31-07-2003 06:39									#32
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DarthVeda: Yes. And looking at the card, for good reason, there are two processors on it.

	31-07-2003 07:34									#33
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jezebel's finishing her second year soon.

she is:

p4/1.7ghz
i850 chipset
768mb rdram
2 cd-rw (8/8/24, 12/8/24 w/ safeburn)
2 hd: 60gb/7200rpm, 80gb/7200rpm
turtle beach santa cruz sound card
dell lucent winmodem chipset
integrated 3com ethernet connection
1 3com ethernet pci card
64mb nvidia geforce3 card
ati tv wonder ve tv tuner card
pinnacle studio 7 firewire card
4 integrated usb ports
microsoft intellimouse optical usb
17-inch crt monitor at 1280×1024×32b, 75hz refresh.

currently dualboots into windows xp sp1 and redhat linux 9

she's rock-steady, hasn't crashed on me in ages (both oses...since the last crash, it's been about 2 and half months, and this is with her turned on 24/7...)

she's also quiet too. she doesn't blow like a jet engine, for instance.

	31-07-2003 07:39									#34
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albert:

quote: Compaq Presario 2254 266 mhz pentium II processor 64 mb ram (upgrade from original 32 mb) 2 mb video card 3.73 gb hard disk (without that pre-installed software)

would you believe that's almost identical to the original specs of the packard bell that i'm blowing out, upgrading, and linuxing now to serve as a third computer at home (internet connection sharing/word processing/internet terminal)?

the original specs were:
pII/266
64mb sdram
2mb video card
6gb/5400rpm hd.

i've changed it now to be:
celeron 533
192mb sdram
same video card
2.4gb/7200rpm hd.

	31-07-2003 07:42									#35
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My comp still needs an upgrade.. I never got around to upgrading it...

AMD XP 1600+ (1.4GHz)
Gigabyte KT-266A Board GAXTH+ (or some model like that)
1GB of PC2100 DDR-RAM (Samsung)
40GB Maxtor UATA/133 Hard-drive (7200RPM)
Soundblaster Audigy PCI Card
Integrated Ethernet
64MB Gainward Geforce2 TI450 AGP video card
17" Korea Data Systems Monitor Xtreme Flat
New! ATI TV Wonder VE Tuner Card
Windows 2000 Professional and SuSE Linux 8.0

Actually the machine hasn't had any major crash in nearly a year. It has been pretty stable with a restart every few weeks.

Also it has eight 80MM fans so it sounds like a jet engine. Nice case aluminum case. The only thing I have done a major upgrade on. When AMD's prices come down further I will upgrade the CPU and MB.

I just bought a TV Tuner card... by the way...

	31-07-2003 11:45									#36
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No brand name- though I do have a Sony VAIO case and a few other Sony things like my power supply and 1 of my CD-Roms- and my floppy drive.

I have a P3 700 processor. 256 megs of ram. I have a 13.4 gig hard drive and a 40 gig hard drive. I have a cd-rom and a cd-rw (burner).

my video card is a geoforce 2 400MX

my sound card is a cheapo though. It's Fortissimo gamesurround II


and I have a canon printer

	31-07-2003 11:50									#37
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P4 1.8 GHZ
512 800MHZ RAM
17' CRT (ULTRA FLAT)
110 GB hard drive
I forgot my video card but it was Dell's top of the line card last Jan.
Harmon Kardon speakers with subwoofer
DVD & CD-WR drives
Zip back up
SB Live

All that and throw in a DSL connection to boot.

	31-07-2003 12:08									#38
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My current computer:

700 MHz AMD Duron
64MB RAM
S3 Trio 4mb Video
56k
10gb HDD
S700 17" Compaq Monitor
Windows ME

	31-07-2003 14:00									#39
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My current PC

Pentium II 350 Mhz
256 mb sdram
40+10 GB HD
Diamond Viper 550 16 mb(Nvidia TNT)
CDx52 + CD-RW
SB live! value
Creative Cambridge 5.1 Desktop theater
Hyundai 17"
10 Mb Cable modem
Windows 98

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The laptop I'm supposed to buy next week from Dell. Hopefully they check their prices down a little...

