It's been awhile since we did one of these. Hardware changes quick, so lets boost our e-penis.

P4 3.0 Prescott - oc'd to 3.4, waiting for better cooler to go to 3.6.
ASUS P4P800SE
1GB PC3200 dual channel
Radeon X1950 Pro 512mb (sadly the X1950's don't overclock at all. I can't get any more than 20mhz on the core without artifacts)
Creative X-Fi Xtrememusic
250GB WD SATA2
500W Enermax Liberty PSU
Antec Nine Hundred case

It's a bit dated but it still pulls in respectable performance on most games. The video card upgrade added quite a bit of power. Rest of the stuff I didn't list cause its not all that exciting. I still need to replace the keyboard and mouse with something... uh... nicer.

While I have several active computers this is my main "desktop"

Dell Inspiron 6400 (E1505 to Americans)

Core Duo 2.0
1 GB DDR2 Dual Channel
Radeon X1400 Mobile 128 MB
1680 X 1050 widescreen 15"
100 GB 2.5 drive

I'm looking for a cheap Core 2 to swap in but otherwise it's fine for what I do as I don't game much anymore.

Laptop:

Centrino duo @ 1.6 ghz
1 gb Ram
Geforce Go 7600

Desktop (currently out of commission):
Athlon64 3200
512 of corsair extreme ram
nvidia 6600gt
Nice soundcard, it isnt coming to my head right now.

Core2Quad Q6600 (QX6850 soon, just sent a clients dead one to intel under warranty, gonna buy the one they send back real cheap)
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R
4GB Corsair XMS2 DDR800 4-4-4-12
2x Seagate 500GB Baracuda ES drives
2x Lacie 500GB drives (backup and movies and shit)
Nvidia 7600GT (I just do photoshop, bought it for 50$, warranty return)
Enermax Noisetaker 485W
LG H54N DVD burner
Presonus Inspire 1394 Soundcatrd
Antec SLK-1650 case (it's under my desk, I didn't want some crazy ass case)
Samsung Syncmaster 226BW (C) LCD

I use it mainly for photoshop with Vista. It's fast as fuck. I can finally do huge ass RAW batch converts in like no time WHILE working on some other images in CS3.

Got an XP-90 for the P4 tonight... gonna take 'er to 3.6 tomorrow. So long as the memory warrants it.

must... destroy... cpu...

My main computer:
AMD Athalon 1.2Ghz
512MB SD-Ram @133
110GB, 40GB slow-ass disks
DVD-RW slow single layer
DVD-Rom (temperamental, works only if it wants to)
Creative sound blaster 24 (doesn't work)
Nvidia Gforce2 MX, 32MB
Generic 400w PSU
Hansol 710A
Laser printer, Inc printer, bunch of tangled usb stuff.
Ubuntu Feisty

I also have two servers in the garage:
1Ghz celerons
256MB
20GB disks (prolly 5400rpm)
One runs TrixBox, the other Ubuntu LAMP + MoinMoin

I haven't spent any money on hardware for a long time, as I'm saving up for something that can do HD video editing easily.

P4 2.4 Ghz
128 MB RDRAM (The only reason this thing sucks)
nVidia Riva TNT2 (I'm replacing this soon)
1x60GB HDD (slowly dying, but most of it (all but 3.5 gb) is okay.)
1x40GB HDD (pulled out of another computer)
CD-RW drive, up to 8x write (this thing IS from 2001.)
DVD-ROM drive, up to god knows what.
Zip 100 drive (I used to use these until I actually got money and bought myself a flash drive, also my old tower used them and was win98 first edition)
Runs Windows ME due to RAM limitations, but that's changing soon.

As you can tell, the PIII machine I was always bitching about died finally, taking my 20GB hard drive with all of my stuff (music, porn, what have you) with it. That pissed me off, but i got some of it due to using an mp3 player daily :P

I recently got 3 new towers (Well, used and old, but parts are relatively new compared to the machine i WAS running before the PIII), so I'll post a picture of my room last night when i was swapping parts around.

