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Your System - January 2004

Just rebuilt my 'flagship'! Here's what she looks like now:

Recycled Pieces
Case: Lian-Li
Video: nVidia GeForce 2 Ti500 64MB
Audio: SoundBlaster Audigy Gamer
Speakers: Klipsch 4.1
Monitor: Samsung 19" SyncMaster 955DF
Printer: HP LaserJet 1100
All-in-One Printer/Scanner/Color Copier: Epson Stylus CX3200
DVD: LiteOn LTD-163
CD-RW: LiteOn LTR-24102B
2 x 60 GB Western Digital 7200 RPM HDDs
Windows XP Pro for the OS

[ADDED/REPLACED]
Asus A7N8X Deluxe Mainboard
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
1 GB Corsair PC3200LL DDR (running in dual-channel mode)
2 x 120 GB WD SATA drives in a RAID 0 config (boot drive!)
... for a 240GB Drive C

You should see the out-of-the-box benchmarks!
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reply to dragon
Case: Xaser III Black
Motherboard: P4C800-E Deluxe
CPU: P4 2.8 ghz
RAM: Corsair 1 gig DDR 400 PC 3200
Video: ATI Radeon 9800 pro
Audio:Audigy 2 ZS sound card
Speakers: Logitech Z-680's
Monitor: Viewsonic Graphics series G220fb
Printer: Canon S-900
DVD : LiteOn
CDRW: LiteOn LTR-52327S
Hard drives: Two Maxtor 120 gig, 8mb cache 7200 rpm SATA
Power supply: Kingwin devine power 450 Watt
Windows XP pro

(Added) Zalman CNPS7000A-AlCu
(Added)Arctic cooler VGA silencer
(Added) APC Back UPS XS 1500 865 Watts

Keizer

reply to dragon
Bold = New or changed since last time

Chieftec silver aluminum workstation tower, 420W PS
MSI 865PE Neo2-FIS2R (MS-6728) motherboard
Intel P4 2.4C 800FSB (@ 3.2-GHz)
AVC Sunflower2 HSF
1-GB (2x512-MB) Kingston DDR400

2x80-GB Seagate Barracuda IV hard drives
Lite-On 16X DVD-ROM
Lite-On 52x32x52 CD-RW
3.5" floppy drive
Visiontek Xtasy 6564 GF3 Ti200 64-MB (AGP 4X)
Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! PCI
ATI TV Wonder VE television tuner card

21" Hitachi monitor
4.1 surround speaker setup
Dell QuietKey keyboard, IBM scroll mouse USB
Windows XP Pro
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Peace,
Mike

reply to dragon
Original:
Antec SX830, TrueBlue 350W w/ side window, 4x80mm blue LED case fans
Abit NF7-S rev 1.2
Athlon XP2500+, Alpha PAL8045 w/ 80mm Antec blue LED
2x512MB Corsair XMS PC3200
80GB Maxtor
16x DVD-ROM
Lite-On 48/12/48 CD-RW
21" Dell-branded Trinitron CRT
Windows XP
onboard network adaptor

Replaced:
Western Digital 40GB with Western Digital 80GB 8MB cache
GeForce3 Ti200 64MB with PNY GeForce4 Ti4400 128MB
Audigy MP3 with onboard sound
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reply to dragon
Specs of 2k4

Stuff not shown on report thing:

Antec SolutionSeries case (Model #(?) SLK3700AMB)
Antec TruePower 350W (Came with case)
Creative Inspire 5.1 (5 sats + sub) 5300 series speakers
CPU is overclocked from 1733Mhz (Idle avaraged just under 100 F)
GPU is overclocked from 250/513
3 case fans
Volcano 9 @ 3700-3900 RPM

Nothing major changed since Xmas except for another 512MB RAM..

reply to dragon
I'm currently in the process of aquiring new parts for my old HP rig. Not the best case in the world for expanability but it's doing better than I expected.

HP 762n
2.26GHz Pentium 4|533MHz FSB|512KB L2 Cache
512MD PC2100 DDR SDRAM
WD 80GB HD|5400RPM|2MB Cache (primary)
WD 120GB HD|7200RPM|8MB Cache (secondary)
CyberDrive CW058D 32x/10x/40x CD-Writer
Lite-On LTD163 16x DVD Drive
Floppy Drive
128MB Radeon 9600 N/P
Lucent 56K V.90 WinModem
On-board NIC
Polk Audio Speakers
Avance AC97 on-board sound

