Describe Your Computer

APEVIA X-Dreamer
Intel BOXDP965LTCK ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Conroe 2.13GHz 4M shared L2 LGA 775 Processor
Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive
Kingston 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667
EVGA 256-P2-N445-LX GeForce 7300GT 256MB 128-bit
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Thermaltake W0069RU ATX12V 430W Power Supply

these are the main components of the computer that i built. i got some other common things also. all the parts i got from newegg they have awesome prices on everything. i know its nothing really special but it sure is fast for everything i need to do. i think its about the fastest best running most stable computer ive used. i went from a crappy hp computer to this so its so much better. i decided to build this monster so i know exactly whats in it and how it was put in. i can upgrade anything i want if i ever feel the need to unlike a branded computer. i love this thing it runs so quite and its so fast

 

Thats a nice setup. I would guess you built that for around $250 to $350. It would sell branded for more than twice that and still not be quite as good. Nice PSU. Thermaltake makes good products. I know Thermaltake has a good rep in cooling.

btw, are you overclocking?

 

actually all of the components i listed as of right now right now are about $750 total with shipping from newegg. i had to get some other odds and ends to (keyboard, mouse, cables, thernal paste, fans, and floppy and dvd drives) i just bought parts as i could untill i had them all to put it together.

im not overclocking it since its an intel board it cannot be overclocked. i wanted something really fast just stock and intel boards are rock solid stable so i went with intel.

i could have gotten it for less but i wanted to get some good long lasting components. i also got a new LCD flat screen so total cost with that and all the odds and ends was about $1100. but since i built it and all the parts are in a standard case if anything happens i can fix it without have to buy an entire new computer.

 

Well.. my old computer died.. power surge killed it. refer to my previous post in this thread for info on that box..

Thanks to linux, I just ghosted my old hard drive and continued where I left off with my OS. nothing changed. just had to tell my video drivers to use DVI since the internal LCD connection on this laptop is DVI.

my current system:

Dell Latitude c840 laptop:
pentium4 1.6Ghz processor with SpeedStep (will upgrade to 2.4GHz)
768MB ram, soon to be 2GB
160GB hard drive
DVDRW/DVDRAM drive
GeForce4 mx440 32MB video card (soon to be a 64MB ti4200)
1600x1200 native res on the internal LCD.. NICE!!
Dual Batteries
built in wifi
Kubuntu Linux OS just like my old box.

Other than newer hardware, my computer is pretty much the same as it was before. and this laptop is very easy to upgrade as well.. Slide out hard drive..LOL Thats NICE!.. modular video card opens up grafix options.. so I will finally have pixel shaders to play with when I get that upgraded. Compiz will love that! So will SecondLife..lol

Also the on board audio is quite good.. better than the audio on my old box, the internal speakers are actually pleasent to listen to, never thought I would say that about internal laptop speakers, but this thing sounds GOOD, no bass, but still good SQ, gets very loud too(loud enough to use for a boombox outside), not bad for 1" speakers LOL... hook it up to my stereo.. it sounds absolutly amazing!.. Dont even need LADSPA/BBE anymore to process the sound better.. The SQ alone of the audio system was one of the main reasons I bought this computer.. sine I use my stereo for all my mp3's and my old computers audio really sucked, but the linux audio drivers did make it better, still sucked though.. This new computer has a sound system worthy of being used with a high end stereo .

Peace!

 

I have a HP pavilion XT963 with a 1.2 ghz (1200Mhz) intel celeron processor, with a 40Gb IDE drive, a LG 20X dvd-R-RW drive, a 32 mb video card (I know it sucks!!) and 512 mb ram, two usb ports (which sucks even more), but I am upgrading soon, thank god

 

I just dumped my 2 desktops and 3 of my 4 monitors. I got tired of the noise and the power consumption. I replaced them with a laptop system I bought about 18 months ago but almost never used.

Dell Inspirion 1505n
Dual Core Intel 1.73Ghz
2GB RAM
80GB Hard drive
CDRW/DVD Combo drive
Nvidia 7300 Video
17" LCD

Attached to it I have a Adesso small form factor Keyboard with touchpad, Optical mouse, speakers, external DVDRW and a 22" Flat panel monitor.

The system shipped from Dell with Ubuntu 7.10, when I decided to start using it full time, I installed 8.04 and encrypted the hard drive.

 

My main PC is my desktop:

AMD Athlon XP 2600+
1 GB Ram
3 x 40GB HDDs
CD / DVD Writer
3.5" Floppy
nVidia GeForce4 MX 4000
Kubuntu 8.04
LAMP Web Sever (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
Network by 802.11b

I host my website on it, along with it being my main PC. I'll replace it oneday - when it no longer can be upgraded to meet my needs.

