what's your pc setup?

[fish]

well, what's your tool?
i've got a sucky HP vectra.
pentium 3, a 12x cd burner, 48x dvd drive(not sure).
128MB RAM. 28gig hard drive. dsl connection.

damn, i need to upgrade.

[Ronaldo]

Originally posted by fish
well, what's your tool?
i've got a sucky HP vectra.
pentium 3, a 12x cd burner, 48x dvd drive(not sure).
128MB RAM. 28gig hard drive. dsl connection.

damn, i need to upgrade.

Mine's about a year and a half old, so I could use a new one as well.

1000 Athlon, 24x burner 48x dvd, 512 ram x 2, 2 x 40 gigs hd, dsl and cable connections.

Buy a second hard drive fish and back everything up. Cheapest way to back things up and if you lose it once, you'll understand. I almost did but was able to get everything off of it.

[fish]

yeah, i lost it more than once..
still haven't bought a new HD though.
i'm planning to buy a new PC this summer.. just not sure of the specs yet. and well, my old one is still running and i don't have enough money yet..

[Bigsampy]

I am running an athlon 1.4 ghz but have to clock it like a 1000 or the damn thing overheats.

[Ronaldo]

Originally posted by Bigsampy
I am running an athlon 1.4 ghz but have to clock it like a 1000 or the damn thing overheats.

Actually, I HAVE blown two fans since I've had mine as well.

And welcome to Xnations Bigsampy!

[fish]

yeah, some of my friends have the same problems with athlon..

hey, i seem to be attracting a lot of new users to my threads..

[fish]

oh.. and welcome bigsampy..

[Evil Chris]

You guys sound like you're running super-computers! FB and I are running two on a mini XP network. She uses a P4 1.2 with 256 and I'm running a laptop. Toshiba Satellite P4 1.6 with 256.

When I first started in this biz, I was using a 386 with 4 megs of ram, and a 105MB hard drive. LOL

[fish]

Originally posted by Evil Chris
When I first started in this biz, I was using a 386 with 4 megs of ram, and a 105MB hard drive. LOL

that just shows how old you are chris!

[PaulSweet]

I'm running a P4 1.6 with 256megs ram, 40gig HD, Burner, and Dual 17" monitors here in the office.

At home I use a P4 1.7 with 512megs ram, 40gig HD, burner, zip, and a 17" lcd flatscreen.

For music I use an Apple Powerbook Titanium 850mhz 512megs ram 40gig hd with an external 80gig firewire drive. The mac is faster then the PC, at least for the music aps.

[Bigsampy]

Thanks for the welcomes! THis seems like a cool group. I have to log off though - big ol' thunderstorm rolling through Ohio. TTFN

[Karen Virtual]

Need more ram Fish!


I got a Gateway pentium III, 9.54 gig hard drive, 448 meg of ram, 40x cd burner, XP pro, wireless cable connection and a 17 inch..... monitor

[fish]

i got 2 128MB ram installed.
i wanna add some more but the problem is my motherboard can only take that much. i have to change the whole thing..

well, i got a 2 inch....................

[Horg]

I have been running my Athlon xp1700+ for a while now, 768 mb ram, 19" LG screen, 16x dvd rom, 32x burner, graphic tablet, kickass Epson Perfection 1650 scanner, everything hooked to my sound system and my new tv, I even got a mouse !

[fish]

you got a mouse?! i'd trade you my monitor for the mouse..

[PMGames]

I am running XP on a Dell 8250: Pentium 4, 2.7GHz, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB HD, 40X burner, 16X DVDROM, RADEON 9000 Pro 128MG dual monitor graphics card, 19' and 21' monitors, .....oh...let's not forget the Wacom 4X6 tablet that Horg convinced me to buy a couple of years ago.

I bought it around Thanksgiving, and I think I am ready to upgrade already. hehehehe. I do run another machine next to this one as well, they are networked together. That is a 566 machine with 126 MB Ram, 20gig HD, etc.....I couldn't deal with it anymore and that is why I upgraded to the above machine.

[dyonisus]

We work on 2 PC's. We have a Home XP network setup. One PC is loaded with the Audigy sound card and configured for burning/mixing CD's, the other is built for graphics and business.

[fish]

ok, just a question.
how do you setup a home XP network? i got an old computer and maybe if i can hook it up i can get more work done with 2 pc's.

anyway, what's the hardware i need? does that mean i have one internet connection for 2 pc's? does that mean i get 2 ip addresses?

help please..