Inspiron 8500 N2500WVT Performance (85003IA)


Complete Care: 3 years

Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 processor - M 2.6 GHz
512 KB Pipeline Burst L2 cache
400 MHz front side bus frequency
Intel® 845MP AGPSet Chipset with 4X AGP


15,4'' TFT WUXGA + (1920*1200) Widescreen

512MB DDR SDRAM/266MHz (1x512MB) Leaves one slot free, I'm planning to fill it later with 1024 mb piece

Colour:Ion Silver/Moonlight Silver


80GB Ultra DMA/ATA 100

64MB DDR nVidia GeForce4 4200 GO AGP 4X

DVD+RW

Mini PCI Wireless LAN TM1300 (b/g)
Bluetooth

I/O Ports :
IEEE 1394 integrated port (Fire Wire)
9-pin serial connector
25-hole pin parallel connector
Serial infrared communications port (lrDA-1.1 compliant)
Audio jacks: headphones out, speakers out, microphone in
15-pin monitor connector
2-USB 2.0 (Universal Serial Bus) compliant 4-pin connectors
S-Video - 7pin mini DIN port for TV-out
2-pin AC adapter
Kensington Lock socket
RJ11 and RJ45 connector

16 bit SoundBlaster Pro 3D- sound
Internal microphone and deluxe speakers
Smart Lithium Ion Battery
Height: 38.6 mm
Width: 361.3 mm
Depth: 276 mm
Weight: From 2.7kg

Lithium-Ion extra battery, with this I'm going to have 7 hours of battery life

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	31-07-2003 14:26									#40
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P4 1.4 GHz
1280 MB Rambus Ram
Radeon 9700 Pro
WD 40, Seagate Barracuda IV 80
Santa Cruz sound card
Sony 17" Triniton monitor
Harmon Cardon speakers (subwoofer)
Integrated Ethernet
Windows XP Home

Laptop:
IBM A30 (This is a beauty.)

Just a small point: I have recently reformated my WD drive to 32kb cluster NTFS from FAT32. I have noticed a huge burst in drive speed. For example, MS Word now loads and is ready in just one second.

In contrast, I use my Seagate drive as a bit bucket with everything on it compressed. It operates a lot slower as a result. (However, the Seagate drive is quiet. Very quiet.)

The processor is beginning to show its age because I have some FPS problems with games like Vietcong and Unreal II. But overall, a very good system able to handle virtually everything.

	31-07-2003 19:03									#41
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Does anyone still have/use a floppy btw, seeing no-one mentiones them.

I still have one, but not in my PC (anything to reduce heat and a good airflow. Now if only could get rid of ****** IDE cable )

	31-07-2003 19:09									#42
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Serial ATA fixes that.

	31-07-2003 19:10									#43
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ph33r my pc:

Pentium III 500 Mhz.
128 Mb RAM
30 Gb
Riva TNT Model 64, 32MHz
a 24/52/24 CD-burner
a 14'' inch Screen ( serving me greatly for almost 10 years now. )

	31-07-2003 19:16									#44
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quote: Originally posted by alva Does anyone still have/use a floppy btw, seeing no-one mentiones them.

Yep, I use mine, if theres a document I can't afford to lose, I save it to my HD,my Floppy and post it to my Yahoo mailbox

I don't lose many documents!

	31-07-2003 19:18									#45
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A floppy is one of the most unsafe ways to save data.

	31-07-2003 19:21									#46
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quote: Originally posted by Asher A floppy is one of the most unsafe ways to save data.

I know, but its ANOTHER way to save data, it gives me another back up

	31-07-2003 19:22									#47
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PIII 450 Mhz
40 Gb
Voodoo3 16Mb
320 Mb (128x2 + 64)
17" monitor

HP1100 laser printer. Very reliable and about 4000 A4 per toner cartridge. Don't bother with the scanner option - it's crap - buy a separate flatbed scanner.

