L@@K.....The Best Computer In The World!!

[aquarius]

OK, Guyz......... Everyone who sees this has to leave Specs And Info about their own personal Computer..

Eg.....How Fast....How Much Ram.....DVD..... etc........

Lets See, Who has the Best Computer here..... Of course i want to hear about all you Overclockers out there.


Also, lets see who has the Shitiest Computer out there too....

heh. Have Phun........
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At home l have a Sinclair Z81, with the amazing configuration of 1kb ram, (who needs more for chess games), a cassette for saving stuff, and a black and white monitor for a screen. And the nifty key combos to enter basic commands.....Yeha

Of course at the office we got the PIII, but gee not the same challenge....Now if only l could afford a Spectrum

[CreepingDeath]

New IBM Aptiva in July 99

PIII 450mhz
10 gig hdd
96 meg ram
Nvidia Riva
56k v.90 fax modem w/voice
on-board soundcard
17" monitor
Cannon Color Printer
Slimscan Scanner

$1500 - excellent buy at the time

[Sulo]

Main system

PI 100Mhz
(8 Meg) Upgraded to 24mb of Ram
1.3 Gig HD
4.3 Gig HD
CD-RW 32X4X4
Win95


Oldest running Cpu

Compaq Portable III
5 1/4 DD
17 Meg HD (Broken)
Plasma Screen
I dont see whats so portable about it.
Its the size of a small-Tower and weighs about 35 pounds

[aquarius]

Crystal Chip set for your sound card??

[fallnwrld]

286 33
4 megz of ram
monocrome video card
53 meg hard drive
windows 3.0
Fear me

[Lior]

First comp:
12 MHZ
2 1.2MB floppy drives
no HD
1 MB RAM
Hercules card.
14" ****** monitor.
TONS of old viruses...(DIR2 and so..)

Second comp:
Intel P766 EB.
512MB RAM
37GB HD 7200RPM (SeaGate)
Creative GeForce Pro 32 MB
24X12X12 CD Writer.
Creative SoundBlaster Live Platinum.
Dolby surround system.
15" Philips LCD.
Cable Internet Connection (over 150K/s 24H).

[aquarius]

WOW!, How much did the 37 GB HD cost ya!!

[hozo]

I just got the latest system. It's fast as heck!

Apple II Gs
64K ram
720k Disks space
LOGO

You should see the programs i'm banging out left and right with this beast. I can hardly tame it!

[Fox]

Don't you guys have quantum processors???

[Lior]

Well...I'll answer ya.
My seagate 37 GB 7200RPM HD cost me 425$ without 17% of tax.
Which means that the HD cost me 497.25$
And here is Israel 1$=4.16 NIS (New Israeli Shekels),
so It cost me 2068.56 NIS.

[Paul282]

RadioShack TRS-80 (CPU not extended)
Tape Drive
TV Adapter plug
16k RAM
BASIC Interface (OS)
4-bit colour
Cartrage slot (Bet you haven't got one of them!!)
Mouse...? (What's that?)

Came with a free game (Danger Ranger)

When you sit in front of it you can feel it ROAR!!

That has to beat the 8086 from before

[Another-Guy]

Okay none of you even came close to my computer:

MAI Basic Four Information System (S/10)
64K RAM
Dual 5 1/4" Floppy Disk Drives
And ....
Black and Green Display

hah. look at you bunch of wannabees, i have a pencil and pad right here, so beat that!

[kedaman]

AMD Athlon 600
64M RAM
Eclipse 19' 1600*1200*24bit
44X CRROM
1.44 floppy
Hauppage WINTV+radio+remotoctl
SB128
32M Creative 3dblaster
15.2M Seagate HDD
old 33.6 modem <-damn thing

[rino_2]

Lior, thats quite a contrast between your two systems!

[Frans C]

Build myselve in jan 1999, and added some stuff later

Motherboard: Asus P2B-F
Processor: PII 400
HD: 1x 8 GB and 1 x 28.5 GB
memory: 128 MB
video card: Viper 550
sound card: AWE64
CDRom: 40 speed
CDRW: 8/4/32 speed
scanner
printer
monitor: 17"
modem: 56 kb

Pentium III 700Mhz
128MB SD RAM
40.1 GB Hardrive

I'm getting that in July.

[bcx7]

i got two comps:

1st

AMD K6 II - 500mhz 3D-NOW!
Asus motherboard - AGP
6 Gb HDD
64 MB sd ram
Trident 4mb AGP video card
VooDoo 2 (pci)
ATX power case
2 usb
16-bit ISA Sound Blaster 16 (not proud of that - slows down games)
Realtek PCI Network Card
15" Hansol monitor
microsoft wheel mouse
win 98

2nd

IBM 6x86 (A.K.A. CYRIX - Windows 98 says it's a cyrix!)
Supports MMX
203 Mhz (That extra 3 makes that bit of difference!!)
AT Power Case
3 Gb Hdd (maxtor)
S3 ViRGE DX/GX PCI Video card
2 usb (not connected though - needs a cable for it)
NE2000 Compatible Network Card
32 MB ram
2 Floppy drive (1.44)
2 cd-roms - one is a 32x and the other is a 4x (don't laugh!)
samsung samtron 4bi monitor
microsoft intellimouse
win 98


but listen to this -

You need at least a 486DX or 66 Mhz and 24 MB of RAM to run win 98!

a 486!!!!

i used to have a 486DX4 100 mhz 16 mb ram and it used to run win 95 fine but when i installed internet explorer 4.0 it slowed down completely. you need to have internet explorer to run win98 - how would it cope!

i read this in a txt document called setuptip (i think) on the root directory of the window s98 cd.

