"Bragging Rights" or "How Phat Is Your Rig ?"

[PowerHungry]

Liquid Snake - That is no something to be ashamed of. I know plenty of power users with far less than that.

[Paulr]

Well my current "does everything I need it to do and then some" setup is as follows:

Intel P4 1.8Ghz @ 1.98Ghz
ASUS P4T-E
2x 256MB PC800 RIMM's (Samsung)
Hercules Prophet III GF3 Ti200
Promise Fasttrak 100 IDE RAID Controller
4x IBM GXP60 60GB HD's (RAID 0+1 array - 120GB useable)
Adaptec 19160 SCSI Controller
Creative Labs SB Audigy Player
Intel 10/100 Management NIC
Pioneer DVD-305 SCSI Slot-loader DVD-ROM
Yamaha CRW2100s SCSI CD-RW (10/16/40)
Microsoft Internet Keyboard Pro
Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0
Iiyama Vision Master Pro. 410

In April I shall be taking a look at the 133Mhz FSB Northwood CPU's.
If they are just too damn expensive I'll keep this setup until the end of the year.

[Technoid]

You won't beat this

My working rig:
Basement:

Hx based motherboard (can't remember brand...)
48MB 72pin FPM SIM (or was it maby 64MB!?!)
AMD K5-133 (wow what a fast chip )
SIS 2364 VGA
20 GB hdd (samsung ata 100 )
1,44 and 5,½ FDD's
sb 64 pci sound and crappy speakers!!
Pre historic case....
2x ide cdrom

1'th floor :

Aopen Ax5t.
96 mb sdram
s3 somthing vga
sony 52x cdrom
sony 1,44mb FDD
A motherboard tray from an old case...

Those two are my lovely working rigs...

Yes, ofcourse we have never machines that I use but those two are my asigned working rigs...

[TdB]

here is mine

intel P4 2Ghz cpu
samsung 512 mb pc800 ram
intel d850mv motherboard
hercules prophet 4500 64mb(kyro2) graphiccard
creative sblive player 1024 soundcard
ibm 14.4 GB harddisk
seagate 4.3 GB harddisk
sony triniton G200p 17" monitor
aopen hq45 pro-p4 case
aopen 300w psu
microsoft optical intellimouse explore 3.0
pioneer 24xspeed cdrom

[cbman]

Hmmm... Nothing spectacular here

I recently Traded in my 1Ghz Celeron "Wifes" Machine for :

AthlonXP 1800+
Gigabyte GA-7ZMMH
768MB PC-133
40GB 740DX Maxtor HDD
18.3 GB Quantum Fireball Plus KA
ATI Radeon 7500
24x10X40 Lite-On CD-RW
16x LG DVD Rom
1.44 Floppy
A Pretty Nice Black Case with barely adequate cooling but it looks great.
3Com 3C905B 10/100
Startech 5 Port High Speed Switch
GVC Single Port Internet Gateway/Firewall (Got a great price on this because it was missing the power supply which was easy enough to make up)
Envision 780e 17" Flat Screen Monitor

My main machine remains as below...

[The Rock]

Maggis got us all ripped to shreds with that rig. I have 2 rigs for the time being:

Old System
Dual P3-700's@933 on Abit VP6 mobo
768megs PC133 RAM
ATI Radeon 64VIVO
SB Live
Plextor 12/10/23A Burner
RAID0 boot array, 80GB (Maxtor U66 7200rpm x 2)
Antec SX1040 Case /w 300W PS (nice case, but its no fun draggin the monstrosity to LAN parties)

What I just bought (first ever AMD system):
AthlonXP 1800+ on Asus A7V266-E mobo (which I returned because of rebooting problems)
768megs Nanya DDR ram (only running 512 on a loaner mobo until I can get an Abit KR7A to replace it)
ATI Radeon 8500
40GB IBM U100 7200rpm Deskstar
Pioneer 16x DVD
Crappy case /w 300W Enermax PS

I *would* have had a kick-ass system if I didn't have to send that Asus board back. Managed 8154 3dmarks with it, but was horribly unstable. I got an A7A266 as a free loaner mobo and that one is quirky too. First impression of AMD aint looking so good.

