what kind of computer are you using?

[WhiteNissanS13]

What kind of computer are you using?

i'm using a


Dell 4550
Pentium 4 2.66ghz
48x CDRW samsung
30GB hard drive
256MB RAM(it needs more)

[Bill Roberts]

Well I have not riced mine out with neon or stripes but I use a 1.8mhz emachine basic crapola 400 dollar box that rocks hard. 512 megs of ram, 400 FSB, plextor CDR/CDRW and audigy 2 sound card...and this is my internet puter.

My audioworkstation for the recording studio is a big bastard that I built that runs like a chainsaw without the chain or saw.

[Got Sileighty?]

heheehe i might have the oldest PC on this board - bought it around july 1997 :eek: and its still running....slowly. its a:

pentium 200mhz MMX, 32mb ram, 2 gb hd, diamond stealth 3d 2mb video ram, SB AWE32, 32x cd-rom, 15" monitor.

i barely use it though, as most of the time i mooch off my bro and sister's computers, they have P4s hehe.

i should have a new pc by the july though. im planning on P4 2.4ghz, 512mb ram (maybe 1gb), 80 gb w/8mb buffer hd, geforce 4 mx440 64mb, SB audigy gamer/mp3+, dvd-rom, cd-rw, 19" monitor. :D

[Bill Roberts]

GS, we should have a rice-fest and see who can take their old computer to the ricy side of little saigon and see what we come up with. I got all thise stupid stickers, some neons and some pinstriped I could put on mine...a can of deep purple and hot pink paint, and some gold trim. It would be so funny to have a rice-out with our old computers for $hits and giggles.

At least you can be creative with it....


http://www.8ballshardware.com/articles/bt84/complete1.jpg



http://www.beantech.com/img/products/BT-90.jpg.jpg
I guess I am bored....

[GTGuy06]

600 dollar home built piece of ****. thats all im gonna say about it, because im ashamed of it. hopefully soon i can build a new one and rice the **** out of it

[nrcooled]

Originally posted by GTGuy06
600 dollar home built piece of ****. thats all im gonna say about it, because im ashamed of it. hopefully soon i can build a new one and rice the **** out of it

Funny...me too. This was my first attempt at building my own.
2.4mhz
512fsb
512ram
80gig hd

Works well but doesn't like XP too much. I have to do a system recovery about once a month:bash:

[silnv]

Dinosaur not sure which one but I am sure it is the woosiest one that ever existed.:bowdown: :boink:

[Rennen]

No need to rice out your computer when you can get it that way from the factory. Yep, mac user here.

Apple Power Macintosh G4 (Quicksilver)
733 Mhz (real Mhz, not PC overclocked BS)
384 MB RAM
40 gig HD (full of 240 pics and music)
15" Apple Studio Display

Mac OS runs perfect for me always has and this computer can do everything I need it to.

and here are pics of the factory rice:

http://www.theboxchildren.com/mirror/images/models/g4_quick.jpg

http://www.theboxchildren.com/mirror/images/models/g4_quick_open.jpg

-Matt

[Warwick5s]

i use two:

1) homebuilt - made for audio recording:

Athlon XP 1800 overclocked to 1.9ghz on stock fan
Gigabyte GA7VAXP mobo
512 mb pc2700
WD 120gb hard drive (special edition w/ 8mb cache)
Radeon 7500LE
M-Audio Delta 66
M-Audio Omni Studio
M-Audio Studiophile SP-5B speakers
dual monitors
Antec case & PS
hp scanjet 3300c
hp discwriter 16
generic dvd rom

managed to do the whole thing for significantly under a grand. it ROCKS. windows XP has not required any reinstalls, system recoveries, no crashes or anything. it's beautiful.

2) gateway solo 2750 laptop

it SUCKS. 400mhz celery, 160mb ram. winxp. never crashes or anything but it's slow as hell.

[fastpace]

damn all of your are lucky. I have no computer. I sneak on my roommates computer whenever he isn't on and use the university computer whenever I am doing a project. I am a bum. When I am at my parents house I have three computers to pick from. But I should have my brothers old computer in a couple of weeks for about $200 bucks.

[Got Sileighty?]

Originally posted by Bill Roberts
GS, we should have a rice-fest and see who can take their old computer to the ricy side of little saigon and see what we come up with. I got all thise stupid stickers, some neons and some pinstriped I could put on mine...a can of deep purple and hot pink paint, and some gold trim. It would be so funny to have a rice-out with our old computers for $hits and giggles.

At least you can be creative with it....


http://www.8ballshardware.com/articles/bt84/complete1.jpg



http://www.beantech.com/img/products/BT-90.jpg.jpg
I guess I am bored....

bill, no way am i gonna spend money on my old PC. those cases in your links cost a ton of $$$. and my plan is to wrap up my old pc, monitor and everything and store it. then in like 10 yrs, turn it on and laugh at the patheticness of it. then in another 10-15 years, itll become a classic and i can sell it to get rich. :boink:

[masta]

Still have my trusty old laptop from 5 years ago. I bought when I started college and I am still in college. Sucks. :mad:

I upgraded her internals (Processor, Hard Drive, etc), but it still does not matter since she is still slow compared to most your computers. However I still have the pride knowing that I was able to upgrade a laptop. :rolleyes:

[Bill Roberts]

LOL!


