Tell us about your computer!

Thunderdog · Post by **Thunderdog** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:29 pm

Distinguishable hardware that I use:

Pentium 4, 1.3 GHZ
64 MB GeForce 2 MX
256 MB RAM
120 GB Seagate drive
Sony DVD drive.
D-link 802.11b wireless adapter

Ro@m · Post by **Ro@m** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:14 pm

Desktop PC or Laptop?

Thunderdog · Post by **Thunderdog** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:26 pm

A hand-me-down desktop from my brother in law.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 8:29 pm

p4 3.00ghz with hyper threading support (auto overclocking)
asus p5ld2 motherboard (standard)
2048mb ddr2 ram
geforce 6600gt 128mb pcie
200gig sata2 hdd
lg super multi DVD burner combo drive (10x dvdwrite 48x cdwrite 48x cdread)
lg 52x cd rom
Sound Blaster X-FI Xtreme Music
direct x 9.0c
windows xp home sp2 on ntfs partition
latest updates for drivers, bios's, software

Ro@m · Post by **Ro@m** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 2:04 pm

nice,except Xp home?why home?

Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:17 pm

My guess is because it's a home PC

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:17 am

EDIT TO SYSTEM SPECS: Monday, 6th 2006

forgot about these

auto overclocking
cost = $1450 approx. (australian dollars)

could someone tell me in aussie dollars how much it is to upgrade windows xp home to windows xp pro as initially i didnt realise how bad windows xp home was.

Post by **Wally** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:38 pm

franpa, there is nothing really wrong with XP home. It works thats the main thing.

Pro just has a few additional features such as Network Administration and thats about it.

No point spending over $150 for something that you arent gunna use

Thunderdog · Post by **Thunderdog** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:51 pm

I've got a pirated copy.

....

YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!

Post by **wardrich** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:00 pm

ARR MATEY!

Post by **wardrich** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:04 pm

since specs have changed since my last post

PC:
AMD 64 3000+
SB Audigy 2 Platinum Pro
270gigs of HDD space
512 OCZ DDR400 (needs to be upped to at least a gig)
ATi Radeon 9200se (Needs to be upgraded to a 9800)
Running <a href="http://www.mepis.org">Mepis</a>

Laptop:
IBM Thinkpad R51 (garbage POS... got thru school)
512mb RAM
1.5ghz Pentium M
~40gig HDD
Running XP Pro (garbage) and Fedora Core 4 (crap too, but better than Windows)

And before you ask, yes I play dosgames... via Dosbox.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:41 pm

theres more then that... theres future compatibility meaning it supports dualcore cpu's. winxp home doesnt... which annoys me because i found that out after i got windowsxp home.

Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:56 pm

Ok so last time I was just having a random stab at what my Win98 PC specs were, here's what they actually are:

Processor: Intel Pentium, MMX, ~200MHz
Memory: 56MB RAM
O/S: Microsoft Windows 98 (4.10, Build 2222) A
Video Card: SiS 530
Display Memory: 7.5 MB
Sound Card: ESS PCI Solo-1 DirectSound Driver
HDD: 8GB.
Drives: 3.5 floppy, 32x CD burner, b0rked network port.

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:04 pm

franpa wrote:p4 3.00ghz with hyper threading support (auto overclocking)
asus p5ld2 motherboard (standard)
1024mb ddr2 ram
geforce 6600gt 128mb pcie
200gig sata2 hdd
lg super multi DVD burner combo drive (10xdvdwrite 48xcdwrite 48xcdread)
lg 52x cd rom
audio controller: HD Audio
audio codec: ALC882
direct x 9.0c
windows xp home sp2 on ntfs partition
latest updates for drivers, bios's, software

I have to say, if you paid $1500 USD for this computer, you got a little ripped off. Sorry bud.

Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:29 pm

My guess is it would have been Australian dollars which, on current rates, works out to be about $1115 USD.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:42 pm

the price was four months ago approx. and the price itself is an approx. one day ill work out the cost of my pc.

Ro@m · Post by **Ro@m** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:09 am

Thunderdog wrote:I've got a pirated copy.

....

YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!

Me too!

pedersencato · Post by **pedersencato** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:58 pm

don't we all, though... until we (and By that I blatantly mean myself) end up killing our Win Partitions when we install Linux...

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:33 pm

franpa wrote:p4 3.00ghz with hyper threading support (auto overclocking)
asus p5ld2 motherboard (standard)
1024mb ddr2 ram
geforce 6600gt 128mb pcie
200gig sata2 hdd
lg super multi DVD burner combo drive (10xdvdwrite 48xcdwrite 48xcdread)
lg 52x cd rom
audio controller: HD Audio
audio codec: ALC882
direct x 9.0c
windows xp home sp2 on ntfs partition
latest updates for drivers, bios's, software

i calculated this and found it to be around $850 - $920 AUD. (and that price includes extra drive bays and 2 speed adjustable case fans.)

dosuser · Post by **dosuser** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:19 pm

I have a 1.o GHZ 448 MB RAM 20 gig HDD 16 MB graphics card.
of course I'm only 13 yrs old and I bought this on ebayfor 90 bucks.
I upgraded the ram a little. Oh yes also running under WINXP