What System setup are you using? I wanna know

[UnixFreak]

Just out of pure curiosity, I want to know what kind of systems you guys are running, what hardware, OSs, etc. Here is a bit about my system.

My "main box" is a Cyrix 333 Running Red hat 7. It has 128 Meg of ram,
and a 15gig hd. I run a matrox millenium and a USR modem.

My "other" box is a AMD400 with 128 Meg of ram, the same matrox card, and
a 4.3 gig HD. Usually I run Windows98SE and Corel Linux 1 Dual-booted, But
from time to time, I switch those around.

I have a few "crash boxes" which are setup just to test something, and those
are a Packard Hell P100, w/8 meg built in, a PH 166, a pentium 100 box with 32 meg EDO, and several HD and Video card assortments, I use those to run off-path
Operating systems and such. One of them will be running QNX this weekend, for some thrashing. I run Minix on these from time to time.

So what are you running? how do you usually set it up?

 

[jmcoreymv]

Win2k on my p500
rh7 on my 486 dx2/66

 

[owensdj]

UnixFreak, I use a machine with a 667MHz Pentium III, 256MB of ECC Micron memory, an old Diamond Stealth Video VRAM 64 video card, Diamond FirePort 40 Dual SCSI card, 30GB IBM Deskstar 75GXP hard drive, 4.5GB IBM Ultra SCSI hard drive, OnStream SC-30 SCSI tape drive, Plextor UltraPlex 40max SCSI CD-ROM, 3COM FastEtherlink 3C905C network card, and Diamond Monster Sound MX300 sound card. My operating system is Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 1.

 

[jmcoreymv]

owendsj: I guess I have to make the comment, its a really really nice system, but why do you still have the old crappy vid card in there!

 

[todd_r]

I'm on a Celeron2 566/850, Soyo 6BA III, 192 MB of Micron PC100, 14.4GB IBM 7200, 15GB WD 7200,CL Live, CL 5X DVD, Cheapo burner, Netgear 10/100 PCI Nic and a STB TNT 16MB. I'm dual booting, ME and Win 2K on this machine currently.

I've got a box that with a Thunderbird 900 that's waiting to be assembled. I'll probably dual boot 2K and Mandrake on it.

 

[FOBSIDE]

p3 800 320mb of ram running win2k
celeron 400 96mb of ram running redhat 6.2

 

[themadmonk]

K7 1000 on a Abit KT7 with an ELSA Gladiac 32, serviced by 256 MD PC133 coupled with 1) Maxtor 30GB ATA66, 7200 and 1) WD 13.2GB ATA66 7200. OS is the Windows 2000 stabilized by Service Pack 1. For burning, CW 4224 CD-RW (just for movies). A Diamond HomePhoneline Network shooting through a K6 400 with Win 98 (same storage) and an ATi Mach64 card. Internet provided by DSL courtesy Bell gone South.

 

[Ladi]

Gotta brag sometime

laptop: celly550, 256mb ram, 15.1&quot; tft (rage lt pro), 11gig hd, 8x dvd, xircom 10/100+56k nic/modem and onboard winmodem running win2k pro <-- my baby
desktop (that just decided to die last week): k6-2/233, 128mb ram, 13gig hd, random crappy vid card and nic running nt4:sp6a

~Ladi

 

[Spoooon]

Win2k on my 550@770, Abit KA7, 128 megs ram, MX vid card, SBLive, 10.2 and 6 gig WD hard drives, 48x CDROm

My second machine is a PII350, Tekram something or other, 128 megs ram, STB Velocity TNT, Diamond MX300, and nothing else.

 

[owensdj]

jmcoreymv, that's a good question. I've had that old Diamond Stealth video card since 1996. It was one of the best cards back when I bought it, and it cost a couple hundred dollars. It's been a good card for 3 different processors: Pentium, Pentium Pro, and now a Pentium III.

I guess I never replaced that card because I'm not into playing game software, so I haven't needed the 3D acceleration of the newer graphics cards. I've thought about getting a better one a few times, but I always decide to wait for the &quot;next big thing&quot; in graphics. Now I think I might wait for the nVidia NV20 chipset to be released before I get a new card. I'm also hopeful that the future Matrox G800-based card will be good.

