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HP a6203w

Asus a6203 Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Processor 2.3GHz
2 GB 5700 Ram
Nvidia GT 220 1GB with HDMI ports
320GB SATA and 120GB IDE
2 DVD-ROM/CD.. can't remember the speed

Those are the basic specs. Built by HP but never had a problem with any HP I've bought or worked on. Paid 500 or so for the whole system 3 years ago.. might spend another 800-1k this year for a newer but similar system. Still on the factory build all these years and I've put it through alot but having to rebuild it as I type on another almost scrap Compaq laptop. Still boots if it's cold strange indeed.
 
Dell Optiplex GX620 tower
Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHZ with Hyperthreading, 2MB Cache
4GB of Consumer Grade PC5300 RAM
1 Samsung DVDR Drive
1 OEM CDRW Drive
1 1TB Seagate 7200 RPM Hard Drive SATA
1 40GB WD OEM Hard Drive SATA
Running Windows XP Pro

Total Investment: $85 for the 1TB Hard Drive - all the rest from other scrapped computers from work.
 
Old System. Has been running for 5-6yrs. I am finally getting a BSOD randomly, so it was time for a new one.

ASUS A7N8X-X Motherboard
AMD Athlon 2500+ "Barton" OC'd to 3200+ from day one @ 1.8volts
Kingston DDR400 1.5 GB
XFX Geforce 4 Ti4200
Creative labs Audio card
Random Firewire Card
Lite-On Cd and DVD drives
WD 80 GB HD (original that died after 4yrs was a Maxtor 120GB)
Antec True Power 550 watt PSU (Original was a 350watt PSU that went low on the 3.3v rail)
Antec Case (forget the name)
Thermaltake Volcano 11 Cooler
Samsung 17" LCD monitor
Windows XP Pro


Laptop:

Mac Powerbook G4 Running OSX 10.5.8. 1.5 Ghz PPC, 1 GB Ram.(work freebie)

Old Laptop:
Dell Inspiron B130. 1.5 Ghz Celeron, 1.5 GB DDR2 RAM

I have a spare Dell Tower in the closet that I will probably give to the wife's grandparents. Pentium 4, Decent spec (work freebie)

Current Build:

Asus 23" LCD monitor
Antec P183 Case
Antec CP-850 PSU (specially for Antec's CPX line of cases)
Lite On DVD and CD-RW drive
640 GB WD Caviar HD. 7200rpm, 32mb Cache, SATA
AC Freezer 64 Pro Cooler (huge!)
Kingston HyperX 4 GB DDR3 1600
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2 Ghz (no OC yet)
ASUS M4A79XTD EVO
ASUS Geforce 9500GT GFX Card
Windows 7 Pro


Pretty clean inside too :)

 
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AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (1.4Ghz)
DDR 266 RAM (1GB)
120GB Seagate 7200.7 HD
CDRW (not DVDRW)
GeForce Ti4200
19" Samsung SynMaster 900NF CRT

Windows 2000 makes it super fast.
 
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I had an amazing quad core desktop computer. It had all of the bells and whistles. I've been building my own computers since 1997, so this was about my 12th system. I realized that I don't do anything particularly intensive with it, so I parted it out and bought a cheap laptop from my friend and have been happy with it since.
 
I have a home built desktop running off an AMD processor that's about 6 years old and runs great.

I mainly use a 5 year old HP laptop to surf the web and post here!
 
I have an Acer Extensa 5230E laptop as my desktop. This is a $249 Best Buy Black Friday special. It used to have a Celeron 900 2.2GHz processor and 2GB of RAM. It now has 3GB of RAM (cost to me $0 as I swapped a chip with my wife's Dell D620, bringing her down from 4GB to 3GB) and a Pentium Dual Core T4300 at 2.1GHz which absolutely screams ($41.66 on eBay, heckuva deal).

This laptop is sitting in my keyboard tray running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit with a 4-port USB hub plugged into it providing power and data to the following:

Dell PS/2 keyboard (through a PS/2 to USB adapter)
Logitech optical USB mouse
Kodak camera dock for my C643
eMachines 2-watt USB speakers
Micro Innovations Basic Webcam
Logitech Clearchat Pro USB headset

The on-board X4500MHD Intel graphics power an ASUS 23.6" display at 1920x1080 to give me full 1080p HD for movies. I play several games on this system including GTA San Andreas, Need For Speed Underground 2, and the Pixar Cars and Cars Mater-National.