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The computer that has the composition notebook (That's my mouse pad) on it is the P4. the tower my monitor on is the evil dual PII (2x450Mhz) that keeps tipping due to the monitor, the beige tower you see off to the side is the one with a dead power supply that i pulled the 40GB out of, the gray one is actually the cover of the tower closest to the camera, and if you look, you can see the bottom of my old PIII tower. there is another gray tower in my car, I haven't bothered to bring it up because it's a PII 450Mhz with 128MB of ram and win98se on it. but the systems themselves are kinda cool, they have a little menu-driven LCD screen on em and everything.

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i have way too many.

= NO_NAME_YET =
(desktop build completed last night)
Antec P182 chassis
Asus Striker 2 Fourmula
Intel P4 2.3Ghz (dual core)
Asus 8800GT
2GB OCZ DDR
500GB Seagate SATA x2

= c0re =
(the file server - gentoo linux)
Intel P3 1.13A
Asus TUV4X
680 MB SDRAM
20gb IDE
120gb IDE
250gb USB
350gb USB

= hydra =
(desktop gaming + work - dual boot ubuntu/winxp)
AMD 3000+ x86_64
Asus K8V DLX
Asus 6800GT
1GB DDR
250GB SATA (windows xp)
120GB SATA (ubuntu linux)

= omega =
(rackmount development/testing server - gentoo linux)
Intel P4 CPU 3.00GHz (dual core)
Asus P5GD1
512MB DDR
76GB Maxtor

= allied =
(rackmount game/forum server - gentoo linux)
AMD Opteron 244 x2
Tyan S2881 Thunder K8SR
2GB ECC DDR
74GB IDE x 2

i also have a laptop, dell latitude D810. surprisingly good machine. dual boots windowsxp (for warranty) and ubuntu linux (used daily at work).

Oh and I of course just got a laptop from a friend, nothin special, it HAD gentoo CLI on it, but I just installed Windows 2000 on it. I'll post specs later when it's fully running.

well I updated mine.

Antec P182
Intel Core2quad 9450
Zalman CNPS9700LED
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R Rev2.0
2X Corsair XMS2 2GB kits 4-4-4-12 DDR2800
2X Seagate 7200.11 500GB SATAII ES drives in RAID 0. (OS)
2X Seagate 7200.10 320GB SATAII ES drives in RAID 1. (Photo)
1X Seagate 7200.10 500GB SATAII ES drive for downloads.
XFX 7600GS graphics card (it was the cheapest thing I found that was fanless and had dual DVI).
Enermax Noisetaker I 485watt
LG GH20S SATA burner
Creative X-FI Xtreme Audio
Samsung 226BW
Samsung 916V

The only thing left to change is the power supply. Although it has been very reliable (been running it since 2003, it has seen 4 different builds) and it still works just fine, I want to get rid of the 4 SATA power adaptors and the ATX 20pin 20 24pin adaptor. I want to pick up a Liberty 500watt since it's only like 80$.

My new system isn't ready yet but should be soon. I need some final parts.

AMD Phenom X4 9550
ASUS M3A
2GB Corsair DDR2-800 (4-4-4-12)
EVGA 9600GT Superclocked (may make that a 9600GTX, not sure yet)
250GB WD SATA2 (may also pick up a 500GB Seagate 7200.11 drive)
Antec Nine Hundred
Enermax 500W PSU (probably replace this with a Corsair 620W down the road)

The other stuff isn't too interesting, mostly being carried over from what I currently have. I would like to invest in a better display, speakers and DVD burner but that shit isn't too important right now.

Main: Runs linux/windows (linux main boot, Fedora Core 8 / 2nd XP, Service Pack 3, for 'projects')

Abit IP35 Pro (bolt modded, ceramique on mosfets, NB, S
Q6600 on normal OC from MB manufacturer, 2:3 FSB
4GB Gskill DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Timing 5-5-5-15
MSI NX8800GT 512M OC GeForce 8800GT
Thermaltake Toughpower W0133RU ATX12V / EPS12V 1200W Power Supply
HITACHI Deskstar 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
Thermaltake Big Typhoon cpu cooler
XClio Windtunnel Case
Some sata DVD/CD burner
F'ing SWEET Monitors (speakers) - M-Audio AV40 (I can't stand colored sound at all)
Forgot I ripped apart my 1TB Hitachi drive and put that in there much more useful that way now.
Monitor: way awesome oldie, Mitsubishi DiamondPoint NXM76LCD 15" (Maybe bigger? dunno)

That's right. I have no sound card. I use linux mostly so I really don't give a shit...but if I did I'd pop in a Turtle card.

