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 Your System - September 2003

Post your system specs if you've built/bought a new system.

If you've changed your system, put "ADDED" next to the new component(s).

If you haven't changed anything - don't post!

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cyrus360
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Current System-

Windows 98 SE
Inwin Beige Case
3rd Party 300watt PSU
Gigabyte 7ZX 1.0
1GHz Athlon Tbred
512mb pc133 ram
64mb Geforce TI-4200
AOpen DVD-1640 PRO
CyberDrv CW058D CD-R/RW
Generic floppy
Maxtor 30gig HD
2-Vantec Stealth 80mm fans intake/exhaust ADDED
Evercool Whisper ND-18 HSF combo ADDED
Vantec System Exhaust Blower ADDED
KDS 17" Flat Screen monitor ADDED

New System-

WinXp Home
Chieftec Dragon Case-Black w/window
Enermax EG465P 431watt PSU
Pentium4 2.4GHz overclocked to 3.6GHz
Abit IC-7g MaxII
1gig Corsair Dual Channel pc3200
128mb Radeon 9800 Pro All-In-Wonder
2-80gig Maxtor Diamondmax Plus in Raid 0 config
Lite-On LTR-52246 CDR-RW
Sony DW-U10A-BK DVDR-RW
Corsair Hydrocool 200 watercooling setup
HItachi cm771 19" Flat Screen CRT
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chkrdflg
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Here are my two rigs.

System 1: (new memory)
ABS PC (everything's been changed except case & floppy)
Abit NF7 mobo
XP 1700+ (@2184 10.5x208)
Evercool 725 HSF
512 MB RAM 2x256 Corsair XMS 3200
TTGI 450W power supply
Toshiba DVD-Rom
Plextor 24/10/40 CD-RW
Leadtek G-Force 3 Ti200
Labtec 2.1 speakers
Optiquest Z70 17' Monitor
Windows XP Pro

System 2: (new video card)
Cheiftec Matrix Case
Side Window w/120mm intake fan
2 intake 2 exhaust 80mm fans
4 port fan reobus
2 4" Cold Cathodes
Abit NF7-S Rev. 2
XP 2100 T-bred B @ 2266mhz (206x11)
Evercool 725 HSF w/Artic Silver Ceramique paste(great stuff)
1 Gig Corsair XMS 3200 RAM
TTGI Aluminum 520W Power Supply(Directron)
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
40GB WD 8MB cache 7200
20GB Maxtor 7200
Sony CD-Rom
Plextor 12/10/32 CD-RW
Mitsumi floppy
ViewSonic E95 Monitor
Logitech Keyboard & Mouse
Boston Acoustic BA 4800 4.1 speakers
Windows XP Pro
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TKAT
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Main Computer:

Modified Case w/ window,fans,cathodes
XP Pro SP1
AMD XP2500+/333 Barton @ 2354mhz
ThermalRight SLK-800
Asus A7V600
512 MB Ram Corsair XMS PC3200/400
80GB Maxtor 7200 w/ 8 MB cache
450W PSU
Pioneer DVD-Rom
Lite-On CD-RW 52/24/52
Nvidia GF3 Ti500
19" CRT Flat Screen
Logitech MX700
Altec Lansing Speakers (5 piece surround sound/woofer)

Second Computer:

Generic Case - No Mods
XP Pro SP1
Intel 733mhz
Abit Mobo
128MB SD Ram
40GB Western Digital 7200rpm
250W PSU
Pioneer CD-Rom
Lite-On CD-RW 48/24/48
Nvidia GF2
17" CRT
Intellimouse Optical Mouse
Generic Speakers
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MajinKenshin
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UK


Main System: Battousai

Asus P4P800 Deluxe Motherboard
Pentium IV 2.6c @ 3.26Ghz
2x512MB DDR PC3200
Gigabyte Radeon 9700 Pro @380/337
SB Audigy 2 Platinum
Lian-Li PC75 Full tower case
Zalman 6 way Rheobus
Antec Truepower 480W PSU
Liteon DVD-ROM
Liteon 241040 CDRW
Sony DWU10A DVD+/-R/RW
2x20GB ATA133 7200rpm RAID 0
1x30GB ATA100 7200rpm
2x80GB ATA100 7200rpm
1x120GB ATA100 7200rpm
Samsung SynchMaster 900p 19" Monitor

Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro
Microsoft Exlporer mouse
Logitech Wingman Gamepad
Nostromo N50
1x Saitek PS2 Controller(EMS USB2)
Windows 2000 Pro SP2
Alcatel ADSL (512/256)
Pioneer/Mission THX-EX 7.1 HC Setup

2nd system: Sanosuke

Gigabyte SINXP1394 Motherboard
Pentium IV 1.8@2.4
512MB DDR PC2700
20GB 7200rpm
32xCD-ROM
Gainward Geforce 2 Pro
Inwin Q500 full tower chassis

3rd System: Yahiko

Asus CUV4X Motherboard
1xPentium III 1ghz
768MB PC133 SDRAM
8GB 5400rpm HDD
Cheapo graphics card
GlobalWin 802 modded chassis
[text was edited by author 2003-09-05 08:19:13]

gust334

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Asus A7N8X Deluxe, BIOS 1004
Athlon XP2400+/266, SLK-600 Heatsink
Corsair XMS2700LL 2x512, dual-channel
PNY GeForce FX 5900, 128MB, 8X AGP
WinXP Pro, SP1, patched
Antec 350W PSU, DigitalDoc 5
generic steel case, 4 Sunon thermally controlled 80mm fans
Sunon 120mm fan w/custom ductwork from side intake
40mm maglev fan added to stock heatsink on nVidia Northbridge
passive copper-petal sinks on power regulators, southbridge
Western Digital Caviar 60GB/7200/8MB
Pacific 24x10x40 CD-RW
??? 16x DVD-ROM
??? floppy


Mark_Venture

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Wilmington, DE

reply to dbmaven
Primary system....
InWin Q500A case
Antec TruePower 430 (430watt) power supply
Asus P4P800 Deluxe Motherboard(was P4PE/Lan/1394/SATA)
Intel P4 2.66Ghz/533fsb (OC to 2.8ghz)
Kingston HyperX PC3500 512Meg
Gainward Ultra/750-8X Golden Sample (Geforce4 Ti4800se 128Meg 8x VIVO AGP)
Hauppauge WinTV Theater PCI
Adaptec 2940U2W LVD PCI scsi card
SB Live! Value
Sony 3.5" 1.44meg floppy
qty 2 - 18 Gig IBM Tornado 18 LVD scsi drives
Qty 1 - 60 Gig Maxtor Diamond Max Plus ATA/100
Fujitsu M2513A 3.5" R/W optical (scsi)
Sony DDU1621 DVD Rom Drive (IDE)
Sony DRU-500A DVD+R/+RW/-R/-RW burner (IDE)
Philips 1208K CDRW (IDE)
Seagate ST06240 DDS4 (20/40gig) 4mm Dat tape drive (LVD SCSI)
HP Scanjet 4C Scanner (scsi)

Secondary System...
Antec Performance II series SX1040BII soho file server with Antec SmartPower SL400 (400 watt power supply)
Asus P4PE/Lan/1394/Sata Motherboard (from primary system, was generic P3 board)
Intel Celeron 2.2Ghz (OC to 2.9ghz) (was P3-600mhz/100fsb)
Micron PC-2700 512Meg Cas 2 (was 512Meg of Micron PC133 memory)
Geforce 2GTS 32Meg (was Trident 16Meg AGP)
Adaptec 2940UW PCI Scsi card.
USRobotics 56K Voice Host Internal (PCI) (was USR Sportster Voice 33.6K ISA)
Mitsumi 3.5" 1.44meg floppy
Maxtor Ultra Series 80 Gig (ATA/133)
Maxtor Ultra Series 120 Gig (ATA/133)
Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 60 Gig (ATA/100)
LiteOn LTR52327s 52/32/52 CDRW (ide)
Hitachi GD-3000 DVD Rom (ide)
Archive Python 04106 DDS3 (12/24gig) 4mm DAT tape drive (wide scsi)

