What Kind of computer do you use?

[timk49]

I think it would be interesting to see what kind of equipment we are all using to keep up with the technology race.

 

We actually have three computers in the house which and only two televisions.

 

Dell Dimention 4500

P4 2.4

256 ddsdram

Gforce 4 MX video card w/64 mB

 

Gateway Notebook Solo 1450

1.2 Celeron

256 sdram

 

Clone

1.6 Athalon XP

128 DD SDRAM

 

Ground based wireless Broadband (Aerosurf.net)

Download average speed 1 Meg (Awesome)

 

Linksys 4 port wireless router.

 

All running Windows XP Home Edition

[nonstop]

Sony Notebook PCG-FX270K, 512 meg ram 11meg video, 30 Gig Hard drive, CD-RW/DVD combo drive for work,

and a Dell 850MHZ, 512 meg of RamBUS, with a 64 meg NVida video card, DVD, and a CD-RW. Both running XP PRO.

 

Wireless all over the place, a 1200 dpi scanner that I don't use since we got a Digital camera for Christmas.

[chevy4x4trucks]

Three of them at home that I use:

 

One I built, Athlon 1.0 ghz about 500 megs of ram, a 30 and a 40 gig hard drive.

 

Compaq PIII 450 w/ a 12 gig and an 80 gig hard drive which I use for downloading movies off of kazaa

 

And a Dell Optiplex GX1 PII 350 w/ about 400 megs of ram which is hooked up to my TV for watching downloaded movies, playing games, listening to mp3's on the stereo, etc...

 

 

At work I've got a Dell P4 2.0ghz

[MarkD]

@work

one I built

AMD XP2100, 512DDR,80Gig,T1, ATI 7500, 3COM, 19" Samsung,Win2k

 

@home

one I built

AMD XP2400, 1536DDR,(4)120 Gig, Roadrunner(2.2 down, 356 up)ATI AIW 8500, 3COM,19" Hitachi, Win2k Server

 

(4) Workstations all approx 1 GHz, 40Gig, 512 SDRAM

[Shaners]

Dell Dimension 8200 running a P4 at 1.9Ghz hooked to an 850Mhz AMD through a Linksys 10/100 5-port hub.

 

I'm currently on dial-up but cable will be installed in a couple of days.  :thumb:

[Shadowfax]

I have 2 that I've built. Current one has these specs:

 

P4 2.53 GHz Processor with on a Intel D845GEBV2 Motherboard with 512 Megs of DDR Ram.

120 Gig Maxtor HD

Internal Zip Drive

Internal Floppy

Plextor CD Burner (16x)

52X CD Rom drive

All put together in an enlight white box case with a Antec 480 watt PSU

Visiontek Geforce 3 vid card (soon to replace with a G4 or a Geforce FX)

Windows XP Professional

 

My old PC which I just replaced with what I mentioned above

 

P3 1 Ghz Processor on a Intel D815EEA2 Motherboard with 512 megs of SDRAM.

20 Gig Maxtor HD

Internal Floppy

50 Speed Asus CD Rom drive

All put together in a enlight white box case with an enlight 250 watt PSU

Windows 2000 Pro

 

Both pc's are on dialup and will remain so until I move somewhere where concrete is more frequent than the number of cow pastures I tend to lol.

[BlueRado]

Dell Dimension 8200 running a P4 at 1.9Ghz hooked to an 850Mhz AMD through a Linksys 10/100 5-port hub.

 

I'm currently on dial-up but cable will be installed in a couple of days.  :thumb:

Shaners, you will love cable - suddenly most, if not all the old frustrations will go away!

 

Congrats!

 

RE the topic:  3 PCs - all @ home

 

1) 667 MHz Intel PIII clone, 384 MB RDRAM, G-force 32 MB VGA, 20 GB Caviar WD, Hitachi 19", Win2K Pro (I built - main house PC)

 

2) 800 MHz Intel PIII clone, 256MB SDRAM, ATi 32 MB VGA, 20 GB Caviar WD, Hitachi 17"; Win98 SE (I built - used by daughter)

 

3) 500 MHz Intel PIII clone, 256 MB SDRAM, ATi VGA, 10 GB WD Caviar, 19" HItachi, WinXP Pro (Work PC)

 

All three connected via Netgear 4 port Router (FR314), PCI NICs and Motorola Surfboard cable modem.