I'm still using a parallel port Zip 100 for backing up critical files. Am I a dinosaur or does anyone still use zip disks?

Oh, and upgraded from Win98 to XP home. Works fine, no crashes (yet - we need a crossed fingers smiley!)

	31-07-2003 19:27									#48
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yay ntfs!

ned, to boost speed on your hd, if you have an intel chipset download the intel application accelerator.

i have mine set on max performance, so it's a trade off with the sound, but then again, none of them are really loud, so...

	31-07-2003 20:13									#49
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quote: Originally posted by alva Does anyone still have/use a floppy btw, seeing no-one mentiones them.

Of course I still have one, but only for boot floppy purposes.

	31-07-2003 22:47									#50
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don't even brand new computers all got the floppys? i can't imagine a computer without it. what would fill up that space?

and what is this whole business about computer noise? there's differences in the loudness of the hum between computers?

	31-07-2003 22:57									#51
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A lot of the new stuff need a lot of cooling to stop them overheating

So you may have a processor fan, two case fans and a graphics card fan it all adds up!

	31-07-2003 23:07									#52
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quote: Originally posted by Albert Speer don't even brand new computers all got the floppys? i can't imagine a computer without it. what would fill up that space?

Dell stopped shipping its PCs with a floppy drive. If you want one, you need to pay extra for it.

quote: and what is this whole business about computer noise? there's differences in the loudness of the hum between computers?

Yea, the new computers need heavy cooling solutions. I try to keep my system's sound level below 20-25 dB.

	31-07-2003 23:08									#53
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quote: Originally posted by reds4ever So you may have a processor fan, two case fans and a graphics card fan it all adds up!

The power supply usually comes with one big motherfarking fan as well.
Sometimes even two.

	31-07-2003 23:44									#54
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Homebuilt:
A7N8X Deluxe Mobo (surround sound)
Athlon XP 2700+ (~2.4GHZ)
768 BD DDR 2100
120GB HD
Raedon 9000 pro 128MB
CD-RW
DVD
Wireless Keyboard, Mouse (logitech)
Logitech Z-something 4.1 speakers
XP Pro
Redhat 7

	01-08-2003 09:43									#55
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quote: Originally posted by Asher A floppy is one of the most unsafe ways to save data.

Agreed. I have two hundred floppy disks, half of them don't work and I lost an important IB paper on one of them.

	01-08-2003 11:08									#56
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Asus A7A266 mobo
Athlon 1.1GHz (T-Bird)
2x256MB DDR-SDRAM (PC2100 and PC2700 sticks, running at 133*2=266MHz=PC2100 speed, 2-3-3-7 timing)
9GB Hard drive
60GB Hard drive
Floppy drive
DVD-ROM (2x DVD / 24x CD-ROM)
GeForce2 MX 32MB
SB Live!
17" LCD screen

	01-08-2003 17:45									#57
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It looks like I have the second-oldest computer on 'Poly so far:

PII 350MHz
192 MB SDRAM (upgraded from 64)
7.6 GB HD
ATI something graphics card
DVD-ROM
Floppy drive
17" monitor
Windows 98

	01-08-2003 19:29									#58
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Dell Dimension 4500
P4 2.4 Ghz (no hyperthreading )
1GB DDR-333 RAM
200GB HD
ATI 128 MB Radeon 9700-TX (slower than regular 9700)
Combo 12XDVD-32X/10X/24X CDRW
Floppy drive
19" Trinitron monitor (wish I had just gone for the standard 19")
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card
Altec Lansing 4.1 speakers
Windows XP

and a very old printer - HP Deskjet 694C (5 years old)

	01-08-2003 19:39									#59
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Shape, have you got the Altec Lansing ADA885 speakers? The bass is awesome!

BTW you live anywhere near Dundas? I have relatives over there I've been there a couple of times

	01-08-2003 20:16									#60
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Hi, reds4ever,

no, I have the ADA745 it appears.

Somewhat close to Dundas - though I am much closer to Ancaster.