Is your system unique?

[mattsaccount]

Do you think your computer is unique, at least on a hardware level? There are millions of PCs sold every year. Many are of the cookie cutter variety: they roll off the assembly line and use the cheapest, crummiest parts available.

But the systems most of us use--the ones we build ourselves--are likely rather more original.

Take mine:
P4 2.4C @ 2.91
2x512mb Corsair PC3200 XMS @2-3-3-6
Geforce 6800GT
3 hard disks: WD 200gb, IBM 45gb 75GXP (volume label: "unimportant data"), Seagate Barracuda II 30gb.
NEC 5700A DVD ROM
Lite-on 48246S 48x24x48 CDRW.

I suspect mine is probably unique, with the odd assortment of old (Seagate 30gb, NEC DVD ROM) and new (Geforce 6800GT) technology, but I'm not entirely sure. Given the variety of hardware available, I would say the chances that mine is not unique are quite low.

What about yours?

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

every single computer part made is mass producted and generic,reguardless. hence why your motherboard can work with a million different combos of ram sticks, cpus, and 4-6 pci cards and graphics cards.

my computer is generic.

 

[flexy]

hence why your motherboard can work with a million different combos of ram sticks, cpus, and 4-6 pci cards and graphics cards.

whow...interesting what you're saying here....totally contradicts the hundreds of people who have problems with THIS and THIS combination, hardware which does NOT run well with THIS motherboard etc..etc..... Basically you're saying it doesnt matter and everything runs fine with everything - which is of course totally wrong

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

Originally posted by: flexy

hence why your motherboard can work with a million different combos of ram sticks, cpus, and 4-6 pci cards and graphics cards.

whow...interesting what you're saying here....totally contradicts the hundreds of people who have problems with THIS and THIS combination, hardware which does NOT run well with THIS motherboard etc..etc..... Basically you're saying it doesnt matter and everything runs fine with everything - which is of course totally wrong

Oh jeeze, bad motherboard or chipset design makes one or two peices of hardware not work together, therefore the fact that any PCI card SHOULD work in any PCI slot is totally voided, is that your reasoning? Hardware is universal, a PCI card should work in any motherboard that supports PCI, unless under rare circumstances its a crummy card design, or motherboard. Same goes for any other component. My point still stands,

 

[SneakyStuff]

I've got a bunch of sticky backed felt covering the inside of my case, its like a big 70's shag carpet in there, but its O SO QUIET!

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

Originally posted by: SneakyStuff
I've got a bunch of sticky backed felt covering the inside of my case, its like a big 70's shag carpet in there, but its O SO QUIET!

you can't make this post without pictures, i demand pictures!

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Is your system unique?

Sure, because 70% of the dust accumulating in my filters is my dead skin and not someone else's

 

[WT]

DP, I told you to forget about that high flow 120mm fan in the front of your case ... its nobodies fault but your own !

Ohh, and I have a unique rig .. its my bench PC ... a 386/25 Gateway server case with an AT power supply, running a PC Chips Slot1/Socket370 board with a P3 1ghz CPU and a GeForce3 ... if you are familiar with the board, you know that this is indeed a rare sight. Most owners can't even get a GF2 to play with that board.

 

[Jpark]

Originally posted by: AWhackWhiteBoy

Originally posted by: SneakyStuff
I've got a bunch of sticky backed felt covering the inside of my case, its like a big 70's shag carpet in there, but its O SO QUIET!

you can't make this post without pictures, i demand pictures!

i second it!!!

 

[slpaulson]

Mine is just your standard issue overclocked 2500 XP...

 

[Paratus]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER

Is your system unique?

Sure, because 70% of the dust accumulating in my filters is my dead skin and not someone else's

Cat fur for me

 

[CraigRT]

not horribly unique, but i guess in a sense that probably no one else has the exact same computer part for part....

 

[Markfw]

I think mine is a little off beat. I have three computer case tied together with SCSI cables (U160) and over a terrable of storage. Main, SCSI disk array, and tape backup.(DLT's) But I am probably in the minority.

 

[sharkeeper]

Yes.

Cheers!

 

[imported_whatever]

somewhat, in that it is probably the worst graphics card in a system of its speed.
axp-m 2500+ 45W
nf7-s v2 with passive nb cooling cut from a passive p3 hs
2*256MB corsair xms ch-5 @2-3-2-11
leadtek gf4-mx440 8x 64MB
2*WD 80GB Special Edition drives
enermax 300W psu w/ modded fdd power (easy access for other things)
nec 2510 DVD +/- RW

for a while, it definately was unique. i was using my friend's 9700tx (dell pull) with the vmem directly off the psu (the fdd cable to be specific), fat ramsinks from the p3 hs that cools the nb and a vga silencer. but he ended up getting it back

so in short, more unique than most, but in it's current state im sure someone else has one like it. with the 97tx though, i dont think anyone else had the same setup.