Computer Poll (1 Viewer)

[Sean Conklin]

I have 1 computer.

Pentium 3

550 mhz

7500 rpm

128 RAM

4.3 GB SCSI hard drive

Yamaha SCSI CD burner

I got the whole computer with Sony Trinitron monitor for $500 from my brother in law.

This computer was specially built with SCSI(scuzzy?) components, to play "Half Life" and some other games, that's all, it was built for gaming.

My wife uses it for her scrapbooking projects and other things.

I pretty much only use it to web surf and hang out at my HT forums, and occasionally burn some CD's.

I have been told my computer is faster than some of the newer 1000+mhz ATI's, and IDE's(whatever that means).

 

[JustinT]

One computer, use it for everything. Just got done putting it together yesterday:

P4 1.7 GHz

GeForce 2 GTS 32 mb

256 mb RAM

60 gig hard drive

Really love the thing. It replaced an old P2 266. What a difference!

 

[John Besse]

Todd, how do you have such an awesome set up and you're running Win ME???
Main 'puter:
(soon to be dual Athlon XP 1900's on Tyan Tiger 2460 w/ bigger HDs)
Asus A7a266 w/ 1.4GHz T-bird
Crucial 256 DDR RAM
Maxtor 20 Gig 7200 HD
Maxtor 61.2 Gig HD
Maxtor 80 Gig HD
TDK 24x10x40 CD-RW
Veiwsonic 19" monitor
Matrox Mystique G200 Video
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound
Windows XP Professional
Secondary:
HP Celeron 600 with crappy components
In peices:
HP AMD K6 333 with crappy onboard everything

 

[DaveJJ]

I have 2 computers at home. THe main unit is for surfing the web, games, database and word processing. The other computer has a 233Mhz Pentium CPU for my boy. I upgraded all the computers components myself!
Main Computer Components:
FIC mainboard
AMD K6-2 550Mhz
256MB RAM
25GB HD 7200 rpm
Microsoft ME OS
Creative Labs 52x CD-ROM
ASUS 64MB AGP Geforce2 MX400
Creative Labs Live Value! sound card
19" Mitsubishi monitor
DaveJJHave Fun Guys! My HT

 

[Dave Morton]

I use my laptop running win2k for work.

I have a macintosh for home, basically used for e-mail, word processing, accounting stuff.

I will buy a new mac when the prices come down for dvd burners. Probably by next summer.

 

[DonRoeber]

1) I have two laptops, and one desktop, which functions as a server.
2) I use mine for everything in my life. My girlfriend uses hers for web surfing, email, and powerpoint presentations for work.
3) The two laptops are both Apple Powerbooks. Mine is a Powerbook G4 667mhz, with 256mb ram and a 30gb hard disk. My girlfriends is my old powerbook, which is a Powerbook G3 500mhz, and its got 512mb of ram and a 48gb hard disk. Both have DVD rom drives, and I have an external firewire cdrw drive.
The server is a Celeron 300mhz with 256mb of ram and a 20gb IDE disk. Its running RedHat 7.2, and does my webhosting and email services. It sits on a T1 line all to itself
4) Wireless was on my short list of things to get, but since I've got that, I'm good for the moment. Looking at entirely rebuilding my server system, with a RAID disk array and multiple-processors. Its overkill for what it does, but it'd be a lot of fun to play with. I've thought about getting a system to play games on at home, but my friend runs a cybercafe,so its really not necessary.

 

[Oscar W]

I have two, a laptop I use for work and my desktop at home.

The laptop is a Compaq I picked up from a friend for a good price, sans modem.

6.0G HD

766Mhz (?) Pentium III

256M memory

DVD Drive

Sprint PCS wireless modem

My home system is home built and the first computer I put together on my own.

19" moniter

ASUS Motherboard

1.2G AMD Athlon Thunderbird w/ FOP 32 cooler

512M memory

60G 7,200rpm HD

GeForce 3 64m Video

Philips Acoustic Edge soundcard

Efficient Network Speedstream 5360 DSL modem

Pioneer DVD drive

TDK Velo CD Burner

All wrapped up in a cool ColorCase.com case.

~sweeeet~

 

[Joseph S]

Currently, I have two and may add an iBook next year.