Third System...
InWin Q500a case with 300watt power supply
Abit BX6r2 mother board
Intel P3-700Mhz/100FSB
512Meg total Micron PC133 CL3 ram
ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 64Meg AGP
Adaptec 2940 SCSI
SB Live! Value
Intel Pro/100 network card
Belkin 2 Port USB 2.0 PCI adapter (F5U219)
40 Meg IBM Deskstar DTLA-307045 (IDE)
Delta 12x DVD Rom
IBM DDS2 (4/10gig) 4mm DAT Tape drive (SCSI)
Mitsumi 3.5" 1.44 Meg floppy


cyrus360
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WinXp Home
Chieftec Dragon Case-Black w/window
Enermax EG465P 431watt PSU
Pentium4 2.4GHz overclocked to 3.6GHz
Abit IC-7g MaxII
1gig Corsair Dual Channel pc3700 UPDATED
128mb Radeon 9800 Pro All-In-Wonder
2-36GB WD Raptors in RAID 0 config UPDATED
Lite-On LTR-52246 CDR-RW
Sony DW-U10A-BK DVDR-RW
Corsair Hydrocool 200 watercooling setup
HItachi cm771 19" Flat Screen CRT
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lucas3735

join:2003-03-08
reply to dbmaven
iBook
800mhz G3
640 ram
32 vram
airport wireless card
30gb hard drive
cd rom drive
12.1 inch screen


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My incomplete system (donations accepted ):

MSI K7N2-Delta L
Chieftec GF4 MX440, 64mb (I don't "game")
Lite-On 16x DVD-Rom drive
MSI CD52-M CD-RW drive (in a few days)
Antec SLK3700AMB, 350w PS
Western Digital SE 80gb, 8mb cache HD
17" Trinitron monitor
Logitech Elite keyboard and Logitech optical Mouseman
WinXP Pro

Planning on getting AMD's XP2500+ (Barton) (this week also, I hope... ??) and either 512mb or 1gb RAM ((2) sticks for DDR), either PC2700 or PC3200.
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(This system brought to you in part by Rally1 and the people here at hardware help )

-Primary-
Codegen 350w PSU
Asus A7N8X Dexluxe Mobo
Crucial 2x256MB PC3200 Dual Channel DDR DIMMs
AMD Athlon XP 2800+ "Barton"
Western Digital 160GB w/ Promise RAID 0 PCI Card
Sound Blaster Audigy 2
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
Digital Doc 5+
Viewsonic 19' A90F+ CRT
Lite-on 52x CD-ROM

-Secondary-
Dell T450
450 Mhz P3
224 MB PC133 SDRAM
32MB GeForce MX400
Maxtor 20GB HD (added)
17' Dell M320 Monitor

Theres more..but this post is getting long.


ExtremeODD
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current/only system

Win xp home
Alienware Dragon Case
Cheiftech 420 watt psu
xp 2400+ @ 11*190
Asus a7n8x dlx rev 1.4
1gig sammy pc2100
rad 9800pro 258, sapphire
lg dvd/cdrw combo drive
Generic floppy
WD 80gig HDD 7200 rpm caviar
coolermaster heat pipe cooler #1 (the one that sounds LOUD AS HELL, but gets 38c idle, changed from koolance exos cuz of problems)
3 intake generic fans
and a viewsonic 21in flatscreen moniter


khuong
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Schenectady, NY

reply to dbmaven
new system:

LiquidVideo 14ms 17" lcd
Altec Lansing 2100
Asus P4p800 deluxe
P4 2.4c @ 3.4
Zalman 7000a-cu
Radeon 9800 Pro
36gb 10k RPM Sata
Corsair 2x 256 pc3700
MS Optical Explorer mouse/keyboard
Enermax 350watts Rev2
Lian Li PC82 Window
LG DVD/CDRW
Windows Xp Pro

(pc is running SANDRA burn-in 12hours/day)