 

I would like faster VGA, more HDD RAM and of course a P4 CPU, but it won't happen soon.  W/ the exception of Win98, all HW and Op Systems have been nearly flawless.

[timk49]

Shaner's I hope your cable install goes well. Once you are on a high speed hook up you will think you are in heaven.

 

I didn't mention that all my systems are running Window's XP Home. What an improvement over the crash and burn Windows 98

[antig24]

I've got 2, the first one is:

2000xp

geforce 4 ti4400 128mb

512 mb of ram

winxp pro.

2nd:

amd 900mhz

geforce 3 ti200 64mb

512 mb of ram

winxp pro :thumb:

edit: i have cable, use a router to split it up

[watz]

Hehe what if I can't name them all?....I'll try.

 

All Gateway (employee)

 

2 -  200

1 -  266 (destination 31 inch monitor/TV)

1 -  333

2 -solo 2100's

1 -3150

1 - 5150

1 - 1.8 gig

1 - 1.6 gig

1 - 2.4 gig

1 - 400

 

I use a 512 cable connection, I use a old 16 port 10/100 hub.

 

oh and I have an old storage tech raid 5 160 gig (cool at the time) drive array for MP3 videos and such.

 

 

:thumb:

 

How did I do?

[ShimanoFisherman]

I've been holding out.  My 866 is almost three years old and all I've added to it is a video card.  Gonna have to move up soon though.  I can barely play UT2003.  I plan on getting a PC with XP Media Center Edition next.  I wish I could be this patient with everything.  

 

Bellsouth 1.5Mbit DSL

Linksys 4 port switch/router/wireless AP

 

Dell Dimension - Gamer

866Mhz 256MB RDRAM

GeForce3 Ti500 64MB

21" Trinitron

 

Compaq Deskpro - Server

266Mhz 168MB SDRAM

2 - 100GB WD Hard drives RAID 0

 

Dell Inspiron 7000 - Laptop

366Mhz 256MB SDRAM

[RyanbabZ71]

I have a dell 2500 Laptop.  Its ok about 2-3 months after i got it the keyboard went out.  Not that impressed.  it is fast (1 Ghz) but the keyboard is chinsey.

 

At school we have dells and i like the desktops.  

 

Prior to my dell i had a gateway for 3-4 yrs.  Still works but the internal clock went south and wouldnt hold settings and the cost to fix was slightly less than a new one so i gave my old one to my bro and bought a new one nov 01.  

 

My next one will probably be a dell desktop.  Why?  Dad owns stock in dell  

[k1500chevy97]

My brother built all 3 of my computers for me .

 

1) P-3 800mhz ,512 sd , Creative cdrw/dvd, 57gb C: , 28gb D:  envision 710e (the word processor/bookkeeping system)

 

2) P-4 1.8ghz ,1024ddr , hp cdwriter9300series, 37gb C:, 25gb D: , 19gb E: 17"KDS (my toy)

 

3) P-4 2.8ghz , 1536ddr, hpcdwriter 9300 series, 100gb C: , 40gb D: trinitron 200es (gf's toy)

 

All 3 have XP pro

 

 

linksys etherfast Cable/DSL and voice router

Linksys 2 port switched print server

Netgear 8 port switch

 

The way my brother installed it I would hate having to track down all the cables and wires

[oogabooga]

Dell Dimension 8100  

P4 1.5 ghz  

768 MB RDRAM

2 60 GB Hard drives (dual-boot with Redhat Linux and Windows XP Pro)

A cheap 32 MB NVida video card, but soon to be upgraded

Roadrunner cable

 

 

What do you guys think is better for video cards  Radeon or NVidia?

[MarkD]

I forgot to mention.  I use Lian-Li and Enermax cases.  Enermax power supplies exclusively.

 

My server lives in a custom aluminum windowed Lian Li.