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What Specs are you currently running on your best PC.

Mltsao

Banned
Athlon XP 2000+ Palomino Core
Soyo KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum
2x Cruical 256MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM
PNY Geforce 3
Lite-on 52x/24x/52x CDRW
160, 30 and 40 gig Maxtor Hard Drives all 7,200 RPM
Promise ATA133 PCI IDE card
Leadtek 2000XP Deluxe TV Tuner
Audigy 2 Retail
Logitech z-540 4.1 Speaker System


Im about to make some major upgrates and im interested in what you guys use. Please keep this thread clean and simple. Recommendations are appreciated!
 
Amd Athlon 1.333
ECS K7S5A
2X512 pc133 crucial
Nvidia Gforce4 ti4200
80,60,30 all 5200 drives
Avermedia Tvtunner
2 200 wat speakers a tunner a cd player ....ect
 
Intel PIII700@933
Asus CUSL2-C
512 megs PC133 SDRAM
ATI Radeon 32 DDR
Sony 52x/24x/52 CDRW
AOPEN 52x DVD
30gb IBM hard drive
Soundblaster Live 5.1

no speakers, as something crapped out on me and I lost sound 😀
 
athlon 950mhz
msi k7t pro2-a
512 mb pc133
msi ti4200 128mb
santa cruz

monsoon speakers/logitech keyboard+mouse (free wireless keyboard!)/17" crt (syncmaster 753df)

gonna upgrade cpu/mobo/ram/case soon. must play deus ex 2 when it comes out!!!!! and hl2 too. existing video card should still be pretty good.
 
Well, I just put the CPU's into a quad Xeon box.

Quad 550/1 MB, 1.5 GB ECC SDRAM, gigabit ethernet (64-bit PCI), LSIU160 SCSI (64-bit PCI), Fujitsu MAS series 15K RPM SCSI drive, etc.

Nice box.

🙂

Viper GTS
 
P4 2.4 Ghz (800 FSB)
Gigabyte MOBO GA-IK8100
2X256MB 3200 DDR at duel channel
ATI 9600 Pro
16XDVD Samsung drive
52X24X52 Justlink burner
200, 80 and 40 Gig HDs
Leadtek 2000XP Deluxe TV card
17" Benq LCD with built in speakers (2X2Watt)

 
Dual xp1900+
asus a7m266-d
1gb PC2100
Voodoo3 3000 16mb 🙁
52x Acer CD-Rom
(2)40gb maxtor 7200rpm
(2)80gb maxtor 5400rpm
Dell 1800fp
 
Athlon XP 2400+ @ 2800+ on stock voltage
Infineon 512megs of PC2700
Two 40gig maxtor 7200rpm hdd
5x dvd drive
24x10x40x lite-on cd burner
ATI Radeon 9200 128megs ddr
Inwin S500 case
Antec P303x power supply
Asus A7N8X mother board
LG StudioWorks 19" flatscreen CRT
 
Not fast, but it's DEFINITELY got capabilities.

XP1900
80gb Maxtor 2mb
160gb Maxtor 8mb
4x DVD-RW
52x CDRW
AOpen GF4 Ti4200 VIVO
256mb DDR
Enermax 350w
A7n8x Deluxe
Creative/Digicom Systems/Broadnexant winmodem
Promise Ultra133TX2
Alpha 8045T
Generic white midtower case
Generic white 19" monitor
A model of QuickCam that Logitech absolutely DENIES ever having made
Creative Inspire 4.1 speakers
Black Microsoft Internet keyboard
Black Microsoft Wheel Mouse optical
Mason model MTW-2000 AM/FM/LP/8 Track deck circa 70's/80's
Phillips/Magnavox VCR model VRA633AT21
Olympus Camedia C-4000
Generic casette deck
TI-Graph link USB (For TI83+ and TI89)
 
Duron 850 @ 1GHz thanks to Insane3D
IWill KK266-R thanks to Insane3D
384mb PC133 CL2 thanks to Insane3D
Maxtor D760X 60gb thanks to RossMAN
IBM 75GXP 45gb - dying, in the process of RMA with 1 month left 😀
WD 7200rpm 20gb
PleXWriter 12/10/32A
Creative Labs RivaTNT1
onboard sound
Intel 10bT NIC
Supra 56k modem for backup

 
P4 2.4c HT @ 3.0 GHz (waiting on my Zalman 7000cu to go higher)
Abit IS-7 (onboard USB2/firewire/gigabit LAN/SATA RAID1,0, i865PE)
1 GB (2x512) GEil Golden Dragon dual channel PC3500 DDR
Saphire Radeon 9700 Pro /w Chrome Orb (not overclocked, the stock fan just died)
4x Western Digital 7200 RPM 120GB IDE drives on a Promise SX6000 (w/ 128mb) in RAID-5
1x 18.2 GB Quantum Atlas III 10k RPM on an Adaptec 19160 PCI SCSI card
Liteon 48x24x48 CDRW IDE
Pioneer 16x DVD IDE
Phillips Siesmic Edge 5.1
Enermax 431 watt PSU
Chenming 901a full tower
Ipaq 802.11b USB Wi-Fi
MS wireless optical desktop
Sony wireless headphones
6-in-1 USB card reader
CTL 19" TF CRT & Mitsubishi 33" CRT
 
Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Well, I just put the CPU's into a quad Xeon box.

