The crappiest rig of anandtech forums

[munisgtm]

my rig is
P4 1.6
intel D845 glly
onboard intel graphics
onboard sound
40 gb segate
17 inch IBM crt (got for 38$ here in pk)
2x128 SD ram

 

[PurdueRy]

There is a LOT worse than yours

 

[halfadder]

The oldest PC I still use on a daily basis.....
Dell Optiplex GX1
1.3 GHz P3 with 512 KB cache via "slocket"adapter (faster than your P4)
((original CPU was a 350 MHz PII))
Intel 440BX chipset
512 MB of PC100
Onboard discrete ATI RagePro 4 MB graphics
Onboard discrete 3Com 3c905b 100mbit ethernet
Onboard discrete Crystal CS4236B audio
6.5 GB Seagate Medalist Pro HD (UltraATA 33)
Toshiba CD-ROM drive
19" Samsung 930b LCD monitor

It's actually an amazingly fast machine (although I did upgrade the CPU and RAM). The graphics, sound, and ethernet are on the motherboad, but they are all dedicated chips on the PCI bus, so they're fast! No shared memory crap!

This is my rock solid reliable oldschool machine for when my XP or OS X machines are acting up. On the software side:
Windows 2000
Office 2000
Visual C++ 6.0
Adobe Acrobat Pro 6.0
Winzip 9.0

 

[harobikes333]

Omg dude!!!!!

You have no Idea

I have a intel celeron runnin at a whoppin 780MHz!!!!!!! with upgraded 333Megabytes of ram>_< integrated vid, music, etc.
a mx50 crt(its like 13 in!!! , tiny satalite speakers (made by polkaudio)

so ya ... don't complain

EDIT: O, and my Hdd is a huge 20gigs...(though it only shows about 18 on the computer with (now after nuke of computer I have 11GB left...

 

[halfadder]

The older machines I use/see on a weekly basis:

Sun SPARCstation 20
dual 75 MHz SuperSPARC II CPUs
192 MB RAM
2x 4.5 GB HD
Solaris 7
This machine has been doing the account management, email, and web hosting for a local ISP since 1996. The ISP has many faster, newer servers, but this old one does most of the grunt work for the shop.

Packard-Bell
50 MHz 486
A local engraving shop uses this with a DOS based program and an engraving machine to engrave name plates for trophies.

Apple IIe
1 MHz MOS 6502 CPU
Appleworks booted from a 5.25" floppy
data stored on a second 5.25" floppy
12" black/green CRT
This machine from about 1978 is used daily at a local library to print address labels on an old Apple Imagewriter dot matrix printer using pinfeed/tractorfeed address labels. Amazingly, the printer is still common enough that ribbons and labels are still available online.

 

[Amaroque]

The slowest systems I currently have running, are (2) Tbreds @ 2.2GHz, and (1) Barton @ 2.4GHz.

But, I still have parts to assemble fully functional (1) 486 DX 33MHz, and (2) P1 100MHz systems. :roll:

 

[halfadder]

I'm always amazed when someone's slowest machine is over 2.0 GHz! A 2.2 GHz AMD32, that's what, a 3200+?

I tend to have older machines in general. My MacBookPro is the fastest computer in my house/office by far. And it's 100 GB drive is the second largest, by far, in the house. My DirecTiVo (DirecTV TiVo DVR) has the largest hard drive in the house, 250 GB.

Most of my "newer" gear hovers around 1 GHz, 512 MB, and 40 - 80 GB!!

 

[Amaroque]

The reason all my machines are clocked high, is because I DC.

 

[munisgtm]

mannn the apple on is 1MHz mannnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!simply amazing tht these things are being used still
they should be collectibles right ?

 

[halfadder]

Originally posted by: munisgtm
mannn the apple on is 1MHz mannnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!simply amazing tht these things are being used still
they should be collectibles right ?

They should bronze it when it's finally retired!

1 MHz and it feels fast! Honestly! No GUI, just a text and ascii-artish interface. The main menu looks like file folder labels, all done in ascii art! There's something to be said for software hand-written in assembly code!

