battle of the computers

[JP- 0]

That XP issue sucks , and what can i say.....im an impulse buyer

[clutch 1]

New video card today, so I will update my specs...

 

[*]WinXP Pro

[*]Intel P4 1.6A@2.4GHz (16x150MHz FSB) Northwood with stock heatsink and VCore

[*]SOYO Dragon P4S Ultra (SiS 645 Chipset)

[*]1GB PC2700 (DDR333) Mushkin DDR-DRAM

[*]WD 100GB ATA-100 HD w/ 8MB Cache

[*]Samsung 5x DVD/32x CD Drive

[*]GeForce4 Ti 4600, 128MB

[*]Onboard C-Media 6-Channel Sound

[*]Onboard SiS USB 2.0 with 5.25" Drivebay I/O

[*]Onboard Highpoint UDMA/IDE RAID Controller (33/66/100/133)

[*]Radius 19" Monitor (Trinitron AG CRT)

[*]MS Natural Keyboard Pro

[*]MS Intellimouse Explorer

[*]SanDisk USB Compact Flash Reader

[*]Spacetec SpaceORB 6DOF Game Controller

[/list:u]

 

Now I am just waiting for UT 2003 and Doom3 to come out.

[theelviscerator 0]

Asus P4S533

1.6 Northwood @ 145mhz FSB for 2312mhz

Corsair XMS 2700 at 2-2-3 1T @4/5 divider

Leadtek A250 TI 4400 @ 310/670 mhz

SB Audigy MP3

Maxtor 80g 7200 Rpm ATA 133

Plextor 40x12x40

various large fans and neon lights

 

WINXP PRO Corp Gold

Office XP PRO

PSP 7.0

Norton 2002

Clone CD

EZCD PLat 5.0

list goes on....

 

best 3dmark2001se is 11530

[Brian Frank 0]

Well, I got a new toy: a digital camera. Specifically, the Sony DSC-P20, 1.3 mega pixel camera. This is very good, since I can now take pictures of stuff I'm reviewing:D

[Mr.Guvernment 0]

Quote:

Brian, are you talking about that kid who asked: "Why's my system so dope?"?, he was a fag-lamer extraorinaire (spelling?)!

i think everyone was reasdy to go postal on him!!!!, and hope some did


but anyways just check ma sig!

VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

[Brian Frank 0]

Dude, that's like a year and a half ago! 8)

 

I think he's hanging around T-Break's forums. My systems are about as dope as I can keep them. I am totally 1337:D hahahahahahahahaha!

[Mr.Guvernment 0]

^^^ love the sig m8!!

 

ahahaha

 

my recent one i decide to use to some people who say ICQ messed up my comp

 

[size:24]ICQ doesn't kill computers , Idiots kill computers.[/color]

[Brian Frank 0]

The quote is off SNL's "Nick Burns: Your Company's Computer Guy" It's hilarious to the nerds in the house, chiefly me and my dad

 

Anyway, I'll be looking at some different batteries: this new camera eats alkalines. I can use NiCAD or NiMH or Sony's expensive InfoLithium...suggestions welcom.

[Alien 1]

Time for another update:

 

Fortrex "Magic" MG-780 ATX Full Tower [a.k.a. that rather big full tower that Maplin sell under the wrong name ] [They call it a "Jupiter Full Tower"]

Macron MPT-300 PSU

Athlon XP 1900+ [1.6Ghz]

Abit KT7A-RAID v1.3

384MB RAM [3x128MB PC133]

IBM 75GXP 30GB

ATI Radeon 64MB DDR ViVo

Creative Labs Audigy [OEM, cos it's cheaper ]

Lite-On LTR 12101B [12x 10x 32x]

BTC BCD24XHM 24x CD ROM

3.5" & 5.25" floppy drives [1 of each]

Antec EzUSB

Realtek RTL8029 based NIC

MRi PCI1456 56K modem [just in case cable server dies ]

Kensiko translucent blue PS2 keyboard [the ones Staples sell]

Logitech USB Optical Wheelmouse

Motorola Surfboard 3100 cable modem

Eizo Flexscan 9400 20" monitor

 

Goodbye & good riddance to my Sonic Vortex 2. Ok, so in fairness, it's not a bad card as such - when it works, it sounds nice - but let's face it - nobody wants to have to keep rebooting their PC whilst watching a video file because the sound dies on them. If I ever get round to building a second machine running on either Linux or 98SE then I might let the SV2 take up residence there, but until then it's on the sidelines indefinitely.