I do like the thought of the rice computer, hey if you gonna rice-out, best do it in private eh?

[popey]

Home-built: Athlon XP2000, 30gig HD, Geforce3, SB live X-gamer, linksys networkcard, a burner, No more CD rom - 52x Creative OEM - this thing ate up one of my CDs(its in pieces) and I destroyed it.:mad: :cry:


After building numerous computers for family/friend usage, I have to admit, BUILDING COMPUTERS SUCK.:hammer: COMPUTERS SUCK IN GENERAL. :bash: :mad: :cry:

[PARAD0X]

sony vaio
80gb hd (upgraded from 60)
512 mb ram (was 256)
1.2 ghz p4

[West]

Work: Dell PIII 733

Home: Built it myself 6 years ago. 400 PII, although I just took it apart and built my parent a comp out of its parts since they were still using my very first computer I bought, a overclocked 133mhz pentium with a huge 1.2 gig HD.

So now I use my works laptop, which is a 800mhz or something Toshiba.

So now I am going to build a new computer. Just need a motherboard and processor off Ebay and Im set.

[crioten]

amd athlon xp2600+
2 80gig HD's
48x CD-RW
crappy dvd player
1536 mb of ram
gforce 4 256mb

yeah its fast...

[maccrank]

I have a homegrown comp, money well spent

80Gb maxtor
52x velocd TDK
250 iomega zip drive
viewsonic VG700 17"
dvd rom LG (not all that)
and the mother of video cards Leadtek winfast ultra A250 Ti 4600 128Mb
1 Gig of RAM
Leadtek Tv card

[Got Sileighty?]

Originally posted by crioten
amd athlon xp2600+
2 80gig HD's
48x CD-RW
crappy dvd player
1536 mb of ram
gforce 4 256mb

yeah its fast...

:bowdown: :bowdown:

hmmmm but whats up with the "crappy" dvd player?? did your money tree stop growing? hehehe:) great setup...geforce4 256mb!!! :eek: i guess u got the fx5900 then huh? im jealous...1.5gb ram!!! im even more jealous:(

[crioten]

i got the dvd player for free but im also gonna buy a dvd-rw when i get more money, and i forgot to mention that i have a 19" flatscreen monitor, and the HD's run at 10,000 rpm....bet you hate me even more... :)

i love my home-grown comp set up, dell and hp suck...

[Sundi240]

Net comp:

PIII 667
384 PC-133 Ram
20GB HD
GeForce MX 440


Games comp:

AMD 2000
512 DDR Ram
80GB HD
GeForce 4 Ti4600

[Yoshi]

P4 2.53GHz (133fsb)
1G 2700 DDR
Intel 845GV mobo
40gig 7200 ATA133 boot drive
4 80gig 7200 ATA133 RAID 0/+1
48x CDRW
16x DVD-Rom
internal zip250
450W PS, antec mid server case (graphite)
MS intellimouse explorer (v3)
MS MM1.0a ergo keyboard
GeForce 4 Ti4200
Dual Viewsonic PS 19" Flat screen CRTs
gigabit NIC
way too many USB 2.0 peripherals
DVD+/-R/RW in the mail :)

I'm an IS Manager :D

edit: crap, just occurred to me that was my old mobo... can't remember what I have now... hahahaha doh!

[Yoshi]

Originally posted by Rennen
No need to rice out your computer when you can get it that way from the factory. Yep, mac user here.

Apple Power Macintosh G4 (Quicksilver)
733 Mhz (real Mhz, not PC overclocked BS)
384 MB RAM
40 gig HD (full of 240 pics and music)
15" Apple Studio Display

Mac OS runs perfect for me always has and this computer can do everything I need it to.

and here are pics of the factory rice:

http://www.theboxchildren.com/mirror/images/models/g4_quick.jpg

http://www.theboxchildren.com/mirror/images/models/g4_quick_open.jpg

-Matt

Wow, you came in on this thread with the dukes raised for mac defense :) Nobody has poked fun so I thought I'd share this linky of mine just to play devil's advocate... NSFW! prepare to laugh... my mac friends find this funnier than my PC ones :P
http://www.360realms.com/mac.mpeg
please don't bogart my bandwidth! do a "save as"!

[GTGuy06]

Damn all of you, and your money. Im a poor bastard that had to spend a summer doing work that Mexicans should do(detassle corn, dont ask cuz its a bytch to explain) No affence to Mexicans. This will be my setup by Nov.

