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Posted: 2/12/2006 10:05:06 AM EDT
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AMD Althon 64 processors and PCI Express motherboards
ETA: For your needs I would look at the AMD Sempron 64 processors. |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 10:05:37 AM EDT
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I'm running and Athlon64 3000 with XP pro.
I'd say the current standard would at least be 2.4-2.8, and Windows 98 sucks - XP is FAR superior. |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 10:07:01 AM EDT
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I'm on a dell Dimension E510.
2.8 Mhz Windows XP 1 GB ram 160 GB HD CD and DVD RW drives 19" flat screen. My work machines are Win 2000 |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 10:08:58 AM EDT
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AMD-64 3800+ Processor
1GIG DDR Half a TB of storage space Radeon X700 PCI-Express Vid Card TV Tuner Lightscribe DVD+/-R, RW burner 9-in-1 digital card reader All for under a grand 
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Posted: 2/12/2006 10:09:15 AM EDT
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For what you need it for (no games made as an assumption), just buy anything of current production, and don't pay too much. Seriously, and this is coming from a computer guy. Don't over analyze the purchase.
P4 anything, and 384 megs of RAM. The rest is moot, unless you need it for something other than what you've listed. If you need more RAM someday, buy it later. If you need a bigger hard drive someday, buy one later. DO NOT SOLICIT BRAND "x" VS BRAND "y" OPINIONS. All are anecdotal, and all are bullshit. Buy something you dig, make sure it's of current production, and don't spend too much. Seriously. |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 10:16:19 AM EDT
[#6]
Oh, to answer your other question, I run an IBM Thinkpad R51. I could post specs, but if you were really interested you could just look it up on Lenovo's site.
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Posted: 2/12/2006 10:19:38 AM EDT
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2.4 p4, asus board, 512ram333, Nvidia 6600GT, and I am thinking it is a bit slow.
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Posted: 2/12/2006 10:24:39 AM EDT
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If you don't play action games at all, then just get a $300-$400-$500 cheapie PC. You only need the expensive setups for games.
------ Also--there might be a open-source/alternative program out there for putting stuff onto an iPod. I don't know anything about iPods as I don't got one,,,, but I know there's an unofficial/hacker program for getting songs OFF of iPods, which is one thing the Apple program will not allow. So check around, you might be able to put off the PC purchase a while longer, or take a while longer to shop around. ~ |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 10:24:40 AM EDT
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my specs:
athlon 64 2800 MSI neoV motherboard 1024 megs ram sata 180 gig HD nvidia gforce 5600, 128meg AGP video the only reason i even bothered to get that fancy is becaue i get my parts for free. i do recommend at least 512 megs ram for windows XP. windows 2000 should have atleast 256. they don't really need that much, but windows will run much smoother if you give it lots of ram to play with. |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 10:24:47 AM EDT
[#10]
AMD Athlon 64 3700+
Asus A8N SLI mobo 1 gig Corsair RAM XFX GeForce 7800GT PCI-E 320 GB Western Digital SATA hard drive Antec case Antec 400W power supply NEC DVD burner Lite-on DVD ROM Dell 2005FPW 20" LCD Harmon/Kardon speakers Antec blue LED fans (x2) Mr. T action figure (optional)  Works for me. |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 10:29:17 AM EDT
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If I was you make sure you get a DVD burner an look at Sam's Club, or Cosco for the $400.00 machine's.
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Posted: 2/12/2006 10:38:34 AM EDT
[#12]
Just finished my upgrading
Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Asus A8N SLI motherboard 2GB OCZ Ram GeForce 7800GTX After using it for 2 days, I honestly don't know what I did without a dual core processor, and the 7800GTX. |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 10:52:20 AM EDT
[#13]
my setup is the following.
P4 3.0GHZ Gigabyte Motherboard 1gig of RDRAM! 280GB of storage GeForce4 TI-4600 video card128MB LiteOn CDRW NEC DVDRW onboard SB PCI128 sound onboard ethernet 19inch BenQ 8ms LCD other than the LCD, hasn't been touched upgrade wise for several years. |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 10:55:41 AM EDT
[#14]
Sweet, I pretty much have the exact same setup: WinXP Pro Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Asus A8N SLI Deluxe motherboard 2GB Corsair XMS Ram GeForce 7800GT PCI Express (2nd card on the way) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty 19" L90D+ LCD Monitor CDRW/DVD Burner 700+ Watt 7.1 Speaker System   |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 10:58:45 AM EDT
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Pentium II 266 MHZ
128 MB of RAM Slackware 9 eta: video is an ATI Rage, 16 MB I think. |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 11:03:49 AM EDT
[#16]
Dell Dimension 4500 2 GHz P4 with 1 GB RAM, DVD and CD-R drives, 200 GB in drives, Radeon 9600 Pro video card, and an ultra sweet 21" Sun (Sony made) true flat screen CRT monitor, running at up to 2048x1536 at 75 Hz refresh. Running XP SP2.
