+ 64
blah blah
cable modem

[Alan_525i]

Intel 865
P4 3.0GHz Hyperthreading
1 GB Corsair "matched" DDR 400
120 GB WD SATA Main Drive
2 x 80 GB Maxtor 8MB Cache
Sony DVC-RW 4x
Sony CDRW 52X
Radeon 9600 PRO (I don't play games)
Antec "Alienware" Tower, 400W Smart Power PSU
19" Phillips 19B (needs to be upgraded, badly)
Dell Perfromance Pro Keyboard - Mechanical!!! Loud!!! I type faster on it than anything else.

[Jon K]

AMD 2500+ Barton overclocked to 3200+
1.5GB DDR400
500GB RAID 0
160GB IDE
NEC 3520A 16x Dual Layer Writer
Creative Audigy 2 NX
ATI Radeon X800 Pro
Logitech Z-680 DTS system
19" Samsung Display

[bahnstormer]

i haven't been in the pc scene for a while now...
what's this new **** they have? SLI ? i remeber
when u could do that with teh voodoo cards lol

[granit_silber]

12" Apple Powerbook G4 (mine)

1Ghz G4 Chip
768 MB RAM
60GB Hard Disk
1MB Level 1 Cache
512KB Level 2 Cache
DVD-R/CD-RW SuperDrive
Airport Card (Apple 802.11b/g WiFi)
Bluetooth
iSight (butt-kicking webcam)
Mac OS 10.2.8 (based on UNIX)


2.4 Ghz Intel Celeron (wife's)
512k Level 1 cache
512MB RAM (shared with vid card)
120GB Hard Disk
CD-RW
and a pretty green power light

-ashley

[632 Regal]

work pc: XP Pro, some DDR sticks, couple WDs, Cable, 3000mp3s.
home pc:XP Pro, some DDR sticks, couple WDs, Cable, 3000mp3s.

[DaCan23]

Home
Thinkpad R40 1.5 Pentium Centrino w/ 768 RAM, Wireless desktop, 802.11a wireless Inet over cable, DVD+/-RW, all on XP... No DVD player in living room, I run a VGA to RGB connection to my 37" old school Mitsubishi video conf monitor and sound through my reciever.

Buildin a new super media desktop based on a AMD XP 2700+ that will be my video capture & movie makin box.

[632 Regal]

i just installed a new floppy drive today too!

[DanDombrowski]

You all remind me of that Dell commerical where the parents ask the kid what he wants for christmas, so he starts rattling off all the details like
"a 256 megabyte AGP graphics card....
"1 gigabyte of DDR Memory...."
"a 250 gigabyte hard drive..."
to each of the parents as they run from room to room trying to get away from him. It aired around last november. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

[DanDombrowski]

The "Monster" add on card. I remember those.

I like your new sig.

[infinity5]

what does everyone DO with 200gig hard drives??? i dunno, but they seem useless unless your day job is video editing... i've been into computers for years and years now and with several gigs of mp3s, pictures, and maybe 6 games installed at any given time i've never needed more than maybe 40gigs... what do you people put on there? i finally found someone to talk to one day who had a 180gig HD and he told me honestly it was about 50gigs porn movies and 60-70gigs of pirated movies/tv shows off Kazaa. heh :)

[632 Regal]

pirate movie DVDs kinda are hogs unless you dump them right after burning, some keep them as trophys. In my Biz graphic files take the brunt of space since I back them up on the other drive then back them up at home on both these drives. Once you lose 5 million hours of work you tend to be anal with backups i guess.

[ryan roopnarine]

i found a computer and nice monitor out by my garbage can.
it didn't work.
it seemed like the PS was dead. it was. its a amd k6-2 4xx Mhz computer. i have overclocked it to 533 or so.
i put 196mb into it.
it has a cd burner in it now.
i've installed a 2mb video card to replace its internal 8mb video card, the reduced load is noticeable with the meager 2mb card, and i'm the type that appreciates such things....
that is all.


my 800mhz laptop that i need for school developed a burned out video inverter. since it smokes when powered, i figure i need to replace it before i can use it again, at a cost of between $24 and 250 USD. as it is dead, i use the garbage can computer most of the time. if i need to get stuff off of it, i hook it to the desktop monitor and use a flash drive.

