norm_au 0 Posted November 29, 2004 I feel a little intimidated here with all you big guns running around,but here you go some thing to have a chuckle over.put it together myself with bits and peices,be well,peace and joy to you all. Intel D815EEA Board Pentium III . CPU 800EB. 256 SD ram. 32 meg tnt 2 vid card . 20 gig Seagate HDD . 8 gig Quantum Fireball secondry HDD . Lite-on LTR 52x32x52x Burner microsoft key board USB laser mouse 1.44 floppy [upgrading soon] Share this post Link to post
veegee 0 Posted November 29, 2004 HELP!!! my gforce mx 4000 card won't play the medal of honor pacific assault game. computer shop said i have to change to an FX video card 128 mb 128 bit. is this the only solution? i play all the medal of honor games and the latest one is the only one that won't run please email me at veegee1@edsamail.com.ph thanks Share this post Link to post
norm_au 0 Posted December 4, 2004 ok upgrade is here,a lil better than the other one,i picked this board and cpu up for 120 bucks. Gigabyte Pentium III . CPU 1B GIG. 320 meg SD ram. creative sound card 32 meg tnt 2 vid card . 20 gig Seagate HDD . 8 gig Quantum Fireball secondry HDD . Lite-on LTR 52x32x52x Burner 52x Sony rom 1.44 floppy Multy Media FMK-3068 USB Keyboard USB laser mouse Share this post Link to post
ScinteX 0 Posted January 16, 2005 Hi Norm- l like your posts! Just remember, if your PC is a bit slower than the rest, its ok since it just means that the crashes will have longer between them and that the junk that Windows seems to generate all by itself will take longer too! It's all about the taking part not the size of the wallet- and we are all jolly chappies so no need to feel intimidated. Theres as much value in picking up bargains and slowly crafting your machine as there is making all of the right (very expensive) hardware purchases all in one go. A slight elabouration on my sig: MB is a Lanparty Infinity 875P P4 2.8 oc'd to 3.6 512 Mb Corsair XMS4000 RAM ATI 9800XT Zalman graphics cooler + optional 80mm fan Coolermaster Jet7 CPU cooler Antec truepower PSU 2 samsung cd drives (DVDROM/CDRW) 2 x WD Raptors (36Gb ea.) Lots of UV reactive leads 3 x cold cathodes 3 x UV led clusters 6 x Antec 80mm fans Logitech MX510 optical mouse Zboard keyboard CTX TFT panel Thermaltake fan/temp controller That is my ickle box there in that photo Share this post Link to post
Wicked101 0 Posted February 25, 2005 Hi all, The box on the left is my main PC running XP Pro, the box on the right is my little Linux Suse PC:) XP PC: P4 3.2Gig Prescott Asus P4C800-E Deluxe mobo 1024MB RAM 256MB GeForce FX5900 Graphics card 160Gig S-ATA HDD Watercooling RAM Freezer HDD Heat Terminator 3 x 90mm CoolerMate (metal) fans 1 x 120mm CoolerMate (metal) fan Linux PC: AMD Athlon 900 256 MB RAM Riva TNT Graphics (hee hee) 40Gig, 8MB HDD At least it works:) Share this post Link to post
Wicked101 0 Posted February 25, 2005 I'm busy setting up a new PC for someone, a really cheap one for 578 Euro. Intel P4 2.4Gig ASUS P4PE2-X mobo 512MB RAM ATI 128MB Graphics card 120Gig IDE HDD 1.44 Stiffy Benq Internet Keyboard Logitec Mouse DVD ROM real cheap case incl. 400W Power Supply (with int./ext??? speaker) HP Deskjet 3745 Printer hehe, here's the pics of this int. speaker, I cracked myself laffing when I saw this. Share this post Link to post