[INFERNO2000 0]

Update for me too.

 

 

And, here are all of my rigs:

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/Reaper-SM.jpg

 

my main rig:

Absolute Evil 2.0

 

Chenbro Net(black) modded for more and bigger fans

 

Panaflo fans

{

4x120mm M series

1x92mm H series

2x60mm H series

}

 

Custom Built PC Power & Cooling 450W PSU

 

1x White LED

 

2x Blue LED

 

2x Red LED

 

P4 1.6a @ 2.24 w/ Alpha 8942-ThermalTake SmartFan*once AC is on, i'll take it back to 2.4

 

1gb(2x512) PC3200 Corsair DDR

 

Abit IT7

{

i845e

Firewire

4 Intel USB2.0 ports

4 Via USB2.0 ports

onboard Realtek 10/100 NIC(8139, if I recall correctly)

Highpoint 374 ATA133 RAID controller(set up as a standard IDE controller)

}

 

Gainward GeForce4 TI-4400/128

 

Leadtek TV2000XP TV-tuner/FM/Capture Card

 

Turtle Beach Santa Cruz

 

Dlink DG500T 10/100/1000 NIC

 

LiteOn

{

16x DVD

24x10x40 CDRW

40x12x48 CDRW

}

 

Toshiba 40x CDROM

 

Drives on HighPoint controller

[

Windows XP

{

Western Digital WD1000JB-SE 100gb/UDMA100

2x Maxtor D740X 80gb/UDMA133

}

 

Linux or other OS

{

Western Digital AC38400 8.4gb/UDMA33

}

]

 

4x Vantec EZ-Swap LCD UDMA133 bays.

 

4x 36" rounded UDMA133 cables

 

1x 24" rounded UDMA133 cable

 

1x 9" floppy cable(for when I need to flash a BIOS)

 

Panasonic Floppy(black)

 

Microsoft

{

Intellimouse Explorer 3.0

Natural Keyboard Pro

}

 

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AEFR.jpg

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AEFL.jpg

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AEFC.jpg

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AEF.jpg

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AE-Bays1.jpg

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AE-Swap.jpg

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AERP.jpg

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AERU.jpg

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AERIO.jpg

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AELO.jpg

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AETT.jpg

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/AELL.jpg

 

iiyama VisionMaster Pro 451 19" CRT(running 1600x1200@85hz)

 

 

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Ragnarok(still empty):

 

Chenbro Ultra (modified for more and larger fans)

 

Panaflo fans

{

4x 120mm fans(1xL, 1xM, 2xH series)

9x 92mm L-series fans

5x 80mm L-series fans

2x 60mm H-series fans

}

6x White LEDs

 

2x Blue LEDs

 

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/RFL.jpg

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/RFR.jpg

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/RB.jpg

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/RFO.jpg

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/RRC.jpg

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/RRU.jpg

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/RRO.jpg

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/RLO.jpg

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/RLOF.jpg

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/RLOR.jpg

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Oh, and my laptop too!

 

Cerberus:

Toshiba Satellite 3000-S353

 

Pentium3 900mhz(em class)

 

815 chipset motherboard

 

512mb (2x256) Centon RAM

 

16mb GeForce2 Go

 

14.1 TFT (1024x768@60)

 

AC-97 sound

 

Firewire

 

3x USB ports

 

IR port

 

onboard Realtek 8139 NIC

 

Orinoco Silver PCMCIA WLAN card

 

onboard 56k Modem

 

Toshiba 8x DVD-ROM

 

Sandisk 64mb SmartMedia card

 

IBM 20gb 4200rpm HDD

 

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/Cerb-C.jpg

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/Cerb-o.jpg

http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/053102/Cerb-R.jpg

 

 

You'll notice it lacks PS2 and Serial connectors. USB only

[Brian Frank 0]

Very nice. I can't quite bear the thought of ditching my PS/2 ports just yet, but that IT7 is very sweet in concept.