[Blitzkrieg Bob]

DOS on a Univax consol with an NCR low resolution spinich green monitor, Honeywell magnetic core memory with unlimited storge on my Honeywell 1/2 inch tape to tape reels.

Oh yeah and an IBM card punch system for fun.

[tdgard]

external drives are normally the way to go--you can take them from one comp to another.

Now that every picture I take is 6.3Mpixel it kind of became a necessity--you can eat up a bunch of gigs in a few short months--that and I'm lazy so I won't put them on dvd for a while. That and the fact that ACAD files have become a huge hog since R14 and clients now want to see WYSIWYG demos in avi format--that eats up some damned space.

I have 2-120G but write everyting twice--main+BU.

P4 2.4
ati x700
1gig ddr
dual 21" monitor
2-120G HD
crummy sound card w/sub+2 speakers
some dvd+cd burners
a split keyboard that everyone hates
a $100 thumbweel mouse w/3buttons and a scroller that everyone REALLY hates
a devious mind that realizes that if everyone hates your input devices they wont use your computer

[tdgard]

It's actually quite easy. One of my clients is IBM & we completely dismantle every product they make to create a DVD for their repair techs. We take that thing down to it's plastic carcass and a bunch of parts strewn about the table. All goes back together & powers up every time.

Learned the best trick from those folks. A good looking woman was there and told us "Now your going to learn screw management". We all perked up of course. She took about 3' of gaffer tape (or duct tape--anything with a light colored sticky side you can write on) and attached it to the bench with the sticky side up. As you take items off you place the screws and small parts on the tape and label with a sharpie what they are in the order they come off--harddrive screws, water pump bolts, whatever--and draw lines inbetween the different components. Great system for keeping up with all that muck that otherwise ends up as "extra".

P4 2.4
ati x700
1gig ddr
dual 21" monitor
2-120G HD
crummy sound card w/sub+2 speakers
some dvd+cd burners
a split keyboard that everyone hates
a $100 thumbweel mouse w/3buttons and a scroller that everyone REALLY hates
a devious mind that realizes that if everyone hates your input devices they wont use your computer

[ryan roopnarine]

not sure if you were talking to me....i already took the screen apart and extracted the inverter. the 25 is for an ebay part, the 250 is the most expensive replacement part i can find on the internet.


It's actually quite easy. One of my clients is IBM & we completely dismantle every product they make to create a DVD for their repair techs. We take that thing down to it's plastic carcass and a bunch of parts strewn about the table. All goes back together & powers up every time.

Learned the best trick from those folks. A good looking woman was there and told us "Now your going to learn screw management". We all perked up of course. She took about 3' of gaffer tape (or duct tape--anything with a light colored sticky side you can write on) and attached it to the bench with the sticky side up. As you take items off you place the screws and small parts on the tape and label with a sharpie what they are in the order they come off--harddrive screws, water pump bolts, whatever--and draw lines inbetween the different components. Great system for keeping up with all that muck that otherwise ends up as "extra".

[tdgard]

not sure if you were talking to me....i already took the screen apart and extracted the inverter. the 25 is for an ebay part, the 250 is the most expensive replacement part i can find on the internet.

Hell, try the e-bay part. $25 is a very cheap experiment. $250 is a different matter for an 800mh laptop alltogether.

[jplacson]

Custom built (I build my own)

P4 3.0G Prescott
1GB DDR 400
Asus P4P800
Sony DVD+/-RW 4x
(3) Seagate 200GB ATA drives (2 of which are removable)
(1) WD 200GB SATA
SB Audigy 2
Nvidia GF4

**For those of you wondering... yes I work with videos. Removable ATA drives serve as back-up and transportable systems. Why not use one of those external firewire drives? They're very slow, and cost more.

