battle of the computers

[Brian Frank 0]

My latest creation:

 

OTEP (LAN/showoff box)

-Iwill XP333-R (ALi Magik1)

-Athlon XP2000+@ 1.80GHz (2200+)

-256MB PC2700 (Samsung)

-ATi Radeon 8500LE @ 292/317 (no voltage mods as of yet)

-Hercules Fortissimo II

-Netgear FA-11 10/100 NIC

-Maxtor 40GB 7200RPM

-Samsung 52x CD-ROM

-Sparkle 300W ATX 2.03 PSU

-Heavily moddified Super Case Midtower

[felix 0]

I just ordered this as a new Domain Controller & SQL Server to control 5 remote workstations over 128k ISDN lines & 4 home dial-ins for Terminal Services:

 

Arrakis:

Dell Poweredge 1600SC

Dual PIII Xeon 2.0gHz

1024mb RAM DIMM

Dual 74gb 10k SCSI HD in RAID 1

ATI RAGE XL 8mb

Floppy Drive

Tape Backup Unit DDS 20/40gb

Dual Intel Gigabit Ethernet NICs

Top Quality 56k Modem

Redundant Power Supply

CTX 19" Monitor (Existing)

USB Keyboard/Mouse

Power Cord

Handling & Insurance

3 years Next Business Day Parts & Labour

English Documentation

 

Running Win2k Server w/10 Lic

[sapiens74 0]

You'll like that PowerEdge!

 

 

Practicing >net Server on mine.

[Jerry Atrik 0]

i wasnt aware that they made a p3 xeon @2ghz

[felix 0]

Well the invoice from Dell says:

 

POWEREDGE 1600SC, INTEL® XEON PROCESSOR 2.0GHZ/400FSB.

PROCESSOR #2, INTEL® XEON PROCESSOR 2.0GHZ/400FSB.

 

Thus I have to believe that I'm getting a Dual Xeon rig.

Next I'll have to do my MCs and my CCNA so that I get payed more for running this system.

[Brian Frank 0]

They're Xeon's. Just Xeon's. When Intel put out the Pentium 4 line of higher end CPU's (besides Itanic), they dropped the Pentium X part and just called 'em Xeon's.

[JP- 0]

Well i dumped my huge PC and got these instead here is 1 of my new things...

 

http://www.btinternet.com/~m4carbine/shuttle.jpg

 

Thats the intel 1, 1.6@2.3, 512mb, 80gb hdd, radeon 9700pro

 

but i really fancied trying amd again, so its now turned into 1 with an NF2 Chipset, an XP2100+ @ 2700+ , 512mb, 80gb hdd and a radeon 9700pro.

 

Cant say im sorry i switched at all, this amd one is without doubt 1 of the best machines i have ever owned, easily the match for any intel system ive ever owned in stability, not 1 crash so far. (and so tiny!) Havent got pics of the amd 1 but if anyone wants 1 i can always post some

[Mr.Guvernment 0]

going to be building a pretyt new rig for ym uncles.

 

he always uses intel - tiold him to try AMD for once.

 

i want to get him (and he usually gets what i recommend)

 

a dual 3000+ set up - if not, one for now.

 

waiting for ATI to pop out more 256mb cards or see what their new r350 can do.

 

 

not sure of the rest of the details yet. - likely dual 19" trinitrons, - or possibly LCD's if by the time we get to that part prices are decent.

[JMD 0]

LOL And old but goodie

 

Win 2000 pro

Pent 3 600

600 megs of ram

Asus P3BF MB

Matrox G400 32 MEG AGP Video Card

SB Sound Card

Labtec Speakers

Viewsonic Pro 19 inch monitor

Microsoft Optical 5 button Mouse

Logitech Internet keyboard

IBM Scanner

HP 952 Photo color printer

Iomega 100 meg zip drive

 

 

After I graduate I will buy a completely new system with a 24 inch Sony Monitor.

 

[felix 0]

I'm a happy camper now.

My PowerEdge finally arrived today and it's one heavy sumbitch too.

 

On another note:

Does anyone have opinions on Mark Minasi's Win2k books.

Amazon and Amazon users give them a good rating and I was thinking of buying them.

 

The ones I am looking at getting are:

Mastering Windows 2000 Server

Mastering Windows 2000 Professional

 

Combined they are $AU285.

Thus I would like to know what ppl think and if there are better books out there.

Thanks,

F

[DS3Circuit 0]

Macintosh G3 450 MHz - Mac OS 10.2.4

512 SDRAM 100Mhz

20 Gig 7200

SDSL 768/768

 

Lots of other things .... servers, workstations, one thing I like to brag about is my 18 inch flat pannel

[jdulmage 0]

My new system: Won't be finished for a while.

