What Computer System Are You Running?

[Steven]

Wow, this is the 1000th post on the forum!!!

Anyways just wanting to know what kind of systems you gals and guys are using on your home computers?

Home computer
p3 800 MHZ
768mb ram
30gb HD
WinXP pro

Work Computer
p3 1000GHZ
512mb ram
40gb HD
Redhat

-Steven

[ed_lynn]

Home:

Sony Notebook
1 Ghz Piii
512 mb Ram
20 gig hd
XP Home (soon to be Pro)

Any suggestions for a Linux dist. suited for first time users?

ed

[Steven]

I have used Suse, mandrake and Redhat. I like redhat as well as suse. Either of those should be good for you.

-Steven

[SmackDaddy]

Uh....let's see....

My home-built personal and "work" system:

Athlon XP 1800+ w/512MB DDR
40GB and 45GB hard drives
GeForce 3 ti200 (64MB)
Soundblaster Audigy
3Com NIC
32X LiteOn CDRW
All IDE cables are ATA133 silver braided rounded cables
Windows XP Pro
Klipsch 400W ProMedia 4.1 Speakers
Sony Studio Headphones
17" ViewSonic SE Flat Screen Monitor (Grey Case) with .25dpi
Razer Boomslang 1000 USB Mouse
Microsoft Natural Keyboard
Tornado 1000 Case with 120mm fans, 431 Dual Fan Enermax Power Supply, side window and LED lighting (inside and out) from: http://www.3dcool.com/?module=product&sku=tornado1000 (case alone cost me almost $300)

My wife's home-built system:

Athlon TBird 1GHz CPU w/512MB PC133
20GB hard drive
GeForce 2 GTS (32MB)
Soundblaster Live
DLink NIC
12X Plextor CDRW
52X CDROM
Windows XP Home
Yamaha 40W speakers plus Phillips headphones
17" Sylvania F74 monitor
Logitech Cordless Optical Mouse
Full Tower case made by Inwin with 300W Enermax Power Supply


Then I have an AMD K6-2 450 system (Windows 98SE) for the girls to play their kids games and surf the net....and for school, we have a 1.2GHz Celeron IBM Netvista PC with Windows 2000. That system was provided by the State of Ohio for the "Ohio Virtual Academy" my kids are in.....(home schooled but actually run by the state of Ohio)

And........all of them are sharing a 1500/384 DSL line via a SMC Barricade Router.

Comprehensive enough Steven? :D

[pete3005]

I have 3 systems at home as follows:

Pentium 4 2000mhz
512MB RAM
80GB HD
DVD CDRW
NVIDIA GeForce 2 64MB
Win XP HOME
15" LCD Flat Screen Monitor
Running Apache/PHP/MySQL

Cyrix 233mhz
286MB RAM
VGA Standard Graphics Card
Apache/PHP/MySQL
Personal Web Server for ASP/Access combo

Cyrix 200mhz
32MB RAM
Windows 98
(g/fs PC)


Obviously I use my P4 for all my work, but the others have different versions of browsers and lower memory so they are used for testing, its amazing how different a site can look on different monitors, especially those with 16bit colour.

I would like to get a MAC in time and also set Linux up, that way I will have most browsers and OS covered.

[Eric]

I had....

Desktop...
P2 400mHz
8gig HD
CD ROM
256 RAM
WIN 98

...but that has pretty much died as it freezes when you do anything

I am currently using for some work stuff (though a lot less now than over the last two years)......

Dell Inspiron 4000
P3 800 mHz
10 gig HD
256 Ram
CD/DVD
14" screen
Win ME

....though I'm not needing this as much anymore and Win ME is causing all sorts of problems to the extent that I can hardly get it to boot anymore

So......I just went out and bought (last week) my new home/work system..

The New iMac
17" Flat screen
G4 Processor - 800 mHz
80 GB HD
512 Ram
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX
Running MaxOS X 10.2 Jaguar
CD/DVD Burner

I'm soooooo happy with it :D :D :D :D :D

[Chris]

Dual PIIIs 500mhz(each)
Expox kp6-bs 440bx chipset
512 megabytes pc133
Geforce2 mx 32megs
Realtek 1839 fast ethernet
Two WD 10 gig 7200 RPM drives in RAID 0
One WD 30 gig 5400 RPM (storage)
IDE controler card
el cheapo Yahmaha sound card (quite cheap, quite good too)
Sony 16x CD burner
AOpen DVD rom
Windows XP Pro

[Aaron]

