WolfwoodX

Join Date 01/2002

My PC sucks, how about you?

I have been running my system to its limits for 3 years; Winamp3, Photoshop7, Flash MX, Object Desktop, Swish v2, WMP 9, all of the other resorce hungray apps, I've been pushing it with a:

- Celeron 600 overclocked to 900
- 256Mb sdram
- 133 fsb mainboard with 2pci slots no agp (gag)
- 20gig 7500rpm HDD (runs windows)
- 4gig 5500rpm HDD (runs linux)
- 8mb SiS video card (ouch)
- 17" Korea Data Systems Monitor (pos)
- Labtec speakers
- 10x4x32 HP 9300 CD-RW
- Zip100 parallel external (pos)
- Windows 2000 Pro
- RedHat 8

Try and top that..

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Jafo

Join Date 03/2001

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Yes, I suck too...

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Fuzzy Logic

Join Date 05/2002

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Look on the bight side. With a 600 running at 900 your pc should have no difficulty frying eggs...

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I think we should all be prepared for Doom 3. I have a feeling a lot of people's computers are going to suddenly suck.

I bought my 1.8 gig when the 2.2 was coming out, and now there is a 3 gig. No biggy, because the minimum requirements for software hasn't kept up, but I have a feeling there is a fleet of products being produced now that are gonna require >1 gig processors.

The two things I am most often annoyed by are my video card and ram. I got a matrox g450 because of the 2d quality and dual monitor support, but the game play isn't what I would like. It is also hard to find motherboards around here that except more than a gig of ram. At this point I think any of us who create at non-commercially printable resolutions are doing ourselves a disservice. Takes a lot of ram, though.

In the next 6 months I figure I'll be shifting this one to the living room and building another. Now all I have to do is plan what liquor stores I'm gonna knock over.

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MarkMcQ

Join Date 03/2001

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Top that, ti220?
Easy:

Pentium MMX 200mhz overclocked to 233
32M RAM
TX Pro/2 motherboard (So old it's an AT board)
2Meg Matrox Mystique gfx card.
Awe 32 SoundBlaster sound card. (The original Awe 32, with the 2 meg memory upgrade)
Running Win 2K.

Only notable bits of my setup are my USB hub, optical mouse and my monitor which is only a few months old. Evrything else is crap.

Trust me, your impression that your specs suck is quite misguided.
Try running Photoshop on my setup, and watch it take about 30 seconds just to select and area with the marquee tool....

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Keep running it at the o/c spec and it won't suck, it will probably blow!

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Jafo

Join Date 03/2001

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I think pressure cookers are just cheap-skates...

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My dad's pc is the most shittiest pc I know:

233 mhz
3Gb hdd
4mb graphics card
17" monitor
no speakers
48x Cd
3,5" floppy

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heh, if we are talking sucks, I have a timez/sinclair here in a drawer...

my laptop:

p90 IBM thinkpad
48megs of ram
2 meg video, 256 colors
800 meg hard drive.

I use the lappy for ebooks and as a stereo in my bedroom.

I use a 200mgz IBM pizzabox for a file/web server here at the house, and it faithfully handles access from 2 or 3 machines at once for mp3s, ebooks, etc. DOn't toss those old machines, put them to work for you.

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MarkMcQ

Join Date 03/2001

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This is where Crae jumps into the thread now.

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hehe, i can beat that baker

p70 laptop
8 meg ram
2 meg video, max 16 bit colour in 640*480, 256 in 1024*768, which dosen't fit on the screen
500 meg hard drive

I use it as a paperweight

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Then:
CPU 486 100mhz DX4
RAM: 4 meg
HD 1.2 gig
GFX: blah..
CD: 2x speed
SOUND: SB 16 (best ever made)

Top of the range back in 94 when I bought it. Set me back around $2000....

Now:
CPU: Athlon XP 1600+
RAM: 512 mg
HD: 8.4 and 30 gig (almost filled up) :/
CD(/RW) 8X4X30 speed
Sound: blah...
GFX: GeForce 3 TI200 w/64DDR

Upgraded to this config a years ago (not from the 486 though). Set me back $1000....

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Now I've got:

CPU: P3 700MHz
RAM: 256mb ram
HD: 12 gig and 40 gig
cd/rw: 10x16x40
sound: SB 64
GFX: GeForce 3 (dunno specs)

Beats the hell out of the old one.

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I have a good cooling fan to handel the Celeron, It has been cooling it for 2years with out a problem.

