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Your System - September 2004

AMD Athlon 64 3200+, NewCastle Core
Chaintech VNF3-250
2x Corsair Value PC3200 DDR 512
Seagate Barracuda 160GB SATA
NEC 2510A
LiteOn DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo
SAPPIRE ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
Antec Plus1080AMG w/ 430 watt P/S
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AMD Athlon XP 2800+
512mb Kingston DDR
Norcent 52x32x52 CD-RW
Western Digital 80gb
GeForce 64mb
Antec 450 power supply

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Epox 8RDA+ (ADDED) replaced Epox 8K7A.
AMD Athlon 2400+ (ADDED) replaced TBird 1400.
Stock HSF (ADDED) replaced Thermaltake Volcano 9.
Chenming 20' Silver case (ADDED) replaced old generic case.
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (ADDED) replaced ATI 8500.
Crucial.com 512MB DDR 2100. SB Audigy Gamer.
Enermax 350w psu. 3com 3c905b NIC.
Pionner DVD Rom Slot load. LiteOn 32x10x40 CDRW.
19' KDS Xflat CRT Monitor.
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----gg's and happy gaming----

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JUST BUILT:

Intel P4 2.8Ghz 512 Cache Prescott
ASUS P4R800-VM Using on board Video & Audio
2x Western Digital WD400JB 40Gig 8mb Buffer
LG GSA4120B 12x dual layer DVD+R
2x 512MG PC3200 memory(Unbranded)
Antec Minuet Micro ATX Case
Zippy EL-715 Silver Keyboard with Backlight
Windows XP PRO OEM with Service pack 1

I was shooting for a compact desktop that was very quiet
and stable to run basic home office and photo lab but
still be able to perform a little gaming and video editing.
As my wife cools off I will go for an LCD Monitor and
some nice speakers that sound good and look good.
I will be modifying the CPU and CASE fans soon for minimum
noise levels, I have to shop around to see what's available.
The Mobo boasts an automatic rpm reducing feature on the fans,
automatically increasing and decreasing their speed based on demand.
In the bios there is the option to tweak the fans even further.

I struggled a little with the interior case setup due to limited IDE
sockets and limited drive bays but there is no floppy on the system
and so I crammed it all in there. After a little practise I managed
to fold and arrange the cables in a very neat and orderly fashion
maintaining maximum air flow.

There is a single 1394 jack on the front of the case that has no
home on the mother board. I will add the card in the next week or so.
I may Upgrade one of the hard drives to the largest single bay capacity
and/or add 1394 hardrive on the desk.

NEXT TO BE UPGRADED:

Multi Card reader for Floppy hole in front case.
Polk Audio Speakers 3.1 into midrange Altec Lansing I think.
17" Ugly Unbranded (Masking tape yellow) Monitor into 17" LCD.
Logitech Mouse into anything more comfortable.
1394 Firewire PCI Card(Low Profile due to case restrictions)

THINGS I'll KEEP FOR A WHILE:

Canon S520 Printer
Canon A80 Camera
Snapscan Scanner
NCR UPS Surge Protector

I'd say this is about the 10th system I've built since 2000 and
its weird to see all these old pcs of crap lying around in cardboard
boxes stuffed into closets. 2,4,6 gig hard drives. 12x CD ROMs. AMD K6
and Intel PII motherboards and CPU's. Thousands of dollars worth back in
the day. I think I'm ready for a PC yard sale or a trip to a donation
center.

Cheers!

I made a few minor changes in the last week

Intel P4 3.4 -added-
Asus P4C800-E -added-
1 GIG 2x 512 of Corsair Xtreme PC4400 R
Antec Plusview 100AMG Case
OCZ 520 watt power supply -added-
BFG 6800 Ultra OC -added-
Hauppauge WinTv PVR2
2 X WD Raptor series drives in raid 0
1 X Maxtor 250 gig sata drive -added-
1 X WD SE 80 gig drives for backup
Lite On 8X DVD writer
Lite-on 52X cdwriter
SBL Audigy 2 Platinum
Logitech Z-680 Speakers
MS OfficeXP Keyboard
MS Wireless Intellimouse Explorer
Windows XP Pro
HP office Jet printer
Epson Stylus Photo RX600 Printer
Cyber Power 1250 AVR UPS system
Envision 19" monitor

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AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Newcastle, stock HSF
MSI K8N Neo Platinum, nForce3 250GB chipset
Corsair TwinX 1024-3200C2
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
2 WD 36.7GB Raptors in RAID 0
1 Maxtor 80GB PATA for storage
Plextor PX-708A 8X DVD±R/RW
Antec TruePower 430w
Lian Li PC-60 case

Setting up the RAID nearly cost me my sanity...

