Seems like a lot of tech savvy people visit here so what is your main rig?

Mine is:

Monitor VX1120 22" (20" Viewable) Monitor .25mm aperture grill Diamondtron Natural Flat 1600 x 1200

processor Intel® Pentium® 4 processor 2.80GHz with Hyper-Threading Technology

memory 512MB DDR SDRAM

hard drive 160GB 7200 rpm Ultra DMA hard drive

multimedia drive DVD+RW/CD-RW Combo drive; 16x DVD-ROM drive

communications 10/100Base-T networking interface; ITU V.90 K56flex modem, data/fax only; IEEE 1394; USB 2.0; 6-in-1 media card reader; Personal Video Recorder (PVR) functionality

video NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX 5200 AGP 8X graphics card with 128MB DDR video memory and TV and DVI capabilities

sound Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 THX® certified 200 watt speakers,5.1 integrated stereo sound system

Plus 3 minor systems:
AMD 1000, PIII 400, and Persario 1270 Laptop

*sigh*

When you ask me that kind of question I just show my true nature. My main rig is this:

Sony 21" and Viewsonic 19" monitors (both do 1600x1200 at 75 Khz or above)
Intel PERLC MB that includes USB2, IEEE1394, 1Gb LAN using CSA (no CPU usage for networking), 5.1 audio with SPDIF output and RAIDed SATA controllers
Intel 3Ghz 800Mhz FSB CPU with HT
2GB PC3200 DDR RAM
Ati Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
Adaptec 39160 Dual channel SCSI controller
Sound Blaster Live

Storage is provided by:
1 9GB SCSI
1 36GB SCSI
1 45GB IDE
3 80GB IDE
and one 180GB in a external USB2/IEEE1394 case.
Also have a 48X Lite-On CD-RW and a 4X DVD-RW

I also have another 3 computers at home I use as well as a rig I took to my Fiance's since her 600Mhz celeron was killing me. Thats my Lanparty rig so it isnt as high end. 2.4Ghz P4 with 512MB, Ti4600 128MB and a 45GB drive, but it's all in one of those tiny cases. Got the case form Alienware since I know most of the guys there.

Wow, you guys make my machine look ancient! Anway, here is mine:

Monitor: 19" Sony Trinitron Flat-Screen
Processor: Intel P1V 1.8 GHz, overclocked to 2.4 GHz
Motherboard: MSI 845G With Integrated Audio, Video, USB, NIC
Memory: 512 MB PC2700 DDR RAM
CD: Plextor CDRW Burner
Hard Drive: 120GB Western Digital SE, 7200rpm
Modem: US Robotics 56k Gaming Modem
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy 1
Video Card: ATI Radeon 9700Pro 128MB

Originally posted by Genom
*sigh*

When you ask me that kind of question I just show my true nature. My main rig is this:

Sony 21" and Viewsonic 19" monitors (both do 1600x1200 at 75 Khz or above)
Intel PERLC MB that includes USB2, IEEE1394, 1Gb LAN using CSA (no CPU usage for networking), 5.1 audio with SPDIF output and RAIDed SATA controllers
Intel 3Ghz 800Mhz FSB CPU with HT
2GB PC3200 DDR RAM
Ati Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
Adaptec 39160 Dual channel SCSI controller
Sound Blaster Live

Storage is provided by:
1 9GB SCSI
1 36GB SCSI
1 45GB IDE
3 80GB IDE
and one 180GB in a external USB2/IEEE1394 case.
Also have a 48X Lite-On CD-RW and a 4X DVD-RW

I also have another 3 computers at home I use as well as a rig I took to my Fiance's since her 600Mhz celeron was killing me. Thats my Lanparty rig so it isnt as high end. 2.4Ghz P4 with 512MB, Ti4600 128MB and a 45GB drive, but it's all in one of those tiny cases. Got the case form Alienware since I know most of the guys there.