HP mx75 17" Flat Screen Monitor (.25 dp)
HP DeskJet 5550

Bold indicates new parts. I'm currently in the market for a new soundcard, speakers, and DVD burner. I'm also thinking about swapping drives changing the 120 to the master and 80 to a slave.
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reply to dragon
Case: X-Dreamer Added
Motherboard: Ga-7n400-L
CPU: 2600+ Barton unlocked Added
RAM: Kingston ValeRAM pc3200 2x256mb Added
Video: ATI Radeon 9600xt Added
Audio: Onboard
Speakers: Miyako's w/ Subwoofer (really good) Added
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 17GLsi
Printer: Canon S-900
CDRW: Black Lite-On 52x32x52x
Hard drives: WD 60gb 2mb cache
Power supply: Pymax 400W Added
Windows XP pro
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Gordo74

reply to dragon
Items in Bold added or changed

LianLi PC-82 Case
Antec TruePower 430 PSU volt modded on 3.3v and 5v
WaterCooling on CPU & GPU water running @ 50f degrees
Intel P4 2.4c 800 fsb @ 3.23Ghz
Asus P4C800-E Motherboard fan on northbridge
512mb OCZ PC4200 RAM dual channel kit 1:1 @ 270fsb
Radeon 9800 Pro @ 450/360
Soundblaster Audigy 2
MyHD MDP-120 HDTV Card
2 Western Digital 80gig SE drives in Raid 0
Sony 4x4x24 DVD-RW
Sony 48x24x48 CDRW
Klipsch Ultra 5.1 system
ViewSonic VG800 LCD monitor
MS Natural Keyboard
MS Wireless Intellimouse Explorer

Think that about it for now.
-Jason
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reply to dragon
CPU: Athlon XP 2500+ Barton core running @2200 MHz.

Heatsink: Thermalright SLK-800U. Fan: 80mm Panaflow 46cfm.

Motherboard: ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Rev 2.0 BIOS 1005. Nforce 2 chipset.

ADDED RAM: 2 x Mushkin Level II 512mb of PC3500 running at 200fsb x 2 = 400 MHz DDR. 1gig total ram.

Video: ATI Radeon 9500pro. (made by ATI)

Soundcard: Soundblaster Audigy 2.

DVD/CD-RW: Lite-on Combo DVD/CD-RW LTC-48161H

Hard Drive: IBM GXP120 60gig ATA100 7200rpm.

Case: Directron/Super Flower SF-201T 3 window case w/ top fan, and 4 case fans.

Nexus/Vantec 4ch. 18w each. Fan controller.
2 Antec Blue LED 80mm, 2 Antec Tri-light 80mm, and 1 generic tri-light fans. 1 Blue 12" Cold Cathode.

Powersupply: 430w Antec True Power Series.

Monitor: Samsung 19" SyncMaster 955df.

Mouse & Keyboard Combo: Logitech Cordless MX Duo

reply to dragon
Well, I'm by no means as 1337 as any of you as I just decided to buy a Dell PC for $1400.

Quantity Part # Part Description
1 G0101 Processor, 80532, 3.0G, 512, 800FSB, SKN
1 7N242 Keyboard, 104, United States, SILITEK, Low Cost, Midnight Gray
1 W1668 Kit, Mouse, Personal System 2, 2BTN, Wheel, LOGITECH
1 X0956 Printer/Printer Accessories, Cable, USBD4B-10, Light, Black
1 U0970 Digital Video Disk Drive, 680M, 16X, IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics), 5.25" Form Factor, Hitachi LG Data Storage, Midnight Gray
1 4U829 Modem, V92, Internal, Data Fax, SOFT, DONJ, AMF
1 P1554 Card (Circuit), Multi-Media, Audio, 1394, SB0353
1 H1192 Compact Disk Read Write, 680M, IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics), 5.25" Form Factor, 48X, SONY, Midnight Gray
1 X2603 Card (Circuit), GRPHC, 128MB, R350, Professional, Dimension
1 P0151 Display, Cathode-Ray Tube, 17, Dual, E773C, Midnight Gray, Dell Americas Organization
1 N0738 Hard Drive, 80G, IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics), 7.2K, 80G/P, MXT-CAL
1 M1210 Assembly, Floppy Drive, 212, 2
1 R3534 FSD, Universal Serial Bus, 64M, M-SYSTEMS
1 J1894 Kit, Software, WP-PRDCT-STE11, England/English
1 N2999 Kit, Software, MNY-2K4, Standard, Original Equipment Mfgr., England/English
1 P2643 Kit, Software, MSENC-2K4, Original Equipment Mfgr., England/English
1 R2527 Kit, Software, Overpack, WXPPSP1A, Compact Diskette w/Documentation, England/English
1 G2876 Kit, DOC/DSK, Software, CYBERLINK, 4.14, Dimension
2 J0201 Dual In-Line Memory Module, 256, 400M, 32X64, 8K, 184

I believe that's about it...it's basically everything listed from the Dell Support site so I don't have to type it all out
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www.RampageHosting.com
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reply to dragon
New:
Asus PC800-E Dlx MB
Intel 3.2 GHz
1 Gig OCZ PC4000
2 WD 36 GB Raptors
ATI 9800XT
SB Audigy 2 Sound Card
Zalman CNPS7000A-AlCu
PC Powercooling 500W PS

However in hindsight I should have gotten the SB Audigy 2 ZS but when am I ever going to use a 7.1 speaker system.

