What's in your Computer?

[Vyse]

Here's a thread for people who build their own computers, or know everything about the one they bought intact.


My Computer:

CPU: Amd Athlon 1900+
Memory: 256 MB DDR 3200 Ram
GPU: Geforce 4 Ti 4280 128 DDR w/ AGP 8x
MotherBoard: Soyo KT400 Dragon Ultra Platinum
Antec 330 Watt PS w/ Fan Control
Artec 16X DVD Rom
Artec 32x CdRW

Beyond all of that, my case is Blue, and has a window, with a red light in it :P

I Will add more Minute details when I'm at my moms, this is just what I remember off of the top of my head.

[Seska]

Woo, a Soyo dragon? Nice :D

Well here's my almost-1-year old crap :p :

CPU: Athlon XP 1800+
Ram: 512 DDR266
Mobo: Epox 8KHA+
Sound: SB Live
CDRW: Cyberdrive CD-RW 32x12x48x
DVD: Panasonic DVD drive
HD: 1x 40mb Seagate HD 7200 rpm
1x 80mb Seagate HD 7200 rpm
GPU: Geforce 4 Ti 4600

Hopefully I wont have to upgrade it anytime soon, though I guess Doom3 is gonna change all that. :p

[Hisoka]

Well, this is my computer, upgraded some months ago.

CPU: Athlon XP 1600+
Ram: 128mb DDR (I will add some more as soon I get some money)
Mother: ASUS A7V266-C
CDRW: LG 24x10x40x
CDRW(2): IOMEGA ZIP CD 12x4x32x
DVD: OLD Compaq DVD drive
HD: 40gb Maxtor 7200rpm
Video Card: GeForce2 MX 400

[Seska]

Now is DEFINITELY a good time to buy DDR333 ram. Up to about 4 months ago I had 256, and bought another 256 dimm, DDR266 and THAT alone cost me like 75 bucks at the time. Today? You can get a 512 DDR333 dimm for 55.

RAM has a very annoying tendency to fluctuate in price, but its been a long time since Ive seen such a huge drop over such a short period of time. Im upgrading to 1 gig as soon as I can. :p

[insteefy]

Right now;

P3, 733Mhz
Gf2 Mx 32mb
256 Mb ram
30Gb Hd
17 inch monitor

Nex month (my graduation gift);

P4, 3.06Ghz
Ati Radeon 9700 Pro
2x 512DDR Ram
80Gb Hs
17inch flat screen

[DarkSavior]

Mine is 2 years old. :crying:

Motherboard: IWILL KA-266
Processor: AMD Thunderbird 1.3 GHz
HD: Maxtor 60GB 5400rpm
Video Card: ATi Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO
Soundcard: Creative Soundblaster Mp3+
DVD Drive: Pioneer 16x DVD-ROM
Burner: AOpen 12x10x32x CD-RW
RAM: 256MB PC2100 DDR RAM
Monitor: NEC Multisync 17" flatscreen

[XzenoGear]

Mine is ancient!

Intel Petium 3
Geforce 2MX 32M
512 SD Ram
15 GIG HARDDRIVE
DVD/CDR

thats the lot.

[suronosuke]

intel p4 1.8 GHz
motherboard MSI 845e max
onboard sound ac97
harddisk 3 of em do not recall the names 20gig+40+gig+40gig
512mb ddr266
gfx card Gforce 3 ti 128mb ddr
dvd
cdrw 32xblahxblah
monitor adc 15" LCD flat screen
easy to open case umm what else is there ?
umm adsl modem mouse keyboard blah blah blah

[Reality]

Apple eMac
G4 800MHZ
256MB RAM
60GB HD
SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW)
56K Modem
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX
17`` CRT Flat

[Drunken Savior]

Apple G4 Tower (2 Years old)

733 MHz G4 Processor
NVidia GForce 2 MX (Ati 8500 is comming on the 9th)
1 GB SDRam (Friend bought wrong Ram so he sold me 512 MB for $40...I was stoaked)
80 WD ata GB Hard Drive (I'm ordering a 120 GB hard drive on Monday to supplement)
CD-RW (My DVD/CD-RW broke, so they sent me a temp CD-RW until they get the new DVD/CD-RWs in)
Apple Pro Keyboard
Microsoft Optical Mouse USB Blue
And since I blew out my old speakers recently, I'm using those old crappy Aiwa bookshelf system speakers right now.

The name is "The Ridiculous" and the 80 GB HD is called "The Stash" and the 120 GB will be called "The Booty"

[Reality]

Hey how well do you like your Tower Drunken? I was thinking I pick that up for my next computer years down the road. Would you recommend it?

[Drunken Savior]

It's VERY reliable. I'm able to really press it (watching a divx, surfing the web, burning a CD) all at the same time. I download alot, so I finally got the new video card because it has S-Video Out , so I can watch it on my TV, instead if the `5" Apple Flat Screen Display. The tower has all the Mac positives and negatives, powerful and reliable, but not cheap. The video card costs $175 after finding the cheapest on pricewatch.com, and the PC equivilant is around $100. Since I've had this computer for two years and it crashes annually (yes, once a year it crashes) instead of monthly.

But the real gem isn't the hardware, it's Apples OSX. Once you get it, you wonder how the hell is Windows #1? It's the best OS out there right now. (sans the hardcore Unix users, since I do not know Unix that well. Though I know OSX was built upon Unix) So if you have the money, and the tolerance for getting a Mac and not playing all the games (Monkey Island 4 and Warcraft III are the only games I play right now) then definately go for it.

[edit] Oh, you have a Mac. Umm...didn't mean to give you the whole OSX speal, then, my bad.

[Reality]

Hahah, don't even worry about. I love OSX. It's the best there is for what I do.

Now what I really want to know about the tower is have you ever updated memory before on it? If so how easy has it been for you? Also what all can you upgrade. I'm a total newbie at Macs this emac being my first switch and never opened anything up in my life. But if a tower is worth it I'm more then willing to lay down the cash.

[Drunken Savior]

Yeah, until about four months ago, I had 512 MB of Ram, in a single stick. But the offer came up to me for two 256 MB sticks of PC133 SDRAM. The Tower has 3 slots. So I have one stick of 512, and 2 256. It's really easy to open the tower. You just pull a latch and then slowly lower the side panel that has the whole computer virtually on it, sans the power sync, fan, and drives. You just flip the latches open, gently slide in the mem sticks, close the latches, close the tower, start computer and it'll recognize it. It started my "bloodlust" for computers. From there I learned to install drives, and am going to be installing all of this myself. Until I got this computer, I knew virtually nothing about the hardware aspects, and that's what I'm learning right now. But right now, I'm just a pirate.

[Edit] Since I'm new to this myself, I look alot at http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ for what to get and learnin the lingo n such.