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Rebuilt a:
P1 166
32mb of ram
10.2 gb drive
Dual NICS
OS> Slackware 10
Additional: Apache, Webmin, PHP, MySQLCurrently running Slackware 10 with upgraded inetd to xinetd and will have nagious running on it for 4 remote networks monitoring.

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/boot# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 5
model : 2
model name : Pentium 75 - 200
stepping : 12
cpu MHz : 165.792
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : yes
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8
bogomips : 330.95

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new ftp server:

p4e 3ghz 800fsb processor
1 gb kingston pc3200 ddram (2x512)
intel 865 mobo (the one with onboard vid and audio) D865GBF
3x200gb 7200 rpm SATA seagate barracuda hdd
1x200gb uata/ide seagate 7200 rpm hdd
1x200gb wd SATA 7200 rpm hdd
1x40gb SATA seagate hdd for the OS
1 12x liteon dvd +/- burner
sony fdd
antec midtower case w/one of their 350w ps
promise tx150 4 device SATA controller card
win 2000 or server 2003 OS (havent decided yet)
my main box is here:
»recent build of 2nd box for LAN addition

this is just for ftp and resides on a dedicated T-1
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I am not Herbert.

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Abit AN-7
Athlon xp 2500+
Thermalright slk-947u
1 gig corsair value select
Radeon 9800 pro
52x plextor rw
Plex dvd rom
80 gig WD 8 meg cache
Antec true 430 psu

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added 250 gig hd to computer and removed the 40 gig thats about it

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:)

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Re: Your System - September 2004

2.5 years from install without me screwing up the OS is a record! XP = good

Apple 1GHz PowerPC G4 eMac, 640MB SDRAM
Mac OS X 10.3.5

Comcast HSI w/
Netgear WGR614 v 4 w/ v5.0_2 firmware, Motorola Surfboard 5120

there.

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Intel Pentium 333Mhz with MMX
Onboard Graphics 16mb
Packard Bell Mobo
Win95
14" Monitor
combo Sound/Modem card
Dialup
That's my kick ass system
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Very first build on a budget:
Apex Supercase SQ310 Black
Rhycom 500w dualfan PS
Biostar M7VIZ Motherboard
Athlon xp 2100+
768mb DDR
40gb Hitachi Deskstar (added) 60gb Maxtor
Nvidia GeForce 5200/w64mb ddr
2 case fans
Floppy
CDRW/DVD
(just added)Round ATA & floppy cables

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Just assembled this system yesterday, and am playing around with it before phasing out my old box in a couple weeks:

Antec P160 Silver Aluminum Mid-Tower w/2 120mm fans
AMD Athlon 64 3500+, Newcastle Core (Socket 939)
ASUS A8V Deluxe
(2) Corsair Value Select PC3200 DDR 512 (1GB total)
(2) Samsung 160GB SATA (currently RAID 0 for testing but will make 2nd drive separate and removable for backups)
LiteOn Black 52x32x52x16 Combo Drive
Pioneer Black DVR-108 DVD+RW/-RW Drive
ATI Radeon X800 Pro, 256 MB DDR3, 8X AGP
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 410 watt PSU
Thermaltake SilentTower Heatpipe CPU Cooler CL-P0025
Arctic Silver 5
Windows XP Professional
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My Newest (built yesterday)

AMD Athlon64 2800+ (AMD for life!)
Chaintech VNF3-250
Chaintech Nvida 5900XT
2x512 DDR400 (Corsair)
16X DVD-Rom Samsung
12x10x32x Lite-On CDRW
40GB Western Digital Drive
80GB Western Digital Drive
Raidmax Case 420w PSU

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MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R
A64 3200+
Cosair XMS
Antec True Power 550
nVIDIA 6800 Ultra:)