[Brian Frank 0]

Well, I think I may be building a LAN box in the future, and I kinda want to try the P4 this time around. Hopefully, I will build this system in a few months time.

 

Iwill P4D (i845-D)

P4 1.6GHz retail

256MB PC2100 Corsair value-select

ATI Radeon 8500LE 64MB

Panasonic 32x CD-ROM

Maxtor 20GB 5400RPM ATA100

Some 10/100 NIC I have lying around

ATX midtower case

300W ATX 2.03 Macron Power I have lying around

MS Intellimouse Optical

Logitech Keyboard

15" monitor (maybe 17"---I wanna keep this whole build under $700)

 

This will take my total # of PC's I own up to 4.

[Brian Frank 0]

Well, I ordered the CPU, mobo, and video card this morning. I'll buy the RAM locally ($59 for a 256MB stick of Samsung PC2700--better than online prices!) This should be fun...Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha:D

[JP- 0]

you go p4 in the end?

[Jerry Atrik 0]

i think i can win this one

 

supermicro p4cd6+

p4 xeon 2.2ghz (times 2)

1gig rdram

adaptec scsi raid array on 2 cheeta x15's

sb aud platinum

leadtek geforce4 ti4400

scsi burner

scsi dvd

scsi cdrom

all on a 21" sony trinitron

 

btw yea i remember that guy "why is my system so dope"

kinda goofy

[Brian Frank 0]

Quote:

you go p4 in the end?

Yeah. I figured this would be nice to play with as I already know the AMD side of things. I needed to keep up with the desktop portion of Intel. I've heard a lot of good things about Iwill--which is good considering they're trying to make headway in the dual-processor/server board end of things.

[dje007 0]

1) A7M266-D with 2 2000MP 4Gb Ram , 2 80Gb drives & dvd+rw drive

2) A7M266-D with 2 2000MP 2Gb Ram , 1 80Gb Drive & dvd-rom

3) A7M266-D with 2 2000MP 2Gb Ram , 1 80Gb Drive & dvd-rom

 

Runing linux redhat 7.3 with mosix clustering to bind them to a cluster

1) is master with 2&3 slaves

 

O and one A7M266-D with 2 1800MP 1Gb Ram , 80Gb Drives & dvd-rom (for winxp)

[Marktait 0]

Update on my comps

 

Added 2 case fans to my 1800 and a 80GB IBM 7200RPM HDD Also

 

PC 1

---------------

400Watt Virgo Case + 2 Case Fans

AMD Athlon XP 1800+

Gigabyte GA-7DXR+ w/USB2

512MB DDR 2100RAM w/Thermaltake DDR Cooler

GeForce3 Ti200 64MB

80GB IBM 7200RPM HDD

60GB IBM 7200RPM HDD

16x LG DVDDrive

16x LiteOn CDReWriter

10/100 Genius NIC

WinTV Primio FM

Creative Soundblaster Live! 1024

4.1 Cambridge Soundworks Speakers

17" NEC Multisync A700 Monitor

 

PC 2

---------------

300Watt Midi Case + Exhaust

AMD Duron 1.2Ghz

Gigabyte GA-71XE4

512MB Hyundai PC133 RAM

GeForce2 MX200 64MB

60GB IBM 7200RPM HDD

40GB Seagate 5400RPM HDD

16x LG DVDDrive

24x Samsung CDReWriter

(2) 10/100 Genius NIC

(1) 10/100 Netgear NIC (for cable)

Creative Soundblaster PCI 128

300Watt 2.1 Logic Speakers

17" AOC LCD Monitor

[clutch 1]

Quote:

1) A7M266-D with 2 2000MP 4Gb Ram , 2 80Gb drives & dvd+rw drive
2) A7M266-D with 2 2000MP 2Gb Ram , 1 80Gb Drive & dvd-rom
3) A7M266-D with 2 2000MP 2Gb Ram , 1 80Gb Drive & dvd-rom

Runing linux redhat 7.3 with mosix clustering to bind them to a cluster
1) is master with 2&3 slaves

O and one A7M266-D with 2 1800MP 1Gb Ram , 80Gb Drives & dvd-rom (for winxp)

What do you run on this cluster, some DB app?

[CyberGenX 0]

OK let's play who can make up the best system, as some are already.