[NeilAvent]

I have got 3 pooters.

Laptop:

P266, 96MB, 4GB HD, 15" Screen

Desktops:

P450, 64MB, 4GB HD, 17" Monitor

P600, 128MB SDRAM, 13GB HD, 17" Monitor

[HeSaidJoe]

My dad's bigger than your dad...
My dad can beat up your dad....
I got more friends than you do..

na na na na....

LOL

my mom can beat up your dad.

I have a Crappy comp too.
100 MB Hardrive
4 MB RAM
8 Mhz (25Mhz on turbo)
3 1/2 inch Floppy Drive
5 1/2 inch Floppy drive
Windows 3.0

[kedaman]

my old 8086:
4Mhz
30MB HDD
640K RAM
3 1/2 floppy (only double density)
Dos (don't remember which verision)
Gwbasic <-great!"!!1""!!!

I fall on my knees in admiration to your answer. Yeap l guess you win hands down, clearly a Z81 is over kill when it comes to home computing. Will throw it in the bin immediatly, and invest in a box of B4s and some pads.

[Jeremy Martin]

While looking throught this topic I have noticed that most people don't have more than 128 meg of ram. Which brings me to my question. What do you all think that the standard memory amount is today? And for my next question what do you think is a better chip the AMD Athlon or the PIII? I am thinking about building a new computer and just wanted to get different people input before I decided on a processor.

Am using a PI with 64 meg ram at home, but my boss has agreed that l need something better so is going to pay half of new PC. Do a lot of work from home office.

Going for a PIII, coz standard Wintel setup.

128meg ram is currently in oz standard. But am going for 250mg or whatever, (RAM is always slightly different to what is claimed), to allow for more stuff in memory at same time.

64 meg was ok till hard disk started filling up, and wanting to run Word, Excel, and a couple of vb projects at once.

[d.paulson]

How about this one.
RadioShack model 4
2 single-sided 5-1/4 drives (180k eack)
(capable of saving programs to cassete tape)
green screen monitor
64 k ram
4mhz processor
that's about it
cost approx 3300 canadian dollars in 1981

[shanzek]

I was amazed that someone would actually claim ownership of a Basic 4 S10. For those too young, visualize a Singer sewing machine case, but without a handle.

back on the second topic:
our standard configuration is 64meg for the 'drones', doing mostly e-mail, word, excel, and terminal emulation. In the I/S department, we get either 128meg or 256meg, depending on whether we do lots of database work. Our decision support staff that runs lots queries get 256meg.

My system at home has 256meg, mostly because I like to dabble in Corel Draw and Corel Paint. Scanning in a 5x7 photo in full color and trying to edit it sucks up the memory big time. But none of my vb apps come near using over 64meg...

If you want to jump off onto another survey:
Is it better to program on the biggest computer you have, and hope the user can run it; or develop on a slower system so you feel the users pain over slow code?

Thanks
Steve Hanzek
Programmer / Analyst
VB6/SP3
Pick Programmer
Business Basic Programmer

[HoSs]

600 mhz
Altec lansing dual speakers + subwoofer
144k IDSL
20" screen
50x cd rom
Kappy mouse & keyboard

[bcx7]

Well i think that the average ram you need to have is 64-128 mb. Most (new) games i think need about 128 to run. But it is better to have as much as you can get your hands on.

The maximum my ibm 6x86 can take is 384 mb. (the mother board that is!)

[Buzby]

My PC is a

Pentium III 600mhz
20GB Harddisk
19" Monitor
128MB RAM
6xDVD
ATI Rage Pro
Windows '98 and Windows NT4 dual boot
blah blah blah

But I also own.. (and this is not a joke - I just went through a stage of collecting old machines!)..

a Sinclair ZX81 - still in the box and never been used because a plug has never been attached to the wires. (with manuals as well)

a Sinclair Spectrum 48K - rubber key model

a Dragon 32 - remember those?

two Acorn Electrons (one with a disk drive)

a Commodore Vic-20

an Atari ST-520FMST

an Acorn BBC Master 128

a Commodore 64 + disk drive + printer

[Paul282]

Does the c-64 printer work with the Vic-20?

[Iain17]

As of 5 days ago i am the proud owner of :

Athlon 700mhz
128mb Ram
20gb Hard drive
17" Monitor
10 x DVD
4x4x32 CDRW
Sound Blaster Live 1024
32mb nVIDIA GeForce
Cambridge 4 point surrond speakers, Though i thought screw that for a laugh, why use those when i have a pair of perfectly good 150 watt speakers and smaller pair of 75 watt speakers. I can now offically bring the house down if i so choose.