Case is still the same silver full tower, same floppy, same LiteON CDRW and same Sony DVD +/-R and +/-RW.

reply to dragon
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reply to dragon
Dell 4600 with ~~~~
Pentium 4 2.8Ghz @ 800 FSB w/ht technology
256mb DDR @ 333mhz
17" E172FP Flat Panel Display
128mb DDR Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 Graphic Card
40GB 7200 RPM hard drive Apollo
Hitachi 16x DVD
48x32 Hitachi CD-RW
Soundblaster Live with 5.1
Altec Lansing ADA745 speakers
Intel Pro NIC

reply to dragon
My current system...

Amd k6 2 500 mhz
Epox or msi motherboard
384 mb sdram
Ati rage 3d pro 16mb agp card
Pci crystal sound card
16x lite on dvd rom drive
52x lite on cdrw drive
Avermedia tv98 tv card
Cheiftec case with 420 watt psu
15 gb hard drive, xp on it
160 gb hard drive
60 gb hard drive
Realtek nic 10/100

It screams!!!!

My xp 1800 system died a week ago, so did my video card with it.

Microsoft Windows XP Prof
Service Pack 1 5.1.2600

ASUS motherboard P4C800 Deluxe
Intel 875P Chipset INTEL Pentium 4 2.GHz

RADEON 9600 SERIES
Manufacturer : ATI Technologies Inc.
Video Memory : 128 MB

RAM : 1022 MB Total

Sound Card Creative EMU10K1 Audio Processor (WDM)
Manufacturer : Creative Technology, Ltd.

Network:3Com Gigabit LOM (3C940)

Liteon DVD:
Liteon cd-rw

Microsoft PS/2 Mouse

Drive Letter C
Volume Name :
Type : Fixed
File System : NTFS
Total Space : 111.78 GB
Free Space : 23.50 GB

Drive Letter D
Volume Name : New Volume
Type : Fixed
File System : NTFS
Total Space : 74.52 GB
Free Space : 43.27 GB

Drive Letter G
Volume Name :
Type : Fixed
File System : NTFS
Total Space : 38.33 GB
Free Space : 28.49 GB

MpegTV Station PCITV card

A+GPB 4OOW P4 AMD Power Supply ATX w/

5 Fans
no floppy drive

reply to dragon
Windows XP Pro SP1
Microsoft IntelliMouse (Optical)
Dell (Microsoft) Standard Keyboard
Altec Lansing 2.1 450 Watt

Custom Dream Star Case
17" CRT NEC
AMD Athlon XP Barton 2500+
MSI KT6 K7 MoBo
120 GB HDD Western Digital
CD-RW/DVD Combo --- Piece of CRAP
512 MB DDR PC 2700 Crucial
GeForce 4 Ti 4400 128 MB
(w/ Thermaltake G4-VGA Copper Cooler)
Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Digital
Broadcomm Onboard Ethernet
CAT6 Network Cable (w00p!!! lol)
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reply to dragon
replaced dell poweredge server's mainboard with intel's server board SE7501HG2...(i hate propriety systems!)
replaced dell power supply with I-STAR TC-500R8A 500W (Dual AC IN) Auto-Selecting 500W+500W Dual AC Input Redundant Power Supply
added another 1gig stick Kingston pc266 ram
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reply to dragon
Items in bold added or changed:

CPU: PIV 2.6C
HSF: Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu
Motherboard: Abit IS7
Memory: 2 x 256 DDR 3200
Hard Drive: Maxtor 120GB, 7200 rpm/8MB cache
Case: Antec Sonata
Video: Asylum nVidia 5600 Ultra 128MB
Sound: Creative Labs Audigy (original)
Speakers: Altec Lansing 621s (2.1)
Monitor: Gatewy VX920 (Mitsubishi Diamondscan 19")
Printer: HP 2110 PSC (All in one)
DVD: LiteOn LTD 163
DVDRW: LiteOn 811S (8X)
Mouse: Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2
Keyboard: Microsoft Multimedia
Network: Linksys WRT54G wireless router
Web-Cam: Logitech Quik-Cam
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Deeds, not words

reply to dragon
As of January 12th, 2004:

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 3.10 Drivers)
80GB 7200 RPM UDMA 100 Western Digital HD on Promise primary (master)
80GB 7200 RPM UDMA 100 Western Digital HD on Promise secondary (master)
JLMS (Lite-On) XJ-HD166S DVD-ROM Drive on VIA primary (master)
Pioneer DVD/CD Writer DVR-A06U on VIA secondary (master)
Generic 1.44MB Floppy Drive
17-inch NEC MultiSync LCD1765 LCD Monitor (new as of 01/12/04 -- replaces Princeton VL1715)
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 2048/256
OS Windows XP Professional SP1
VIA Drivers 4.49
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