[CyberGenX 0]

Fun TiMe!!!

 

2X86 Intel Processor @ 25MHz

1MB RAM 30 pin

256K RAM Video Card VESA

30MB IDE Hard disk

2X CDROM

5" Floppy

DOS 3.0

12" Monitor

900Bps modem

[Brian Frank 0]

Alright, my new system, final specs:

 

--TRANSMATiC--

Iwill P4D

Pentium 4 1.6A (no OC yet)

256MB PC2700 Samsung

Radeon 8500LE

Realtek 8029 10/100 NIC

Maxtor 20GB 5400RPM ATA100

Panasonic 32x CD-ROM

Antec 350W ATX 2.03 PSU

mid tower case

 

I may have to dual with the other 1.6A owners here. This is the first Intel chipset based board I've used since Intel's own SE-440BX and a PII 400...whoa!</keanu reeves>

[DosFreak 2]

Updated my 'puter:

 

(Note, In the past 4 months I've only had time with my once lovely computer for 1 month total. In my brief visit back I upgraded some parts before I left...again)

 

Monitor =Sony E500 21"

Speakers =Creative Soundworks DTT3500 Digital

Mouse =Microsoft Intellimouse Optical SE (PS2)

Joystick =Microsoft Precision Pro (USB)

Gamepad =Logitech Wingman Rumplepad (USB)

Keyboard =Generic 104k Keyboard (PS2)

Case =Coolermaster ATCS-110 w/Enermax EG651P 550W PSU

Motherboard=Abit KX7-333R Bios 9K

Processor =AMD Athlon XP 2000 @1666mhz 133X12.5

Cooling =Alpha PAL8045

Memory =Corsair 512MB C3000 DDR CAS2 (2 DIMMS=1GB)

Video =Leadtek WinFast A250 Ultra (GF4 Ti4600 128mb DDR) C=300Mhz M=650Mhz

Floppy =3.5"

 

MOBO CONTROLLER DMA/100

PMIDE1/Pioneer 16X Slot DVD-106S DMA/66 1.22 Bios

PSIDE1/Plextor 16X CDR

SMIDE2/LiteOn 40x12x48x CDRW

SSIDE2/IBM 120GXP 123.5GB DMA/100

 

HPT372 CONTROLLER DMA/133 Bios v2.31

PMIDE3/Maxtor L080J4 80GB DMA/133 (OS)

SSIDE3/Maxtor L080J4 80GB DMA/133 (GAMES)

SMIDE4/IBM 60GXP 61.5GB DMA/100 (BACKUP2)

SSIDE4/IBM 60GXP 61.5GB DMA/100 (BACKUP1)

 

PCI SLOTS

PCI1/EMPTY

PCI2/Soundblaster Audigy Ex

PCI3/EMPTY

PCI4/NetGear FA310TX NIC

PCI5/EMPTY

PCI6/Hauppauge WINTV Theatre

 

Windows 98SE/NT4 Workstation/2000 Server slipstreamed SP2/XP Pro (2000 Main OS)

Nvidia 29.42 Reference Drivers

DirectX 8.1 Build 881 /Windows 2000

Directx 8.1 Build 810 /Windows XP

Via 4.39 4-in-1 beta 2

 

 

Benchmarks taken under Windows 2000 Server

 

 

Quake 3 v1.31

2048X1536=90.5

1600x1200=131.7

1280X1024=164.2

1024X768 =181.8

800x600 =183.5

640X480 =184.4

320X240 =205.0 (lowest video quality settings)

 

 

XP Bench v1.03

1280x1024x16

Layered Window Tests:

Black as transparent: 116.29

47% visibility: 98.241

50% visibility: 98.157

100& visibility: 118.21

Overall Layered Windows Score: 430

Overall Benchmark Score: 430

 

SiSoft Sandra 2002 Pro

CPU Arithmetic Benchmark

Dhrystone ALU: 4572MIPS

Whetstone FPU: 2310MFLOPS

 

CPU Multi-Media Benchmark

Integer aEMMX/aSSE: 9058it/s

Floating-Point aSSE: 10597it/s

 

Memory Bandwidth Benchmark

RAM Bandwidth Int Buffered aEMMX/aSSE:2043MB/s

RAM Bandwidth Float Buffered aEMMX/aS:1964MB/s

 

