Describe Your Computer

Is it a hotrod...or a horse and buggy?

A well tuned machine, or a catastrophy waiting to happen?


Mine is an IBM Intellistation. Built to work for a living. Industrial grade. 2.4 ghz Xeon processor with a gig of RAM and a 10,000 rpm scuzzy hard drive. ATI Radeon video card.

It's an older model 4x4 towtruck. Pulls it's own weight and then some. Hard to bog down. Big, heavy, and built like a tank.




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mine is a 1.8 gig p4 7200 rpm hard drive and radeon video card got 512mb of ram but with internet on and messenger running only 16 processes going so it is fast.... no brand name i built it from a barebones kits

 

Mine's custom built :

Vista Ultimate x64
Cibox 22in' widescreen LCD (1650x1050)
Amd Athlon 64 Dual Core 5200+.. O/C'ed to 2.8Ghz
2 Gig DDR2 733(?)Mhz Corsair Ram
Various HD's, 2 internal, 1 external, 426GB in total
Geforce 7900GTX 512mb
Soundblaster Audigy 4 Pro

Got it all for about £700 It's pretty good, struggles with more recent stuff but it's pretty consistent for what it is. I push it to it's limit a lot with the kind of programming I do, but it never slows to a complete crawl (only when vista decides it wants to use up all the ram).

There's a watercooling system installed too, but at the moment it's a Frankenstein, wires and tubes all over the place.. one day I'll get round to making it look like a sexy beast..

 

Senior Citizen ready to be retired, but can't afford to...just like me.

1999 custom built PIII/500, 256 ram, 16 meg Diamond Viper AGP graphics card. I know it's a relic, but it's still on line and humming while my friends newer, faster Gateways, and Compaqs, have added components and ram to her usefulness, while they rest in the landfill.

 

Ever tried buying one off ebay?

I've bought several from there, including my IBM. For about a $100, you can get something in the 1.5ghz range.


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I know what my new dream machine will be, and I am saving my money to buy the components for another custom build, that will last as long as this one. I have enough parts from friends bargains, that I am not going to throw money at something that will only last a year or so. As you say you've bought several...I've bought one.

 

By the way Xexon I take offense to your cat carrier graphic. You think it's funny. I don't.

 

- Ubuntu Linux Edgy Eft (Open Source Love)
- 2.8ghz AMD Athlon XP overclocked to 3.1ghz with a water intercooler for energy and heat management
- 2gigs DDR RAM
- 130gig 7200rpm Westinghouse system drive
- 250gig Seagate Barracuda storage drive
- 256mb NVIDIA Geforce 5200 GPU underclocked 200mhz for power conservation then relayed to the primary cpu to operate in a dual core structure
- Modified Soundblaster Audigy ZS with improved capacitors for reduced energy consumption and increased high frequency buffer read
- 200watt power supply with amplifier increasing power production to 350watts

Total Cost: $850
Energy Consumption: Comparable to mid 90's Dell or HP

 

A Westinghouse drive? Don't think I've ever seen one.


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My aunt works as IT for a construction company it was one of their old server drives I got working. My guess is it's a professional grade part since I've never seen them at retail stores.

 

To me a computer is like a car, a good car is one with parts that can be easily modified or replaced, while a bad car is one with inefficient or ultra compacted parts.

 

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2400+, 2.0 GHz
Motherboard: AM37.
RAM: 1.5GB DDRSDRAM
Video card: XFX GeForce 7600 GT
Sound: Integrated AC'97 Audio
PSU: 350W Sparkle
OS: Ubuntu/Windows XP dual boot

 

im on a commodore 64 with the FastLoad cartridge

 

Mine is a six year old Gateway that's been upgraded beyond it's abilities. LMAO!

 

Mine is a Acer Aspire 3620. Nothing special or modified.

 

Main PC (used for CAD etc):-
AMD Athlon 64 3.2 GHz
2xRadeon 9250 GameFX video
2Gb RAM
200Gb HDD
Quite small, and looks a bit like Orac from Blakes 7 (lol...)

Server:-
Pentium IV 3.1GHz
No idea what the video card is (doesn't really matter, coz all this PC does is store files and handle printing)
2Gb RAM
2 x 250 Gb HDDs on RAID array, with a 3rd 250Gb HDD in a removeable caddy
6 bay tower, ugly as sin, but I couldn't live/work without it

Oh, nearly forgot, Windows XP Pro on both of them

 

its a minitower that sits on the floor down by my left leg. it has a cd burner drive, a fire wire port, and those of several other kinds not currently in use, and a pretty blue light on the front of it. on the back it has the keyboard, mouse, display, phone line and audio output plugged into it, along with additional ports not currently in use.

i've actually forgotten most of the specification details, except that it runs many times faster then the one it replaced, but could probably still use twice or twice that as much ram as it has for the things i use it for mostly when i'm not on line. fortunately the hard drive is big enough i haven't more then 1/4 filled it, which is almost kind of amazing to me, considering how frugal i had to be previously.

i'm running xp for an os, which, well, at least it doesn't crash all the time the way 95 used to.

=^^=
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Yohhhh, I doubt that.

 

Glad you are having fun, but I think you need to learn a little bit more about the unit you are playing with.