Way back when, this library used the same computer (or the same model anyway) for their card catalog and circulation computer. The printer was used to print bar code labels for the books, as well as overdue notices on regular paper. There as a little pen-type barcode reader (like what radioshack used to use at their checkouts) connected to the serial port. The software was an Appleworks database plus some library software extension/plugin. The library's inventory and patron data grew too large to fit on a 5.25" floppy, so they had a huge external 5 MB hard drive connected via another serial port. The HD eventually died and was replaced with with an external 40 MB SCSI-1 hard drive and some sort of funky Apple II SCSI card (even though they only used about 2 MB worth). Pretty wild stuff for an 8-bit computer! Today they only use the Apple IIe for printing address labels for various mailing lists, newsletters, announcements, etc. I don't know what happened to the harddrive(s). It works fast, it's simple, and the same person has been using it for almost 30 years! So hey, why change now?

 

[Mem]

Hehe my 3rd PC(backup PC) is 900mhz T-Bird with only 256mb ram ,ECS K7S5A Pro board, 18 GB HD,GF2 TI card,however still going strong .

 

[munisgtm]

my computer is kinda slowy nowadays with multiple applications(not tht much heavy any suggestions tht i can have better performance squeezed out from it ?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I have several older machines on my rack, the oldest of which is a P76.

I of course have to consider my laptop one of the slowest here. It's a P2-366 laptop, and it's used just for coding purposes, of which it works great for. Don't need much to run notepad.

 

[Jawo]

The oldest computer I still use is:
Dell Dimension 4100
733 MHz PIII
512 MB of PC 100 (upgraded!)
Onboard graphics, sound
40 GB WD Caviar
CD-ROM drive

Im suprised that Apple IIe's are still that popular!

 

[Raduque]

Originally posted by: halfadder
I'm always amazed when someone's slowest machine is over 2.0 GHz! A 2.2 GHz AMD32, that's what, a 3200+?

So am I. My fastest machine is a Pentium-M 2.26 laptop, and I just bought that little over 2 months ago! I just realized, all 3 of my other machines, are all 1.8ghz (2 Barton2500+ and 1 Sempron3100+).

 

[Tarrant64]

Anyone remember those "BigFoot" hard drives? yeah, I still got one of those lyin' around.

I got an AMD@800mhz and a PentiumII or III at 866mhz or something like that. Both with 128mb ram. I actually use one as file server so I guess it's not crappy with a little over half a terabyte for storage.

 

[theMan]

umm, i still use a 300mhz celeron with 256mb ram, an elsa erazor III video card, and a 20.4gb hard drive. i also use a pIII 1ghz lappy.

 

[A5]

I run a K6-2 400 as a router...my personal system is a dual core opteron

 

[herm0016]

i got a 286 running the best os ever.. win 3.1 32 mb ram, 1 gig hd, and a 466mgz celeron with a quantum bigfoot 8 gig, and a k6-2, and a p3 450 and a p1 (not sure on clock). sounds like there is still a lot of old hardware floating around out there.

 

[fire400]

pentium 1 MMX 133 MHz
64mb PC.066 RAM
2GB HD ATA66
4X CD-ROM
Turtle Beach Soundcard 2.1
Windows 95 w/USB support package
5 1/2, 3 1/2 floppy disk drives

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if you want older, ATARI gaming system!

 

[JPS35]

Atari 800 with 32K expandable memory cartridge
5 1/4" floppy drive
300 baud external modem

Ha Ha Ha!!!! What memories!!!

Used to think that Texas Instrument mini chicklet keyboard computer with 4k was pretty cool too. Overheated about every 2 minutes from playing frogger.

 

[Maximilian]

Pentium II 400mhz
Abit BX6-II
512 mb PC100 ram
geforce 4 ti 4400
4gb seagate medalist
10gb western digital caviar

Its gonna be used as a... somthing... itll have a use when i think of one.

 

[munisgtm]

the difference b/w u n me guyz is tht u guys have multiple rigs but only and only have one and primary rig tht i have stated before ....... im goin to have a new rig this summer i think it wud b 3700+ X1900xt 1 gig ram my bro is bringing it from uk cuz i libe in Pakistan here the prices are usually little higher than uk

 

[unfalliblekrutch]

my primary rig in siggy...comparable to yours

 

[secretanchitman]

i use my:

Intel Pentium II 266MHz w/ MMX
128MB of ram
30GB hard drive on a promise ata133 pci card
lite on 40x12x48x cd burner
voodoo3 16MB pci video (no agp)
floppy drive
integrated sound with the yamaha daughtercard - excellent i tell you, it was DEFINITELY worth the money
windows 2000 professional

its old yes, but i dont think its bad at all. runs win2k great and its nice and fast for snes/genesis emulation and runs diablo 2 and final fantasy 8 nicely!!!