I really just looking for a great card for a software development workstation. It needs to have super-stable Windows 2000 driver support and great 2D quality. Anybody have any suggestions? The future Matrox G800 sounds like what I'll want.

 

[nateholtrop]

Windows 98 Second Edition on this system


Nate

 

[Skaven]

Well, I personally run 3 (4 if you count the router) systems. One I just recently ressurected:

Main system:
BP6 2x600 celery 128mb
TNT2U, SBLive, Intel Pro-100, Adaptec 2940UW, Cheetah 4gbUW, IBM 4gbN, Ricoh 6/4/24, Plextor 40max, Jaz 1GB, ISA FM-Radio and an IBM 75GXP 40gb if I could get it to work with my system!
I use Win2k Pro on it, with multi-boot into RH7 and Be

Gaming / Multimedia:
Duron 950 128mb, Radeon 32mb DDR, IBM 75GXP 30gb, SBLive, Intel Pro-100, Toshiba 6x DVD - Win98 SE for this guy

Recently Ressurected:
ASUS P55T2P4 AMD K63+ 450mhz 64mb, Savage 4 32mb, 3com 10/100, Adaptec 2940, IBM 4gbN, Toshiba 12x CD, Voodoo2, Sounblaster Pro (ouch!) - Also Win98 SE
I kinda threw this one together with old parts...

Router:
Gateway 486 mainboard with Intel 83mhz overdrive! WOHOO! (I remeber my friend spent ~$300 for that bad-boy), ATI Mach 64, 32mb ram, 3com 10/100 PCI, 3com 10 ISA - runs freeSCO off of a floppy (no HD)

All of that is hooked up with my Intel 8port 100 switch and out to the net via cable.

My roomates have just as much equipment as I do! You should see our &quot;computer room&quot;!!

-Skaven

 

[Magic30]

First system: look at my signature (gaming and working system)
Second System: P2-400, 128 Mb, Win2kPro (Internet-, www-, ftp-, smtp-, proxy server, NAT router, Firewall)
Third System: Dual Celeron 500, 192 Mb, NT 4.0 WS (file and print server, burn station)

 

[jtshaw]

My box is a PIII550, 512MB RAM(thanks to cheap RAM prices), 12X DVD, Hollywood+ DVD decoder, Turtle Beach Montego II, TNT2 Ultra 32MB, a bunch of IBM HD's, CD burner, ect. ect.

I am running Slackware w/ 2.4.0test10 kernel as my main os. I usually have another OS going on my smallest HD just to play with, right now it is about to be QNX I suspect.

 

[Rendus]

Main system:

TBird 900
KT7 Non-RAID
Voodoo3 2000 PCI on my 21&quot; NEC Multisync 5D
Matrox Millenium 2MB on my 19&quot; Philips 109S
Hauppauge WinTV Stereo with FM tuner
128MB PC133 CAS2
2x30GB IBM Deskstar 75GXP
Kenwood 62X TrueX
some DVD-ROM drive
I/O Magic 4x4x32 CD-RW drive
SIIG ATA66 controller for my CD-ROM drives
SB Live! X-Gamer
Altec Lansing ACS54 speakers
3Com 3C905C to my 1.5/384 DSL
Linksys EtherPCI II to my LAN
All in an Antec KS188+PP303X full tower case.

 

[TonyRic]

Asus A7V
TBird 750@1050 w/1.8v and a FOP32 Cooler
384MB Mushkin Rev2 PC133
Maxtor 80GB ATA100 HD
ATI XPert 2000 AGP Vid Card
Intel 10/100NIC
HP CD Writer 9500 12x8x32
Addtronics 6894 Case
Win2K for burning since I haven't gotten my burner running in Linux yet and for VPN to work since I haven't sat down to work on IP Sec...
Mandrake 7.2

 

[Orbit]

Skaven: just out of interest, how did you get a K6-3 to run on that particular motherboard? I thought it only supported CPUs up to 200 MHz? I read about how this can be done a long time ago, but I don't remember where, or how it is done...