Maybe it's not the fastest processor available anymore, but it doesn't choke on anything. The emphasis on this system is on video performance. CJ |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 11:08:12 AM EDT
[#17]
I'm currently running an AMD 2100 CPU, with 768K of memory, MSI KT7N motherboard, a GeForce Ti4200 w/128MB graphics card, a 40GB C-drive & 160GB D drive. The CPU can still play most of the graphics intensive games except for Half-life 2 according to my son.
ETA: I'm running MS Window XP/SP2. |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 11:09:46 AM EDT
[#18]
I'm running:
AMD Athlon X2 4800+ ASUS A8N32 SLI Deluxe motherboard 2GB Corsair 3500LL Pro ram ASUS nVidia GeForce 7800GTX Windows XP Pro x64 |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 11:20:07 AM EDT
[#19]
At home:
Dell Dimension 4600 P4 @ 2.4GHz 1.5GB ram 60G HD ATI Radeon 9600SE 128mb vid card At work: Dell inspirion 7500 laptop P3 @ 650MHz 256MB Ram 20G HD Both work fine for the little that I need them to do... |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 11:22:28 AM EDT
[#20]
Right now....
Gateway 600m 1.6ghz Centrino 60gb intel graphics dvd-rom 15.4" screen thin and really light for a lappie Home system: AMD athlon 2100+ @ 2500+ speeds 1gb of I cant even remember anymore running extremely tight timings though - pc3200 40gb and 80gb ATi 9800 Non-Pro software'd to Pro speeds Audigy 2 sound card 17" Dell crt logitech mx duo 700 
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Posted: 2/12/2006 11:23:58 AM EDT
[#21]
Dude ... it's 2006 .... Windows 98 is from ...er .... 1998 .....
FYI ... I use a Mac .... 
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Posted: 2/12/2006 11:26:42 AM EDT
[#22]
Far more than you need:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (2x 1.8GHz processors) EVGA GeForce 7800GT 256 2x 1GB GeIL ram w/ heat spreaders Creative Audigy Pro ZS2 Platinum w/ jump box (24-bit) Seagate Barracuda 300gb HDD BenQ 16x DVD-ROM drive Pioneer 40x/16x CD/DVD RW (+ and - for DVDs) drive Thermaltake Soprano case (black) Gigabyte K8N-SLI Pro mobo Windows XP pro |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 11:32:06 AM EDT
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Two machines right now -
1. Gaming machine Asus A8n32-SLI deluxe motherboard AMD Athlon64-FX 57, overclocked to 3Ghz, watercooled. 2gb OCZ PC4000 2x GeForce 7800GTX cards in SLI PC Power & Cooling Power Supply ViewSonic VX-924 3ms response 19" LCD Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS sound card WD 10,000 RPM SATA hard drive 2x Plextor DVD burners   2. LAN Party gaming machine Asus A8n-SLI Premium motherboard AMD Athlon64 4000+ San Diego Core 2gb Crucial PC3200 eVGA 7800GTX ViewSonic VX-924 LCD monitor Logitech G15 gaming keyboard Razer Copperhead 2000dpi mouse 1 WD 10,000 RPM drive 2x250GB SATA drive 2x DVD Burners Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Platinum sound card Thermaltake SLI power supply Thermaltake Armor case   |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 11:57:34 AM EDT
[#24]
I think I hate you... 
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Posted: 2/12/2006 12:00:09 PM EDT
[#25]
Let's see...