That's a hell of a system. CONGRATS....:D

Originally posted by Tweety-nator
Wow, you guys make my machine look ancient! Anway, here is mine:

Monitor: 19" Sony Trinitron Flat-Screen
Processor: Intel P1V 1.8 GHz, overclocked to 2.4 GHz
Motherboard: MSI 845G With Integrated Audio, Video, USB, NIC
Memory: 512 MB PC2700 DDR RAM
CD: Plextor CDRW Burner
Hard Drive: 120GB Western Digital SE, 7200rpm
Modem: US Robotics 56k Gaming Modem
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy 1
Video Card: ATI Radeon 9700Pro 128MB

Looks like you have been upgrading your 24 7 to get every drop out of it. GOOD JOB.

you guys have nicer computers than me....however, my daddy can beat up your daddy.

I hope I'm not the only AMD user on this thread! ;)

Monitor: 21" Sony Trinitron
Processor: AMD 2500+ Barton (overclocked from 1.8 GHz to 2.4GHz)
Motherboard: Asus A78NX Dlx 2.0 Mobo (overclocked FSB from 166 to 200 MHz)
Memory: 1 GB XtremeDDR PC3500 RAM
Video Card: ATi 9700 Pro (overclocked core and RAM)
Hard Drive: 120GB Western Digital SE, 7200rpm 8 MB cache
Logitech 5.1
CD/DVD, bla bla bla

Water cooled by Innovatek

<~~~AMD Duron 750Mhz o.c'd to 933Mhz baby!! Can I get some AMENs from the peoples less than a gigahertz?!!?!! Make some noise!!

I use AMD's for people that wanna build cheap. However since the stuff I work with normally needs me to take work home I cant be bothered to dick around with the AMD's to get them working with a lot of this stuff. Thats why the Intel MB. ANYTHING runs on it. And when yer testing some of these video editing cards it's very usefull. Anytime the boards cost goes over 5G the AMD systems start to flake out on me.

I also dream one day of doing 3D work again on a professional level, but the longer it takes me to play with Lightwave/Maya/Softimage, the longer it's gonna take to get back into the groove of things. Anyway, thats another reason I have a large rig at home. The other machines I was talking about are 1 in my bedroom for anything up there (movie playback, music, ocasional gaming and browsing), a modified I-opener as my couch browser (very limited machine but enough for web browsing) and a 1Ghz P3 is my arcade cabinet CPU (yes, I'm an emulation freak as well and I hand made my own arcade cabinet for MAME)

Forgot to mention, if yer daddy can beat up my daddy, tell him to get to it. That ******* ******* *** ******** deserves to be beat.

Originally posted by Turbo Matty P
<~~~AMD Duron 750Mhz o.c'd to 933Mhz baby!! Can I get some AMENs from the peoples less than a gigahertz?!!?!! Make some noise!!

25% oc, nice job Turbo.

Whether it's cars or computers getting more power than stock makes for an addicting (and sometimes expensive) hobby...

I agree highspeed8. I ahd heard about overclooking and first thing I did was look for a way to "turn up the boost" on the ole AMD. It was actually quite simple. All I had to do was go into my BIOS and turn up the multipliers. The only problem is a little extra heat and if I leave the system on for days at a time it will sometimes lock up, but everything is cool after it's restarted. I've also heard I could get into the 1G range by using a lead pencil to connect certain pins together....I'm not going that far!

17 " retractable Flat with built in keyboard
Quad Intel Petium 4 Zeon (Thats right I'm on a server)
Crappy 256 ddr Video
2 gigabyte RAM
3 Terabytes of Harddrive space

I'm usually at work maintaining the servers so I just post on this forum using it :p

Originally posted by CruelNewb
2 gigaherts RAMThat's awfully fast RAM. How much of it do you have? :p

17" flat screen iMac, fully loaded.
PowerBook G4 Titanium, sort of loaded.

Originally posted by Tweety-nator
Wow, you guys make my machine look ancient! Anway, here is mine:


Mine *are* rather ancient by comparison:

Work:
Apple Power Macintosh G4 350MHz (overclocked to 400 ;) ), maxed out at 1024MB RAM, 40GB hard drive, two ATI Rage something or others driving two CTX 17" 1280x1024 LCD panels, CD-RW, running Mac OS X v10.2.6. Attached is an XMPCR satellite radio receiver (gotta have my tunes at work!)

