Well hope this donst get lock up I jsut want too start a lil convo here anyway...

What kind of computers you guys use and what do you use it for? Just so we can know each other more and know what your special intrest is :D hope this get intresting

so my comp specs is this
built by me :D
Air cooled
P4 3.4 prescott @ 3.9 ghz HT
2 80 gig hardrive 7200 rpm Sata2 useing raid 0
512mb ATI x800xl Fatal1 core 400mhz mem 550mhz
2 gig ram dual channel 4-4-4-12 DDR2 @ 677mhz 2x1 gig
400 watt stock PS
DVD rom drive
DVD RW drive
2 monitores in dual mode Ps 1600x1280 sec 1280x1012
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now what i use this baby for well i made it too play some heavy games :D I also use it too make some music videos,remix music,C++,burning dvds,downloading alot of animes useing bittorrent and let see what eles some serouse multi tasking lol ..I whould play a video game on one screen and on the other screen i whould chat online lol (wasnt easy) I am curently learning C++ and some web desighn but i am strugling with the web desighn stuff someone told me it was simular too C++ so i check it out and i was like what :S lol and for the music video my school band wanted a music video and i was the only one with a good computer so me and my friend made one for them it was ok but heck it was my first time lol now in the future i am going too learn how too make wallpaper , and makeing more music videos.....so that enough about me what about you guys ??
ALso if you got any questions too ask me related too computers i am here too help :D the only thing i dont know very well is networking i am learning though :D
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now for my laptop
pre built
a Compaq presario 2100
2800+ amd @ 2.1ghz
1 gig ram @ 333mhz 2x512mb
40 gig harddrive 4200rpm ata100
a dead dvd/cd rw drive :(
built in wireless card
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This laptop is my workstation on the go :D I use it too wacth my anime in my bed OR when i am heading out of town so ill have something too do :D and haveing a built in wireless i can connect anywhere (more or less lol) so i can go online and have fun :D I use too use this laptop too play games and I whould jump on other people routers lol when i am out of town and i whould play online games very cool ehh :P lol but now i am looking for a new DVD drive causes mine died when i drop my laptop :( yea NEVER DROP your LAPTOP -_- I mainly use my laptop for C++,networking,wachting videos,school work,typing and designing new homes i have home desinger 6.0 i made a few homes havent made my dream house yet lol I also use my laptop too navigate it got some navigateing softwares causes me and my friends like too drive around too places alot :D lol..well I think that every thing I do on my comps what about you guys ?? Hope this will be something instresting too talk about and too get too know each other more :D ok every one take care and have fun ^-^


Ps my computer is dead at the moment that why i havent stated my motherboard and audio but that what my last specs were befor i smoked my mobo (yea stupid me) you can ask me what NOT too do to mess up your comp lol

LMAO ok now i am totaly lost what just happen :S! ?? lol ok um i started that post and i had too hit refresh on my web browser alot too get it too show up right so um you mind telling me what going on ?? I SWEAR I DID NOT SEE ANY STICKY ON THE COMPUTER SPECS thing sorry i realy didnt find any i did say i was haveing a hard time with this site well keep me up too date plz lol :D im a bit lost

Ehh My computer is a fully modded out HP. hehehehe Yeah I'm crazy.

Motherboard: Asus P4SD-LA

Processor: Intel Pentium 4 with HT, 2.6 GHz

CD drives: Some generic DVD-Rom 16x I brought at compusa to replace original one that broke.
HP DVD burner

Hard drives: Seagate 300GB (ATA IDE 133), 300GB Maxtor external, 160GB Iomega external

Sound card: Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS Platinum pro (one with external interface hub)

Video card: ATi x1600 Pro (AGP 8x)


Ram: Micron & Corsair 512mb sticks filled up on all 4 slots, So total of 2GB Ram.

Power Supply: Enermax Liberty 500w. (yeah overkill but I'm going to take it out when my new computer totally bulit and use it in the new one)

What else? Oh yes I have upgraded cooling which is Zalman CPU heatsink and all LED fans. I got UV reactive cables. Also dual cathode UV light tubes. Plus a cut side panel with a dremel and with polycarbonate window. :)

I use my computer for about everything.
Edit videos and ripping videos and music.
Its one of my audio setups for my speaker rig and headphone rig.
Its my gaming rig. (mainly first person shooter games like Counter Strike)
Its also my storage for data too! (got plenty of space on hard drives)
And finally its for graphic art work. (Photo editing and what not, Of course making wallpapers!)