I have a Mac Mini, running OSX, A dell Dimension 5150 (courtesy of the VA since I'm going to school), and a Toshiba Satellite laptop for using at school between classes. I prefer the Mac, but am using the Dell and Toshiba alot, because of school work. |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 12:02:09 PM EDT
[#26]
I didnt even mention my Mac G5 I got through work or my beat-up Powerbook G4 
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Posted: 2/12/2006 12:13:12 PM EDT
[#27]
First machine ..more than a year old now
Dell XPS Gen 4 Windows xp MCE 05 intel p4 3.4 2 gigs of ram ATI Radeon X850 XT PE 2 160GB HDs in RAID 0 sound blaster audigie 2 ZS second box Windows xp MCE 02 intel p4 3.0 512 mb of ram ATI all-in-wonder 9000 or some shit (1)WD 120 7200 RPM SATA (2)WD 200 7200 RPM SATA |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 12:15:46 PM EDT
[#28]
AMD Athlon64 [email protected]
MSI K8N Neo platinum mobo 2x512Mb Corsair XMS pro series pc4000 ram sticks 2x74Gb sata 10,000RPM Western Digital Raptors in RAID0 1x80Gb Western Digital 7200RPM EIDE 128Mb ATI Radeon 9800pro volt modded and bios flashed to 9800XT 480 watt Antec psu Dangerden RBX cpu water block Dangerden Maze4 chipset water block Swiftech MCW50 GPU water block HW Labs BIX radiator Danner mag4 water pump Logitech mx518 & mx1000 mice Windows XP Pro 19" Viewsonic a90f+ monitor 21" Dell monitor Comp. Desk. -T.
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Posted: 2/12/2006 12:27:40 PM EDT
[#29]
I finally gave up on my old 733mhz P3/Win 98 and just picked up a barely used Dell XPS 400 from a guy that was in some severe financial trouble. Payoff was $850 and I gave him a 12 guage shotgun I'd won in a lottery a couple yrs ago and never shot.
3.0 Ghz Pentium D 160 gig HD 2.5 gig RAM 19 in FP Lite On/lightscribe DVD/CD Burner Win XP Media Ed POS Radeon X300SE HM vid card but just ordered a Saphire X800GTO2 |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 12:44:05 PM EDT
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What amount of RAM do you have on your machine? If it already has 128 megs, or you can upgrade to 128 megs, then just buy a copy of Windows 2000 Professional. Go to Newegg.com or ZipZoomFly, buy the OEM edition, and buy the RAM upgrade or video card as the "qualifying hardware" so that you can buy the cheap OEM edition. For what you use it for, you need nothing more. Windows 2000 is rock solid reliable for a Microsoft product. Jim p.s.--As for what machines I'm running at home, in order of current-ness: 1. AMD Duron 1.8ghz 1gig ram ~300 gig HDD, running XP Pro and Ubuntu 5.10. Homebuilt. 2. Intel VC820/1ghzPIII, 256MB PC800 RDRAM, ~80 gig HDD , running XP Pro. Homebuilt. 3. Tigerbook branded Mitac 5033 AMD K6-2/350, ~12 gig HDD, running Win98SE. Laptop. 4. PII/300 PC Chips MB, 128mb ram, 8 gig HDD, running Debian linux. Built from scraps. 5. Pentium 200, 64MB ram, 4GB HDD, waiting for an OS install. Built from scraps. Machine #1 is my main scientific workstation. Yes, with a Duron, and it runs quite respectably with ESRI ArcView, Matlab, Maple, etc. |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 12:55:09 PM EDT
[#31]
looks like a nippleless boobie on the right side...
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Posted: 2/12/2006 12:55:33 PM EDT
[#32]
Evil you are.
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Posted: 2/12/2006 12:58:47 PM EDT
[#33]
Is there a place to find your computer specs somewhere in the Control Panel on XP?
I run a Dell 4500 built in 02. Its in need of an upgrade but I need to know exactly what I have before I can figure out what I need. Currently I'm getting warnings abouyt low on virtual memory while playing BF1942. I know ive got P4 2.0 Gh GForce4 card Its been so damn long I cant remember all the other specs. |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 1:05:43 PM EDT
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I have a CRAY III in the basement and a small atomic power pile to run it.
Storage from 18 RAID arrays of 15 U160 10k 34GB SCSI for online storage... It also heats the house... --------------------------------------- NOT ------------------------------------------ Actually my "work" box (at home) is a Dell Precisionn 530 Dual 2.8MHz Xeon system with 2GB ram and a Nvidia Quadro 900 XGA dual DVI feeding 2 17" LCD's ( desktop is 2540 x 1024 ) My Game box is a Athlon XP2600+ with a Nvidia 6600 and 1.5GB I won't bother listing the LAN servers or other misc boxes ( Working for a major computer corp for 3 yrs (before having my job sent overseas ) and being a pack rat... ) Since at last count there were about 21 systems in my house. ( and yes there ARE several RAIDS in use, most are SCSI, but 2 are SATA150 ) ( I still like SCSI better - my 64bit AHA39160 supports 30 drives... I won't run out of capacity.)
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Posted: 2/12/2006 1:13:30 PM EDT
[#35]
Cobbled together from parts.
PIV 1.7GHz 512 RAM 100GB HD GeForce 5500, 128 AGP |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 1:17:14 PM EDT
[#36]
Went with a 15" PowerBook in September.
