a new computer bragging thread

[Raghar]

Hi
bragging time
My new computer specifications
Celeron-D
underclocked to 1890 MHz
512 MB RAM Kingston
Seagate 120 GB
NV FX5700

CPU temperature 47 at low load 2200 RPM. 54 at high load 3000 RPM.
GFX 39-43 at low load. 51 at full load.

So what about yours? Don't be shy I'd like to write some article and some temp results would be nice.

[aNt]

NAME:   Apricot Xi
MANUFACTURER:   ACT
ORIGIN:   United Kingdom  
KEYBOARD:   Full-stroke keyboard, 101 keys, 8 function keys, 6 dynamic function keys (membrane keys)
Built-in 40 characters x 2 lines LCD screen
CPU:   Intel 8086
SPEED:   4,77 Mhz
COPROCESSOR:   Intel 8089 (for in/out tasks), 8087 optional arithmetic co-processor
RAM:   256k, up to 768k
TEXT MODES:   80 x 25, 132 x 50 (character matrix 10 x 16)
GRAPHIC MODES:   800 x 400
SOUND:   1 tone channel
SIZE / WEIGHT:   Main unit : 42 x 32 x 10 cm
Main unit : 6,4 kg / Monitor : 4,1 kg / keyboard : 1,5 kg
I/O PORTS:   RS232c, Centronics, 2 x Apricot expansion slots
BUILT IN MEDIA:   2 x 3''1/2 disk-drives (315k or 720k), 5Mb, 10Mb & 20Mb hard-disks
OS:   MS-DOS 2.0, CP/M 86, Concurrent CP/M

full on BaBy!

[aNt]

i also have a:

NAME: Minicomputer
MANUFACTURER:   Mark-8

has cool flashing lights on it. got given it along time
back aparently. not sure what the spec is. but it runs
sweeet as a nut!

it makes a sound if u tap the top of it- a tapping sound
cant beat that for a audio card; 'vibe' splashed all over
it.

Games published by our own members! Check 'em out!

[Matzon]

Just bought me a ME6000 (Via EPIA) - 600 MHz fanless. Gonna put it in this case:
http://www.morexintl.com/3677-1a.jpg

Gonna load it up with linux (distro undecided) and make it my web/mail/samba/music/miscellaneous server. Will probably make another one in a not so distant future, slap on some WiFi and make it my HTPC

[erikd]

Sinclair ZX-81, 16kb memory expansion, datarecorder, external keyboard with "real" keys, a couple of cassettes that (with some luck) might still work, no sound, no colour.
Man, I'm so proud.

[cfmdobbie]

I decline to post in this thread until the end of the week.  By then my new computer should be on its way - Athlon 64 3500+, 256MB GeForce 6800 GT, 1GB RAM, 17" Iiyama TFT etc.

Everything's picked and waiting for dispatch apart from the CPU - AMD are having some distribution problems and the 3000 and 3500 are just plain not available.  By the end of next week, either the chip will have turned up or I'll have got too impatient and paid twice as much for the 3800+ instead!

[darkprophet]

One I code with:

P4 2.26Ghz
512Mb Ram
ATI 9200 256Mb VRam

The one im "not" supposed to code in and leave well alone, but I do anyway:

Dual Amd-64
3Gb Ram
ATI 9800 Pro 128Mb Vram

both of em run windows  :-/, oh well.

Oh, also got a p2 with freebsd one it  

DP

[weston]

Pentium 4 1.8ghz
768 megs of ram
GeforceFX 5200
Audigy 2
40 gig and 120 gig hard drives
Its a Dell system, dual booted Windows XP/ linux

I can't wait to get a new one (building my own this time  ), but I guess I have to get a job first  

[swpalmer]

Commodore 64 - full 64k RAM!
Commodore Amiga 2000 (with two floppy drives 880kB each!)
Commodore Amiga 3000 (w. 450 MB hard drive!)
Commodore Amiga 4000 (w. DPS TBC)
BeBox - geeks dream.
many crappy PCs
PowerBook

[Raghar]

to aNt
Cheater. What about us who have just 5 and something '' drives? ~_^
It had support for more than two HD?

to erikd
I had 80 kB one, so I'm not entirely sure of what one did you own. For your info I doubt that few "thousand" cassettes with games will work anymore. They worked for 3 years.

to Matzon
I looked at Nemiath. It's a very nice processor. I builded computer for high speed simulations and for programming in assembly with SSE2 and SSE3 instructions, so I chose Celeron - D. If I could have both I would probably went for it.

to  cfmdobbie
This reminds me how did I get my current mainboard. They didn't had SE boards ready for around a week so I decided to get a ASUS P4P800 E DELUXE. It cost me a keyboard, but I can add twice as much HDs into it, and I have two firewire ports.  (But I'd tell you, that cover for USB and sound connectors is SHARP.)