Bart

[DentyCracker]

/\/\4661 3y3 h8 j0o

Grrrr.

[Tempest]

Originally posted by The Rock
First impression of AMD aint looking so good.

Don't blame AMD, blame the chipset & motherboard makers... Sometimes I wonder if they tested their crap at all or just wanted it into the stores as quickly as possible.

A few suggestions:
-Make sure you're running the latest BIOS.
-Always test your memory settings using a program such as MemTest86 to ensure stability.
-Always use VIA 4-in-1 drivers for VIA chipsets.
-If possible, find out which PCI slots are sharing IRQs and avoid using devices in both of them.
-Kiss your SB Live! goodbye (or so I'm told, personally I've never had any other problems than slight sound stuttering).
-Do not instantly use the maximum AGP speeds, first test using 2x or even 1x that your system can handle them.

[dsp]

Video Computer:
Celeron 850
Gigabyte i815ep motherboard
256MB CAS2 PC-133 Micron RAM
20GB Quantum LM
G400 32MB DualHead
Win TV-Go
Pyro Firewire card
SB Live 5.1
10/100 Network card
14" TTX SVGA monitor
Toshiba M1212 DVD ROM (6X)

Normal Computer (see below):
Dragon Orb 3 and

[dZeus]

Workstation:
InWin Q500
Zalman 3100G
Asus TUSL2-C
Intel Coppermine 700 cC0 @ 966 Mhz
2x 256MB Infineon PC133 CAS2 RAM
Matrox G400 32MB DH
Adaptec 2940UW
3Com 3c905C-TX
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 40GB
IBM UltraStar 9ES SCSI 4,3GB
Plextor PlexWriter 124TS 12x4x32 SCSI CDWriter
Pioneer 305S 10x40 SCSI DVD
19" Dell P990 with Sony Trinitron tube (pre-FD)

Server:
Soltek SL-61C
Celeron 333
128 MB + 64MB RAM
3Com 3c905C-TX
3Com 3c905B-TX
SBLive! Player 1024
Maxtor DiamonMax2500 Plus 10 GB
Western Digital 800BB 80GB
Western Digital 1000BB 100GB

[The Rock]

Tempest:

Thanks for the suggestions. The A7V266-E that I bought had one last chance when Asus dropped a BIOS update the day before I was going to send the board back. But it did the exact same thing (didn't like Fast Writes and was considerably slower when more than one ram chip was used, no matter what slot combo you put em im). I tried everything, even resorting to those horrid VIA drivers, but nothing cured it. And I ain't paying $270 for a mobo that does crap like that.

Bart
P.S. sorry for draggin this topic a bit sideways; good thing no one will notice with all the geek testosterone flying around.

[PowerHungry]

I think the problem is that the chipset engineers are still thinking of the Athlons as budget processors, like thier previous chip lines. But now AMD has done what it has not done before, surpass Intel in speed and price. AMD's onw chipsets are good, nearly as good as Intel, but VIA is still designing them as budget systems, so are cutting corners. Just my 2.23 cents.

[Greebe]

Don't butcher this thread... take it elsewhere please! geesh


How PHAT?... over two years ago I built this system shortly after inventing the first commercially available GFD and it was by far the fastest around... Athlon500@850... tho I've added many more componets since then including a custom water cooler, I'm still happy with it!

[KeiFront]

Just see sig.

[Beezer]

I don't have squat.... but my 11 yr old boy has a P3 850, 256MB, G400 DH, 19" KDS monitor.... and my 9 yr old boy has an Athlon 1700+, 256MB, Geforce 3 Ti 200, and 19" NEC FE950+

I hope to get a computer for myself this summer.