[-=HUNGRYMAN=-]

[XxXotic]

the box of death

pIII 800 overclocked to around a gig (I forget exact setting) 60 gig HDD packed to the gills, 768 megs SDR, soundblaster platinum soundcard, leadtek a250 vid card, dual processor 128 megs DDR, 17" flatscreen (not panel) surfboard cable modem

[fish]

Originally posted by XxXotic
the box of death

pIII 800 overclocked to around a gig (I forget exact setting) 60 gig HDD packed to the gills, 768 megs SDR, soundblaster platinum soundcard, leadtek a250 vid card, dual processor 128 megs DDR, 17" flatscreen (not panel) surfboard cable modem

are you trying to make me jealous? coz if you are, it's working...

[-=HUNGRYMAN=-]

Originally posted by XxXotic
the box of death

pIII 800 overclocked to around a gig (I forget exact setting) 60 gig HDD packed to the gills, 768 megs SDR, soundblaster platinum soundcard, leadtek a250 vid card, dual processor 128 megs DDR, 17" flatscreen (not panel) surfboard cable modem

Nice specs Chris !!

That is the reason I custom build .... we can put exactly what we want in it !!

my specs are :

Athlon 700 Thunderbird processor, not overclocked, but I am relentless in cache management, so it dances circles around most 1.4-1.5 Ghz boxes ... (as Mohammed Ali says, "It ain't bragging if it's true ...")

512 Mb of DDR RAM

40 GB Western Digital 7200 RPM HDD w/ 160 ATA

ATI RADEON 8500 dual head video card (128 MB on board memory)

Yamaha 16x CDRW

Pioneer DVD player

Cambridge Soundworks Dolby Digital 5.1 multibank soundcard

2 - Pro Series Viewsonic 19' PF790 CRT flat screens

and ADVENT WIRELESS SPEAKERS That I can listen to my MP3s or digital radio ANYWHERE around my house where there is a power outlet even out in the backyard ... the sound quality is AMAZING !!!

[nap]

p 2.0 gig
512k ram
320gigs of space
gf4600
creative sound card
pioneer ao3
dvd player
windows 2k

[McAttack]

Here's my old case, changed it when the power supply started acting flaky. Got an Antec case, great box! This pic was taken at a Lan Party we did a while back.



The whole box was sanded down to the metal, then painted to have the outline of the wolf. It looks a lot better in real person, the flash ruins this pic.

As for the stats, it's a little old. AMD Duron 1.33, 192MB ram, GeForce 3 Ti500, SB Live!, 30GB HD, DVD, CD-R, using an OLD 15" monitor (using a 17" at the office), and Altec lansing ATP3 2.1 speakers.

I did the end of my university time (sounds like prison time, ain't it ? ) on a TRS-80 COCO-II hacked up to a whopping 64K ram, running VIP Writer on single side single density 5 1/4 floppies.


I now run an Athlon XP1700+ 256Mb ram, approx 70 Gb HD, GEForce 2 32MB. Screen: Diamond Pro, huge.

I have three fans in my case and it sounds like a jet engine. Darn noise !

In the summer, it overheated. I installed air conditionning in the house and now, it doesn't overheat.

[Bobby Vicious]

I've got a relic from the prehistoric days . Behold a Pentium II Dell Dimension XPS 233 with 256 ram. She's an old lady about to die but I love her and she's great for just surfing. I also have a Mac G4 that I do all the heavy shit on like video editing and compression. I need a new PC but can't make a decision, go custom, or should I get another Dell they seem to hold up, I've had this babe since 97.

[fish]

go custom.. that way, when something fucks up, you have no one to blame but yourself..

but i have to admit, i'm amazed at how you managed to maintain your PII...

[McAttack]

Originally posted by Feynman
I did the end of my university time (sounds like prison time, ain't it ? ) on a TRS-80 COCO-II hacked up to a whopping 64K ram, running VIP Writer on single side single density 5 1/4 floppies.


I now run an Athlon XP1700+ 256Mb ram, approx 70 Gb HD, GEForce 2 32MB. Screen: Diamond Pro, huge.

I have three fans in my case and it sounds like a jet engine. Darn noise !

In the summer, it overheated. I installed air conditionning in the house and now, it doesn't overheat.

Wow, this is gonna show the difference in age between us. I also had a TRS-80, but I was about 5 yrs old. My dad got the very first model, 4k of ram. Used to work with a cassette player. I still remember the command CLOAD BASEBALL and because the baseball game was at the end of the tape, I had to go through about 30 mins every time I wanted to play baseball.

Dell case with a 1.2 Tulatin Processor
384 RAM
2 cd drive, one's a burner
zip drive
21 inch monitor
12x12 Wacom Tablet
T-1 Connection

[PMGames]

Commador 64 baby! I can't wait to upgrade to 128!

Oh....how about that Apple 2e !!!!