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reply to dbmaven
System (primary):
Athlon XP 1800+
Abit KR7A Motherboard 266fsb
512mb Mushkin PC2100 ram
GeForce TI 4600 4x AGP
Firewire/USB2.0 Combo Card
Avermedia Studio TV Tuner
Hercules GameTheaterXP 7.1 Sound Card
Klipsch Promedia 5.1 Sound System
Highpoint 470 Raid Controller
2 Maxtor 80gig 8mb cache Drives on Raid0
1 Western Digital 80gig 8mb cache HDD
1 Seagate 40gig 2mb cache HDD
Samsung 52x24x52 CDRW
Optorite 4x DVD +/- R/RW drive
Quantum fireball LS20gig HDD (not hooked up)
Samsung 16x dvd Drive (not hooked up)
Belkin 10/100 NIC
Antec Performance Plus II AMG Soho 1080
Antec 420watt TruPower
GemStar 19" CRT @ 1280x1024
Microsoft Windows XP PRO sp1
Sennheiser HD497 Headphones
I think thats it, then again, who is going to read this =)

System2:
HP N5415 Laptop soon to be attained
900mhz Duron
256mb ram
winxp Home
8mb video
14.1" display
10gig HD
More info when I get the Laptop =)
[text was edited by author 2003-09-10 22:38:43]


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Despise (main system)
Cooler Master ATC-210-VX
Soyo SY-KT333 Dragon Ultra
AMD Athlon XP 2200+ 1795.585MHz
512mb DDR 2100 ram
1 Maxtor 80gb Diamond Max 9
1 Western Digital 40gb
Philips CDRW 2400
Running Gentoo with a 2.4.20 custom compiled kernel
KDS Xflat 17" monitor

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rockinturbo

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Fort Wayne, IN


reply to dbmaven
Asus A7N8X 2500+xp [amd] asus fx5600 1 gig cosaire 3200[new] seagate 160 gig/8 mb chenming tower w/window new flame fan cover running xp pro second rig just finished redoing,msi kt7 ultra with a 2100 xp+ 1030 gigs total 3x's w-d 120 w/8 mb ,3x's w-d 40's raided,w-d 80 gig ,w-d 60 gig,maxtor 160 gig,maxtor 250 usb 2.0,ata 133 card,gf4 440,1.25 gigs kingston ddr 2100,600 watt PS
[text was edited by author 2003-09-11 15:28:27]


spyfy

join:2001-11-03
Bowling Green, KY

reply to dbmaven
AMD Athlon XP 2800+
MSI KT4V MB
2x512MB Kingston HyperX PC3500 DDR Ram
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128 Video Card
Maxtor 40GB 7200RPM HD
Memorex DVD Drive
Panasonic CD Burner
19" Samsung Flat screen monitor
Antec Performance Plus 1080AMG Case
Creative Inspire 2500 2.1 speakers
Logitech USB headset


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My old AMD 850 died, leaky caps fried 2 PSU's before I figure out what was going on.

This P4 2.4G 800FSB is so quiet my wife thought it was off.
It runs so much cooler than the old AMD, I am a convert.
Old equipment moved over is a 8500LE 128 video, 30GB Maxtor as a backup drive that is left powered off, 20GB Quantum as master, 50x CDROM, Phillips CR/RW 50x, and an old IxMicro TV capture card.

Built in 6 channel sound and digital, Nic, IR, 4 firewires, 8 USB on the new MOBO. Bought locally, I wanted it now, not later.
Nspire 350W dual fan, temp controlled, with blue night lite
I N T E L (R) A C T I V E M O N I T O R

System Information Report
09/13/03 9:15:39 PM

***************************************************************************
General Information
***************************************************************************
Product name Intel(R) Desktop Board D865PERL based system
Board model Genuine Intel(R) D865PERL system board
OS version Windows* Me version 4.90 build 3000
OS memory 522,956 KB RAM

