battle of the computers

[Alien 1]

I figured I might as well post my system's specs - might make some of you lot feel a bit better about your own PCs.

 

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

K6-2/500

TMC TI5VGA mobo [w/ 2MB cache]

320MB RAM

IBM 75GXP 30GB

ATI Radeon 64MB DDR ViVo

Sonic Vortex 2

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 ]

Motorola Surfboard 3100 cable modem

Eizo Flexscan 9400 20" monitor

[pmistry 0]

my crappy PC is as follows:

 

Asus K7V VIA KX133 chipset BIOS 1008-D Beta

AMD Athlon 750 SLOT A

512 MB PC133 RAM

Panasonic S70 Monitor

Hercules 3D Prophet II MX

LG 52X CD-ROM

Mitsumi 4x/4x/24x Burner

Maxtor 20 GB 7200 RPM ATA100 Hard Disk

a couple of floppy drives

Altec Lansing ACS54 Speaker set

SB Live Player 1024

Lucent 56k Modem

Linksys USB 10/100 Adapter

Belkin PCI 10/100 Adapter

Logitech Wingman USB Gamepad

A crappy 5 dollar PS/2 mouse

and an ancient 101 AT Keyboard

[Brian Frank 0]

Well, the Epox is in. Had to up the memory voltage before WinXP would stop giving me a MEMORY_MANAGEMENT BSOD. I also found out the HTP372 controller doesn't like my rounded cables...

[JP- 0]

Well i got a 1.8a p4, very nice, 2.4gig an climbing, quite impressive.

[Brian Frank 0]

Yeah, the Northwood is a nice overclocker. I know some dude that's trying to hit 2.6 with his 1.6A, and he might do it too with his H2O setup.

[JP- 0]

Also, managed to grab some new drivers for my 8500, just given me 500 more 3dmarks which was nice 10,000 is in reach, ill be well impressed if i can manage that.

[Brian Frank 0]

I found out something: shims suck! I had one on my T-bird and it was preventing me from using anything but the default multiplier. That sucked!

[Four and Twenty 0]

yea shims allways seemed kinda sketchy to me

[JP- 0]

Maybe you should try a non conductive 1

[Rashman 0]

Taken me a while to get a pc im happy with!.....

 

Windows XP Professional

AMD Athlon 1333mhz on 266 FSB

MSI K7T Turbo Limited Edition Motherboard

768 Kingston PC133mhz Ram

40 Gig Western Digital 7200 rpm ATA 100 Hard Drive

Soundblaster Live 5.1 Platinum Soundcard

Sony 12x CDRW\DDRW Writer

Ricoh Combi DVD/CDRW Writer

MSI Gerforce 4 MX440T Graphics

Voodoo TV/FM Tv Tuner Card Nicam Stereo

HP Scanjet 6200c

HP Laserjet 5

Creative Webcam go

Samsung digimax 800k Camera

Cambridge soundworks DTT 2200 5.1 Speaker system

Sony Graphic equalizer

Cordless Headphones

Cordless Black & Silver Trust rechargable mouse

BTC Black and silver keyboard

Optiquest V115 22" (20" Viewable) Monitor Customized in Silver with Black buttons

Logitech cordless Gamepad

Sony Minidisc player hooked up to optical leads on live drive

4 port usb hub

ir receiver so i can control pc with a remote control

Silver server tower case with black buttons

hayes v92 modem pci

on board usb network

Im chuffed!!!!

[BBA 0]

Does a dual 2.2GHs Prestonia with 1G PC800 count? Only 6 18G Cheetah's RAID5w/128MB cache controller? With a GF4?

[Brian Frank 0]

I don't have a huge heatsink anyway, so the shim is kinda pointless and I haven't killed a core yet.

[pimpin_228 0]

Well i am working on my lan box heh

 

Dfi ak-75ec mobo

voodoo 3 2000 16 meg pci

maxtor 8 gig

stick of 256 pc133

 

 

and i was looking on pricewatch and i can get 1.3 duron for 64 WOW

that is a must so i might be investing in that and a new case

[Brian Frank 0]

Criminy! My 8K3A+ died, and I'm sending back for a full refund from Newegg. On the upside, I got an Abit NV7-133R to replace it. This mutha is loaded, and could probably change my stance on Abit. So far (and it hasn't been long) it's given me no problems. On a side note, this is the first non-Via chipset motherboard I've used in one of my personal machines for at least 2 years (440BX last non-Via one for me).

[theelviscerator 0]

Just built

1.6a @2240mhz

[pimpin_228 0]

well i learned that my cpu can run 172 f and not die, cause i had to turn my fans off a minute and forgot to turn them back on and when i got back my comp was crashed and restarted and it wouldn't boot into windows so i reset itand i pauseed on the temp thing and my cpu was 172 so i remembered to turn my fans back

[Alien 1]

My updated specs:

 

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

Sonic Vortex 2

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

[Linuxboy00 0]

Here is mine.. Nothing special.

[Alien 1]

Hey LinuxBoy - what temp does your CPU stay @ when idle?

[Linuxboy00 0]

At idle - 28C

Full Hard @ss Load - 40C

I maxed the cpu out at 100% for 5 hours, and the temp

never went over 40C

[Linuxboy00 0]

Of course that depends on if my AC is running or not. :-)

I've seen it idle at 26C

and be at full load running at 35C

Just depends on ambient room temp for me.

Mine is not overclocked. Standard CPU

[sapiens74 0]

ONly an Athlon would need a Delta fan.

 

 

No thanks,I hear enough helicopters in the morning, here.

[Linuxboy00 0]

The only reason I have one is because that's what came with my HS.

I've been looking at quiter ones, that produce the same amount of air flow. Any suggestions?

[sapiens74 0]

I had the swiftech heatsink with a delts fan, and I changed to a CAK 38 with a smaller fan, tho it was 5k rpm, was a bit quieter thok, and used a lot less room.

[Brian Frank 0]

Well, it's time to repost one of my systems.

 

Scorpio

-Abit NV7-133R

-Athlon T-Bird 1.4GHz @ stock

-512MB PC2100 DDR

-Gainward GeForce 3 @ 250/571

-Maxtor 20GB ATA100 7200RPM

-Maxtor 40GB ATA100 5400RPM

-Toshiba 12x DVD

-Samsung 48x CD

-Mitsumi floppy drive

-2 port Lucent IEEE1394 PCI card

-Sparkle 350 W PSU

-Vantec CCK-6027D HSF

-Super Case full tower

 

I cannot believe how many PCI slots I'm not using. Currently, I only have a firewire card for this thing. I'm probably not going to do much, if any, overclocking, especially since the options on this board are quite anemic at best. I'm not going very far with a max Vcore of 1.8 volts--and yes, this is an Abit board. On the upside, the integrated stuff rocks! USB 2.0, HighPoint ATA133 RAID, 5.1 ch sound, integrated LAN. I'm liking the NForce, which IMO, is possibly the best integrated chipset yet.