I also have an eMachines eMD620-5177 Wal-Mart el cheapo special for portable use. It is running Vista Home Basic with 1GB of RAM and an AMD Athlon 64 2650e processor at 1.6GHz. I'm trying to replace that 2650e with a dual-core in the same family, like a 4050e, 4450e, or possibly even a 4850e. There's some business-class chips that would work, too, like the BE2350 or BE2400 or 4450B. But I keep getting out bid on them on eBay so it hasn't happened yet. I also want to add a 2GB memory chip to get it up to 3GB as well. 3GB is always enough for me no matter what computer I'm on and Home Basic won't recognize 4GB anyway.

My wife has the Pièce de résistance in the household, a $1200 custom built speed demon. Some of the pieces in this beast include:

Foxconn Flamingblade X58 motherboard (not the cheap GTI model either)
6GB of DDR3-1333 memory
Intel Core i7-920 processor overclocked to 3.5GHz
Corsair TX850W power supply
XFX-ATI HD4890 video card with 1GB of on-card memory and dual DVI outputs
Antec p182 case with hours of time put into hiding cables
Windows 7 Home Premium, Office 2007 Enterprise, CS4, tons of productivity and work software, and NO GAMES

She loves her computer because it's faster than she is. I love my computer because it's almost as fast as I am.
 
Originally Posted By: PandaBear
AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (1.4Ghz)
DDR 266 RAM (1GB)
120GB Seagate 7200.7 HD
CDRW (not DVDRW)
GeForce Ti4200
19" Samsung SynMaster 900NF CRT

Windows 2000 makes it super fast.


Hey man don't knock Win2K. I personally think it was the first good end user OS from MS.

I'd still use it on an older box. It's rock solid.
 
Yeah, my old laptop came with 2000. (A Dell C610 1.2GHz Pentium III, 1GB Ram, 60GB HDD) Good OS, never had a problem with it. I just got bored so I installed Gentoo on it. :P
That way I could take it to school and do an `emerge -uaD world` and make it flood the screen with text. People thought I was hacking.
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my pc is a mac. Works great. Got a dell laptop around the same time, has traveled with me almost as much as the mac... has suffered a failed pcmcia slot, and a HDD...

knock on wood the mac has been fine.
 
Case: A+ El Diablo
Motherboard: Biostar A770 A2+
Memory: Rendition (Crucial) 4gb (4x1gb) DDR2 800
CPU: AMD Phenom 9600 2.3ghz quad core
GPU (video card): EVGA Nvidia GeForce 9500GT 512mb
HDD: Hitachi Deskstar 500gb 7200rpm SATA
Power supply: Rosewill Green Series RG-430 430 watt
Optical (cd drive): NEC 16x DVD+/-R IDE (took it from my old computer since it still works)
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Sound: Turtle Beach Riviera pci
Cooling: CPU- included with processor. Case- Cooler Master 120mm for exhaust fan, case came with intake fan and side fan. Computer is actually very quiet, when I put it together I choose fans with low decibels.
 
Athlon 3700
2GB RAM
2x 120gb WD in RAID 0 for main storage, 250gb external for backups, 60gb external for [censored]
DVDRW
GeForce 6600
Old [censored] 19" Compaq CRT
Lexmark X4530 for prints/scans

Running Vista until I can get a Molex to SATA power adapter for the new DVDRW, then I will upgrade to Win7

Does everyday stuff fine. It's a culmiation of stuff from 6 years to 1 year old.
 
Originally Posted By: labman
An old beige case, Athlon 3500+, PCChips board with Nvida Gforce chip, 1 gig RAM, Seagate 80 gig HD

Oh, skipped the MS tax, Debian


Interesting how many roll your own. I spent less than $200 on mine 2 years ago.
 
Originally Posted By: Buffman
Old System. Has been running for 5-6yrs. I am finally getting a BSOD randomly, so it was time for a new one.

