[Black89cs]

Wow MR_Roboto, it looks like you could run a small datacenter with that. Nice to see another mac user here as well (Leann_93).

 

[stoneground1]

First off AstroAustin,Sweet setup!! Do you use mineral oil for the cooling? There are a couple of guys here in Albuqerque that make fully submerged comps in mineral oil. Pretty sick stuff!!! Like a fish tank,but instead of fish a computer. lol As for the Mac people,right on!! I use a Mac(old G4 Imac,800MHz,1G ram,all firewire external stuff(Lacie D2 DVD burner w/lightscribe,Lacie 200G external HD,200G Iomega external HD,and my interface for my mixer for recording music). Yeah it's old but it does what i need it to do. Plan to upgrade to the new Imac soon. Just gotta get the funds ya know? I also have a Dell D800(1.7GHz) that has no screen so i hooked it up to my 37" LCD in the living room and use it as a media center. And it has wireless so i can surf from my couch. lol
But sometimes i can't seem to pick up a good signal so i just watch movies or listen to music off iTunes.

 

[Munken]

I use a HP Compaq dx2300 Microtower Business PC.

Upgraded with:
4 GB RAM
2 x 1 TB extern HD
ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT
Multi Monitor (2)

Conected to Internet with LAN (fiber) at 100/10 use to be:

Speed test at: http://www.speedtest.net/

 

[Mr_Roboto]

That upload is sweet man, if I had that I would have a cab in my home and do serving offa it.

 

[astroturf]

Whats the flush interval? Is that Prestone Extended Life anti-freeze? It's making my Xbox scared. Hate to see what will happen when you lose a seal in your water pump. Jim

 

[Jasen]

Mines a little old

I was running a Dell E1505 laptop, till that woman spilled water on it. Got a refurb Dell Lat. D620 off E bay for a decent price.

 

[webcat]

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[Mr_Roboto]

New rebuild of my old machine. Asus K8N-DRE, 200GB Seagate Enterprise hard disk, dual Opteron 850 CPUs (single core 2.4GHZ) 2GB of DDR and an Nvidia 6800 video card. It needs the full tower case actually, as it will not fit the main board in a mid. Sorry about the pick quality. Have less than $70 into it as it stands, need to get a video card and a DVI->VGA adapter and will still be under 90 so I don't think that's too bad considering it's a new main board.

 

[JebusKrist]

I don't have any photos of my gear personally at the moment, too lazy to take any but I'll give links and specs.

First off I've got the case which is: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... -_-Product

and the Power Supply: http://www.pcpower.com/products/descrip ... uad-Blue_/

This is the motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... -_-Product

now for the specs.

Asus Maximus III Formula Motherboard
Intel Core i7-870 2.93ghz processor with 8mb L3 cache socket LGA1156
8gb DDR3 Ram
2x ATI Radeon HD5770's in Crossfire
Soundblaster X-Fi Elite Pro
Asus PCI-e 802.11b/g/n wireless card
1x 500gb 7200rpm HDD
1x 250gb 7200rpm HDD
1x 160gb 7200rpm HDD
1x 1.5tb External HDD
1x DVD/CD Burner

I think that's most of it for the main system this is all connected via HDMI to my 50" 1080p plasma and 5.1 channel Sony surround sound system.

 

[WoodButcher]

I like water and overclocking,

 

[astroturf]

Dang WB

That looks like a wild azz slurpy machine.

Specs?

Thanks, Jim

 

[WoodButcher]

Not as good as Jebus' but not bad, These were both built a couple of years ago, Q6600, and a Q8400, Asus motherboards and Nvidia 8800 graphics cards, Tv cards, multiple hard drives. Faster than I need so I have not upgraded in a while. I like the watercooling because when overclocking the chips the heat gets pretty bad. Air coolers have gotten much better but the fans have to run fast to do the job. That nightstand has 2 radiators and about 17-18 fans all running @ 5volts. Much less noise tan 2 or 3 fans running @ 12v and high speed.

 

[astroturf]

WoodButcher and everyone else that has contributed to this topic...

You are making my netbook quake in its rubber nubs

LOLz, Jim

 

[WoodButcher]

WoodButcher and everyone else that has contributed to this topic...

You are making my netbook quake in its rubber nubs

LOLz, Jim

I'm very fond of my little netbook, it does exactly what I bought it for. If I'm on the job and need blueprints , building specs or codes all I need do is highjack someone's interwebs and I'm good. My kid has a phone that has interwebs but it's so freaking small i can't find the keyboard let alone type!

Who'd a thunk it,,, a carpenter w/ a PC, phone and mobile desk on the job... :?
The kids asked me what I did before I had all this crap, I told them,,
worked!

 

[Black89cs]

Netbooks aren't bad, but I upgraded to a bigger laptop last week because of the lack of screen real-estate. Blackboard + 10.1" screen = not fun.

 

[redfury]

back in the day, I built my PC, and have the exact same case as what started this thread, but modded and painted. The original motherboard died and got replaced, I upgraded the processor, video card ram and HDD's, but its slow as beans with its Barton 2500+ processor. I'm still running an AGP video card, though it's a 6800GT. I need to upgrade soon, but other things are priority, including my new van, and my boat. The old girl still gets me online and does what it's supposed to do.

 

[JaxSPL]

Netbooks ain't bad at all. I use an aspire one (modded) when I am letting my son or wife use the desktop. My wife also uses a mini 10v.

The aspire one is great on a 22" LCD monitor.

 

[Phantom]

back in the day, I built my PC, and have the exact same case as what started this thread, but modded and painted. The original motherboard died and got replaced, I upgraded the processor, video card ram and HDD's, but its slow as beans with its Barton 2500+ processor. I'm still running an AGP video card, though it's a 6800GT. I need to upgrade soon, but other things are priority, including my new van, and my boat. The old girl still gets me online and does what it's supposed to do.

1.8 ghz can still run very good , maybe time to reload the OS , or try out one of the Tiny versions of XP or 7 , that run faster than the full versions , try putting the OS on a hard drive of its own , there are also overclocking methods as well, making sure you have 80 conductor IDE cables also helps, and SATA drives are faster

 

[redfury]

I upgraded to a 750 gig SATA drive and partitioned it half and half. I pulled my 1 gig stick of ram out though, as it was causing problems so I'm down to 512mb which isn't helping a whole lot at the moment. I had thought about running Win 7 on it, but I'm going to go for a major upgrade in the nearer future if I can, and I can have my Win 7 then.

 

[Phantom]

Going from 1.5 GB of RAM to 512 MB will slow things down , too bad it was the gig stick that has problems , sometimes it is just a single chip on the stick gone bad , sometimes it is just mixing different brand names that don't work well together . I think Kingston is guaranteed to to be compatible with any other brand ,sometimes it is the latency timings that don't match causing problems and with some BIOS setups you can change those CL timings to match up .You can even overclock the memory to make it run faster , but it is about compatibility as what works on one may not work on another .
Partitioning more than one partition is ok , the only time I do it is when there is no physical room for extra hard drives like with laptops . One reason I prefer separate physical drives is that I don't have to load all my programs again when I reload the OS , I have some programs that are 30 GB -80 GB in size and takes a long time to install , so I use one hard drive for the OS , firewall/antivirus stuff and leave it alone and install programs on the other drives so when I need to reload the OS I unplug the other drives until the OS is fresh and setup; then plug the slave drives in and back in business .