Quad 550/1 MB, 1.5 GB ECC SDRAM, gigabit ethernet (64-bit PCI), LSIU160 SCSI (64-bit PCI), Fujitsu MAS series 15K RPM SCSI drive, etc.

Nice box.

🙂

Viper GTS


How is that box on DiVX encoding? Does vDub support 4 threads? I've never tried it on my quad, only on my old dual Athlon. 🙂
 
Celeron 1.3 GHZ
Soyo TISU
256MB SDRAM PC133
Asus GeForce4 Ti4200 128MB
HP CDWriter 8100+
Samsung 8X DVD-ROM
Seagate Barracuda IV 40GB
NEC iEEE 1394 FireWire PCI Card
D-Link 100Mbit Ethernet PCI Card
Yamaha 2.1 Speakers

All is watercooled 😀 In a itty bitty HP Pavilion Case
Eheim 1048 Pump
Innovatek Resevoir
Swiftech 80MM Copper Radiator + 2 Panaflo L1A
Maze 3 CPU Waterblock
Swiftech GeForce4 GPU WaterBlock
 
lian li pc65 modded with 5 case fans(ys-tech 48.5cfm's) and side window and case lighting
xp 2500+ barton o/c to 3200+
asus a7n8x dlx
corsair xms pc3200llpt 2x256@210fsb
radeon 9700 pro
wd raptor 36gb sata hdd
2xcdrw
 
XP2000
Soyo Dragon motherboard
1GB 2700 Crucial/Samsung RAM
Geforce 4 4200
3 maxtor hard drives
40x plextor
enermax p/s
 
Originally posted by: BatmanNate
Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Well, I just put the CPU's into a quad Xeon box.

Quad 550/1 MB, 1.5 GB ECC SDRAM, gigabit ethernet (64-bit PCI), LSIU160 SCSI (64-bit PCI), Fujitsu MAS series 15K RPM SCSI drive, etc.

Nice box.

🙂

Viper GTS


How is that box on DiVX encoding? Does vDub support 4 threads? I've never tried it on my quad, only on my old dual Athlon. 🙂

Dunno, haven't even powered it on yet. The SCSI controller is on it's way here though, should have an OS on it by later tonight.

Viper GTS
 
Dual xp2100+ @ mp2833 (2.26GHz, 137MHz FSB) ($90/pc NewEgg)
asus a7m266-d ($99 NewEgg refurb)
1gb PC2700 @ 137MHz CAS 2.0-2-2-6 ($60/pc NewEgg special)
ATi Radeon 9600 Pro @ 450/317 ($150 AnandTech FS/FT forum)
16x Artec DVD-ROM RPC1 ($25 ComputerGeeks)
HP dvd-writer 300i 4x-2.4x-16x ($150 OfficeMax Friends and Family thanks to AnandTech Hot Deals)
(currently) 2 15GB Maxtor 7200RPM HDs (Had these for a long time, not sure about purchase price)
(soon) 4 40GB Western Digital 7200RPM 2MB HDs (WD400BB) ($160 total AnandTech FS/FT)
Samsung SyncMaster 900IFT (Had a long time)
Promise FastTrak TX4000 ($50 AnandTech FS/FT)
USB 2.0 host controller ($10 ComputerGeeks)
SCSI card ($3 at a junk store, LSI 53c825 chipset, 5MB/sec and bootable)
Umax Astra 1200S SCSI scanner (Had a long time)

Good gaming performance out of a superior workstation at a budget price. 🙂 :bigthumb: for NewEgg and AnandTech FS/FT and Hot Deals!
 
2.2 Ghz Barton with Alpha Pal on a KT333 75DRV5 Soltek
Corsair pc2700 2.0
9800 Non-pro
Audigy 2 Sound
Logi -tech 6.1 Surround sound
Lite - On 52x CD-rw
Sony 52x CD ROM
2 WD's @ 7200 RPM = 200 Gigs + one Raptor with Promise Sata controller.

All inside a CoolerMaster case (2x 80mm exhaust, 2x 80mm intake fans) with a 430 watt Antec True Power with intake/out take exhaust .


My other PC can hardly run MS word.
 
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