Games published by our own members! Check 'em out!

[ChrisM]

Shuttle XPS
- Athlon 2600XP
- 512MB PC2700 RAM
- nVidia 5500 and ATI 9700 (swap them often for testing)
- Dual 19" Sun LCD monitors
- nForce2 chipset
- 120GB 7200 RPM
- DVD Burner

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ChrisM/20040809

Check the office!

Compaq Centrino 15" wide screen laptop
- 512MB
- 60GB 5400 RPM

Cobalt 3 Server
- MODIFIED
- K6 Processor
- Dual drives (60GB)

Arcade System
- Homebuilt PC/Classic arcade machine
- 1.4GHz AMD
- 512MB
- 40GB
- 25" monitor

Family PC
- Athlon 2500XP
- nVidia 5200
- 512MB PC2700
- 80GB
- 17" NEC Flat Panel

Home Server
- In process
- AMD 2500XP
- On board video
- 512MB
- 240GB
- Linux

I have various bits and such as well lying around that could probably be turned into servers.

-Chris

P.S.  I have a VERY understanding wife


-Chris

[cfmdobbie]

Right, as of last night:

• AMD Athlon-64 3500+
  
• 1GB Corsair DDR TwinX Cas2
  
• 160GB Western Dig SATA
  
• Abit AV8 VIA K8T800PRO Mobo
  
• 256MB Galaxy GeForce 6800 GT
  
• 17" Iiyama TFT (Silver)
  
• Plextor PX116A DVD-ROM
  
• Sony FDD (Silver)
  
• WinXP Pro

All in a nice silver case with a blue LED on the front.

Still to be obtained:

• Sony DRU700A? (Dual layer DVD+/-RW)
  
• Logitech Cordless Desktop MX Bluetooth (keyboard/mouse)
  
• DVI-D cable (shipped item was b0rked)
  
• Akasa HDD Cooler (shipped item was b0rked)

I was intending to get a Wifi card in there, pull latest Java and Eclipse, and see how fast it is at compiling, but um...

In my defence, Doom 3 is a very good game.  In other news, I'm really tired today, having gone to bed rather late...

[Matzon]

damn! - thats one expensive box!

[Spasi]

AthlonXP 2.8+ <= OC: 2.0->2.16
ABIT NF7-S <= Abit rules
2x256MB Kingston <= unbelievable latencies
2x40GB WD RAID
GF 5900
2xcrappy CRTs
Audigy2
M$ Wireless Exp2.0 <= don't buy this

[Breadstick]

Just got my iBook a few weeks ago when I started school, so that's what I've been programming on all day.

G3 iBook - Clamshell Design
300 Mhz g3
160 megs of ram
Mac OS 10.2.8

The CD drive's broken on it, so I wrote a java program in JDev(that's an IDE for you losers that don't use it ) to break files down into chunks, and then merge them back together (I needed to move a large file to my mac, but only had a small SD card and portable USB SD drive).  The file I had to move was the mac version of JDev .  It's really slow on my g3 300, so I've just been using TextEdit.

[cfmdobbie]

damn! - thats one expensive box!

Er, hmm.  Yes, it was.

I hadn't bought any new hardware in 3-4 years, and I'd been waiting for Doom3 since the day it was announced.  I promised to buy myself a new machine to replace my ageing 700MHz Athlon the moment Doom came out - I was intending to get it ordered in the week running up to the Friday release, so I could sit down on Saturday morning, build a PC, and play Doom.  Because of work-related hassles, and then problems obtaining hardware, it's only now that it's all come together.

But yes, while I didn't go completely over the top - paying twice as much for a 3800+, paying £100 more for a 6800 Ultra, getting a 19" TFT etc - I did decide that this was my new computer, and it's likely to be around for a good while yet - why not push the boat out and get a really good one?

(Oh, another criteria was that I wanted to play Doom 3 at 1280x1024 on High Quality and at full frame rate...)

[swpalmer]

(Oh, another criteria was that I wanted to play Doom 3 at 1280x1024 on High Quality and at full frame rate...)

And it meets that criteria??  That's a pretty tough standard to meet.

[cfmdobbie]

It sure does - it positively blisters along!