Next thing I will do is upgrade my network to 802.11g. That will make a difference. Maybe memory later on.

 

Jedite, a 1G stick of RAM for your computer (DDR?) would be half the price of a better computer. You could build a dual core, 2.8Ghz machine with 800mhz RAM (DDR2) for $200. It would be 5x's as fast. Worth every penny, especially if you serve web pages.

 

My computer that I am building owns all computers in this thread.
It has:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Q6600
RAM: 4 GB DDR2
GPU: ATI Radeon 4850
HDD: Segate 500 GB 7200 rpm

 

Not built yet... Parts coming Tuesday. Should be up by Wedesday. My old system croaked the other day (Athlon XP 3200+) and it wasn't worth it to fix it.

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Vid: PNY 8800GT
RAM: 4GB DDR2
MB: Asus P5Q
HDD: OS/home directory 2x 1600GB software RAID1/LVM
Media storage 2x 200GB software RAID 1

I'll probably put Fedora 9 on there...

Nice system videoslave, looks like we have similar tastes. The Q6600 is at the perfect price point.

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This is one of my favorite ebay merchants. They stand behind everything they sell.

Check out this bargain:

http://www.chrosmack.com/Items/6221...ntellistation Z Pro Xeon 3.2Ghz 73GB 2GB CDRW



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Sure do have a slimilar computer for playing those sweet games!

Yea the Q6600 is alot better then the cpu I thought I would be getting as for I only had a 700 dollar budget for my whole computer excluding the video card wich I got for my B-day.
I have yet to get Windows and a monitor.

 

Thinkpad T61
Core 2 duo @ 2.2ghz
2.0 GB ram
7200 rpm 100Gb hdd
NVIDIA quadro NVS 140M 512MB onboard ram
Windows XP professional

server:
IBM Xseries 350
4x pentium III xeon 700mhz
1.5Gb ecc ram
160GB 7200rpm ide hdd
147Gb 10,000 rpm u320 Scsi hdd
78GB 10,000 rpm u320 scsi hdd
Novell Netware 6.5 / open enterprise server

a web server running win server 2003 se, 3 oldish workstations around, 1 decent dell laptop, and a real old server that updates my weather sensors to the internet.

 

Wow that's a nice server setup for it's day. I've always wanted a couple SCSI drives. Although, why would you still use Netware on it? I thought Netware died long ago.

 

i got into it because they had it at my high school... i mainly use it just for mass storage, got about 220GB of downloaded movies/tv shows. it does great streaming it to the old compaq ipaq i have hooked up to our 32" lcd tv. only downside is that scsi hard drives are just so expensive, and then you gotta buy the trays... but i really like netware, its a pretty good NOS, plus zenworks imaging makes life alot easier.

 

Code:

mai@desktop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/[B]GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device[/B] (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller:[B] Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller [/B](rev 01)
01:05.0 Communication controller: Conexant Unknown device 2702 (rev 01)
01:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)

Code:

mai@desktop:~$ cat /proc/meminfo
[B] MemTotal:      1027008 [/B]kB

Code:

mai@desktop:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      :[B] Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.20GHz[/B]
stepping        : 9
cpu MHz         : 2192.960
cache size      : 512 KB

 

AMD Athlon 64 3.2GHz
1.5GB Ram
Radeon x800 Graphics Card
150GB Total Disk Space
Windows XP

Built it myself and serves my needs fine. A little games here and there and just fine for browsing the web as well.

 

Very nice mai. You have the Intel Quad core.

 

----Tower----
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Vid: XFX 8800GT
RAM: G.Skill 4GB DDR2 800
MB: Gigabyte P35 DS3P
HDD: 3x 320GB hdd's no raid or anything, just needed more room so kept adding more of em all Western Digital
Sound Card: Razer Barracuda™ AC-1 Gaming Audio Card
CD/DVD: Plextor dual-layer dvd burner combo
Antec 500 PC case
OS- Vista x64 bit home premium

----Input----
Headphones: 5.1 surround sound Turtle Beach Ear Force HPA2
Mouse: Logitech MX518 gaming mouse
Keyboard: G15 gaming keyboard (18 macro (G) keys)
Tablet: WACOM 6x6 drawing tablet

----Monitors----
Samsung 226BW (22" widescreen-gloss black)
Samsung 206BW (20" widescreen-gloss black)

both monitors side by side, dual monitor setup, 3360x1050 desktop resolution

 

hp pavillion is what it says.

it's a little silver laptop that i know how to turn on.

that is all.