(I also have a crappy old P-III notebook not worth mentioning)

Home machine #1:
Apple iMac G4 15" 1024x768 LCD 700MHz, 640MB RAM, 30GB hard drive, CD-RW, running Mac OS X v10.2.6

Home machine #2:
HP Pavilion 505n 2.2GHz P4 Celeron, 768MB RAM, 60GB hard drive, CD-RW, Intel Extreme Graphics driving a Planar 15" 1024x768 LCD panel.

Main home machine - robust for its day but still plays new games (Doom III and Half-life II will be the killers)

- 19" hitachi superscan elite 751 ($25 used)
- 1Ghz AMD T-Bird CPU
- Asus A7V 200mhz fsb mobo
- enlight case w/300W p/s
- 30GB WDD Caviar 7200rpm
- 512mb ecc PC133 stick from crucial.com
- Raedon 8500 64mb
- guillemot digital-out-enabled sound card
- everyday 3c509x NIC
- everyday 52x read + 40x/12x/48x sony CDroms

The air-cooling nerd in me:
- 1 custom side-mounted sunon 120mm 142CFM intake fan w/grill & filter
- 1 80mm sunon front intake fan
- 1 80mm sunon rear exhaust fan
- 1 Taisol CPU fan + heatsink (forget the model)
- 1 5.25" HDD cooling kit, complete w/huge heatsink and 2 smallish fans
- 1 PCI slot exhaust fan directly under Raedon
- 1 small fan on heatsink of Radeon
- 1 factory fan on power supply
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= 9 fans probably moving around 200CFM. No vents to guide air nor round IDE cables though (but tied cables!) :)

now I know how my friends feel when I talk about cars and they know nothing about them

Dell...ie : "Dude, your getting screwed"

It's crap, but it works.

Inspiron 2650 Notebook
15" SXGA
Pentium 4 Mobile 1.8GHz
384 DIMM 266MHz
30GB Hard Drive
16MB Mosiac Graphic Card
24X CDRW Drive
3.5 Floppy Drive
Windows XP Home

It's in my sig...

Intel 8088 at 8MHz (overclocked from 4.77MHz!)
640Kb RAM (Bill Gates says nobody will ever need more)
360KB Floppy Drive
20MB RLL HD
Hercules graphics card - maybe 640x480
14" greenscreen monitor - 4 shades of green
IBM Keyboard, no mouse
Running MS-DOS 3.1 and much later Windows 1.0 (GEM was far better)

That's the first machine I ever built (around 1985)...
I can't believe I persuaded my parents to spend over $3000 on this for my 'education' (I mostly used it to play Rogue and Spacewar and write games in BASIC and Assembler).

Prior to that in the 1970's I had a Commodore VIC20 with 3.5KB of RAM and a very expensive cassette drive - you haven't lived until you've written a Space Invader clone (sounds, colours and wriggling antennae) in machine code to fit into 3072 bytes of memory.

Rig #1
Apple Powermac G4 Dual 1GHZ
1 GIG Memory
nVidia GeFORCE 4600ti 128Meg
120 Gig HDD
80 Gig Hdd
22' Apple Cinema Display
JBL Creature Speakers
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
Pioneer AVR104 DVDR
TDK VeloCD 52X CDR

Rig #2 (PC)
Intel Pentium 4 3.06 GHZ 533 Bus
1 Gig Corsain DDR
Sony CD, CDR, DVD, DVDR, DVDR+ Drive
Sounblaster Audigy
Dual 80 Gig 7200RPM HHD's
10/100 nic
ATI Radeon 8500 Pro
Mitsubishi NX85LCD Flat Panel
Logitech Keyboard
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer

Rig #3
Apple IIe
Dual 5 1/4 Disk Drive (With Copy Protection Removal Switches)
Apple III (Lisa) Monitor

Rig #4
Apple IIgs (WOZ Edition)
Apple 5 1/4 Drive
Apple 3 1/2 Drive
1.25 Megs Expanded
300 KBPS Modem
20 Gig Applied Engineering "Vulcan" HDD
Apple RGB Monitor

Rig #5
Apple IIgs (Standard)
Apple 3 1/2 Drive
1.25 Megs
Apple RGB Monitor

Rig #6
Crappy 8088

PDA
HP/Compaq iPAQ 2200

Phone/PDA
Sony-Ericsson P800

Vid/Rig
Canon GL1 3CCD

etc. etc.