Mac: (95% of use)

Dual 500 MHz G4 PPC (Gigabit Ethernet Model)

Mac OS X

768MB RAM

ATI Radeon AGP Card (ADC)

Audiophile 2496 PCI Card

Airport Card

Internal 56K Modem

40GB Maxtor 7200 RPM HD

46GB IBM GXP 7200 RPM HD

9.4GB DVD-RAM Matshita LF-D211A

Zip 100 (internal)

iMation External USB SuperDisk Drive (Ice)

iPod

PC: (HTPC/Limited PC Only Soft use)

AMD 700MHz Duron

WIn2K/Win98SE

EPOX -8K7A+ Mother Board

256MB SDRAM

Pioneer 105S DVD-Rom RPC1

(2) Western Digital Expert 18GB 7200 RPM HDs

I/O Flex Firewire PCI Card

ATI Radeon VE AGP Card

Audiophile 2496 PCI Card

Linksys 10/100 PCI Card

Cybertainment AV PCI Card

Hollywood + DVD Decoder Card

irMan

Dr. Bott ADC-DVI converter

Shared:

Apple 17" LCD Studio Display

Formac 24X External Firewire CDR/W

Intellimouse optical trackball

Apple optical mouse

Apple Pro Keyboard

Epson Stylus Photo 780 Printer

AudioAuthority VGA->Component

Linksys 10/100 Cable/DSL Router

 

[Jay W]

Only one actually setup at home.. got a bunch in my lab @ work so it's mainly for gaming and occasional development.

Intel P3 1.1Ghz

512MB CAS2 PC133 RAM

Asus CUSL2-C Motherboard

Visiontek GeForce 3 Ti200

SB Live! MP3+

Klipsch Promedia THX Speakers (2.1)

DVD-ROM

CD-RW (12/10/32)

180GB in 4 Hard Disks (IDE)

Sony G500 21" Monitor

10/100 NIC+

MS Windows XP Pro / Debian

Upgrades: not for a while... and when it happens it will probably be a major overhaul (CPU/Mobo etc.)

 

[John Stone]

Crush
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PIII 800 EB/512 MB/60 Gig/Windows 98
- Web, email, games, remote admin
Darkness
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PIII 500/512 MB/40 Gig/Slakware Linux
- NAT/Firewall, HTTP/PHP, DNS, Email, MySQL
Swarm
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Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300 Laptop/PIII 650/512 MB/11 Gig/Windows 98
Buddha
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PIII 500/256 MB/20 Gig/Windows 98
- Wife's computer
Blast
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PIII 500/256 MB/13 Gig/Windows 2000
- Development/porting
Horror
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DEC PPro 200/256 MB/30 Gig/Windows NT
- Windows NT C++/VB development box, Cold Fusion/ASP Development
Sludge
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PII-400/256 MB/30 Gig/Open BSD
- BSD development box
Retux
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P233/128 MB/20 Gig/Slakware Linux and Redhat Linux
- Linux development and porting/network monitoring/security
I have 3 other P233 computers with no names that I don't keep any set O/S on, I just use them as needed.
A few months ago I threw out eight Intel-based 286 computers and two NCR Unix towers that weighed about 8492374 pounds. I think there is a picture of all of them somewhere on my web site. You should have seen the garbage man's eyes when he came around the corner and saw all the computers and monitors!
My entire home network is switched using several Cisco 2924 XL switches. I maintain a separate internal network and an external network/DMZ. I also have a couple of Cisco 2500 series routers and CSU/DSUs for T1 testing purposes. Everything is on APC UPSs.

 

[JohanK]

A lot of cool systems here at the HTF.

I have 6 computers myself (although 2 are only Pentiums and just sit around collecting dust and one of the remaining is on permanent loan to my son). My (current) systems:

HTPC:

PIII 800EB on Asus TUSL2-C

Corsair 256MB PC133 CL2

ATI Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO

Philips Acoustic Edge

Enlight 300W desktop case

Maxtor 10G HDD

Toshiba 1502 DVD-ROM

Win 98SE

Surfing/gaming:

PIII 1000EB on Asus TUSL2-C

Crucial 512MB PC133 CL2

gf2 mx400

Philips Acoustic Edge

black Lian Li 350W aluminum case

IBM 20G IDE HDD and 2 IBM 9G SCSI HDDs (Adaptec controller)

black Lite-On CD-ROM

black Teac floppy

CTX 17" monitor

Win 98SE

Burning/downloads/DVD extras/misc.:

