What TYPE of person are you?

[OC-Freak]

HOT:

AMD and Intel
Nvidia
SB Live! EAX
Explorer 5.x
Blizzard games(Especially Diablo 2)
Canon printers (BJC 6x00, BJC 8xxx)
Fujitsu HDD
Plextor CD-burners
Mitsumi CD-Burners
Afreey CD-ROM's
Pioneer DVD-ROM's
Apacer memory

HOT Manufacturers:

ASUS
Hercules
AOpen
Canon

NOT

Netscape
Yamaha CD-Burners
SONY/HP CD-Burners
Uncrackable RPC-2 DVD-drives

NOT manufacturers

CL Videocards (NOT soundcards)
ABIT (Yesss, down to h.e.l.l. with abit and their lousy products (BE6-2, HOT-ROD))
VIA (Slow and problemfull chipsets)
Seagate HDD
Eurocase cases

 

[AndyHui]

Intel
nVidia
ASUS
IE
Creative sound cards
Microsoft Mice
Win2K

 

[Wooster]

Intel Celeron
nVida video
Aureal sound
Nokia monitor
IE5
HP printer
Canon printer

 

[lupin]

19" FD Trinitrons.

 

[Slovin8]

Here we go:

- AMD
- Nvidia
- ALL Creative Lab's stuff
- ViewSonic
- Internet Explorer
- unNatural keyboard
- Adventure games!
- HP
- Philips speakers
- Black Isle and LucasArts developers
- Cold water

 

[ndee]

AMD 4 EVER, INTEL GO TO HELL, 3DFX is legend, LINUX ROCKS

 

[LiekOMG]

Wow, this post turned out a lot longer than I anticipated!

So far, AMD is winning by a lot! Woohoo!

 

[micron]

Intel
HP Printers
Soundblaster Sound Cards
Microsoft Intellimice

 

[Sunner]

Update
Vodka: Absolut Vodka, IMO Sweden's greatest export product
Gin: Bombay Sapphire, no other gin comes close!

 

[Electric Amish]

AMD (for now...used to be Intel. Usually, whoever has the best product)
Abit Motherboards
Aureal (just got my first Aureal product and won't go back...unless I'm forced to )
Lexmark Printers
Razer Boomslang Mice
Ratpadz
IE (since Netscape became so unstable...going to try Opera...)
Matrox Video Cards(always had Matrox. Always will have Matrox.)
Cheap Cases
Cheap Speakers
MS Games (Asheron's Call, Age of Empires) Epic Games (Unreal Tournament)
Natural Keyboards
Asus & AOpen CD-Rom
Overclocking to the max!
Realtek NIC's
Netgear Routers/Switches
KDS Monitors
Any HD (WD, Maxtor, IBM... Currently have Maxtor Diamondmax+ 20gb)
Any winmodem (currently have Rockwell Chipset E-Tech modem... going to buy a Lucent.)
Alpha Heatsinks

amish

 

[kendogg]

AMD
3dfx
D-link nic cards
microsoft mice
In-Win cases
Plex burners
mitsumi cdroms
sound blaster
Maxtor hd
crucial ram
logitech keyboards
sony monitors

 

[RaDragon]

Intel
nVidia
Internet Explorer
any good RPG and sim (flight, racing, The Sims) game...
HP printers!

 

[BobsterP]

AMD K6-2 400Mhz (gonna stick to Super Socket 7 until AMD's next Gen. gets less fragile and more cheaper) [Die Intel!]
Matrox (no clearer display out there)
Netscape [Die Microsoft!]
Fujitsu HD (quietest and most reliable)
Ensoniq sound (now belongs to SoundBlaster)
Aopen modem (only hardware modems for me)

I'm happy to see many fellow AMD,Matrox, and Netscape fans in here. It makes me wonder about seeing so many among techies that support the big bad boys (Intel/Microsoft) and resource robbing things like IE and winmodems. Just my $0.02 worth.

Bob

 

[dszd0g]

(I grabbed the format from Barny, hope he doesn't mind me singing his song... bad pun...)

CPU - AMD (Although, I'm using Intel right now because it was a much cheaper upgrade and I originally got my P3 500 for $200 the week it came out (I think it was going for $700))
Motherboard - Asus
Memory - Not a lot of opinion. Mushkin, Micron/Crucial, or Corsair
HardDrive - IBM
Monitor - Sony
CDRW - Plextor
DVD - Pioneer (Slot) or Toshiba (Quiet)
Keyboards - IBM
Mice - Microsoft
Floppy - NEC or Toshiba
Sound - Creative Labs
Network - Netgear
(if I had to use a) Modem - 3com/US Robotics
DSL or Cable - DSL (I use Alcatel, but I hate them.)
Graphics - nVidia
Case - Antec
Printer - Lexmark Laser
Browser - Netscape (cross platform)
Games - Blizzard

 

[Czar]

AMD (right now, can change if they start to suck or Intel gets better)
Matrox
Abit or MSI
Internet Explorer (used to be Netscape but no updates no support from me)
HP printers
Sound Blaster
Maxtor

 

[Deeko]

I only company I have ever had a prefference towards was Diamond. But ever since S3 bought them......I've hated them(well you know what I mean). Other than that.....whatever I think is best when I get things.