Wilhelmus 1 Posted February 25, 2005 System "Capricorn" CPU: Intel Pentium IIIE, 800 MHz (6 x 133). Motherboard: MSI 815EP Pro(-R) (MS-6337 v3.0) (6 PCI, 1 AGP, 1 CNR, 4 DIMM, Audio). Front Side Bus: Intel GTL+,64bit, 133MHz,1067MB/s. NorthB: Intel Solano i815EP. SouthB: Intel 82801BA ICH2. Memory: 512 MB (SDRAM). GPU: nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200, AGP, 64MB, DirectX 9. SND1: Creative SB PCI128 (Ensoniq ES5880) Sound Card. SND2: Intel 82801BA(M) ICH2 - AC'97 Audio Controller [b-1]. HD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7, ST3120022A, 120 GB(111 GB), Ultra-ATA/100. CDRW: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8480B, 48x/16x/48x. DVD: HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B, 16x/52x. NIC: Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC. Modem: Rockwell/Conexant SoftK56 Voice/Data/Fax/SpeakerPhone Modem. KeyB: Standard 101/102 keyboard. Mouse: PS/2 compatible mouse. Partition(0): Windows 2000 Pro, SP 4. (Tweaked alá Wilhelmus) Partition(1): Windows XP Pro, SP 2. (Tweaked alá Wilhelmus) Partition(2): Downloads, "my documents", games, etc. --- Ok... not a "gun", but enough for me. Runs Half-Life 2, CSS with medium settings, without too much thinking, fps ~25. Share this post Link to post
MegaManExtreme2005 0 Posted April 8, 2005 you all seem to have rubbish specs for todays games: anyway my specs are: AMD Athlon XP 2600+ 512MB ram (128MB in use by the onboard NForce 2 graphics) 2 hard drives: 1x120GB 1x200GB Win 2000 Pro(build 2195) Logitech cordless pilot optical mouse Microsoft keyboard DVD-Rom drive 3.5in floppy drive Share this post Link to post
CyberGenX 0 Posted April 9, 2005 Cray XT3 5TB of Disk space 4GB RAM 4X 2.4GHz Opteron64 256MB ATI Fire GL V7x 20.2" Widescreen Sony Flat and a butt load of BS, LOL... Share this post Link to post
tsonta101 0 Posted April 9, 2005 Recenly got some Geil PC4200 memory, been able to run at 274MHz FSB, that is 3.84GHz for my poor 2.8 Northwood P4. Since it's been stock aircooled, I am planning on getting some decent cooling for it and the northbridge. Hell, this is an endless race of cash being thrown at my box...... Share this post Link to post
Wicked101 0 Posted April 16, 2005 Originally posted by tsonta101: Quote: Recenly got some Geil PC4200 memory, been able to run at 274MHz FSB, that is 3.84GHz for my poor 2.8 Northwood P4. Since it's been stock aircooled, I am planning on getting some decent cooling for it and the northbridge. Hell, this is an endless race of cash being thrown at my box...... Hey tsonta, are you from Germany? Yeah, Geil is a pretty good brand of RAM, its rather new and its a German brand. Its also not too expensive either. Share this post Link to post
tsonta101 0 Posted April 16, 2005 @Wicked101 i'm Greek and I am fluent in German, so I know what Geil means, hehe. The ram is running perfectly fine, I was using some generic Samsung PC3200 memory which was hitting a wall at 244MHZ FSB onwards. With this Geil memory it runs at 274MHz, this is quite an unexpected improvement.... Share this post Link to post
Wicked101 0 Posted April 23, 2005 Hi Tsonta, Hehe, yeah, I wonder why they called it Geil :-) Well, anyway, it looks like that RAM is doing what its good at, how does that make you feel? LOL Share this post Link to post
