What computer do you use?

[strogg]

Main box (and only one now that I retired/gave out the rest):

Pentium 4 2.8 @ 3.5 (it can probably go much higher if i tried, since it's very rock stable now)
Abit IS7
DangerDen RBX waterblock, Swiftech MCP-600, and 120mm radiator
1gb pc4200 ram
ATI X800 Pro (yeah baby!) with VGA Silencer
2x160gb sata hard drives
8x dvd+/-r/rw dual layer burner
1x dvd-ram/r (hehe, it works)
530 watt power supply
leadtek tv tuner
NO floppy drive
and most importantly, an Audigy 2 ZS and an M-Audio Transit

Tangband 3" home-brewed speakers, 10" 120watt Dayton subwoofer, a stupid old 500 watt surround receiver (at least it has optical-in)
19" LCD and 15" LCD secondary
old natural keyboard, optical trackball (i don't have enough space to use a mouse)

As for the laptop:
HP ZV5000Z with the following specs

AMD Athlon64 3400+ @ 2.2ghz
Nforce 3 chipset of sorts
decrepid old geforce4 440 with 64mb ram
60gb hard drive
24x cdrw
5-in-one card reader
1920x1200 15.4" widescreen (oooooooooh. so nice)
12 cell battery

Now i'm ready for college... which means that in a couple years when someone ressurrects this topic, i'll just point back to this

 

[19lexicon78]

the most fun i've had on a computer, was on a commodore 64..which belonged to a friend of mine...

 

[TrevorNetwork]

At Home:

P4 2.4GHz
1GB PC3200
P4P800
DGE550t gig card
2 x WD Raptor 10k - RAID 0
Nvidia MX400 64MB


At Work:

I have about 12 P4 2.8GHz computers. My primary computer is however:

Athlon 64 3400+
2GB Corsair
K8V
4 x Seagate Cheetah 15k - RAID 0+1
2 x DGE550t gig cards
Nvidia MX400 64MB

 

[slick]

just got a radeon X800 pro, replaced my 9700 pro. man this card rocks, games are so much smoother now, and i'm able to get the highest settings with AA and AF, so nice.

coming soon:
1gb OCZ performance ram (pc3200)
3200+ XP CPU
8x dual layer DVD burner

 

[NPoet]

This is one of those... "does anyone actually read this thread....." thread...

 

[MuZI]

After a while the stats done`t matter at all anymore.

 

[bralack42]

lappy:
Dell Inspiron 5100
Pentium 4 2.4GHz
512 MB memory
M-Audio Sonica USB

30GB internal HD + 120GB USB2.0 external HD
Running Mandrake 10.0/Win XP Pro

This thing runs hot and noisy as hell; for that reason I'm probably going to build me a nice desktop system.

 

[ch1nkster]

AMD 2500+ Barton @ 2320 mhz
8RDA+ rev 1.1
2x Crucial 256 mb PC3200
SK-7 HS + Tt Smart Fan 2 (soon to be replaced by quieter Panoflo)
80 gb WD + 40 gb Maxtor
ATI Radeon 9800 np flashed to pro
Lite On 54x32x54x CDRW
Netgear WG311 802.11g wireless acesspoint
Allied 500watt PSU
8 yr old Toshiba Monitor

 

[lini]

Quote:

Originally Posted by 19lexicon78 the most fun i've had on a computer, was on a commodore 64..which belonged to a friend of mine...

Oh, yes, the good old C64. I still have one... ...and a C128 - and, also fullly working, even an SX64 (that was the suitcase-sized "portable" version...).

Greetings from Hannover!

Manfred / lini

 

[fewtch]

I'm using an Athlon Thunderbird 1.2GHz system with an EPoX 8K7A motherboard, 256MB RAM, 60gig Seagate ATA IV HD, Toshiba SD-M1612 DVD-ROM drive, Plextor PX-W2410A CD-RW drive, Seasonics silent PSU, cheapie case (hope to replace it someday with a good one), Radeon 7500 graphics card (retail) and Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410 diamondtron monitor.

Not being a gamer, I'm still very happy with it. There's the rare occasion I wish for more CPU speed and a bigger hard drive, but those occasions are still too rare to worry about it. Actually, I'll probably get an external firewire-based hard drive eventually for extra storage instead of replacing the internal drive.

 

[19lexicon78]

was there a portable version of the c 64...funny...

 

[wallijonn]

Intel D875PBZLK mobo
Northwood 3.0C
2 Gig Crucial RAM
HighTech 9800 Pro 128/256
120GB HD, PATA (IDE)
Chieftec case
Logitec MX510
WXP, W2K

 

[wallijonn]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eagle_Driver ... otherwise, I will have to call Microsoft for a new activation key.

It can be activated online. I've had to re-register about 4 times. I once upgraded the sound, nic, CDRW and DVDRW all at the same time and I had to re-register. Putting back the old nic didn't help - once it triggers, that's it.

Its a pain if you are always swapping in and out stuff - like different soundcards, or you move to a mobo with built in nic, or are trying to troubleshoot a problem with the burner sub system.

Every time I chage to a new mobo I always do a wipe, format and clean install. That necessitates a re-registration.

 

[daycart1]

Wow, you guys rock! I've got a Celeron running at 150mz, 32mg of RAM and a 1.2 gig hard drive.
I'm thinking of getting a laptop--maybe a Mac.

 

[Norbert]

Sony viao. the sound sucks. I plug in a battery powered sony portable speaker which improves this. I like watching dvd's on it. the memory is only 2 gigs tho. I'd love to get that Toshiba with a huge 17 inch screen.