What do you have under your PCs hood and why do you like it.

Magical · 03-06-2006, 01:33 AM

I decided to make this thread so I and other people can see the thousands of possiblitys and goods about computers and bads if there are any LOL also to give the crazy builders some brag i guess lol... ahem anyway right now i have: a pentium 2 processor... it doesnt matter what kind of powersupply because it runs nothing anyway lol a 6GB maxor hard drive, 320 mb of ram at maybe 233 mhz (i doesnt matter what kind of ram because its probably not even a brand anymore) a flat white case ... its not a tower lol... toshiba cd rom drive that sadly doesnt work it makes a weird noise eveytime i start my computer because its dead lol. a floppy drive that is amazingly built in the case it works for some reason. and a intergrated ethernet that sadly is old and doesnt work anymore. so i have dial up internet. what do i like about this PC .......... i have no idea... what i dont like i think i told you.....LOL alright someone tell me about there awesome computer so i will fell happier lol.

Magic.

**forcifer** · 03-06-2006, 06:19 AM

for awsome, ask gamerman. mine isnt much, but it works well

p4 640 (3.2)
GA-8N SLI pro from gigabyte
2x512 corsair XMS DDR2
XFX 6800XT
WD Caviar 80 gb
sony cd rom
Aspire X navigator (awsome case XD)
psu that came with case

**Spatcher** · 03-06-2006, 06:45 AM

The only thing I like is the fact that I have a 250 gb hdd. But then I don't like it because I should have used Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost to transfer data rahter than XXClone.....

P4 1.8ghz
640 mb RAM
Umm... Intel Mobo
Intel integrated graphics card

Yada yada

**ReeKorl** · 03-06-2006, 07:06 AM

I rather like the 4 x 200GB HDD's in mine, but I haven't got round to putting a RAID card in there yet. I've got onboard RAID on the motherboard, but it doesn't support RAID 5 so I haven't implemented it.

The 2GB of RAM is rather handy too. Page file? What page file!

Oh, and my Benq DW1640 CD/DVD +- RW drive. Wonderful bit of kit that is, it supports copying of just about every known form of copy protection without byte patching or suchlike, so I've got all of my games safely imaged on my hard drives. Never need to touch the CD's again

Other than that, here's the specs:

Generic Midi Tower case (I'm not into visual modding much),
Antec 560W PSU,
MSI Intel 925X MoBo,
Intel P4 550 (3.4GHz /w HT),
2x Corsair 1GB DDR2 RAM,
Sapphire Radeon x700 Pro PCI-E 256MB,
Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS Platinum,
4x 200GB Western Digital Caviar S-ATA HDDs
Benq DW1640 DVD+-RW, Liteon DVD+-RW, Generic DVD-ROM

**Spatcher** · 03-06-2006, 07:11 AM

*droooooooooool*

How much did you pay for that ReeKorl?

**ReeKorl** · 03-06-2006, 07:18 AM

About GBP£1200 (I think, it was put together over the course of about 6 months so I'm not positive on the amounts)

I'm currently saving up to get another similar, but with everything I wanted in the first place on that one. I'm expecting to pay about £2000, but boy will it be worth it!

bry623 · 03-06-2006, 07:19 AM

Based on the fact that most of my stuff is paid for by my expense account at work, I like it all!!

**Glaswegian** · 03-06-2006, 07:30 AM

Nice bit of kit there ReeKorl - you wouldn't like to save for me as well would you?

Generic Tower (I'd REALLY like an Antec)
450W psu
P4 530 3.0 Ghz PresHOT (sorry Prescott core)
ASUS P5P800 mobo
2 x 512 Crucial DDR400 PC3200 RAM
120 Gb Maxtor & 80 Gb Hitachi
nVidia FX5200 AGP card (really should upgrade this but I'm not desparate at the moment)
SB Live
19" Compaq monitor
CD-RW and DVD ROM drives (A DVD writer at some point)

That's about it. I'm not a gamer so I prefer Intel chips.

bry623 · 03-06-2006, 08:05 AM

I am willing to wager that Reekorl can process a complex math or probabiltty problem faster than his PC.