ASUS A7N8X-X Motherboard
AMD Athlon 2500+ "Barton" OC'd to 3200+ from day one @ 1.8volts
Kingston DDR400 1.5 GB
XFX Geforce 4 Ti4200
Creative labs Audio card
Random Firewire Card
Lite-On Cd and DVD drives
WD 80 GB HD (original that died after 4yrs was a Maxtor 120GB)
Antec True Power 550 watt PSU (Original was a 350watt PSU that went low on the 3.3v rail)
Antec Case (forget the name)
Thermaltake Volcano 11 Cooler
Samsung 17" LCD monitor
Windows XP Pro

Glad to see a "Barton" XP run long term at 1.8VCore. Lets me know I picked the right place to stop when I was OC'ing the new router machine.. It was almost stable at 2500MHz actual clock but Prime95 failed 64 hours in. Being that it has to run 24/7/365 that was unacceptable and I wasnt wiling to bump VCore any more, so I pulled it back to 2400MHZ. It did P95 for 200 hours at that clock so I called it good.

Side note: I noticed I typoed the clock on my EeePC. Its 1.66GHz, of course, not 2.66GHz. :P
 
Wow, I love Athlon XPs. Let me give you some history. A few years ago, I didn't know anything about computers, and took a class in maine in school. I built my first computer out of a few things the teacher had, and an ancient computer my parents had int he closet.
Case: Antec
CPU: Intel Pentium II- 400Mhz/slot 1
Mobo: Tyan S1854 Trinity 400
RAM: 512MB PC133 SDRAM
Graphics: Visiontek Radeon 9600SE 128MB/AGP
HDD: WD 30GB IDE
1x Plextor CD/RW IDE
1x TSSTCorp DVD/RW IDE
Antec Smartpower 350W PSU
Windows XP

ran this for about half a year, then upgraded to a Pentium III 600Mhz (Socket 370. The Tyan board had both a slot1 and a PGA370 socket on it) About a month later upgraded to a Pentium III 866Mhz. I was using a cooler off an AMD Athlon XP system.

About a year later, I found more parts, and built this...

Case: Antec
CPU: AMD Athlon XP "T-bred B" @ 2.25Ghz
Mobo: ECS Elitegroup K7S5A
RAM: 1GB DDR2-333
Graphics: Visiontek Radeon 9600SE
HDD: Maxtor 160GB/ WD 30GB
PSU: Antec Smartpower 350W

Loved that computer, still sitting in the basement waiting for a use.
 
Ah! A K7S5A! My last Router/Server had one of those. Decent board. (Though I assume you meant DDR-333) Watch the capacitors, they like to go. Thats why I had to remove it from service as a couple are split and the majority are bulging.
http://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=9177
I am actually planning on recapping that one as well, just as a backup as it does not take a lot of power to run linux and iptables. I have not gotten around to it yet, though...
You should check yours over. They even go bad sitting, thats how [censored] the caps are. You should also check that Antec as well; they like using bottom of the barrel caps too, especially for one as old as that one.
 
Originally Posted By: Colt45ws
Ah! A K7S5A! My last Router/Server had one of those. Decent board. (Though I assume you meant DDR-333) Watch the capacitors, they like to go. Thats why I had to remove it from service as a couple are split and the majority are bulging.
http://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=9177
I am actually planning on recapping that one as well, just as a backup as it does not take a lot of power to run linux and iptables. I have not gotten around to it yet, though...
You should check yours over. They even go bad sitting, thats how [censored] the caps are. You should also check that Antec as well; they like using bottom of the barrel caps too, especially for one as old as that one.



Hah so much here... Yeah, I just noticed I said DDR2, it was just straight PC2700 DDR. And last I looked, there was at least 1 capacitor bulging, I may have a photobucket pic somewhere from when I was active on pchelpforum.com. The antec power supply died a grim death. The 12V was so low the computer kept restarting. I replaced it with an HEC Orion unit (that is now in the old gateway). But I just bought a new Antec NeoEco 400C, and it seems like great quality. It was a $60 power supply, I got it for $40 with free shipping (yay newegg). I think 360w on the 12V rail, and 80plus silver certified.
 
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