I also have a working c64, and an old 386 with 2mb ram and basically no hard drive.

[gravyboy]

I have 6 pooters...

Starting from the beginning

ZX48k Speccie!

Amstrad CPC6128 - Dodgy 3' Disk Drive, 128k Ram

Amiga 500 - 1Mb RAM

486 DX4-100 - 24Mb RAM, 840Mb HDD, 1MB Graphics (S3 Trio), SB Original, 24X CD, 14' Monitor

486 DX266 - missing several components 'cos they were cannabalised into the 486 above.

Homebuilt (3yrs ago) Cyrix MII-233 - 32Mb EDO, 1.6GB HDD, Various Graphics (at moment 16Mb Banshee, but has been 1Mb Cirrus 5446 & 12MB Voodoo2 then 4Mb ATI Rage IIc & 12Mb Voodoo2.), Crystal Chips PCI Sound (I hate it and wish I'd never bought it!), 28.8k modem (it cost me nowt so I wasn't going to say no!), dodgy printer port necessitating an addon IO ports card!

All a bit pants really.

[delker]

My computer is less that a year old, and is already outdated.

PII 400Mhz
128 MB RAM
12 GB HDD
4x DVD w/ Creative Labs Decoder Card
Iomega Zip Drive
Creative Soundblaster AWE64
Diamond Viper 550 graphics card
56K Modem (when home for summer)
3Com Ethernet (when on school network)
17" monitor (bigger than my TV)

and the newest addition: a MouseRemote from X10 - you have to have a remote to watch a DVD!

[SkippySolutions]

I think I have most of you beat for the big one <evil grin>

I have a Dual Pentium 600
1 UWSCSI2 10,000 RPM 18GB Hard Drive
Anhialator Pro Video
SoundBlaster Live X-Gammer
Cordless Logitech Desktop Pro Keyboard & Mouse
Altec Lansing 5.1 speaker system
256 MB Ram
19" Sony Trinitron Monitor

Not a bad upgrade from a P-100, eh?

Pretty cool when your home PC is bigger than some of the servers at work...

[shanzek]

Back to Jeremy's question about AMD Athlon versus PIII...
My preference is the AMD (and what I'm running at home) based entirely on the bang-for-the-buck approach. I was able to get about 25% more speed for about 33% less money...

I've not encountered any compatability problems (so far). My prior system had a Cyrix P200, the one before that an IBM 486/75; I have to go back to my 386/25DX to the last Intel product I've owned.

At work we have standardized on the PIII.

Steve
VB6/SP3

[Jaguar]

Custom Built
PII 400 MHz
200 MB RAM
13 GB WD Caviar HDD
Windows 2000 Professional
Asus P2BF 440BX
Matrox Millenium MGA-G200 128-bit DualBus 16 MB
AHA 2940 UW Pro SCSI Dual/Fast Bridge Controller
Hollywood Magic DVD Decoder
Pioneer 303S (6X DVD/32X CDROM) SCSI
Plextor 8/20 SCSI CDR
SoundBlaster PCI 512
Yamaha YSTMSW10 Subwoofer
Yamaha YST15 Speakers
25W Amplifier connected to SB Surround Rear Speakers plug
(Awesome surround sound)
Two 12" woofer/4" tweeter speakers connected to amp
Viewsonic 19" G790 monitor
Logitech Marble
HP Deskjet 870 Cse color printer
US Robotics 56 Fax/Modem
Iomega Zip 100 Internal Drive
Iomega USB Zip 250 External Drive
APC Back-UPS 650
3Com 3CSOHO100-TX NIC
3Com OfficeConnect Fast Ethernet Hub 4 Port 3C16723A

[Edited by Jaguar on 06-14-2000 at 03:24 PM]

[MrShickadance]

I currently have 4 puters, 2 of which are linux servers

Main Machine:
AMD K6-2 380MHz
128MB SDRAM
15GB HDD
ATi Rage Pro AGP 8MB
3Dfx VooDoo2 12MB
SB Live!
HP CDRW
36x CDROM
Linksys 10/100

DVD Machine:
Intel Celeron 333MHz
64MB SDRAM
6GB HDD
Creative 6X DVD & Dxr3 MPEG decoder
TV Tuner
CL TNT2 16MB AGP
SB AWE64
Linksys 10/100

Linux Server A (on 640K DSL):
AMD Athlon 550
10GB HDD
128MB SDRAM
FireGL 1000 Pro
2x Diamond VooDoo2 8MB (SLI)
Ensoniq AudioPCI
3COM 10/100

Linux Server B (not currently online):
Dual P2 233MHz
96MB RAM
6GB HDD
ATi Xpert 98 8MB
Linksys 10/100
SB16

[Iain17]

While i see your point about us going "Look, mine is better than yours", it makes a nice change to be able to tell someong who knows something about computers.

Take for example my computer. I got it a week ago, and none of my family where in the slight bit interested. "Oh thats nice." Its got a 700mhz processor. "Has it. Is that good then?" Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Just a chance for us to have our computers admired by someone, as everyone likes to be proud of what they own.