Heres my new computer in progress (not really its going to stay like that for many months), Going to start buliding it up again next year. I don't acutally need a new computer now nor do I have money for good parts. My current computer is more than enough for me right now.

Here are mine:

Athlon 64 X2 4200+
Asus A8N5X
2 Gigs Crucial Memory
Seasonic 380w /w Active PFC
Leadtek Geforce 7600GT
Audigy 2 ZS [beyerDynamic DT770-80 and cMoy Amp /w OP2227 - using Radio Shack Gold Cables]
Samsung 18x DVD+/-R
Hitachi 250 G @ 7200 PATA
Seagate 320 G @ 7200 SATA
LG 17" 8ms /w DVI
Logitech MX518 /w 4S Steelpad

Gosh!! My computer isn't as great as those (shame on me)

So here is one of my computers:

A Compaq Contura 430C
CPU: don't remember, about 33Mhz I think
Ram: 8 Mb SMC
HDD: 230 Mb (yeah cool it can hold one anime episode!!)
OS: Win 3.11 for workgroup (isn't working don't have time to fix it) But Dos 7.2 works fine ;)
Some extras: diskette drive (no! no CD-rom drive), Swedish keyboard, and a 28K PCMIA modem!!
Here a pic:

I use it to vectorize with Illustrator CS2... Hum... Well no, not really I just have fun with some times playing Doom (on a another screen because this one is broken)

Ok seriously I have a better computer (well that’s not difficult) so here is it:
A dell dimension 8400 (great)
CPU: 2.8Ghz Pentium 4 HT
Ram: 512Mb DDR2 400Mhz (want 512mb more!!)
HDD: 3HDD: 80 + 160 + 200 Gb, all SATA
OS: XP pro sp1 (working fine, I have reinstalled it a few weeks ago)
GC: ATI Radeon X300 SE (the one that is used to view the performance of other cards because this one is the worst for any kind of test)
A HL-DT-ST cd-rom writer and a Philips 1660P1 DVD writer (not a bad one, no problem at all)
What else...
A pinnacle TV card and a diskette drive, a modem (all unplugged, useless)
Here is a pic:

So I use this computer for every think from leeching anime (the 160 and 200 Gb drive a full of about 90% of anime) to hang on IRC.
The black point of this computer is the graphic card, the rest is enough (maybe 512Mb of RAM would help when using Illustrator and Catia but it's not vital or maybe getting an old 80Gb drive to make a Raid0)
I haven't change much things on it except HDD DVD drives and TV card, When I will have some more money I will be able to make one by myself (Already made on myself but it was for my parent so I made it the less expensive as possible, about 300€ for something correct)
Ops nearly forgot to say that I use a 15" LCD screen (It's so great on illustrator when the icon are shown you only have a small place to work with... (About 400*400pt. lol so great when working on 1600*1200 wall... It's so frustrating!)


By the way ElectroPoint nice pic... I especially love the book... :)

Neb, That case is pretty odd... Something new to me. Thats one different design the way it opens up. Plus the cooling system design seems compromised. (1 fan serving as case and CPU cooling? Oh yes forgot you also have the fan in the Power supply that acts like a case fan too. lol)

Oh by the way glad you like my manga laying next to my computer case. ^_^

Also is that computer you listed first a laptop? You should see this old Compaq 386 I have. It weighs a ton. The floppy disks used for it are probably like 5 inches wide. (or about 13cm) Big and old school right? :)

LoL ya old school... (Well mine is 3.5" so it's still "OK") But for ventilation you are right it's not very preferment but because the CPU is 2.8Ghz it don't heat too much and the graphic don't need any ventilation. and because the fan is alone it's the big one that don't do much sound (and I also noticed that even after 5 hour of intensive system stress the speed of the fan don't reach his top speed)
And yeah I love this case, not for the opening system (well it's quiet useful because no screw or anything) but it's how it built in, all drive cards and other can be taken away in few second because there are no screw (well they screws but they are use to screw rail on the drive and then the whole thing is clip in)

Yea that is cool but when i fist took apart a dell computer it took me forever cause i wasnt expecting a very easy too use system lol ANYWAY here an update of my new computer well not new but got my desktop semi running :D