 

[DataFly]

Intel
ASUS
nVidia
Relic Entertainment (Homeworld is the best game ever, IMO)
Altec Lansing
Aureal
Netgear
Antec
HP Printers
Internet Explorer
Saitek Joysticks

Things I despise:
Creative Labs (Aureal fiasco)
Cyrix (you should know...)
Epson Printers (damn thing kept cleaning the print heads every 20 seconds)
Compaq, HP, or e-Machines home computers ('nuff said; some of these companies' high end machines can be good, though)

 

[Pulsifer]

AMD
IBM/Seagate
Nvidia/Matrox
Asus
Hp Printers
Crucial Memory
Plextor
Internet Explorer
Sound Blaster Products

 

[MikeD]

No preference really...Whatever there is a hot deal on.

I am quite satisfied with Win2k

 

[Ornery]

Dearest CompuGeekIAM, to be known from here on in as CompuWeenerIAM;

This topic is about personal preferences, not what system you are running! Like I said, I'm always going for bang for the buck. You want the friggen history on all my Hot Deals? I doubt everybody else does!

• Ornery:
  Your system is not as inexpensive as you would have us believe. For starters, it HAS to be in a CASE of some kind, It's in an AT 300Watt "Mega Tower that was converted by me to a 300Watt ATX. The PS was a $20 replacement from a Treasure Chest Enlight 7237 that was built for a friend. The original price of this Mega Tower was $125 in about 1995. 2) it won't operate without RAM, which can be quite expensive It's got 96MB of 100MHz SDRAM from various suppliers, like Kngston, PNY and God knows what else. This was purchased over the years. NEVER over $1.00 per meg and far less with free shipping, rebates and coupons from Buy.com! 3) you can't run an overclocked Celie Coppermine 128 Flip Chip PGA CPU on an AOpen AX6bc (slot 1) mobo (I know because I have BOTH of these) WITHOUT a SLOCKET II converter and a heatsink/fan combo, No sh!t, $15.00 AOpen Slotket from a local guy. Big deal! 4) certainly there is SOME form of removable storage like a 3 1/2" floppy or Zip Drive, No sh!t, another $15.00 item purchased years and years ago! 5)the BX440 chipset does NOT support any DMA modes higher than ATA-33 without an add-on ATA-66 or other PCI controller card like the Promise Ultra 66 (or are you running the IBM drive in ATA-33 mode and losing performance)?, I needed more space recently, I bought the 7200RPM IBM, WTF? Like I give a rat's ass about ATA-66! BFD! 6) do you hear any SOUNDS emanating from your PC (other than the POST beeps of the case speaker)? and if so, what multimedia speakers are attached to your SB Live Value soundcard and what did you pay for them?, Radio Shack Optimus AMX 17 purchased on close-out for $40, normally over $100 and that was years ago too. and 7) you can't get around windows entirely with just a mouse... a KEYBOARD is required. Yep, a Digital Equipment Corporation circa 1990 purchased used in 1992 for about $15.00 (credit for OEM POS)
  Finally, did you get these units all at the same place or were independent shipping charges involved? Purchase over time upgrading steadily from an AMD 486-33 to what it is now. Some local, some mail order, some trades, some cast offs...
  
  Please be accurate in your description of your system and the TOTAL costs if you are trying to describe a "cost-saving" system. Your post resembles a misleading advertisement by one of the "NAME-BRAND VOLUME Vendors" one sees in a Sunday Newspaper. MY DISCRIPTION OF MY HARDWARE PREFERENCES IS EXACTLY ACCURATE AND ABOVE ALL TRUE! :|[/b]

I'm a "Most Bang For The Buck" guy (and this is a borderline Off Topic )

So my preferences should be prefaced by the prices I paid for them. I stay behind the curve and buy top shelf stuff when it's a few months old. Same quality, much cheaper prices!

• $110 AOpen AX6BC (local Aventec purchase)
• $110 Celeron 533MHz FCPGA @ 800MHZ(Computer Super Sale)
• $70 3dfx V3 3000 (Buy.Com free shipping and rebate)
• $102 IBM 75GXP 15GB (Buy.com free shipping)
• $120 HP 8100 CDRW (Staples 155% price match)
• $14 IntelliMouse IntelliEye (OfficeMax 155% price match)
• $25 ZOOM 56K DualMode Int. ISA (trade for $25 Supra Express from Diamond direct w/ free shipping)
• $45 SB Live! Value (Computer Super sale)
• $200 HP 895Cxi (Onsale,com miss price)
• $300 SONY 200ES 17" (Local Best Buy)

You guys go ahead and keep our economy healthy. I'm happy living with these cutting edge crumbs

 

[RagingGuardian]

I'm a Linux lovin Cox man!!!!!!

 

[SaturnX]

• Nvidia
• Intel
• Creative
• Quantum
• Eidos
• Sierra

That would be me.

 

[kmike75]

Uh...

Guess you could say I'm rather Creative, and tend Power Up with the cheapest equipment my eyes Zoom in on. I AMDit, I'm not very Inteligent...
This may all sound like Voodoo to you all, but hey, in the case of this Tiger, he's having a Maxtor time in his little town of Kingston. Although his bride says that if he spends any more money on puter's, she's gonna wring his NEC!!!

 

[Bakwetu]

Red
You're right given you only do office apps and play games. For other stuff (photo editing, science apps like modellings etc) you can definitely put a faster cpu to use. I am semi-cheap myself. I upgraded my celeron 366@550 to an athlon 700@900. Next upgrade won't be for a year or so.

 

[hans007]

i really dont think its worth spending money, until you can get a new chip that has around 80% more mhz. By the time 80% more mhz is out the platform will have enough speed that you can feel it, and your chip will be getting old. I went from a k6-2/400 @ 450 to a tbird 800@880. I had a bunch of processors in between, but i didnt spend money on those i just had them for a couple weeks and sold them on egay. But to actually spend money on an upgrade (like $200 or more) its not worth it unless you can feel it.