**ReeKorl** · 03-06-2006, 08:19 AM

That's why I'm putting together such a beast of a rig - so I can take some of the load off myself

yustr · 03-06-2006, 09:04 AM

My home rig:

Old Compaq Presario
900MHz - AMD.
640 (or there about) PC100 RAM
2 x 120GB HD
DVD Burner - generic
CD Rom - generic
video card - old
sound card - old

I do have a nice Logitec wireless mouse and keyboard.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. I view all of that ancient stuff on a 46 Samsung DLP high definition TV.

mimo2005 · 03-06-2006, 09:23 AM

nice screen yustr , but too big for my small home office .
how big is it ? put some spec please , and how much are these screens worth today ?

yustr · 03-06-2006, 09:36 AM

It's a 46" DLP. It has both VGA and DVI inputs. I got it for $1600 about a year ago. They're about $2K now.

gamerman0203 · 03-06-2006, 10:22 AM

thanks Forcifer!

I've gotta say, this system is awesome...but it isn't without it's quircks....such as it isn't even all mine!

, but I do use it quite a bit!

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57
Abit Fatal1ty AN8-SLI
4 GB Corsair XMS PC-3200
2x XFX GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB in SLI
PC Power and Cooling Turbo 850W PSU
Onboard 7.1 sound (not big into sound. If I can hear it, thats enough for me)
Western Digital 74GB Raptor HDD
Western Digital 200GB Caviar
Thermaltake Kandalf Full Tower
Thermaltake Big Water SE liquid cooling.

I wish I had pics, but somehow everytime I go to do it, I get caught up in a game!

**40sondacurb** · 03-06-2006, 11:08 AM

AMD 2800
512 RAM
40gig HDD
nVidia 5200128
400w I think
Black case that buzzes like those bad fluorescent lights you find in cheap gyms.

I call it the web browser 5000

Magical · 03-06-2006, 12:13 PM

LOL game that is a beast how much did you pay for that frankinstien!!!???

, LOL yustr what the!!! it was like ehhh eehh

on everything then you got to your t.v. and i had to overlook it again i was like WHAT!!!!!!

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wow reekorl i never come across the Benq DW1640 DVD+-RW, Liteon DVD+-RW, Generic DVD-ROM before lol i got a busted drive wanna trade lol.

03-06-2006, 01:33 AM	#1 (permalink)
Magical Registered User Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Wyoming, MI Posts: 227 OS: Windows Xp Pro My System	What do you have under your PCs hood and why do you like it. I decided to make this thread so I and other people can see the thousands of possiblitys and goods about computers and bads if there are any LOL also to give the crazy builders some brag i guess lol... ahem anyway right now i have: a pentium 2 processor... it doesnt matter what kind of powersupply because it runs nothing anyway lol a 6GB maxor hard drive, 320 mb of ram at maybe 233 mhz (i doesnt matter what kind of ram because its probably not even a brand anymore) a flat white case ... its not a tower lol... toshiba cd rom drive that sadly doesnt work it makes a weird noise eveytime i start my computer because its dead lol. a floppy drive that is amazingly built in the case it works for some reason. and a intergrated ethernet that sadly is old and doesnt work anymore. so i have dial up internet. what do i like about this PC .......... i have no idea... what i dont like i think i told you.....LOL alright someone tell me about there awesome computer so i will fell happier lol. Magic.

03-06-2006, 06:19 AM	#2 (permalink)
forcifer good bye and good luck Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Kansas City kansas Posts: 3,486 OS: Vista Premium 32 My System Blog Entries: 1	for awsome, ask gamerman. mine isnt much, but it works well p4 640 (3.2) GA-8N SLI pro from gigabyte 2x512 corsair XMS DDR2 XFX 6800XT WD Caviar 80 gb sony cd rom Aspire X navigator (awsome case XD) psu that came with case __________________ im back...i guess...

