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[Mrogreturns]

Sharp Mebius PC-RD1 C1M- if that means anythbing to you.

Pentium 4- 2.26GHz
512 Mb RAM
Geforce
50 gig HDD
Sony memory crd slot
SD Smartmedia slot
DVD/CD/CDRW combo
15 inch screen (its a portable)

 

[DaEezT]

Athlon XP 2800+
1,5 gig DDR400 RAM Corsair Low Latency yadda yadda
ASUS a7n8x rev 1.06 + modded BIOS
80 gig Maxtor 7.200 RPM, 8MB cache
160 gig Maxtor 7.200 RPM, 8MB cache
Radeon 9700 Pro + modded Drivers
Augity 2
D-Link network card (10/100/1000 Mbit)
52x/24x/52x CD-RW-Writer
16x/48x DVD-ROM
6 channel Fan control
6 case fans, 1 slot fan, 1 internal fan
CPU is water cooled, the whole water circuit is internal, the radiator is on top of the power supply and cooled by a 120mm fan
Arctic Silver III on the CPU
Zalman passive cooler on NB
ASUS default coller on SB

LG Flatron F900P 19" monitor with 0,24mm mask

all in a Chiftec Big tower Case with noise blocking and dust filters on the fans that blow into the case

highest CPU temp after 2 hrs of benchmarking was 41°C with a room temp of about 30°C

 

[HuckFinn]

Before you feel too good... Celerons are truly crippled versions of Intel processors, meant for word processing and such... in comparison with real P4's, they get beaten fair and square.

Of course, I've always been an AMD guy. Better bang for the euro, even if they usually are slightly slower than their Intel counterparts.

My setup for the past year has been

AMD XP1800+
GeForce 4 card, with 128 MB
512MB DDR

because the system is pretty balanced (for example, quality motherboard), it runs for example Splinter Cell real nicely... I haven't felt the need to upgrade just yet. The only problem currently is that the video card overheats and forces me to run a big fan blowing straight into the open chassis I hope to fix this with some extra fans...

 

[katka]

You still have stock cooing on that GeForce 4? Anyway just make a heatsink for it. For exaple, that a stock Athlon heatsink and drill holes in it (matching them with the mounting holes on the card of course) and attach it with some Nylon nuts and bolts (if you use metal be sure they do not touch the card by using rubber washers). Also make or buy some RAMsinks. If you want I could get you some more info on doing this.

 

[John Bull]

Mine's sort of grey and has buttons and crazy flashing lights.

 

[cgannon64]

Oh yeah, listen to this hot rig...

PIII 800 Mhz!
17'' CRT!
364 MB RAM!
20 GB HD!
DVD-ROM Drive!
CD-RW Drive!
3 1/2 Floppy Drive!
Zip 250 Drive!
And some generic graphics card that just manages to squeeze Age of Mythology in!

 

[Aphex_Twin]

To prove to that my not installing XP is a choice I can make:

Intel PIII 1200 GHz
40 GB HDD
128 Mb Ram

OS: Win 98

 

[Mikoyan]

Add another stick of 128mb RAM and it would run just fine.

 

[JonathanValjean]

Well, I just built a new rig:

-Epox 8RDA+ (Nvidia nForce 2) which includes Nvidia Soundstorm, Firewire, USB 2.0, and network support.
-Athlon XP 2600+ (333 FSB)
-1GB Crucial 2700 DDR333
-2 160GB Maxtor 8MB Special Edition Hard Drives
-See-through custom case with 4 LED Crystal Cooling Fans
-GlobalWIN FSP82/3D Heat Sink & Crystal Cooling Fan with LED
-ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder
-TDK VeloCD 48x24x48
-Backlit LED Temp Guage on front of case
-ADSL 1500/256

So far, I am quite pleased with it. As one might suspect, I am an avid video editor. I retained my old ATI Radeon AIW, because it runs all of the games that I currently play with aplomb and does my video capturing quite well.

EDIT: I added a few things I had overlooked...

 

[Gingerbread Man]

I got da coolest 8086, mate!!!