My home-built system

PIV 2.26 GHz
1GB DDR 333 RAM
60GB 7200rpm ata100 Maxtor Hard drive
40GB 7200rpm ata133 Maxtor Hard drive
ATI Radeon 8500 w/ 128MB
Viewsonic P95f 19" Professional Series flat screen monitor
Creative Soundblaster Live! XGamer PCI sound card
Linksys 10/100 NIC
Sony 16X DVD
Cendyne 48X12X48X CD-R/RW
ATT broadband cable internet connection
Antec 450W P/S
Windows XP Home

[CrimsonScythe]

Here are my two computers, both home-built, of course:

File server:
Athlon 500MHz
512MB SDRAM
SiS 6326 8MB video card ;)
CD ROM
Maxtor ATA133 IDE controller
60GB WD Hard drive
80GB WD Hard drive
160GB Maxtor Hard drive
2 Ultimate Hard Drive Coolers
Full tower Inwin Q8 case
Running FreeBSD

Workstation:
Athlon XP 1800+ w/Thermaltake Volcano 7+ cooler
Abit KR7A-133 Motherboard
512MB DDR RAM
Diamond Viper 770 32MB video card (not exactly new :) )
HP CD burner
Soundblaster Live! (not exactly new either)
Tekram DC-390U3W Ultra160 SCSI Controller
9GB IBM Ultra160 10krpm Hard disk (For swap space and caching)
36.7GB Seagate Ultra160 10krpm Hard disk
18GB IBM Ultra160 15krpm Hard disk
19" Optiquest monitor
Antec 1080 case w/430W PS
All rounded cables
Running Winblows XP Pro and Gentoo Linux

I'm going to upgrade the memory on my workstation pretty soon. :) I run some rather cpu/disk/memory intensive simulations through school and work, so I need the extra juice.

-- Thomas

[Ailish]

I'm using an Apple PowerBook G4 (aka a TiBook)
Stock configuration for it's day.

667 MHz PowerPC G4
512 MiB RAM
30 GB hard drive
DVD/CD-R combo drive
Built in wireless networking (802.11b)
Mac OS 10.2

Ailish

[Steven]

here is an interesting question, where do those of you who purchase your computer systems (Not build them yourselves), buy them from? Which company?

-Steven

[pete3005]

Hi Steven,

That's rather a funny question in my case. I bought mine from a leading PC retailer called 'Tiny', I got mine in Jan of this year, 6 weeks later Tiny, who were the biggest retailer of PCs in the UK went bankrupt, 2 weeks after that my Hard Drive died on me, resulting in a loss of loads of work, I never backed up!

The company who bought a part of Tiny did replace the HD for free, and since then it has been excellent, but I backup every night now...lol.

I would never buy a PC again from a high street retailer no matter how long they had been in business or how big they are. With hindsight I wish I had went to Dell, and certainly will in the future.

Pete

[harmonic]

p3 933mhz
alton mainboard *
tnt2 *
soundblaster live x-gamer
256mb ram
40gig hd, 7200rpm
4gig hd, 5400rpm

* = will be replaced asap with a good mobo and a geforce 2

[Eric]

I had purchased my 2 windows computers directly from Dell. I always liked to order direct from the company rather than go to a computer store like Best Buy or another retailer. This way its custom configured and I get a good deal on tech support which I rarely needed on Dell. They also came to me when I needed them :)

I bought my iMac from the apple store in the local mall. It was basically the same as what was sold online and I saved shipping! :)

Eric

[g808]

Built my own home pc at the end of last year.
- AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (1.4GHz)
- Crucial 768MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM
- Soyo SY-K7V DRAGON Plus motherboard
- Maxtor 40GB HD
- SoundBlaster Live!
- ATI All-In-Wonder 32MB video

Work laptop (IBM ThingPad T23):
- PIII/1.12 Ghz
- 14.1" TFT Display Screen
- 16mb SuperSavage S3 Video
- 30GB HDD
- 384MB RAM
- DVD

[prim]

well i preffer to build my computers not to buy them from major company so here it is:

1st PC :

Athlon 850 Mhz
512 RAM
Asus MB -- Dont EVER buy Abit motherboards:( they exhanged mine 3 times and it was broken each time

32 MB TNT2 video card.
80 GB IBM HDD
DVD

2nd PC

Dual athlon 1900+ /each/
512 MB ram / I want more:(/
Tyan MB
64 MB GF3 video card
80 GB IBM HDD
40 GB Maxtor external HDD
cdRW

3-rd mac .. not even worht mentioning ..:)