03-06-2006, 06:45 AM	#3 (permalink)
Spatcher Henry Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 3,467 OS: XP Home SP2 My System	The only thing I like is the fact that I have a 250 gb hdd. But then I don't like it because I should have used Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost to transfer data rahter than XXClone..... P4 1.8ghz 640 mb RAM Umm... Intel Mobo Intel integrated graphics card Yada yada __________________ JohnThePilot: Cenedl heb iaith, cenedl heb galon (a nation without a language is a nation without a heart) John Butler Trio: Go take a step outside, see what's shakin' in the real world - Good Excuse Paul Kelly: Just add a dollop of tomato sauce for sweetness and that extra tang - How to Make Gravy

03-06-2006, 07:06 AM	#4 (permalink)
ReeKorl Superhuman Computer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: 6th Circle, The City of Dis, Hell Posts: 1,610 OS: WinXP Pro SP2 My System	I rather like the 4 x 200GB HDD's in mine, but I haven't got round to putting a RAID card in there yet. I've got onboard RAID on the motherboard, but it doesn't support RAID 5 so I haven't implemented it. The 2GB of RAM is rather handy too. Page file? What page file! Oh, and my Benq DW1640 CD/DVD +- RW drive. Wonderful bit of kit that is, it supports copying of just about every known form of copy protection without byte patching or suchlike, so I've got all of my games safely imaged on my hard drives. Never need to touch the CD's again Other than that, here's the specs: Generic Midi Tower case (I'm not into visual modding much), Antec 560W PSU, MSI Intel 925X MoBo, Intel P4 550 (3.4GHz /w HT), 2x Corsair 1GB DDR2 RAM, Sapphire Radeon x700 Pro PCI-E 256MB, Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS Platinum, 4x 200GB Western Digital Caviar S-ATA HDDs Benq DW1640 DVD+-RW, Liteon DVD+-RW, Generic DVD-ROM __________________ "Sorry, the number you have dialled is imaginary. Please rotate dial by 90 degrees and try again."

03-06-2006, 07:11 AM	#5 (permalink)
Spatcher Henry Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 3,467 OS: XP Home SP2 My System	droooooooooool How much did you pay for that ReeKorl? __________________ JohnThePilot: Cenedl heb iaith, cenedl heb galon (a nation without a language is a nation without a heart) John Butler Trio: Go take a step outside, see what's shakin' in the real world - Good Excuse Paul Kelly: Just add a dollop of tomato sauce for sweetness and that extra tang - How to Make Gravy

03-06-2006, 07:18 AM	#6 (permalink)
ReeKorl Superhuman Computer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: 6th Circle, The City of Dis, Hell Posts: 1,610 OS: WinXP Pro SP2 My System	About GBP£1200 (I think, it was put together over the course of about 6 months so I'm not positive on the amounts) I'm currently saving up to get another similar, but with everything I wanted in the first place on that one. I'm expecting to pay about £2000, but boy will it be worth it! __________________ "Sorry, the number you have dialled is imaginary. Please rotate dial by 90 degrees and try again."

03-06-2006, 07:19 AM	#7 (permalink)
bry623 Manager, The Conversation Pit/Analyst, Security Team Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: NW Territory circa 1787 Posts: 10,621 OS: winxp pro sp2	Based on the fact that most of my stuff is paid for by my expense account at work, I like it all!! __________________ "Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem." -Ronald Reagan

03-06-2006, 07:30 AM	#8 (permalink)
Glaswegian Moderator/ Rangemaster TSF Academy; Analyst, Security Team; Oor Wullie; TSF Surgeon and Resident Comic Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Glasgow Posts: 21,678 OS: Win XP Pro SP3 My System Blog Entries: 10	Nice bit of kit there ReeKorl - you wouldn't like to save for me as well would you? Generic Tower (I'd REALLY like an Antec) 450W psu P4 530 3.0 Ghz PresHOT (sorry Prescott core) ASUS P5P800 mobo 2 x 512 Crucial DDR400 PC3200 RAM 120 Gb Maxtor & 80 Gb Hitachi nVidia FX5200 AGP card (really should upgrade this but I'm not desparate at the moment) SB Live 19" Compaq monitor CD-RW and DVD ROM drives (A DVD writer at some point) That's about it. I'm not a gamer so I prefer Intel chips. __________________ Iain - Defender of the Haggis and all things Scottish. I don't help by PM - post in the Forums. Ad-Aware::SpywareBlaster::SpyBot::SpywareGuard::SnoopFree::AVG Free::HOSTS File::HijackThis::Donate::5 Steps For Infected PCs