***************************************************************************
Processor
***************************************************************************
Processor Genuine Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Processor
Processor speed 2.40 GHz
Bus speed 800 MHz
L1 cache Data Cache 8KB, Execution Trace Cache 12K Micro-ops
L2 cache Advanced Transfer Cache 512 KB
Form factor Socket 478
Stepping 9

***************************************************************************
System
***************************************************************************
Physical memory 512 MB RAM
Memory speed DDR400
Memory type DDR, Synchronous
Form factor DIMM
BIOS date 05/20/2003
BIOS size 512 KB
BIOS version P07 (RL86510A.86A.0056.P07.0305201221)

***************************************************************************
Sensors
***************************************************************************
Sensor Name System Fan 1
Current Value 3071
Upper Threshold not applicable
Lower Threshold not applicable

Sensor Name System Fan 2
Current Value 2059
Upper Threshold not applicable
Lower Threshold not applicable

Sensor Name Processor Zone
Current Value 133
Upper Threshold 158
Lower Threshold not applicable

Sensor Name System Zone 1
Current Value 109
Upper Threshold 122
Lower Threshold not applicable

Sensor Name System Zone 2
Current Value 118
Upper Threshold 122
Lower Threshold not applicable

Sensor Name +12 V
Nominal Value 12.000
Current Value 12.000
Upper Threshold 13.200
Lower Threshold 10.800

Sensor Name +5 V
Nominal Value 5.000
Current Value 5.026
Upper Threshold 6.000
Lower Threshold 4.000

Sensor Name +3.3 V
Nominal Value 3.300
Current Value 3.266
Upper Threshold 4.300
Lower Threshold 2.300

Sensor Name CPU Core (+1.52 V)
Nominal Value 1.525
Current Value 1.494
Upper Threshold 2.325
Lower Threshold 0.725

Sensor Name CPU I/O (+1.5 V)
Nominal Value 1.500
Current Value 1.445
Upper Threshold 2.300
Lower Threshold 0.700

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[text was edited by author 2003-09-14 01:55:36]


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As of September 13th, 2003:

AMD Athlon XP 1700+ @1.48 GHz (Not Overclocked)
ASUS A7V133 Motherboard With BIOS Version 1010 Beta--Board Revision 1.05 (no dot)
Mid-Tower Case with 430W Antec TruePower PS
TrippLite OmniSmart 725VA UPS
1GB PC-133 SDRAM CL3
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB DDR SDRAM (Catalyst 3.5 Drivers)
60GB 7200 RPM UDMA 100 Maxtor HD on Promise primary (master)
40GB 7200 RPM UDMA 100 Maxtor HD on Promise secondary (master)
16x BusLink (LiteOn LTD-163D) DVD-ROM Drive on VIA primary (master)
Pioneer DVD/CD Writer DVR-A06U on VIA secondary (master) *ADDED*
Generic 1.44MB Floppy Drive
17 inch Sylvania Flat Screen Monitor (1024x768@85Hz)
Netgear FA311/FA312 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
Motorola SB4100 Cable Modem
Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
Creative Inspire 5.1 5200 Computer Speaker System
HP 3400CSE USB Scanner
Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer (USB)
Fellowes Ergonomic Mouse Pad
Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard (PS2)
Gravis Blackhawk Joystick (Game Port)
Microsoft Sidewinder Joystick (USB)
HP 932C Printer
ISP Charter Pipeline 1500/128
OS Windows XP Professional SP1
VIA Drivers 4.46 (AGP only)
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reply to dbmaven
Asus A7N8X Dulex nForce2 SPP/MCP-T (500W PSU)
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton)
1 GB (2 pcs 512) PC2700(DDR333)
Asus nVidia GeForce FX V9560 /TD
Creative SoundBlaster Audigy2
SATA RAID(0) Duel Western Digital Raptors
120GB Western Digital 7200RPM 8MB Cache
CD-RW:20x12x20x DVD:12x48x ZIP:100 Floppy
Klipsch THX 2.1 200W Speakers

Items bolded are new! =P Also although I have an extra amd, but I have been too lazy to upgrade any other systems as of yet.
[text was edited by author 2003-09-14 12:29:14]
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