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Laptop
286 4.57mhz, 10mhz with turbo

1mb RAM
20mb HD
LD FD

Doesn't run windowblinds, but I still use it

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My garage is a museum of antique computers dating back to about 1980 including a Timex Sinclair, an original IBM PC, a Commodore 64...and an array of 286's, 386's 486's C=128's Amigas etc..they all still work! Come and get 'em Bakerstreet...free to a good home!

I did just get another new puter, a 2ghz P4, 1 gig mem, GeForce4, SB-Live, 80 gigs of storage, XP Pro..etc..

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well the laptop i take to skewl for typing and stuff is pretty bad

386 33 mhz
12in lcd
8mb ram =D
100mb harddrive
runs linux

external floppy, no cd rom

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Jafo

Join Date 03/2001

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Just threw out a 386 sx and a 486 66 and a 486 dx2 100.
I was given a pair of P100 boards and CPUs so an upgrade of the bookends was in order...

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BoXXi

Join Date 03/2001

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90% of my 217 uploads to this site were made on my old PC. It was a PII 233Mhz, 64Mb ram, 4Mb videocard, and 3Gb hard drive with a 14" monitor. I thought it was great for a long time, I even made a few 1600x1200 wallpapers on that!

A couple of months ago, I finally got a top of the range Dell system with a huge monitor and I LOVE it! I gave the old one to my father in law, and when I was round there last week, I took a look at it, and I couldn't believe I used to create anything on it, it looked so small and weedy.

BoXXi licks his big monitor..............

(As Jark would say)

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I just got a brand new computer....suddenly I feel guilty!

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i bult my own computer here's the spec
P4 2.54ghz not overclock
120gb WD 8mb buffer
1gb ddr ram
Radeon 9700 Pro
16x dvd-rom
48x TDK Burner
All of that in a totally acylic case
with
Samsung 171p(the one design by porsche)

oh yea

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Hmmm... I have to make do with what I've got:

800Mhz Celeron
Packard Bell Motherboard which has no AGP and a AMR slot!!!!

192mb RAM (was 64, but I stuck a 128 in there)
2 DVD drives (the one which came didn't work, so I added another

)
Iomega external CDRW drive (I added this too)
USB2 card (yes, you guessed it, this was another upgrade...)
GeForce4 PCI 64mb graphics (...yes, another upgrade!!!

)
20gb Hard Drive with 5400 rpm

WindowsXP (

)

This started off as a Packard Bell IConnect - yukky OEM machine - cheap at the time - but it is better now. Still want a new pc though!!!!

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paxx

Join Date 03/2001

Well, this is not some PC sitting in the closet, but my only PC at home:
- Celeron 300
- 384 Megs or RAM
- 8 Megs 3DFX Voodoo 3 (or is it Voodoo 2?) gfx card
- Bought a 20 Gig HD last year

Running XP Pro, and all the latest apps, including Flash MX, Deamweaver MX and Photoshop 7.

It gets the job done. Not too quickly mind you.

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Up until a month ago:

-AMD

-2 450
-160megs of pc100 RAM
-4meg ATI Rage Pro built in, no AGP slot(has been the cause of much grinding of teeth)
-6gig Hard drive
-32X CD
-1 PCI slot (another cause of teeth grinding)
-1 ISA slot
-XP Pro
-17" Dell Trinitron(Sony?) monitor best part of the whole system

This system is being given to the In-Laws since it is not possible to upgrade the beast anymore. >

New system put together from parts donated by friends and family that took pity on me when they built their new systems.

-Athlon(original slot type) 715
-384megs pc100 RAM
-32meg TNT2
-13gig hard drive that died a swift death this weekend.

-6gig hard drive
-32x cd
-4x2x24 CD-RW
-5 PCI slots

-2 ISA slots
-Uses the same monitor as above

Still not what I really want but at least now the kids can play the games they got for last Christmas.

Several OLD systems running around in the basement/test lab.

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2 year old Dell Dimension 8100
Pentium 4, Intel 1.5 Ghz processor
USB keyboard and mouse
768 meg PC800 RDRAM (just added 512 more to the original 256)
60 Gig Ultra ATA HD (three partitions)
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz DSP Sound card
19 inch Sony Trinitron monitor
32 meg DDR Nvidia GeForce2 GTS graphics card
16X Max Variable DVD ROM drive
Windows XP Home Edition
Altec Lansing THX certified ADA885 Spreakers with Subwoofer (surround sound)
SURFboard SB3100 Cable modem
BusLink exterior USB backup HD (slower than molasses, but constantly saves me from disaster)
Intuos Wacom GD graphics tablet with cordless stylus

All of my older computers I have either sold or given away...
I don't like clutter and usless junk laying around.

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