PIII 733 on Tyan Trinity 400

512MB PC133 CL3

TNT2 Vanta

Vibra16

WD 8.4GB HDD

LG CD-ROM

TopG DVD-ROM

Lite-On CD-R/RW

WinXP Professional

NEC 15" monitor

Son's room (used for gaming and schoolwork):

PIII 800 on Tyan Trinity 400

384MB PC133 CL3

gf2 mx200

SB AWE64

IBM 15GB HDD

Philips 17" monitor

Samsung DVD-ROM

Mitsumi CD-ROM

Win 98SE

In the future, I am thinking about building a Northwood P4 system. Not sure of the board yet b/c can't yet decide on Rambus or DDR but am leaning toward Rambus. RAID is another possibility with my 2 IBM SCSI HDDs though they are a bit outdated nowadays.

In the more immediate future, dual booting WinXP and 98SE is on the 'to-do' list. I would also like to upgrade my vid card in the gaming/surfing computer; probably a gf3 Ti200.

 

[Trevor Schell]

I am currently using a Dell PII 266MHZ.

Also own a Sony Vaio Laptop.

The new PC that I am building is as follows:

Antec SX-1040 Full Tower Case (400w)

AMD XP -1700+ Processor

Dragon Orb 3 7200 rpm processor cooling fan

4 80mm fans

Abit KG7-Raid motherboard

1 gig Micron pc-2100 ram

Dual 60 Gig Quantum Fireball 8.5 ms 7200rpm HardDrives

Pioneer 16X slot DVD rom drive

Plextor 16/10/40a CDR

Soundblaster Audigy Platnium sound card

Radeon 8500 AGP Graphics card

Digital Doc 5 Thermal Sensor

Linksys Wireless Ap Router

Windows XP

21" Trinitron Monitor

 

[Michael_UK]

Games Internet and Primary work Machine, can be a HTPC but is not used because everyone in the house has there own small Hometheater:

Cable Modem NTL 512K

SMC Barricade Broadband Router/switch.

AMD Athlon 1400 Mhz (Thunderbird)

Epox EP-8KTA3 PRO Motherboard

384 Megabytes RAM (PC133)

Nvidia Geforce 3 Ti 200 64MB AGP (AGP 4X)

17 inch LG Monitor

10.0 Gigabyte Hard Disk Drive (Ultra DMA/66)

24.2 Gigabyte Hard Disk Drive (Ultra DMA/66)

LG 16x DVD-ROM Drive

Sony CD-RW 24x4x2 (CRX100E)

SoundBlaster Live 1024 PCI Sound card (Liveware 3.0)

Labtec APX-4620 Speakers (with Subwoofer)

Microsoft Sidewinder Joystick (USB)

Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition

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Internet and second work machine:

AMD Athlon 600 Mhz (Classic)

MSI 6191 Motherboard

256 Megabytes RAM (PC133)

Nvidia Geforce 256 DDR 32 MB AGP (AGP 4X)

14 inch CTX Monitor

3.0 Gigabyte Hard Disk Drive (Ultra DMA/33)

4.0 Gigabyte Hard Disk Drive (Ultra DMA/33)

Creative 24x CD-ROM Drive

SoundBlaster 64 ISA Sound card

Mustek CU600 USB Scanner

Epson 460 (parallel) Colour Printer

ViewQuest USB Webcam

Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (Service Pack 2)

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Brother Lap Top internetwork.

Intel Pentium III 600 Mhz (Coppermine)

BX-Chipset Motherboard

320 Megabytes RAM (PC100)

8 MB ATI AGP LT PRO (AGP 2x)

14.1 inch TFT Screen

6.0 Gigabyte Hard Disk Drive (Ultra DMA/33)

24x Speed CD-Rom Drive

Ess Maestro 2E PCI Sound card

Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (Service Pack 2)

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[NickSo]