Just upgraded to a 17" model about 2 weeks ago (gave the 15" to my son). Stock config: www.apple.com/powerbook/index17.html but upgraded to 2GB on my own. Apple charges at extortion level for RAM  .Will be building a AMD desktop system for a game machine in a couple of months once I get settled into my new house. |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 1:21:01 PM EDT
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to find RAM & Processor: right click on the "My Computer" icon and click "properites" that screen should show in the bottom right your specs. with the video card it is usually easiest to open the case and look at it (though you can use the DOS debugger thing to find some info on most cards). |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 1:23:47 PM EDT
[#38]
tag
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Posted: 2/12/2006 1:49:51 PM EDT
[#39]
I am running a badass sgi Octane2. It's old but still does the job, and I prefer it to my PC any day.
hinv -v 2 425 MHZ IP30 Processors Heart ASIC: Revision F CPU: MIPS R12000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.5 FPU: MIPS R12010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0 Main memory size: 4096 Mbytes Xbow ASIC: Revision 1.4 Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes Data cache size: 32 Kbytes Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1) Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 2) Disk drive: unit 3 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 3) Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended CDROM: unit 7 on SCSI controller 1 IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty1 IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty2 IOC3 parallel port: plp1 Graphics board: V8 Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, pci 2 Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 12.0, number 1 PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0003) PCI slot 2 PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 0 PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 1 PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0005) PCI slot 3    -k |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 1:50:57 PM EDT
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Awesome |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 2:38:09 PM EDT
[#41]
AMD Athlon XP2800+ / 2.083Ghz
2/ 512 RAM 2/ WD 160 gig IDE HD Ideq mini case XP Pro |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 3:30:45 PM EDT
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My other computer, PowerMac 2x1.25Ghz G4, 2GB RAM, 740GB internal storage, 500GB external. Used for video editing, DVD authoring, content creation, etc.:
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Posted: 2/12/2006 3:34:14 PM EDT
[#43]
Home built
AMD 64 bit 3000+ 512 RAM (I need more) GeForce 6800XT 128RAM AGP 19" Dell Monitor Unless I'm in the den watching TV(like right now) Compaq Armada M700 1ghz PIII 256 RAM |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 3:37:51 PM EDT
[#44]
Probably your card is a GeForce MX420. That was the standard card for 4500s and it's what this had when I got it.
You have 256 MB of RAM, don't you? Upgrade to 1 GB. It makes ALL the difference. You can do this for a bit over 100 bucks even if you buy Kingston memory. I got mine from an ebay seller. The video card needs to be replaced. It was a decent entry level card for its day but it's an antique by modern standards. I like NVidia's drivers a lot better but I've found that ATI cards have better picture quality...very noticeably better on the second monitor. The basic machine is still good. Just needs a little more memory and a better video card. CJ
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Posted: 2/12/2006 3:40:40 PM EDT
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Wow. I don't feel so geeky now. /Envies SGI setup //Closest I get is painting my boxes blue |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 3:54:42 PM EDT
[#46]
Windows XP HE SP2
 P4 3.0Ghz w/HT 2GB PC3200 DDR RAM 80GB HDD(7,2K rpm) via IDE Geforce 6600 256MB video card(AGP) Pioneer 16x16 DVD+/- RW w/dual layer LG 16x DVD-ROM 80GB external HDD(7,2K rpm) via USB2 Its a couple years old now but it has been plenty fast for anything I have needed to do so far. I plan on getting a new system within a year so I can take advantage of PCIe(Nvidia 7800) and higher bus speeds for the RAM(I plan to bump it up to 4GB) and CPU. Probably get SATA2 HDD as well. Probably use XP Pro. |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 3:59:14 PM EDT
[#47]
Dual Opteron 242 (1.6Ghz)
MSI K8T Master2-FAR 1GB Kingston ECC Enermax 550 Watt power supply Geforce 6800 Hercules Gamesurround Fortissimo III 7.1 sound card 2X 36GB SATA on RAID 0 External 120GB USB 2.0 Yep, time for an upgrade. 
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Posted: 2/12/2006 4:06:17 PM EDT
[#48]
nice watercooling setup. here's mine. reservoir busted, so I quit running it.   |
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Posted: 2/12/2006 4:09:54 PM EDT
[#49]
Power Mac Dual 2.5gHz G5, faster Superdrive, Viewsonic 20" LCD.
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Posted: 2/12/2006 4:09:56 PM EDT
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Powerbook 15"
OS X 10.4.4 1.67ghz G4 1gb RAM 80Gb HD ATI 9700 128 |
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