Dark_Sword 0 Posted April 24, 2005 Rig1: Windows XP prof AMD XP 3200+ Radeon 9800 pro (both watercooled (2x120mm Blackice Pro Radi)) Asus a7n8x 2x 512MB Corsair PC3200 LL (2-3-2-11) 2x 160GB Seagate RAID0 with Promise TX2000 (stripe 16k) Audigy2 ZS + Creative T5400 5.1 Logitech MX 510 Cherry Keyboard (black/yellow) Netgear Router RP614v2 MS Tech LC401 Case Plextor 716a Mitsumi CR 485F TE Rig2: Suse 9.2 AMD Thunderbird 1400+ Geforce 2 MX 400 ECS K7s5a 256MB Infineon PC2700 40GB Quantum DVD Aopen Pro Typhoon optical Mouse Same Keyboard and same Monitor for both Rigs via KVM D-Link Share this post Link to post
SoulNothing 0 Posted April 25, 2005 Rig 1 (primary) MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum Amd64 3000+ 512MB Memory (Corsair XMS) Nvidia Geforce 6660GT 128MB(evga) Creative Audigy 2 ZS platinum+(cheap)Altec Lansing 4.1 speakers 160 GB Seagate IDE Hard Drive 160 GB Western Digital Sata Drive 2 5 port USB cards 2 CD rws at 52x, one is cdrw/dvd Fan Control and tempature monitor OSes: Gentoo(Stage1), Debian, Ubuntu, Win2kPro(for gaming),FreeBSD, slackware Rig 2 (testing box) Creative I440BX PIII stock at 650 overclocked to 850MHZ 4x 128MB Sdram sticks Nvidia Geforce 2(Mx) 32 MB 15GB hard drive Dlink ethernet card Creative DVD drive 48x CDrw OSes: Gentoo(Stage 2), Debian(sarge), and Slackware Share this post Link to post
Wicked101 0 Posted April 25, 2005 Originally posted by Wicked101: Quote: XP PC: P4 3.2Gig Prescott Asus P4C800-E Deluxe mobo 1024MB RAM 256MB GeForce FX5900 Graphics card 160Gig S-ATA HDD Watercooling RAM Freezer HDD Heat Terminator 3 x 90mm CoolerMate (metal) fans 1 x 120mm CoolerMate (metal) fan Linux PC: AMD Athlon 900 256 MB RAM Riva TNT Graphics (hee hee) 40Gig, 8MB HDD At least it works:) I just added another 160Gig S-ATA HDD to my XP box and changed the TNT card with a GeForce FX 5700 128MB card on my Linux box :-) Share this post Link to post
Shadow64Bt 0 Posted July 17, 2005 Well, I made my upgrade about 2 months ago now, went from my Athlon XP 2600+ to this: Athlon 64 3000+ @1.8GHz Asus A8V Deluxe 2x512Mb PC3200 Corsair ValueSelect D-C Kit ATI Radeon 9600XT (Picking up my ATI Radeon X850 XT 256Mb on Monday ) 2x 80Gb E-IDE ATA 133 Hds (Western Dig & Maxtor, both w/ 8Mb Cache) LG HL-DT-ST SuperMulti DVD-RAM/RW/R ALC850 Onboard Audio (frickin' sweet, it actually beats my older Audigy in quality) Thermaltake Silent PurePower 480W PSU Serves me well so far, been ironing out little problems here and there, cost me a bundle in work too, but it was worth it. Share this post Link to post
zenarcher 0 Posted July 17, 2005 MSI KT6V Motherboard AMD XP3000+ Processor 1 Gig PC2700 RAM Nvidia FX5200-128 Video Card Aspire X-Super Alien 500W Power Supply ECS 6 in 1 Card Reader Nu Technology 8X DVD+R 4X DVD+RW DVD Burner 2- Western Digital SATA 80G, 7200 RPM Hard Drives(Soon to be SATA RAID0 Configuration) Artec Diablo 52X24X52X CD Burner Digital Doc 5 Temperature and Fan Controller Raidmax Scorpio Full Tower Case with Clear Window Mandriva 2005LE PowerPack (Soon to try SUSE 9.3) I have two virtually identical boxes (one for me and one for my wife) and a clunky antique HP box for her Windows games on my network, using a Linksys BEFW1154 Router(Which also connects my VoIP telephone) to a Broadband Cable connection. Share this post Link to post