I've lost count of how many computers my dad has brought home from work. But the ones that I actually know about, are pretty lame. mine is:

AMD T-bird 950 MHz
256MB RAM
20GB HDD
Cheap SB Live! thingumy
Hercules ATI 7500 All-In-Wonder Radeon (what a mouthful!)
And the rest is so generic, you dont want to know...

 

[CrackedCrystal]

Originally posted by Gingerbread Man
I got da coolest 8086, mate!!!

I got you beat, I have a 8088! Which although it has higher number, it was released in persoanl PCs before the 8086

8 bits of pure procesing power!!!!!! Who needs those 32 bit CPUs?!?


Ok, so its a 16 bit CPU with a 8 bit FSB. so sue me!

Go here for a picture of one.
http://www.digidome.nl/vendex.htm

 

[Gingerbread Man]

I dont think intel 8088s came out in Australia. The 8086 came through first.

BTW, the 8086 is now happily not working, and rusting/corroding under a pile of rubbish. But can you do one better? Look through those computer magazines from before the 80s, (my dad actually kept them, being old and knowledgable), and you will see the unveiling of the portable computer! This is before the LCD screen, so people would lug around an 8-or-so inch CRT, and two 5 1/4" floppies. I think it is with the 8086. I dont think that one was working as long as I was alive.

 

[CrackedCrystal]

Originally posted by Gingerbread Man
The 8086 came through first.

You are correct, the 8086 did come out before the 8088. But as I said, the 8088 was released to personal computers before the 8086.

At the time, the 8086 was very expensive and prohibited the average person from buying it. Thus Intel dumbed-down the 8086 to create the 8088 and made it cheaper. Its analogous to the duron being a dumbed-down pentium in order to make it cheeper. I would not doubt that the price of 8086s dropped enough by the time they got to Australia that they were more common. After all, Intel did not have the ability to produce large quantities of chips for the whole world like they do now.

And I can one up you because mine still works. Runing the High Tech Operating System DOS 3.22

EDIT:
And yes, I remember those "portable" computers of the 80s. My father used one for work. That computer was what got me interested in computers in the first place. I remember him hooking it up and I would play a game where you were a cat that had to chase a mouse. First video game I ever played. I wish I could find a copy of that game

EDIT2:
And just so people don't start saying things like "What about the 8080 or 8008" By Personal computer I mean the IBM PCs and its clones. Not the computer kits that were sold.

 

[CrackedCrystal]

My computer is:

AMD 1.2GHz
512 DDR RAM
320 GB Hard disk space in RAID
Pioneer DVD 115 DVD-ROM
Pioneer DVR-105 DVD-RW
Plexor Plexwriter 24/10/40 CD-RW
Soundblaster Live! 5.1
Geforce FX 5200
550W true power supply
Antec case with neon lights and fans
Bucket-loads of little things

With all the crap in there it sounds like a jet engine on takeoff, but I love it anyway

 

[katka]

Ha, mines louder. You must not of ever used a Tornado.

 

[JoeP]

Athlon at 1.24GHz
786MB of PC133 SDRAM
40GB hdd
GF2 MX400 210/174

Can't wait for an Athlon64. Even if it's slower than the top P4, it's still 64-bit! (with 64-bit x86-64 compatable Win2k3 server coming out the same day! Sept. 23)

 

[xerxes_thegreat]

Your ideal bargain PC!

P3 1.5 GHz
256 mb Ram
128 mb ATI Rage Fury Pro
12 GB HD
56K Modem

Not TOO shabby, considering I scraped it together from a meager 15-year-old income.

 

[Gingerbread Man]

Now THAT is impressive!

I can merely scrape together a computer game every year on my income of $0 p.a.

 

[CrackedCrystal]

Originally posted by JoeP
Can't wait for an Athlon64. Even if it's slower than the top P4, it's still 64-bit! (with 64-bit x86-64 compatable Win2k3 server coming out the same day! Sept. 23)

Do you actually own any programs that utilize 64-bit? And The cheepest pack from Microsoft for sever 2k3 is $1000 for a 5 client.

I think I will wait a while before jumping on board the 64-bit bandwagon.

 

[JoeP]

i just wanna brag. "My comptuer is 64-bit!"

and since my computer will run smooth, cause i know how to keep a computer healthy, people will be in awe of the "64-bit performance!"