Hand built by me :D
ABIT Ni-18 sli MOBO <<< VERY OVER CLOCKABLE :D :D
AUdio Max slot=realtek ac'97 audio ?? is that anygood ?? lol
currently haveing stuff set too normal over clock till i get a better PSU
Prescott 3.4 HT emt64 @~3.6 ghz
Ram 4-4-4-12-16 (2t) @ 700mhz 2x1gig stick pqi dual channel DDR2
2 80gig harddives @7200 rpm interface SATAII IN Raid0 now it tuns a WHOLE NOT BETTER IN RAID :D
1 40gig harddive @4200 rpm interface 133mhz
1 10gig harddive <<ing a butt now but ill get it working :D lol
1 dvd-rom 8x pulled from an emachine
1 dvd RW w/ DL
PSU 400watt unknow name
since my powersupply is too weak my fatal1ty X800xl 512mb video card wont work till i get a better PSU
so i am useing a old PCI Nvidia 64mb video card :( and now when i wacth anime the quality is very poor :(!!
Monitors since old video card work can only use one
Now for SPeakers
front speakers in on a 40watt sterio and rear speakes ehh ill say like a 10-15watt self powering speakers lol but it nice too have a TINY surround sound :D lol

dose anyone have an extra power supply for me :P lol ??

and for the new MOBO I GOT i LOVE IT SO MUCH SETTINGS you can changed nearly anything lol it not the best but that all i can afford at the moment :( but hey that one heck of a gameing system i only spend like 1,200 on it and my video card was the most expsensive :( but it pay off when i was able too play bf2 at MAX SETTING and AA I had an advantaged :D hehe a 512 mb videocard dose make AWHOLE LOT DIFFRENT :D that wuality is amazing


Hey Artimas you have a
Athlon 64 X2 4200+
Asus A8N5X
2 Gigs Crucial Memory

what speed is your memorie and the timing and is it ddr2? causes later on i want too try out an AMD base system causes they just got some MOBO useing AMD cpu with DDR2 rams

As I said in my introduction topic, computer parts are quite expensive here in The Netherlands and you haven't really got much choice either. Nevertheless I have build a pretty sexy PC 1 year ago with the few coins I had. Specs:
-Sunbeam Trio Silver case
-Tagan 480Watt PSU
-ASUS A8N-SLi Mobo
-AMD A64 3500+ Processor (2,2GHz)
-ThermalTake Big Typhoon Cooler.
-2 Gig Kingston Valueram DDR
-XFX 6600GT vidcard (I'll finally replace this by a XFX 7950GT extreme next month)
-WD 250GB SATA2 HDD
-NEC DVD reader and burner
-Floppy drive
-Sunbeam 120mm fan front intake
-Sunbeam 80mm LED fan side panel intake
-Aerocool Turbine 1000 120mm LED fan rear exaust

-Logitech black internet keyboard
-Logitech MX518
-Razer eXactmat + eXactrest
-Benq 17" 8ms Monitor
-Logitech Precision Gaming Headset

Picture (before cleaning the wires a bit)

GoldenApe: You have a pretty cool setup considering that parts are expensive to get. You sure do have some nice parts in your computer BTW.

Just a note is that you should invest in a larger monitor, thats all my advice is. ^_^

ElectroPoint

GoldenApe: You have a pretty cool setup considering that parts are expensive to get. You sure do have some nice parts in your computer BTW.

Just a note is that you should invest in a larger monitor, thats all my advice is. ^_^

Well thank you, I indeed consider buying a new monitor some day, but bigger and better also means more expensive, eh ^_^. Plus, I don't know what size you had in mind, but I'm not about to buy a 19" monitor since the max resolution of such screen is exactly the same as a 17". So the pixels are basically stretched, giving the same effect as putting a 1024x768 wall as background on your 1280x980 desktop (well, a little less extreme, lol). True, 19" monitors offer better contrast ratio etc., but it's still a stretched 17" screen.
So imo it's better to look for a 20+ inch monitor with 1600x1200 support. But with the present technology, those things are a. expensive and b. not perfect (longer responcetime, higher temperatures, etc.).

Oh and I'm not going back to CRT, lol.

Acutally I myself have a Sony 19" LCD monitor running 1280x1024 which is it's max resolution output.