Vic20 - 8086 - 80486DX - P75 - P233 (second hand) - AMD1733 - RX-8 (Hopefully)



now if MX-6 to RX-8 is as big a performance jump as the one i made from 8086 well then i'll just be in pig heaven

if i can't get more ram i may start thinking abou the wing strakes.

Apple Powerbook 17 inch 1 GHZ with 1 GB Ram. I can't wait to get my Dual 2 GHZ G5 with my 20 inch Apple Cinema Display.

[i]Ati Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB [/B]

I never get the latest video cards. Way too much markup on those. I'm still running Ti4200s on my 3 PCs in the house and am about to upgrade to ATI Radeon 9600 Pros soon so I can run Half Life 2 decently.

Oh and I have 6 Macs in the house (ranging from 12" G4 powerbook to a bunch of G4 Towers), which I do all my business work. The PCs are mainly just for the games (kids and myself).

2.4c running at 3G
2.66 b at 2.8
2.4b
and an amd 2000+

All for the house.


At work:

2.0mobile (work lappy)
2.0b desktop
G4 (I hate macs)

Yeah, I must work in the IT field, lol

Originally posted by pelucidor
...
Prior to that in the 1970's I had a Commodore VIC20 with 3.5KB of RAM and a very expensive cassette drive
...

You didn't get the 8k memory upgrade?

My first was an Atari 800XL (with the cassette drive, later upgrading to the wickedly expensive 5.25" floppy drive, which could store a whopping 80kb or so per side), and as it turns out I was in constant battles with all the Commodore-64 folks out there.

You used to be able to fit a lot of code into 256 bytes, not any more though. Ah the memories...

Originally posted by Jazzman


I never get the latest video cards. Way too much markup on those. I'm still running Ti4200s on my 3 PCs in the house and am about to upgrade to ATI Radeon 9600 Pros soon so I can run Half Life 2 decently.

Oh and I have 6 Macs in the house (ranging from 12" G4 powerbook to a bunch of G4 Towers), which I do all my business work. The PCs are mainly just for the games (kids and myself).

True, but whwn yer pals with most of the guys at Alienware you dont pay for hardware :D

Well, usually :D :D

Sun 670MP (VME bus) with 4 21" monitors arranged horizontally powered by
Sun TGX framebuffers.
Six 15k Cheetahs in place of the original full-height bricks.
Four processors, 128M of ram.

... Or perhaps you mean the 'main rig' in my '7?

Icom IC207H 2m/440 running through a centerloaded dualband whip.

Dunno what I'll put in the RX-8 when I get it... :>

-Kysh

Hey...work comps don't count..

It's not a work computer. It would be totally useless as a work computer. :>

It does suck down 13 amps, though, so I do wish I had a company paying the
power bill..

-Kysh

Originally posted by kysh
It's not a work computer. It would be totally useless as a work computer. :>Which begs the question: "what on earth do you you use that for at home?"

I use it for everything people do at home... having four 21" monitors means never having to say you're sorry.

Erm, that's not quite right..

Having four 21" monitors means being able to play chess on one monitor, IRC/MU* on another monitor, and have the other two free for working from home, webbrowsing, and whatever else comes up.

-Kysh

I use it for everything people do at home... having four 21" monitors means never having to say you're sorry.

Erm, that's not quite right..

Having four 21" monitors means being able to play chess on one monitor, IRC/MU* on another monitor, and have the other two free for working from home, webbrowsing, and whatever else comes up.

-Kysh

I want pictures..drool...

bumpa!