 

ThermalTake Xaser III 2000A Case

Vantec Stealth 520 Watt Power Supply

Asus A7N8X Deluxe Motherboard

- Nvidia SoundStorm APU onboard (best sound out there basically)

AMD Barton 3000+ CPU

Swiftech MCX472 Heatsink with YS Tech 80mm Fan

1 GB DDR 400 RAM

WD Caviar 120 GB 8 MB Cache Hard Drive

Lite-On 52x24x52 CD Writer

Lite-On 16x DVD-ROM

ATI Radeon 9500 Pro

Altec Lansing 5100 Speakers

[Mr.Guvernment 0]

i like my sig now

 

overclockiung rules!

 

any one have a 3.1 cpu yet, no! i do - and sometimes it is a 3.2!

 

with this new Abit BH7 mobo on a quick run my 3dmark2001se (not that it means anything) went up 7k to 17k from 10k maybe the o/c Ti4600 helped as well

[Brian Frank 0]

The sweetest mobo coming out is Gigabyte GA-8KNXP Ultra. PATA RAID, SATA RAID, and dual-channel Ultra 320. This is based on the i875P chipset with ICH5R (for SATA RAID). Me want....badly. Damn the car payments!

[clutch 1]

Well, if it's a cool car then it should be worth it.

[Brian Frank 0]

99 Cavalier Z24 isdefinitely cooler than my previous rides.

[EddiE314 0]

go for it, cavalier is a great car and will last for a long time if you don't run the p1ss out of it like the little "fast and the furious" kids that live near me.

[Essess 0]

Since all you boys are shaking your winnies, take a look at these old systems

 

8)

Macintosh G4 450

30GB Maxtor

60 GB Maxtor

1.5GB RAM

Mac OS 10.2.4

17" ProNitron monitor

ATY Rage 128 Pro video

Inbuilt superdrive

Jaz2GB, Optical 640MB and Zip250

Adaptec 2540 SCSI card

And I am using it to write this now

 

:x

Alternate system

SGI Zx10

2x500Mhz Intel PIII Processers

20GB and 80GB HDD

2x Adaptec 29160 Ultra 160 SCSI cards

LS Logic Ultra3 SCSI

120 GB SCSI harddisk

Win NT 4.0

Whatever you may say, a Silicon Graphics system is a Silicon Graphics system.

 

Now thats one hell of a winnie shake boys

[Mr.Guvernment 0]

shake your winkie OWE! shake your winkie OWE!

 

got my 2.4 upto 3.2 stable now!

[jmmijo 1]

Quote:

shake your winkie OWE! shake your winkie OWE!

got my 2.4 upto 3.2 stable now!

Nice, now I've got a question. Your specs list your gaming/overclocking rig with 512MB of RAM. Do you use a single stick of ram or a matched pair of Dual-Channel sticks?

I've run across more problems tweaking and overclocking when using multiple sticks of ram then a single stick

[Mr.Guvernment 0]

single stick of 512 in my pc3200 rig

 

my new rig - i just got another 2.4 has 2 x 256 pc2100

 

just got a 2.4a (400mhz) upto 3.2 on air

[jmmijo 1]

Quote:

single stick of 512 in my pc3200 rig

my new rig - i just got another 2.4 has 2 x 256 pc2100

just got a 2.4a (400mhz) upto 3.2 on air

Yeah I noticed that, nice

Myself I'm looking to get a matched pair of Dual Channel sticks for my Canterwood board. Been looking at the Corsair TwinX and the Kingston HyperX kits. Seems the Corsair sticks are better for overclocking for sure

Also, I picked up one of the Zalman Solid Copper Flower Blooms for my rig. Comes standard with a generic 92mm fan but you can easily stick on a 120mm fan as well. Forget about the speed controller, don't you want a cooler running CPU

[Mr.Guvernment 0]

 

i have heard good about the kingston - someone on hard forums got a 2.4c upto 4ghz using hyper X. (or it may have been a 3.0c but sure it was a 2.4c)

 

 

dual channel would be good - i am having issue with my p4s533 - my 9700 PRO it seems to display like checkers on the monitor in the back ground, almost the same color as the background - so may replace that mobo with a new ABIT IS7 or something as i do not have this issue with my 9700 in my other systems.

 

have not yet decided - more worried about my w/c setting up now once my rad arrives.

[pimpin_228 0]

Ah I can finally post again. I had this wierd error where ever time i tried to login it would say page could not be displayed o well lol

SO how has everyone been?

[Brian Frank 0]

Great. Haven't posted here as much. Eventually, I'll post my rigs again. Gonna do some changes within the next few weeks, so I'll hang loos til then. Watercooling is one of the plans.