[WoodButcher]

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.

Post a link to your motherboard, make and model #, compatible ram list. Maybe I have something that will help you out. I'm sure someone here if not me will. I don't run anything less than an E6600 here in the house (not counting the atom netbook!) so I do have a few old sticks laying around unused.

 

[redfury]

I'm running an abit NF7-s2 and the ram I've got is actually 2 sticks of 512 corsair cmx512 3200c2pt. The one gig stick was a buffalo 1gig pc2700 cl2.5

 

[redfury]

oh yeah, I'm in the process of trying to save my computer at the moment, my cat knocked a soda over and it spilled through my 120mm top case fan...the screen went fuzzy with artifacts, pop got down to the agp socket, so I'm in the process of washing the motherboard out and drying it with compressed air...hopefully nothing got fried on the motherboard or video card.

 

[WoodButcher]

Clean/ flush w/ 90% or better iso alcohol and let dry for a few days. It's inportant to wash off all the sugar. I've done this on a cookie sheet w/ a soft paintbrush, the cheap natural bristle chip brushes are good for this. If you get it back up let us know. I'm certain I have 2 gig 184 pin ddr but I'll have to find it.

 

[redfury]

I did one better, I dismantled everything and ran the motherboard through a wash cycle in the dishwasher, and then blasted it with air 3 times, with an hour to dry in between. Then I put it all back together...good as new! It's actually running a little faster too

 

[Phantom]

No more unsightly water spots either :rofl:

 

[WoodButcher]

I did one better, I dismantled everything and ran the motherboard through a wash cycle in the dishwasher, and then blasted it with air 3 times, with an hour to dry in between. Then I put it all back together...good as new! It's actually running a little faster too

I've heard of that many times but never had the balls to try it myself.

YHPM

 

[redfury]

figured I had nothing to lose with this old dinosaur.

 

[Munken]

Upgraded with two 21.5 "Benq Monitors.

 

[JaxSPL]

Man I need to upgrade.

Right now I'm running an Athlon 64x2 4400+ with 4Gigs of RAM, 4TB of drive space for storage, 320GB of drive space for OS and installed applications, Nvidia GTS450 1GIG video card on DVI: Dual monitor setup, 1 is a 20" LCD, the other is a Sony 42" Bravia. Oh, windows 7 ultimate.

I have been researching a 6core build that will happen within the next couple months. It's going to have 16gigs of ram, due to the stuff I'm fooling around with (cinema 4d, after effects, sony vegas pro, videostudio x4, photoshop, sketchup for enclosure designs). I need something a little more powerful than what I got now.

 

[Black89cs]

Those are nice looking monitors, Munken. Now that I've got LCDs I'll never go back to a CRT.

 

[Black89cs]

I'm not sure why I never posted pics to this thread... I think I must've been living at moms then and couldn't... Here's what I've got in my current place. The whole reason for me moving to a larger apartment (from a 1bedroom to a 2) was to have a computer room and here's what I came up with. The video card on the wall is fried, unfortunately. It looked cool enough that I wanted to stick it to the wall.

The primary PC:
Pentium Dual-Core @2.93GHz
2GB DDR3
1GB GeForce 9500GT
250GB SATA (primary OS)
160GB (music)
1.5TB external (storage, system backups)
28" I-INC @1920x1200 (1080p capable and it's a frickin BEAST)
22" Westinghouse @1680x1050

The Westinghouse was a freebie I re-capped and brought back to life. It works pretty good but I need to replace the Mosfets sometime.

My primary laptop is an Asus UL50 that's on the corner of the desk.. it isn't *too* bad and works for school stuff. The Alienware and PC its sitting on are parts PCs (mobo is toast in the Alienware, bottom one has been cannibalized), the Compaq is a P3 that used to be a garage PC and the Dells on the table are operational but haven't found a purpose yet. My 10" ViewSonic G tablet is on the printer which unfortunately I seldom use anymore. The dell and compaq on the filing cabinet are functional too, however the Dell doesn't have a hard drive in it at the moment. This space works quite well for working on things and I've re-capped an LCD and had laptops all taken apart across the table. The shelves are $5 over-the-sink shelves from Family Dollar... I was skeptical but figured I didn't have much to lose if they didn't work. They turned out pretty good.

Here's what I decided to do with some motherboards that were no longer functional. The bottom one is the smallest AT board I've ever seen. I found it at the thrift store and had to have it, even though the CPU is only a 386.

 

[Black89cs]

Here's a link to the album which has pics of the Mario graphics. Those things were a total pain in the butt to put up and get to stick right...I had to chase them with clear packing tape for awhile before they finally stuck. They probably won't last long but I'll leave them on there until they start falling off.

 

[Jasen]

So the yellow caution lights go off when theres a new post to A/S right :mrgreen:

 

[Black89cs]

LOL nope but I've heard of someone using an x10 controller and a script to flash them when there was a wootoff (woot.com). I hardly turn them on anymore.

 

[theotherandy]

The main rig is a homebuilt:

Athlon 3800 X2 (2.0ghz)
Gigabyte Mobo
2gigs Kingston ddr 3200
Seagate Barracuda 250gig
Nvidia 7300GT

All crammed into a used Centurion 5 which isn't in great shape.

and hooked up to an HP 2009M.

Running Ubuntu 10.04. It has a Windows Vista partition in it "just in case" but I think between the two of us it's only booted up windows once since I installed Ubuntu.

The secondary 'Puter is a Toshiba C655D-somethingsomething laptop. It was inexpensive, and is actually fairly impressive for the price. That's running Windows 7 until I can find a user-friendly Linux distro that plays nice with the AMD Vision cpu/gpu.

I also have a macintosh Powerbook G3 that someone gave me. Works, and (despite being 13 years old) can browse the web quite well. That's running OSX 10.3. We have some HP professional series laptop somewhere too. It's about 8 years old and we hardly use it anymore. The Apple actually gets more use lately.

I want a new desktop. Trying to decide if I want to build another one, buy a new one, or buy a used Powermac G5. I'd really only be plunking down $300-$350. I'm at the point where I hardly game on the computer anymore and want something that looks nice. If I were to build one, pretty much all of the cases out there look like they were designed by 3 year olds with an unlimited supply of pixie sticks.

 

[Mr_Roboto]

Black89CS:is that 386 built on to the board? If so I think I had that board in my first computer! been a long time had an MDA card in it with an amber screen. DOS on it and 4MB RAM.

 

[tedanderson]

The funny thing about those smaller 386 AT style motherboards is that they were often mounted into HUGE cases! What we call a "tower" nowadays pales in comparison to what we had back then.

 

[Munken]

Now when we talk about size, check "Jasens" computer on the second page of this thread. That four room apartment can fit in an iPod today.

 

[Munken]

Now that my work is currently under construction, and I'm off for a while. I built a new computer desk. It's built of kitchen components from IKEA (don't laugh), and it cost approximately $200, that is for upper cabinets, shelves and desk with cabinets.