03-06-2006, 08:05 AM	#9 (permalink)
bry623 Manager, The Conversation Pit/Analyst, Security Team Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: NW Territory circa 1787 Posts: 10,621 OS: winxp pro sp2	I am willing to wager that Reekorl can process a complex math or probabiltty problem faster than his PC. __________________ "Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem." -Ronald Reagan

03-06-2006, 08:19 AM	#10 (permalink)
ReeKorl Superhuman Computer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: 6th Circle, The City of Dis, Hell Posts: 1,610 OS: WinXP Pro SP2 My System	That's why I'm putting together such a beast of a rig - so I can take some of the load off myself __________________ "Sorry, the number you have dialled is imaginary. Please rotate dial by 90 degrees and try again."

03-06-2006, 09:04 AM	#11 (permalink)
yustr Asst. Manager, The Conversation Pit Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Connecticut shore Posts: 4,994 OS: XP Pro My System	My home rig: Old Compaq Presario 900MHz - AMD. 640 (or there about) PC100 RAM 2 x 120GB HD DVD Burner - generic CD Rom - generic video card - old sound card - old I do have a nice Logitec wireless mouse and keyboard. Oh yeah, I almost forgot. I view all of that ancient stuff on a 46 Samsung DLP high definition TV. __________________ I didn't mean to say it. But I meant what I said. J. McMurtry In Vino Veritas

03-06-2006, 09:23 AM	#12 (permalink)
mimo2005 Manager, The Relaxation Room/Analyst, Security Team Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 11,094 OS: xp	nice screen yustr , but too big for my small home office . how big is it ? put some spec please , and how much are these screens worth today ? __________________ TSF has outgrown its server, again. Please help "Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo"

03-06-2006, 09:36 AM	#13 (permalink)
yustr Asst. Manager, The Conversation Pit Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Connecticut shore Posts: 4,994 OS: XP Pro My System	It's a 46" DLP. It has both VGA and DVI inputs. I got it for $1600 about a year ago. They're about $2K now. __________________ I didn't mean to say it. But I meant what I said. J. McMurtry In Vino Veritas

03-06-2006, 10:22 AM	#14 (permalink)
gamerman0203 Games Team Asst. Manager Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Grand Rapids, MI Posts: 2,145 OS: XP MCE, Ubuntu Gutsy My System	thanks Forcifer! I've gotta say, this system is awesome...but it isn't without it's quircks....such as it isn't even all mine! , but I do use it quite a bit! AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 Abit Fatal1ty AN8-SLI 4 GB Corsair XMS PC-3200 2x XFX GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB in SLI PC Power and Cooling Turbo 850W PSU Onboard 7.1 sound (not big into sound. If I can hear it, thats enough for me) Western Digital 74GB Raptor HDD Western Digital 200GB Caviar Thermaltake Kandalf Full Tower Thermaltake Big Water SE liquid cooling. I wish I had pics, but somehow everytime I go to do it, I get caught up in a game! __________________ Follow These Steps First! CPU-Z \| SensorView \| WinXP Clean Boot \| Latest DirectX \| ATI Catalyst \| Nvidia ForceWare Posting System Specifications

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40sondacurb #64 & #36 BACKBONE Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 5,804 OS: xp	AMD 2800 512 RAM 40gig HDD nVidia 5200128 400w I think Black case that buzzes like those bad fluorescent lights you find in cheap gyms. I call it the web browser 5000 __________________ Donate to keep the forum running "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully" -George W. Bush

03-06-2006, 12:13 PM	#16 (permalink)
Magical Registered User Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Wyoming, MI Posts: 227 OS: Windows Xp Pro My System	LOL game that is a beast how much did you pay for that frankinstien!!!??? , LOL yustr what the!!! it was like ehhh eehh on everything then you got to your t.v. and i had to overlook it again i was like WHAT!!!!!! _____________________________________________________________ wow reekorl i never come across the Benq DW1640 DVD+-RW, Liteon DVD+-RW, Generic DVD-ROM before lol i got a busted drive wanna trade lol. Last edited by 40sondacurb : 03-06-2006 at 02:28 PM.

03-06-2006, 04:47 PM	#17 (permalink)
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