Computers

[dumbluck]

LOL! And you all thought you had it bad. Last year I was playing on this computer:

166mhz Pentium MMX chip (as in, pentium 1, and we all have fond memories of how much MMX helped, huh?)
3.2 gig HD
32 meg of Ram
Win95

And the funny thing is that I attached a cable modem to it! Which almost ended up being pointless, as slow as that machine was! Then there was the fact that towards the end, the mouse was broken (it hardly went up and down at all), and the monitor was dying (It kept going losing it's greens)...

Now I'm using:

1.1ghz AMD Duron
132meg of ram
40 gig HD

So things run considerably faster now...

[ July 08, 2003, 01:40: Message edited by: dumbluck ]

[tesco samoa]

What kinds of systems do you guys and gals play SE on? Tell us what you use, CPU type and speed, chip set, and ram? What OS do you run and did you build it or buy it?

1. p2 2g intel d850mv 1gig ram
2. ibm t23 laptop do not know the specs...
3. p2 - 450 compaq deskpro (rescued from gm ) with 256 megs ram

OS.

Currently xp , 2000 and linux flavours are mandrake 9.1 and debian 3.0r1 and gentoo 1.0

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:


2.0 GHz Pentium IV
512 MB DDR or RD RAM (I forget which)
64 MB nVidia GeForce 4 MX 440
100 GB Hard Drive w/8 MB Cache
ASUS MB
Just a minor upgrade.

Both computers were put together by hand, by me.

850 chipset = RDram
845 or off brand chipset = DDR

It's funny how it took ddr two years to catch up to RDram, but all we get now is DDR. If I ran Intel, I'd have bought Rambus and put and end to this foolishness.

[Loser]

Gals? There are women who post to this board? Not that it would shock me but... I'd be shocked.

P4 2.4Ghz
768 Mb DDR
64 Mb GeForce 4 2400
9 Gb LVD SCSI HDDrv (I've got a 160 Mb file server for data)
SCSI CD-ROM
SCSI Burner
LS-120 (the only IDE device)
shabby SB Live
Logitec Marble FX (the one with the ball the size of a toddler's fist)
19" Trinitron knock-off

But that's a recent thing, obtained by nearly underhanded means. My Last box (currently the file server) was like this:

P3 550
128 Mb PC100 SDRAM
16 Mb TNT2 Ultra with a vicious shadowing problem
same 9 Gb LVD SCSI system drive
and CDDrv
and Burner
and LS-120
A couple of 20 Gb IDE drive for data
integrated sound
touch pad with Turret's Syndrome
(dead now, passed away in a tragic accident)
(no mouse on the file server means no one else touches the file server)
17" decent monitor

Anyone know a good place to get a cheap legitimate MS server OS. I'd love to make the old box a domain server.

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by Loser:
Gals? There are women who post to this board?

Anyone know a good place to get a cheap legitimate MS server OS. I'd love to make the old box a domain server.

There might be some ladies, just covering my bases.

To run a single system domain, you'll need a copy of NT server. 2k and 03K require two systems to run a stable domain.

I've seen NT server for as little as $100 with the seal thingy included.

[Loser]

Originally posted by Thermodyne:
To run a single system domain, you'll need a copy of NT server. 2k and 03K require two systems to run a stable domain.

What makes you say that? We had 2k Server, with Exchange and other Jazz, running fine until that roommate 'left'.

Originally posted by Thermodyne:
I've seen NT server for as little as $100 with the seal thingy included.

Where at?

[Baron Grazic]

Work PC = Intel P3 - 733Mhz - 512MB Ram - Win2000
PC has needed a rebuild for months, but I can't be bothered reinstalling everything.

Home PC = Intel P4 - 1700Mhz - 256MB DDR Ram - XP
Built this PC from parts, and working fine so far, except for the bloody modem. I just need to convince my boss to give me a new one. Will get around to buying more Ram one day.

Home Laptop = Intel P2 - 466Mhz - 128MB RAM - Win98.
I've had absolutely no problems with this notebook since I bought it in London. It survived the move the Australia and even survived my mother-in-law knocking it off the kitchen table onto the tiles. Only ever had the replace the modem in its 4-5 year life span.