zenarcher 0 Posted July 17, 2005 MSI KT6V Motherboard AMD XP3000+ Processor 1Gig PC2700 RAM 2- Western Digital 80G 7200 RPM Hard Drives (Soon to be SATA RAID0) Nvidia FX5200-128 Video Card Digital Doc 5 Temperature and Fan Controller Artec 52X24X52X CD Burner ECS 6 in 1 Card Reader Raidmax Scorpio Full Tower Case with Side Window Aspire 500W Power Supply NU Technology 8X4X DVD+RW DVD Burner 17" Solaris LCD Flat Display IBM Webcam Mandriva Linux 2005LE PowerPack(Soon to try SUSE 9.3) Linksys BEFW1154 Router(Connects two of the idential boxes..one for me and one for my wife), as well as an old HP box running Windows for my wife's games and my VoIP telephone system to a Broadband cable connection) Sorry about the double post! I did this too early in the morning! Share this post Link to post
FredL2 0 Posted July 17, 2005 My box (Pudding): Model: Noname/homebuilt OS: Custom Slackware Linux 9.1 (replaced bootscripts and services) AMD K6-2 350MHz 64 MB SDRAM 3+80 GB HD Noname PCI IDE Controller NVidia GeForce GTS 2/Pro (64MB) Creative SB16 soundcard Laptop 1 (Chimera): Model: Toshiba Satellite 120 OS: Slackware Linux 9.1 Intel Pentium 120 MHz 32 MB EDORAM 1.3 GB HD 12" Dualscan LCD monitor Chips and Technologies graphics card Laptop 2 (alpha) Model: HP/Compaq nc6000 OS: Slackware Linux 9.1 Intel Pentium M 1500 MHZ 512 MB RAM (unknown type) 30 GB HD 14" TFT LCD monitor ATI Radeon 9600 Graphics card Share this post Link to post
wizard8873 8 Posted July 18, 2005 Gigabyte GA-7n400 pro2 mobo AMD Athlon XP 2500+ @ 2.2GHz 512 (2X256MB) PDP Sytems PC3200 Dual Channel RAM 2 120GB SATA drives at RAID 0 Sony 16x Dual Layer DVD Burner TDK 52x cd burner Geforce 6600GT AGP @ 520/1170 Windows 2000 Professional SP4 its not the best system but still one hell of a gaming system. Share this post Link to post
KleShreen 0 Posted August 7, 2005 my brand new laptop, just bought today... HP Pavilion zd8000 BTO Notebook PC - 17.0" WXGA+ BrightView Wide Viewing (1400x900) - 54g Integ. Broadcom 802.11 b/g WLAN & Bluetooth - 1.0GB DDR2 SDRAM, 533 MHZ (2x512MB) - Intel® Pentium® 4 520 w/HT Technology, 2.8GHz - 80 GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive - LightScribe 8x DVD+/-RW&CD-RW Combo w/Double Layer - Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition - 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon X600 Share this post Link to post
jdulmage 0 Posted August 28, 2005 Has this exceeded my "I don't mean to piss everyone off..." post from back in 2000? LOL. Share this post Link to post
Harpocrates 0 Posted August 28, 2005 Well I just registered to this forum so i guess ill post my specs too : Main Pc: Windows Xp Pro SP2 dual boot with Suse 9.2 Athlon 64 3500+ socket 939 1024 Mb Geil DDR 400 dual channel Pioneer DVD/RW 108 16x Thermaltake Xaser Case silver w/window Thermaltake butterfly PSU 480w Abit AV8 Guru mobo Ati X800 256MB Maxtor pci Hdd controller (supports 2 sata and 2 ide Hdd's) Main Hdd: WD Raptor 74GB Sata 10000rpm Secondary Hdd's: 2x300Gb Sata Maxtor, 1x300 GB Ide Maxtor, 2x250 GB Ide Western Digital Usb Hdd: 300 Gb Ide Maxtor in Samcheer aluminium case Accesories: Gtech 19in1 usb card reader Logitech Cordless Desktop LX700 Netgear wireless usb adaptor Wg121 Belkin BLuetooth adaptor Epson Cx3200 Printer 17" Iiyama crt monitor Been trying to get familiar with linux but cant get the usb wireless adaptor working(newbie) so i havent been booting a lot into linux. When I have a net connection in linux boot ill try to slowly learn all i need to migrate completely...will be a long time! Hope ill manage...thanx for listening...and hi to tsonta my sumpatriwti!!Zitw o gousgounis! Share this post Link to post