AMD XP 2800+
2 200 GB Hard Drives
ATI 9700 graphix card
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 (Platinum)
16x DVD
4x DVD Burner
2 GB Ram
Water Cooled Everything
USB 2.0
Firewire
LAN/ Modem
Klipsch 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers
19" Monitor

[nrcooled]

Originally posted by Yoshi
Wow, you came in on this thread with the dukes raised for mac defense :) Nobody has poked fun so I thought I'd share this linky of mine just to play devil's advocate... NSFW! prepare to laugh... my mac friends find this funnier than my PC ones :P
http://www.360realms.com/mac.mpeg
please don't bogart my bandwidth! do a "save as"!

ROFLMFAO :rofl: That was too funny! My Mac friends will love it. I have never used a mac for any duration of time but I can relate.

[method2833]

1999 dell dimension 4100

pentuim 3

384.0MB ram

64mb video ram

comcast cable internet

harmon kadon speakers with powerd sub

19 sony trintron monitor

[Rennen]

Originally posted by Yoshi
Wow, you came in on this thread with the dukes raised for mac defense :) Nobody has poked fun so I thought I'd share this linky of mine just to play devil's advocate... NSFW! prepare to laugh... my mac friends find this funnier than my PC ones :P
http://www.360realms.com/mac.mpeg
please don't bogart my bandwidth! do a "save as"!

haha, that is damn funny.

but to set the record straight, mac OSX 10.1 or better will never crash, it is even set up so that if the finder crashes, you can keep all your applications up and running while it restarts itself. There was only one time when I even got it to lock up, that was when I had 7 applications(including photoshop) running on 128MB of RAM.

I have used many operating systems, and Mac OS is just better for me, the only downside is software support.

-Matt

[the head]

Work: oldest comp on the board (i think) HP Vectra 100mhz P2

Home: sony Viao's 2.0 GHZ and 1.5GHZ both with 512 MB ram

planning to get a new 3ghz machine soon

[Warwick5s]

i used to hate macs, until i started my support job, where i have to know how to fix macs as well as pc's.


and now i want an ibook REALLY badly. OSX is a pretty serious bit of software - if they made it for the PC i'd dump winxp completely.

[hmooblis]

i use a hp pavilion 524c

can someone give me info on this computer.. the ratings... if this is a good compter or not

[hmooblis]

how would i make my computer superfast (new/better modem,softwares,new computer,memory,etc...)

[Yoshi]

Originally posted by hmooblis
how would i make my computer superfast (new/better modem,softwares,new computer,memory,etc...)

Odds are, you can't do too much, you bought an HP. Sorry to say, HPs REALLY suck... good servers, good enterprise equipment, HORRIBLE home user systems. HP is notorious for making snail speed systems that can't breathe... much like a stock airbox on your car, HPs are so crammed with poorly designed, oversized components and tiny "stylish" cases, they the ALWAYS test poorly. A quick search for your model yielded less than a page of results on google... not a good sign.

What are it's stats?

[hmooblis]

i'll get back to on the specs but what kind of computer would you reconmend?

I might just sell it and buy a new one?

[Got Sileighty?]

Originally posted by crioten
i got the dvd player for free but im also gonna buy a dvd-rw when i get more money, and i forgot to mention that i have a 19" flatscreen monitor, and the HD's run at 10,000 rpm....bet you hate me even more... :)

i love my home-grown comp set up, dell and hp suck...

:mad: :mad: :axe: i havent even heard of 10,000 rpm grrrrr.

i got 2 questions though for all you tech heads hehe
1) what is this RAID setup with the hard drives? ive heard it before, i know its expensive, but i havent read into it yet.

2)will dx8 cards of today (geforce4 and below) work with dx9 games of tomorrow like doom3?? cuz if it doesnt, then doesnt it suck for those who bought ti4600s?

thanks.

[gman240]

BUilt up system as follows:
AMD Athalon XP 1800+
512 Meg Ram
ATI radeon all in wonder
120 gig HD
Turtle beach soundcard
16x DVD rom
24x CDR drive
17 inch monitor
windows xp os

[Kreator]

Originally posted by GTGuy06
600 dollar home built piece of ****. thats all im gonna say about it, because im ashamed of it. hopefully soon i can build a new one and rice the **** out of it

$600 dollar pos? Hmm funny.... My computer cost me $600 (w/o monitor and sound blaster) and i'm pretty proud of it:

2.4gig PIV
1gig ram
GeForce4 Ti 4200
Intel D875PBZL MB (best one they make)

Once my dad decides to upgrade his, i'll sell him my 2.4 and get myself a 2.6 p4 so i could unleash that 800mhz bus speed finally :D

[hmooblis]

yo yoshi check out this site. http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/document.jhtml?lc=en&docName=bph08020

[GTGuy06]

Originally posted by Kreator
$600 dollar pos? Hmm funny.... My computer cost me $600 (w/o monitor and sound blaster) and i'm pretty proud of it:

2.4gig PIV
1gig ram
GeForce4 Ti 4200
Intel D875PBZL MB (best one they make)

Once my dad decides to upgrade his, i'll sell him my 2.4 and get myself a 2.6 p4 so i could unleash that 800mhz bus speed finally :D

I built this a year and a half ago when prices where sky high, so I wasnt able to get what I wanted