[Garlic Breath]

Dell desktop(wired) for me and a PowerBook (wireless)for the wife.

[TheDuke]

You all remind me of that Dell commerical where the parents ask the kid what he wants for christmas, so he starts rattling off all the details like
"a 256 megabyte AGP graphics card....
"1 gigabyte of DDR Memory...."
"a 250 gigabyte hard drive..."
to each of the parents as they run from room to room trying to get away from him. It aired around last november. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
Yup remember it, really good one. As for me. Don't ask.. I still have original AMD 1 GHz in my basement. Remember it?:) I got so much junk lying around, plenty of motherboards a few broken drives... it looks like junkyard. Right now I got P4 2.53 768ram 80G hard drive DVD and cd burners Gforce ti4200 Agpx8 (which I got completely free, even didn't pay for shipping.) Some of you might say it's a peace of junk, but for me and my needs it will do alright. As the old saying goes it's not what you have it's how you use it. lol

[TheDuke]

what does everyone DO with 200gig hard drives??? i dunno, but they seem useless unless your day job is video editing... i've been into computers for years and years now and with several gigs of mp3s, pictures, and maybe 6 games installed at any given time i've never needed more than maybe 40gigs... what do you people put on there? i finally found someone to talk to one day who had a 180gig HD and he told me honestly it was about 50gigs porn movies and 60-70gigs of pirated movies/tv shows off Kazaa. heh :)
Probably Porn :)

[tdgard]

True they are slow & cost more, but you have the freedom to pick a computer that does not have removable drives. That means I don't have to go to a Crawford Post Production type house--I can choose one of the many people running Final Cut Pro in a small edit suite. All the film stock still goes to a larger place to be transfered and dealt with, but with some projects now being done on DV, the firewire drives give me the ability to jam it into almost any comp I run across. I have removable drives at the office, but the convenience of the more expensive drive seems to have become the prefered method.

[tdgard]

I have some pumpkin orange display monitors if your looking for an upgrade.

[Bill R.]

150 gb of that is automotive software, no porn, no movies stored either.
Almost all of my auto software i've made image files of and use a virtual drive so its much easier to access them and with the space to store them it works out good. I haven't bought a firewire/usb external drive yet but when the 250
s get cheap enough i will. I'm sure i can find enough to fill one.






Probably Porn :)

[jplacson]

well, I'm the one handling the post production facilities at our office, so I decided to have the systems installed with the removalbe drive bays... I get the speed I need... plus since the systems here have the bays already, it's just as easy as those external ones.

For inter-office or inter-company transport, we do have a 250GB external firewire drive... but I just let the office use it for back-up and transport.

[Dan in NZ]

Just got an Acer 15.4" widescreen laptop with wifi, bluetooth and infra-red for university. It's pretty good, but only lasts about 40min on battery, not sure if it's faulty or just has a crap battery.

[winfred]

i was just looking at a 320g at best buy for $170 (i think it was) with the idea everytime i decode and burn a dvd movie for a friend, i just keep the file on the drive so if i need to buzz off another it only takes a 1/3 of the time, instead of eating up my computer for a hour and a half to decode and compress then burn. is that a bad thing :D


Probably Porn :)

[Kalevera]

My first computer was a PC's Limited (Dell) XT w/ TURBO (4.77mhz....WOOHOO!!). A friend gave it to me in 1995 (what can I say - it was a computer...and that was good enough for me back then!). 640k ram, one low density 5.1/4" floppy driver and a 40 mb seagate hd, 1200 baud modem for BBS'ing. It even had a hercules video card with the classic amber monitor...that's like 768 x 400 -- HIGH resolution, baby!!

These days, I run an old Dell 1.7ghz P4, 256mb ram. RECENTLY upgraded with another 60gb hd (so now I have 120gb). Not the most exciting thing, but I have a Klipsch 5.1 sys on it, and my viewsonic VG175 has never failed me ;). The last game I played was CounterStrike...way back when...and I haven't needed to upgrade and hope not to for a while.

best, whit