1-How many computers do you own?
5 computers total. 3 in use, 2 not used:
1 (mine)- P166 64MB 3.8gigs, 4x4x24x Mitsumu CD Burner
2 (my lil bros')- P120 24MB 1.8(?)gigs, 24x Creative CDROM
3 (my dads) - Celeron 433 Toshiba Notebook computer. 6gig, 192MB
4 - Old 386 (hardware upgraded to 486) B/W Notebook. Win3.1
5 - Old 286 (hardware upgraded to 486). DOS
2-Uses of each (i.e. surfing, gaming, HTPC, video editing, etc.)?
1 - Surfing, burning, Music, Homework
2 - Old games, surfing
3 - Surfing, business, work, some video editing, some gaming
4 - None
5 - None (currently sitting in my backyard)
3-What are your system(s) specs (if you're into this sort of thing)? E.g. P4 1.5GHz w/ Abit TH7 mobo, IBM HDD, etc.
See Qu.1
4-Are you planning to upgrade in the near future? If yes, what is on your wish/short list?
No, since my dad is a cheapskate and wont get me a new computer ) Seriously, since i got a dremacast, i dont need my PC to game, and my computer is adequate enough to burn stuff, and to surf the internet comforatbly. Though if i do get one, it'll need to be able to do video ediiting and stuff. Best if it had a DVD-writer (Still confused with DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVDRAM, etc etc etc)

 

[Jim Howard]

Workstation 1

Asus A7V - BIOS REV 1009, Via 4.31

AMD 1.1 T-bird @100 MHz FSB

2*256 Crucial CAS 2 PC133

Visiontek Geforce 3 Ti 500 64 MB

21" Sony FD Trinitron Monitor

SB Audigy Platinum 5.1 w/ Live! Drive IR

Klipsch ProMedia 4.1 Surround

3-COM Etherlink XL 10/100 NIC

Kenwood 72x True X CD - Via Primary Master

Toshiba 5x DVD - Via Primary Slave

Plextor 24X CDRW - Via Secondary Master

Iomega 100 MB ZIP - Via Secondary Slave

Mylex Acceleraid 170 Adapter

2X 18 GB Maxtor Atlas 10K III SCSI RAID 0 (Win XP Pro)

18 GB Seagate 36XL (XP Swap, Redhat Linux 7.2)

Razor Boomslang 2000 Optomechanical Mouse on 3M Precision Mousing Surface

Coolermaster ATC-201 w/ 350 W Antec PSU

Workstation 2

Abit KT7A-RAID, Via 4.31

AMD Duron 850 @100 MHz FSB

1*256 Corsair ValueRAM CAS 3 PC133

Elsa Gladiac Geforce 2 Ultra 64 MB w/ 2*Revelator

17" Decaview Monitor

SB Audigy Platinum 5.1 w/ Live! Drive IR

Altec Lansing ACS-495 DPL Speakers

Netgear FA310 10/100 NIC

60 GB IBM 60 GXP ATA-100 - Via Primary Master (Win XP Pro)

27 GB Western Digital ATA-66 - Via Secondary Master (Win 98SE)

40x Toshiba CD - Via Secondary Master

Logitech Mouseman+ Wheel Optical

IW-ATX500 Case w/ 340 W PSU

Server

Tyan Tiger MP, BIOS Rev 1.03

2X AMD Athlon XP 1700+

2*512 Corsair ECC PC2100

Asus V7700 Geforce 2 GTS 32 MB

Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound

Linksys 10/100 NIC

Adaptec 21960 U160 Adapter

36 GB IBM Ultrastar 36LZX 10k SCSI (Redhat Linux 7.2)

100 GB Western Digital Caviar 1000BB-SE ATA-100 (Data)

8X HP CD-writer 9100+

Belkin Ominport KVM (share KVM w/ WS 1)

Antec SX1040 SOHO Tower w/ 400 W Antec PSU

Network

Linksys Etherfast BEFSR11 Gatway (WAN)->

SMB 8 Port 10/100 w/ Giga Uplink (Server) +>

3 COM Dual Speed Officeconnect 8 Port ->

Linksys WAP11 Wireless Access Point ->

Toshiba Portege 3480CT Laptop (P3-600) (Win XP Pro, Redhat Linux 7.1),

Sony PCG-818 Laptop (P2-300) (Win 98SE),

Turtle Beach Audiotron HT MP3 Client,

Netgear PS110 Print Server ->

HP Laserjet 2100 via/ PS110

HP Deskjet 970 CSe via/ PS110

Beklin External USB Hub ->

HP Scanjet 6200 on USB

HP Photosmart S20 Scanner on USB

Kodak DC 260, Olympus 620L, Diamond Rio 500 on USB