 

PCMARK 2002

CPU Score 5031

Memory Score 3404

HDD Score 462

 

N-Bench

N-Bench Score 9358 Marks

FPS Average 292.46 FPS

 

N-Bench 2

N-Bench Score 2255 Marks

FPS Average 50.65 FPS

 

Evolva v1.2 Build 944

NORMAL

Average FPS: 187.6

Min FPS: 65

Max FPS: 364

 

DOTBUMP

Average FPS: 109.9

Min FPS: 48

Max FPS: 199

 

Cinebench 2000 V1.0 Performance

****************************************************

 

Tester : <fill this out>

 

Processor : <fill this out>

Number of CPUs : 1

Physical Memory : <fill this out>

Operating System : <fill this out>

 

Graphic Card : <fill this out>

Resolution : <fill this out>

Color Depth : <fill this out>

 

****************************************************

 

Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 17.66 CB

Shading (OpenGL) : 30.93 CB

Raytracing (Single CPU): 22.98 CB

Raytracing (Multiple CPU): --- CB

 

OpenGL Shading is 1.75 times faster than CINEMA 4D Shading!

 

****************************************************

 

 

Codecreatures Benchmark Pro

(version 1.0.0)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Official Score: 2085

 

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DETAILS:

 

average number of frames per second

1600x1200 -> 19.1

1280x1024 -> 21.0

1024x768 -> 22.6

 

max. number of frames per second

1600x1200 -> 27

1280x1024 -> 30

1024x768 -> 37

 

average number of polys per second

1600x1200 -> 6.6 mio.

1280x1024 -> 7.1 mio.

1024x768 -> 7.7 mio.

 

max. number of polys per second

1600x1200 -> 10.3 mio.

1280x1024 -> 10.4 mio.

1024x768 -> 10.9 mio.

 

total amount of frames

1600x1200 -> 2501

1280x1024 -> 2762

1024x768 -> 2969

 

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3DMARK2001 SE

3DMark Score 10979

 

3DMARK 2000 v1.1

3DMark Result: 13205

 

Ars Technica CPU Benchmark [Ver: 1.6] Clock Precision: < 1 us

 

1: 470% [FP ] 1.12s NTSC YIQ -> PAL RGB

2: 215% [FP ] 1.11s NTSC YIQ -> PAL RGB (Double)

3: 376% [FP ] 1.96s FP Divide

4: 85% [MEM] 2.36s Fast Fourier Transform 64k

5: 316% [FP ] 0.47s Fast Fourier Transform 16k

6: 331% [iNT] 1.77s LZ77 (Lempel-Ziv) Data Compression

7: 380% [iNT] 0.47s LZ77 (Lempel-Ziv) Data Decompression

8: 395% [iNT] 0.87s RGB to CMYK with Color Correction

9: 344% [iNT] 0.91s Blowfish Block Cipher Encryption (448 bit key)

10: 213% [iNT] 1.25s File Allocation Table Manipulation

11: 365% [iNT] 0.84s Encode G.723-40 Audio 100k

12: 268% [iNT] 0.89s Complex Bitfield Operations

13: 167% [FP ] 1.66s Spherical Harmonics Legendre Polynomial

14: 318% [iNT] 1.86s Dhrystone 2.1 (500k Iterations)

15: 374% [FP ] 0.78s Whetstone 1.2 (1000k Operations)

16: 235% [MEM] 1.20s LinPack (500x500)

17: 314% [iNT] 4.80s TSCP 1.71 (Chess Benchmark)

18: 177% [MEM] 5.82s Sieve of Eratosthenes (Prime Generator)

19: 214% [iNT] 2.59s Towers of Hanoi

20: 361% [iNT] 0.89s Queens Puzzle Solver

 

 

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FINAL SCORE: INT: 318 FP: 319 CACHE: 166 SIMD: 0

PEAK SCORE: INT: 320 FP: 322 CACHE: 170 SIMD: 0

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[Mr.Guvernment 0]

See below:

[Brian Frank 0]

Got my chip up to 2.32GHz with 1.6volts and stock cooling (didn't even slop on some better thermal goop) and my Radeon LE up to 290/317 ATM. Who's on?