 

[Gatsby]

Personal Box

Abit Bp6 C400@468
512 Megs of Ram
Raid 0 of 2x 22gxp 18 giggers
Prophet II MX
Creative 6x DVD drive
Plextor 8432
3com Network Card
Sblive Mp3+
H+ DVD decoder card
21 in Mitsubisi monitor
DTT 2500

All for.... I don't know what.. I'm just obsessive.

Gatsby - 58

 

[zuffy]

first pc
PC in my sig
Windows 2000 Professional
Mainly for surfing, emailing, downloading, CD burning (audio, vcd, data), watch movies, listen to MP3, image editing for digital camera, and general purpose stuff... no games except Freecell.

second pc
Asus P2Z-VM (built in sound and ATI Rage IIc 4MB video)
Celeron 400MHz OC'ed to 500MHz
256MB RAM
10GB Western Digital
Plextor SCSI 32X CD-ROM
Windows Millennium
Enlight 7237 case
7 year old Gateway 15&quot; monitor
Mainly used for games, testing/screwing around with new apps, download @ nite.

third pc
Sony Vaio SR7K
Pentium III 600MHz
128MB RAM
12GB HDD
56K Modem
10.4&quot; TFT LCD
Windows 2000 Professional
Mainly use for everything when I'm mobile.

 

[cirrus1]

The system below in my sig. is running a triple boot with W2K, Win98 and Suse Linux 7.0.

 

[Jaraxal]

I have 2 machines networked together sharing a cable connection through a Linksys DSL/Cable router. The machines are the same as my sig below ..

I run WME and W2K Pro most of the time with the frequent booting of Red Hat 7. ;-)

At work I use the following:

Intel P3 600 w/WNT 4.
Intel P# 450 w/W95
Sun Ultra 5 w/Solaris 2.6 (6)
Sun Ultra 10 w/Solaris 7
Sun Ultra 60 w/Solaris 8

I also use VME Chasis based systems with realtime cards running VXWorks.

 

[divinemartyr]

zuffy,

Just curious,

Why do you have a 4mb video card on your primary gaming machine? You have an Asus v7100 in your machine that you only play freecell on. hehe... doesn't add up!

divinemartyr

 

[zuffy]

divinemartyr,

I don't play games much to begin with. Also, UBID the ripe off whore decided to sent me a P2Z-VM instead of a P2B-VM. This low end MBD don't have a AGP slot so I can't use my Asus 7100 or my ATI Rage 128 Magnum 16MB video card. I never bother to fight it since the box that came with MBD was a P2B-VM box (I know some bast*rd swap the system board) and asking UBID for a RMA will be a nitemare. I took my lose and ran away.

 

[cool]

P3-650E
160MB-RAM
EPoX EP-BX3
GeForce2MX
SB Live! Value
6.4GB Quantum Fireball EX
PEACOCK Entrada 19
ZIP drive (parallel port)
Minolta PagePro 6LB
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all above running in peace and harmony on Win2k SP1, which I've installed yesterday. 'til now no crash. Used W98SE before not bad but W2k rocks

 

[Spanker]

Main system;
PIII 500, Win98SE, Abit BE6, 256 mg PC100, Voodoo3 AGP (OC'd &amp; cooled), Plextor 40 SCSI, Imation 8X20 CDR switched to Plextor (what a deal) WD 20gb 7200, SB 64, Digidesign digital soundcard, Panasonic 17&quot; Flat screen.

Net browser machine;
Pent 200, Win ME, junk board, 96mg, 4gb Maxtor, Canopus Pure 3D (remember these?) Creative Stealth Video, Jazz 1GB, SB 16,
Viewsonic 17&quot;.

Server; dont laugh...
Gateway 2000 Pent 150 overdrive chip, NT4 Server, 128mg, 2) 1gb drives, Creative Stealth Video, SB32, 14&quot; junk monitor.

DSL 384k &amp; Netgear 311

Though reading all these make me realize I'm a couple years behind in my main system....this is good for business!