Will be updating soon with a different motherboard and ram. Then this build's mobo and ram will go into my oldie.

The new motherboard will be the ASUS MAXIMUS EXTREME LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Intel Motherboard. Fairly nice but I didn't buy it right away (a few months ago) because the price will only go down in a year, when I move the mobo away from this comp to my old one. Also, the ram I would want to buy for it currently costs 800 bucks. RAM price will either go down, OR there will be incrementally faster ram that fits the board in a year, and it may even be cheaper than 800.

Also this board would allow me to use a faster processor (which I would also buy) when updating my mobo.

I would never recommend the mobo I currently have. One, you have to redo all the TIM yourself when you buy it - which SUCKS ASS but the reviews are right, you do need to - the shit job the company did really shows when you take off the springs and clips and remove the heatsinks. If you are gentle you can use the springs and plastic clips again but I just got nylon screws and nuts.

My old computer is a freecycled mobo in a new case (mobo is from 2001 or something with engineering bios not supposed to be released, but accidently was from company), two 10 year old HD's an 80 and a 100 GB (80 is Maxtor, 100 is a WD Caviar). The older one runs real hot. Also the ram in it is 10 years old, as well as all the other parts (CD drive, etc). It's also using a new wireless PCI adapter, Airlink101 300N AWLH6080.

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Dual boot Windows XP and slackware-based Linux
AMD Athlon 64 8600+ 2.0GHz Dual Core processor
Gigabyte mobo with a 2600MHz FSB
Apevia 600W ATX PSU
4 Gigs of Corsair DDR2-800 RAM
Sapphire Radeon X1950Pro 512mb 256-bit GDDR3 video card
Razer Barracuda 7.1 24-bit soundcard
20x LG sata multi-DVD burner
2x 300GB Seagate sata drives
Dual display setup - 24" Gateway LCD monitor and 40" Samsung HDTV
optical out to 5.1 DTS surround system

8600+?? Tri-core Phenom?

Posted by Stewie My new system isn't ready yet but should be soon. I need some final parts. AMD Phenom X4 9550 ASUS M3A 2GB Corsair DDR2-800 (4-4-4-12) EVGA 9600GT Superclocked (may make that a 9600GTX, not sure yet) 250GB WD SATA2 (may also pick up a 500GB Seagate 7200.11 drive) Antec Nine Hundred Enermax 500W PSU (probably replace this with a Corsair 620W down the road) The other stuff isn't too interesting, mostly being carried over from what I currently have. I would like to invest in a better display, speakers and DVD burner but that shit isn't too important right now.

so did you get the parts? How is that AMD Quadcore? I'm very curious.

Not yet, I still need the video card. Reviews I've seen are alright but it still has trouble catching up to Intel's Quad's. Eyes are onto AMD's upcoming 45nm offering, due late in this year. That's supposed to get AMD back in the game... as long as Intel doesn't strike back with something phenomenal (pun unintended)

yeah,

http://news.softpe...hipset-85256.shtml

Yah, that was in the back of my head when I typed out my reply. Definitely need to watch out for Nehalem. (how could a name like that NOT be the most devastating thing ever?)

Posted by Stewie Not yet, I still need the video card. Reviews I've seen are alright but it still has trouble catching up to Intel's Quad's. Eyes are onto AMD's upcoming 45nm offering, due late in this year. That's supposed to get AMD back in the game... as long as Intel doesn't strike back with something phenomenal (pun unintended)

I wish AMD would just catch up already. I love AMD boards much more than the intel offerings. Plus AMD chips tend to run cooler and more stable...also better for gaming....I guess here, AMD is the "mac" or "Cool guy" while Intel is the Microsoft "spreadsheet" guy.

I really like AMD but I have no idea why they have dropped the ball the last two years.

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Posted by sandaili Plus AMD chips tend to run cooler and more stable...

I'm sorry but no. I used to be an AMD loyalist, I've had 4 or 5 different machines with AMD cpus, and there is no way that Intel is less stable and runs more hot. no. way. Yeah, the prescotts were bad with head, just like the first Athlons, but now? impossible! As for stability and reliability goes, it's damn hard to beat an Intel CPU/MB combo.